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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

2 years

The hardest thing I've ever written: via @phillyinquirer

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

2 years

What's the point of gun drills in elementary school if the shooter grows up knowing where to find the children hiding and the cops are too afraid to follow the shooters into the schools they're attacking?

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

5 years

Yup. (Thank you @autostraddle ... I'm squealing!) 🌈❤️🙏

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@autostraddle

5 years

Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman are ENGAGED! Love is, indeed, not a lie!

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

4 years

AHEM you are engaged, girl. To me.

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

5 years

One year ago today I went out on my first date with @rgay . She'd (finally) accepted my offer after @iSmashFizzle put in a good word (and after @timothyogoodman introduced me to Ashley). Sometimes it takes a village but it was so worth the effort. Happy One Year Anniversary baby!

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

4 years

Happy Birthday to my love, my best friend, my confidante, my bad-ass brilliant soul-mate, my wife @rgay . You make the world a better, more just place by the sheer virtue of being in it. I love you.

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

4 years

That there are still so many millions of people in the United States willing to vote for this heinous, lying, orange piece of grifter shit is just beyond my comprehension. It is devastating.

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

4 years

My dear dear friend Milton Glaser died today at 91. Today was also his birthday. Milton, you changed my life profoundly and I will be eternally grateful. I ❤️Milton, forever. 💔 ⁦ @MiltonGlaserInc ⁩

Milton Glaser, Master Designer of ‘I ♥ NY’ Logo, Is Dead at 91 (Published 2020)

He was also a founder of New York magazine, created a memorable Bob Dylan poster and produced designs for everything from supermarkets to restaurants to “Mad Men.”

www.nytimes.com

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

2 years

Me: I'm interviewing so-and-so next week and I am very nervous. He's very intimidating. Roxane: Oh, he's just a man with opinions; there is nothing less intimidating.

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

4 years

You know you married the right person when she discovers Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams" via a viral video on Twitter, agrees with your assessment that it is one of the greatest songs ever written, then takes a deep dive into the discography of Stevie Nicks. I❤️you @rgay .

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

5 years

@ThatEricAlper Stevie Nicks wrote Rhiannon and Landslide on the same day.

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

4 years

Who agrees with me? @rgay needs to moderate the next debate.

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

4 years

For sale: used walker, never needed

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

3 years

Let's bring all the bad men down.

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

4 years

I hope Lorne Michaels already called Jeff Goldblum about joining SNL on Saturday.

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

4 years

Hey @rgay I ate ALL the peanut m&m's while you've been out. Just so you know.

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

5 years

Thank you so much! Senator Warren!

Elizabeth Warren

@ewarren

5 years

@rgay @debbiemillman Congratulations @rgay and @debbiemillman —sending you both my love!

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

2 years

Happy happy birthday to my beautiful brilliant wife @rgay ! I love you so much. 👩🏽‍🤝‍👩🏼

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

3 years

Still smarting over the utter thievery of @levarburton not getting the @Jeopardy job. What a loss for us all; he would have been phenomenal.

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

4 years

Dear @LibertyMutual : I am begging you to cancel all your Limu Emu commercials and the one where the dude says "Liberty Bibberty." They are unwatchable and really really getting on my nerves. I am officially begging. Please.

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

4 years

"I thought I had muted the Zoom video." AS IF THAT WOULD MAKE IT OKAY?

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

4 years

Theo and I miss @rgay and he's taken refuge in the bathroom sink. He is inconsolable. So am I.

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

3 years

Amen sister. Simone Biles deserves a gold medal for getting out of bed every damn day after what Larry Nassar did to her.

Glennon Doyle

@GlennonDoyle

3 years

God I love a woman who will abandon the world's expectations before she'll ever abandon herself. Simone Biles is a goddamn cheetah and I'm in her corner forever.

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

4 years

The gall of the media finally finally at long last using the word LIES and the social networks shutting Bannon down--all on the day before Trump goes down. So courageous!

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

4 years

Giant Joy in Isolation: @rgay 's homemade strawberry short cake which was perfection. PERFECTION!

