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Tim Brookes

@timbrookes.bsky.social

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Founder of the Endangered Alphabets Project, writer, wood carver, tennis player, lover of good bread and good cheese. Author most recently of Writing Beyond Writing and An Atlas of Endangered Alphabets. endangeredalphabets.com

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Tim Brookes @timbrookes.bsky.social · 1d

Oh dear. I'll look into it....

Tim Brookes @timbrookes.bsky.social · 2d

Great news! Thanks to Esteban Kong, the Script Keeper Network website is up and running at www.scriptkeepers.org. It will fill out and enrich over the coming weeks, but check it out to see what we have begun!

Script Keepers Network – Safeguarding Scripts

Script Keepers Network Unites People To Protect And Revitalize The World’s Endangered Writing Systems.

www.scriptkeepers.org

Tim Brookes @timbrookes.bsky.social · 7d

Just a reminder that this exhibition is already in motion in The Hague. I'm going to be speaking here on October 26th about this and that, with startling f=references to Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner and questions about "Where Does Writing Come From?" www.westdenhaag.nl/exhibitions/...

West Den Haag > projects > Alphabetum 15

www.westdenhaag.nl

Tim Brookes @timbrookes.bsky.social · 21d

This is the view you could have had this morning if you had bought our house, NOW REDUCED BY $25,000. www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

Tim Brookes @timbrookes.bsky.social · 27d

If you are interested in our summit but can't make the event, (a) it will be recorded and (b) you can submit a question or comment ahead of time to [email protected]. But if you can make it, register free at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Tim Brookes @timbrookes.bsky.social · 27d

Maybe even on the poster and in the TV ads!

Tim Brookes @timbrookes.bsky.social · 27d

We will record your endorsement and air it in all radio ads.

Tim Brookes @timbrookes.bsky.social · 27d

Wait--commafucker??????

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Tim Brookes @timbrookes.bsky.social · 28d

Writers! Linguists! Scholars! Pedants! Join us next weekend to sort out the world's array of methods of denoting rhythm, emphasis and meaning that we simplistically sum up as "punctuation." Free registration at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

VIEWS project @viewsproject.bsky.social · 28d

If you are interested in punctuation and spacing in text, from any world writing traditions, please join us for @timbrookes.bsky.social's discussion event:

Sunday 5th October, 12.00 ET / 17.00 BST

Registration link in next comment.

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Tim Brookes @timbrookes.bsky.social · 29d

Join me online on Tuesday, 30 September, 2.35 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) at the Calligraphy Summit where I’ll be giving a talk called “Carve a Letter, Save the World: the story of the Endangered Alphabets Project.”
Sign up at
go.eventraptor.com/summit/the-c.... Please RT!

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Tim Brookes @timbrookes.bsky.social · Sep 21

FINAL DAY OF THE SALE! Endangered Alphabets furniture, merchandise and carvings at absurd prices! Check them out at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/08/25/m...

Tim Brookes @timbrookes.bsky.social · Sep 19

Only TWO DAYS LEFT of my moving/clearance sale, and while some items have been snapped up by alert shoppers already, I've hunted through basement and attic and added a couple more. See all at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/08/25/m...

Tim Brookes @timbrookes.bsky.social · Sep 17

Really looking forward to taking part in this groundbreaking talk/exhibition in the Netherlands. Check it out at www.westdenhaag.nl/exhibitions/...

Tim Brookes @timbrookes.bsky.social · Sep 13

Only 9 days of my moving sale left! I've reduced prices still more, and added tables that are the best Alphabets work I've done. Find them at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/08/25/m... .
Please take advantage of this opportunity--and also make it easier for me to downsize and move!
Thanks so much.

Tim Brookes @timbrookes.bsky.social · Sep 12

This could have been your view this morning if you had bought our house--PRICE NOW REDUCED BY $25,000! Check it out at www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

Tim Brookes @timbrookes.bsky.social · Sep 8

It's not even certain those two created Glagolitic!

Tim Brookes @timbrookes.bsky.social · Sep 8

ENDING SOON! My sale of Endangered Alphabets merch will end September 21st. Every item has been marked FURTHER down to a ridiculous level for clearance, and I've added three new carvings. Check it all out at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/08/25/m...

A faux Scrabble tile in the Sundanese script

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Tim Brookes @timbrookes.bsky.social · Sep 8

Believes in what?

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Tim Brookes @timbrookes.bsky.social · Sep 8

Danny! This is great! Where did you see it? And may I reuse the photo, with credit, for educational purposes? Cheers, Tim

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Tim Brookes @timbrookes.bsky.social · Sep 2

These are the kinds of view you get from our house, which is now on the market at an absurdly low price, at www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

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Tim Brookes @timbrookes.bsky.social · Sep 2

Reminder: I'm holding a moving sale of Endangered Alphabets carvings and merchandise. Scoop up absurd but amazing deals at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/08/25/m...

Moving Sale! – Endangered Alphabets

www.endangeredalphabets.com

Tim Brookes @timbrookes.bsky.social · Sep 1

Heads up, my European friends! In October I'll be involved in events in London ( www.barbican.org.uk/.../voiced-t.... ) and The Hague ( www.westdenhaag.nl/exhibitions/... ). I'd love to meet face to face if you're in the area. DM me!

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Dwight Williams 🇨🇦 @dewline.bsky.social · Aug 28

Hey, @timbrookes.bsky.social ! Been meaning to post this for a while now: a self-portrait including my copy of An Atlas of Endangered Alphabets.

Self-portrait of Dwight Williams with his copy of An Atlas of Endangered Alphabets by Tim Brookes. Portrait recorded 28 August 2025.

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Tim Brookes @timbrookes.bsky.social · Aug 28

Thanks!

Tim Brookes @timbrookes.bsky.social · Aug 28

This is it! This is the cherry Love Table, in which I have carved the phrase “To love love” by the master of Mongolian calligraphy, Tamir Purev. This will go on sale at Burlington’s South End Art Hop over the first weekend in September. Tell your Vermont friends! endangeredalphabets.com

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