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blandrew [they/them]

@acuthberto.bsky.social
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I work in community development, I'm a community historian and I don't know if I'm gluten or lactose intolerant, but I won't find out. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Writing a book about the lives of sex workers in Victorian Glasgow. Expect lots of chat on that.

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blandrew [they/them] @acuthberto.bsky.social · 9h
My doorbell hasn’t worked in the year that I’ve lived here so I’m currently playing a game of “I hope my burger and my new shoes turn up at the same time so I don’t need to go downstairs twice” If I win, I get a burger and a new pair of Dr Martens that I got on sale
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blandrew [they/them] @acuthberto.bsky.social · 18h
Absolutely just not handling this Monday stuff particularly well. I mean, fuckin look at the state of it. 5 days of alarms, and buses, and emails, and weather, and shoes, and belts, and messages from fellas like "hey, u accom??" not on a fucking Monday I don't discretebear4fun69
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blandrew [they/them] @acuthberto.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
FINALLY. Like all Gillian Anderson vehicles I expect I will leave it slightly more bisexual than when I arrived.
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blandrew [they/them] @acuthberto.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sometimes when I spend hours in the archive I get a wee treat. Today it is Ann Fanny Wombwell.
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blandrew [they/them] @acuthberto.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am spending my day going through every single Friday edition of an English language newspaper in Paris between 1870 and 1880 to just get one single mention of one person. I spent the long weekend transcribing Victorian Crown Office documents and going through the French Daily Burial records.
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blandrew [they/them] @acuthberto.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I have been having a lovely time playing Skyrim again for the first time in like...6 years? With 3,700+ mods it's only been a somewhat janky experience.
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blandrew [they/them] @acuthberto.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’m in Edinburgh today for some archive research and I’m really hoping I’m allowed to photograph the documents because I slept about 3 hours and I’m in no position to scrutinise Victorian handwriting.
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blandrew [they/them] @acuthberto.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In my 1st year history classes, there was a mature student who would manage to bring up the 1980s every week and he'd always, in a manner dripping with arseholishness, say "and, you weren't around for this, but" If only there were some field of study I could undertake for events I was not alive for
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Four panel comic. Panel 1: two guys playing basketball outside. Guy 1 looks off to the side and asks, “is someone in the window?” Panel 2: a creepy ghost woman stands in the upstairs window of a house, watching them. Panel 3: Guy 2 calls up to the creepy ghost, “you wanna hoop?” Panel 4: the ghost is outside playing basketball with them. She bricks a shot from the free throw line. Guy 2 says, “that’s H-O-R.”
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blandrew [they/them] @acuthberto.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'm in Edinburgh on Friday at the National Records of Scotland if anybody fancies a wee lunch? I've managed to uncover three very important cases that might contain recorded testimony and even correspondence from one of the women I'm researching. It's just very exciting for me.
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blandrew [they/them] @acuthberto.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Another day of emailing archives in England and being like UwU whever further affidavits rewating to affidavit 8240 in IR27-483-3, under s.32 of the Customs and Inwand Wevenue Act 1881 survive anywhere as owiginal documents UwU
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 19/09/2026
I hate when I’m hit with a weapon or elemental damage type that corresponds to my weakness
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blandrew [they/them] @acuthberto.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I have never looked more handsome
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blandrew [they/them] @acuthberto.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just a girl and her emotional support 3700+ Skyrim mods
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blandrew [they/them] @acuthberto.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
🚋clang clang clang🚋
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blandrew [they/them] @acuthberto.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Pals I just heard the phrase “aura farming” on the bus and I don’t know what that is. Is that not in final fantasy viii where you let enemies knock yer pan in so you can use your limit break?
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blandrew [they/them] @acuthberto.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Weekend of history: GO. Off to a talk at Glasgow Uni about the historic pubs of Glasgow. Tomorrow: I will MAKE history as the first non-binary person to deliver two back to back history talks then immediately ruin their friend's birthday karaoke by turning up late and punching whoever has the mic.
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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 17/09/2026
Mel Blanc screams are like Greek fire, we lost the technology to make sounds like this
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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 16/09/2026
Today we're bringing a vote to deliver a moratorium on hyperscale data centres in Scotland. The Scottish Parliament will have a simple choice. MSPs can stand with the communities they represent, protect our environment and our resources. Or they can fail to act.
Vote today. Scottish Greens force vote on haling hyperscale data centres.
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blandrew [they/them] @acuthberto.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I had this moment on the bus yesterday, where instead of being like "fuck sake am oan a bus" I was just...genuinely...kind of like...happy? And I realised I've been...pretty solid this past year, in a way I wasn't for a LONG time. Don't get me wrong, the world is fucked and we're all doomed BUT
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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
As of May 2026, Police Scotland now ask every person who reports or witnesses a crime for data about their “sex” and their “trans status”. These questions are voluntary - you are not legally required to disclose your sex or your trans status to the police when reporting or witnessing a crime.
Graphic with a pink to blue gradient background. It says "When reporting or witnessing a crime, you’ll  be asked for:
- your “sex” (defined as your sex as assigned at birth)
- your “trans status” (whether you are trans or not)
You are not legally required to disclose either." The Scottish Trans logo is at the bottom.
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
What was it is like to fornicate with the Devil 😈?(according to 17th century Scottish belief) Our new clip from You’re Dead To Me on the BBC - with historian Dr Martha McGill and comedian @marjoleinrobertson.bsky.social
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RossyDoesDrawings (commissions open) @rossydoesdrawings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I drew a comic strip.
a comic strip. The first panel shows a goblin in a long coat approaching a guard. The second panel has the goblin saying "we're just normal men!". The third panel has the guard replying "what do you mean normal men?". The fourth panel shows both the goblin in the coat and the guard. The coat is beginning to open to show many goblins within. The guard looks suspicious and a goblin emerging from the coat is saying "We're just innocent men!"
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blandrew [they/them] @acuthberto.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Actually, while I have you, drop your favourite pieces of classical music below. It’s for my reading playlist so it can’t blow the arse off you. Like the bit where it all drops in Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No.2 is as metal as it can get. Xoxo
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blandrew [they/them] @acuthberto.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Not to sound like a Victorian Newspaper, the very thing I actively research and challenge, but the decorum with which people conduct themselves in train stations speaks to their lack of character and decent, Presbyterian manners. Our right and Godly Queen Victoria would be apoplectic to witness it.
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blandrew [they/them] @acuthberto.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The new ScotRail app once again cementing its status as the worst thing on my mobile phone. Gal, what part of return ticket did you not understand? The part where I pressed return ticket, the part where you showed me return ticket or the part where I paid for a return ticket?
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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Nathan Fielder and Elizabeth Holmes doing the "we're just normal men" meme
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nathorz @nathorz.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
The Sounds of Link & Zelda Animation #zelda
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blandrew [they/them] @acuthberto.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A grown man just called me "baby" and I'm away to the clenny next door to jump in their massive rubbish compactor. I must clarify, not in a snazzy "that's showbiz, baby" kind of way, accompanied by hand gestures. In a way that made my body fold in on itself like a black hole formed in my guts.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:

