Emma Charleston

Current status... (PSA: don't put wet wipes or fat down your drains, I am here to shame YOU too)

☺️ God I miss the good old days of Twitter sometimes. [She says, logging into Bluesky for the first time in months]

Pointed out to my partner that when we retire, old people's homes will have Mario Kart and serve tacos and bibimbap, and now we're both typed for residential care. Roll on retirement.

here is a nice illustration by @undividual.bsky.social of her experience playtesting the game i will be showing at Car Boot Casino

Accessibility: complexity and contradictions in graphic design Accessibility is a vital and increasingly recognised component of all design practice. But what does accessibility actually mean, what happens with accessibility requirements contradict one another, a...

Accessibility is a vital and increasingly recognised component of design. But what does accessibility actually mean, what happens when requirements contradict, and how can graphic designers learn about accessibility implementation?

@undividual.bsky.social dives in.

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Audient / July 2025 / Pool Party Listen to Audient / July 2025 / Pool Party by Emma Charleston

My once-in-a-blue-moon login to let you know that it's HOT out in London, so I made this pool party mix for you. Please enjoy :) www.mixcloud.com/emma-charles...

Most of this kind of nonsense I just babble to my partner about, but every time I even mention Figma they just say 'Figma balls' and laugh to themselves for a few minutes

The thing I ACTUALLY came here to say is that even though I hate learning new software, last night I spent like two hours making a scrolling carousel of images with rollover effects in Figma. It was hard!! But I figured it out!! And while I can't show it to you for proof, I CAN boast about it

April 2025 April has been real nice. I am feeling very spring-like both in mood and energy levels — which feels kinda weird and bad given how entirely ...

I haven't been a very good blueskyer, oh dear. Turns out I really DON'T have anything to say? No thoughts, brain empty. Anyway that's not entirely true, actually I've just been out having fun IRL. Here's my monthly blog all about that emmacharleston.blogspot.com/2025/04/apri...

Oh God, Emma's 'streaming', what have I done (this could be great or it could be terrible)

Question: can you think of a LESS aesthetically appealing sweetie?! (Because I can’t). Also are they good

Yeah I got the neilmed one but I absolutely loathe the sensation — I have an abnormally small nose/narrow nostrils and cleaning never got me that far but this decongestant makes me feel like my nose GOT BIGGER 🤯

This is what my doctor tells me to do, but no: hard dislike 😂

this is what other people have said to me, so I will make sure I save them for a special ‘treat’ (like: my flight tomorrow) — I figured there had to be a catch somewhere!

No drowsiness for me… yet… (though tbh on a flight just a lil drowsiness might be nice to take the edge off my anxiety…)

I just did my first ever spritz and I swear I can breathe better now through this cold than I can on a normal day 🤯

So here’s my question to you: do YOU take decongestants when you have a cold?! Has everyone else been doing this apart from me?! How has this passed me by?!

I only found out today because I’ve got a bit of a cold and have to fly tomorrow (I will be masked and drugged up and it is not covid) and a friend was like ‘you should take a decongestant to stop your ears popping’, so I went to the pharmacy to ask what they meant

I feel like this is comparable with only finding out about painkillers in your 30s. I’ve just been suffering over here this entire time not knowing there was an incredibly easy, effective, fast and safe fix for this issue?!!???!

I am 36 years old and have suffered from congestion and colds frequently my entire life and yet NOT ONE OF YOU* EVER TOLD ME about the entire class of drugs known as ‘decongestants’?!!??! (Friends, family, partners, MULTIPLE doctors)

I DO love pies 🥧

Of course, we’ll never know. But the fact that she did do it and now has stopped makes me wish I knew more of what was going on in that big soft head of hers. (Even if much of the time it seems like the answer is ‘very little’)

She seems to have totally stopped doing it now — we haven’t had one in months. We initially wondered if she was having nightmares, or perhaps that she was waking up and not knowing where she was and feeling frightened. We also wondered if she was pining for her old owner…

I sometimes wonder whether Jessie has a ‘rich inner life’ or whether she’s just no thoughts brain empty most of the time. I was just thinking about how, for the first few months we got her, every few nights, at some point in the wee small hours she would let out a single guttural, hoarse howl…

(Oh okay FINE "Although sometimes colloquially, but erroneously, known as a "monorail", the transit vehicles are carried on rubber tyres running on a concrete track..." — regardless, it's still extremely cute and fun)

Gatwick Airport Shuttle Transit - Wikipedia

Gotta book a hotel near Gatwick for an early flight next weekend and was annoyed that the cheaper ones are all near North terminal when I fly from South, but then realised this is actually just a golden opportunity for ✨4AM MONORAIL✨ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatwick...

Delighted and confused to see a digi screen ad that puts Welsh first in… London Bridge? (ACAB notwithstanding)

YESS HBD!!! Also I love 2 sauna (or more specifically 'spa') so if you ever need a spa buddy hmu

Ulez: Cleaner air for Londoners after expansion, study finds London pollution has reduced after the controversial expansion of the Ultra Low Emission Zone, a report finds.

I generally consider myself a mild-mannered person but have (somehow?!) twice ended up in face-to-face confrontations with Piers Corbyn (Jeremy's shit pro-car brother) over his stance on ULEZ. So this report that came out today is music to my ears (and air to my lungs!) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So sad to hear about the passing of Mark Pawson — I can think of few more iconic figures in the UK zine/small publishing world. I very much hope that his astonishing collections of both his own and others work will live on somewhere safe. Every time I saw his work it made me want to make something!