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Linus Boman

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Linus Boman @timesnewboman.com · 18/08/2025
A few tells of OpenAI's image generation: 1) that sepia 2) the default text style - semibold, all caps, with rounded corners 3) the text not being quite centre aligned - it's particularly noticable for the date and time. 4) the details it gets wrong on the clapper board.
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Linus Boman @timesnewboman.com · 16/08/2025
Cursive styling fail 😂
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Linus Boman @timesnewboman.com · 15/08/2025
Inspirational. ❤️🙅🍑💨
The image displays an interior space featuring a vibrant green wall covered in various plants, illuminated by a neon sign that reads "Love never fails." But the choice of cursive script makes it appear ambiguous if it reads as fails or as farts. In front of the wall, there is a plush pink armchair with a blue patterned cushion and a modern, minimalist gold-framed table.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Zohran Mamdani do you condemn Mr Bean for his desecration of Whistler's Mother?
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Linus Boman @timesnewboman.com · 26/06/2025
you can use the mnemonic "epi to me, baby!" but sung like the opening to "pretty fly for a white guy" by the offspring, because they were the "epitome" of bad taste in 1998. now I just need something to help me remember how to spell mnemonic, which i always write like the start of "pneumonia".
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Linus Boman @timesnewboman.com · 12/06/2025
whoever controls the playlist at my gym is a devious sicko. sufjan stevens? i came here for gains, not to softly weep as i introspect on the beautiful brokenness of mortality 💪😭🍂
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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 12/06/2025
Wikipedia... IS THE SUMMARY. THAT'S WHAT AN ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLE IS. A SUMMARY.
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Linus Boman @timesnewboman.com · 12/06/2025
Haha, definitely giving some Kerrygold vibes! Though maybe not as blatant as this: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
abc.net.au
Oreo's maker is suing Aldi over packaging. Here's what's happening
It's not the first time Aldi has faced legal trouble over the packaging and branding of its products.
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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 05/06/2025
Maybe you’ve heard: every font is free! Since fonts aren’t subject to copyright, you can legally ‘pirate’ them if you use a specific loophole! ...except that’s not really true. I’ve seen this claim repeated quite a lot recently, and it’s missing some pretty important nuance. 🧵 A thread:
Alphabet and numbers in a monospaced typeface (MD System Mono, specifically), arranged in a grid. In the bottom row, ‘$0’ (zero dollars) is highlighted in bright red.
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BlindNewWorld @blindnewworld.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
The video game industry has made major advancements in #accessibility - but cutbacks threaten to impact the way people with #disabilities play, connect and communicate with others in the gaming community. 🎮 #BlindNewWorld (Story via @theverge.com ‬ ⬇️)
theverge.com
As the game industry cuts back, accessibility is feeling the impact
After years of growth, industry turmoil has left the accessibility community at a standstill.
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Linus Boman @timesnewboman.com · 22/05/2025
On Nebula now (with bonus commentary), premiering on YouTube in an hour. Turns out, the MPAA aren't the most notorious or the most ironic font pirates of all time. Not by a long shot.
nebula.tv
Linus Boman — The secret history of font piracy
The infamous anti-DVD-piracy PSA turns out to have used a
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Linus Boman @timesnewboman.com · 22/05/2025
Very interesting seeing the colours inverted! This has a touch less sensor and the haptic feedback on the bottom too! You love to see it!
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Linus Boman @timesnewboman.com · 19/05/2025
Moving forward, my performance reviews will be exclusively handled by Trustpilot. I will be taking no further questions at this time.
According to Trustpilot, 12 x 1-star reviews and zero x 2, 3, 4 or 5 star reviews = average rating of 1.9.
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Ian Danskin @innuendostudios.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
being a youtuber bankrupted me youtu.be/vlf8c8SV39o
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being a youtuber bankrupted me
YouTube video by Innuendo Studios
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Linus Boman @timesnewboman.com · 08/05/2025
Glad you popped by the stream!
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Linus Boman @timesnewboman.com · 02/05/2025
I don't know what kind of week you've had, but in case you need it, please observe this diagram on the right of a small figure bowing to you in this electronic stud finder manual.
Manual for an electronic stud finder which a contains an amazing clipart image of a figure bowing next to the message "My dear customer, if there are any mistakes, incorrectness, missing information or product defect, please let us know. We would like the opportunity to make corrections."
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Linus Boman @timesnewboman.com · 20/04/2025
Okay I've been corrected, it is actually Danish. But that makes it even more confusing why this hasn't been done sooner. Nordic friendly-fire, so to say.
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Linus Boman @timesnewboman.com · 20/04/2025
I'll be cold and buried before I recognise the dissolution of the Kalmar Union
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Linus Boman @timesnewboman.com · 20/04/2025
So many great potential mechanics - from choking on a meatball to being crushed by a dresser to being electrocuted in the lighting section.
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Linus Boman @timesnewboman.com · 20/04/2025
Look I understand the brand would never sign off on it, but the Hitman franchise is Swedish - so why in Odin's name has there never been a level set in a flat pack furniture superstore?
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Linus Boman @timesnewboman.com · 12/04/2025
Whoever installs one of these in a restroom with a baby changing station needs to be arrested. They may be released on parole only to serve providing jump scares at haunted houses.
Xcelerator hand dryer / jet engine simulator
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Linus Boman @timesnewboman.com · 11/04/2025
Avoid getting confused by similar shaped glyphs with Atkinson Hyperlegible, now available in the improved "Next" version and Mono. Available on Google Fonts.
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Linus Boman @timesnewboman.com · 09/04/2025
Damn. Looking clean!
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Linus Boman @timesnewboman.com · 07/04/2025
I will share my thoughts in a nebula plus video for sure!
