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Noam Chomsky

4 years

In case you're in a hurry and don't have time to browse the PDF, here is a speed-reading version of "Michaeloswell Graphicdesigner Invoixen 2014–2019: Collected Invoices, Published On The Occasion Of Real Time"

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That’s the power of branding: no logo, no company name, yet instantly recognisable

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...Are you for real?

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Jean-Luc Godard's studio is simply very lovely:

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I do have a grudging respect for the FT's palpable relief that, "Thankfully", 21st century peasants will be unable to bargain for better wages.

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Well this simply fucks

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Half a century in the making, the artist Michael Heizer’s astonishing megasculpture in a remote Nevada valley is finally opening to visitors. "I am not here to tell people what it all means. You can figure it out for yourself," he said.

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An incredible archive here of nearly 18,000 posters:

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3 DVDs that sold a generation the idea you could make a living doing creative work for commercial clients

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@Devon_OnEarth When they said human remains, I very much assumed they meant “bits of bone and gristle and hair”, as opposed to bodies

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@david_r_morgan The good looking one with an actual jawline who – crucially – doesn’t engage in human trafficking. Hope this clears things up for you.

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wow! this is doing numbers: - free palestine - read my new book ("Syntactic Structures" - perhaps you know it?) - death to the demoness ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED

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1 year

“I wanted to do book covers”

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1 year

what do we call this aesthetic? 🧐

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1 year

My comradely critique of the Eurodance pastiche that has been going around, written in partial denglish to promote universal understanding:

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@_MichaelOswell_

4 years

Sorry to interrupt lads, but the Chinese aid packages to the UK have this stamped on them, and I am absolutely, 100% gone. A brutal yet wholesome own.

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@samharveyrural

4 years

Medical team arrived London from China on Friday #TogetherWeCan #Covid_19

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3 years

My train ride home took a Hito Steyerlian turn. This is a CCTV test target. I had no idea such things even existed. I am obsessed.

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@_MichaelOswell_

1 year

Lmao

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@jkane

1 year

Glasgow Airport Logo from 1964 is a masterpiece

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9 months

In the mid-2000s this would have been a Sony TV advert. it would have had a production budget of £20m. It would have won awards.

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9 months

hell yeah

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4 years

the myanmar coup aerobics video slowed down and set to enya - "Only Time" (Requested by @David_Rudnick )

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Criminally overlooked

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2 months

what are posts that aren’t load-bearing anywhere but your personal lexicon. like the ones that weren’t really popular but are so enshrined in your mind that you just assume they got hundreds of thousands of likes

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These people should, and I cannot stress this enough, be shot

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Joseph Fink, 👻🎃healthcare is a human right🎃👻

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2 years

What are examples in any form of media where a "brilliant song/painting/play/etc" within the story is actually as good as the characters act like it is? Note: NOT the same as just "I liked it". It needs to actually fully match its fictional reputation

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1 month

The mid-2010s Tumblr postpostinternet design methodology has finally filtered through into the visual-cultural vernacular… what a time to be alive

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@TechLiandr

1 month

Italians are just a different breed 😅 Menu from one of the restaurants - is printed out screenshot from Notes app.

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3 months

From the advent of the printing press to the modern day, reactionaries have always felt threatened by Typography

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@ClarkeMicah

3 months

Paddjngton station, London, today. Actually three whole carriages are smeared and scrawled with this anti-civilisation muck. I bet none of those responsible is a marijuana user.☠️

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3 months

A True Legend. RIP

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@rafrennie

3 months

Rest In Peace Barbara Stauffacher Solomon. A legend and forever inspiration

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2 years

HEARTWARMING: here is the moment that Heinrich Himmler personally apologised to Anne Frank for the Holocaust

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it's time for graphic design to return to 1998core

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4 months

(swirling intensifies)

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staring drunkenly at the splayed-open chip bag on our table at the bar and was so struck by its beauty I took a photo and it really is that beautiful

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Sad to be informed of the passing of Rob Schröder, designer, documentary-maker, educator, co-founder of Sandberg Instituut and of Wild Plakken

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3 years

there is nothing sadder, more pointedly dystopian than seeing zuckerberg – who is dummy thicc – pick a metaverse avatar who is all skin and bones, and no ass.

