blandrew [they/them]

I’d definitely consider it to be more passive than actively pursuing, but I’ll give it the ok’ college try until economics is not my primary driver for wanting to be in a relationship haha

Brought to you by - I just ended a three week thing with a guy who couldn't remember what I do for a living. Following on from my last thing where, after telling him about my dead dad, twice, asked me if my dad still worked. No Matt. He's unemployed. And dead.

I need to work out why, when a guy is interested in me, he is not actually interested in *me*. I mean, I don't mean this in a self-deprecating way, but I'm not *hot*. I have a medium to good personality though, but I only seem to attract dudes who perfected conversation with brick walls.

"I asked Grok" "I asked chatGPT" well I asked my caffeine and anxiety rotted brain and made this grotesque parody of reality

Really enjoying the spin rn "the cabinet, who you also would like to resign, are all supporting the person you really want to resign. Indeed, Baron Von Fistybum, posted on their X account 'weloveNetanyahu:' the public love us, and they love the PM. All the bad things we've done are great actually."

I think we should all get to go home early whenever a PM resigns. Like they're getting to go early, why can't I? I'm not the one resigning in disgrace. I'm continuing on with aplomb, thank you. I'd just rather do it on an earlier bus.

That actually sounds so nice tbqh. Like if you want to you can go hang out with some Brazillian Young Adults or Molecular bioligists, but you probably don't want to, so away in your own wee cluster.

OK now I feel good about this, thank you

I don't know how to feel about this.

I asked myself everything I know about myself and my job and I made a drawing of me at my job

To sum up; shove yer 996 nonsense right up yer hole. If you're not sure how, ask the AI chat bot you've given up your life to build. (6/6)

It goes on to say that doing such would be at "great expense to the master" and that those poor wretches on their low pay would struggle to feed themselves on a day off. What would they even do with leisure time? Better they continue to learn the value of hard work. (5/6)

And "nobody wants to work anymore" is not a new thing. There was an article I read recently from The Scotsman in 1853, where they discuss offering a single Saturday off per month as a "holiday." "Such is the way of the working man, that he now seeks to remove the epithet working entirely." (4/6)

But this isn't new. Look at this William Hogarth engraving from 1747. On the right you have the Little Lord Fauntleroy looking fella; hard at work, industrious, he will succeed. On the right, asleep, gaunt, dishevelled - the man who does not want to work. The "slacker" as the 996 crews call it.(3/6)

And while a factory in 1829 and an office in 2026 are very different landscapes, their end goal is the same - human life as resource in exchange for maximum profit.

It comes with its own propaganda; it's the hustle, it's ambition, it's passion! You though, on your 40 hours a week are lazy. (2/6)

Every time I see someone extolling the virtues of 996 working (9am - 9pm, 6 days a week), I think about my ancestors, who worked from 6am - 9pm, 6 days per week.

And how they went on strike, went without pay, and food, and warmth to stop us ever having to live like that again. (1/6)

Mushroom House (Dehumifidier Mix), by Epoch from the album Everhood 2 RMX

Hey! I did a creeping but ultimately skelping remix of Mushroom House, from the Everhood 2 OST, for Stewart Keller’s Everhood 2 RMX album!

You can check out the full release on bandcamp and the usual streaming platforms.

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I am beyond delighted to tell you that my brand new album ‘This Could be Us, You, Or Anybody Else’ is out on 10 April 2026 on @chemunderground.bsky.social, and that you can pre-order it NOW, on this first #BandcampFriday of the year:

brokenchanter.bandcamp.com/album/this-c...

Coming from a long line of Glaswegians who put salt on things before tasting them, I find this difficult to believe. My worldview is simply that most things, whether they be soups, chips, salads, crisps, chocolate or salt, don't have enough salt on them.

Gold Coke Zero is 16th century Presbyterianism. That’s the only logical conclusion here.

Break down the walls that separate us brother, make a New Coke.

Coke Zero is Protestant because it's utterly fucking miserable and nobody actually likes it, and Diet Coke is Catholic because it's enjoyable but you still had to think about guilt to get there.

This is a lengthy survey with deeply biased premises BUT anyone in the UK (or UK citizens elsewhere) who wishes for a compassionate immigration system that doesn’t privilege the rich & penalise the vulnerable would be advised to fill it out, carefully.

I will now sit here in rage for a while.

This muppet show revival is proof that there is still joy in the world, but only when Sabrina Carpenter, Miss Piggy and Maya Rudolph do and say things

I ordered new underwear from a cool sexy gay brand and put it down to get delivered to the office, because delivery guys are just averse to my home for some reason.

They got delivered.

To the nursery next door.

Who opened them.

that is wild

Like
Shoe
And then
Shoe?

Must be hard for all the other bus passengers because they're not the driver's favourite, like me, the driver's favourite.

Yeah, the cost of living crisis has really been an eye opener. Seeing Djokovic moonlighting as a lollipop lady and battering kids across the road should really have been the turning point

A weird thing about living on this high street is the sheer number of people on it who scream like they are in genuine distress.

One of these days the police will be like “did you hear the murder? There was horrendous screaming” and I’ll be like “gonna need you to be more specific”