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Deviant Ollam ツ @deviantollam.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Wow, you just never know who you will meet when wandering a large trade show floor! @timesnewboman.com and i were both pleased to run into one another in Vegas this week. ☺️👍 (If you're not a follower, I urge you to immediately watch his stuff, starting here... youtu.be/YP9gEeVQZ2U )
Two smiling people on a trade show expo floor, wearing shoulder bags and surrounded by milling crowds, most of whom are unaware that these two YouTubers cared more about meeting one another here in Las Vegas than they cared for much of the commercial goods on display.  ☺️👍
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Linus Boman @timesnewboman.com · 02/04/2025
Ok, how many wells has the creator poisoned?
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Linus Boman @timesnewboman.com · 02/04/2025
Someone needs to make Balatro for Mahjong. All I ask is when you inevitably become a billionaire, sure be evil, but just significantly less evil than the rest of the cohort. Like just poison a well and tear down a community centre evil. We'll accept that as progress at this point.
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Linus Boman @timesnewboman.com · 28/03/2025
in case it was ambiguous, I am less than jazzed about the situation
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Linus Boman @timesnewboman.com · 28/03/2025
engaging with ai slop used to be for boomers on facebook. now it's gen x on reddit. millennials aren't safe. not a matter of if but when.
An AI generated meme about being gen x. The man appears to be smoking a melted spark plug and has a different facial structure from image to image.
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Tantacrul @tantacrul.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Last week, I gave a talk about how we can improve the design of open source software at FOSS Backstage Design in Berlin. Here's the video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=12TJ...
youtube.com
Martin Keary – Achieving Excellence in Open Source Software Design #FOSSDesign
YouTube video by Plain Schwarz
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Linus Boman @timesnewboman.com · 17/03/2025
Motorsport is outside my area of interest, but I can definitely relate to the feeling that 2017 was "a few years ago". 😅 But thanks for watching!
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Linus Boman @timesnewboman.com · 17/03/2025
Spirited away
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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 14/02/2025
I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime. This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today. aresluna.org/the-hardest-...
aresluna.org
The hardest working font in Manhattan
A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.
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Linus Boman @timesnewboman.com · 28/02/2025
It's like when they use Д as an A in faux Cyrillic, but they really commited to the bit. Tangentially related I saw this IRL and was simultaneously hit with nostalgia and disappointment at the same time.
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Linus Boman @timesnewboman.com · 26/02/2025
rupaul disposing of single serving ketchup packet, "now sachet, away!"
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Linus Boman @timesnewboman.com · 24/02/2025
ripped from internal fugue state by the microsoft teams ringtone for the 4th time today
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Linus Boman @timesnewboman.com · 24/02/2025
scrolling anything for literally 30 seconds
the hows it going... jesus christ meme but it's just zooming in as he has an existential crisis
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Braille Institute @brailleinstitute.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Tired of confusing lowercase L’s and uppercase I’s while reading? Us, too. Save yourself the mix-ups and start reading easy with Atkinson Hyperlegible Next—the new and improved version of our award-winning font created with Applied Design. Download here: bit.ly/4hPhHxF
Light blue graphic with text reads: "Atkinson Hyperlegible Next. The world's only hyperlegible font. Now even hyperlegible-er. Free to download. Free to use." The graphic features the word “FREE” highlighted in white and the Braille Institute logo along the bottom of the blue block.
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Linus Boman @timesnewboman.com · 13/02/2025
This headline writer has really "mastered" the use of quotation marks.
The 5-Ingredient "Delicious" Gnocchi Dinner That Never Lets Me Down (It's My Favorite Way to Cook Gnocchi)
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Linus Boman @timesnewboman.com · 08/02/2025
They're airframes from JINS, forget which model!
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Linus Boman @timesnewboman.com · 01/02/2025
In the mask off era, one talented dude can write some notes, recap the latest episode of this dumper fire clown car crash and go *can you believe this shit*, pepper in some relatable personal anecdotes and it will have more laughs in an hour than Bill Maher's entire career.
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Linus Boman @timesnewboman.com · 01/02/2025
It's kind of genius. In the John Stewart era golden age of the Daily Show it took a whole room if writers to make the news interesting, to cut through the veneer of respectability and expose the hypocrisy with a razor sharp wit.
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Linus Boman @timesnewboman.com · 01/02/2025
As a source of comedy material - recounting the news has gone from summarising a broadcast of C-SPAN to recapping a season of professional wrestling.
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Linus Boman @timesnewboman.com · 01/02/2025
Getting on a stage in front of a comedy audience and just telling them things that happened in the news was *not* a viable way to do comedy in an era where things were not this batshit insane on the face of it.
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Linus Boman @timesnewboman.com · 01/02/2025
The thing about Josh Johnson is it *is* very impressive his ability to write new material, totally at a different scale from the generation of comedians before him, he's very talented and works very hard *but*...
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Linus Boman @timesnewboman.com · 31/01/2025
Hey, thanks for letting me know! I'll be sure to fix it (happily Nebula allows reuploading) and thankful to catch it before going on YT!
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Linus Boman @timesnewboman.com · 31/01/2025
New video out now on @nebula.tv - coming to YouTube tomorrow. There is also an exclusive companion video going deep into the weeds on the design changes and the reported costs. nebula.tv/videos/linus...
nebula.tv
Linus Boman — Walmart's new $1 million logo
Did Walmart really lose their minds overpay for a simple logo tweak? To find the real answer, let me break down some branding jargon 101. What's the difference between a logo, a visual identity and a ...
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Linus Boman @timesnewboman.com · 26/01/2025
Neurospicymancer
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Linus Boman @timesnewboman.com · 24/01/2025
It's a disturbingly popular delusion
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