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  • i am so tired of the fighting outside. it’s driving me apeshit. there was someone belting out bloodcurdling shrieks at the top of their lungs outside the flat i share with my partner. it went on for like five minutes. a week ago there was a screaming domestic. we saw three people get into a fistfight our on the street and it was only like ... 5PMish. the lack of contact is making people crazy by ianhartless (Thu 23rd Apr 2020 11:11pm)
  • i’m sorry about your boss. that must be awful. yeah people aren’t taking the situation as seriously as they should be by ianhartless (Fri 24th Apr 2020 5:39pm)
  • hehehehe 👀 by ianhartless (Thu 21st Jan 2021 7:06pm)
  • that’s what my partner did but they just gave us backchat. i didnt even realise they were insulting us initially, i was so thrown off. the unfair advantage of speed ... by ianhartless (Thu 21st Jan 2021 7:05pm)
  • i dont think this behaviour is particularly unique to cyclists, i’m just flabbergasted that someone could be so brazenly unpleasant to people that a) he doesnt know and b) has no conception of the circumstances they’re going through. like how can you be proud of yourself after screaming abuse at strangers, i’ll never know. the mind boggles ... by ianhartless (Thu 21st Jan 2021 7:23pm)
  • i appreciate the concern but tbh i feel like the nastiness was for show. he was cycling with another man as he shot past. he wasn’t a teenager, he was middle aged - significantly older than me and my partner (partner is in their early 30s, i’m turning 30 in a week). yeah i get that the cycle routes are pretty dreadful and need decent organisation but there is no need for disrespect like that, especially when the people you are screaming at are strugglig enough as it is. you should feel pretty damn ashamed of yourself if the first instance of someone blocking your way is to scream at them and call them “fat fucks”. by ianhartless (Thu 21st Jan 2021 7:31pm)
  • thank you 👍 yeah most cyclists are usually polite and decent about these things. just that guy was being a knob by ianhartless (Thu 21st Jan 2021 7:53pm)
  • it is a split path and we were walking across it towards the traffic lights so we could cross the road. we weren’t just puttering around. just taking time because chronic illness is a shiter. by ianhartless (Thu 21st Jan 2021 8:00pm)
  • hahaha yeah that’s true. it’s not really a high quality of life if you have to mouth off at chronically ill people and shame them about their weight to get your point across. by ianhartless (Thu 21st Jan 2021 8:34pm)
  • oh yeah! yeah the southside and the people in it are great. i am a native lol. i’m very fond of places like the glad cafe and milk cafe. i think its like when you’re quite confident those sort of insults can wash over you like a duck’s back but if you’re already feeling and/or ARE vulnerable, it feels SO MUCH more overwhelming. by ianhartless (Thu 21st Jan 2021 8:32pm)
  • ik ik man. i just wanted to vent tbh. thanks by ianhartless (Thu 21st Jan 2021 8:38pm)
  • yeah i remember the beginning of covid being pretty bad and there being regular fights and/or disturbances. i’m sure covid-19 laws don’t help ha by ianhartless (Thu 21st Jan 2021 8:37pm)
  • tbh i dunno if i’d eat their bikes, they didn’t look that tasty 👀 by ianhartless (Thu 21st Jan 2021 8:45pm)
  • aww hahahaha. thanks, i needed this by ianhartless (Thu 21st Jan 2021 9:33pm)
  • i see. we were walking on a split path (half pavement/half cycle lane, that joins back up to a pavement) so the cycle lane is fairly narrow. we were not standing about, we were walking across it to get to the pavement leading to the traffic lights. we were just a little slower because sometimes chronic health problems take their toll. by ianhartless (Thu 21st Jan 2021 9:36pm)
  • i’m good now. it happened on that very day so i wanted to vent. hope yours is a good one. by ianhartless (Sat 23rd Jan 2021 9:44am)
  • nah not the case. i was in buying beer when i heard someone yelling out and, given that we live on a street where people usually shout at each other, thought that the dude was just on his phone or chatting to a friend. but my partner peaked his head through slightly shellshocked, like “ianhartless, [sainsbury guys] name just took a bit of the pizza”. i thought he was joking because it’s the sort of thing he would joke about, given the guy is well known in the area, but turned out he was serious. by ianhartless (Sun 30th Jan 2022 9:38pm)
