I'm still seeing people saying "em dashes are a dead give away of AI" and i would ask people to use their eyes when they read actual writing by humans sometime

I’ll be back in New York this August for a bit of Show and Tell at Poster House posterhouse.org/event/viral-...

Big-name favorites (in no particular order): 1. New Order 2. David Byrne 3. Kylie Minogue 4. The Smiths 5. The Cure 6. DEVO 7. Duran Duran 8. The B-52’s 9. Björk 10. Joe Jackson

Selections from the Letraslut archive! (letraslut.com/wiki/index.p...) This awesome book features many photos of items from my horde, along with a brief interview where I gush about why I think dry transfer type is so important.

It’s a Ringold megamix! See how nicely Ringold’s distinct but related styles play with one another? bijoutype.com/typefaces/ri...

YOU RANG?

It feels slightly surreal to have played even a small part in bringing about this next major step in the maturation of a typeface as storied and widely appreciated as Gotham, already the result of so many talented eyes, hands, hearts, and heads. www.monotype.com/resources/ca...

New portrait taken by my pal Callum Leo Hughes in Berlin. He’s great! callumleohughes.photography

putting a napkin over my head and consuming grogu like the ortolan bird

Kids don’t start drinking coffee and typesetting early enough anymore

We use typefaces AKA "fonts" daily: the history of movable type runs from printed books to screens. Type expert @bijoutype.com Dan Rhatigan (now works for Monotype/previously Adobe) geeks out with me on the importance of type from Letraset to lettering on screen. www.vectisradio.com/on-air/prese...

Three different dogs have all entered the local coffee shop I visit on the way to the office here in Berlin, and they’re making me desperately pine for my fuzzy chaos demon back at home

apparently Jonathan Tiersten, who delivered the best line in horror, has died

rich people are getting too comfortable saying any old thing

May the filth be with you,always

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I love Portland, but No. www.oregonlive.com/trending/202...

New reaction meme, courtesy of Abbott Elementary.

All the pent-up rage I feel in this life comes pouring out when I have to deal with automated phone systems.

Well, today is my first day as a registered PhD student. So…I thought I might have received some information about what to do first? No? Well, I guess my battles with the academic bureaucracy begin.

The first issue of Whole Fanzine Catalog (1978) ends with an article to help aspiring zine makers understand the labor & cost involved. He breaks it down step by step & concludes, "You can count on a 24 page fanzine of 200 copies to take about 50 hours to produce." fanac.org/fanzines/Who...

Starting some research at the Schwules Museum (www.schwulesmuseum.de) while I’m in Berlin, and it’s fitting to see them storing old magazines in boxes from Esselte, the stationery company that had acquired Letraset.

Long-time atheist here, but I gotta say the Jesuit-high-schooler side of me is really itching to see some high-profile excommunication drama go down. The mess! 😍

This is like when they tell you the little bottle is for cleaning your VCR equipment

dyslexia-friendly/‘hyperlegible’ fonts are a marketing gimmick, not a meaningful solution for accessibility

kids should be able to read cursive because it enables them to read old documents among other things. When done consistently it’s also a more economical form of writing. I don’t know why people are so mad about this.

The show I won't name because I don't want to feed the SEO results cannot be watched ethically. The author actively uses her resources to harm trans people, pushing for legislation that makes their lives far, far more difficult. Human decency is worth more than a tv show. #TransIsBeautiful

A golden era

I was really excited to discover that publishing more of Pink Mince can count toward the PhD I’m about to start at the University of Reading. My research started with my zine, and it should remain a great way to reach other people with interest in and history with my topic.

Love this kind of science. Also “The squeal of peeling tape, explained” feels like the title of a banger poem

Let's Normalise 👀 ✔️ Women charging what they're worth ✔️ Women saying no without explaining why ✔️ Women leading creative industries loudly ✔️ Women taking up exactly as much space as they deserve #InternationalWomensDay2026

Ooo I love documentaries

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I know that I’m biased but I honestly think Ringold Clarendon would have been a stronger choice here. bijoutype.com/typefaces/ri...

Oh, if we’re doing culty movies: • Hairspray (original) • Paris Is Burning • Wet Hot American Summer • The Living End • Airplane!

I saw Nile Rogers a couple of years ago, and his set was simply a non-stop roster of mind-blowing hits. It was actually insulting that he was an opening act playing to a half-empty arena waiting for Duran Duran.

Star Wars Raiders of the Lost Ark Airplane (I’m 👴)

The Welliver set-up at Hand & Eye was my first exposure to this incredible hack. It blew my mind to think the keyboard and rolls of paper tape would turn out to be the obsolete parts of the Monotype system.

Half the reason I finally moved back home

I occasionally complain about BB being a spoiled diva, knowing full well who spoiled her.

This clip features Sir Ian’s incredible Shakespearean monologue that’s rightly getting a lot of traction today, but you should really watch it for the discussion about what makes live theater so thrilling and powerful. youtu.be/2l2RqzVG4ag?...

Like any love of Star Trek, I always find something delicious to quibble about with any new entry to the franchise. I’m not necessarily the audience for all the bits of “Starfleet Academy”, for instance, but they are taking a lot of big swings and hitting some incredible targets.

I had a nice podcast chat with @signaltype.bsky.social recently, and we got nerdy podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Algorithms have failed artists, so once again I am appealing to the wealthy to go back to the practice of patronising artists so you can brag that your sicko is better than your rival’s sicko

Note: I say this as someone who also loves all the recent Trek. I just want more of each one! I love longer stretches for character development and world-building.

Hi there, fellow white people (especially my fellow white dudes)! It's Black History Month, and all of us who have lived in the privilege bubble our entire lives should get educated! Every day this month, 28daysofblackhistory.com drops a new story in your inbox. Every single one of them is amazing.

The whole “Heated Rivalry” media frenzy is a great chance for people to learn the subtle distinctions between Canadian and American accents — if just because the word “out” comes up so much.

If this is your cup of prosecco, maybe you might like to join us for TipoItalia this summer: www.tipoitalia.net

I guess this is the right moment to mention that I’m starting a PhD in a couple of months.