Stan Moody is a great name. Like a Viz character

Keir Starmer has been taking questions for so long that the Strait of Hormuz has closed and re-opened three times during his stint at the despatch box.

Oh my god that looks painful. Sounds like it could have been much worse though, hope you get a chance to recover

One of the Pythons gave us an English Lit lecture on something medieval that we hadn't studied but that was about it

Many women's toilets in the UK have male cleaners and nobody has an issue with that

Let us salute the rogue genius of Desmond Morris, ape-watcher and last of the Surrealists, gone at 98. Here he is, less than 2 years ago, with his Man Ray tribute work - the photographic lips are those of Diana Dors, whom he dated in the 40s when she was still Diana Fluck.

Introvert reaction: Death holds no fear after weeks trapped aboard a vessel enduring organised fun.

Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove?

Homes under the Hammer

Once pressed the alarm on the Tube when a boy on the platform had his arm stuck in the door. Also once caught a woman with a baby in her arms falling down the escalator

Faiza Shaheen: "This just sends a message.. that this is a group of elites that support each other, that help each other regardless of the types of behaviour.. this really stinks & I think many people wont understand the particulars but what they will hear is this is corruption"

A mannequin is dismantled ‘neath a sign reading “looks we love” near the entrance of a Macy’s

Looks we love

Social supermarket opens in Mablethorpe to cut food bills The store, in Mablethorpe, buys surplus stock so it can keep prices low.

Social supermarket opens on Lincs coast to fight food poverty. No means test. Open to all. £5 registration fee, local residents

Recommend Werner Herzog's memoir Every Man for Himself and God Against All for walking, if you haven't read it already. He tries to walk around Germany after the war

Midnight Hugh MacDiarmid Glasgow is null, Its suburbs shadows And the Clyde a cloud. Dundee is dust And Aberdeen a shell. But Edinburgh is a mad god’s dream, Fitful and dark, Unseizable in Leith And wildered by the Forth, But irresistibly at last Cleaving to sombre heights Of passionate imagining Till stonily, From soaring battlements, Earth eyes Eternity.

But Edinburgh is a mad god’s dream,
Fitful and dark,
Unseizable in Leith
And wildered by the Forth…

—Hugh MacDiarmid, “Midnight”
published in The Complete Poems (1978)
#BookWormSat #WorldHeritageDay #poem #poetry #Edinburgh

Read this in the 80s, half-crazed with glandular fever and insomnia - it was great but I remember nothing. Must read again

Three YAs in a band

Went to see my son playing at the Castle in Aldgate last night. Nice room

Recently took that journey in reverse and it was indeed dull

Mehreads now the top result if I Google a review of any title

Googled Macron age without a space by mistake to find Macronage is the key to making perfect macarons

Dad used to rant like this about turning the flats where he lived into a nursing home, when he was in the grip of fentanyl-fuelled dementia

Escalope d'Insole

A photo of a tray with three sections empty. One has chopped carrot in it. The other has what can only be described as a posit of brown dog vomit and an insole liner of a sneaker (or a used panty liner from the mid 1700s). The kind of meal that would have you happily tossing yourself overboard.

NEW: Growing fears of food shortages on USS Tripoli & other US ships in the Middle East.

This photo is the kind of meals now being served. It was sent by a sailor to her family.

Families are now trying to send food parcels to the ships.

Full story 👉 www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Claude Cahun
Portrait of Jacqueline Lamba and poet André Breton, 1936

Every time I've gone out today, Bluesky has gone out too. In fact, we might be dating

Last time, I put one on empty by mistake at my mother's retirement flat and had to get rid of the fumes before it set off the alarm, which calls three engines. Woke me up alright

current status: weeping with laughter

'Only use half a teaspoon of the naga pickle. It will melt your face.'