  • nah, saxondale has a full head of hair and looks fresh. this guy is wiry and angry. i had a colleague who didn’t care much for him because he got aggressive with women. by ianhartless (Sun 30th Jan 2022 9:51pm)
  • with saxondale mach ii you’ve probably encountered the good guy. the guy you’re describing just now sounds like our guy - he has a misogynist streak and gets aggressive. he also asked a weird question about a friend who was staying here so idt his intentions were that great … by ianhartless (Sun 30th Jan 2022 10:05pm)
  • the dude is genuinely not a good guy. he like scours out people who he thinks are useful, gets weird with women and is super aggressive with dudes. tbh it seemed like a weird power play bc he asked about a friend who briefly got involved in his bs before nicking a piece of the pizza. he knew he wasn’t wanted. by ianhartless (Sun 30th Jan 2022 10:25pm)
  • is he a scrawny dude with thinning hair and a face like a slapped arse? always wears a hat of some sort? if so that’s the guy yeah he seems routinely shitty in general, i’m sorry your wife went through that transphobic bs. he seems to get shouty with women and verbally abusive, i think my colleague was suggesting he got shouty with her for not paying him enough attention. he’s also part of the circle that essentially glommed towards my friend’s vulnerabilities when she was staying in the southside by ianhartless (Sun 30th Jan 2022 10:48pm)
  • shock tends to do that to you. most people don’t expect a radgy local to commit drive by pizza thievery! by ianhartless (Sun 30th Jan 2022 11:09pm)
  • yeah, he’s a real bawbag. that’s what my colleague was suggesting, if women ignore him he gets aggro and hurls all sorts of shite at them by ianhartless (Sun 30th Jan 2022 11:13pm)
  • thank you!! 😊 by ianhartless (Sun 30th Jan 2022 11:12pm)
  • most of them are alright but i’ve heard nothing good about this guy. you’d think he would try to at least start with a “hello”, ahahaha. by ianhartless (Sun 30th Jan 2022 11:10pm)
  • yeah tbh if he tries his shit with anymore women in the area i feel like it should be guaranteed to grant them the privilege of chucking a massive fucking pie in his face. by ianhartless (Sun 30th Jan 2022 11:21pm)
  • i haven’t personally went up to him and measured him, but he’s got a slouch and looks roughly close to my height, maybe somewhere between 5’6 to 5’9 at tallest. usually he’s been sitting down whenever we’ve walked past sainsburys by ianhartless (Sun 30th Jan 2022 11:43pm)
  • fucking chancer! that really sucks yeah some people are like that and it’s like “… why? you know you could ask beforehand, right - and NOT after you’ve already helped yourself?” no manners! by ianhartless (Mon 31st Jan 2022 1:04am)
  • lol yeah, as weirded out as someone might be i don’t think you exactly go to town on someone with a screwdriver to the eyeballs lol by ianhartless (Mon 31st Jan 2022 9:48am)
  • not the worst! just surprised and thought it was funny. dude is a legit dick tho by ianhartless (Mon 31st Jan 2022 11:57am)
  • someone should use his face as a tennis ball then do a bit of bouncing about with it as well by ianhartless (Wed 2nd Feb 2022 1:49pm)
  • well maybe if you find the guy you can have a slice, he seems to have a penchant for sampling it too 😛 nah but in all seriousness errol’s is p tasty by ianhartless (Wed 2nd Feb 2022 1:48pm)
  • my partner looked out the window and there was a mother with her kids. like idk if she’s buying her own treat while watching the waens but yeah from the outside it looked like it was functioning like a regular ice cream van, no dodgy business afaik by ianhartless (Fri 4th Nov 2022 9:24pm)
  • maybe i will … by ianhartless (Fri 4th Nov 2022 10:01pm)
  • aww i didn’t know that! yeah that makes sense then by ianhartless (Fri 4th Nov 2022 10:01pm)
  • i’m absolutely shattered by ianhartless (Fri 4th Nov 2022 9:59pm)
  • forgot to mention it does chime. it plays the benny hill theme exceptionally loudly. couldn’t hear breaking bad over it by ianhartless (Fri 4th Nov 2022 10:39pm)
  • i get the references, i was just thinking “why would anyone want ice cream around 9PM when it’s nearing winter?” but having hot meals there too makes sense. although tbh you are right you can have ice cream any time of the year, i just found it pretty funny. i never really bother with ice cream vans these days, way too expensive. by ianhartless (Fri 4th Nov 2022 10:45pm)
