#fingermarks
Before you can get another scream out, the sides of the tent bulge, and then part, and a young man tumbles into you. He seems to have been crying quite recently and he is clutching some sodden, partly burned papers. You notice faint pink fingermarks on his cheek (left upper) as he rights himself.
"Well I say retired. None of the allegations were ever proved." Grind, grind, crunch, scritt, screee, says the stone. Then, a dry, scratchy patter and trickle as if of sand falling onto more sand. "Now, would you like a slice of speltcake," I say. You start to scream
August 16, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Viewers arrived today, impressively! However, they have fingermarks (suggesting poor handling) and possible scratches on, and I do not want to damage my eyesight, so I will probably not use them.
I booked Wednesday afternoon off work not realising the eclipse was happening, but it should mean I have plenty of time to get to a high spot for optimum viewing, helpfully. I have now ordered some handheld viewers: www.darkclearskies.co.uk/products/hel... (Am also not above making a pinhole camera)
Solar Viewing Glasses ISO 12312-2:2015 & CE Certified | Eclipse Glasses UK
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August 11, 2026 at 7:26 PM
If your remaining pair of glasses is still up for grabs and a handover wouldn't be too much of a faff, that would be really great; my handheld viewers have arrived (yay!) but all have fingermarks and what look like scratches (boo) and I don't feel confident about using them.
August 11, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Many movie-lovers would admit that the traces of that labour (and thus of the love that drove the labourers to their expertise) are sadly missed in work that has ‘solved’ the budget problem with digital technology. CGI Yoda; Aardman without fingermarks in the plasticine.
August 2, 2026 at 1:21 PM
I love being write
July 29, 2026 at 4:05 PM
> But Liu Qingge didn't know what he would do, if he someday saw charcoal fingermarks on Yue Qingyuan's white under-robes.

Grand Unified Theory my beloved #svsss #yueliu #qijiu (implied anyway)
July 29, 2026 at 2:34 PM
(we hosted a birthday party that included no-alcohol strawberry daiquiris & a week later we are still finding red fingermarks from small be-strawberried children EVERYWHERE)
June 18, 2026 at 7:35 PM
To me, it would depend on what type of cheese. When my son lived at home, he would pull out cheese with, I guess, less than sanitized fingers. A day or two later, there would be a perfect copy of his fingermarks on it--in mold. That cheese would go out!
June 16, 2026 at 1:51 AM
Would you? If there was no bruising, no bleeding, no torn clothes, no video of you being dragged by your hair kicking and screaming, no witnesses to you pleading for him to stop, no broken fingernails or black eyes, or fingermarks on your neck, or torn knickers. How do you prove you said 'NO'?
April 12, 2026 at 1:01 AM
When WExam breaks an administration story it's due to infighter moves. Look to his trail of potential successors for fingermarks.
April 1, 2026 at 11:16 PM
Those fingermarks are subtly placed. At first I thought you was in a little leather number 😂😈
March 26, 2026 at 11:27 AM
There's not just fingermarks on the pie.
It's already been presliced and the slices prebought.

newrepublic.com/post/206882/...
Trump Secretary Silent as Sons Poised to Make Bank From End of Tariffs
The Supreme Court ruling has helped the family of one man in particular: the architect behind Trump’s tariffs.
newrepublic.com
February 21, 2026 at 12:58 AM
The pie's not only have fingermarks all over them.
They have been presliced and prebought.

newrepublic.com/post/206882/...
Trump Secretary Silent as Sons Poised to Make Bank From End of Tariffs
The Supreme Court ruling has helped the family of one man in particular: the architect behind Trump’s tariffs.
newrepublic.com
February 21, 2026 at 12:33 AM
I like the greyscale palette here doing all the emotional work without ever being explained:
-ash-coloured turkey
-pewter fingermarks
-grey peas with black cranberries
Even the daffodils at the end only manage almost-yellow.
February 13, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Now you have it, will you keep it as your preciousss, or will it hit the table and risk greasy fingermarks and coffee stains? 🤔

I know what I'd do...
December 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
It is not a peace plan but a reward for criminality. The must be justice in any peace plan. This has got the fingermarks of T & P all over it.
November 21, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Oh yes. Gradually building up my old network from the other place, although been a little inactive recently. Forensic and analytical chemistry researcher here (fingermarks and trace evidence)
October 30, 2025 at 9:19 AM
If you're going to describe your item on eBay as "hardly used, great condition" probably best not to illustrate it with a picture showing it covered in greasy fingermarks, skinflakes and cat hair, tbh.
October 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Whether it's recent xenophobic actions at the Home Office.
The biased proscription of Palestine Action.
Or the forcing of I.D. Cards on a population that overwhelmingly rejects them...

Yvette Cooper's fingermarks are all over, doing Starmer's dirty work.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Government to consult on digital IDs for 13-year-olds
There has been a backlash to the announcement a UK-wide digital ID scheme will be introduced by 2029.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 10, 2025 at 10:50 AM
In 1810, Polly Williams was murdered at White Rocks in Fayette County, PA. Some say the rocks are still stained by the bloody fingermarks she left as she clung desperately to cliff-edge and that the place is haunted.

illustration from ROSE AND ELZA (1884) by Elizabeth Custead

#FolkloreThursday
October 2, 2025 at 10:26 AM
In food history, we notice how super-refined foods--gelatin, vienna sausage, white bread--lose class and become horrifying once they become industrialized. Suddenly, fingermarks in bread dough demonstrate skill, not clumsiness.

Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.
October 1, 2025 at 3:05 AM
September 18, 2025 at 9:12 AM
This professional hit on CK iss all very suspicious. It appears to have DJT fingermarks on it.
September 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM