Andrea Mullaney
@andreamullaney.bsky.social
Writer, lecturer, recovering journo, constant reader, mother, cailleach èibhinn living in Glasgow.
My novel The Ghost Marriage is out on submission now: literary agent @llmonts.
"All of the birds are laughing, come on, let's all join in."
My novel The Ghost Marriage is out on submission now: literary agent @llmonts.
"All of the birds are laughing, come on, let's all join in."
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Freelance pals: in case you didn't know, the Budget changes to working from home expenses DON'T apply to self-employed people, so you can still claim % or flat rate of household bills to cover a room's use as an office. Also, if an employer requires you to work from home (eg online teaching).
Freelance pals: in case you didn't know, the Budget changes to working from home expenses DON'T apply to self-employed people, so you can still claim % or flat rate of household bills to cover a room's use as an office. Also, if an employer requires you to work from home (eg online teaching).
November 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Freelance pals: in case you didn't know, the Budget changes to working from home expenses DON'T apply to self-employed people, so you can still claim % or flat rate of household bills to cover a room's use as an office. Also, if an employer requires you to work from home (eg online teaching).
Freelance pals: in case you didn't know, the Budget changes to working from home expenses DON'T apply to self-employed people, so you can still claim % or flat rate of household bills to cover a room's use as an office. Also, if an employer requires you to work from home (eg online teaching).
Introduce yourself (show off) with 5 concerts you've seen:
Kate Bush
David Bowie at Glastonbury
Belle & Sebastian's first concert in a flat
Manic Street Preachers at King Tut's
The Smiths
Kate Bush
David Bowie at Glastonbury
Belle & Sebastian's first concert in a flat
Manic Street Preachers at King Tut's
The Smiths
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
Yo La Tengo
Taylor Swift
Wilson Pickett
Gang of Four
Spice Girls
Yo La Tengo
Taylor Swift
Wilson Pickett
Gang of Four
Spice Girls
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:
Paul McCartney
Elvis Costello
Prince
Regina Spektor
The Replacements
Paul McCartney
Elvis Costello
Prince
Regina Spektor
The Replacements
November 28, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Introduce yourself (show off) with 5 concerts you've seen:
Kate Bush
David Bowie at Glastonbury
Belle & Sebastian's first concert in a flat
Manic Street Preachers at King Tut's
The Smiths
Kate Bush
David Bowie at Glastonbury
Belle & Sebastian's first concert in a flat
Manic Street Preachers at King Tut's
The Smiths
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This BBC kids tv advert from 1998 is still very impressive and very lovely
November 13, 2025 at 9:56 AM
This BBC kids tv advert from 1998 is still very impressive and very lovely
New panelist on Mock The Week
who actually likes electricity? raise your hand. haha, i see a joker back there. but ask yourself: how many times do you turn on the light in morning, just for fun? what about the afternoon. never, right? and why are you staying up so late? our forefathers tucked themselves in at 6pm like god inten—
November 26, 2025 at 11:14 PM
New panelist on Mock The Week
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Don’t ever let anyone gaslight you that there’s no problems with racism in Scotland
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Don’t ever let anyone gaslight you that there’s no problems with racism in Scotland
This is DISGUSTING.
How have we allowed the normalisation of such utter racism?
It's bollocks anyway, I've been involved in various events held in schools and it's all very carefully managed.
What can we do to help these targeted mothers/teachers?
How have we allowed the normalisation of such utter racism?
It's bollocks anyway, I've been involved in various events held in schools and it's all very carefully managed.
What can we do to help these targeted mothers/teachers?
NEW: Protesters targeted a Scottish primary school on Monday as English classes were put on for mothers
Signs read 'protect our schools' and 'Glasgow City Council protect our kids'
Signs read 'protect our schools' and 'Glasgow City Council protect our kids'
November 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
This is DISGUSTING.
How have we allowed the normalisation of such utter racism?
It's bollocks anyway, I've been involved in various events held in schools and it's all very carefully managed.
What can we do to help these targeted mothers/teachers?
How have we allowed the normalisation of such utter racism?
It's bollocks anyway, I've been involved in various events held in schools and it's all very carefully managed.
