Alex Christian

Seagale, surely?

Really enjoyed that piece, if not its implications

This is a great article. What are those proteins up to!

Lots of reviewers (and Latronico himelf) refer to Perec, who I’m now ever more convinced I have to read, but I couldn’t help but think of the two family-downfall-precipitating house renovations in Buddenbrooks and Os Maias

Photo of ‘Perfection’ by Vicenzo Latronico

An absolute punch in the gut for anyone, an additional smack around the face for someone who worked as a graphic designer/frontend developer in Berlin & Lisbon in 2016–17 (me). 5*

A clipping of “Captian Gary’s Chat” from the “Red All Over” fanzine, reading “I am Gary Brabin who recently was given the great honour to be Captain of Doncaster Rovers. I can't really explain the feeling of leading the team out. There is more to being Captain than just wearing an arm band. I would just like to thank the Boss Sammy Chung and Ken Richardson for standing by me and giving me this great honour. As fans will know I have got bags of ambition and would love to be the Captain when Rovers get promotion this season. Although I am Liverpool born and "bread" I now class myself as a Donny Lad. My biggest disappointment was our exit from the FA Cup at the hands of Mansfield Town, but hopefully this can be put right by winning promotion for the supporters who l'd like to think I've got close to during my time at the Club. LOTS OF LOVE AND SEXY KISSES. GARY BRABIN”

“LOTS OF LOVE AND SEXY KISSES” – players just don’t write columns like this anymore

This is a good one. It’ll make you look up the price of some jackets. I can’t afford the jackets.

Spurs are going to need a lot of ham-and-eggers if they want to play those two, Maddison and Kulusevski. Or are they going to bet it all on Van de Ven’s recovery pace?

Pub?

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Mind Invaders Kidnapping. Boxing. Three-sided football. The art terrorists attack! A thoughtful dérive around the skewed contours of the London Psychogeographical Association.

From Luther Blissett to Harry Potter. From Dada to the Isle of Dogs. @thefence.bsky.social got Thomas Peermohamed Lambert to trace the ley lines of the London Psychogeographical Association, Britain’s most legendary ‘art terrorists’.

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Mind Invaders In 1995, on a cycling holiday amid the snow-capped peaks of the Italo-Slovene border, a British conceptual artist went missing. Already famous for his boxing ceremonies – described by one critic as…

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Advert by The Brewers' Society from 1954

811 ahead of me – where can I find yours?

Best bit of football writing I’ve read in a while ⚽

Great piece, amazing season, and I don’t know why we go for “Super Donny” either – “Donny Rovers” scans just as well!

That groan is one of the best commentary clips in ages

I like it from a distance but cannot brook its fleshly folds

It’s the way it’s puttin’ the apostrophes on that makes it look like bad eye dialect in a poorly researched novel

Support resources for our trans friends and allies | Good Law Project At a time when anti-trans discrimination is rife and hate crime has reached record levels, it’s important to know what support is out there for trans, non-binary or gender-questioning individuals and ...

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Shirty MacLaine?

Seashell Flowers, Max Ernst (1929)

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Inspired by Declan Rice yesterday

A Bit of Liquor Sauce What Joey the Crow didn’t know

5. Drew a pie with a bullet hole in it – first time for everything – for @jimmymcintosh.bsky.social ’s new piece about how Canning Town has changed over the years:
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Hotel Britannica What life is like when you’ve crossed the Channel.

'I have seen landmine injuries from years ago. I have seen men with 100 cigarette burns on their body; women who were separated from their husbands crossing Libya and can now barely speak of it.'

An anonymous dispatch from a clinical lead in an asylum hotel.

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I’ll never stop hearing Murray Walker’s commentary line “That’s what a gravel trap is for! To trap you!” from F1 ’99

Very excited to have illustrations in this!

Kendall replied: I’ve spent years chairing Feeding Leicester, the programme to end hunger in my city and I know that I can look my constituents in the eye and say to them, I know that getting more people into better paid jobs is the key to their future success, I know dealing with their mental health problems which we know are so prevalent is so essential. We, the Labour party, believe that if you can work, we will give you the help to get back on your feet, because that is the long-term route to tackling poverty, tackling inequality which is what this Labour party is all about.

Evil bollocks as ever from Labour’s most committed pro-misery activist:

a) Are those ‘better paid jobs’... vacant?
b) Aren’t mental health problems overdiagnosed (Wes)?
c) If mental health support is so essential, why slash PIP for mental health support?
d) “If you can work” What if you can’t?