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John Borden @bjorkbat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm still active on Twitter because it has more activity, but I'm beginning to see this as clearly a bad thing. It's all engagement farming. Bait. It's so ridiculously botted. Yeah, Bluesky is slower and boring by comparison, but what the fuck am I doing over there?

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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 16/04/2026

Thoughts on nonviolent confrontation of leaders:

In one night, activists flipped a council to 'no' on a data center.
How did they do it? They tracked down the addresses of council members who had been voting 'yes.
At 1 am, they visited one house, and then made a ruckus! They hit pots and pans and sang protest songs. They left flyers at neighbours' doorsteps revealing that this man was planning to go against the will of the town.
They did this at the homes of two council members, and the next day they flipped their vote. Neither had listened to the residents' resounding pleas at town hall meetings to
*not* allow the construction of the data center. This was a military Al data center that would be used to simulate drone attacks. The stakes could not be higher.

If your council members are not listening, why not consider taking a well-planned strategic action like this? Why let tensions run up so high, and residents feel so helpless, that one might actually decide to *shoot bullets* at their front door as a warning signal?
This goes for all leaders failing to listen to us, and going ahead harming our families with reckless Al development projects.
What if the guy who threw the Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's gate had instead thrown balloons filled with red paint? Sam's roof covered in red paint to symbolise the teens who had died by his recklessness. Red paint to symbolise the schoolkids and mums who'd die if he continued his dishonest Pentagon war contract.
Red paint thrower would raise an uproar.
Seething techbros would portray him Sam's wannabe assassin. Legally, it would be vandalism, and he'd be put into jail.

But if the guy made all the effort to not hurt anyone, and instead took the jail and pain onto themselves, can anyone really blame them for speaking for the public?
All this hand-wringing about ordinary folks cheering the Molotov cocktail at Sam's gate feels misplaced. Yes, let's not condone violence. But also let's not shelter this rich authoritarian dude planning to harm our families.

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John Borden @bjorkbat.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

It's so weird seeing people lose their minds on Twitter over how capable the latest AI models are while I'm over here watching them fail, miserably, at some old creative coding ideas I've been sitting on for a while.

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John Borden @bjorkbat.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Had a dream that as part of an effort to colonize a distant planet me and my crewmates would have our minds uploaded to rabbits. Clever really. Rabbits don’t need large spaceships, and rabbits breed like…rabbits.

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John Borden @bjorkbat.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Just made the switch and did the import. Pretty impressed that all my favorite songs made it. Fuck Spotify.

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John Borden @bjorkbat.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Had this really weird dream that I visited a Target that had, for lack of better word, a "pawn shop department" attached to it, filled with the sort of random shit you might expect to find at a pawn shop, including an eclectic mix of guns

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John Borden @bjorkbat.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Had a dream where I coined the term “backed into my strawberries” to refer to when one makes a mistake (I really backed into my strawberries with that one). Kind of feel like making it a thing.

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John Borden @bjorkbat.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Genuary Day 24: Geometric Art. Back during Genuary 2023 I believe I attempted to create something kind of plant like and wanted an excuse to try and revisit it and make it better. This is the fruits of those efforts. #genuary #genuary24 #genuary2025

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🌙Evil Sonny Ross🌞 @sonnyross.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

i got a tax bill and i'm mad at the government please buy a print so I dont have to sell my organs #illustration #Medieval www.sonnyross.com/shop/shut-up

A print of an illustration by Sonny Ross depicting a person on a horse slaying a dragon with the caption "SHUT UP"

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Helvetica Blanc @helveticablanc.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Between leaving Twitter and Instagram, I've lost about 60k followers — which is a huge blow as an independent artist. If you dig my stuff, please share it with your friends!

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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I feel like leaving Twitter was the right decision, but holy cats has it been a financial disaster for me. Promoting things on here seems much harder. This might be just due to the fact that I have 10% of the followers, but I also feel that having RTs be the only way to boost things really hurts.

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John Borden @bjorkbat.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Genuary Day 20: Generative Architecture. I saw this lithograph up in Santa Fe and decided to use that as a reference for this one. Not sure which I like more, but I'm leaning towards the one with the black background. #genuary #genuary20 #genuary2025

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John Borden @bjorkbat.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Genuary Day 19: Op Art. A day behind, but whatever. I really like Akiyoshi Kitaoka's works and wanted to try something in the same vein. Not as strong an effect as I wanted (islands are supposed to float), but it's kind of there #genuary19 #genuary #genuary2025

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John Borden @bjorkbat.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

In memory of David Lynch, here's a screenshot of one of my favorite 4chan moments.

Anon on 4chan was hospitalized for 3 days from a seizure because he attempted to manifest David Lynch getting sick, got psychic counter-attack instead.

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John Borden @bjorkbat.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Genuary Day 12: Subdivision. Honestly really surprised with how this came out. Essentially, I started with a seed rectangle, randomly subdivided it n-number of times, then assigned a color to each rectangle and filled with Linear A glyphs. #genuary12 #genuary #genuary2025

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John Borden @bjorkbat.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Genuary Day 11: Impossible Day. This one has a bit of a story, the short of it is that I wanted to try and replicate my favorite piece of art from my favorite artist, something that uses Penrose tilings as a base. #genuary11 #genuary2025 #genuary

A Penrose P3 tiling composed of golden "fat" rhombi and blue "skinny" rhombi

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John Borden @bjorkbat.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Genuary Day 6: landscape made out of primitive shapes. I'm a day late but whatever. 3rd photo is a Herbert Bayer painting I saw in Santa Fe that I decided to run with for this one, using a noise function to generate "terrain" #genuary6 #genuary2025 #genuary

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John Borden @bjorkbat.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Genuary day 2: Layers. You can create an abstraction of a shipping container by drawing rectangles one-after-another, and you can layer shipping containers on top of each other. #genuary2 #genuary2025

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John Borden @bjorkbat.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Doing Genuary this year, kicking things off with #genuary1, vertical or horizontal lines only. Inspiration came from a box of colored pencils

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John Borden @bjorkbat.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Wow, Bluesky is really active and engaging now! Shame about the reasons leading up to it, but silver lining, quitting Twitter has never been easier

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