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tom.party
Software designer. Making Peep https://peep.zone Occasional typefaces at https://joyride.studio – He/him. http://tom.party #hamont
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when both wolves inside me died, the deer began to flourish. left unchecked, all flora consumed, starvation took the herd. cascading failure has driven my spiritual ecosystem to total collapse. i cough up their bones and add them to my Bone Man; a skeletal golem built to generate shareholder value,

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A cool(?) part of living in a slightly scuzzy post-industrial city is that there’s cool little typographical nuggets preserved everywhere

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Half-formed thesis: software feels unadventurous because a culture of familiarity/usability has permeated the practice of design

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Addendum: ‘starting a new side project instead of doing any kind of marketing whatsoever for the previous (completed) side project’

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Due to inflation sweet dreams are no longer made of these

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Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.

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3 year old: And [classmate]’s dad is called Crobbit and [classmate]’s mom is called Cremquin Me: I don’t know if that’s right 3 year old, looking at me witheringly: yes it is

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To get a #designsky discourse going: after making AI mandatory for work last month, Shopify is At It Again. The CDO says since "AI enables anyone to make things usable" (lol), Shopify will just have the titles Designer and Writer instead of user experience, content design, etc. Aesthetics-ass idea

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Workshopping a new hand gesture to signify “This isn’t an all-way stop and you in fact have the right of way, you thoughtful moron”

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We’ve all that one homie, who due to a programming error, spawns out of bounds and can only be hung out with via the use of a game genie or action replay

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Missed my calling (graphic designer circa 1969); all of these are using my typeface Nougat which is free at joyride.studio

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Absolutely ripping through this, one of those books that feels like a fairy tale and a travelogue and a secret third thing all at once (also has a ‘Famous Swords’ appendix, which is Extremely My Shit™)

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The mark of a high-functioning team is shitposting and I’m not joking

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Optometrist: So to test your eyes, we’re going make you look at a bunch of stuff that’s terrible to look at

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Dogfooding my own app to jot down some longer-form thoughts about building said app. log.tomcreighton.com/post/6KgQ6HYL #buildinpublic

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If you want a customizable BYO-domain blog/microblog/whatever, have I got a deal for you!

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I see this fallacy almost every day, in tech and politics: 1. There is a problem 2. We believe that our solution will fix the problem 3. We built the solution 4. Therefore the problem is now fixed Bitch, no. You have to check. Let's talk about leading and trailing indicators.

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wont you take me

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What idiot called it a unicorn instead of horny on mane

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Thought experiment: at what point in history did the current computing power of your personal devices outclass the entire world? (“Your laptop outstripped global computing capacity as of October 1977”)

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[My eyes pop out like a cartoon wolf] AWOOO gt-standard.com (ht @devinsfountain.bsky.social)

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Lol never mind onemillionchessboards.com

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Game idea: Chess, but it’s an open world MMORPG

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who called it woke pope and not Opus DEI

submitted 52 days ago • 51 comments

First encyclical outlining the correct way to order at Portillo's

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Hey mr tambourine man are you mad at me

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

The ‘approximately equals’ sign ≈ is the most anthropomorphic piece of typography, it’s literally an equals sign going “ehhhh that’s probably about right”

submitted 54 days ago • 2 comments

“If you're not embarrassed, you launched too late” – say hello: Peep is a free microblog-ish platform with built-in topical network. peep.zone

submitted 54 days ago • 3 comments

Cinco de Mayo be with you

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Everybody: May the fourth be with you Me, extremely pious: And also with you

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Product manager: what are the table snakes for this feature? Me: sorry did you say ‘snakes’? Product manager, hissing angrily: No

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Elections Canada wayfinding always on point

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ah, but have you considered calling me a "dumb asshole" who is "wildly ignorant on this topic" only further proves my point ☝️

submitted 65 days ago • 14 comments

we all got a little Barbie in us (the microplastics)

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She looks like she's planning to kidnap Geordi La Forge en route to Risa and manchurian candidate him to kill the Klingon governor

submitted 71 days ago • 78 comments

Now, then, forever

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🆕🔠 New! A funky many-influences Futura-Display-ish hand-painted-vibes typeface – Nougat! joyride.studio/nougat/

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