What can we do to help these targeted mothers/teachers?
This is very David Brent, isn't it?
How is this man a grown adult? With children?
How is this man a grown adult? With children?
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This is very David Brent, isn't it?
How is this man a grown adult? With children?
How is this man a grown adult? With children?
I am very amused to learn that the baddie in Wicked is basically called Mrs Horrible. Even Dickens would blush.
November 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I am very amused to learn that the baddie in Wicked is basically called Mrs Horrible. Even Dickens would blush.
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I do think British people need to understand that this is why Musk’s money is aiming at the UK now. The BBC and the NHS are trusted English-language sources that people in the US can access so the people who favour this disinformation would like to destroy them.
This does feel like a major crossing of the Rubicon – the world's best-funded and in many ways most powerful public health agency is now actively pushing disinformation.
I know there's a *lot* going on to care about at the moment, but this one really is significant, and matters well beyond the US.
I know there's a *lot* going on to care about at the moment, but this one really is significant, and matters well beyond the US.
The CDC website now disseminates disinformation about vaccines, claiming erroneously that infant vaccines might cause autism, when we know conclusively that they do not. It is difficult to overstate just how dangerous this is. www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
November 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I do think British people need to understand that this is why Musk’s money is aiming at the UK now. The BBC and the NHS are trusted English-language sources that people in the US can access so the people who favour this disinformation would like to destroy them.
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It's that magical time of the year again! Our winter lights are officially on in the Cloisters ✨
November 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
It's that magical time of the year again! Our winter lights are officially on in the Cloisters ✨
Well, I am pleased for all you people who are pleased.
I did not know this was even happening till five minutes ago, but I presume it explains the fireworks.
I did not know this was even happening till five minutes ago, but I presume it explains the fireworks.
November 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Well, I am pleased for all you people who are pleased.
I did not know this was even happening till five minutes ago, but I presume it explains the fireworks.
I did not know this was even happening till five minutes ago, but I presume it explains the fireworks.
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@mrholness.bsky.social if there is any way that we could convince you to read this as Garth Marenghi the people of BlueSky would be grateful
It needs to be emphasized that this paragraph is about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
November 18, 2025 at 3:39 AM
@mrholness.bsky.social if there is any way that we could convince you to read this as Garth Marenghi the people of BlueSky would be grateful
Watching Bridget Jones' Diary for the 1000th time and thinking yet again that it's a 5 star movie with a 1 star soundtrack - just astoundingly bad, clonky choices every time (All By Myself obviously aside). The Geri Halliwell cover of It's Raining Men is just unforgiveable. Any others as mismatched?
November 15, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Watching Bridget Jones' Diary for the 1000th time and thinking yet again that it's a 5 star movie with a 1 star soundtrack - just astoundingly bad, clonky choices every time (All By Myself obviously aside). The Geri Halliwell cover of It's Raining Men is just unforgiveable. Any others as mismatched?
My mum is 86. She's been waiting for her second eye cataract op for 18 months, has fallen twice due to uneven vision. They sent letter giving a surgery appointment on the day letter arrived, obviously she missed it. Now back on the waiting list for god knows how long. Familiar but sickening story.
November 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
My mum is 86. She's been waiting for her second eye cataract op for 18 months, has fallen twice due to uneven vision. They sent letter giving a surgery appointment on the day letter arrived, obviously she missed it. Now back on the waiting list for god knows how long. Familiar but sickening story.
If Advil is (I think?) the same as Nurofen, I completely agree - it was a total game changer. Up till then I suffered with a useless prescription thing called Ponstan, or over the counter Feminax. Nurofen didn't fix everything but it was SO much better. Vance is, yet again, a misogynist moron.
It's so stupid for me to get pissed about this, but I still remember the radical shift when Advil went over-the-counter, when I was a freshman in college— I was wrecked by cramps, non-functional, & suddenly, this cheap miracle fixed it all in 20 min
JD Vance calls ibuprofen "useless medication" and implies it's not "necessary, safe and effective."
November 12, 2025 at 11:06 PM
If Advil is (I think?) the same as Nurofen, I completely agree - it was a total game changer. Up till then I suffered with a useless prescription thing called Ponstan, or over the counter Feminax. Nurofen didn't fix everything but it was SO much better. Vance is, yet again, a misogynist moron.
