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Puddle Oops

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type designer, famously said to be illiterate xotype.co šŸ“chicago

created July 6, 2023

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I see you chose exhaust fans for tonight

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v strong outfit, A+

5/9/2025, 10:04:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Millennials Stop Doing Boomerangs For FCF Challenge

5/9/2025, 9:02:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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PRECIOUS (one of my friends made the cat box version of this idea and I never forgave her for it)

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oh my god I forgot she was in this, thank you

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good morning who’s one interview closer to a job? inexplicably, me

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good morning

5/9/2025, 11:34:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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is it really an fcf post when you’re actually cherrypicking your onlyfans archives for coupon promo

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all of these sound pretty great did you see Cranston in The Studio? ate alllllll the scenery

5/9/2025, 3:05:22 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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yes but will it star Lisa Kudrow as it should

5/9/2025, 2:51:05 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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@profanity.accountant pee on me

5/9/2025, 2:49:56 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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next

4/9/2025, 9:28:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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girl stop it is too early

4/9/2025, 2:16:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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nearly posted this exact thing last night

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there’s a shegaze band called Adele Dazeem and I love that

4/9/2025, 1:27:03 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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some execs should have access to neither employee phone numbers nor their own phone

4/9/2025, 1:23:15 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Victoria Ratliff really said thank you to everyone she’s ever stepped over to get herself ahead

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ā€œWe’re lucky; it’s true. No one in the history of the world has lived better than we have; even the old kings and queens. The least we can do is enjoy it. If we don’t, it’s offensive. It’s an offense to all the billions of people who can only dream that one day they could live like we do.ā€

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by almost cold I mean 50F

4/9/2025, 1:01:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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it’s almost cold in Chicago I am returning back to life

4/9/2025, 1:00:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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grew up in northeastern TN and can confirm

4/9/2025, 3:35:06 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m so done with news reporters’ high strung nonsense I swear

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ā€œByline Bank Aragon Ballroomā€ lol

4/9/2025, 1:48:47 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I totally agree, good thinking

4/9/2025, 1:43:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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this is going to be such a mess

4/9/2025, 12:34:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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this is going to be such stupid horny nonsense and I am going to watch the hell out of it

4/9/2025, 12:22:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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made a cute at, please clap

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3/9/2025, 9:20:10 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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🌮

3/9/2025, 6:21:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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over-editorialized force-justified tone-deaf copy in multiple weights is the type designer’s primary tool because we can’t be bothered to consider how our shit gets used

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as a Chicagoan it’s not uncommon to be disappointed in something the Mayor spits out of their stupid bumbling mouth but it’s utterly alien territory to feel proud of something the Governor’s said

2/9/2025, 11:55:45 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Jane! Krakowski!!

2/9/2025, 2:46:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’ve thought about Thunderbolts for a day I feel like it could have been a deeply moving story about a lost guy who accidentally gets radicalized into being a spree killer but that actual horror got abstracted into a layer of nonsense magical thinking and CGI, so it fell flat and felt cowardly

2/9/2025, 1:43:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I feel like this battle would end with everyone still existing, but in tears and refusing to talk about it

2/9/2025, 1:38:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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making yogurt (not a euphemism)

2/9/2025, 12:49:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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important to inaugurate a new mirror! and good morning

2/9/2025, 12:48:42 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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this was a lot to process at 645AM

2/9/2025, 12:47:32 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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a categorization I have never heard once in my life

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their first 4 records were a huge part of my high school experience but then background FM radio afterwards

2/9/2025, 12:10:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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we still have one lime green room left in this apartment; I feel this whole post in my bones

2/9/2025, 3:24:35 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I knew that! I’m observant

2/9/2025, 1:26:06 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I watched Thunderbolts this morning with Mom it was fine

2/9/2025, 1:24:51 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m sorry is part of the title and I can’t tell if you were joking or not

2/9/2025, 1:15:36 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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South Central Rain (I’m Sorry)

2/9/2025, 12:20:37 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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gm to the cat who decided yowling into my face for kibble was a good idea

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this stuff was Jeni’s Blueberry Lemon Parfait and it was vv nice

1/9/2025, 1:05:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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right nary a mention of Nell’s or Area anything even slightly weird

1/9/2025, 8:03:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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it kind of kills me a little bit that this TikTok uses the typeface I made for Chicago’s brand identity

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I forgot we have blueberry lemon ice cream; this is marvelous

1/9/2025, 3:21:35 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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so fun fact there’s never been a comprehensive digital version of FG until Nick Sherman made this one from the original ATF drawings for letterpress (idk why she’s stuck at version .3 but she’s great in use use and has a million weight options; I use her all the time)

1/9/2025, 2:34:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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is he actually aware it’s a white party or is he seeing lots of guys in white clearly heeds to a party and not, you know, putting it together

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and here’s a closeup on the wreck which lol yes it felt that way

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I realized I couldn’t remember the date of last year’s enormous bike wreck so I checked my iOS Health for the workout and I found the map here’s the route

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@jonaldric.bsky.social this new display name triggering to me personally and it’s gotta go

31/8/2025, 9:47:27 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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this happens periodically and I love the incredulity wait until they hear how Mexican polka happened

31/8/2025, 9:35:28 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I really kind of hate it when I get this close also this is my first time approaching a hundo since The Great Scapula Rib and Wrist Whoopsie of 2024

