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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

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John Rushing @jrcreative.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

From Rory Sutherland: "Strangely, tech has this magical property, which is that money spent on #tech is automatically assumed to be both future-proofing you and increasing efficiency, and therefore it doesn't receive the same scrutiny as money spent on anything else." www.youtube.com/shorts/R3zcL...

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Rory Sutherland on the bizarre double standard at the heart of every business decision

YouTube video by The Bottleneck Podcast

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John Rushing @jrcreative.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I could spend all day listening to toddlers mispronouncing "Mike Wazowski." My-cow-ski Mikey-zowski Miskey-owski Staaahp! 😍

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

How incredible: “The full delivery took about 30 minutes. For hours afterward, pairs of whales held the baby above the water until it was able to swim… What struck the researchers was how many mother, sister and daughter whales united to support the new calf, even ones that weren’t related.”

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Scientists captured female sperm whales on video working together during a birth to protect the calf

Scientists have captured rare footage of a sperm whale giving birth, offering a window into the large mammals' behavior.

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John Rushing @jrcreative.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Welp. It's curtains for Adobe Animate. Another sacrifice to the tech gods. Here's one more animated piece to remember it by. . #adobe #graphicdesign #designsky

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John Rushing @jrcreative.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

*Sprinting after Wordle editor* I JUST WANNA TALK

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I cosign every single word of this anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

I do understand: you want permission. There’s a machine in the corner wrapped in human skin that makes things out of shit and blood to look like whatever you want (as long as you don’t look too closely). You gave one to your teacher and they didn’t notice. Your boss told you to use it after they laid off half the team and it was fine. You fed one to your kids and they liked it. You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you. You don’t need me to believe it’s useful, you just want me to be polite about it.

But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.

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John Rushing @jrcreative.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Maybe my favorite little aesthetic touch at my desk right now.

A small, wooden artist's model of an articulated human hand standing on a desk with its fingers positioned so as to serve as a storage stand for a digital tablet stylus.

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John Rushing @jrcreative.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

In a shocking twist of irony, my ad blocker has just launched an un-closable popup asking me to pay for a premium version. #capitalism #irony

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John Rushing @jrcreative.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Attention please, all advertisers everywhere: If you stick a 1 minute+ OTT spot on a YouTube video, I will simply click away and not watch the video. Every time.

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John Rushing @jrcreative.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

New portfolio site is live, and the job search is well and truly underway. johnrushingdesign.com #GraphicDesign #designsky

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Mitch Goldstein @mgoldst.com · 08/04/2025

a note about critique in #art and #design :

a book excerpt from 'how to be a design student (and how to teach them)" by mitch goldstein that reads: "Many people will disagree with me on this next bit,
but I do not accept the practice of harsh critiques. You
should not get torn apart in a critique. Critiques should
not be brutal; critiques should be honest and useful. If
you walk away feeling like garbage or like you were
beaten up, it was not a useful critique. It was a belittling
one. You should walk away from getting a critique feeling
empowered and excited to make the work better, not
defeated and miserable from the experience.
90 | how to be a design student It is up to both the givers and the receivers of the critique
to make this happen.
Last, remember that a critique is not a competition;
nobody wins the critique. Everybody is there to learn
and grow, and often you can learn as much from giving
a critique as you can from getting one. This is why you
should always pay close attention to critiques of work by
other students, as there is much to be learned from
discussing work beyond your own."

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John Rushing @jrcreative.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

1/ It seems to me that the rise of exploitative AI content generation and the decline of art education are linked. This is all just personal musing with little-to-no literary support behind it, I admit freely, so take it as you will.

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John Rushing @jrcreative.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

It's clear that *most* big corporations that have made a lot of progress in recent years with DEI did so purely for PR reasons. When prevailing attitude shifts or a greater threat to their stability emerges, the switch flips right back. Was never about values. www.businessinsider.com/adobe-ends-d...

