I highly recommend that everyone follow artists. If you do, your feed is filled with art every day. Real, original art. It's bonkers that you can even have this. Amazing. Undeniably cool. And then support those artists, when you can, because that helps the delight continue.

UK citizens and residents. There is a Parliamentary petition against the state visit by King Charles to the ever more deranged and out of control Trump.

Come on then, and remove him.

New rule: newspapers who encourage their readers to buy a second home in the countryside that sits empty eight months of the year aren't allowed to blame the housing crisis on immigrants

This woman is facing a copyright claim for her own music by an AI company that took her youtube page and copied her.

I am not one of those who believes that history repeats, but consider the following from Herodotus: the Oracle at Delphi told the fabulously wealthy King Croesus that if he invaded Persia he would "destroy a great empire." Croesus invaded and lost--the empire he destroyed was his own.

The #Artemis II astronauts said they needed more superlatives to describe their view of the eclipse, when the Sun was behind the Moon and its near surface was faintly illuminated by Earthshine

Whatever happens, this is a deeply shameful episode in American history that will leave a permanent stain on the country. Repeatedly vowing to commit war crimes against millions of innocent civilians is beyond the pale.

Stranger. For a friend.

Just boosting my sweary compadrés at PEG. If you like my occasional potty mouth, you'll love theirs. Also, this pic scores 11.5 on my creep-o-meter.

From the Guardian just now. Yeah this is fine. This is perfectly normal behaviour if you are President of the USA. Feel safe everyone? Think this all ends well? This does not end well:

Buy people’s art folks, it does you good and them good too.

My Easter reading: "..the Lord said I was hungry and you told me I could make a meal for 30p, I was a stranger and you told me to fuck off back where I came from, I was sick and you said I should get private health insurance..."

Just added a YouTube video on how to use clay slip to prevent getting paint in the tiny pits and blemishes in the surface of the stone: youtu.be/J78YndR1-5M

All done, and it will be going to Bude next week.

#SkyStorians I am looking for an introduction to horology/clocks in English (specifically, on how mechanical clocks work & what their main components are). I have a German book that's been great so far, but I want t be sure I translate the technical terms correctly. Any recommendations? #HistSTM 🗃️ 🕰️

Anyone who actually knows and understands history in the longue durée could tell all along the Epstein axis war would be a resounding fail. Here's Iran's South Africa embassy responding to idiotic Hegseth's stone age comment

Classic parking in Ashbourne last week 👍

As I get older and All This unfolds, “mankind will never be free until the last king* is strangled with the entrails of the last priest**” definitely makes more sense than “live, laugh, love!” *president, dictator, yadda **maybe not THIS pope #GoGoDiderot

The wave returns to the ocean. Hand carved #lettering on High Moor limestone. Inpainted pale blue. Roman rustic letters.

Craft. Generations. All levels 🙂 #calligraphy #kids #uk

If I ever do want lessons on what the public interest looks like I'm pretty sure I won't take them from a thin skinned, self interested, tax avoiding, Brexit supporting, billionaire.

In these challenging times someone might need one of them: Childline: 0800 1111 Samaritans: 116 123 Domestic Violence Hotline: 0808 2000 247 Mind: 0300 123 3393 Age UK: 0800 169 6565 Alcoholics Anonymous : 0800 9177 650 Cruse Bereavement Care: 0808 808 1677 MH text support: 85258 Please share. TY x

#SkyStorians, art historians and historians of science: Is anyone familiar with or specialized in decorative engravings on #EarlyModern scientific instruments, especially clocks? We have questions with respect to the dating! #HistSci #HistTech #ArtHistory #HistSTM #MaterialCulture 🗃️ 🏛️

St Helen's has the remarkable tomb of Julius Caesar... (d1639) with a Latin epitaph in the form of a deed, on marble carved to look like a folded parchment. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_...

Just sifting some images from 2019 with Mr @Stiffleaf at St Helen Bishopsgate, London. The church is stuffed with memorials, inc this little one with the year in Latin in words, not Roman (or Arabic) numerals. You see that sometimes but not often. 2 January 1686.

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Carving finished, recess carved on the back for the hanging plate. I want to paint inside the letters but need to mask off the surface with (paper and) clay slip to fill the tiny pits in the stone so they don't pick up the pale blue paint.

This is what led to the arrest of Ryan Bridge from Raise the Colours A queen of a local passer-by decided to get under their cherry-picker van (while it was parked) so he called the police He & his rabble of flag wankers were served with notice by Oxford CC on Monday against putting flags up...

When I was writing software I would have been deeply embarrassed to write a disclaimer like that. If Copilot was a car, "This vehicle will crash and probably kill your children. If it ever starts it will break down daily. The wheels are barely attached. May explode. It's free but it's shit."

Just FYI, no AI is involved in the design, planning, layout, carving and finishing of my hand carved #lettering. AI is an abomination, polluting the world of art and information. A pox on it.

Many thanks to the Typographic Society Austria community for the interest and amazing hospitality — and special thanks to Martin Tiefenthaler for the invitation to speak in Vienna! #typography #Austria #typedesign

With alt text. Happy TDoV, lovelies! More power to you x

Progress:

It brings me great pleasure to inform you the word "blurb" is named after a made-up woman named Belinda Blurb whose job is to tell everyone how great a book is

Surf's up. And I think I know who might end up owning it...

Well good luck with the future everybody. This goes nowhere good. I'm glad I'm old.

America outdoing us in the sign game today

How are your parts this morning?

These four are no longer for sale, I have donated them to a fundraising auction for SalivaryGlandCancer.uk in July at a fancy club in the west end. I will be there but I will not be fancy. Obvs. I may wear a suit 😱

Incoming: The wave is marked out on the small piece (29 cms square) and To sleep will be going on the large piece (42 cms square).

Preparing a piece of stone, cut my hand on an offcut. No big deal, I'll be able to play the banjo JUST as well as I did before. But note to self, put the plasters (Band Aids) somewhere you can get at them easily, not in the bottom of the first aid box under the other first aid box 🙄

NGL, I'm captivated by these new shirts at temu

Major quilt eye candy incoming. This was pieced by Kris Lescinsky, pattern is Catch Me by Jacqueline DeJong. Took me 5 audiobooks to quilt it, lol.

I know, I know, we're downsizing and I'm busy offloading stuff and today I went to Tadcaster and came back with 278kg of limestone. Sue me. See if I care. This is the *small* saw at the quarry slicing up blocks of stone for me.