Today we say goodbye to this great blue bird
This logo was designed in 2012 by a team of three. @toddwaterbury, @angyche and myself,
The logo was designed to be simple, balanced, and legible at very small sizes, almost like a lowercase "e", a 🧵
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Until everyone in Britain knows that demonising & scapegoating asylum seekers, migrants, & minorities is a manipulative yet effective political strategy, successfully mobilised by tyrants within democracies, we will be stuck in an endless cycle of division & dysfunction.
It turns out that some enterprising individuals are purchasing blue checks on Twitter and then uploading hundreds of videos, up to two hours long.
This data storage cost vastly exceeds the revenue Musk receives from those accounts for their Twitter Blue subscription.
It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Andy Rourke after a lengthy illness with pancreatic cancer.
Andy will be remembered as a kind and beautiful soul by those who knew him and as a supremely gifted musician by music fans.
We request privacy at this sad time
Republican protesters near Trafalgar Square being told by a Met Police officer that they may be arrested for public nuisance for chanting “Not My King”
“There are plenty of ways to engender a national spirit and buttress the economy other than subscribe to a controversial hereditary dynasty whose right to rule is still officially legitimized by the authority of an Anglican god… that doesn’t exist.” - Alex O’Connor #notmyking
The coronation is now expected to cost the country £250,000,000. That’s £173,611 a minute for every minute of the day on May 6. And for that we’re supposed to all pledge allegiance to Charles.
Now is the time to declare #NotMyKing and to #AbolishTheMonarchy