Michael Everson
@evertype.bsky.social
Linguist, publisher, typographer, medievalist, immigrant. Into Le Guin, Wonderland, Hobbits, Unicode, minority languages. 🖖🏻🏴🇮🇪🇪🇺🏳️🌈
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Hello Bluesky. I'm here because Meta doesn't want me. Looking forward to post unfiltered, unhinged and un-whatever stuff here. Tell your friends!
October 19, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Hello Bluesky. I'm here because Meta doesn't want me. Looking forward to post unfiltered, unhinged and un-whatever stuff here. Tell your friends!
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In a letter to the editor, a reader warns that proposals to deny welfare to EU citizens with Settled Status are not only morally wrong – they’re legally indefensible.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
Letter to the editor: A civilised society does not withhold care based on citizenship
Letter to the editor
eastangliabylines.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
In a letter to the editor, a reader warns that proposals to deny welfare to EU citizens with Settled Status are not only morally wrong – they’re legally indefensible.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
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Westminster politicians with nae clue about Scotland lecturing me on how to integrate, when this place is home to me and alien to them, when they come to Scotland twice a year to do a
photo ops with a can of Irn Bru somewhere in frame. Piss off, I'm right where I should be.
photo ops with a can of Irn Bru somewhere in frame. Piss off, I'm right where I should be.
September 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Westminster politicians with nae clue about Scotland lecturing me on how to integrate, when this place is home to me and alien to them, when they come to Scotland twice a year to do a
photo ops with a can of Irn Bru somewhere in frame. Piss off, I'm right where I should be.
photo ops with a can of Irn Bru somewhere in frame. Piss off, I'm right where I should be.
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"Farage doesn't like Britain" is a far cry from the desperately needed rebuttal to Farage's poisonous racism. By engaging in the far right's ultranationalist rhetoric of blind love of country, Starmer is kicking the door wide open to Reform Government without meaningful opposition.
September 30, 2025 at 2:49 PM
"Farage doesn't like Britain" is a far cry from the desperately needed rebuttal to Farage's poisonous racism. By engaging in the far right's ultranationalist rhetoric of blind love of country, Starmer is kicking the door wide open to Reform Government without meaningful opposition.
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Let us do without soldiers. The joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy; it will not do; it is fearful and it is trivial.
September 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Let us do without soldiers. The joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy; it will not do; it is fearful and it is trivial.
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This fall, Searoad will be back in print! This series of interconnected short stories winds through the lives of members of a small coastal community over time.
Searoad will be available from the Library of America on October 7th.
Cover design and illustration by Kimberly Glyder.
Searoad will be available from the Library of America on October 7th.
Cover design and illustration by Kimberly Glyder.
July 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
This fall, Searoad will be back in print! This series of interconnected short stories winds through the lives of members of a small coastal community over time.
Searoad will be available from the Library of America on October 7th.
Cover design and illustration by Kimberly Glyder.
Searoad will be available from the Library of America on October 7th.
Cover design and illustration by Kimberly Glyder.
Oh please let Miss Piggy be a Tellarite, oh please oh please 🐷🚀
July 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Oh please let Miss Piggy be a Tellarite, oh please oh please 🐷🚀
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![The character was proposed for inclusion into Unicode in 2007[8] and incorporated as character U+A66E in Unicode version 5.1 (2008).[9] The representative glyph had seven eyes and sat on the baseline. However, in 2021, following a tweet highlighting the character,[10] it came to linguist Michael Everson's attention that the character in the 1429 manuscript was actually made up of ten eyes. After a 2022 proposal to change the character to reflect this, it was updated later that year for Unicode 15.0 to have ten eyes and to extend below the baseline.[11][12] However, not all fonts support the ten-eyed variant as of May 2025.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pyzlzqt6b2nyrha7smfry6rv/bafkreidmg5pf525b5ec7r6yyanvdhumi4mkfdvmxtrgvf4bythbmgreg7q@jpeg)
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I attended a talk by @evertype.bsky.social last weekend at the annual @soctolkien.bsky.social convention, and from the images alone I just knew the text in that screenshot would mention him somewhere 😄
May 17, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I attended a talk by @evertype.bsky.social last weekend at the annual @soctolkien.bsky.social convention, and from the images alone I just knew the text in that screenshot would mention him somewhere 😄
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@evertype.bsky.social some excitement...
