I just hit 900 followers here! I mean, thank you, really, but what the hoohah? Have y'all got nothing better to do than scroll my blathering and swearing and stone bothering?

Q is for, well, Quim and Queen.

For reasons I have carved just 2 letters this year but my next thing has to be this line. #lettering #thegoodplace

"The wave returns to the ocean". (Ref, The Good Place final episode).

Question or statement?

P is for Poor Frank Raw, Poppy and Populusque:

Watching winter olympics on Spanish tv. One of the idents is a quick shot of Leonardo's vitruvian man. Reminded me of the best product packaging I ever saw, some charcuterie featuring a vitruvian pig.

Every Wednesday I go to yoga with a retired gay man and then we go back to his house and eat the dinner his husband cooked for us while we were out, and when I told them some of the stuff the UK government are doing to trans people they literally said "it's happening again!"

3d #lettering in Cala Millor, Mallorca. Flintstones vibes.

Love it!

Ohh ...

O is for dOlorem ...

Saw a Sardinian warbler today. But also lost my watch :(

Newsom needs to secede California from the Union and get out before the kaka hits the fan.

Dude, the USA may be gone in three more years of this.

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Your ten seconds of calm. Cala Millor, Mallorca.

No man is an island. #veraevstafieva #calligraphy #cmyk #uk

Hotel artwork. Is it just me? It's not just me is it? What does this say about me?

"MOIST" engraved into a slab of literal stone is just *chef's kiss*

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If I'm allowed to reply with my own work here (just once, I promise)

I'm hoping any US reader can step in and tell us why #SocialisedMedicine is a terrible idea and how waitresses etc on minimum wage all their life should fund their own cancer treatment. (PS, had cancer, NHS treated it for free, still alive, not bankrupt).

Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country? Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

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No, but this might amuse you. bsky.app/profile/dgpl...

Mallorca for a week. In Palma all day tomorrow. Anyone got any hot tips on things to do, see, eat or drink anywhere on the island?

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"The country's resources have been drained" says billionaire who changed his domicile location to Monaco to avoid paying tax in the UK.

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top pick from the Library of Profanity's fiction section: For Whom the Bell-End Tolls by Ernest Havingitaway

MAGA: "The halftime show should have been in English so we could understand it.” ME: "Oh, honey . . . your Bible is in English, and you show no signs of understanding that."

No clues here, but I is for...

Woodcut of the dog & its reflection, from a Latin edition of Aesop’s fables, printed at Verona in 1479. This edition contains 66 woodcuts, possibly by Liberale da Verona. Bought by @theulspeccoll.bsky.social in 1870 & now Inc.4.B.19.2[2161].

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Dear Labour. If you want support, nationalise water, make buses and trains affordable outside London, tax billionaires, and stop-being trans and immigrant bashing arseholes.

In the 1960s when Basil Bernstein developed his concept of elaborated and restricted codes of language, he omitted a category for linguistically sophisticated people who are also blessed with a talent for rich and florid profanity. The wanker. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_B... #lettering #swearing

F is for effing and jeffing. Sorry mum.

Niche humour - and I’m totally here for it!😉 @danherb10.bsky.social @theduncanmackay.bsky.social @durotrigesdig.bsky.social @drtobydriver.bsky.social

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If you want more examples, there are more images here... photos.app.goo.gl/GtzjKwVY6Jme...

There is a vibrant letter cutting tradition in Armenia. Visiting Yerevan a few years ago I was struck by the fabulous memorial plaques on houses...

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i don’t know if it’s the jaunty bow tie or what but i cannot stop laughing at this

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No.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...