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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 4h

I will cut adrift—I will sit on pavements and drink coffee—I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim—this fine October.

- Virginia Woolf
#Womensart

Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman sitting sideways on a patterned armchair dressed in a dark jacket and skirt and with her hand raised to her face

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Swithun @swithuncooper.bsky.social · 12h

This is a very long walk to "actually my real dream was to invent a robot girlfriend wank machine like that one episode of Buffy"

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 13h

i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get

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Swithun @swithuncooper.bsky.social · 12h

This is a very long walk to "actually my real dream was to invent a robot girlfriend wank machine like that one episode of Buffy"

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 13h

i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get

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Swithun @swithuncooper.bsky.social · 23h

It was previously owned by someone called Daniel Bennett, he's written his name on the inside cover. I hope he comes to book group.

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Swithun @swithuncooper.bsky.social · 23h

As surely to be discussed on Friday, my copy of The Guermantes Way is angrily annotated with 'YES WE KNOW' on p.458, during the interminable mid-salon essay on the Guermantes' wit and mannerisms.

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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 1d

Israel kidnapped me on Wednesday morning. I’m out now. We will keep at it for not only a ceasefire, but full justice and self-determination for Palestine. Here’s an article I wrote that was published shortly after I had to throw my phone into the water www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We fear what Israel will do to us if they seize our ship. But we are not turning back | Naoise Dolan

Our captured flotilla colleagues have been subjected to violence and degrading conditions in an Israeli prison. This has only made us more determined, says Irish writer Naoise Dolan

www.theguardian.com

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Swithun @swithuncooper.bsky.social · 1d

Yes I know it's where we go to find out if someone's gay or not!!! Well we've been foxed this time bébé and I for one am grateful

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Swithun @swithuncooper.bsky.social · 1d

The best and most perfect 'personal life' section of any Wikipedia page. I do not need or wish to know anything more about Demi Adejuyigbe.

Screengrab of a section from Demi Adejuyigbe's Wikipedia page saying 'Personal Life' in larger font, then in smaller font beneath it: "Adejuyigbe has a cat named Leo." With two footnotes sources confirming it

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Swithun @swithuncooper.bsky.social · 2d

Gerald Murnane, Margaret Atwood, Can Xue and Haruki Murakami all sending László Krasznahorkai very nice congratulations messages before they sombrely kick him out of the group chat

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Swithun @swithuncooper.bsky.social · 2d

It does seem a huge oversight, especially given with a beautifully-written book it is. (I assume the original is also beuatiful, but creating that crisp, succinct yet imagistically rich writing in any language can't be easy.)

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Swithun @swithuncooper.bsky.social · 3d

Does anyone want to nip to the Co Op for me, not sure I have the time for the 3 minute walk with all this Hacks to watch

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Swithun @swithuncooper.bsky.social · 3d

I was going to cook dinner and re-read Jon Fosse, but I accidentally sat down and suddenly I'm two episodes into season 4 of Hacks, eating a Co Op vanilla slice I'm going to have to replace before my partner gets home

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Swithun @swithuncooper.bsky.social · 5d

Happy birthday to THIS brazen little beast, and best wishes to all former members of Elastica now making art, growing vegetables, exploring spirituality and generally being wholesome

WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 5d

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Swithun @swithuncooper.bsky.social · 6d

Not having a clue what's going on every few pages is, of course, partly what makes her such a good time

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Swithun @swithuncooper.bsky.social · 6d

Hoping Can Xue wins the Nobel Prize for Literature so I can smugly announce that yes, I've read some (and no, I didn't understand half of it either x)

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Swithun @swithuncooper.bsky.social · 7d

Really excited for a generation to be shut out from the arts, sociology, anthropology, etc; and then to quietly realise exactly why the right wing doesn't want you to analyse our socio-cultural structures or make art destabilising it. Doesn't always end well, Kemi babe xx

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 10d

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'

Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Michael Bailey @michaelb92.bsky.social · 9d

Just amazing that when we do get our balls-out fascist government in the not too distant future, they won’t even really need to do anything to get rolling, because ‘The Centre-Left Party™️’ have willingly, deliberately built all the apparatus for them.

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 10d

NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.

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Swithun @swithuncooper.bsky.social · 10d

The long walk to 6, into the immediate punchline of 7, though- impeccable comic timing. No notes.

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Swithun @swithuncooper.bsky.social · 10d

I am particularly drawn to the starfish of uncooked chicken breasts, watched menacingly by a semicircle of pink quartz standing stones, as if about to commence some kitsch druid ritual.

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Swithun @swithuncooper.bsky.social · 10d

One of the recipes is simply called 'My Breakfast'. It's a boiled egg, five tablespoons of bran, a "live yoghurt" (Yoghurt, in fact - she capitalises the Y) and a cup of Ginseng tea. She lived to be 99 so we could probably all learn a few things.

Swithun @swithuncooper.bsky.social · 10d

Ate *two* home-cooked meals from this yesterday. At one point Barbara claims that chocolate "relieves high blood pressure", "has a toning effect on the kidneys" and should be eaten with ambergris by women who are "cold by nature".

Barbara Cartland's 'The Romance of Food': a pink hardback cookbook showing a dish with hearts around its rim, a blood-red sauce under a heart-shaped meringue topped with a rose, attended by porcelain cherubs and garlanded with white trumpet flowers. What the fuck Barbara

A page from 'The Romance of Food': a mushroom stew being watched over by porcelain figurines of old-timey soldiers, with plucked tomatoes set in mirror image either side of the dish. No I don't know either

Look sorry this one's beyond my abilities. An explosion of flowers provides the background for a sort of iced lemon shortbread tower, decorated with slivers of kiwi fruit, next to a plate of.... cherries under pastry with cream arranged like a fleur-de-lis? Two porcelain figurines of ladies in crinoline watch over it guardedly, and a small porcelain dog is sticking its arse high in the air, as if to happily break wind, but fortunately not in the direction of the food.

Pink crystals like standing stones in a druid circle looming menacingly over a dish that shows five strips of (uncooked?) chicken in some kind of rose-pink sauce. Pink flowers are balanced on the dishes rim.

Beneath this, the text: "PINK CHICKEN. Chicken with pink sauce, chicken in pink quartz, and the pink flush of your cheeks when he says 'I love you.'" Did i make him love me when I served him uncooked chicken, Barbara? Have you got love and food poisoning confused again?

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Swithun @swithuncooper.bsky.social · 15d

Been drifting around Southwark and Lambeth again, and am intrigued by its different architectures. Where do I go to research this, e.g. when different housing developments began, their styles, what certain neighbourhoods looked like & when/why they changed? Archives? Old footage/photographs?

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Swithun @swithuncooper.bsky.social · 17d

It's eleven weeks, actually. Six weeks was the summer school. Nobody has known struggle like I have

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Swithun @swithuncooper.bsky.social · 18d

Can't remember the details, but after V was televised he got one of those right-wing "death of modern poetry" articles, as recently doled out on Len Pennie. They suggested he acquaint himself with real poetry like the Greek epics. He wrote back in his official position from the Classics Society. ❤️

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