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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

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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 3h

My pet theory of Esteem as a primary driver of political viewpoint applies here:

High self-esteem, low esteem for others: Conservative
High self-esteem, high esteem for others: Liberal
Low self-esteem, low esteem for others: Reactionary
Low self-esteem, high-esteem for others: Socialist

Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 3h

I see this most with the Greens, whose party has the highest incidence of people who think if they just explain themselves harder, everyone will support them. It comes from an optimistic view about human nature but one which comes from very little experience of being disagreed with.

Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 3h

I think sometimes left-liberals don't quite understand party loyalists, and while they're sometimes worthy of disdain, a lot of things that happen just won't make sense if you don't. It's not irrational to vote for both Starmer and Corbyn, say, it's just a different perspective on what's important.

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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 3h

This view is born out of a well-intentioned belief that people will get out the spreadsheets to rationally determine their voting behaviour, but it's wrong.

Loyalty is a thing. Lots of people will always vote for the major parties and you should want the least objectionable people to lead them.

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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 4h

Strom Thurmond, who won four states on a segregationist platform in 1948, could have played topless extreme sports game BMX XXX on his Nintendo GameCube.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15h

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 7h

Think this is a big problem tbh! We're deracinated from any living memory of The Worst That Can Happen, and Hitler is increasingly just a byword for Bad Guy as opposed to responsible for any tangible acts.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 12h

honestly it's constantly jarring to me that I, as a child, knew several WWI veterans, including my great-grandfather. Soon WW2 will seem just as vanished in time.

Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 7h

This is Blue Prince

Jac @dairyqueenslime.bsky.social · 14h

Reposted by Robin Wilde

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 11h

It is why it’s so funny that trump is so obsessed with scaling way up the use of polygraph and surprise polygraph testing across the federal government, it underscores how much he thinks fantasy and things he sees on tv are Real

Jon Walker @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social · 11h

You beat it by knowing that they are not real. Polygraphs are fake science more like a ouija or a magic amulet than a real test. They only "work" by tricking people into thinking they do so you confess.

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 12h

“Pentagon Leakers Practice Beating Polygraphs Amid Trump's 'Idiotic' Leak Crackdown”

New, for @zeteo.com tonight, via @andrewperez.bsky.social and me:

zeteo.com/p/trump-hegs...

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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 20h

It's funny, I don't think of DEFECTION as a particularly positive word for the top of the visual hierarchy for these things. Comes across as sneaky, disloyal. Could have done "Welcome to Reform!" or something.

Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 21h

GUYS, I POSTED THIS THREE WEEKS AGO WHEN DANNY KRUGER DEFECTED. AND NOW...

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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 20h

Toyed with Aberdeen vs Alberta for this joke but it works the same either way.

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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 21h

It really is weird that they've become a holiday destination. If I wanted to go to an oppressive petrostate where the weather is trying to kill me I could go to Aberdeen.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22h

it's weird to me how much Gulf states seem to dominate the imagination of the UK right at the moment. I assume it's largely about who's giving them money, but I also think "Dubai expat" is a common social type in their circles.

Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 22h

I was on a panel at Conservative conference today where the UAE model was seriously proposed as a direction to take Britain’s immigration system.

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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 22h

I recently had the joke behind Farfetchd explained to me: "Like a duck bringing its own leek" is a Japanese idiom meaning either a piece of unlikely good luck, or describing someone gullible.

Anyway, I'm told the kids prefer the bin bag or the ice cream cone

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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 1d

Why would this be something you want

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 1d

Taylor Swift releases ‘The Life of a Showgirl (Track by Track Version).’

Each song is preceded by a voice note introducing the track.

Reposted by Robin Wilde

Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 1d

The worrying possibility (as Bill Kristol of all people has mused about) is that the ascendent period of the center-right was a lengthy postwar aberration, and what we're seeing now is right-wing politics simply returning to its natural state

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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 1d

I always read those bits as (correctly) sending up as amusing the tendency of commentators to shoehorn current debates into ideological contexts that don't fit. But yes, his history books are very good at treating different tendencies seriously until you get to anything Tony Benn shaped.

Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 1d

It's funny, I've been tensed waiting for DS to go off the deep end for years, and he's just not, despite obviously being quite right-wing. I can't pin down quite why he's proven fairly immune to *gestures*

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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 1d

The Canadian tendency to look at what America does wrong and try to head it off at the pass does seem to have helped here. "We don't do what those bad people next door do" is a classic wrong-motivation, right-outcome sort of sentiment.

Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 1d

Yes, I have Thoughts on this national trait (most of them negative) but it does keep things civil on first interaction.

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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 1d

I think also that Aus hasn't faced any reckoning with it. US civil rights was something the world noticed, which along with the fear of serious unrest provided incentives to address it. Australia's minorities don't have the heft to make it a domestic political issue and nobody abroad is watching.

Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 1d

One thing I think Canada lacks is the sense of humour being completely central to the national culture. That means Australia produces some wonderful comedians and gives them the nice relaxed pace of life, but also makes it hard to take things seriously when they actually need to.

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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 1d

I compare with Canada, where there is of course racism but it's much less socially acceptable even among fairly conservative people. Considering the two countries have somewhat similar history the scale of the difference does strike me as strange.

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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 1d

I am also sad that having beaten Obra Dinn, the two Golden Idol games and this, there will be basically no deductive logic games left. Back to doing Murdle on paper.

Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 1d

I started Blue Prince yesterday and love it, but I am starting back at work today and, scandalously, nobody will pay me money to play Blue Prince all day.

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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 1d

Yeah your best option would seem to be "rich but in a fairly anonymous way" like heir to the local widget factory

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