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Bill Couch

@couch.studio
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Engineering @figma.com, previously Twitter. Photographer, cyclist, runner.
It never gets easier, you just go faster.
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Bill Couch @couch.studio · 11/07/2025
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You Should Probably Leave Substack
You should probably leave Substack. Here’s why and how.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Why did so many working class New Yorkers vote for Donald Trump last week — and even more not vote at all? I went to Hillside Ave in Queens and Fordham Rd in the Bronx to find out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7Fc...
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Why did so many New Yorkers vote for Donald Trump?
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
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Victor @vjo.li · 14/05/2025
And just like this, @couch.studio is on stage for Figma Site #FigmaConfig
Main stage showing speakers namesZoomed in photo of people on stage
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maxvoltar @maxvoltar.be · 02/05/2025
If you’re the type of person who geeks out about their design tools, I highly recommend you attend/dial in to watch this deep dive I’m doing with Lauren Budorick and @rog.ie on Wednesday. config.figma.com/san-francisc...
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Config 2025 (May 7)
Main Stage: Figma Deep Dive
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Bill Couch @couch.studio · 14/03/2025
Just an incredible story, a return to form for The New Yorker, that’s incredibly downtown Manhattan coded www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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The Case of the Missing Elvis
When a kitschy bust of the King was swiped from the East Village restaurant where it had lived for thirty-seven years, the theft ignited a fight over the soul of downtown.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 06/02/2025
why are we putting the bad software developers in charge of everything? if we have to be ruled by people who make websites i reckon the figma team can run the treasury department a lot better than facebook guys
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Bill Couch @couch.studio · 06/02/2025
On the latest episode of How Long Gone, Ira Madison III said Bluesky “gives big building co-op board meeting energy” which made me lol but also I’m here for
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Bill Couch @couch.studio · 06/02/2025
This deserves all of your time and demands far greater exposure www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
nytimes.com
Video: Opinion | Don’t Believe Him
Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
helpful and important to stop thinking of x as a social media platform and see and talk about it for what it is: a political weapon
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Bill Couch @couch.studio · 26/01/2025
New winter chill worth the time from Jacques Greene youtu.be/Q1VU6z_2R0Q
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Addison Rae - Aquamarine (Jacques Greene Edit)
YouTube video by Jacques Greene
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Bill Couch @couch.studio · 24/01/2025
All I want to do is shoot photography, resume my Studio newsletter, add and curate a linkblog on my @ghost.org instance, read books and magazines, scour for new-to-me music, and get rid of private vehicles in cities.
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Gary Ismay @goodbinary.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Essential reading for navigation app users 🤔 a brilliant blog ciechanow.ski/gps/
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GPS – Bartosz Ciechanowski
Interactive article explaining how GPS works.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer. These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP. You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇 www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...
A street is orange from flames and you can see the high winds in the palm trees. Sparks fly down the streetA fire truck is engulfed in parks and flames are seen on the hill. The entire photo is red and orange from the fireA fireman with a hose runs across the front of a house in flames in the backgroundThe inside of a house is a ball of flames. The only visible thing inside is a burning Christmas tree
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Bill Couch @couch.studio · 08/01/2025
Early signal of traffic on Broadway with congestion pricing indicates its complete pedestrianization is significantly more feasible than it was 4 days ago.
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Bill Couch @couch.studio · 06/01/2025
The congestion pricing roll out is genuinely so exciting, feels like an epoch event
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Metropolitan Transportation Authority @mta.info · 04/01/2025
It’s happening! Tonight, MTA Chair & CEO Janno Lieber unveiled one of the signs at the entrance to the Congestion Relief Zone. Tolling begins at midnight. Learn more: congestionreliefzone.mta.info
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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 21/12/2024
it’s the first day of winter ❄️
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Bill Couch @couch.studio · 17/12/2024
Nice way to understand how much NYC congestion pricing may affect you, others, and services you depend on starting January 5th, from the @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
nytimes.com
See How Much NYC's Congestion Pricing Plan Would Cost You
A new toll on drivers hopes to reduce traffic in one of the world’s most congested cities. How would it work?
