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Luke Tonge

@luketonge.bsky.social

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Is Birmingham a major EU city?

09.02.2026 12:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

No one talks about this, but the secret to creative excellence is having 8 projects with concurrent deadlines and overlapping meetings and being in a constant state of panic

05.02.2026 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

some days at work I reach a point where if one more person talks to me about AI, I'm going to make them donate to a charity of my choosing

05.02.2026 21:50 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

05.02.2026 11:50 β€” πŸ‘ 31799    πŸ” 13690    πŸ’¬ 593    πŸ“Œ 1609
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Free tools for better businessing, from Studioworks A free collection of interactive tools and resources. From bookkeeping and tax prep to writing tricky client emails, it’s your small business spirit guide.

BIG NEW THING! For the last few months I’ve been building free interactive business tools and they’re live today!!

There’s a Bookkeeping Wizard (to do complex bookkeeping without Quickbooks!), and tools for pricing work, budgeting, and more!

library.studioworks.app

05.02.2026 17:42 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
'The Gamma Gambit', a short Marvel comic strip featuring Spider-Man and the Hulk was published as a novelty toilet paper roll in 1979. Image shows the packaging and the roll itself.

'The Gamma Gambit', a short Marvel comic strip featuring Spider-Man and the Hulk was published as a novelty toilet paper roll in 1979. Image shows the packaging and the roll itself.

Let's briefly distract ourselves from it all by revisiting the late 1970s when Marvel published an original Spider-Man/Hulk team-up story on a... roll of toilet paper. As far as I am aware this has never been reprinted. My brother got a roll of this as a birthday present(!) and I was so jealous.

05.02.2026 12:32 β€” πŸ‘ 61    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 4
Acrobat screengrab with a nonsense link to Generate Podcast

Acrobat screengrab with a nonsense link to Generate Podcast

I was just using Acrobat for, you know, print production, but realised I should have, of course, been generating a podcast.

#sillyme

30.01.2026 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I've been working in software and content for like 20 years and these are some of the most batshit requirements for a job I've seen
job-boards.greenhouse.io/xai/jobs/501...

30.01.2026 21:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Elizabeth Goodspeed on the limits of imperfection as a design strategy As AI and digital tools make polish effortless, analogue imperfection has taken on new cultural weight. But what does β€œanalogue” actually mean when most things are made, shared, and consumed digitally...

My first @its-nice-that.bsky.social column of the year is about faking imperfection (fauxbi-sabi) and what it means to have a resurgence of analog aesthetics without analog tools πŸ“·
www.itsnicethat.com/articles/eli...

29.01.2026 23:33 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Point: medieval life was unrelenting horror, a daily onslaught of ignorance, barbarity, and pestilence

Counterpoint: you got to knock off work when the sun went down

27.01.2026 23:59 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Art Price in Minneapolis has the equipment to print on t-shirts and will do it for free if you bring your own clothing!

"You don’t know your role yet, maybe, but we are all finding out just what we have to offer.”

#FuckICE #ProudBlue #Pinks #DefundICE

23.01.2026 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 289    πŸ” 160    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 9
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While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: β†’

15.01.2026 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 10097    πŸ” 3412    πŸ’¬ 67    πŸ“Œ 73
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Hello, I’m Jas!

I’m a German-born, British-bred artist living in Shropshire, England πŸ™‚β€β†•οΈ

I β™₯️ riso printingβ€”it’s massively influenced my style. I create fun, fluro art packed with deliciously crunchy textures.

I’m a big-fan of bugs, kindness and picture books πŸ›πŸ’š

#portfolioday

13.01.2026 16:08 β€” πŸ‘ 164    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
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oh no apple music no no no

10.01.2026 09:30 β€” πŸ‘ 190    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 56    πŸ“Œ 71

Pixie! πŸ§šβ€β™‚οΈ

08.01.2026 23:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

It is Super Bowl Sunday for scaries

04.01.2026 18:35 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

COURSE IT WON! πŸ†πŸΈ

01.01.2026 21:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

they can smell your farts!

27.12.2025 23:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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"We're excited to share two creative directions with you today...."

23.12.2025 22:57 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, and will return in Avengers: Doomsday

23.12.2025 23:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2454    πŸ” 735    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 17

The manipulation of the Epstein files by the Trump administration to falsely implicate political rivals is not only extraordinarily malevolent β€” it’s also extraordinarily inept.

Surely some kind of crime is being committed here by the DOJ

20.12.2025 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 564    πŸ” 220    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 9

The notion that "95% of people who responded to the survey are against this" can be glossed as "no clear consensus" is even more absurd than the usual "pretty damn absurd" usual baseline for uk politics.

16.12.2025 09:04 β€” πŸ‘ 277    πŸ” 102    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 3
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Happy holidays

16.12.2025 03:43 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I guess so πŸ€·πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ

13.12.2025 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This feels a LOT worse than you're making it sound.

12.12.2025 22:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Well this truly sucks butt

11.12.2025 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œA way of doing something original is by trying something so painstaking that nobody else has ever bothered with it.”
β€”Brian Eno

10.12.2025 14:29 β€” πŸ‘ 75    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4
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Sorry to mention Pop-Up Frog again, but if you have a moment, I’d be so grateful if you could vote for it to win The School Reading List Book of the Year award. This book was such a joy to illustrate, and I’m incredibly proud to see it in the running πŸ˜ƒ

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

09.12.2025 12:37 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

CEO of company laying off thousands of people surprised and frustrated by reaction

04.12.2025 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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