John Rooney
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Academic / Designer / Manchester School of Art / Europe
https://www.johnrooney.co.uk
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George Takei
5 days ago
Pride was born as a riot, and has always been an act of defiance. During my life, I survived an internment camp. I came out at 68. I've watched rights get won and now watch them being rolled back. Yet I'm still here, still proud, and still holding Brad's hand.
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Alex Andreou
21 days ago
Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things
@ledbydonkeys.org
have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂
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Brian Groom
29 days ago
The End of the Village, painting by Peter Morgan, Welsh artist.
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Radical Graffiti
about 1 month ago
A message from Mary, a 72-year-old Amazon worker from North Carolina projected onto Jeff Bezos’s $120 million penthouse before tonight’s
#MetGala
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about 1 month ago
Gail Brodholt, contemporary UK printmaker
#WomensArt
#Saturday
#ReframingWomenPrintmakers
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@chartmusictotp.bsky.social
I input this image into Ai.. the results are chilling…
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about 2 months ago
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Sesame Street Fever
YouTube video by Cookie Monster - Topic
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about 2 months ago
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Pod Save America
about 2 months ago
Trump threatening a genocide in Iran is unacceptable, even if it leads to a ceasefire.
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Bought a copy of “Volume” @petshopboys x @farrowlondon today in Manchester, brilliant collection of smart, funny and stylish artwork (and the story of their making) framing imperial PSB music.
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No Question About That
4 months ago
JIm Ratcliffe is a scumbag. More than that he's a hypocrite. And dangerous. Words.
open.substack.com/pub/nqatpod/...
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James O’Brien
4 months ago
Ratcliffe is, quite obviously, factually, morally & intellectually wrong about immigration. But his racist comments will be 'both-sided' everywhere because people who simply don't like seeing non-white faces aren't ashamed to say so anymore.
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TonyD
4 months ago
Fuck you Jim
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Yes it has Jim, and is all the better place for doing so…
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Mary L Trump
4 months ago
Every American needs to watch this:
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Adam Schwarz
4 months ago
What happened in Minnesota today was not a mistake. It's a deliberate and inevitable outcome of ICE operations - part of the authoritarian script for state violence against citizens. Regime thugs target minorities Regime thugs kill protesters Regime exploits larger protests to escalate repression
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Crooked Media
4 months ago
Gov. Tim Walz to Minnesotans: “I’ll continue to plead and ask you for peace and I know the answer is, ‘You ask us for peace, and we give it, and we get shot in the face on the streets coming out of a doughnut shop.’ We cannot give them what they want.”
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Pod Save America
5 months ago
It's time to speak up.
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Pod Save America
5 months ago
Tommy and Jon react to new footage taken by the ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good.
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The Onion
5 months ago
ICE Opens New Supermax Detention Center For Most Hardened Toddlers
https://theonion.com/ice-opens-new-supermax-detention-center-for-most-harden-1827838332/
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There are loads of United pods around, but
@gooddayspod.bsky.social
is by far my favourite. Especially Justin’s graphic description of the difference between United and Liverpool in this weeks pod :-)
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The Wire Magazine
6 months ago
Alison Knowles (29 April 1933–29 October 2025) At The Wire website, Irene Revell reflects on the life and work of Fluxus co-founder Alison Knowles, who died in October
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/t...
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Alison Knowles (29 April 1933–29 October 2025) - The Wire
Irene Revell reflects on the life and work of Fluxus co-founder Alison Knowles, who died in October
https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/the-portal/alison-knowles-29-april-1933-29-october-2025
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Crumpsall, Red, Bass. RIP x
#stoneroses
#mani
7 months ago
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Silence over Sudan: why do Manchester City’s owners get away with so much?
Two midweek matches in England had a backdrop of war and geopolitics, but only one drew large protests
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/nov/08/silence-over-sudan-manchester-city-owners-football?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
7 months ago
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Brian Groom
8 months ago
On this day 1971, boxer Muhammad Ali visited Tesco at Stretford’s Arndale shopping precinct to promote Ovaltine.
