Linotype Pilgrim
LightNews LightNews
banner
symbo1ics.bsky.social
Linotype Pilgrim
@symbo1ics.bsky.social
6.3K followers 6.6K following 39K posts
Reviews: "unhinged", "deluded", "incoherent" | Black Lives Matter | Vidas Indígenas Importam | Trans Lives Matter | politics, profanity, analog electronics, retrocomputing, coffee, typography | REMOVE DOUG FORD | Mastodon: https://timeloop.cafe/@symbo1ics
Posts Replies Media Videos
symbo1ics.bsky.social
Haters, start your engines

#typography
Magazine ad layout with headline "CALABRIA, a different ITALY" with a picture of a backpacked, hooded traveller gazing down on a Calabrian (presumably) cloud-shrouded hills from a higher rocky place. The letterspacing and indeed typeface is awkward, not to say horrible. It's an ad commissioned by "Le VIE della PERLA Tour Operator" printed in an Australian Italian community magazine.
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 AM
symbo1ics.bsky.social
Hat tip @penryu.bsky.social #nix #socialism
akko.isabelroses.com used Zohran headline generator with "NIX Fixes THIS" ... @penryu responded with "please acquire a prescription for a pill for the treatment of insufficient chill" and @RosaCtrl@vivaldi.net responded with "@penryu hey! it's true though!" Nature is healing
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
symbo1ics.bsky.social
A level of documentation thoroughness which is extraordinary to our eyes these days. The binder includes reproductions of IC datasheets, comprehensive operating system, register, ROM, I/O and hardware docs, including timing diagrams. #retrocomputing #trs80 #radioshack
Cover of Radio Shack TRS-80 Software library binder, with a dramatic geometric design which could represent both pcb traces as well as layer masks on integrated circuits. The text is rendered in the TRS-80 brand Eurostile typeface. Page spread in metal ring binder
November 9, 2025 at 11:48 PM
symbo1ics.bsky.social
It's never been viable without an unmentioned sacrificial underclass, dire inequality, and a sacrificed environment
Grainy black and white portrait of Karl Marx with thick beard and red laser eyes. A speech bubble above his face gives the appearance that he is speaking the skeet.
November 9, 2025 at 8:05 AM
symbo1ics.bsky.social
#retrocomputing
Photo of corner of a PDP-11/10 CPU printed circuit board showing Unibus backplane connectors, many ICs, axial capacitors, resistors and diodes.
November 9, 2025 at 5:51 AM
symbo1ics.bsky.social
#retrocomputing
Photo of DEC PDP-11/10 front panel showing the logo and the power key with settings PANEL LOCK, POWER, and OFF. Contrast has been enhanced and image is highpass filtered.
November 9, 2025 at 5:40 AM
symbo1ics.bsky.social
Photo of cardboard box with stains, and distressed printing and stamping in various styles.
November 9, 2025 at 1:55 AM
symbo1ics.bsky.social
#retrocomputing
Front panel of DG Eclipse minicomputer, shoowing Address Compare knob (Off, Monitor, Stop/Store, Stop/Addr), main power switch with key, and front panel monitor controls: Exam/Exam Nxt, Inst/µInst, PR Load/Exec, Start/Cont, Deposit/Dep Nxt. Everything is in a cyan and indigo colour scheme with rounded panel corners per the distinctive Data General industrial design.
November 9, 2025 at 1:32 AM
symbo1ics.bsky.social
Then you know Ad Reinhardt

(via, e.g. www.wikiart.org/en/ad-reinha...)
Cartoon panel by Ad Reinhardt, from "How to look at Modern Art" series. Top half: An abstract painting hangs in a gallery. A conventionally dressed man in hat, jacket, shirt, tie, slacks is standing next to it, pointing, mocking the painting, asking "HA HA What does this represent?" Lower half: Painting, made a figure with cartoon legs, angry eyes, nose, mouth, and finger, confronts man aggressively, pointing at his face, asking "WHAT do you represent?". The man, shocked, reels backwards, hair raised, hat & tie flying. This is not meant as a joke. It's a graphic enactment of Reinhardt's concept of a healthy personal engagement or dialogue with modern art.
November 7, 2025 at 8:39 AM
symbo1ics.bsky.social
Frame from Starship Troopers (movie) displayed on comchia's flatscreen tv. Young Federation marines re parading for a newsreel, rifles shouldered, wearing combat helmets. A pretty woman in front row turns to the camera saying "I'm doing my part." There is a Canadian flag on her helmet. hat tip @comchia
October 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
symbo1ics.bsky.social
I'm sure this will be a meme

