In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.

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Spent the day leafing through early 20th c architectural working drawings at the Northwest Architectural Archives at the U of MN for my lettering research.

All the centers they’re cutting add up to less than $7 million in spending. UNC athletics budget is $185.4 million for the 2025-26 fiscal year.

“I for one think it is entirely excellent that the US State Department is reverting to using a typeface designed by a committed Marxist who was imprisoned during WW1 as a conscientious objector. Bravo!” — John Hudson typedrawers.com/discussion/c...

Been a minute since I made Spam musubi!

Thinking of the student Mary Young who 106 years ago today 'said "shan't" under [her] breath when told to repeat poor work'.

Excited that my typeface design Fillmore has been chosen as Font of the Year! ilovetypography.com/2025/12/03/s...

Saints and Sinners #cocktails #original #cheers

Interesting, app connecting scholars to people who can photograph documents in local archives. sourceryapp.org

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

on top of Abbott's other crimes, that ffi ligature is fucking killing me

When I release a typeface design, I always craft an original cocktail inspired by the font. Here's Ticker teelinefonts.com/notes/the-ti... #cheers

A Berry Special Episode #cocktails #original #cheers

When I release a typeface design, I always craft an original cocktail inspired by the font. Here's Fillmore teelinefonts.com/notes/the-fi... #cheers

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

The Clash cocktail biopic is out! 9 drinks inspired by songs or lyrics from The Clash by bartenders: cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2025/10/cock...

Tuned in to the first baseball game I’ve watched all year — with no idea of the commitment I was making

If given the chance, I'd lose my legs all over again to serve in our great military. The leader of your party is a five-time draft dodger who has fired more Veterans than any other president in our history. Square that circle then tell me who really hates our military.

I didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.

My latest: "Numerous studies show that majors in the humanities—typically, in departments of English, history, philosophy, religious studies, classics and languages—lead students to employment and life satisfaction outcomes as positive as those for majors traditionally championed as 'practical.'”

Pommistry: Aged rum, bonded apple brandy, Cocchi Americano, Punt e Mes, homemade cinnamon syrup, apple bitters, apple, lemon. #cocktails #original #cheers

ACLS statement against White House “compact”: THIS IS SOVIET SHIT

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

This made me laugh extra hard today

I guess it's anachronistic, but I kinda want to believe that ReBeKaH RoWe was intending sarcasm when she signed this 18th century sampler.

Technologically advanced a band: Alice in an Ankle Monitor

No other institution has fulfilled the promise of the early Internet so fully or resisted enshittification for so long.

Technologically advance a band. #FFC0CB Floyd

Hey, friends, do any of you know of a good reading (or instruction manual?) on reading pre-1900 (let's say 1700-1923) handwritten texts? Some of the students in my History of Reading class want to focus their final projects on older "traces of reading" and would love more specific instruction +

Video of vintage pencil sharpeners. This is the best thing I've seen in my entire life. www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatis...

Sørensen. #cocktails #original #cheers

Does anyone know of a free Windows-compatible text editor (like Notepad++) that allows toggling between 'smart' and 'dumb' quotes in the settings? Or that defaults to smart quotes? I have @libreoffice for regular document creation, but want a text editor to allow work on text(s) without any […]

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I want to note, because the initial article doesn't make this clear, that the professor being taped in the video is calm, clear, and patient with the student. Furthermore, the professor appears to be teaching absolutely basic medically accepted science & history of gender expression.

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And a response to the original opinion piece today: www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025... (unpaywalled: archive.ph/l0f3k).

While other tourists are taking pics of the Gothic fan vaults of the Kings College chapel, I'm getting shots of these terrific keep off the grass signs. The Kings College signpainter knows what they're doing! #cambridge

James Mosley, 1935-2025. We will all miss him a lot, but his writings about type will remain.

We need to know what humans do before we argue that machines can do it just the same. There can’t be AI literacy without a literacy in being human: how we make meaning in work and life, distinguishing the artificial from the imaginary from the true. mail.cyberneticforests.com/human-litera...

Picard: "There are two 'B's!"

Accidental typographic palimpsest, encountered in Special Collections at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. ———
#WoodType #letterforms #typography #archives #libraries #collections #bibliography #TypeSpecimen #TypeDesign #TypeHistory #letterpress #type #design #NineteethCentury #Palimpsest

Creeping Charlie #cocktails #original #cheers

Today I'm coming back to E.L. Doctorow's description of writing a book as like driving a car at night: "you never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."