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1 year

Spotify could enable browsing by record label tomorrow if they wanted to, but they are seemingly diametrically opposed to listeners developing a systematic mental model of how music actually works as a cultural phenomenon.

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1 year

We announced an all new Spotify experience – the biggest change to the platform since 2013.

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Brazilians, having mastered the low-end and winning the loudness wars, are now ascending to the thrilling heights of Very High Frequencies previously only explored by Ryoji Ikeda. And Ikeda, for his part, never thought to pair high frequencies with a big fat Thriller sample

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@_MichaelOswell_

3 months

Literally fuck off and die

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Kirstie Allsopp being vocally pro trans rights is one of the most pleasant surprises from the british commentariat since windmill Jolyon’s post kimono fox redemption arc

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@KirstieMAllsopp

1 year

What mystifies me about the trans moral panic is that women outnumber trans women by a ratio so large I can’t calculate it. Transwomen are a minority that’s been excluded, abused, beaten & killed for centuries. It’s the ultimate “they are more scared of us than we are of them”

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@_MichaelOswell_

2 years

I can’t believe Frida Kahlo and Anne Frank have published a book about dumplings

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@_MichaelOswell_

1 year

Has an artist ever devolved so comprehensively before?

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1 year

I wanna be software is out tomorrow ! Amazing video by @PromptMuse 💅🏻💅🏻

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@_MichaelOswell_

4 years

New work: Björk Simulator 2020 logo

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@_MichaelOswell_

1 year

Germans can and will provide positive feedback upon observing rational consumer choice in action. Utility maximisation brings us all closer to Gott.

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@benwritesthings

1 year

Have never heard Noises Of Approval from my German neighbors to match the ones they just made when seeing my new bike bag. “Ortlieb muss man kaufen,” one man said, instead of Hello

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@_MichaelOswell_

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Not for me to weigh in but just fyi this is the same family who defended Lydia Tár, a known abuser, in the New Yorker less than a year ago..

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1 year

The family of Leonard Bernstein have released a statement defending Bradley Cooper following online backlash about his appearance in ‘MAESTRO’. “Bradley chose to use makeup to amplify his resemblance, and we’re perfectly fine with that. We’re also certain that our dad would have

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@_MichaelOswell_

2 years

the most german thing has happened:

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@_MichaelOswell_

4 years

two autechre albums in one year 🙏🙏

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@_MichaelOswell_

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graphic design

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name something harder than this😭

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The unique textures are imparted by how you print your work, not the scanner. I’m looking at inkjet artefacts here, not scanner artefacts. There is an entire history behind the mechanical reproduction of images!!

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Scanning your work adds unique texture you can't achieve with textures

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@_MichaelOswell_

2 years

furthermore I'm *still* not entirely sure how they did the video, even though I've read quite clear explanations of the setup used

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@bjorkspears

2 years

27 years ago today, Hyperballad by Björk was released!

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hey kids, so u like sea shanties huh? well let me tell you about the rollickingest, rousingest sea shanty musical troupe of all time: Drexciya

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Noam Chomsky

@_MichaelOswell_

1 year

I’m shaking with anger. I’m furious

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@KangarooPhysics

1 year

The optimal known packing of 17 equal squares into a larger square - i.e. the arrangement which minimises the size of the large square.

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4 years

This is how the Right weaponises neutrality to whack the Left. You're allowed to see individual injustices – you know, be a bleeding heart liberal – but don't you dare try to get any ideas about how those injustices join together. Wouldn't want Guido to doxx you now, would you?

