Mark Burman

Feminism, Artistry, Madness, and the Ghost of Valerie Solanas Abstract. Valerie Solanas holds an unsettled place in feminist history, notorious for both her incendiary 1967 diatribe the SCUM Manifesto and her near-fat

Highly recommend this gripping, beautifully written article on Valerie Solanas, the ownership of ideas, art, madness, and feminist praxis + memory in @historyworkshop.org.uk

By @marybethhamilton13.bsky.social

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Betting is a corrosive, corrupting force in sport. Can't get through 5 minutes of a game on Sky without betting ads everywhere & plugs for Sky's own betting service. And here is The Athletic writing about the Turkish betting scandal with, oh lookee here, a betting ad buried in the story. Nuts.

Fast food & Furious

Hats off too to smart as a whip presenter Katja Hoyer and huge thanks to all those who helped us tell this story of music & commemoration in the aftermath of Dresden's destruction in '45.

GUNNERS FOR PEACE Arsenal is a great club. We have standards. Which is why Visit Rwanda needs to end.

It's a rotten world out there in so many ways. Arsenal F.C. can easily choose not to be part of it by not renewing their Visit Rwanda sponsorship deal.
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Just don't!

Ghana's broken football dreams: why an African nation will never win the World Cup 2026 World Cup qualifying concludes across Africa this week, and with Ghana as a case study, a new investigation says economics and exploitation hold Africa back

This looks vital, depressing and highly listenable. The impossible dream of flourishing Afrcan football....because capitalism.
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Arsenal in discussions over extending Visit Rwanda sponsorship deal The sponsorship deal has been the subject of supporter protests.

Just don't Arsenal. Just don't. It's a rotten idea. And off the back of having tried to extend the Partey contract some kind of wilful malfeasance.
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Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

Man Utd managerial life span post Ferguson running at 1.2 per year. Have they thought of hiring Trypanohyncha Ocellus? Would definitely give them new perspectives.....

Behind Castle Walls, the Rich and Powerful Celebrate Trump

Gotta love those rich and powerful. Protecting our lives & liberties, one brown nose at a time. Never a Xenomorph around when you need one, eh? The only illegal alien you don't get to trammel.
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Max Dowman still eligible to go to the Junior Gunners Xmas party not as a player

There was a time when there was a “ruins boom” in Japan. Bookstores were filled with related photo collections, and I remember buying some myself. Ruins somehow evoke scenes from the past, and I find their decaying appearance appealing.

#Illustration
#LineArt
#CommentPls

Likewise

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This from former BBC radio maker par excellence turned indy Clare McGinn.
"Now I know there will be plenty of bigger players than me commenting on this but Amazon’s dismantling of Wondery should give the podcast industry pause.

Wondery has effectively killed off its crafted, deep dive audio podcasts for the easy money...video celeb content snacking. Almost like there's very little money to be made in serious, crafted audio. Almost like the kind of in-house RADIO culture the BBC was worth annihilating in the first place?!

Zooby, Zooby Doo.
Where are you?
We got a goal to score now....

Working on the rest....

For pedants among the red and white, there are a few of us I know, it's Fthoo-bi-mendi. Tongue between lips . Or so I am reliably told

But no mutant, self-breeding sharks. Major let down.

Memo from Paris: Simon Kuper takes a dip in the Seine For the first time since the 1920s, Parisians can legally bathe in their river. Despite the naysayers’ grim warnings, our hesitant columnist tests the waters

Despite living in Paris for years, Simon Kuper had never so much as stuck a finger in the brown waters of the Seine. Suddenly, one Saturday, he was swimming in it https://on.ft.com/4lM2XkS

'He says the sun came out last night. He says it sang to him.'

Buck Moon, Sidmouth 11/07/25

I know you're not supposed to subject Jurrassic Park-Rebirth to any kind of logic test but show me a man who's gonna walk any further than 1 foot from relative safety just to pee then I say pshaw & bunkum!

This is very cool. Not all novel translations are in English however. I looked around for "Bot" by Max Kidruk and its only available in Polish. "Kaharlyk" by Oleh Shynkarenko sounds very close to the war now. That one is available in English. #Ukraine #Sci-Fi #Novels

In the Studio - Max Kidruk - BBC Sounds In The Studio investigates the creative process of figures from across the creative world

Once upon a time, 2022,I wondered what Russian SF was up to? The answer was mad, far right fantasies of time travel. So I also wondered what Ukrainian SF was up to?
You can hear part of that answer from Max Kidruk, author of a massive Martian Trilogy, The New Dark Ages.
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In the Studio - Max Kidruk - BBC Sounds In The Studio investigates the creative process of figures from across the creative world

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Ukrainian SF writer Max Kidruk & I have been talking for over a year about what it takes to write hard sf in a world gone mad. Invasion,tyrants & sky's filled with deadly rockets. How do you top that? How about a 22nd C epic Martian Trilogy, The New Dark Ages.

In the Studio - Max Kidruk - BBC Sounds In The Studio investigates the creative process of figures from across the creative world

Max Kidruk is taking his Ukrainian readers to Mars. 22nd Century Mars, where Ukrainians farm the Red Planet, the Russians are still nogoodniks & Earth is having an eco meltdown. Welcome to The New Dark Ages. Kidruk is hard at work completing Vol 2 of his mega saga.
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Do give this extraordinary memoir of the 20th century a read. From Stravinsky to the Gershwins, Prokofiev to Ethel Waters, Duke knew them all—and the poems at the back of the book are little cures for depression, each and every one. www.pauldrybooks.com/products/pas...

I can honestly say the undead are in rude health after seeing both Sinners & now new HK Taoist Zombie film Posession Street (horror flicks rarely get made in HK under draconian new censorship). Posessipn Street is a sweet coming of age film with guts set in a dying shopping mall, natch.

It's OK R3 play it every bloody morning nowadays.....

Mood for next Wednesday vs PSG