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

4 years

Small Joys in Isolation #1 : Overhearing @rgay sing along to Beyoncé during her workout

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

3 years

“I think a lot of people grow up in families where they are essentially taught that the cost of familial love is denying whatever parts of yourself don't fit into the existing familial structure.” —Ashley C. Ford: @iSmashFizzle

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

4 years

At this point, all I want is @rgay and a pink perfect attendance pencil.

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@debbiemillman

4 years

Somewhere in Russia, Putin is belly-laughing.

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

4 years

I wonder if the Trump's will lose their sense of taste.

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

3 years

I couldn't be more proud of @rgay and everything she does and is about to do. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

3 years

My wife just told me that at heart I am a 90-year-old Jewish Grandmother. I have found my soulmate. #truelove

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

4 years

Oh Roxane! I love you with all my heart. Always and forever. Forever and always. Thank you for this, and for everything. ❤️

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

4 years

I am married to a genius.

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@debbiemillman

5 years

I wonder if Iran will leak his taxes.

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

4 years

To all the corporations using racist imagery and iconography for your brands, rides, packaging, song lyrics and messaging: STOP NOW. You don't need consumers to tell you to do this--you should know better and do it before we come after you. Do it now.

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

4 years

Dear @united : I was unable to take a flight on your airline because of the pandemic. The trip was to visit a country as their guest &they gave me the money to cover the ticket in advance. Now you won't give me a refund. Your ads state you care about your customers. Are you lying?

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

4 years

We should call it the MAGAvirus

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

5 years

Endgame of Thrones: Tony Stark uses the time infinity stone and joins the rest of the Stark clan to defend the North in the Battle of Winterfell. #GameofThronesSeason8

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

3 years

“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson via @tferriss

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

2 years

Detroit’s unprocessed rape kit backlog is finally cleared, because of @TheJHF board member @KymWorthy

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

3 years

@theferocity Does that make me Mrs Millman-Homosexual??

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

4 years

I really truly wish I could do something other than refresh the election results pages I am looking at.

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

3 years

The cover of my brand new book, "Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World's Most Creative People," has been posted and the book is now available for pre-order! See my Instagram post for free gift w/ purchase! Thank you @AlexTKalman for this cover!

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

2 years

The number of for-profit corporations that ask me to do things for free is simply staggering.

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

6 years

I’ve been a teacher of undergraduate and graduate students for 13 years. I take my responsibilities to my students very, very seriously. I am also a bit clumsy and have mild vertigo. You don’t want me anywhere near a gun.

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

4 years

Whoa @sleepingatsea ! Sexuality is fluid. @rgay has been open abt being bi or stone butch at various points in her life in all her writing. I can confirm (w/evidence if necessary though it might be NSFW) that not only is Roxane 100% lesbian, she is engaged to another lesbian (me).

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

4 years

@rgay In full transparency he apologized aggressively and sarcastically. That's when he really heard my words.

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

4 years

At long last, the @nytimes uses the word LIES

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

5 years

Today is the 14th Anniversary of my podcast Design Matters. What started with a telephone line and a wish has turned into one of my most life-changing experiences. Thank you to everyone who has been a part of this extraordinary journey with me.

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

4 years

I think I am suffering from Pre-Election Stress Disorder.

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

4 years

I talk about how symbols and brands shape our humanity in my brand new @TEDTalks ! You can see it here:

How symbols and brands shape our humanity

"Branding is the profound manifestation of the human spirit," says designer and podcaster Debbie Millman. In a historical odyssey that she illustrated herself, Millman traces the evolution of...

www.ted.com

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

4 years

Who knew people had so many cowbells at the ready in NYC? 🌟🧍🏽‍♀️❤️🌈🇺🇸💖🌟

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@debbiemillman

3 years

Me: "Men were so much hairier in the 1980s." Roxane: "So were women."

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

4 years

@rgay @AnnaliseDr Yup. We put up a Pride flag on June 1st to commemorate Pride month and it's been up ever since. I think we should just leave the flag up permanently, along with the Black Lives Matter sign.

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

3 years

“On the page we are in absolute control. I think of pages as spaces. It's a room you're going to fill with your art. Your home here, it's beautiful, [and] to write a poem costs nothing. Nothing is impossible in that space.” —Saeed Jones ( @theferocity ):

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

4 years

I have never ever been so worried about the future, ever.

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

2 years

The author of the award-winning novels “Pachinko” and “Free Food for Millionaires,” Min Jin Lee, discusses her remarkable career and the long journey and intention behind her Korean diaspora novels. A new episode of Design Matters is live! @minjinlee11

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

3 years

I am always so baffled by people who refer to THEMSELVES as visionaries on LinkedIn. Isn't that a term that only OTHER people can describe you as? Isn't it like referring to oneself as a genius? Seems weird to me.

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

2 years

I am so so so so honored to share how much my heart flutters for @rgay on @HrishiHirway 's phenomenal podcast Partners. Thank you Hrishi! ❤️🌈🎙

Hrishikesh Hirway

@HrishiHirway

2 years

The underlying premise of the Partners podcast is that all partnerships are kind of a love story. But this week on the show, an actual love story: when @rgay met @debbiemillman . It was such a joy to interview them together. Listen to their episode here:

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

4 years

Hamilton, but with meetings: The *Zoom* Where It Happened

Monica Lewinsky (she/her)

@MonicaLewinsky

4 years

hamilton, but with babies: The *Womb* Where it Happened

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

4 years

Megyn, my puppy is well-tempered. My 9-year-old niece is well-tempered. That the bar is so subterranean that his avalanche of lies and duplicity is considered well-tempered suggests you need to really rethink everything about who you are and why you think you still matter.

Megyn Kelly

@megynkelly

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Trump won this debate, handily. Biden wasn’t a force at all. Trump was substantive, on-point, well-tempered. Definitely helped himself, when it mattered most.

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debbie millman

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“I didn't know what it was like to walk into a room and have someone light up because you walked into the room. And I wanted that, bad, but I didn't even know it was available to me until I saw it with my dad.” —Ashley C. Ford: @iSmashFizzle

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

5 years

@rgay @TheWriterJess Just finished. En route to the airport. Hahahahaha

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@debbiemillman

5 years

We're in Orfano, the new restaurant by @tiffanifaison and discovered that @rgay has a bathroom named after her. Here's the woman and the signage! 🌟

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

4 years

"He interrupted me and I'd like to finish." Damn straight.

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

2 years

A new perspective on choice.

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

4 years

If there was ever a moment we needed President Obama it is now.

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

5 years

“It was life-changing in a way that I couldn't possibly conceive then, but it was both a gaining of knowledge and a reminder that there are people out there that you just haven't met yet.” — @HamiltonMusical director Thomas Kail on meeting @Lin_Manuel :

2017, Thomas Kail

Debbie talks to Hamilton director Thomas Kail about his career and about the joys of collaboration.

www.designmattersmedia.com

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

5 years

I'm starting a new magazine w/ @thedailyheller + @ZacharyPetit and we're looking for contributors! If you're interested in writing or contributing art, illustrations, poetry, short stories, criticism, data viz, comics, cultural commentary or anything remarkable, my DMs are open!

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

6 years

“There is a myth that surrounds creativity: You either have it or you don't. But other things don't work this way. If you want to be a great athlete, you don't expect to be excellent the first time you attempt a sport—you show up to practice.” —Sarah Kay:

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

7 years

The most beautiful love letter ever written was by scientist Richard Feynman: via @brainpicker

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@debbiemillman

4 years

At 11:30am the neighborhood of Chelsea in Manhattan erupted in cheers and hoots and pot banging. And then we knew! Hallelujah! Change is in the air, at long last. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

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debbie millman

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6 years

“Don't ever, ever design anything that you haven't understood, because as a designer you're a translator. You take whatever content there is, and give it form. If you don't understand what you're doing, how can you possibly do it justice?” — @espiekermann :

2012, Erik Spiekermann

Erik Spiekermann is author, information architect, type designer (FF Meta, ITC Officina, FF Unit et al) and author of books and articles on type and typography. He founded MetaDesign, Germany's...

www.designmattersmedia.com

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

4 years

@rgay EXACTLY

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

5 years

Do you really want to know what you don't know about branding? Pull up a chair.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

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What do I know about branding, maybe nothing (but I did become President!), but if I were Boeing, I would FIX the Boeing 737 MAX, add some additional great features, & REBRAND the plane with a new name. No product has suffered like this one. But again, what the hell do I know?

