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Andy Hicks

@dystopiandy

Emmy-winning TV producer. Award-winning radio and podcast producer. Composer/lyricist. Essayist for OUTSIDE IN. Occasionally he's a Doctor Who YouTuber/song parodist named Sycorax Rock. andyrobotmedia.com

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The decline of right wing cultural production is just due to the fact that they don’t like culture, they like the signifiers of culture, ie “classic sculpture means white people are better.” They don’t like art at all except for this purpose. They don’t even like the nerd stuff they whine about

18.02.2026 16:06 👍 10189 🔁 1918 💬 257 📌 175

That’s correct. They’re different people.

You’re thinking of Jon Krasinski. John Gallagher is the same person as Jon Krasinski.

16.02.2026 13:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

07.02.2026 14:34 👍 17869 🔁 4468 💬 250 📌 110

Blue Man Group was using “Last Train To Trancentral” to close out their shows at the time, and I thought it was the most epic piece of music anyone had ever created. (I was 16 and ushering at Boston theaters for free tickets)

Genuinely proud to have tracked that album down pre-internet.

05.02.2026 15:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I bought a dusty copy in 1996 at the “cool” record store a few years after they’d officially deleted their catalog.

The version I had came packaged with the “Justified and Ancient” single (the Tammy Wynette version.)

My K-Pop obsessed 6-year old genuinely likes it, which feels good.

05.02.2026 13:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The Cuddled Little Vice (Sandman) Previously in The Last War in Albion: Alan Moore wrote Watchmen, which, for complicated reasons involving William S. Burroughs and the weak nuclear force, ended the Cold War and replaced it with a mag...

Hugo eligibility post!

“The Cuddled Little Vice,” my book-length essay on the poison legacy of Sandman, is eligible for Best Related Work.

31.01.2026 04:58 👍 481 🔁 170 💬 21 📌 40

One time I picked the water icon and called my religion “Flow,” but I only did that once cuz i’m not cool enough for that i dunno…

23.01.2026 03:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sometimes I mix things up, and pick the snake. In which case I call it “Hisssssssissssssm”

23.01.2026 03:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The most beautiful sentence in the English language is “Timbuktu has converted to Cheetara.”

23.01.2026 03:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’m a “choose the lion-head icon and name my religion after one of the Thundercats” man myself…

23.01.2026 03:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

trying to wrap my brain around how Bowie could possibly think his lyrics for “Life On Mars” weren’t any good

i mean, yes, fine, Mickey Mouse and cows and whatnot, but *we know what you were going for, David*

13.01.2026 14:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert and the band or artist.

Green Day at the Hatch Shell, Boston, MA. The infamous “Green Day riot” show, at the place the Boston Pops usually play.

It. Was. Awesome.

11.01.2026 14:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Good morning.

You are waking up to the irony of a convicted felon president, who spent years avoiding his own criminal trials, capturing the president of a sovereign nation and holding him captive for criminal trials.

03.01.2026 12:29 👍 5757 🔁 1657 💬 239 📌 63
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Mom Who Demanded LGBTQ+ Book Ban Arrested For Plot To Kidnap Her Own Daughter As 'Scare Tactic'

The hypocrisy is just so blatant.

21.12.2025 22:39 👍 2767 🔁 765 💬 194 📌 48
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one of four in a week

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

20.12.2025 06:09 👍 10625 🔁 5658 💬 494 📌 324
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Just tried to search for Trump’s name in the Epstein files library on the DOJ’s website. You’ll be *shocked* to learn that there’s no mention of him whatsoever!

19.12.2025 21:15 👍 2719 🔁 763 💬 242 📌 75
He wasn’t shot. He didn’t win. He’s on the list.

He wasn’t shot. He didn’t win. He’s on the list.

19.12.2025 22:48 👍 120 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 0

“I was just following otters.”

28.11.2025 21:09 👍 9707 🔁 1980 💬 91 📌 0

Friends, I will happily sit in front of a green screen and say “want some ryyyye? ‘course ye do!” for ya.

21.11.2025 14:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

…but how’s he gonna make Roko’s Basilisk happen *now*?

17.11.2025 13:55 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's nearly impossible to make a living entertaining children in a sewer since Stephen king's "It"

31.10.2025 23:02 👍 1913 🔁 237 💬 22 📌 11

Dear anyone who ever voted for that guy -

Just letting you know that, if the nuclear bombs start falling and America gets wiped out, everyone who survives is going to blame you, and most of the people who don’t survive will curse people like you with their dying breath.

Anyway, good luck.

31.10.2025 12:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ettingermentum writes: “Actually what on earth is in those files bro.”
The image from Courier Newsroom headline reads: “Rep-elect Adelita Grijalva is now the longest Rep-elect in history to not be sworn in. Mike Johnson still refuses to swear in Rep-elect Grijalva over fear of releasing the Epstein files.”
The picture shows Grijalva in a red jacket beside Speaker Mike Johnson.

Ettingermentum writes: “Actually what on earth is in those files bro.” The image from Courier Newsroom headline reads: “Rep-elect Adelita Grijalva is now the longest Rep-elect in history to not be sworn in. Mike Johnson still refuses to swear in Rep-elect Grijalva over fear of releasing the Epstein files.” The picture shows Grijalva in a red jacket beside Speaker Mike Johnson.

Swear her in. Release the Epstein Files.

30.10.2025 21:30 👍 18479 🔁 6292 💬 725 📌 316

esoteric fascism is easily the most embarrassing fascism. oh was hitler magic?? grow up

27.02.2025 02:44 👍 1969 🔁 215 💬 32 📌 18

It’s kind of wild that after seven million people were in the streets protesting, the president posted a hallucinated video of himself wearing a crown and shitting on Americans and then proceeded to start demolishing parts of the White House

20.10.2025 20:50 👍 5515 🔁 1444 💬 132 📌 71

one of the consistently interesting things about ACA criticism since it was signed into law is how critics discount or ignore the medicaid expansion

20.10.2025 16:54 👍 6773 🔁 905 💬 108 📌 62
The Comics Code podcast - SEASON ONE trailer (“Jerry & Joe”)
The Comics Code podcast - SEASON ONE trailer (“Jerry & Joe”) YouTube video by Sycorax Rock

I've been working on this podcast for the last few months, and we're almost ready to launch. It's one of the most fascinating projects I've ever been involved with.

Check it out October 28 wherever you get your podcasts.

youtu.be/StXLw_PPUOI?...

20.10.2025 17:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Reminder this is all happening because Republicans refuse to let you have affordable health care.

08.10.2025 23:11 👍 1858 🔁 469 💬 63 📌 15

this has got to be the stupidest and most blatantly "unamerican" group of rulers this country has ever had. if you can't win against "goons in the streets, rotting food in the fields, orang is 90 dollars now" then i dont know what to say

08.10.2025 17:13 👍 1442 🔁 142 💬 19 📌 3

I wonder if they all would *now* though.

And I wonder how much of that is… feeling like you *have* to say it because your community and surroundings were all telling you “the Democrats are demonic baby-killers and you must always support the GOP candidate no matter what.”

09.10.2025 13:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0