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Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · 1d

Was looking at this typeface just this week! It's a lovely book Venetian and it has a display sibling, Nicholas.

#typography

Ameel Khan @ameel.bsky.social · 2d

Goodchild, Nick Shinn's modern, highly-readable interpretation of Nicolas Jenson's roman typeface, is on sale for US $99: fonts.ilovetypography.com/fonts/shinnt...

I find Goodchild more versatile and practical compared to Adobe Jenson and LTC Cloister, although the latter is also on sale from P22.

Goodchild Fonts | I Love Typography

The essence of any typeface is a visuality which neither words nor measurement can fully convey, and it is this concept of form which the type designer…

fonts.ilovetypography.com

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Ameel Khan @ameel.bsky.social · 2d

Goodchild, Nick Shinn's modern, highly-readable interpretation of Nicolas Jenson's roman typeface, is on sale for US $99: fonts.ilovetypography.com/fonts/shinnt...

I find Goodchild more versatile and practical compared to Adobe Jenson and LTC Cloister, although the latter is also on sale from P22.

Goodchild Fonts | I Love Typography

The essence of any typeface is a visuality which neither words nor measurement can fully convey, and it is this concept of form which the type designer…

fonts.ilovetypography.com

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Ameel Khan @ameel.bsky.social · 2d

Nets behind the goals at a local community footy field in #Melbourne.

Photo of one end of an Australian Rules Football field in which tall nets have been installed behind the goal posts.

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Ameel Khan @ameel.bsky.social · 3d

Get your coffee here! =)

#Melbourne

Black-and-white photo of a coffee cup with, "Coffee here!" written on it along with a smiley face. The coffee cup has been placed on a cafe window sill.

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Ameel Khan @ameel.bsky.social · 4d

Wat?

("Watch for cars" warning sign painted on the pavement.)

Photo looking down at a pavement with a large, yellow warning sign painted across it. The full sign reads, "watch for cars" but the photographer has cropped-out most of the message so all that's visible in the frame are the first three letters, "wat".

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Ameel Khan @ameel.bsky.social · 5d

Nice garden behind the newspaper ring that's been built into the wall.

#Melbourne

Photo of a residential red-brick wall with a round section cut out of it so a rolled-up newspaper or magazine can be placed in it by the mail carrier. The wall and ring itself are out of focus. What is in focus is a bush that is growing in the garden behind this wall.

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Ameel Khan @ameel.bsky.social · 6d

The forbidden hole: "Lack of oxygen and sudden rising water" 😨

(Part of the floodwater drainage system in Melbourne's northern suburbs.) #Melbourne

Photo of a round culvert around a floodplain. Even though it is daylight outside, the interior of the culvert is pitch dark. A warning sign posted next to the entrance hole reads, "No entry" and "trespassers prosecuted". Explanatory text above this reads, "Lack of oxygen and sudden rising water".

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Ameel Khan @ameel.bsky.social · 7d

"[If] you wanted people to read your blog, you had to make it compelling enough that they would visit it, directly, because they wanted to. And if they wanted to respond to you, they had to do it on their own blog, and link back." — Elizabeth Spiers

talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/what-...

What Made Blogging Different?

Whether I like it or not, the first line of my obituary...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Ameel Khan @ameel.bsky.social · 7d

Flood-level markers going up to 7m along a bank of a creek in a floodplain in the northern suburbs of #Melbourne.

Photo of a series of white, graduated flood-level markers installed in the steep walls of a floodplain. Each marker is one metre tall and is painted white with black level-marks on it. Text next to these marks shows that the highest marker measures flood waters as high as seven metres above sea level.

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Ameel Khan @ameel.bsky.social · 8d

Train tracks between the MCG and Melbourne & Olympic Parks.

Photo taken through a wire mesh fence of half a dozen train tracks running between where the photographer is standing and several buildings and sports centres on the other side. A blue-and-yellow Metro train is running along one of these tracks. A covered, elevated walkway runs above the tracks.

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Ameel Khan @ameel.bsky.social · 9d

Throwback to this MG at the Antique Car Show Karachi 2024.

Close-up, wide-angle photo of the front of a classic, maroon coloured MG car at a car show. The front grill of the car and its four large headlamps dominate the frame of the photo.

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Ameel Khan @ameel.bsky.social · 9d

Crown Towers building, as seen through 'The Guardians' artwork on Southbank Promenade in #Melbourne.

Photo of the top of the Crown Towers building seen through a large ceramic ring that is part of some artwork on the ground floor promenade outside.

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Ameel Khan @ameel.bsky.social · 9d

Woohoo!

"More than 310,000 votes were cast after polling opened on 6 October and the tawny led the charge from the start, despite being hotly and persistently pursued by two cockatoos…"

Tawny frogmouth named 2025 Australian bird of the year winner
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Tawny frogmouth named 2025 Australian bird of the year winner

Perennial runner up finally claims the crown in the biennial Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll, ahead of Baudin’s black cockatoo and gang-gang cockatoo

www.theguardian.com

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Ameel Khan @ameel.bsky.social · 10d

Pillars of the Old Arts Building at the University of #Melbourne.

Photo of a covered courtyard under a historic building that is being held up by several stone pillars.

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Ameel Khan @ameel.bsky.social · 11d

Scooting up the Webb Bridge, connecting Docklands to South Melbourne across the Yarra River in #Melbourne.

Photo of a man in a dark blue suit wearing a light blue cycling helmet, sunglasses, and brown formal shoes. The man has a black messenger bag slung across his back. The man is riding an electric scooter up a cycling and pedestrian bridge that spans an urban river.

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Nadia Niaz @nadianiaz.bsky.social · 12d

Grapes are like water you can eat. (This is a good thing.)

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Ameel Khan @ameel.bsky.social · 12d

This is a little long, but it is glorious.

A cartoonist's review of AI – theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_ar...

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Ameel Khan @ameel.bsky.social · 13d

Excellent, as always, from The Juice Media. "Putting the 'n' back in cuts" 😆

Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand! — www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-yj...

Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

www.youtube.com

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Ameel Khan @ameel.bsky.social · 15d

Waiting to depart from platform 4 at Flinders Street Station.

Photo of a woman wearing a bright yellow jacket sitting in a commuter train at a railway station platform. The photo has been taken through a brick passageway that separates the platform this woman's train is on and the platform that the photographer's train is on.

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Ameel Khan @ameel.bsky.social · 16d

Stand behind this line (at the elevated tram stop). #TactilePavement

#photography #melbourne #fujifilm

Photo looking straight down at a bright yellow line painted on the asphalt of a tram stop. An incomplete phrase written in black, all-capitals text on top of this line reads, "stand behind this". Installed just behind this line is some tactile paving: a series of raised, white-coloured, reflective circles that are looking strangely bright in the harsh, eerie light making its way through the clouds on a sunny day. In the bottom of the photo are the front of the photographer's white sneakers stepping on the first two rows of tactile pavement dots.

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Ameel Khan @ameel.bsky.social · 17d

Blue-on-Blue at the Melbourne Aquarium sign.

Photo looking up at a large, blue neon sign in the shape of two stylised fish. The sign is mounted on two tall, white poles on top of a large building. The darker blue of the fish stands out against the lighter blue of the sky behind it.

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Ameel Khan @ameel.bsky.social · 18d

A wall of take-away coffee cups at The Simple Foodie in Docklands, Melbourne.

Black-and-white photo of a wall of disposable, take-away coffee cups arranged on a cafe window sill.

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Ameel Khan @ameel.bsky.social · 23d

I only figured out why U2's 'Silver and Gold' has been stuck in my head since yesterday when I saw the new @seananmcguire.bsky.social book I just started reading lying on my dining table without its gorgeous dust cover. 😆

Photo of a dark grey hardcover book lying on a placemat on a dining table. The book's title, printed along its spine in gold ink, is 'Silver and Lead' by Seanan McGuire.

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Ameel Khan @ameel.bsky.social · 25d

Another year, another COVID-19 booster. 🎉 (Coincidentally *exactly* one year after we got our last booster.)

Selfie of a bald man wearing glasses and a grey t-shirt sitting in a car. The man is grinning at the camera as he has his left sleeve rolled up to show the adhesive plaster on his upper arm, indicating that he has just been vaccinated.

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Ameel Khan @ameel.bsky.social · Sep 25

Good to see more musicians (at least the ones who control the publishing of their music) join the 'No Music for Genocide' boycott.

nomusicforgenocide.org

#boycott #genocide #BDS

Screenshot from a website showing a graphic of a music CD with the title 'No Music for Genocide'. Text above this graphic reads, "400+ musicians and labels launch cultural boycott against apartheid, occupation, and genocide of Palestinians".

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