  • we usually leave the window open but even if it were shut it’d be blaring. the description of an ice cream truck racing around vicky road at twenty to nine at night blasting benny hill sounds like a set up for the most ridiculous horror b-movie ever by ianhartless (Fri 4th Nov 2022 10:52pm)
  • oh my god, i can’t even begin to imagine how annoying that would be perhaps they succeeded in a little bit of business exchanging food, but that was mostly having rotten tomatoes pelted in their direction by ianhartless (Sat 5th Nov 2022 1:17am)
  • you’ve guessed right. i’m learning that just now. yeah i moved to govanhill around 4 years ago and the ice cream truck where i originally stayed only came out during the summer primarily for the kids, so it’s a surprise to me. hopefully the truck pedalling down my street now is cheaper than the one that was at queen’s park this year, it was like £7 for a cone and had funny hours by ianhartless (Sat 5th Nov 2022 11:07am)
  • THAT BEING SAID i used to stay in mossneuk as a kid and they used to have a fish van that carted along the streets, we used to buy some fish for us and our cat by ianhartless (Sat 5th Nov 2022 11:19am)
  • my partner has panic attacks and recently had a throat infection that made them cough up blood for a short period of time, so we went to calder street for an appointment. one of the doctors there listened to my partners heartbeat (they were having a panic attack), said it was completely abnormal and contacted the hospital immediately. they then left my partner to trot about govanhill looking for transportation during a panic attack after insinuating that they had a serious heart condition and it could be deadly. after the traffic and timing being a no go, we went home and the palpitations subsided. we went down to the queen elizabeth hospital the next day and my partner had a full body examination. complete clean bill of health asides from a bacterial infection and chronic pain. so we went on a goose chase around glasgow all for nothing but the queen elizabeth hospital were absolute troopers about it. cheers. by ianhartless (Sat 12th Nov 2022 2:15pm)
  • i think pollokshields is usually decent, although tonight’s been a bit frightening in the southside. where i stay it seemed like there were congregations of football fans roaring outside our flat as though it were a gladiatorial battle. the lot of them sounded like orcs. by ianhartless (Sun 20th Nov 2022 4:12pm)
  • aye well the four squad cars and screaming chants round vicky road was just me tripping out like, clearly i’ve lost it by ianhartless (Sun 20th Nov 2022 5:17pm)
  • were they for darts or cricket? was it for lawn bowls? or a particularly invigorating chess game by ianhartless (Sun 20th Nov 2022 5:20pm)
  • i always felt tentative about whether i wanted to go there. i liked the politics and occasionally supported them online but the way they went about these politics exacerbated problems rather than helped them (like protesting against the police yet attracting their attention in govanhill, which is a huge no-no given how many poc we have here). the handcuff key incident was my tipping point and i just see them as people who caused problems more than minimised them. they weren’t very accepting of criticism either even when it was coming from other jewish, trans or queer people. their owner (morgan holleb) ran an organisation that was meant to support men and nonbinary victims of sexual and domestic abuse (not your fault). i thought that was fantastic of him until i found out that one of the people at his organisation confided in him privately about his abuse. holleb then went up to the person accused of abuse at a public event and punched him so hard he had a migraine, basically outing his victim given that holleb ran the organisation. he then issued a nonapology on facebook and around that point he left. the organisation still lives on. there’s more strange shit that group have done but i’ll spare you the essay (or as the rumour has it the letterbox). by ianhartless (Tue 6th Jun 2023 4:16pm)
  • totally, especially considering you’re essentially outing the victim. that’s someone you should be respecting their privacy, not taking matters into your own hands. by ianhartless (Tue 6th Jun 2023 5:36pm)
