Delighted that the Script Keepers Network has been honoured in the Future Icons of Culture Knowledge Exchange Awards by NCACE, in the Emerging Academic–Cultural Collaboration Award category. A collaboration with @timbrookes.bsky.social !

Does anyone know anyone who is well-versed in the Tangut and Khitan scripts?

Calling everyone in the Cambridge (UK) area! Our visit from Muhammad Noor, language and script advocate for the Rohingya people, will be at 7pm on Monday 11th May in seminar room 3 in Cripps Court, Magdalene, address 1-3 Chesterton Rd, Cambridge CB4 3AD. Do join us!

Hey, everyone: I have a highly accomplished and professional friend who is available for proofreading for non-native English students/academics/writers. If you know someone who might be interested, please pass this message along to them. If you might be interested, please contact me directly.

LAST CHANCE to late-pledge for some of the extraordinary rewards of my Kickstarter campaign, such as this carving of Tibetan calligraphy by Golok Akyung that reads "Spontaneous Perfection." Late Pledge period ends tonight. Check it out at www.kickstarter.com/projects/end...

Stretch goal! To my delight, people are still making late pledges to my Kickstarter campaign. Basically, the more money pledged, the more carvings I can do and send out. If we hit $20,000 I will aim for 12 carvings, instead of 10. Pledge at www.kickstarter.com/projects/end... ! PLEASE SHARE!

To my delight, people are still making late pledges to my Kickstarter campaign. Basically, the more money pledged, the more carvings I can do and send out. If we hit $20,000 I will aim for 12 carvings, instead of 10. A stretch goal! Pledge at www.kickstarter.com/projects/end... !

You can still late-pledge for rewards at www.kickstarter.com/projects/end... !

Great news: my Kickstarter reached its funding goal at the last minute, to my great relief. I would like to thank everyone who shared and reposted it over the last month. If you let me know your name, I will include it in the acknowledgements of gratitude for the project. Thanks again!

My latest Kickstarter bulletin is that, alas, we are falling behind. We've taken in $12,473 in pledges, but we still have over $5000 before reaching the goal, with 17 hours to go. If you can help, please do so at www.kickstarter.com/projects/end... Please phone a friend! Call for backup!

Bringing It Back Home

Getting my endangered alphabets carvings to where they are needed.

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Kickstarter final day report. First 2 hours of the final 24: $281 pledged, an encouraging start given that 85% of my backers are in the US, and thus still asleep. A total of $12,363 pledged so far, less than $6000 to go. The race is on. Join in by pledging at www.kickstarter.com/projects/end...

Bringing It Back Home

Getting my endangered alphabets carvings to where they are needed.

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Over the next 24 hours we're going to make Endangered Alphabets fundraising history. Watch this space for updates every three hours, and pledge if you can at www.kickstarter.com/projects/end... . Current status: $12,132 pledged, $6000 and change to go. Hold on tight.

Bringing It Back Home

Getting my endangered alphabets carvings to where they are needed.

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Over the next 30 hours we're going to make Endangered Alphabets fundraising history. Watch this space for updates, and pledge if you can at www.kickstarter.com/projects/end.... Current status: $12,022 pledged of $18,350. Hold on tight.

Bringing It Back Home

Getting my endangered alphabets carvings to where they are needed.

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Watch what is happening at www.kickstarter.com/projects/end... over the next 34 hours. We are making Endangered Alphabets fundraising history.

Bringing It Back Home

Getting my endangered alphabets carvings to where they are needed.

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Thanks for recognising the value that a language or a script has for its culture. And thanks, too, for your support, @becauselanguage.com

Because Language (becauselangpod)@becauselanguage.com · 5mo ago

Final hours for this Kickstarter! Tim is creating beautiful works of art, and presenting them as words of encouragement for communities that use endangered scripts. Check it out and support.

My Kickstarter campaign, ending on Sunday night, has suddenly picked up speed and is galloping toward its goal. Hop on and help it burst through the finishing tape! www.kickstarter.com/projects/end...

The Kickstarter Diaries Part 16: Night and Day. The latest episode in the increasingly unhinged behind-the-scenes account of a crowdfunding campaign reaches a possibly psychotic conclusion: I control people's minds. Now read on at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2026/03/04/t...

This Kickstarter campaign is going to be very close. I would be super grateful if you could share the link with anyone who might be interested. We have a week left and $10,000 to go. It's certainly doable, but it's going to be tight. The home page is at www.kickstarter.com/projects/end...

Bringing It Back Home

Getting my endangered alphabets carvings to where they are needed.

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What happens when your Kickstarter goes viral and an avalanche of pledges comes in? It has happened to me only once, and it wasn’t the experience you might expect. Read the latest episode of my Kickstarter Diaries at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2026/02/26/t...

Our Script Keepers Network connects people trying to revive their writing systems with people who want to help. If you might be interested in either category, our next meeting is this Sunday. Join us! Information and registration link at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/02/26/l...

Er is (nog even) 'n fantastische expo in 't schitterende Alphabetum in @westdenhaag.bsky.social over obscure alfabetten: 'Writing systems of the other world'. Heel interessant, en een esthetisch stortbad. Lees de fraaie bijbehorende publicatie van @timbrookes.bsky.social: 'Alphabets born of dreams'.

The Kickstarter Diaries 14: Why Not Use AI? As the AI debate rages, I started wondering about the Endangered Alphabets initiative that I’ll undertake if my current Kickstarter campaign is successful, and how it would be different with AI. Read more at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2026/02/23/k...

The Kickstarter Diaries 14: Why Not Use AI?

The latest episode in my tragicomic behind-the-scenes account of life during a crowdfunding campaign. As the AI debate rages, especially on LinkedIn, I started wondering about the Endangered Alphabets...

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Haven't I been saying this for a year? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Check out my book By Hand at www.endangeredalphabets.com/by-hand/

The lost art of letter writing bringing generations together

In the hope of reviving letter writing, BBC North West Tonight has launched a pen pal project.

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Lying awake at night worrying about my Kickstarter campaign is not all bad. Look what arrived in my inbox at 5 a.m.--an astounding piece of inscription that I'm going to carve. You can read the story in the latest edition of my Kickstarter Diaries at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2026/02/21/t...

The latest entry in The Kickstarter Diaries, the tragicomic account of life during a crowdfunding campaign, is the strangest and yet the most potentially inspiring. Because I wrote it by hand. Check it out at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2026/02/20/t...

Hey, my friends! My annual Kickstarter campaign, the single biggest source of funding for the Endangered Alphabets Project, seems to have run aground. Can you make even a small pledge to help refloat it? www.kickstarter.com/projects/end...

Mark Oremland, who runs the Mundolingua language museum in Paris, is assembling a collection of typewriters in non-Latin fonts. I’ve seen photos of Cherokee typewriters, and if anyone has one they would like to donate, I’m sure he would be very happy to hear from you through me.

Episode 11 of the Kickstarter Diaries, the tragicomic account of my increasingly unhealthy activities during a crowdfunding campaign, is now available at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2026/02/19/t.... As they say in The House of the Rising Sun, "Mothers, tell your children/Not to do what I have done."

The Kickstarter Diaries 10: Asking for Help, the latest episode in my tragicomic behind-the-scene account of running a crowdfunding campaign, is now up at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2026/02/18/t... . At the risk of sounding presumptuous, I think this one is really worth reading.

My Kickstarter campaign has been stuck at this incredibly annoying number for 24 hours. Will someone please make even a tiny donation at www.kickstarter.com/projects/end... so I don't have to keep staring at it any longer?