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Andrew Hickey Finally Dropped his Halloween Name Profile picture
Andrew Hickey Finally Dropped his Halloween Name
@HickeyWriter
Writer of books on old music, comics, and TV, political blogger and novelist, podcaster at https://t.co/My09OGXS6x . Liberal. He/him. https://t.co/nOatoeAYfy
Jan 14, 2021 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
I've been following the rise of the far right for years, and I can tell you exactly who many of them are. They're people *exactly* like me. They're not poor, they're not uneducated. The *most* dangerous people in the far right now are middle-class cis het men between twenty and fifty, highly educated, usually in good jobs, with tons of spare money, but no social skills.
Jan 13, 2021 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
This is fucking depressing. The government has been repeatedly lying about how many doses of vaccine it's going to have when, and how long it will take to get people vaccinated. If the government's original figures had been correct, and not just lies, I would have been vaccinated by now, as would many of you.
Jan 13, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
This. Even I, an allocishet white man who uses his real name pretty much everywhere online (and any alts are very connected to my real name) found this the squickiest thing about FB and the main reason I dropped off it. Not just the "real name" thing, but the way it assumes that all your friends know the same version of you.
Jan 12, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This is amazing, and it looks like the same technique might also work for other inflammatory illnesses, as if MS wasn't enough by itself. It might (NB *MIGHT*) be possible to use this for ME/CFS, arthritis, maybe depression and some forms of cancer and heart disease. If this technology lives up to the potential I think it has, we might be looking at one of the big breakthroughs in medical history, up there with the germ theory of disease, the discovery of antibiotics, vaccination itself, and aseptic surgery. Maybe more important than those.
Mar 13, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Whatever happens with covid19 -- and I hope that as few people get sick or die as possible -- I'm already thinking about *after* the outbreak, and what happens then... Because most of the changes that are being mooted (or in some countries made) to deal with the crisis are changes that would be genuinely good things for the world on a long-term basis.