https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-123/ this week in sentences: ants, kangaroo, husk of cliché, story gear, offseason, arrival of the werewolves, collapse, full of hats, inappropriate
I just realized that bookshop dot org is offering free shipping today for #IndependentBookstoreDay, so if you wanted to pick up a copy of YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION, hey here you go https://bookshop.org/p/books/you-deserve-a-tech-union/8c1f7dfcf467bfb3
https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-122/ this week in sentences: MALICE, pillar, keeps on happening, tolerance, turbines of this, dishonest ovations, sand-filled, tectonics, power, eggshell life, Moon argument
Today Melissa Lewis over on BlueSky pointed out that the font used in the infamous "You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign was actually designed by Just van Rossum, whose brother, Guido, created the Python programming language (bsky.app/profile/melissa.news/post/3ln7hx5rhcj2v)
She also pointed out that the font had been cloned and released illegally for free under the name "XBAND Rough". Naturally, it would be hilarious if the anti-piracy campaign actually turned out to have used this pirated font, so I went sleuthing and quickly found a PDF from the campaign site with the font embedded (web.archive.org/web/20051223202935/http://www.piracyisacrime.com:80/press/pdfs/150605_8PP_brochure.pdf).
So I chucked it into FontForge and yep, turns out the campaign used a pirated font the entire time!