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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 28/05/2026

i don't want it now i don't want it when it looks better i don't want it even though celebs shill for it i don't want it despite the billions spent to push it i don't want to look at it, read it, talk to it, deal with it i just don't want to interface with it in any way, simple as

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Aidan Rosario @aidansr.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I can’t seem to escape baby products. From my first internship to my first project at ELEVEN, I’ve learned far too much about parenting for someone without kids! #designsky #idsketching #design #industrialdesign #productdesign

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Victoria Ying @victoriaying.com · 17/05/2026

The craziest thing about the AI boosters is when they say “you can’t do this without AI” “I can’t make an event flyer without AI” when we all remember just 3 years ago how we all got along fine without it.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I can't believe how quickly all these people became terminally AI-brained to the point that the concept of being forced to do their own research with their own brain feels like punishment

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Aidan Rosario @aidansr.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Beat the Whites with the Red Edge (1919)

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

All you do is take all the sex out, and use little short words, and little dumb ideas, and don't be too scary, and be sure there's a happy ending. Right? Nothing to it. Write down. Right on.

If you do all that, you might even write Jonathan Livingston Seagull and make twenty billion dollars and have every adult in America reading your book.

But you won't have every kid in America reading your book. They will look at it, and they will see straight through it, with their clear, cold, beady little eyes, and they will put it down, and they will go away. Kids will devour vast amounts of garbage (and it is good for them) but they are not like adults: they have not yet learned to eat plastic.

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Aidan Rosario @aidansr.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Wait that’s crazy! I used to go there and draw all the time when i was in LA!! Thank god i only brought black pens smh. Lotusland in sb is also weird about bringing in any sort of art supplies

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Aidan Rosario @aidansr.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

So dumb i thought it was from the Onion at first.

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Aidan Rosario @aidansr.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I haven’t gone through this with them yet, but usually i go through the steps of cancelling until they offer a “discounted” subscription rate. It’s a band-aid that doesn’t fix adobe’s issues, but it rewards them slightly less for their behavior until we can find programs to replace their slopware.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Red States: We are canceling all programs that don't support our theology. Blue States: We're canceling all the same programs, but because they don't support our business school.

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Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Not using gen ai does not affect my life at all It’s the easiest boycott I don’t even have to think about it It doesn’t even come to my mind if it weren’t for those ai and tech bros trying to force it on us Don’t let them tell you that you need it They need you!

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Aidan Rosario @aidansr.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

No one talks about the part of freelancing where you’re trying to schedule multiple clients but everyone keeps shifting their start times around so you can never plan, resource, or balance the work out across the month.

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Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Once again got asked if I draw digital or with my hand “Ohh digitally, I see. But do you sketch it first by hand?” Bro, dude, my brother It’s all done with my hand My hand suffers the most

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Aidan Rosario @aidansr.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

A former coworker of mine once caught me trying to double-tap-to-undo a piece of paper i was sketching on — multigenerational embarrassment

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Aidan Rosario @aidansr.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

So many old friends in portland wow! Glad to see idsa is still going strong out there

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

"If I was to use ChatGPT for my designs rather than our designer Sean, that's taking money out of the local area into the hands of a multibillionaire ... removing value from the local community and local artists [and] into the hands of some of the richest people in the world." #AIslop #refuseresist

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Newcastle pubs ban AI art from breweries to protect local creatives

As two pubs in Newcastle ban AI art, artists discuss the impact it can have on creatives.

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Aidan Rosario @aidansr.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I mean, if i were as bad at writing as Altman, I would also think chatgpt was impressive

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Street Roots @streetroots.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.

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Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness

The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.

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Aidan Rosario @aidansr.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I built a render station last year to speed up the amount of visualization work I've been doing, and I have to say: It's been such a good investment! I wish I had done this when I was in school. #designsky #industrialdesign #blender3d #3Dart #cgi #3d #id #productdesign #rendering

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Aidan Rosario @aidansr.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Here’s another sketch of the Baja Sneaker i designed for Deckers X Labs in 2020. I’m sad i never grabbed a pair of these before the brand wound down a couple years ago :( #footwear #footweardesign #sneakerhead #fashion #design #idsketching

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Lorenradis @lorenradis.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

When has it ever been the responsibility of the consumer to adopt a product, rather than the responsibility of the business to create a product the consumer wants???

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Aidan Rosario @aidansr.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Last September, OXO launched a line of products I worked on for over two years. Truly a labor of love, this baby-led weaning set checks all the boxes for the human-centered design practice that I find fulfilling. #blw #oxo #industrialdesign #idsketching

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 30/10/2025

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

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Mel 💛 @potatocrisp.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

saw a post i liked on tumblr today.....didnt see that they'd posted it on their account here but i wish they would its a sentiment that resonated w me more than making "good" art it's just important to make art....thanks man

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Aidan Rosario @aidansr.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Assembly and DFM are those things you dont really learn in school, but somehow it’s so satisfying when everything clicks into place!

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Aidan Rosario @aidansr.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I usually try to keep a pretty one downloadable on my website, but i have a plain text one that I use for applications and sharing with recruiters/clients

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MelodyFoxes Ⓥ🎨🏳️‍🌈 @melodyfoxes.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

We're in times where thieves can identify as artists, but people can't identify as themselves.

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Aidan Rosario @aidansr.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Nice work! I’m a big fan of some of the designs they’ve been releasing!

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 28/06/2025

this technology that i cant even get my own employees to use without literally threatening them is definitely going to be profitable one day

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The Big, Beautiful Bill assigns each American a billionaire who will live the
American dream for you. You can check in on your billionaire at intervals and see how he is using your money. Maybe he's building a 19th pool. Maybe he's buying himself some formerly public land! Maybe he's taking a Supreme Court justice on a dream vacation! Maybe he is reupholstering the Statue of Liberty to hide the poem.

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EGAIR - European Guild for AI Regulation @egair.eu · 28/06/2025

These tools were sold under the pretence of making work faster, easier, and producing better products. Yet more often than not, we find they make the world duller, work less meaningful, and the products worse, while enriching the few. And people are catching on.

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Aidan Rosario @aidansr.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Development sketches from my time as a freelance footwear designer (deckers x lab Baja). I don’t often do pencil sketches anymore, but it’s always such a treat! #designsky #idsky #idsketching #footwear #shoedesign #industrialdesign

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Aidan Rosario @aidansr.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Absolutely! Sketching is an act of exploration. I think the way sketching is being undervalued rn, it’s going to be important to remind students the idea that each sketch is a step along the journey to a product. The destination is often not a pretty illustration.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 12/04/2025

Info on its energy gobbling should be in every news story about AI. It is newsworthy. It is inseparable from the tech itself.

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Aidan Rosario @aidansr.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

It’s crazy how i haven’t checked lemanoosh even once since i stopped working at an agency

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Aidan Rosario @aidansr.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I recently gave a presentation to some ID first years about design sketching and the value of loose but clear communication. It was so nice to chat with the young designers and encourage them to push the boundaries of design sketching. #designsketching #idsketching #designsky #industrialdesign

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AdiFitri @adifitri.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Better a pig than a gen A.I. user!

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Aidan Rosario @aidansr.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Love this! That purple really pops!

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Aidan Rosario @aidansr.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Especially when it has someone else’s watermark on it! Makes me crazy

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