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I create. I refine. I obsess over typography. 🇪🇺 #singularglass #hrdwrd

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P@rovalo.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I’m usually impervious to the toxic noise spilling out of the US, but this line in The Guardian cut close: “Partly it is the allegory of milk, the pursed mouth of a graphic designer on a coffee cup as a surrogate for the Madonna del Latte.” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Latte-swilling ‘performative males’: why milky drinks are shorthand for liberal

Americans are fretting over a type of man who drinks matcha and expresses alternative masculinity – but the ‘latte liberal’ stereotype has existed for decades

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P@rovalo.bsky.social · last yr.

Just discovered an app with high-res scans of every Emigre issue, thanks to Letterform Archive. As a student, I loved them—the first fonts we ever bought. Pretty sure the floppies are still sitting in Mexican customs. Thank you, Rudy and Zuzana.

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P@rovalo.bsky.social · last yr.

“If you go to a place to take advantage of a lower cost of living, you are hacking inequalities, and there will be pushback, politically.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

'There's an arrogance to the way they move around the city': is it time for digital nomads like me to leave Lisbon?

Like so many others, I moved from London to Portugal’s capital for the sun, lifestyle – and the tax break. But as tensions rise with struggling locals, many of us are beginning to wonder whether we’re...

theguardian.com

P@rovalo.bsky.social · last yr.

Sanctions against Francesca Albanese. The US has always imposed its imperial power, but it once did so under the guise of civility, human rights, and justice. Not anymore.

P@rovalo.bsky.social · last yr.

Extremists often ignore this passage: ³³ "When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. ³⁴ The foreigner living among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt." 1440 BC

P@rovalo.bsky.social · last yr.

Kojo Koram’s piece on Hong Kong really hits a nerve. It’s hard to watch slick authoritarian systems rise while our democracies stall. It feels like we’re not just slipping—we’re losing the openness of the future. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In Hong Kong, my daughter was dazzled by futuristic tech – and I glimpsed the world she’ll grow up in | Kojo Koram

When I was young, Britain felt like the apex of global civilisation. But as power migrates to autocracies, our belief in democracy seems complacent, says Kojo Koram, a teacher at Birkbeck School of La...

theguardian.com

P@rovalo.bsky.social · last yr.

Heard @mrjamesob.bsky.social from Barcelona today and got curious—asked Perplexity which zodiac sign is most criminal. No science behind it, but apparently Cancer, Pisces, Sagittarius, and Scorpio pop up more often among serial killers. Weird, but same logic to list criminals by nationality.