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@_MichaelOswell_

5 months

@SzMarsupial I always thought of it as a sandy analog to deep sea gigantism

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4 years

im Serene

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happy 25th birthday to these lads, released on this day in 1998

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@_MichaelOswell_

4 years

*sees picture of a packed central line tube carriage at rush hour* right wing press: "irresponsible covidiots! gallivanting around, carefree, in a packed tube carriage, for fun! nothing to do with govt failure of communication, nothing to do with insufficient support packages!"

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🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

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I’ve changed my mind. This app is a gift

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@_MichaelOswell_

8 months

How does this go so hard;;;;;

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@itwhiffed

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Why is no one talking about the color blind accessibility of Tekken 8. Literally no game has done this.

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@_MichaelOswell_

4 years

Ah yes, having shifted from "contain" to "delay", the British government is now seamlessly shifting to phase 4: blame the public

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9 months

Stunningly beautiful poster published by FATAH in 1989. Designer unknown

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1 year

Goerg S’Antœs 1999 The New Album

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2 years

Lol, nerds

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(suddenly remembering that my redundancy pay landed in my account weeks ago and i didnt sign a nondisparagement agreement) there isnt going to be a disco elysium 2 you stupid slut

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1 year

Super hero movies should be replaced with whatever genre these movies are

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2 years

lmao it's not even a rainbow, it's just the default InDesign colour swatches

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@David_Rudnick

2 years

goodbye england's rose may you ever, grow in our hearts

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Noam Chomsky

@_MichaelOswell_

27 days

Daniel Craig for Loewe F/W 2024, shot by David Sims

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@_MichaelOswell_

2 years

Trivia: The Last Of Us' producers spent almost 30% of the pilot episode's budget securing a cameo from real life Gore-Lieberman 2000 fan, Gore Lieberman. Mr Lieberman, who legally changed his name in 2015, appears in his signature boonie, loose fit shirt and Gore-Lieberman tee.

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4 years

In response to 2020, my sister has moved to a tiny fishing village in northernmost Norway, taking morning walks with her cat

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@_MichaelOswell_

4 months

While on the topic: I’m really gutted that Mono No Aware didn’t portend the return of the chillout room. With the notable exception of Berghain’s Halle I don’t know of any clubs or parties that devote significant floor space to somewhere you can just mong out to ambient music

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4 months

Speaking of which, I smoked before bed last night and just stared at this cover for like 10 minutes in awe, truly perfect

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1 year

Oh OF COURSE it’s a Margaret Calvert joint. Probably DRU. Behind every hypebeast stands that powerhouse of postwar social-democratic modernist graphic design.

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Noam Chomsky

@_MichaelOswell_

9 months

Probably one of the most horrific things I’ve read recently

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2 years

Interview with a gay Israeli veteran, recounting his time during the Lebanon War when a sniper saw two Arabs having sex and shot one of them in the head. “We were fucking cruel.”

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@_MichaelOswell_

3 years

I see the great satan is trying to launder its reputation again

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@Adobe

3 years

certified creative boy

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@_MichaelOswell_

4 years

Do we reckon @jimwaterson will apologise for mocking his neighbours, who turned out to be right about everything?

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@_MichaelOswell_

3 months

Emily, I am so sorry this happened to you. I can't imagine why the bok about seeing, perception, art contains design choices that make you see. This is unacceptable. We take all attempts at creating meaning through design choices very seriously. Please DM me for a full refund.

Emily

@EmilybyNight

3 months

How does this book - a book about seeing, perception, art - have such ugly font and design choices? Bold body copy? double paragraph indentation? the cover is just the first page reprinted on the front?