#minio #drama #nothingElseConstructiveAfterThatHasOccurred #workingAsIntended
Screenshot of Github issue https://github.com/minio/minio/issues/21647 minio locked as resolved and limited conversation to collaborators 14 hours ago harshavardhana harshavardhana commented 14 hours ago harshavardhana 14 hours ago Member Closing the conversation here nothing else constructively after that has occurred #21647 (comment) harshavardhana added working as intended and removed triage 14 hours ago
October 23, 2025 at 1:03 AM
symbo1ics.bsky.social
OK, it can't be just me.
the sample typesetting with various letter combinations isolated for spacing analysis (a trick that helps focus on specific spacing situations on a longer text)
October 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
symbo1ics.bsky.social
Back when serifs were cool. When NASA was cool(ish).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BddY...
Screenshot of YouTube video titled "UNMANNED SPACECRAFT" in white serif type (with black drop shadow) on a jade-grey background. "1960s NASA Unmanned Spacecraft Film Explorer, Vanguard, Pioneer, Ranger, Surveyor, Mariner 62434"
October 21, 2025 at 4:55 AM
symbo1ics.bsky.social
in Ontario our Biff premier, an ideological clone of your president, even /looks like/ old ugly Biff

#onpoli
Banner, white text on black background: NOPE FORD Ontario where the O in NOPE has been replaced by Doug Ford's stupid face and the word "FORD" has been typeset where it belongs, under his nose Typefaces: Nan Tresor L, Inter Medium
October 21, 2025 at 1:46 AM
symbo1ics.bsky.social
these are my emotional support screenshots
from my aged-like-wine emotional support browser tabs

Fakt by TypeBy
www.typeby.com/fonts/fakt

#typography
Type tester for Fakt SemiCondensed SemiBold, reading "Don’t touch those! They’re my emotional support screenshots."
October 21, 2025 at 12:49 AM
symbo1ics.bsky.social
Muoto by @205tf.bsky.social !!

#typography
www.205.tf/muoto
Muoto Extended Thin Italic in type tester: Three lines, tight tracking, reading "a yellow popsicle dangles dangerously from toddler’s fist"
October 21, 2025 at 12:39 AM
symbo1ics.bsky.social
Spezia Serif by Luzi Type

luzi-type.ch/spezia-serif
#typography
Screenshot of Type Tester reading "Everyone hates the silly new iPhone" in three lines with fairly tight tracking, Spezia Serif Bold
October 21, 2025 at 12:19 AM
symbo1ics.bsky.social
Page from the good old web that doesn't go down with us-east-1
poster archived at the Hüsker Dü Database "1998 posters, flyers, handbills, print ads" http://www.thirdav.com/hd_posters/posters1998.html On beige paper, a music event poster with two bands billed, top (lettering appears rubber stamped): BOB MOULD with VaRNALINE dooRs 8:00 [image; a scottish terrier dog, I think, in outline] with Cat’s CrADLE FridAy OcT 2 [image: pony with saddle, harness and braided mane, waiting patiently] $12 tickets avaiable at: Schoolkids (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill), Crunchy Music (Greensboro) and via charge card # Cat's Cradle 967*9052 [logo in bottom right: small toaster with piece of bread being inserted or removed by a human hand. text under: "FOR *Y*S"(unclear)]
October 20, 2025 at 10:33 PM
symbo1ics.bsky.social
What are we doing people. This was donated to an actual paper library that… de-accessioned it?

"Typographical Printing Surfaces" Legros + Grant 1916
Screenshot of an ebay listing for a book, showing the donation sticker reading "THIS BOOK has been donated to the library of the London College of Printing by Odhams Press Ltd 1965" and "BOOK NUMBER 23736".
October 20, 2025 at 8:27 PM
symbo1ics.bsky.social
The photo What my brain saw

wroclaw.naszemiasto.pl/zobacz-jak-k...
hat tip @mietek.bsky.social
Picture of Polish dude holding a disk pack with both hands in a computer room fishbowl circa 1980? Behind him are full height racks of DEC PDP-11 computer and peripherals. A DEC teletypewriter is in foreground. The main is casually dressed in a white polo and white "utility" jeans (many pockets). He has a moustache. Same pic but man is holding a scaled down Millennium Falcon.
October 19, 2025 at 5:23 AM
symbo1ics.bsky.social
"REV.B" stamped on the light grey, rough surfaced metal chassis of a power supply. The black ink has spread greatly, making the letters flow into each other.
October 19, 2025 at 1:55 AM
symbo1ics.bsky.social
The three words every girl wants to hear:

"Portable TRS-80"

#retrocomputing
Picture of a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 4P portable computer with a classic green phosphor display. It has a separate keyboard, dual 5.25" drives to the right of the CRT (integrated unit) and brightness/contrast/power controls to the left of CRT. The plastics are beige with black panel inserts. Pic credit: snarfusmaximus (owner)
October 19, 2025 at 1:10 AM
symbo1ics.bsky.social
Kensington Market

#toronto #yyz
October 19, 2025 at 12:13 AM
symbo1ics.bsky.social
let's false colour it up
GIMP Alien Map effect applied to OP's image to sort of highlight things like the bonding pads
October 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
symbo1ics.bsky.social
For posterity
Screenshot of Affinity web site, today. Black background. Headline: Creative Freedom Is Coming Text: Sign up to be the first to know. True creative freedom is just around the corner. October 30. Button (green): See the future first Background: A curve, like a horizon above the headline, with a handle selected and control points; a mouse cursor is manipulating one of the control points.
October 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM