Andrew Taubman @supplican.bsky.social · 9hMy partner actually told me today we were going out to buy 4 candles. “Why do we need fork handles?” I asked. She’d never seen or heard of that sketch. 000
Andrew Taubman @supplican.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Se7en db A Night After the Opera Pretty Quiet Woman Silence Marner Tongueless in Seattle 010
Andrew Taubman @supplican.bsky.social · 01/10/2026With self-driving vehicles, it’s only a matter of time before there’s a country song where a guy’s truck leaves him. 010
Andrew Taubman @supplican.bsky.social · 30/09/2026@andrewhickey.500songs.com time for a new pinned ep here, maybe? 😇 011
Andrew Taubman @supplican.bsky.social · 26/09/2026“Polling”, not “poling” which is what bargees do! 000
Andrew Taubman @supplican.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“H. sapiens populations moved into northwest Siberia during the latter part of Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 3 (∼5029 kya)” I assume that should be northeast? 000
Andrew Taubman @supplican.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Don’t Fear the Speaker The Climes They are a’changin’ Greens Go to Russia, Oh Upward, Christian Brethren The State of Independents 010
Andrew Taubman @supplican.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I watched a doco on them a few years ago. Towards the end the Disco Sucks movement starts, I had no idea until then that it was essentially racist and anti-gay. It forced them out of recording, but they wrote for other artists. Barry says something like “we realized we were essentially songwriters”. 010
Andrew Taubman @supplican.bsky.social · 20/09/2026You’ve never owned any software in the same sense you own a book, no matter how it came to you. All commercial software is vended as a license to use, check the EULAs! It’s been like that forever, it’s not new with subscriptions. The difference is of course they can’t take the physical media away! 031
Andrew Taubman @supplican.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Catch 22: It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honour, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. 010
Andrew Taubman @supplican.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I’d love to know if this is just this podcast or others too. 001
Andrew Taubman @supplican.bsky.social · 09/09/2026We do not actually own anything we “own”. We are just the current custodians of it. Our job is to pass it on in at least good condition as we received it. 110
Andrew Taubman @supplican.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Anyone else having a bizarre time playing this ep, and the previous FZ one, in the Patreon app? All that appears there for me is a link that opens a tiny Play interface, not the previous full page one. And every time Patreon reloads (ie every day) it loses its place and I have to FF to where I was 221
Andrew Taubman @supplican.bsky.social · 08/09/2026On the Road Again Do You Know the Way to San Jose? 021
Andrew Taubman @supplican.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Not just digital games, this the case if you have a game on disc too. Check the ToS. 000
Andrew Taubman @supplican.bsky.social · 02/09/2026They may well have thought that, but they were wrong. You have never owned any commercial software, just bought a license to use it. It’s right there in the ToS of everything you’ve ever “bought”. 230
Andrew Taubman @supplican.bsky.social · 02/09/2026This is not just Sony - EVERY commercial software vendor works this way, whether games or apps or whatever . All you buy is a license to run it, you don’t own it in the sense you do a physical book for instance. Buying a CD copy makes no difference to this. 000
Andrew Taubman @supplican.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Deliberate destruction of the public education system by chronic underfunding. Americans aren’t stupid, just deliberately kept ignorant. 010
Andrew Taubman @supplican.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I got there eventually after realising what must have happened and checking the fascimile edition, but it doubled my usual time! 020
Andrew Taubman @supplican.bsky.social · 28/08/2026And the iPad version lacked the NB text, again! 110
Andrew Taubman @supplican.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Sells Like Teen Spirit Stairway to Heave The Ear of the Cat Nowhere Ma Simple Twist of Fat Light my Fir 010
Andrew Taubman @supplican.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Adolf Hitler: “Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.” 010
Andrew Taubman @supplican.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Change a song title to medicalise it: Wee didn’t start! The fire! Yaws is No Disgrace They Call the Wind Malaria The Year of the Catarrh Bedsore Burning 010
Andrew Taubman @supplican.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Because you live in the same country that elected him twice. 000
Andrew Taubman @supplican.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Candidn’t Camera Nelson’s Other Eye Roamin’ Blind 40k Winks 110
Andrew Taubman @supplican.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Friends are the universe’s apology for relatives. 010
Andrew Taubman @supplican.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Platypi Octopides Ulysseses Sees-saws Helters-skelter Ultimatae Primes Minister 010
Andrew Taubman @supplican.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Michel de Montaigne: “Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.” 010
Andrew Taubman @supplican.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Waterhen Snipe on the Water Strangers in the Nest Snoopy vs the Red Robin Magpie May The Blackleg Myna Almost Cut My Heron 010
Andrew Taubman @supplican.bsky.social · 04/08/2026The higher the hair, the closer to god. So they say. 000
Andrew Taubman @supplican.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Utterly unacceptable IMO. New bank time it seems! 000
Andrew Taubman @supplican.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Vale the Rock Brain of the Universe! www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-a...smh.com.au‘A life fully lived’: Rock journalist and cultural commentator, Glenn A. Baker, dies aged 74Baker passed away of natural causes on Friday morning, according to his son, Orson. 010
Andrew Taubman @supplican.bsky.social · 30/07/2026In the Year 2526 Escalator to Heaven When the Saints go Ambling In Lying on the Dock of the Bay These Boots Were Made for Crossing 020
Andrew Taubman @supplican.bsky.social · 29/07/2026As for the authoritarian aspect, well, I’d say here at least it’s not like that. Surely it’s not asking too much to go out and vote once every few years? 100
Andrew Taubman @supplican.bsky.social · 29/07/2026It also means parties don’t have to spend half their resources getting people out to vote at all, let alone to vote for them. 100
Andrew Taubman @supplican.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I’d say both together are important here. Compulsory voting makes it harder for motivated extremist minorities to get unrepresentative presence in parliament, as we see in the US for instance. 100
Andrew Taubman @supplican.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Okay! But when it does come to YT is there a way to watch it without ads there, being a backer? 100