April 24, 2025 at 11:54 PM
@evertype.bsky.social some excitement...
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in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list
April 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list
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I hope my friends in Poland have no illusions about this administration. No matter how much you praise them or speak kindly, they will still attack you the moment you have even the slightest disagreement.
March 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I hope my friends in Poland have no illusions about this administration. No matter how much you praise them or speak kindly, they will still attack you the moment you have even the slightest disagreement.
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“Zelenskyy found himself ambushed by Trump and his serpentine vice-president, JD Vance. He was expected to sit back and take a beating from Nurse Ratched and Miss Trunchbull. He refused”. Superb piece by David Smith.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Bullying, berating Trump shows his worst self in Zelenskyy ambush
The president said his horrific blowup would make ‘great television’ – the White House has rarely seen anything like this
www.theguardian.com
February 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
“Zelenskyy found himself ambushed by Trump and his serpentine vice-president, JD Vance. He was expected to sit back and take a beating from Nurse Ratched and Miss Trunchbull. He refused”. Superb piece by David Smith.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
February 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
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That’s the problem. We’ve been standing by for too long.
February 17, 2025 at 11:45 PM
That’s the problem. We’ve been standing by for too long.
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Look at this.
Look at the swathes of Scotland to be run by English registered and funded political parties.
With #ScottishIndependence, we won't have any.
Instead, every politician in Holyrood will represent Scots and Scotland.
Look at the swathes of Scotland to be run by English registered and funded political parties.
With #ScottishIndependence, we won't have any.
Instead, every politician in Holyrood will represent Scots and Scotland.
Scottish Westminster Voting Intention:
SNP: 32% (+1)
LAB: 18% (-2)
RFM: 17% (+2)
CON: 13% (-1)
LDM: 11% (+2)
GRN: 6% (=)
Via Norstat, 11-14 Feb.
Changes w/ 4-6 Dec.
SNP: 32% (+1)
LAB: 18% (-2)
RFM: 17% (+2)
CON: 13% (-1)
LDM: 11% (+2)
GRN: 6% (=)
Via Norstat, 11-14 Feb.
Changes w/ 4-6 Dec.
February 17, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Look at this.
Look at the swathes of Scotland to be run by English registered and funded political parties.
With #ScottishIndependence, we won't have any.
Instead, every politician in Holyrood will represent Scots and Scotland.
Look at the swathes of Scotland to be run by English registered and funded political parties.
With #ScottishIndependence, we won't have any.
Instead, every politician in Holyrood will represent Scots and Scotland.
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Ok folks, deep breaths.
There is very real reason to worry about the dynamic emerging between Washington and Moscow when it comes to Ukraine. But there is also very real reason to believe that Ukraine and Europe can create a better outcome.
(A rather long 🧵, obviously)
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There is very real reason to worry about the dynamic emerging between Washington and Moscow when it comes to Ukraine. But there is also very real reason to believe that Ukraine and Europe can create a better outcome.
(A rather long 🧵, obviously)
/1
February 13, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Ok folks, deep breaths.
There is very real reason to worry about the dynamic emerging between Washington and Moscow when it comes to Ukraine. But there is also very real reason to believe that Ukraine and Europe can create a better outcome.
(A rather long 🧵, obviously)
/1
There is very real reason to worry about the dynamic emerging between Washington and Moscow when it comes to Ukraine. But there is also very real reason to believe that Ukraine and Europe can create a better outcome.
(A rather long 🧵, obviously)
/1
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