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Robin Wilde
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InDesign in the streets, Photoshop in the sheets. Creative Director at @wildebeest.design
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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · Apr 10
Some news! From July I'll be shifting to full-time freelancing ahead of my return to the UK next year. If you or any friends, colleagues, or nemeses have any need of creative support, including design, writing, and creative project planning, I'd love to have a chat. Portfolio here: robinwilde.me
Robin Wilde - Freelance Graphic Design in the Pacific Northwest
Freelance graphic designer in Seattle and Vancouver
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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 3h
On the bright side, you've allowed dozens of people to have a nice time scolding and chiding the lesser mortals to Do Better. The world's problems should now be sorted in a matter of days.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 11h
This is it. I didn’t find it at all difficult to leave Twitter in the end: it stopped being fun and became boring and depressing. Whenever I opened it I’d see things that were obnoxious or upsetting. It was a relief not to do that.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 14h
This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.
Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.
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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 17h
Murder mystery in which someone adapts this to commit murder in a chocolate factory
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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 2d
I mean, you joke, but!
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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 2d
Three enormous health bars regrow across the screen
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Europe Elects @europeelects.bsky.social · 2d
France: President Emmanuel Macron (RE-RE) has re-appointed Sébastien Lecornu (RE-RE) as Prime Minister four days after accepting his resignation.

Lecornu will now form a new government strengthened by these two days of "last negotiations".

➤ europeelects.eu/france
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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 2d
Yeah we frequently stay at the Marco Polo motel on Aurora (cheap and functional) so it works well enough from King Street but you are subjecting yourself to several blocks of walking or the whims of the 5 if you want to get into actual Fremont.
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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 2d
I remain a bit baffled this isn't the route. It's a huge pain getting to Fremont/Ballard from the U District if your destination isn't on 45th.
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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 2d
Since You've Been Gone (Rainbow): 8/10
Since U Been Gone (Kelly Clarkson): 5/10

Total Score: 13
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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 2d
Fun music game.

Take two songs with the same name and post your combined score out of 10. How high can you get?

No covers/no triples (e.g. Power of Love)

My first effort, which i think is hard to beat...

Zombie (Fela Kuti) 10/10
Zombie (The Cranberries) 7/10

Total score: 17
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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 2d
I was once on a trivia team with an Irish friend so we used the team name These Islands, a joke nobody else within several miles would have understood
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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 2d
The light gives it away and they've sort of tried to get away with it by having the gradient over the background come from top-down but it doesn't quite work
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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 2d
Could you not find a stock image of a thumbs down to cut out rather than rotating a thumbs up
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 2d
Le Creuset is Cheugy 👎
NY Mag instagram post showing a headline “Le Creuset is Cheugy” and then below that “Why does a collection of $400 pots suddenly look so cheap?” with a big thumbs down in the foreground and lots of ceramic pots in the background
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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 3d
We represented supermarket and slaughterhouse workers (logical enough) but also several thousand home healthcare workers and a big chunk of the BC cannabis industry.
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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 3d
I owe my upcoming marriage and a very significant chunk of my career to it, so...
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 4d
Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?
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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 3d
The Covid-era cohort was also the last age cohort to be raised (in significant part) by pre-internet parents, which I think meant even less oversight and guidance. Hopefully that shifts things in a more positive direction.
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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 3d
*gestures towards the Liberal Party of Canada*
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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 3d
There have been several times in my life someone who I previously admired has been shown to have done something bad. Whether you suck that up as the price of society, or do backflips to defend their honour because you've sunk your identity into your fandom, is the boundary where dignity lies.
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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 3d
I have never knowingly watched a political Twitch streamer, never will, and don't understand why you'd want to. Unfortunately I am *just enough* online that I get asked to translate this bullshit for people more offline than me.
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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 3d
Broke: Americans running for office
Woke: Brits standing for election
Bespoke: Japanese coming out for election 🌈
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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 3d
The union episode was also a delightful source of memes the entire time I worked for UFCW (particularly referencing this every time it turned out we represented somewhere weird outside our wheelhouse)
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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 3d
Something I've found really fascinating is that the songs are the same tune, but with Japanese words often crammed into a cadence that doesn't fit. I'd have just had the English song with subtitles.
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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 3d
Coming up on Lisa the Iconoclast in my Japanese Simpsons rewatch and excited to see how they translate Embiggens and Cromulent.
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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 3d
Really felt this watching The Hack actually. Recent history, but about a problem I think we've largely replaced with a different problem.
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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 3d
There's something a bit quaint about people still going "it's people reading the Mail, Sun and Telegraph that are responsible for all this!"

All feels very 2000s. No, the papers are dying too, it's just the phones.
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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 3d
Burnaby's pronunciation might look simple, but it's actually "Vancouver"
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 4d
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 4d
I'll have a go, for a laugh. I like politics and I've got A* GCSE French. Be good for the CV.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 4d
France's Macron to name new PM in next 48 hours, Elysee says reut.rs/3Wsew6b
France's Macron to name new PM in next 48 hours, Elysee says
French President Emmanuel Macron will name a new prime minister in the next 48 hours, the Elysee palace said in a statement on Wednesday.
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