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Software designer. Making cool goblin apps. Occasional typefaces at https://joyride.studio – He/him. http://tom.party #hamont
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“Planning around this issue is like some primordial amoeba trying to score some choice oceanfront Pangaean real estate against the possibility that humans would gentrify it in the 1990s.” defector.com/neither-elon...

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“If your ONLY goal is to cover every possible feature, then having a touchscreen is reasonable. However, if you think statistically and ask “What do people do 99% of the time?” you get a much different answer.” jenson.org/airpod/

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Meme in real life

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There’s a type of newsletter I’d characterize as “the author is monomaniacally focused on inane trivialities in a specific industry” and it is my very favourite kind of newsletter. I’m thinking of a specific example here, but if you have recos in this vein, get at me.

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Don’t Talk To Me Until I’ve Had My 30-90 Minutes Of Intense Psychic Damage

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Hideo Kojima naming a redheaded baker: Ginger Breadman

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Hideo Kojima naming a guy with jorts: Jean Hackman

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Peep! (just trying something)

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“Mild hybrid” suggests the existence of “extra spicy hybrid”

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me doing my stupid little tasks as the world crumbles

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

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Just tried to brush the cursor off my screen like it was a bug, how’s your day going

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[My eyes pop out cartoon wolf style]

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

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Netflix's algorithm, trying desperately to figure out my extremely dumb watching habits: here's that psychological-thriller magical space chef anime documentary you wanted

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congestion pricing useful to have around for a huge list of obvious reasons but also it's nice because anytime you hear someone complaining about it you can just label them a rube and then never listen to them again about anything else

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[kissing every meatball before loading it onto sub] subway employee: im pretty sure youre not supposed to do that me: oh i dont work here

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“More than most other fonts, Gorton feels it’s been made by machines for machines – but in its use, it’s also the font that allows you to see so many human mistakes and imperfections.” aresluna.org/the-hardest-...

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From me to you ♥️

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Thank you Linkedin, this is exactly what I want to do

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Thank you Notion

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oh the superbowl? that’s bread and circuses. oscars? bread and circuses. that show you like? sorry that’s bread and circuses. the circus? you know it. do not even get me started on that bread you made dude

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"There should be room for those conversations" — OK but why isn't there room for pointing out that it's a moral panic utterly devoid of evidence

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Raising a seed round for my new startup, “Pizza Drone Net Launcher”, our business model is that we send you a pizza drone net launcher

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I think the story Elon Musk is telling himself and his fanboys about what he’s doing is that he’s cutting the cruft out of the codebase of the US government to make it more streamlined and effective. A 🧵

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Me, on a plane: Ahh, tomato juice, the sophisticated traveller’s beverage of choice My three year old: WHAT’S DAT SAUCE

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My Discord client, Discord Messenger, now runs on Windows 98! (And also, 95, but you need extra stuff. Win98SE runs it right out of the box.)

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Some real big brain thinking from o3-mini

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Sharing a few thoughts about my experience building remote Design teams at GitHub—why remote work isn’t just an option, but a competitive edge. The best talent isn’t bound by location. Don’t sleep on global talent 🚀 adrianmato.com/blog/design/...

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Me, tearing up: Maybe the most important KPI of all … is love PM: What? No

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Guy: I’m really excited to open “Six Guys” with all of you – anyway I had this idea for our new restaurant: a garbage bag full of loose burger patties Other Guy: We’re going a different way

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"woke nonsense, the world's gone mad!" - Victorian guy seeing a skull and crossbones warning on a bottle of poison

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Airline: We’re now boarding our Sapphire Ultra Demigod 4K passengers [I check my boarding pass, an Applebee’s napkin soaked in Miller High Life] Me: I bet I’ll get to board next

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Me, living in a Minority Report future and accidentally invoking Print instead of Zoom again: DANG IT

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Jazzing up the home office

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They’re opening a Turkish restaurant that only serves offal; it’s called Organ Doner

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Back on my bullshit (making a personal project so complicated that I need to use an issue tracker)

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