  • yeah. he was a musician going by morgan potts and he punched another musician so bad he got a migraine, who he was told was an abuser by one of the people in his survivors’ program. he then made a fauxpology about it and got called out by his friends for it because they thought it was really shitty behaviour. by ianhartless (Tue 6th Jun 2023 5:35pm)
  • tbh i think he left england bc of this kind of malarkey by ianhartless (Tue 6th Jun 2023 5:40pm)
  • i’ve been in a similar position and am also in the southside, just got a glasgow club membership - i’d be up for it if that’s cool with you? by ianhartless (Tue 6th Jun 2023 6:17pm)
  • that’s exactly it aye. it’s not simply he punched an abuser, it was that he basically outed the victim with his behaviour. and considering holleb was in a position of power over the dude rather than only a friend (as a professional source of counsel), it makes the whole thing sketchier. by ianhartless (Tue 6th Jun 2023 8:27pm)
  • govanhill! i go to the gorbals 4 gymming by ianhartless (Wed 7th Jun 2023 5:02pm)
  • the punch happened in 2017, and the survivors group existed that year too. if there are any missing or inaccurate details i can correct them here. by ianhartless (Sat 10th Jun 2023 1:53am)
  • tbh my partner has a lot of horror stories about the art school, its working conditions, the mentors and some of the students. especially thomas joshua-cooper, who seems to have been untouchable since his departure by ianhartless (Sat 10th Jun 2023 4:30pm)
  • the school claimed that he retired but he was forcibly retired due to (numerous allegations) of misconduct. multiple fine art photography department technicians left with his “retirement”, many of them ending up as assistants to his projects. by ianhartless (Sat 10th Jun 2023 4:58pm)
  • lmao she would get on with my partner. they had a friend who, even on an open night at GSA, described the superficial differences in appearance between the men and the women there. the men stood tall with expensive designer coats and radiated confidence, whereas the women were slouched in sheepskin jackets, dressed more shabbily and unassuming. while there’s space for both expressions of dress to exist and don’t necessarily damn the institution alone, it’s telling that there were so many examples of each was striking enough for the friend to comment on. by ianhartless (Sat 10th Jun 2023 10:23pm)
  • i think that was it, but his level of prestige in the art world makes it hard to criticise them by ianhartless (Sat 10th Jun 2023 11:18pm)
  • i got the facts wrong there - the person wasn’t on holleb’s NYF program. and they weren’t a victim of their partner. they were just venting about their relationship to a friend and through conversation telephone morgan holleb decided it was abusive, went to a gig and punched the person so hard they got a migraine. so morgan holleb punched a completely innocent person unprovoked. and basically when people demanded an apology holleb was like “well maybe so-and-so hasn’t REALISED that it was abusive yet …” and didn’t really apologise properly for his behaviour. by ianhartless (Sat 17th Jun 2023 11:56am)
  • the original person is still in touch with pink peacock and told me to delete it. at first i thought it was to make sure their ex-partner didn’t face a smear campaign but i have realised that it was presumably to protect holleb’s reputation as well. because when i went into detail with the shitty behaviour PP have displayed they deleted their account and all their messages. really confusing behaviour. by ianhartless (Sat 17th Jun 2023 12:00pm)
  • felt like miami but with puddles. i loved splashing around in them, so much fun by ianhartless (Sat 17th Jun 2023 12:39pm)
  • yeah … i fucking hate those orange scumbags but c’mon by ianhartless (Sat 17th Jun 2023 5:52pm)
  • my partner used to hear the orange march every saturday growing up. even during college. absolute fucking nightmare, man. derry girls resonated a lot with them when we were watching it by ianhartless (Sat 17th Jun 2023 5:55pm)
  • i have a friend who’s one of the ghostbusters, he’s really cool. should probably send him a message soon! by ianhartless (Sun 18th Jun 2023 10:35am)
  • jfc i’m so sorry. what awful misogynistic dreck to say, especially in front of a small child. that’s so inappropriate beyond belief by ianhartless (Mon 19th Jun 2023 8:04pm)
  • same here lol by ianhartless (Tue 20th Jun 2023 8:43pm)
