Robin Wilde
@robinwilde.me
InDesign in the streets, Photoshop in the sheets. Creative Director at @wildebeest.design
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Robin Wilde
@robinwilde.me
· Apr 10
Robin Wilde - Freelance Graphic Design in the Pacific Northwest
Freelance graphic designer in Seattle and Vancouver
robinwilde.me
Some news! From July I'll be shifting to full-time freelancing ahead of my return to the UK next year. If you or any friends, colleagues, or nemeses have any need of creative support, including design, writing, and creative project planning, I'd love to have a chat. Portfolio here: robinwilde.me
Don't come on here and cross the streams of my timeline.
UK politics weirdos (laudatory?) an Oxbridge graduate (derogatory) is currently leading in the Seattle mayoral election.
November 11, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Don't come on here and cross the streams of my timeline.
You have an imbalance in responses to "is partisan media okay" because for a long time left/liberal respondents heard the question as "do you like the Daily Mail". But all reporting exists along a continuum and what outlets like, say, LabourList can do is trade objectivity for insight.
Whereas now the demand seems to be for people who are deeply knowledgeable about politics but who have never expressed a political thought in their lives and these people do not exist.
November 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
You have an imbalance in responses to "is partisan media okay" because for a long time left/liberal respondents heard the question as "do you like the Daily Mail". But all reporting exists along a continuum and what outlets like, say, LabourList can do is trade objectivity for insight.
FontAwesome gradually getting weirder
November 10, 2025 at 12:22 AM
FontAwesome gradually getting weirder
Progress in Japanese: Can use most of the basic conjugations, express complex opinions and know some quite advanced vocabulary and even link words etymologically!
Stumbling blocks in Japanese: Can still never remember the word for pillow.
Stumbling blocks in Japanese: Can still never remember the word for pillow.
November 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Progress in Japanese: Can use most of the basic conjugations, express complex opinions and know some quite advanced vocabulary and even link words etymologically!
Stumbling blocks in Japanese: Can still never remember the word for pillow.
Stumbling blocks in Japanese: Can still never remember the word for pillow.
I always wonder with obituaries which are pre-written quite far in advance of the subject's death - does the publication tell you they've done it? Feels fair to give people a chance to make amends in advance of publication if there's anything on their conscience.
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
November 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I always wonder with obituaries which are pre-written quite far in advance of the subject's death - does the publication tell you they've done it? Feels fair to give people a chance to make amends in advance of publication if there's anything on their conscience.
History can be boring but it's fascinating for context on your own existence. When Harold Wilson took office (an event I consider to be basically contemporary - my parents were both alive) about 5% of the UK still didn't have hot water. Several hundred thousand people still didn't have electricity.
It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.
November 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
History can be boring but it's fascinating for context on your own existence. When Harold Wilson took office (an event I consider to be basically contemporary - my parents were both alive) about 5% of the UK still didn't have hot water. Several hundred thousand people still didn't have electricity.
It is one of those days to marvel at modern society, where I can make an adequate enough living by making a map while listening to a Terry Pratchett audiobook instead of like, having to go down a mine aged eight.
November 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
It is one of those days to marvel at modern society, where I can make an adequate enough living by making a map while listening to a Terry Pratchett audiobook instead of like, having to go down a mine aged eight.
Reposted by Robin Wilde
A government that did a wealth tax that literally brought people to the streets to protest against it, but is, somehow, having its lunch eaten by people calling for wealth taxes!
Terrific column by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social- this is essentially a Milibandite government, but one that is so in denial about it that it can’t even appeal properly to the coalition *for Milibandism*:
The inescapable logic of Labour’s choices
Starmer and Reeves should lean in to what the Budget reveals about this tax-and-spend government
www.ft.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM
A government that did a wealth tax that literally brought people to the streets to protest against it, but is, somehow, having its lunch eaten by people calling for wealth taxes!
Thank you very much to my brain for the dream in which I caught Katie Hopkins stealing my bike.
November 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Thank you very much to my brain for the dream in which I caught Katie Hopkins stealing my bike.
Not to be too skeptical but this feels like a map of whether actors can ride a horse.
November 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Not to be too skeptical but this feels like a map of whether actors can ride a horse.
Looking up words in my children's Pokémon book has taken an unexpected turn
November 8, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Looking up words in my children's Pokémon book has taken an unexpected turn
Reposted by Robin Wilde
In Japan, tourism to Portland, Oregon, is promoted by a grinning blue monster named Odnarodude. He’s at a Portland artisan event in Jiyugaoka De Aone this weekend.
November 8, 2025 at 2:34 AM
In Japan, tourism to Portland, Oregon, is promoted by a grinning blue monster named Odnarodude. He’s at a Portland artisan event in Jiyugaoka De Aone this weekend.
