You have no idea how much I despite these anti-science dipshits for making pregnant women terrified of taking (safe, mild, proven) pain relief.

If you're passing...

Excellent surname:

Dome Interior, Turabek-Khanum Mausoleum, Köneürgenç, Türkmenistan. 14th century.

Sunday:

Visiting my big brother tomorrow so I'll be taking Welsh cakes. Obvs.

I think he means Brexit was worth it even though it made OTHER people poorer. Twat.

Are you still using Insta or Threads, where Meta uses schoolgirls as bait? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The UK population in 2025 is estimated to be around 70.3 million and there were 100,000 racists prepared to march for Tommy in London. Which is 0.1% of the population. But farage and the news make them sound like they are larger in number. Like bullies.

Saturday:

Antifa terrorist

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

I know, it's in the shop, but I'm rather hoping I'll be able to keep this one. Now on our bedroom wall. www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/shop

As happens with every. Single. Pilot. Program. That ever looks at anything akin to UBI, it is cheaper to just straight up help people get to a modest financial baseline than to deal with the outcomes of not helping people in poverty. It’s not news until we deploy it at scale.

The fragments of the Forma Urbis – the marble map of Rome made towards the end of Emperor Severus’ reign – set into Nolli’s beautiful 18th century map of the city is breathtaking. Fun to spot existing monuments but wondrous to see the now missing buildings. www.sovraintendenzaroma.it/content/il-m...

The YouTube algorithm is interesting. Each time I post a short (vertical format, under 3 mins) I hit 1000 views and then back to organic slow increase. They seem to put it up on the rt hand bar of suggested videos till you get 1000 views and then they move on.

Now I need to carve a new arse, but what style?...

Offer accepted, my arse and Q are on their way to a new home. Thanks everyone.

That Q I just carved, I'm giving it away... free with any sale from the shop: www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/shop/index.h... 24 x 23 x 2.5 cms, wall hanging. One only, first come etc.

Just a note to all the Americans, no matter what you're seeing over there, we don't like your President. We don't want him here. He has been 100% kept away from the public here in UK & that's why it all looks rosy. They know allowing him to be face to face with British public would be messy. 1/3

Trans rights are human rights 🏳️‍⚧️

Short version: www.youtube.com/shorts/5EW8c...

Good point. I don't think I've seen an equivalent in English silver,

Baskerville Q. youtu.be/EjmJ68qy_2Q

Wow, I just checked my YouTube stats and I've had about 14k views of my letter carving videos in the last year or so! Thank you for watching! I hope there is something useful, informative and entertaining in there for you. Stand by, the next video will drop soon :) ...

Windsor Castle, this evening. Welcome to Britain, Donny Boy 🇬🇧 #Trump #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

This morning, the United Nations Commission of Inquiry concluded that the Israeli government is committing genocide — affirming what Palestinians and experts have been saying for nearly two years.

Baskerville. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ba...

In 40 years of teaching, Mrs Raw met kids with some unlikely and unsuitable names, but that's a cracker:

With alt text

"To fight against the shoddy design of those goods by which most of our fellow-men are surrounded becomes a moral duty." Nikolaus Pevsner.

The Sanctuary of St Bernardino in Milan is a somewhat intriguing if gruesome visit. A neat ossuary designed in an exceptional style and with a C17 painted ceiling called the Triumph of Souls amongst flying angels. Looks like a library - of the dead.

On #history, #poetry and #empathy - from the chapter on the medieval poem 'Pearl' in A History of England in 25 Poems. (Read in AltText.) donate.redcross.org.uk/appeal/gaza-...

#MementoMoriMonday 💀 'A GOOD MANS BONES LYE IN THIS DVST TILL THE RESVRRECTION OF YE JVST. A BETTER HVSBAND FATHER FRIEND OR NEIGHBOUR SCARCE IS LEFT BEHIND. LIVE THOV WELL READER AS DID HE AND WHERE HE IS THERE THOV SHALT BE.' 📍St Mary's Church • Coity ⛪️ #Wales #History

The #lettering conference in #Cambridge was good of course but mainly I was there for the dinner in hall at Magdalene College.

Looking up something in the Boston census of 1900, and these are just other families on the same pages. 2 children surviving out of 14 1 child surviving out of 5 0 children surviving out of 10 3 children surviving out of 4

I had previously seen a beautiful piece of woven lettering by Sue Hufton, but having met her at the conference in Cambridge I think I should carve that text on stone. But what kind of design?... rob-kearley-pj3n.squarespace.com/blog-1/2024/... letterexchange.org/members/port...

The #lettering conference at the Faculty of English at #Cambridge Uni had many highlights and will lead to many rabbit holes. Highlights tho, seeing #Baskerville's type punches; Baskerville's sample sheet; the print room and #letterpress equipment. My brain is still fizzing.

Stop and really imagine this. It's June 1740 in the Bordman house in Cambridge, MA. Seven-year-old Ruth and five-year-old Andrew are in bed, struggling to breathe as diphtheria slowly closes their throats, choking them to death. Ruth dies first; her little brother dies the next day. Fuck RFK Jr.

On the same day in the Telegraph:

A great visit this morning from delegates at the 'Craft, Texture, & Aesthetics of Letter Forms' conference, to visit our Historical Printing Room & see a range of materials from our collection, including John Baskerville specimens, the Kelmscott Chaucer, & woodblocks & designs by Reynolds Stone!

Expect your mobile to go off 3pm Sunday! Be prepared for a test of the Govt's emergency alert system. Full info... www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/09... LIVING WITH DOMESTIC ABUSE? If you've a hidden mobile, you the link above has details of how to opt out of the alert. Pls share

I support Plasticine Action. We oppose AI generated animation.

About 100 years ago I made some silver goblets for John Taylor, instigator and inventor of the Corpus Christi clock.

Looks like I'm in Cambridge for a bit. Had to do a little touristry today as the next 3 days are solid with lettering study. I'm exhausted already.

Medical science: Ahaha we have invented tens of thousands of life improving and saving medications ahaha we are unstoppable Grapefruit:

Life goals:

I know I'm a lettering nerd, but there are nerdier lettering nerds than me... "The Craft, Texture, and Aesthetics of Letter Forms from Antiquity to the Present", University of Cambridge, Faculty of English, 2nd to 4th September. See you there. OK, maybe not. www.english.cam.ac.uk/events/lette...

On the easel. A scattered alphabet (my third) on Welsh slate from Berwyn quarry.