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Steve Lee @stevelee.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Reminder that if your feed is often populated by stuff from the same few people who post a lot, there's a feed called Quiet Posters which shows you stuff from people you follow who post less often: bsky.app/profile/why....
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Bill Couch @couch.studio · 08/12/2024
@chaykak.bsky.social relevant www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...
noemamag.com
We Need To Rewild The Internet  | NOEMA
The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.
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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Yet again I have written a medium-insane holiday gift guide 4 u!!!!
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Put Your Money Where Your Loved One’s Mouth Is
A food writer’s annual guide to gastronomic gift giving.
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Bill Couch @couch.studio · 24/11/2024
Kelly Lee Owens put out one of my favorite albums of the year, and now I’m very much enjoying her recent Boiler Room set youtu.be/F6zNJbZzuO0?...
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Kelly Lee Owens | Boiler Room: Manchester
YouTube video by Boiler Room
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Bill Couch @couch.studio · 23/11/2024
The smoked trout sandwich on togarashi focaccia at Gem Home is the simplest, best sandwich I’ve had in NYC lately
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Metropolitan Transportation Authority @mta.info · 22/11/2024
We are pleased to have received formal approval from the Federal Highway Administration for the phase-in feature of the Central Business District Tolling Program. Read the re-evaluation and the Value Pricing Pilot Program agreement here: new.mta.info/project/CBDT...
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Re-Evaluation 2 and VPPP Agreement
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Bill Couch @couch.studio · 20/11/2024
I still miss the first iteration of muxtape from Justin Ouellette
The original translucent cassette tape brand image for Muxtape
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Bill Couch @couch.studio · 19/11/2024
One day it’d be nice for someone upon learning my work history to not ask me what I think about him
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Bill Couch @couch.studio · 15/11/2024
Some may call this weekend trip to London a mental health break from America
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Bill Couch @couch.studio · 14/11/2024
For me, the best trade-off between convenience and reliable efficiency for travel from Manhattan to JFK with some luggage is: • Uber to Penn Station ($20-30)→ • LIRR to Jamaica ($5-8) → • AirTrain to JFK ($8.50) If you can conveniently take the subway to Penn, max cost drops from $46 to $20.
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Figma @figma.com · 14/11/2024
Two stops for #Config2025: San Francisco and London. Get your early bird tix (50% off) at figma.bot/Config25-bsky → Nov 14 - Dec 13: Call for Speakers → May 6-8: Config Global (San Francisco) → May 14: Config London
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13/11/2024
Breaking News: New York City will revive its once-abandoned plan for the U.S.'s first congestion-pricing program, but at a reduced rate of a $9 toll for most vehicles to enter Midtown and Lower Manhattan, according to five people familiar with the matter.
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New York to Revive Congestion Pricing With $9 Toll
Gov. Kathy Hochul is expected to announce the revised program on Thursday after having put the original $15 toll on hold.
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Bill Couch @couch.studio · 12/06/2023
I didn’t think I’d find a company to join and job to start that had me as excited as Twitter. But I found it again — starting today, I’m joining Figma to grow and lead the Prototyping Fidelity engineering team!
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Bill Couch @couch.studio · 07/06/2023
Monday
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Bill Couch @couch.studio · 30/05/2023
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Bill Couch @couch.studio · 13/05/2023
If someone said to you, “Tell me a story,” would you have one to tell?
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Bill Couch @couch.studio · 06/05/2023
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Bill Couch @couch.studio · 30/04/2023
I cannot stop thinking about this piece on givers, takers, and doorknobs in conversations. I want to talk with people who can occupy both, and recognize when I provide doorknobs as an affordance versus a boast. www.experimental-history.com/p/good…
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Good conversations have lots of doorknobs
Or "Spiderman Is My Boyfriend"
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