Hands up if you got a penpal in Primary school? I ended up with two, and I’m still in contact with them to this day! That’s around 37 years of writing to, and now messaging, each other. Another joy that children now won’t experience. #snailmail #penpals #letters #eighties #nineties

https://bl.ag/amsterdam-lettering-and-typography-through-the-ages/
#amsterdam #typography #lettering #signs #history #letters

#poems #prose #letters #literature

What Henry Nowak’s death tells us about policing and politicising murder: Readers discuss

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://metro.co.uk/2026/06/04/henry-nowaks-death-tells-us-policing-politicising-murder-28633489/

Is shopliftng the biggest issue to plague the UK? Readers give their thoughts

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://metro.co.uk/2026/06/03/shopliftng-biggest-issue-plague-uk-readers-give-thoughts-28620376/

Václav Havel, Writing from Prison, on How to Hold Your Failure

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/06/02/havel-failure/

Here's what Hydro-Québec fought to hide from the Newfoundland and Labrador government
Hydro-Québec fought to hide parts of letters from the 1960s showing what it offered to lure a French aluminum company to the province, including its internal comments about an energy deal with Newfoundland and Labrador.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/churchill-falls-secrets-9.7220191?cmp=rss

Here's what Hydro-Québec fought to hide from the Newfoundland and Labrador government
Hydro-Québec fought to hide parts of letters from the 1960s showing what it offered to lure a French aluminum company to the province, including its internal comments about an energy deal with Newfoundland and Labrador.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/churchill-falls-secrets-9.7220191?cmp=rss