  • such a shame, i loved the place! i loved their yogi chai so much!! memories … i’ll need to visit again before they close down for good. it’d be nice if they took over PP’s lease, we could do with a lively tea place around the corner by ianhartless (Tue 20th Jun 2023 8:43pm)
  • yeah this. there’s also the fact that he has people do work behind the scenes. the screencaps of my comment were taken down on twitter bc the person i initially believed was a victim on his program told the poster to take them down and later on they posted it on here. they messaged me to correct that morgan hadn’t started his program at that point, they were friends and that their ex-partner holleb punched wasn’t abusive (nor did they actually know holleb at all!!!) so i presumed okay, fair enough, you want to clear thing up and don’t want your ex to bear the brunt of it. but then when we went into it, they started going into how this was the one thing holleb had been accountable for and how afterwards they started all these grassroot workshops together and how holleb didn’t deserve being tarnished like this. they also kept trying to talk me into deleting my comments, and i told them that i would edit them to show my mistake/clear their partners name. i then brought up what pink peacock had done to govanhill and they deleted all their comments and removed their account altogether. i figured out that this was bc the person contacting me was still in touch with holleb/pink peacock and wanted to do some damage control. that the person holleb assaulted appeared to want nothing to do with either of them. the person who contacted me couldn’t talk me into removing my comment, and i guess decided that it was a futile effort. i feel like this isn’t the first time a situation like this has happened regarding holleb. by ianhartless (Fri 14th Jul 2023 12:33am)
  • i’m queer. i’m autistic. my father has jewish heritage. my partner is autistic, chronically ill, queer and ethnically jewish. both of us have every reason to be invested and eager to visit pink peacock, yet it was deeply off-putting for the repeated self-serving, harassing behaviour they exhibited. this town has a dense poc population and they were put at risk. there was even an interview with holleb which stated that one of his poc friends was actually interrogated during the tote bag arrest instead of the white staff. in the past several two or three years it’s been not uncommon for my morning alarm to be a police siren. it’s not just pink peacock that have done this, as the police didn’t need much of an incentive to bully the people of govanhill, but they certainly haven’t helped. no one is going to come here with a spreadsheet reporting how pink peacock’s fuck the police stunt impacted police traffic, it’s about lived experience. many of the people posting on here are going by experiences they’ve had that haven’t been screenshotted, recorded or documented at that very moment so they’re documenting them with what they have at hand - the written word. something you don’t really seem to get, because you keep demanding receipts or sources for PP’s harassing behaviour and insisting that bc people don’t come armed with CCTV footage of holleb posting a jobby to SLB that either the person posting the account is a liar or that SLB are liars trying to discredit PP. if multiple people are being harassed by the same business and multiple people are talking about it, isn’t it better to give them the benefit of the doubt and believe them? i’ve also noticed that you posted a month later when the PP storm died down and everyone had moved on, so that you won’t get any comeback for your arguments. you know you don’t need to respond to every comment made about a defunct business, especially one with a lot of dodgy stories circling it. maybe take a coffee break or something? just a thought. by ianhartless (Fri 14th Jul 2023 12:48pm)
  • what’s your beef with SLB by ianhartless (Fri 14th Jul 2023 2:20pm)
  • luckily he was found, i think govanhill go reported he was safe by ianhartless (Fri 14th Jul 2023 2:30pm)
  • if there’s repeated stories about the dog poo in the letterbox - including accounts of harassment from other local businesses - maybe it might be an idea to believe them? idt darren is the sort of person to post stuff like that, he’s far too reserved to fan the flames of an online pile-on. idt it is fair to demand CCTV footage from a business who are obviously trying to avoid PP’s line of fire. it’s obviously been sent to the police or been shown offline around the time it happened. we’re talking about morgan holleb here. this is someone who punched an innocent person based on assumptions that they were abusive and decided that a great advertising campaign - as a jewish left-wing cafe nonetheless! - would be to burn a harry potter book on a busy, polluted road. if they were harassing people to the point of shoving poo in their letterboxes, it’s more likely that SLB would want to avoid any more attention from PP as they seem a little bit off the rails when it comes to proportional retaliation. it seems like former SLB staff are talking to people offline (not wanting to contribute to any online mudslinging as social media was PP’s playground) and the people they are talking to are bringing it online. it’s not really the fault of SLB just because friends of staff are telling the tale. they’re not the ones going to the internet, their friends are. even if they were just spreading shit (and i really, honestly doubt that) - what actual incentive do SLB have to cast such a specific and unusual rumour to isolate a business? a bad review from holleb is a blip on their radar. why would they want to ruin the reputation of a cafe just for that? UNLESS, *unless* - get this - there’s a slim possibility that they’re not in fact rumours and might actually be true. by ianhartless (Fri 14th Jul 2023 3:15pm)
  • i like your style! blocky and bold by ianhartless (Fri 21st Jul 2023 1:38am)
  • crema, fulton’s, gusto & relish, cibo by ianhartless (Tue 25th Jul 2023 1:13am)
  • brooklyn cafe in shawlands by ianhartless (Wed 26th Jul 2023 2:00pm)
  • hey, look, so i think considering the topics being mentioned at hand (abuse and SA) - it is really obvious what D_C is referring to. it doesn’t take a second guess to figure that out. these subjects are both widely known for causing severe PTSD to survivors, thus are widely known as triggering. the language you’re using feels a bit like you’re interrogating them on what specific subject is triggering. it can bring up traumatic memories and distressing symptoms having to directly point to what the triggering subject is, so you need to be more considerate in future. please be considerate when talking to people online, as you do not know what many have been through and what sort of language will be harmful to them. by ianhartless (Wed 26th Jul 2023 8:11pm)
  • right that’s it i’m done with this. everyone else has been far too restrained with your bollocks and i’m done with you being an asshat. here’s to embarrassing myself: OKAY WHILE WE’RE AT FISKING you said “I read back to 29th of May - I'm yet to see anything I can imagine to be triggering”. there are mentions of forceful deportation, racial abuse, emotional abuse and SA. one thread in particular around july 18th ENDS with the phrase “I mean he kind of raped me repeatedly so it’s small potatoes”. everyone can see that. michael’s account is public and you don’t have to search for it either. there’s no avoiding the fact that michael isaac is accusing morgan holleb of rape!! how wilfully obtuse can you actually be just to defend a cafe you don’t even LIKE!!! and you put accusations in scare quotes like they’re questionable or up for debate … HE FUCKING WORKED THERE FOR FUCK’S SAKE!!! and DATED HOLLEB!!! for *MONTHS!!!* why are you making this about yourself? why are you turning a request to speak with more decency about fucking RAPE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT into a debate about how YOU’VE been treated? in this instance, this is not about you - this is about the topic of abuse and being considerate of other people’s needs!! something you don’t consider!! i asked fairly politely to be considerate and you went on a fucking self-indulgent rant about how bad you and pink peacock have had it!! READ THE FUCKING ROOM!!!! and the person you spoke to like that - D_C - is jewish. where does the consideration for their well-being as a jewish person come in, to the point where you are careful about not triggering them? or is it just that jewish people who don’t disagree with you are the only ones worthy of compassion? yes of course i haven’t been coming to your defence - wanna know why? because you’ve basically been acting combative and wanky to ANYONE and EVERYONE you’ve spoken to!! you’ve essentially implied that any jewish person who disagrees with you is not jewish or self-hating bc they don’t want to go to a shite cafe where the coffee is grotty and the vibe is pish, that only