"Six seven" is totally out with the primary crew, the current thing is humming the tune of 'The Vengabus is coming'.
November 12, 2025 at 9:38 AM
"Six seven" is totally out with the primary crew, the current thing is humming the tune of 'The Vengabus is coming'.
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It's only when I read that I can take a rest from myself.
November 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It's only when I read that I can take a rest from myself.
In a quite fancy West End restaurant today and someone had carved - actually carved - the words "Fucking Hitler" on the wooden table. While it's good it was an ANTI-Hitler message, that ... really isn't something I want to see over lunch. Wondered whether to say but surely they must have noticed it?
November 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
In a quite fancy West End restaurant today and someone had carved - actually carved - the words "Fucking Hitler" on the wooden table. While it's good it was an ANTI-Hitler message, that ... really isn't something I want to see over lunch. Wondered whether to say but surely they must have noticed it?
Oh my god, how many massive bangs are enough! So sick of this endless fireworks racket. Kids can't sleep, dogs scared (thankfully mine now deaf), it's been hours nonstop, why is it legal to sell things this LOUD?!
November 5, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Oh my god, how many massive bangs are enough! So sick of this endless fireworks racket. Kids can't sleep, dogs scared (thankfully mine now deaf), it's been hours nonstop, why is it legal to sell things this LOUD?!
Ah, how lovely. My boy is 15 and basically disabled now, I get it.
This piece by Melissa Harrison is simply gorgeous. My beloved dog Tilly also had pancreatitis in her last year, and taking care of her was privilege, not a chore. She'd spent her whole life taking care of me, after all. I still miss her with every breath. mzharrison.substack.com/p/loving-an-...
Loving an old dog
This isn't a sad pet story
mzharrison.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Ah, how lovely. My boy is 15 and basically disabled now, I get it.
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We @womenslibrary.bsky.social are so sad to hear of the death of Elspeth King, writer, activist, curator of the People's Palace who fought so hard to collect & preserve Glasgow's social and working class histories. Her book 'The Hidden History Of Glasgow's Women: The THENEW Factor' is so important.
November 1, 2025 at 12:46 PM
We @womenslibrary.bsky.social are so sad to hear of the death of Elspeth King, writer, activist, curator of the People's Palace who fought so hard to collect & preserve Glasgow's social and working class histories. Her book 'The Hidden History Of Glasgow's Women: The THENEW Factor' is so important.
My relative who has literally mentioned how much she dislikes Meghan Markle once a week for the past four years: "Oh, all this Andrew stuff is overkill, is there nothing else happening in the world that's newsworthy?"
Meghan Meghan Markle GIF
Alt: Meghan Markle with caption reading "Really?"
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November 1, 2025 at 5:14 PM
My relative who has literally mentioned how much she dislikes Meghan Markle once a week for the past four years: "Oh, all this Andrew stuff is overkill, is there nothing else happening in the world that's newsworthy?"
I keep thinking that if Charles had, idk, died in a skiing accident in his 20s, we'd all be living with King Andrew today, listening to him being exalted all the time. Such a terrible, random system.
October 31, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I keep thinking that if Charles had, idk, died in a skiing accident in his 20s, we'd all be living with King Andrew today, listening to him being exalted all the time. Such a terrible, random system.
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i actually think a better punishment than stripping someone of their titles is jail
October 30, 2025 at 8:27 PM
i actually think a better punishment than stripping someone of their titles is jail
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And as a PUNISHMENT he will be FORCED to use his ORDINARY FIRST NAME followed by a FAMILY NAME and he will be COMPELLED to live in this very VERY NICE HOUSE that is A BIT LESS MASSIVE than the last house, and it will be PAID FOR by his brother who gets his money from YOU
October 30, 2025 at 8:49 PM
And as a PUNISHMENT he will be FORCED to use his ORDINARY FIRST NAME followed by a FAMILY NAME and he will be COMPELLED to live in this very VERY NICE HOUSE that is A BIT LESS MASSIVE than the last house, and it will be PAID FOR by his brother who gets his money from YOU