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Adobe's HR chief tells staff: We're done with DEI hiring goals

Adobe shifts away from DEI hiring targets, joining Google and Meta in scaling back diversity efforts.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Not for nothing, but you could run a game of D&D via filibuster. "Will the Senator yield for a question?" "I yield for a question without yielding the floor." "Can I shove the gargoyle?" "Roll for strength." "9". *17 minute description of the gargoyle not moving after being shoved*

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John Rushing @jrcreative.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

People with trust issues (*raises hand*) need a way to opt out of April Fools Day.

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John Rushing @jrcreative.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

That's about the fastest I've ever finished Strands, which says more about me than about Strands.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

That is both messed up and disgraceful! You can’t just delete history! Arlington National Cemetery has removed information about prominent Black, Hispanic, and female service members, as well as topics such as the Civil War, from its website.

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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

During Kendrick's halftime show a man unfurled a Palestinian flag and was chased off stage and eventually tackled and removed by security.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

New Microsoft study finds that using generative AI at work makes employees' critical thinking skills "atrophied and unprepared" www.404media.co/microsoft-st...

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Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”

Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use.

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John Rushing @jrcreative.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

OK I'm a *little bit* of an Eagles fan now.

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John Rushing @jrcreative.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

This description 100% applies to me, but I feel like I could tell from the staging and production value alone that it was special. #SBLIX #Kendrick

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

At the Deathbed, by Edvard Munch, 1895

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

The real Super Bowl MVP was that chiron. Minimal, functional, bold, accessible.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse. The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million

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Louisiana coerced unhoused people into an unheated warehouse – and paid $17.5m for it

Dozens of New Orleanians were bused to a site with insufficient heating and blankets days before the city is to host the Super Bowl

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Typofonderie: fonts & typography @typofonderie.com · 06/02/2025

Typeface design is a daily battle for creativity, precision, rationality, with the objective of finding a declinable system. Glyph Deréon ffk swash, in version 96pt and 12pt.

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John Rushing @jrcreative.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Hearing a lot of empassioned appeals for people to avoid complacency and "do something," but not very many specifics about what people (who aren't federal employees) can do. In particular, what are things that people with children and inflexible work schedules can do?

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

A while back I asked folks why they’re joining Bluesky and the most common response I saw was, “I just want a good place to get my news” and, yall, no. Bad. GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE. youtu.be/PMOYN8JWdUk?...

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PBS News Weekend full episode, Jan. 25, 2025

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 25/01/2025

Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this. Smashed records. Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.

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Design Reviewed @designreviewed.com · 24/01/2025

Logos designed by Herb Lubalin, featured in Graphic Designers in the USA, Volume 1, 1971. www.designreviewed.com/artefacts/gr... #herblubalin

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John Rushing @jrcreative.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Today, I was precisely the 10,000th like on a post, and nothing so satisfying has ever happened to me.

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John Rushing @jrcreative.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Something tells me the package being shipped to me from Los Angeles to New Orleans this week isn't going to make it on time.

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John Rushing @jrcreative.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Don't wait until someone dies to write something beautiful about them.

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John Rushing @jrcreative.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

The mark and logotype are perfectly fine, but I'm more into the fun, vintage Americana vibe of the wearable swag.

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John Rushing @jrcreative.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Just so we can get all the un-follows out of the way now, I'd like you all to know that I will never apologize for liking and using Helvetica. #designsky #typography #fonts

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John Rushing @jrcreative.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

The feeling of an NES game cartridge clicking into place.

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David Hoang @davidhoang.com · 13/01/2025

Millenials are the final generation to not be internet and AI native. In fact, they grew up with frontiers. It's important for us to share the tactile and analog nature of our work so designers and engineers don't default to AI slop. Teach the craft.

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John Rushing @jrcreative.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Love this type, but I'm pretty sure the installers flipped that M around by mistake.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

It is a relief to know that our ancestors were worriers — awake in the darkness with crowded minds. Their worry is why we’re here.

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Ian Fay @ianfay.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Is Sandisk the first company in years to do a logo rebrand that, instead of going safe and generic, went the total opposite direction? Big fan of the new look. (New on top in black, old in red)

Comparison of the sandisk logos, black on top, red below.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I’ve been holding this in but… seems remiss not to recall the assassination of the abortion doctors? The bombing of clinics? Why act as if this is without that context?

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