I don't know whether Letby is innocent or not of course but everything I happened to see about the evidence seemed very iffy and Lucia de B.-reminiscent.
Sapolski has a lecture on transsexuality I didn't know about: https://youtu.be/8QScpDGqwsQ?si=UYtRB700ybBB8hha. I'm not up-to-date at all but I remember reading about some of the sexed/gendered (parts of) brains as a student and it seeming almost common-sensical to see things that way.
Argument: "Do an animated X-Men movie instead of a live action one". That makes total sense to me. It feels weird to have the cartoon's style in a cinema but why not, it's the story... I don't know that it has to be a the level of Into the Spiderverse to be good.
Visited some local museums this week, both well worth it:
The Museum of the Mind at Bethlem - small but very well done section on its history, a really coherent story with good details (like the binder of asking-to-be-released letters); plus interesting exhibitions, one of Alison Lapper about her late son, and one of patient artwork.
The Design Museum, with an Enzo Mari exhibition for maximum inspiration. I'd heard the name spoken with a kind of worship and I kind of get it now.
Someone stole a, fortunately not too valuable, package today - either the delivery person themself after taking the "proof of delivery" picture or someone in the short period before I got to the porch. Upside: It reminded me of the existence of Amazon Lockers of which I've got one a few minutes walk away, so that's the new plan going forward.
Got my Covid booster last week, finally, now we're allowed to buy them privately at least. Over two years since the last one I was eligible for, which was pre-omicron, so was really happy to get this in me (not even considering the 5G upgrade and telepathic access to Microsoft Word).
I'm not getting the impression that many people in my neighbourhood will bother getting it, are aware it's worth doing, or even know it's an option. But maybe the messaging will change now.
Coincidentally came across a recent Tears for Fears song - pretty much totally don't follow music so total surprise for me, finding it really nice - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc7whFL5UEk.
https://mindwise-groningen.nl/weve-got-your-signal/ A nice article about psychophysiology and a big piece of nostalgia for me - I learned such a lot from the Heymans technical department as an undergrad and PhD student. No point at which it went hand-wavy for a big toddler asking "why". Ancient wisdoms I'm really still trying to get better at...
I at least at one point tried to pass on a bit of it when I got a bunch of Arduinos for use in biological psychology lectures :)
Michael Jamin has these great little videos on Facebook, about screenwriting but they're also pretty much life advice. He just gave a response to a "do work for me" type of question that included the phrase "do you also have a bird cage I could clean" which I feel I could have benefited mightily from in my old career.
Just read chapter 1 of Salman Rushdie's Victory City and it's great. I don't know what it is but some of his books convince me there's such a thing as literature that's "elevated" somehow. It's Rushdie, Murakami, and Ishiguro for me.
But man, just that horrible cave-sage, instant classic archetype in its hypocritical awfulness. If I had the language skills to remember the name I'd be using it all the time.