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

2 years

It's a real credit to Chris Rock's utter professionalism that he was able to continue on.

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

4 years

Today I am shattered by the notion that there are over 50M people in the US that deliberately, intentionally voted for four more years of a lying, grifting, racist criminal for president. I will never, ever be able to make sense of this, no matter who wins.

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debbie millman

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8 years

THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF THE FIFTY UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, by Rebecca Solnit. PLEASE RETWEET AND GET THE WORD OUT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE!

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

4 years

@MollyJongFast Yeah, people keep asking me if my apartment is safe. CRAZY.

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

4 years

Chris Wallace needs to take control of this clusterfuck. Moderators are supposed to control the stage. He's letting the stage control him. Demand and forbid interruptions or stop the debate.

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@debbiemillman

4 years

Good to know, for so many reasons.

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@debbiemillman

4 years

The 'Stop The Count' folks are all white people and while not surprising at all, it is shameful and needs to be said.

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@debbiemillman

4 years

And then @rgay got me these... 🥰

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debbie millman

@debbiemillman

7 years

Dear @Twitter : if someone is threatening to start nuclear war on your platform, isn't that an extreme violation of your terms? Just saying.

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6 years

“I see people say, ‘I've won this award.’ I'd rather put on my thing, ‘I paid my house off. I paid my house off with these hands, with graphic design.’” Today on Design Matters, we’re celebrating the great Aaron @Draplin :

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@debbiemillman

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“On the page we are in absolute control. I think of pages as spaces. It's a room you're going to fill with your art. Your home here, it's beautiful, [and] to write a poem costs nothing. Nothing is impossible in that space.” —Saeed Jones ( @theferocity ):

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4 years

I'm envisioning this weeks SNL and hoping Maya Rudolph is planning her Emmy Award speech.

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8 years

Tonight is the night that data died.

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3 years

"She spoke of her own scars as if she had run her fingers over mine." The long road to my pandemic wedding with @rgay in this weeks @washingtonpost magazine cover story:

The Queer Quarantine

Eleven photographers and one writer on how the pandemic altered lives in the LGBTQ+ community.

www.washingtonpost.com

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5 years

I'm on a C train listening to a group of 4th graders (I asked) talk about what it means to be transgender and I wish the whole world could witness their intelligence and openness and respect. It is a remarkable gift I have witnessed and makes me feel hopeful about the future.

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4 years

My dear friend @tferriss and I had one of the most important conversations of our lives. You can hear it here:

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5 years

"Friendship is the never-ending process of revising our understanding of someone we are close to." —Malcolm @Gladwell :

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While taking Max out for a walk, a man yelled out on the street, loud enough for the entire neighborhood to hear: DEMOCRACY HAS BEEN RESTORED. Amen.

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7 years

This is one of the most heartfelt, personal and important conversations I've ever had. Thank you @tferriss . You are an amazing amazing man.

Tim Ferriss

@tferriss

7 years

NEW podcast up! How to Design a Life with @debbiemillman

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4 years

I kinda wish Kamala would just burst out laughing after everything Pence says. That's the only response that makes sense.

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@debbiemillman

4 years

Everything about Trump--his mocking, smug tone, his ridiculous accordion hand gestures, his burnt orange petulant face, his avalanche of lies, and his self-congratulatory admonitions--it is all grotesque. How anyone--anyone--can vote for this clown is beyond comprehension.

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3 years

Sexual assault survivors deserve access to information about their rape kit as quickly & easily as possible. That’s why @theJHF worked tirelessly to pass #SB215 , which makes tracking available online in CA. Proud of this work to #supportsurvivors & #endthebacklog .

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It's very possible that Everything Everywhere All At Once is the greatest movie ever made.

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4 years

The President of the United States just declared war on the American People.

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