Those Green voters are the ones who think living in a medieval village sounds like a good time
With Maurice Glasman and Dominic Lawson calling for the return of the stocks, we find most Britons opposed - although Reform voters are divided
All Britons: 21% support / 72% oppose
Lib Dem: 12% / 85%
Labour: 12% / 83%
Green: 13% / 82%
Con: 28% / 64%
Reform: 43% / 48%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
All Britons: 21% support / 72% oppose
Lib Dem: 12% / 85%
Labour: 12% / 83%
Green: 13% / 82%
Con: 28% / 64%
Reform: 43% / 48%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
November 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Those Green voters are the ones who think living in a medieval village sounds like a good time
Hell yes I know how to have fun in Japan
November 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Hell yes I know how to have fun in Japan
I feel like Marshall McLuhan saying this but there is something that viewing the world through glass does to our brains that makes everything feel much less real and consequential. I think our sense of self-preservation having evolved for "Aargh! Lion!" makes us unprepared.
Until I die, I will never understand why so many motorists think that “having a car” should give you special protections from doing crimes.
Year one: "We can work it out as an estimate"
Year two: "Oh, look, lots of people are dodging the system!"
Year three: "We need to fit mandatory trackers to every car in the country."
Year four plus: "Why shouldn't tracker data be used in evidence? What have people got to hide?"
Year two: "Oh, look, lots of people are dodging the system!"
Year three: "We need to fit mandatory trackers to every car in the country."
Year four plus: "Why shouldn't tracker data be used in evidence? What have people got to hide?"
November 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I feel like Marshall McLuhan saying this but there is something that viewing the world through glass does to our brains that makes everything feel much less real and consequential. I think our sense of self-preservation having evolved for "Aargh! Lion!" makes us unprepared.
Can't sleep so finished reading Dirk Gently. Man, Douglas Adams would have been completely insufferable if he'd made it to Twitter.
November 6, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Can't sleep so finished reading Dirk Gently. Man, Douglas Adams would have been completely insufferable if he'd made it to Twitter.
Yeah the Canadian federal election illustrated this for me when I had to explain to several people that the Red Team is not the party of the left and that most stuff is run from the provinces. And in many ways that's more relevant knowledge for a UK politician than who is mayor of NYC!
Lots of politics nerds would be amazed how little lots of politicians care about political knowledge.
I say this as someone who only just realised this, but I think those of us who spend large portions of our leisure time following/commenting/joking about politics underestimate the big ways that politicians are not more successful versions of ourselves but actually a very different type of person
November 6, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Yeah the Canadian federal election illustrated this for me when I had to explain to several people that the Red Team is not the party of the left and that most stuff is run from the provinces. And in many ways that's more relevant knowledge for a UK politician than who is mayor of NYC!
Nothing but respect for the 2,000 Eric Adams dead-enders. Didn't know the Turkish Consulate had that many staff.
BREAKING: DECISION DESK HQ CALLS NYC MAYORAL RACE FOR ZOHRAN MAMDANI.
November 5, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Nothing but respect for the 2,000 Eric Adams dead-enders. Didn't know the Turkish Consulate had that many staff.
A complete collapse in the Insane People vote from 2021 - from 95% to 8%
First NYC results are in: That's already 819,165 votes.
Mamdani: 51.5%
Cuomo: 40%
Sliwa: 8%.
(That's roughly 40% of the vote.)
Mamdani: 51.5%
Cuomo: 40%
Sliwa: 8%.
(That's roughly 40% of the vote.)
November 5, 2025 at 2:11 AM
A complete collapse in the Insane People vote from 2021 - from 95% to 8%
Puts the seven hour cross-border journey I took from rural Vancouver Island to vote for Mayor of Seattle into perspective.
Less than 20% of registered voters across WA had returned their ballots as of 5 p.m. Monday. That puts the state on track for record low turnout. Data shows returns lagging even in places with high-profile contests for offices like county executive and mayor. Voters can return ballots until 8 p.m.
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Puts the seven hour cross-border journey I took from rural Vancouver Island to vote for Mayor of Seattle into perspective.
Grouping together the voters who think and act 90% similarly pales in comparison to my strategy, considering the country to be irredeemably evil so that I can continue to be a noble outsider shaking my head in despair.
Notable in today's YouGov that the centre/left bloc - Lab/Green/LD/SNP are on 54%. With Reform/Tories on 43%. That's the biggest differential in a long time.
I think useful to track blocs given instability between parties at the moment.
I think useful to track blocs given instability between parties at the moment.
November 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Grouping together the voters who think and act 90% similarly pales in comparison to my strategy, considering the country to be irredeemably evil so that I can continue to be a noble outsider shaking my head in despair.
Power Wash Simulator 2 has delightfully decided to zap six levels of progress from my save file :(
November 3, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Power Wash Simulator 2 has delightfully decided to zap six levels of progress from my save file :(
"And you're sure our slogan doesn't sound too aggressive?"
November 2, 2025 at 3:26 PM
"And you're sure our slogan doesn't sound too aggressive?"