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Hand carved, often sweary, lettering on stone. Brace yourself. Retired silversmith, recovering geek, churchcrawler. Memento Mori. Nobody gets out of here alive. www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/shop
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Eyes down, Conclave watchers! A few facts for your scorecards: - Shortest Conclave: 1503, three hours or so. - Longest Conclave: 1268, three years or so. - Last Conclave to elect someone from outside: 1378, Urban VI. - Last Pope to exhume his predecessor and put them on trial: Stephen VI, 897.

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This is a fairly unusual stone, both because of its squared-off shape and because we don't often see letters carved in relief on 18thc stones in New England. More weird layout choices with "Here Lyes the Body of Capt." John Fitch (d.1760) Windham Center, CT by Josiah Manning

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Morning...

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You want a one-day introduction to lettering design for carving? Of course you do. 17 May, at the Ruthin Crafts Centre. Taught by John Neilson who taught me: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lettering-...

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Hey British media, It’s no surprise that if you give Farage the run of the place, he’ll start winning. Time to do your actual jobs and start interrogating him on his Brexit shitshow, his funding, his Trumpiness, his idiotic manifesto, his real plans for the NHS… instead of drumrolling him into No.10

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One minute twenty three seconds of carving RIVERLOVE: youtu.be/xcvl6mV1Ws0 #lettering

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The beautiful, beautiful BFI, showing how it’s done, after three recent Supreme Court ruling.

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‘Kennedy told reporters that there were "many, many good ways to treat measles and doctors need to know that and to know those methods.’ One problem; there is no treatment for measles. Signed, a doctor who’s been forced to deal with measles because of this stupid fraud.

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“I loved and supported Aaron as my son, and now I love and support Airyn as my daughter. I don’t know what the big deal is,” Robert De Niro told CNN in a statement. “I love all my children.” www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/e...

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I know Robert de Niro’s been a big lib but he's also a 100-year-old Italian man and he still loves his trans kid unconditionally, what the hell is anyone else's excuse

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Recently I found myself on Antipope Instagram, where there are endless reels of the current Antipope of the Palmarian Catholic Church. This is, of course, extremely my jam, and I started reading up on them hoping to find some wild theology, but instead I found something WAY better...

submitted 7 days ago • 63 comments

I have stopped carving for the day. Mrs Raw and I are going to the pub, where we will eat pub food and drink beer. I hope you have an excellent Thursday evening.

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Today I am carving to the sounds of Joni Mitchell. And as we all know, Joni Mitchell is God. 44 letters to go - 2/3 of the carving completed.

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Just spotted Mrs Pheasant and about 10 chicks in the corner of the orchard: #birds #canonr5

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