got talked about/got multiple threads is because of the dumbass publicity stunts they pulled. there are many jewish people in this thread, just bc there’s not a poll counting their heads doesn’t mean they’re not here complaining about the cafe too. stop assuming everyone is a gentile. it’s just not true. you have grossly misunderstood the tone argument, wherein you’ve misinterpreted “being snippy, hurt or angry with someone doesn’t negate the point or demand i am making for basic decency” as a free pass to be a cantankerous, contrarian wanker to everyone you’ve spoken to. oh and i notice that you’ve reported someone arguing with you as suicidal, just because you don’t like their opinion. what kind of manipulative, shitty behaviour is that? just because you were losing an argument? grow up and wind your neck in. seriously. by ianhartless (Thu 27th Jul 2023 1:47pm)
  • bye felicia by ianhartless (Fri 28th Jul 2023 8:47pm)
  • that’s really interesting! i’m actually making paintings based on the litter distributed in govanhill. if you like, you could message me, or i could message you? by ianhartless (Sun 30th Jul 2023 12:00pm)
  • we had something similar at queen’s park cafe where a group of posh hipsters sat next to us angling for our seats too by ianhartless (Sun 30th Jul 2023 9:07pm)
  • you can get kielbasa in lidl, sainsbury’s, bucuresti magazin & krakow sklep. dacia sometimes sells it but it’s a coin toss whether it will be available. lidl is always your best bet tho. idrc for the sainsbury’s brand tbh by ianhartless (Wed 16th Aug 2023 2:31pm)
  • hi 👋 🐱 i think you can find them on meet-up? if not there’s probably some you can find on facebook. it’d be neat to find a group for autistic people to hang out tho, i’d also be v interested by ianhartless (Thu 24th Aug 2023 2:12pm)
  • i was waiting at a bus stop on sinclair st to go home, and this bloke straight out of a peter howson painting saunters past with half his face caked in blood. i’m wondering “wtf is going on” and this middle aged to elderly woman very casually describes an ugly fight he was in with his friend and how he started hollering after him once his friend was walking away. this was not long before i heard someone screaming at the top of their lungs incoherently in a toilet at college. 2010 was a funny year … by ianhartless (Tue 19th Sep 2023 12:06am)
  • so your joke is … the police are raping a minor? how is that even funny? unless it’s an indictment of the police force, i fail to see the “joke” by ianhartless (Tue 3rd Oct 2023 9:17am)
  • agreed. i love the laurieston! by ianhartless (Wed 18th Oct 2023 1:37pm)
  • yeah it is, it’s really cool seeing him there (as well as haunting) i painted that in my third year of art school by ianhartless (Sat 11th Nov 2023 12:44pm)
  • the first fire was a total accident. my partner was in the year with the girl who accidentally started it and tbh it wasn’t so much her fault as it was total negligence of the staff. it was related to the use of expanding foam and her installation not being managed properly. the staff at gsa weren’t great when it came to providing a safe and hygienic environment for their students. i know that the building that sculpture students used had flooding and rats in it and there was discontent amongst the students relating to the mismanagement by staff. by ianhartless (Fri 17th Nov 2023 7:20pm)
  • if you are on benefits, you can get counselling off of spark for free. i find that often non-nhs services are way better at dealing with trauma or personal pain than nhs services, bc often it’s just medication or cbt i was very cynical about medication bc of bad experiences with sertraline but venlafaxine was a life-saver as i can now function a lot better than i used to. i think cbt can be helpful wrt to irrational thoughts caused by depression/anxiety/ocd etc - like for example thinking that you have a large dent in your forehead. but people treat it like a one size fits all, especially when it comes to perceptions that are based in reality, for example interpersonal problems that don’t go away. i found that the services outside the nhs i was referred to were more compassionate and understanding than say, the services in the southside. my partner was involved with a counselling service for grief and it steered into discussing serious issues similar to yours. help is available. i can offer more details if you want. by ianhartless (Wed 22nd Nov 2023 11:12am)