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Justin Ladia @justinladia.com · 25/09/2026

Caldwell Tanner AND Josh Ruben in one Game Changer episode? Mama's eating good tonight!

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL BI VISIBILITY DAY

cover of NOT POUNDED BY BI ERASURE BECAUSE MY CURRENT HETERO-PRESENTING RELATIONSHIP DOES NOT INVALIDATE MY QUEERNESS featuring a ladybuck in a red suit lookin over at a VERY ANGRY sentient eraser they are on a long street with lush green plants on either side

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Justin Ladia @justinladia.com · 22/09/2026

Now collecting tracks for my Fall 2026 playlist, Dust: link.deezer.com/s/34tsJ1ZhU4... See all of the Everybody Makes Mixtapes playlists here: portfolio.justinladia.com/playlists

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Dust [Fall 2026]

Kept that invoice down and paid it in full

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Ash @fishyash.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Friendly reminder that Duolingo was initially concieved to trick people into translating articles for free, which they later used as training data for MTL algorithms. Duolingo's primary purpose has NEVER been about teaching you a language, even from the start! slate.com/technology/2...

If it doesn’t charge users and, so far, doesn’t serve them any ads, how does Duolingo make money? It tricks you into working as an unpaid translation service. At the end of some lessons, Duolingo will ask you if you want to practice by translating a real-world document. Which will turn out to be, say, a BuzzFeed article. By melding together enough stabs at this task from high-level Duolingo users, the app can render a surprisingly accurate translation. Which is worth good money. So far, Duolingo has contracts with BuzzFeed and CNN to translate stories from English into languages such as Spanish, French, and Portuguese. This service is already earning Duolingo hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, but von Ahn predicts he will be adding a raft of new clients soon. “The language translations market is huge,” he says. “It’s a $30 billion per year market.”

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

thank you bisexual dice polycule

image of a swirling purple background with light blue dice floating in the air they all have faces and look DANG GOOD. the text says 'congratulations. if you are seeing this you have been chosen by the bisexual dice polycule. they have cleansed your misfortune hexes have a wonderful day'

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Justin Ladia @justinladia.com · 21/09/2026

Happy September 21 to all who celebrate!

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Justin Ladia @justinladia.com · 21/09/2026

Last day of summer! There's 70-ish wibbly-wobbly songs in this edition of Everybody Makes Mixtapes. Check it out, and I'll see you in the fall.

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Justin Ladia @justinladia.com · 20/09/2026

100%'d Big Walk. What a game. 🥹🥲😭

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Justin Ladia @justinladia.com · 19/09/2026

Busy day yesterday but we opened the new exhibit, At the Knees of our Ancestors, the story of Black Canadians and the slave trade in Canada. It was a busy few months and an even busier lasy two weeks and after celebrating with the team, it’s recovery time! More on the exhibit soon.

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Ettuardo "Ettu" Etui @ettuetui.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

MYSTERY HUNT SOLUTION: "Examining the foodstuffs,, it becomes quickly Apparent that they are all components of a meal that the Constructor had at the Plainview Taco Bell on 27/5/2009... " ME: I Am Glad I Spent $1000s Of Dollars To Fly Out For This

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ok that's 3 minutes, keep moving, got a lot of sad teens here.

Just 3 minutes with a mini horse or donkey improves teens' moods, study says

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Justin Ladia @justinladia.com · 17/09/2026

Have you considered <Big Walk train horn sound>?

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Justin Ladia @justinladia.com · 17/09/2026

Days since a HP reference in NYT Games: 0

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Justin Ladia @justinladia.com · 15/09/2026

“Hyrox athlete makes literal media shitstorm”

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Justin Ladia @justinladia.com · 15/09/2026

Not me using my degree when I thought I didn’t need it any more.

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B-Side @benmsmith.com · 15/09/2026

as required by law

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Justin Ladia @justinladia.com · 15/09/2026

My boys over at the Eurowhat talking about Canada’s potential participation. Go give it a listen.

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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Your honor where's my hug

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B0YKSSR @zachwell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Doth thou wish to live deliciously?

Quaker Oats tea pot bussin it open nasty style

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Justin Ladia @justinladia.com · 13/09/2026

Just four [insert word here]'s away from 100%-ing Big Walk.

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alex duck 🏴‍☠️ @stumkes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Otra muestra más de lo HASTA LA POLLA que estoy de Akihiro y de Level-Slop

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Justin Ladia @justinladia.com · 12/09/2026

I'm SORRY why hasn't anyone told me about the garlic knots from Wall Street Slice before!?