[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]

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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. 

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CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.

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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free 
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-

BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister 

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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?

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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill

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HITLER:
What we are proposing -

CHURCHILL:
Hang on

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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -

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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here

BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate

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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate 
You don't debate fascists

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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!

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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...

CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-

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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!

BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak

[ends]
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blandrew [they/them] @acuthberto.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Shout out to me who cancelled their weekend plans and ordered a pizza. Wow, what a champion.
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Two panel comic. Panel 1: Close-up view of a hand holding a phone with instagram open. The image on screen is a horrifyingly crusty, borderline demonic little dog, with a caption below that reads: “Fly high Taquito 🕊️❤️” Panel 2: the man holding the phone exhibits a face of mild shock at the sight of Taquito.
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blandrew [they/them] @acuthberto.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I've been stuck between names for months on my book (this has oddly been the hardest part of this whole experience) but finally settled on something that I quite like: "Up the Wynds and Doon the Courts: Sex, Shame and Morality in Victorian Glasgow."
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blandrew [they/them] @acuthberto.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I've started saying 'crikey' because I love beetle moses so much As we eagerly await it spreading across Scotland, we'll reflect on my record of trendsetting and-oh. Oh jings. That's not good at all. hmm.
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Barry Epoch Topping @barrytopping.com · 01/09/2026
Adventure Diary releases September 4th! Featuring new arrangements of some of my favourite music, from N64 classic Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon!🍡🏯🍑⛰️ Available this coming Friday at nostoppingepoch.bandcamp.com
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blandrew [they/them] @acuthberto.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
What is striking me so much about corruption in our modern day is how blatantly thick everyone is. "let's do crime lol. here is exactly how we do the crime. thank you for criminal money. love evil money. but shhh, ok u guys pinky swear we won't tell anyone."
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maddie ★ othatsraspberry @othatsraspberry.com · 07/01/2026
yuffie & cait sith when it says “kids eat free”
a doodle of yuffie and cait sith wearing propeller hats and holding big lollies
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blandrew [they/them] @acuthberto.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Don't maker yer posters with AI pals
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grant @grantpardee.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"Tiny Tim, who DESERVED to die,"
Gonzo in Muppet Christmas Carol delivering the line "And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die"
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Harpsibored @harpsibored.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
🔥🔥🔥
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blandrew [they/them] @acuthberto.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Right I'm done with work for the week and my phone is going off. If any other beloved people die over the weekend, send me a letter and I'll find out how our ancestors did. Three weeks later and far too late to attend the funeral.
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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 27/08/2026
The SNP have long promised a ban on cruel conversion practices, but time and again they have delayed. We can't wait for, or trust Westminster to deliver a watertight ban on these abusive practices; we need a Scotland-specific ban now.
Ban Conversion Practices
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blandrew [they/them] @acuthberto.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Another day of the important questions being asked by the Glasgow Newspapers. In 1869. [Nice]
Newspaper Byline from the North British Daily Mail, 23 September 1869 entitled "Is a Man Entitled to Sleep With His Wife?"
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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.
Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy
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blandrew [they/them] @acuthberto.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Now Tim Curry? Jesus fuck
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blandrew [they/them] @acuthberto.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The BBC's article on Pride is, let's all be shocked, a bit of a fucking disgrace. Painting the move away from Pride by larger organisations as "the debate around trans issues" and not the systematic and targeted erasure of trans rights through consistent platforming of the worst people imaginable.
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blandrew [they/them] @acuthberto.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It is 2026 and Microsoft Word still doesn't like it when I spell words like recognise, utilise or formalise without changing the settings on every document. Babe, there are countries out there that aren't America. Grow up. Get a grip.
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KJ Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
there will be many ways to celebrate dolly parton and the one I want to point out is that she was a friend of Miss Piggy
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
RIP TO ONE OF THE GREATEST TO EVER DO IT
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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