If you, like me, have been totally uninspired by Instagram, design, and *aesthetics* in general lately @halemur put words to that feeling in her newsletter today
https://t.co/kVixJ1ZqDd
A BBC investigation has identified most of the migrants who drowned - at least 29 - when their overcrowded dinghy sank in the Channel off northern France in Nov - the majority were Kurds from Iraq & they included 45 year old Kajal Hussein & her 3 children https://t.co/1vUXW1kGII
In March of 2020 a gentleman came to my door at 4am. He was in a nice suit and flashed a badge at us. ‘I’m with Police Scotland,’ he said, ‘your car has been broken into. Come with me to secure the vehicle. My partner is waiting by the car.’
I do not have a car.
Word fact of the day: 'orange' was a fruit before it was a colour. Its name travelled through many languages from the Sanskrit 'nāranga' ('orange tree'). The colour 'orange' was named after the fruit and didn't emerge until the 1500s; before then it was known as 'yellow-red'.
"The female orgasm is a kind of Rorschach test—an abstraction upon which each new generation of doctors and scientists can project its worldview, almost always to the benefit of men." Katharine Smyth on the female-orgasm industrial complex: https://t.co/m2Q0ukylb0
Today is the born day of Claudia Jones, communist, intellectual and journalist who founded the West Indian Gazette, the first Black newspaper in Britain. and the Notting Hill Carnival. (Photo: Getty)