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@_MichaelOswell_

5 years

this is the most "Arrested Development Narrator" i've ever seen wikipedia get

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@_MichaelOswell_

4 years

VISIONARY. Absolutely visionary. Fuck

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@_MichaelOswell_

1 year

professional-grade Sony devices are the most beautiful things in the world. I will not be swayed on this. Don’t show me pictures of Hans Holbein’s The Ambassadors or IFBB pro Roelly Winklaar. I’ve already seen them. My mind is made up

sonylogos

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There’s something reminiscent of the Jackal-style era that this relatively new FX3 camera has about it. Brutalist, angular, chunky buttons. I’m into it!

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@_MichaelOswell_

3 years

Developing a new, better, more informative meme format

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@_MichaelOswell_

2 years

Denise Dewald MD was a sociological study carried out by CalArts. With the study now complete, we thank you all for your participation and look forward to sharing our findings with you in the coming months.

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2 months

lmao I just remembered ecofont

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@_MichaelOswell_

3 months

Friends I'm rediscovering a new future for the field of graphic design . please update your mood boards

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@_MichaelOswell_

1 year

hyped 🙌

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@_MichaelOswell_

1 year

You chose the wrong musicians to boost to stardom. Autechre would never do something like this.

Pop Base

@PopBase

1 year

Lizzo’s former creative director, along with one of her former dancers, share support for the lawsuit filed against the singer: “I’m not apart of the lawsuit - but this was very much my experience in my time there… I very much applaud the dancers courage to bring this to

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@_MichaelOswell_

2 years

What software do you use for your charts

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@paulmasonnews

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As govt stockpiles food and Amazon warns of "civil unrest"... here's a cut-out-and-keep flowchart of British politics over the next two years

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@_MichaelOswell_

4 years

Labour winning in 2019 would've meant little more than a saner initial response to COVID-19. Labour winning in 2017 could've meant 3 years' undoing decades of damage inflicted upon the NHS by successive neoliberal govts. The Labour Right saboteurs have blood on their hands.

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@_MichaelOswell_

2 months

Once I was in a club and spent 45 minutes interacting with a column *EXACTLY* like this. The column and I shared something that neither of us will soon forget. It was probably the most spiritual 45 minutes of my life.

Doku

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Probably waste of time doing this, but like try and avoid clipping where possible.

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friends, i am seeking recommendations for techno that fits the following criteria: - released between 2002 and 2012 - little to no reverb - no open hihats unless the decay is turned way down - between 128 and 140 bpm - (most important) has chords, but not too many - burnt/crispy

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@_MichaelOswell_

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this is incredible, because it turns out they're all gays that i know personally

Tactical Tech

@Info_Activism

4 years

ROMAN EMPEROR PROJECT @dvoshart : "Using the neural-net tool Artbreeder, Photoshop and historical references, I have created photoreal portraits of Roman Emperors"

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@jamesdgreig I strongly believe extremely low paid gig work is best performed by women. I am very Progressive.

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@RumsfeldOffice

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sorry

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Here's the whole 12-issue run of "How I'd Sink American Vogue" (2006), by Scott King

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1 year

The double standards at play for Ukrainian refugees vs others displaced by war is shameful, racist, and will turn me into the joker.

BBC Breakfast

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1 year

'You were coming up with safe routes from Ukraine, would it be sensible to do the same from Sudan?' On #BBCBreakfast Jon questions Home Secretary Suella Braverman about the evacuations of people from Sudan

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these posters (designed by 8vo) made such an impression on me in my youth. an early example of creatively squaring last-minute copy changes with immovable press deadlines. finally tracked down a photo that shows how they ran custom halftones on them, too

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1 year

Sorry but Rivelino is the only true heir to graphicdesign. A beautiful mind

Rivelino

@alpharivelino

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Dominant woman. Submissive man

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Trevor Blackwell

@tlbtlbtlb

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Billionaires will cease to exist when the standard for measuring wealth is Bitcoin. Since only 21M will ever exist, there can never be a BTC billionaire. As usual, technology quietly solves the problem while politics is still arguing itself in circles.

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E2–E4 IS A CHRISTMAS ALBUM

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