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If anyone has Disney + Highly recommend the Adidas X Puma Doc. If nothing else but to see RUN DMC’S OWN HELECOPTER!
8 months ago
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Barack Obama
8 months ago
We have people in power making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproven.
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British artists reclaim St George’s flag with a message of inclusivity
In Manchester and beyond creative responses to the unwelcome message of ‘raise the colours’ are appearing
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/21/british-artists-reclaim-st-georges-flag-inclusivity?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
9 months ago
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Very pleased to present spreads / images from an upcoming new book I designed for British Culture Archive. The book, “Original Ravers” is an essential visual chronicle of a snapshot of time at The Hacienda…
9 months ago
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My typographic response to “To NkRoachment: Yarbles” —“Wipe the tears from your eyes, son. All the good times are past and gone”—-
#fallfriday
9 months ago
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United are awful…
9 months ago
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Alex Andreou
9 months ago
I go. I try. And I will keep trying, even though it feels like a losing battle. Because I remember the whole point of the far-right astroturfing of social media is to make it feel like a losing battle, to make us give up. Anyway, a few snippets on small boat crossings and immigration.
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Memorial Device
10 months ago
Few, if any, better 1, 2, 3 albums 🙏
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Memorial Device
11 months ago
When bands were the best band in the world 🧵
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Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (Live Newcastle 1982, HD)
YouTube video by dexbam
https://youtu.be/E8NLA8HSe9w?si=-Tno66Mlvhx3IRM-
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New zine design for
@britcultarchive.bsky.social
Oasis fans queuing outside Maine Road photos by Jon Shard.
#photography
#oasis
#manchester
#graphicdesign
#zineculture
11 months ago
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Random wood texture
#photography
#psychogeography
11 months ago
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Chorlton wall art
#typoography
#wallart
#urbantext
#psychogeography
#photography
#nofilter
12 months ago
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New design work bury_art_museum - QUEERFEST 25 is a one day festival of LGBTQI + held at the Gallery on Saturday 21 June. Go see!
#graphicdesign
#typographicdesign
#galleryidentity
#buryartmuseum
#burypride
#pridemonth2025🏳️
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12 months ago
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Sad news. Arena was essential viewing, can’t forget the amazing Bowie Cracked Actor film
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...
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Alan Yentob, former BBC executive and TV presenter, dies aged 78
Wife pays tribute to ‘profoundly moral man’ who was ‘creative in every cell of his body’
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/may/25/alan-yentob-former-bbc-executive-tv-presenter-dies?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
about 1 year ago
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I’m now a
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Pop Crazed Youngster.
about 1 year ago
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Say again…come on you reds!
#mufc
about 1 year ago
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New identity for
@britcultarchive.bsky.social
Devised by me, Paul Ingrid at BCA-the dots show a new cultural map of Britain. The idea came from conversation about who and where we are, how images represent us, and how to visualise the work the archive does.
#photography
#graphicdesign
about 1 year ago
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Brian Groom
about 1 year ago
Sheffield-based Warp Films, the maker of worldwide hit TV show Adolescence, is to develop a series based on 1980s nuclear war film Threads.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Adolescence team to remake Threads nuclear attack epic
Sheffield-based Warp Films firm plans to turn the 1984 movie Threads into a TV series, it says.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm24nedy37ro
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On April 1st I’m hosting an in conversation event at Unitom Manchester with Chris Ashworth on his new book "Disorder: Swiss Grit Vol.II" - really looking forward to this! For more info, check the link below…
unitom.co.uk/products/chr.
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about 1 year ago
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Modular/Architecture type development 4. Single strand letters----Looks random, but there is a set of repeating shapes to create a jerky rhythm. Again testing with MES words, typographic shouting for the Fall - will work up UC - 0-9 + glyphs soon.
#graphicdesign
#typography
#fluxus
#thefall
#mes
over 1 year ago
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