The foundry of Nick Cooke. Type Designer. Retail and custom fonts. Lettering and logo design. Member of Wynkyn de Worde Society. Letter Exchange board member.
In the Forest of Dean, UK
Joined May 2011
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A good seat is hard to find.
@Feargal_Sharkey
So please be gentle with this arse of mine.
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While I am, of course, rooting for them, we should definitely double check their results
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"Without Tina Weymouth Talking Heads would have been just another band": A celebration of Remain In Light #BrianEno #DavidByrne guitarworld.com/features/tin…
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Venezuelan gold reserves at the Bank of England are being stolen by US, as predicted.
More sovereignty-undermining humiliation. Looks like the Venezuelan gold in the UK will finally be unfrozen, but instead of being handed to the country's authorities, the (corresponding) funds will go to the US Treasury and then be disbursed pending the approval of the imperial overlords while being subjected to "auditing firms"
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I’m sure people have always be stupid.
It’s just that social media has provided a way they can flaunt that stupidity to millions.
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This was me as a little girl, forced into hijab. And this is me after I broke free.
In Iran, I was told: wear the hijab or be kicked out of school. Resist, and you can be arrested, beaten, lashed, or imprisoned, or killed it in the hand of morality Police.
Then I came to the West and was told: be careful telling your story, it might cause “Islamophobia.”
I am a woman from the Middle East. I have lived under Islamist ideology. I have every right to fear it, criticize it, and speak about it.
Don’t silence us in the name of tolerance. Let us talk.
To those who say "it's her choice" I used to say the same thing about my own Hijab.
I was covered head to toe. Even on the beach. Even with my male relatives. And when people challenged me, I said: this is my choice. You know why? Because the other option was burning in hell, hung by my hair for eternity. That's what they taught me since childhood.
Yes, let me repeat it for you to just understand about our version of “freedom of choice.” I grew up in an Islamist culture that gave me two options. Cover yourself and go to heaven. Or don't cover, and be hanged by your hair and burned in hell.
Like when someone puts a gun to your head and says "you can go left or right", technically, yes, that's a choice.
I picked heaven. I called it freedom. And I believed it, because that's what happens when fear is all you've ever known.
And if you think I shouldn't be telling you my story, I don't care. I really, genuinely, from the bottom of my heart, don't care. The women still living under that "choice"? I care about them.
#LetUsTalk
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Talking Heads' album Fear Of Music was released on August 3, 1979
Produced by Brian Eno and Talking Heads #DavidByrne
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While the world watches the war, the Islamic Republic of Iran hanged a 19-year-old boy today.
His name is Erfan Esfandiari and he was his parents' only child.
He did not kill anyone. He did not carry a weapon. His crime, according to the Islamic Republic, was opening a door. Sheltering protesters who were running from security forces. That was enough to send him to the gallows.
Erfan was one of 12 young men in the Alikhani Square case in Isfahan, arrested during the January 2026 uprising. Yesterday, all 12 were moved to quarantine. Today, the Islamic Republic hanged him.
This is a government that is so terrified of a generation that refuses to be silent, that it executes teenagers for the act of compassion.
Say his name. Because the regime is already trying to erase him. Because his mother and father are left with nothing, not even the right to grieve loudly.
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On such a beautiful day like today my mind is drawn back to one of the most beautiful autochromes ever taken: a study of artists on the banks of the Dordogne at Beaulieu in France 101 years ago. The light, the colour & the composition are works of art in itself!
I have cleaned up this stunning photographic plate showing an artist at his easel being painted in turn by a woman at hers. In the distance is the St Pierre Abbey church. It captures a moment of true serenity and beauty.
You will notice, because of the long exposure time required by Autochromes, that the female painter has become a double-exposed through motion blur. It was taken in colour Jules Gervais-Courtellemont in 1925 using an early colour glass-plate process and isn't colourised. It remains one of my favourite works.
