Mark Burman
@markburman.bsky.social
Radio head, Gooner & Grandad.
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Highly recommend this gripping, beautifully written article on Valerie Solanas, the ownership of ideas, art, madness, and feminist praxis + memory in @historyworkshop.org.uk
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By @marybethhamilton13.bsky.social
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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
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November 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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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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.
October 31, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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
Make a movie food:
The Hobnobbit
The Hobnobbit
Make a movie food:
Lord of the Onion Rings
Lord of the Onion Rings
October 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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.
Our latest production and the Telegraph's Pick of the Day. Hats off to producer @markburman.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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.
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.
www.gunnersforpeace.co.uk
Just don't!
www.gunnersforpeace.co.uk
Just don't!
GUNNERS FOR PEACE
Arsenal is a great club. We have standards. Which is why Visit Rwanda needs to end.
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October 11, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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.
www.gunnersforpeace.co.uk
Just don't!
www.gunnersforpeace.co.uk
Just don't!
This looks vital, depressing and highly listenable. The impossible dream of flourishing Afrcan football....because capitalism.
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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
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October 8, 2025 at 6:59 AM
This looks vital, depressing and highly listenable. The impossible dream of flourishing Afrcan football....because capitalism.
open.substack.com/pub/sporting...
open.substack.com/pub/sporting...
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.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/668...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/668...
Arsenal in discussions over extending Visit Rwanda sponsorship deal
The sponsorship deal has been the subject of supporter protests.
www.nytimes.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/668...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/668...
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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
September 28, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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.....
September 28, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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.....
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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Behind Castle Walls, the Rich and Powerful Celebrate Trump
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September 18, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/w...
Max Dowman still eligible to go to the Junior Gunners Xmas party not as a player
August 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Max Dowman still eligible to go to the Junior Gunners Xmas party not as a player
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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
#Illustration
#LineArt
#CommentPls
August 14, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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
#Illustration
#LineArt
#CommentPls
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August 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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.
"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.
August 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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.
"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?!
August 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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
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
July 27, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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
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.
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
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
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July 12, 2025 at 7:50 AM
But no mutant, self-breeding sharks. Major let down.
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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
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
on.ft.com
July 12, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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
Buck Moon, Sidmouth 11/07/25
July 12, 2025 at 5:48 AM
'He says the sun came out last night. He says it sang to him.'
Buck Moon, Sidmouth 11/07/25
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!
July 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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!
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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
Jan 2 marks Isaac Asimov’s birthday, a legend of sci-fi, and Science Fiction Day!
To celebrate, we’ve compiled a list of Ukrainian sci-fi authors with works available in translation. Bookmark your next read!
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To celebrate, we’ve compiled a list of Ukrainian sci-fi authors with works available in translation. Bookmark your next read!
🧵 1/8
January 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
You can hear part of that answer from Max Kidruk, author of a massive Martian Trilogy, The New Dark Ages.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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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July 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
You can hear part of that answer from Max Kidruk, author of a massive Martian Trilogy, The New Dark Ages.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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.
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
www.bbc.co.uk
July 8, 2025 at 8:18 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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.
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.