Marta Bernstein

A Giorgio Poi piace fare tutto da solo L’abbiamo intercettato prima della partenza per il tour di Schegge, il suo nuovo disco, che lo terrà occupato tutta l’estate.

Ammetto di non averlo mai seguito prima. Ma dopo questa recensione mi è scattata la voglia di conoscerlo. Grandi suoni/produzione. Recupererò anche i dischi precedenti. A Giorgio Poi piace fare tutto da solo • Rivista Studio https://www.rivistastudio.com/giorgio-poi-schegge-intervista/ #music

I’m going to watch this 100 times

Go seahawks! :)

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Words of Type Encyclopedia won a Tokyo TDC Annual Awards 2026!
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Deemed as "Excellent” in the category: Web site / Application
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Yes, it is possible to draw a cursive italic in a Grotesque style, and not just an inclined version. For proof this example.

Antiques Italiques, extract from Fonderie Mayeur Alainguillaume specimen ~1912.

Piss shields of Lyon.

Silicon Valley is full of tyrants of the quantifiable. For decades, its oligarchs have preached that our criteria for what we do and how we do it should be convenience, efficiency, productivity, profitability. They have told us that to go out into the world, to interact with others, is perilous, unpleasant, inefficient, a waste of time, and that time is something we should hoard rather than spend. This ends up meaning that we can minimise our presence in the world and maximise time spent working and online, which also means maximising alienation and isolation. This has involved a reordering of society right down to our retail landscapes. Many things have become harder to do in person. Of course, there are well-recognised upsides, but the downsides are no less real: public spaces and public life have withered, including some of the places in which we once acquired our goods. All those errands – buying milk or socks (in the past, I would have said the newspaper) – meant moments of human contact, moving among strangers and making acquaintances, maybe observing the weather and the natural world. These activities meant becoming more familiar with your surroundings, feeling at home beyond the confines of what you rent or own. All this, I believe, underpins democracy: ease with difference, familiarity with the lay of the land, a sense of connection and belonging, knowing where you are and who’s out there, relationships – however casual – to people beyond your immediate circle. To embrace the tyranny of the quantifiable is to dismiss the subtle value of these daily acts out in the world and the ways they generate and maintain networks of relationships.

Here's a chunk relevant to the above:

"Luchs speaks five languages: English, French, Italian, and some German and Russian. She approached grasping Gen Z parlance like she was learning another language.

...An Instagram commenter wrote: 'She’s so natural with it too like it’s not even cringe.'"

7,000 words on Serif Populism, what came before it and what might come after.

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Quando in Italia nevicava davvero.

C’è stato un tempo in cui la neve in Italia era un fenomeno talmente normale da meritarsi delle mappe tematiche.

Parliamo delle bellissime mappe di nevosità dell’Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato relative al periodo 1921-1960. 1/5

Large historiated initial letter C decorated in different colors and in gold to introduce a new section of the text in gotic type. It depicts a monk writing text on a leaf of paper as a scribe, holding both a quill as well as a pen knife. He wears a blue robe and a red undergarnment and a hat.

Large historiated initial letter O decorated in different colors and in gold to introduce a new section of the text in gotic type. It depicts a saint writing text on a leaf of paper as a scribe, holding both a quill as well as a pen knife. He wears a red robe and a blueish undergarnment and a hat.

Large historiated initial letter A decorated in different colors and in gold to introduce a new section of the text in gotic type. It depicts a monk writing text on a leaf of paper as a scribe, holding both a quill as well as a pen knife. He wears a blue robe and a grey undergarnment.

Large historiated initial letter P decorated in different colors and in gold to introduce a new section of the text in gotich type. It depicts a monk writing text on a leaf of paper as a scribe, holding both a quill as well as a pen knife. He wears a grey robe.

Medieval scribes at work.

A 13th-century Bible manuscript is filled with historiated initials, a few of which depicts scribes with their essential tools: a quill pen for writing and a penknife for sharpening the nib and scraping away mistakes.

#bookhistory #rarebooks 💙📚📜

"You should write for the same reasons you should take dancing lessons. For the same reason you should learn what fork to use at a fancy dinner. For the same reason you need to see the world. It's about grace.” -Kurt Vonnegut

It also reminded me of this Vonnegut quote I came across and saved some time ago. Care and grace are connected

Italian has a word (sciatteria/sciatto) that doesn’t directly translate into English: you can use it for a person, a room, a job. It means not cared for, unkept, shabby, sloppy, and overall not loved. And it’s definitely derogatory, because you should love yourself and put care in what is around you

Walking around rural Japan he writes: “But here, no drugs, no poverty like we knew. It’s a mystery I try to understand through these walks, these chats. But I’m beginning to think the answer is pretty simple: People care, and are cared for, on a level of abstraction absent from our town.”

I am currently #reading “Things become other things” by @craigmod.com. I am only a third through but I am loving it so much. This passage resonated with me: as an Italian living in the US I struggle sometime with the lack of care people display.

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White uppercase letters on a pink background. The letters appear to be bending or twisting up off the page

A variety of lettering for different signs. Includes a delightful printer’s fist for a Sortie sign.

Another item I acquired more recently from Jammes is this suite of model letters from L. Labbé, c. 1900, including these fun Lettres Tordues. #NewberryLibrary

Terrible restaurant could close unless people enthusiastically embrace bad food, complains chef.

Prominent Architecture Firm Is Accused of Illegally Ousting Employees

"A regional director of the NLRB accused Snohetta of illegally dismissing eight employees because they supported the union..." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/b...

This is a very scary thread, but now that everything's all right, I think it's everyone's duty to convince this person they never actually woke up.

*frantically googling*

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Across Europe, women are killed at alarming rates by those closest to them. In the EU, women are killed by family members or partners nearly twice as often as men, yet most countries reduce these deaths to anonymous statistics. In Italy, a feminist group carefully documents each femicide.

25 years in, Wikipedia remains a rare thing on the internet: a global public good. 🌐 No paywalls, no ads chasing attention—just knowledge shared because it matters.

In an era of disappearing pages & vanishing context, Wikipedia endures by documenting, citing, and revisiting what we know. 🕰️🔗

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In winter, Greenland and Iceland move south and that's why we feel cold

A dinner with friends: good food, good wine, and chats about everything and nothing. It’s not enough but definitely helps.

«Mio padre mi disse che la libertà, il diritto e libere elezioni sono come le mani. Capisci quanto erano importanti solo quando te le hanno tagliate”.
(Giovanni Bachelet, figlio di Vittorio, ucciso dalle Br nel 1980, oggi su @mm-repubblica-bot.bsky.social)

Yes to British series

Yes the swearing! So creative!

The cover of the Italian edition (2001) of some of James Mosley's essays: Radici della scrittura moderna.

Remembering James Mosley
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