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
Replying to @Feargal_Sharkey
A good seat is hard to find. @Feargal_Sharkey So please be gentle with this arse of mine.
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That’s Islam for you, but don’t, whatever you do be Islamaphobic.
Dans une ruelle poussiéreuse de Kaboul, une jeune fille de 15 ans marche à pas pressés, le regard baissé vers le sol. Dans son sac à main, elle a soigneusement caché un morceau de tissu et du fil à coudre. Si la police des mœurs des Talibans l'arrête au détour d'une rue, elle répétera la leçon apprise par cœur : elle se rend simplement à un cours de couture. Ce jour-là, alors que la peur lui noue l'estomac à chaque bruit de moteur, personne ne sait encore que cette adolescente dissimule en réalité des cahiers de chimie et de calcul avancé sous son coupon de tissu. Cinq ans après le retour des Talibans au pouvoir en Afghanistan, plus de 2,5 millions de jeunes filles se sont vues brutalement interdire l'accès aux écoles et aux universités. Du jour au lendemain, leurs rêves d'avenir ont été effacés par des lois étouffantes. Mais dans l'ombre de la capitale, au fond d'un sous-sol éclairé par une simple ampoule nue, la résistance s'est organisée. C'est là que se trouve une école clandestine. Chaque matin, des dizaines d'adolescentes âgées de 14 à 16 ans risquent l'arrestation, la prison ou pire encore, simplement pour s'asseoir sur un tapis et ouvrir un livre de sciences. Elles n'apportent avec elles qu'un stylo et un cahier pour ne pas éveiller les soupçons. Là où le régime veut les condamner au silence et à l'obscurité, ces jeunes filles choisissent la connaissance. Récemment, lorsque des journalistes ont obtenu un accès exceptionnel à ce refuge secret, les élèves leur ont confié un trésor inestimable : 21 lettres manuscrites adressées au reste du monde. Ce qui déchire le cœur en lisant ces mots, c'est la simplicité désarmante de leurs souhaits. Elles n'aspirent pas à la gloire ou à la richesse. Elles écrivent pour demander le droit d'apprendre. Elles écrivent pour choisir leur propre métier. Elles écrivent pour marcher dans la rue sans trembler de peur. Elles ont perdu leurs droits les plus fondamentaux. Elles ont perdu la liberté de leur jeunesse. Elles risquent leur vie à chaque pas vers ce sous-sol. Mais elles refusent de laisser éteindre la flamme de leur esprit. Ces adolescentes afghanes nous rappellent avec une force incroyable que l'éducation n'est pas un privilège ordinaire, mais le combat le plus puissant pour la liberté et la dignité humaine. L'ignorance est une prison, mais le savoir reste la plus invincible des révolutions. Si le courage extraordinaire de ces jeunes filles vous touche, partagez leur histoire pour faire résonner leurs voix à travers le monde. On ne doit jamais oublier celles qui se battent dans l'ombre pour avoir le droit d'apprendre.
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life’s hard enough without your shadow mocking you
We grow older with time, but the child within us never truly grows up
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While I am, of course, rooting for them, we should definitely double check their results
Polar bears take over an abandoned research station in Russia.
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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" bancaynegocios.com/firmas-au…
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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.
No water in months, yet Heathrow flooded, how is this even possible?
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WTAF? We don’t need to be emulating American ‘cuisine’.
Manchester's food scene is a national crisis
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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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Progress takes a backward step.
Replying to @StuartHumphryes
The brightly painted parade of shops at 33 Rue d'Alexandrie in Paris shows the entrance to Cairo Passage which still exists today. The Autochrome was taken by Georges Chevalier on Saturday 18th July 1914. Elaborate signs and calligraphy painted directly onto the building fascades contrasts sharply with the bland corporate grey of 21st Century tastes, with a comparison showing the site as it is in the 2020s.
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Three disabled children? From inbreeding?
British Islamic scholar Abu Waleed said, “We transform the UK into an Islamic state, and will impose humiliating laws on Christians and other non-Muslims to make them want to convert to Islam.” Abu Waleed lives in council housing in Hounslow, West London. He doesn’t work and claims benefits for himself, his wife, and their three disabled children - paid for by British taxpayers.
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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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Classic. Tina’s bass drives it.
Talking Heads' album More Songs About Buildings And Food was released on July 14, 1978 #DavidByrne #BrianEno
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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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Watching Wimbledon on the TV I was appalled to see there were no drag queens imparting their words of wisdom. Come on @BBC this is not good enough: you must maintain your compulsory drag queen quota.
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Heaven forbid.
It would be comforting to see this mediaeval claptrap denied by peaceful, multicultural Muslims
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