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they’ll return it won’t be easy and you’ll be so mad but girl you’ll do it

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life update: Mom’s begun refusing food more frequently sad? not really she’s making a move in the direction she feels like she needs to go and I’m glad for that

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it’s cute

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she’s a marvel bitch now please move aside while she figures out throwing a car

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do I pull a long bike ride today to put august over a hundred miles y/y

31/8/2025, 1:39:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Perd Hapley

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arguably the same kind of catnip to the same kind of personality typo.social is the only one I’m on for type reasons and the vibe is kinda mostly insufferable

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it is basically usenet in its waning days including all the colorful characters

31/8/2025, 2:38:04 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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someone on here said recently they don’t trust non-country people using ā€œy’allā€ online because it always prefaces a canonically bad take and, and that is absolutely correct

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always-on dark background on my part doesn’t help either

30/8/2025, 7:06:15 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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coming out as the one person on earth who’s always thought šŸ«‚ was a film camera emoji shut up I never saw it big

30/8/2025, 6:59:07 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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good morning I wish Block Club a tense day of editorial meetings over That Article

30/8/2025, 1:26:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m still kinda furious about this article like why even try to talk about this as anything but political theater, much less do a both-sides piece of nonsense about it

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what in the milquetoast both-sides-ism is this nonsense article this is like Dutch cities in the 1930s-40s going hmm is it bad that the SS is coming to town, maybe it could be good? who can know

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fuck THAT guy husband has a bar coworker who hates making the occasional cocktail order, dude needs a warning sign on his back I did not know this & asked for an old fashioned he dumped sprite whiskey orange bitters some other nonsense into a glass and handed it to me have never forgiven that

29/8/2025, 1:46:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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as a prisoner of sunblock I’m ecstatic for ā€œwhich of my 347 jackets todayā€ weather

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amazing

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I am not a Sabrina Carpenter person really but Tears is vv cute

29/8/2025, 1:00:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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who this man wearing all these clothes idk

29/8/2025, 12:56:36 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I have completed my Dutch ij with acutes! the letter I care least about in the entire world, but gets SO MANY COMPLAINTS because there are a fuck ton of Dutch type designers and they are ANNOYING ABOUT IT

28/8/2025, 4:10:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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the North Carolinian roles are so subtly written everything from complaints about impropriety ("is there any place I can put my purse?") to casually demonizing everyone in an angelic voice and the accents are so accurate (which never happens!) as is the kids having no drawl but saying "y'all"

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we're finally watching White Lotus S3 (I know, leave me alone) I am historically a Parker Posey hater; everyone seems to hire her because she brings a big personality and I DON'T LIKE THAT, I wanna see the role, not the actor this is the first time I’ve liked her in literally anything

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this was me the night I finished packing up my mother’s house to sell it (terrible bottle of red drunk from a Hidden Valley Ranch shaker)

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god this whole scene and the work that made it great like who was offscreen handing Jamie Lee’s panties to him CORRECTLY so they had a snap to them how much sound effects work did it take to make them sound right did that boot need something inside it to correctly inflate

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@ptklein.com put ā€˜em over the top, cheers to that champion

27/8/2025, 3:11:06 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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yeah you are look what happened to your shoulder when they let you off leash stylist must be having a coronary rn I swear

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UGH glad you're ok speeding away is the general reaction I’ve heard about from others, but no direct experience with it

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so, the Halloween department at my Jewel is gonna be Going Through It this year

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VERY good color on you, A+

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bsky.app/profile/andy...

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@andypressman.itch.io is kin

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probably same tbh

25/8/2025, 6:09:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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also as a caregiver to a Dementia Lady who’s afraid to be perceived by other people, the show’s comparison of attitudes towards certain kinds of imprisonment vs caretaking validated a lot of stuff I have to think about all the time

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I am so in love with the wild stuntcasting casting from this season: late-70s teen heartthrob Robby Benson! Merritt Wever! Sandra Bernhard! Gwendoline Christie wearing red eyeshadow from her eyelids to her cheeks! amazing

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we finished Severance S2 last night and here is a very good article on the exhausting amount of art direction and handmade paintings throughout the series

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as a former Southerner who grew up looking out for FRESH HOT NOW neon signs I will never understand the allure of buying cold slimy hours-old Krispy Kreme doughnuts from a grocery store

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it’s UNDER SIXTY for the FIRST TIME in Chicago I’ll be able to DITCH MY SUNBLOCK SOON let’s do it

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I missed this last night and that’s an amazing color on you

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is this about Foundation or Gilded Age

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this is the first time I’ve seen a copyright statement on a government property and I would like to know who thinks they’re doing what with that

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my favorite small town thing is the church prayer email list, that’s where tea spills freely and abundantly if ā€œPlease pray for John Repass that he can find his way to Godā€ shows up we know John’s pissed off Meemaw and she’s gonna talk about it publicly

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also both were wildly annoying in their respective seasons of AHS

24/8/2025, 9:49:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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do you mean Cody Fern and his inexplicably frontless and backless blouse

24/8/2025, 9:35:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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you don’t have to be like that about it but yes

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idk which gay needs this but Blake Ritson (hot, lazy, conniving, beleaguered Oscar on Gilded Age) showed up on the latest Foundation VERY disrobed it was a ten second shot looking only at his abs before face reveal and it was worth it

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