After a 7am call I just spent all day with my brother in Cov & Warwick A&E, the cause of which I won't bore you with. Unexpected incident: As we were about to leave, his wheelchair was parked on the end of a row in front of a woman. She whispered to me, I hope you don't mind me saying... Oh-oh...

Every day this month, I’ll be posting a photo from my collection of cross dressing photos from the First World War. I don’t know if any of these people thought of themselves as queer, but they all had fun playing with gender, so #HappyPride 🏳️‍🌈

Vera you absolute gem ❤️ I approve this enterprise and if the target of £500 is passed I will carve an initial bookend for the top 3 donors 👍

I'm about to start sending my novel to historical fiction reviewers Any reviewers/readers who'd like a copy in exchange for an honest review? Title: The Wolf of Wistman's Wood Basics: A story of love, survival & moral compromise in Victorian workhouses and Dartmoor’s darkest woodland #BookSky

Found this plaque on the wall of a church yesterday and found it really interesting. I don’t know the date, but to me it has a 17th century feel to it. Does anyone know who it might depict? She seems to have restraints on her wrists and has a sword which may - or may not - be stabbing her side.

Revealed series of paint layers on a door frame within an Oslo apartment building built in 1865, deconstructed in 1999, and reconstructed at the Norsk Folkemuseum. norskfolkemuseum.no/en/the-apart...

AI is great.

17th-century marble floor located in Rome in the Cornaro Chapel of the Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria. www.chiesasantamariavittoriaroma.it

Today, carving is therapy and distraction.

Lately I’ve been in an indie team making stop-motion animation. It’s just 4 of us (animator, writer, voice actor, sound designer). The show’s called The Tiny Angry Witch. It’s all basically hand made. No AI. It’s tiring, but we love what we do. So, anyway, here’s a Witch making rude noises:

catch up, men

A slightly unusual #SteepleSaturday today. A stunningly carved early 19thC slate headstone at St Wilfrid's, Screveton, however I was puzzled because it's most definitely not an image of that church.....that's because it's St Mary's, Car Colston a mile or so down the road!

It was a while before I realised what the word was supposed to be... FINAL...

Complete this short survey for @citizennetwork.bsky.social about who should have #UniversalBasicIncome... Please repost... they are looking for a wide range of people... to submit their opinions... citizen-network.org/library/who-...

I'm slightly tempted to carve the Claudian letters, even though most people who see the result would think I was having a stronk: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia... I think my niche is getting smaller.

Please share, there must be plenty of receipts out there.

As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!

In addition to trying to move house myself I am now tasked with selling my brother's house 90 mins drive away and tomorrow doing all the DIY touchups he has been unable to do for the last 3y and if someone could stick a broom up my arse I'll sweep the floor as I go. This is all going VERY well 😶

Inside the Great Hall (aka the refectory) at beautiful Bushmead Priory, Bedfordshire, this morning. I was there to look at various necessary repairs, but always have to spend a few moments taking some photos of the building more generally, because it’s just so interesting! 🤩

#TilesOnTuesday Medieval floor tiles, Mulcheney St Peter and St Paul, #Somerset

Mid-15th century tiles in Great Malvern Priory, crowned double Ms representing the church dedication to St Mary and St Michael with crowned IHSs below. They were products of the extensive late medieval local Malvern tile industry, and the church has hundreds. #TilesOnTuesday 1/3

Good morning Wensleydale.

С днём рождения, кириллица! Расти и расцветай! Happy birthday, Cyrillic! “K” is the first letter of the word “Cyrillic” in many languages which use it. Best wishes to you, dear Cyrillic! Grow and flourish! Fonts featured here are designed by yours truly #cyrillic #fonts #typography #uk

"WHAT HAS IT GOT IN ITS PANTSES" Taken at Manchester's emergency protest against the EHRC guidance, May 2026

You have your orders...!😉😘

Just getting started on a they/them, which, and you can read into this what you will, can be positioned and viewed from any angle 🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🏳️‍🌈👍

Mrs Raw keeps telling me that the RSC need these two pieces to hang in Stratford. Who am I to argue :) @the-rsc.bsky.social

Today's Daily Cartoon for @newyorker.com by Kevin Maher and me.

In the shop now: www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/shop/index.h...

Hassling someone in a public toilet based on your assumption of what's in their underwear IS breaking the law. It is harassment. Don't do it. Taking a photo of someone in a public toilet is also likely to be a criminal offence that will (rightly) land you on the Sex Offender Register.

The EHRC Guidance is merely guidance. It is not law. You do not have to follow it. You are breaking no laws by allowing people to use the bathroom of their choice in your building. You are breaking no laws as a trans person by using the bathroom of your choice.

I have had A Day. This glass is not big enough. #Fact

I don't think it's a good idea to legally privilege someone else's discomfort over another person's rights.

HEAD OF TEETH

The sun is shining on the righteous.

Just had a lovely lunch here in #Matlock. Great food, lovely wine, fantastic service. Will be going back. www.stones-restaurant.co.uk

The contrast between the number of media requests I got when rich people on a cruise were facing a deadly, but contained outbreak versus now that some of the poorest people in the world are facing a deadly and devastating epidemic is just so so stark and it just really annoys the hell out of me.

The final stages - rubbing down, washing off, drying, and the shop photo: youtu.be/bekDAButKrg

"To die, to sleep, to sleep perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub, for in that sleep of death what dreams may come?"

the fuck it will

Carving complete, rubbed down, currently drying out, photography hopefully tomorrow.

That wasn't the end of story, though 😆 The paid GPT (instead of a paid designer) made a poster with a picture of 2 happy kids with 3 hands. The humans haven't noticed this fact and paid for printing those posters. In machinery we trust 😅

The world’s largest sand battery got through Finland’s harshest winter in years. 2,000 tonnes of sand, heated to 500-600°C by cheap power, feeding district heating in Pornainen. And it worked. Result from one install: oil down 100%, emissions down 70%. Industrial process heat is the real prize.