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Andrea Mullaney

@andreamullaney.bsky.social
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Writer, lecturer, recovering journo, constant reader, mother, cailleach èibhinn living in Glasgow. Literary agent @llmonts. "All of the birds are laughing, come on, let's all join in."

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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 1h
Pretty much the best bit of parenting, I don't get it!
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 2h
Catching up on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and why did no one mention there is a Burnistoun reference in it?! (It's not as bad as I feared, overall; truly baffling decision to make every 2nd episode a dream but individually some good stuff)
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Worth it mate, worth it.
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Obviously wrong in many ways, but also the cricket test? Literally a member of the government saying that people might not be English if they didn't support a national team?
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ohmygod, they've got a Kill Jester one! Christmas sorted. Oh and happy birthday Paul!
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
They really missed a trick in not marketing a perfume under her name.
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I think it'll be FF on iPlayer until most of the dead wood clears out.
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's really dragging. Maybe they should have just rested it for a while.
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sounds the replacement for the Brian Rogers Connection on 321.
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Among obviously all the other things, like Childline and car seats and Nicholas Winton etc.
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just remembered that Esther Rantzen discovered Sheena Easton. Between Sheena's later American accent and the dog that said sausages, we all owe Esther thanks for some great, long-running big laffs.
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hurray!!!
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Never make assumptions, it makes an ass out of U and Mptions". No one has ever found it funny.
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thank goodness!
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Delighted to read that my kid's favourite YouTuber seems to be an all-around good egg. A fun article. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
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‘It’s frustrating to see immoral videos do so well’: how YouTube sensation Half-Asleep Chris sent a rollercoaster to space and made Bella the cat a star
His videos of cats, loopy contraptions and theme park rides round the heavens (and his back garden) have notched up a billion views. We meet Chris Burton in the suburban home where it all happens
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Have you read about her early life? It's absolutely horrendous. Just absolute torture from birth to right now, and her only moment of agency being to hurt someone else - a terrible tragedy all round.
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I think 90% of this (I obvs include myself) is just Being Old.
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ejg25.bsky.social @ejg25.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It may have inspired this one. It’s interesting to see quilters (and old ladies in general) as social protestors, but they so often are. hyperallergic.com/activists-un...
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Activists Unveil Quilt Honoring Thousands Disappeared by ICE in Minnesota
The Stolen Neighbors Quilt features 11,000 hand-stitched squares in an indictment of violence against immigrants and a “call for political courage.”
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I learned that the man who started the original US AIDS quilt (this was the UK one) was inspired by one his grandma had made.
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oh that's amazing! Yeah, sometimes it's a church thing, I think.
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Can't really pick one that stands out but while many are signed by loving parents, one panel has the surname covered up 'until his family learn to be proud of him again'. Instead his friends have named him as Michael The Kind, Michael The Class Act etc. Made me teary.
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Managed to get to see the AIDS quilt today, just before it leaves the Tramway, and it's so moving, particularly watching young people born well after the crisis interacting with it respectfully. There's so much love in the quilt. Things that make you smile like fave song lyrics, teddies, sparkles.
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is SO spot on. With Josh looking completely terrified and Rebecca dancing around him obliviously grinning. (That was such a great show)
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I mean, it did work though!
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It must have been weird when the whole pitch was "sorry, you guys are too old and square now, we need younger sexy people" and then the new Captain was announced as a bald middle aged theatre actor only a few years younger than Shatner.
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As if it wasn't bad enough, now they've ripped off the Go-Jetters
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I've rarely agreed with anything more
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ah that's lovely. And reassuring!
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Was he still angry?
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Yeah, I enjoyed it but it did go on a bit as well. I wonder if it had offered a slightly cut down, cheaper version with fewer locations it might have got approved, or would that have cancelled out the whole point?
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
With the cancellation of both Ride Or Die and Ponies, it seems that the streamers just don't like shows where two women pals get up to hijinks, which is sad as it's pretty much my favourite genre these days.
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
What a hilarious and yet depressing situation, well told.
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Fear for his life if he drops out of uni
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Never read that before, bloody hell. I would love an update, years on - was it REALLY the case that he couldn't have done anything to hurt her more? I wonder!
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I had at least double that. Cost a fortune and I've barely driven. Not one of my better decisions in life!
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's probably me. I had a LOT of lessons. If you don't grow up in a car-household, it takes forever to get the basics let alone the tricky bits, and if you don't yet have a car then lessons are the only way you can practice.
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🎉
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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
George Formby refused to perform to a segregated audience in apartheid South Africa. Just something to think about.
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This sounds amazing tho?
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In a dark time, there's something so healing about seeing these two together again. Obviously celebrities are all insane but SMG is pretty much the nicest, most unproblematic one ever. ew.com/sarah-michel...
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‘Buffy’ stars Sarah Michelle Gellar and David Boreanaz are asked to kiss, hold hands on Emmys 2026 red carpet
Sunnydale’s most star-crossed couple is back together again! Sarah Michelle Gellar and David Boreanaz had an epic ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ reunion on the Emmys red carpet — and were even asked to ki...
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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Your Grandad Cyclops talks about his school days
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
There's something the people in that picture all have in common, I just can't put my finger on qwhite what it is.
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Her school may have closed early for some other reason or she had a half day for the dentist or something, I suppose.
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Why on earth would schools in the UK close early for this? They didn't close for any other bombing even IN this country eg London, Birmingham.
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I suppose the whole "knowing and accepting your own future" thing is kind of his equivalent. Kirk would have fought that or any other outcome relentlessly.
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Have they ever said how Pike did in the Kobayashi Maru test or does that not exist yet in this version of the universe?
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Oh no! That is such a shame.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Finally they came for the Daily Mail and my irony meter just packed up and left and I never heard from it again.
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I mean I think it's really important we call them Nazis in some way. Most British people do not actually like Nazis!
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"You hear them shouting 'Heil, Spode!' and you imagine it is the Voice of the People. That is where you make your bloomer. What the Voice of the People is saying is: 'Look at that frightful ass Spode swanking about in footer bags! Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher?'"
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