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Justin Ladia @justinladia.com · 11/09/2026

Couldn’t decide on whether to write: “new drag name just dropped” or “how to describe my relationship if I get with a Dutchman” so I’m just going to do both.

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Justin Ladia @justinladia.com · 11/09/2026

There's this user on the Winnipeg subreddit who recognizes notable Winnipeggers on Fridays, and god I wish they could feature more people of colour. There was like, maybe, one? Maybe two? Out of 50+?

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Justin Ladia @justinladia.com · 10/09/2026

I haven't heard about one of the guys who runs Basecamp being terrible in a hot minute but it looks like his "haha we made a racist list as a joke its not that srs" is even more terrible and we should have seen that coming

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Justin Ladia @justinladia.com · 08/09/2026

Some accounts on Bluesky are straight up just a person trying to convince themselves that their use of gen AI is good and not ethically ambiguous.

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Adam Ellis @adamtots.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Thorgy was so correct when she called P!nk a "bad seed on this earth"

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WebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org · 04/09/2026

28 years ago today, Google was launched. This 1999 ad promised a pure search engine, no news, no ads, no distractions, no portal litter. Things have changed...

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Justin Ladia @justinladia.com · 04/09/2026

A tragedy in four emojis: 🟨🟩🟦🟪

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Justin Ladia @justinladia.com · 04/09/2026

Manitobans after the new license plate design vote results:

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Justin Ladia @justinladia.com · 04/09/2026

"Finally, daddy's back" – Taskmaster, Season 22, Episode 1

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Justin Ladia @justinladia.com · 03/09/2026

They say only 10% of your brain is used at one time. The other 90% is a Spirit Halloween.

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Justin Ladia @justinladia.com · 03/09/2026

For my birthday, my mom got me a giant-ass tub of Cheese Balls and if that isn't love I don't know what is.

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Justin Ladia @justinladia.com · 02/09/2026

Two mortal misdeeds from today’s crossword: untethered vanity and yet another untimely HP reference. Mmmmmm, pass.

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Justin Ladia @justinladia.com · 02/09/2026

There was this one time a client (a larger organization) asked me to design something based on an illustration they had commissioned. When I sent a proof one piece of feedback was to make it be less reminiscent of fireworks. The illustration was called “Hanabi” which is “fireworks” in Japanese.

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Justin Ladia @justinladia.com · 01/09/2026

Check out this rebrand I did for @eurowhat.bsky.social for their tenth season! The symbol is a combination of the Eurovision heart motif, and the question mark to signify the “what” in their name. Altogether it also looks like a stylized exclamation point! More to come on this rebrand later!

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B-Side @benmsmith.com · 01/09/2026

we also get to premiere the BEAUTIFUL visual refresh @justinladia.com helped us out with over the summer. More to come with this, but it already looks so good, y'all.

episode cover for 308, WELCOME TO BULGARIA

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Justin Ladia @justinladia.com · 01/09/2026

Kevin MacLeod deserves an Emmy and/or a Grammy for his prominence, having been the composer behind so many YouTube video royalty-free background songs. He’s THE composer of the internet generation.

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Justin Ladia @justinladia.com · 31/08/2026

A thread: Justin reviews the photos of Winnipeg's entries for Le Burger Week on how appetizing they look.

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Justin Ladia @justinladia.com · 31/08/2026

Living in Winnipeg can sometimes be a fever dream. Enter, career mayoral candidate Umar Hayat and his promise to make sex for disabled people legal (???) as described in this AI-generated Instagram post he made. www.instagram.com/reel/Dcr17XZ...

An AI-generated campaign poster by Winnipeg mayoral candidate Umar Hayat with a headline that reads “Do you support making sex legal for the disabled?”

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fold @foldpls.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

yea cream on it

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Justin Ladia @justinladia.com · 27/08/2026

He is begging to be immortalized in a drawing

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Ted 🧽🗿👖🆗 @tjvanhouten.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

TEAR MY MAZE INTO PIECES THERE IS A LAST RESORT

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Justin Ladia @justinladia.com · 26/08/2026

Babe wake up new Josh Ruben reaction pic just dropped

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Justin Ladia @justinladia.com · 25/08/2026

Since graphic design in Winnipeg has gained visibility in local news (for better or worse), I'd like to remind people in our industry that a Discord channel exists for discussions on all the recent local graphic design-related news going on. Join us and let's talk! Join here: discord.gg/r6BYDjZKB

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Join the Winnipeg Graphic Designers Discord Server!

Check out the Winnipeg Graphic Designers community on Discord – hang out with 218 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

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