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Gem
@jim-jam.bsky.social
Designer/Illustrator she/her
Trying to get into Substack I guess, here’s some fun things I’ve been looking at this week. Featuring fonts and sounds and plushies.

open.substack.com/pub/gemdavis...
Week 5 fun.
Game font library.
open.substack.com
January 30, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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LGBTQIA+ is rebranding as LGBTQIA MAX
October 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Look what we have here then.
September 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
All excellent answers.
in case you - how do I put this delicately - also need perhaps a bit of a wholesome palate cleanser in your feed tonight, let's play a game

what is the #1 thing in all the world you MOST would want to build and display a huge Lego set of

(money no object. say you get one free bc it was your idea)
September 9, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Tax aside, this is objectively a very sad end to Rayner’s political career: a teenage single mum from a deprived family who went onto be deputy prime minister. The right wing press detested her for not knowing her place. Their glee at her downfall will be palpable in tomorrow’s front pages.
September 5, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Good article on what it’s like to be a designer at the moment.

www.itsnicethat.com/articles/pov...
POV: Designers are facing upskilling exhaustion
Why is lethargy growing among designers? Creative director, designer and SEEK/FIND founder, Tabitha Swanson, discusses where our collective exhaustion to upskill and “grow” has come from.
www.itsnicethat.com
May 27, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Exactly my thoughts whenever I've had to use gen ai for work, you're just rolling the dice to see what you get.
“If you know what you want to build and you care about exactly how you get there, it's not a vibe. It’s a nightmare.” I spoke with developers and designers about what happens when coding becomes more conversation than code: www.figma.com/blog/double-...
Double Click: When Coding Becomes Conversation | Figma Blog
Developers are embracing a new way of building software that’s more conversation than code. But is it more mayhem than magic?
www.figma.com
April 16, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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The two places Trump wants - Greenland and Canada - share a land border. They fought the so-called Whisky War over it for almost half a century, and it was basically adorable.
March 28, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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fuck this is a perfect way to start a story
March 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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March 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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‘Okay which one of you accidentally added Robert Cecil to the chat?’
March 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
We are so back.
LEWIS HAMILTON TAKES #F1SPRINT POLE 🤩

Wow!

#F1 #ChineseGP
March 21, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Starmer hugs Zelenskyy ahead of crisis talks at No 10 👏

news.sky.com/story/starme...
Starmer hugs Zelenskyy ahead of crisis talks at No 10
Both the Ukrainian president and the British prime minister visited the White House this week - but the two meetings had very different outcomes.
news.sky.com
March 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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JD Vance: "Peace can only be arrived at with diplomacy."

Proceeds to cause huge diplomatic incident live on air.
February 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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We have a properly warped perception of how much various sectors contribute to the UK economy. The fishing industry, which is constantly in the news and to whom politicians of all rosettes regularly play, adds less to GDP than Games Workshop
From the FT the other day. I had no idea.
November 23, 2024 at 10:33 AM
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my magnum opus according to the amount of tumblr notes and likes on twt lol

#GoodOmens #Aziracrow #IneffableHusbands #Crowley #Aziraphale
November 18, 2024 at 11:53 AM