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James Wallbank

@lowtech.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy

They stole our future. Now we're stealing it back. 🌉 bridged from ⁂ tldr.nettime.org/@lowtech, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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James Wallbank @lowtech.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

I simply cannot express how disturbing I find the "Dude Wipes" phenomenon. A product so grotesquely superfluous and needlessly gendered, so overpackaged and overmarketed, that I'd imagine it could only thrive in a childish, performative culture dominated in […] [Original post on tldr.nettime.org]

Photo in a supermarket. End-aisle display. "Dude Wipes DUMPkin spice, with clove, nutmeg and other fall stuff." Each pack declares, "48 flushable wipes".

SALE DUDE WIPES FLUSHABLE $9.99 ea."

[Brightly coloured plastic packaging in orange and black somewhat resembles battery packs or power tools.]

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James Wallbank @lowtech.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Watching TV. #catsofmastodon 🐆

Bongo the Bengal Cat, sitting, watching "Great Pottery Throwdown". The screen is not visible in the picture, but glowing reflections on his eyes and fur hint that it's present, just out of view. He looks attentive.

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James Wallbank @lowtech.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

@impfmilf Hello! 🐆

Bongo the Bengal Cat, sitting on a colourful rug on the veranda, in the sunlight.

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James Wallbank @lowtech.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

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Ventilator fan casting a shadow on a white wall.

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James Wallbank @lowtech.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026

My job, as an artist, is quite safe. Make a work of art. The artwork should be a single image. Be imaginative. Be expressive. Think outside the box. The title of the artwork is, "Portrait of Artificial Intelligence as a Slow Motion Car Crash".

Portrait of Artificial Intelligence as a Slow Motion Car Crash [ First Attempt ]

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James Wallbank @lowtech.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

Artists. Authors. Screenwriters. Game Designers. Futurists. Listen Up!

Rough cyanotype, printed on a page torn out of a ring-bound sketchbook. The objects exposed are individual letters of an industrial character, possibly from a signboard. They spell out a message, in white, in slightly wonky lines.

I NEED THAT
WILD STUFF
NOT MORE TROPES
WADING THROUGH
PORRIDGE

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James Wallbank @lowtech.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/03/2026

A decade ago we were in an Information War. We still are. But the conflict has morphed into an Imagination War. The battle isn't just over what we know. Now it's over whether we retain the capacity to imagine, or whether we consent to it being locked into a data centre.

Bongo the Bengal Cat, sitting on a wooden table, looking intently at an image of a rat on a smartphone.

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