The WHO expert on the mpox outbreak is called Hans Kluge. Like the horse that did maths turned backwards.

Bullshit. The tower is perpendicular, and the rest of the universe is tilted.

Only read a couple of things in here so far, but it seems like a really superb journal issue: tidsskrift.dk/nja/issue/view…

“A man who will kiss a pretty girl’s lips passionately, may perhaps be disgusted at the idea of using her toothbrush, though there are no grounds for supposing that his own oral cavity, for which he feels no disgust, is any cleaner than the girl’s.” Saturday night Freud.

I bet Strachey cackled when he translated this sentence like this.

Really sad to hear that Sandy Goehr died. One of the last proper modernists in this country.

If the country's finances are so bad, then why are we still spending £50 billion a year on the military? If there's no money left, why are we spending £12,000 a minute on nuclear weapons? If we can afford to bomb people, why can't we afford to feed people?

Ilford South, represented by Jas Athwal, is in Redbridge - where 32% of kids live in poverty. Athwal owns 15 private rental properties, now well documented as being in a state of disrepair. Yet he voted AGAINST removing the 2 child benefit cap. How on earth is he a Labour MP?!

Had a dream that everyone was just lying about their surnames.

Sat in meetings designing possible borders for my big Shetland shawl. Anyone have strong opinions? Will probably go for the bottom one - or maybe the bottom one with the thing on the right of it exchanged for the right side of the one immediately above it. But open to opinions.

The story of why Diane and Jeremy broke up is sending me!!!! theguardian.com/politics/artic…

The origin of the German trouser spill

It's almost like introducing the profit motive to natural monopolies didn't in fact create better value for the consumer, nor a rational system. Whodathunkit?

So sorry to hear of the death of my friend and comrade Tony Bunyan. He knew everything about political policing, state surveillance and its violences, and never stopped revealing the truth. What a hero.