A tiny crab museum in Kent has more moral courage than all the political institutions in the UK combined

Thank you, lil' crab people 🏳️‍⚧💕🙏

"Crab Museum comes out swinging for trans people after Supreme Court ruling: Not how biology works"

https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/23/crab-museum-supreme-court-ruling-statement/

#TransRightsAreHumanRights #LGBTQIA

Imagine a publishing house with the mission of making knowledge and insights available to everybody for free, while ensuring high standards.

Well, the three universities of Berlin and the Charité have now joined forces to do just that.

They founded "Berlin Universities Publishing". Neither authors not readers pay. The pdf of books are freely available under a Creative Commons licence.

It's called "Diamond Open Access". They're just starting up. Much more to come.

https://www.berlin-universities-publishing.de/en/index.html

The Lace Museum is having a lace marathon. Classes around the clock on one day (but all recorded and you'll have a year to watch the classes).

All kinds of lace covered! A nice intro to various styles.

#BobbinLace #NeedleLace #tatting

https://the-lace-museum-shop.myshopify.com/products/register-for-night-and-day-a-lace-marathon

Many of the world’s languages are under-supported by digital typography. A crucial step toward change is inclusive type design education that meets the next generation of font makers where they are.

Letterform Archive is thrilled to partner with Stanford SILICON and @wordsoftype on the Knuth Bigelow Type Design Incubator.

#DigitalInclusion #TypeDesign #TypeDesignIncubator #TypeWest #StanfordSilicon

Do any of my more qualified fellow map nerds have any recommendations for how to make a custom rendering of open street map data to make a local map?

There seems to be quite a number of long unmaintained packages for doing similar things :( maybe I should just knuckle down and try to use one of them..