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Imagine you are a dental hygienist and live in Sweden..
You are employed to help “migrant children” with their dental issues.
As part of your job you examine the wisdom teeth development of the kids and you notice that 80% of those “kids” have fully formed wisdom teeth, implying they are not kids at all but adults older than the age of 18.
You tell the Swedish Migration Agency and they advise you to put it in writing.
When you send exact details, with examples of specific patients you are suspended, investigated and fired for disclosing private information relating to patients.
This happened to Bernt Herlitz in 2017.
When he appealed the unfair dismissal he ultimately lost and was fined about $50,000.
He and his family faced financial hardship and almost lost their home, until some generous benefactors raised money for him. Bernt remains unemployed today, despite staff shortages for dentists in his area in Gotland.
At the time, Sweden scoffed at the tests and claimed they were “discriminatory” but since then they have quietly brought in mass dental testing, for those whose age is in doubt, by the National Board of Forensic Medicine.
Bernt deserves a medal. Not vilification and unemployment
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During the Iranian Revolution, leftist students, communists, and Muslims were all united in overthrowing the Shah.
The leftists celebrated when Khomeini returned in 1979. They thought they defeated capitalism and imperialism. It didn’t last long.
Around 30,000 leftists who helped the Islamic regime consolidate power were soon executed. That’s where the term “useful idiot” comes from.
They served their purpose and were no longer needed. Muslims had always despised their progressive ideals and couldn’t wait to get rid of them.
One of the women celebrating in the picture was killed, the other fled the country for her life.
It’s bizarre that almost 50 years later, Western leftists are making the exact same mistake and allying with Muslims. They will have the same fate.
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The Islamic regime is about to hang a wife and husband together for wanting freedom.
Bita Hemmati and Mohammadreza Majidi-Asl (34) were arrested together, tortured into forced confessions, and sentenced to death.
Chanting against the mullahs and throwing stones during the January uprising.
Bita would be the first woman executed from these protests.
This is how the Islamic Republic stays in power: by destroying families at the gallows.
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Iran's regime hanged the dead body of this woman for the crowd to cheer and praise Allah. She died of a heart attack, but "the show had to go on."
Please read to the end! Don't look away!
Her name is Zahra Esmaili.
She was sentenced to death after her Muslim husband, a member of the Ayatollahs' Ministry of Intelligence, was found dead. After her arrest, she was held in one of Iran's notorious prisons, where she was tortured mentally and physically until she gave a forced confession. She received the death penalty and was to be hanged before the crowd. After seeing 16 people hanged before her, she had a heart attack and died. They didn’t provide medical treatment and still hanged her lifeless body for the crowd to cheer.
Western media never reported this case, as with most stories about human rights violations by Islamic terrorist regimes in the Muslim world. Events inconsistent with the left's narrative that "Islam is a religion of peace" are ignored.
Please share if you care about women's rights!
Women in Iran are treated worse than animals. They have no freedom or human rights.
Please don’t stop talking about the atrocities the Islamic regime commits in Iran.
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A message to all sane Republicans:
He pardoned 1,600 violent criminals.
You said nothing.
He bulldozed the East Wing.
You said nothing.
He interfered with the release of the Epstein files. You said nothing.
He took over the Kennedy Center and renamed it after himself. You said nothing.
He accepted a $400 million airplane as a personal gift. You said nothing.
He threatened Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Greenland, Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil. You said nothing.
He tariffed just about everyone but Russia, causing inflation and instability worldwide. You said nothing.
He attacked a nation during mediated negotiations. You said nothing.
His ill-conceived war killed 175 children on day one. You said nothing.
He alienated and insulted our allies. You said nothing.
His ICE Army terrorized and murdered U.S. citizens. You said nothing.
He committed murder on the high seas. You said nothing.
He co-opted the Justice Department and directed it to prosecute his political enemies. You said nothing.
It’s time to start talking.
