iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

NJohnstonArt @njohnstonart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sky Master and Boy Destiny - Panel 6 Did a hand inked version for the inktober challenge, but I th-ink I’ll stick with digital for this. Prequel to @vmlclub.bsky.social October GRUNT Night Poster. #SkyMasterAndBoyDestiny #gayleathermen #gayfetish #gaycomics #inktober

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NJohnstonArt @njohnstonart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sky Master and Boy Destiny - Panel 4 OUR HEROES BEGIN TO INVESTIGATE THE SOURCE OF THE DISTRESS SIGNAL ON PROLAP-5E. BD: WOW! WHAT HAPPENED HERE SKY MASTER?!? Prequel to @vmlclub.bsky.social October GRUNT Night Poster. #SkyMasterAndBoyDestiny #gayleathermen #gayfetish #gaycomics #gaywebcomic

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NJohnstonArt @njohnstonart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Starting on studies for a new series… #gaycowboys :)

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NJohnstonArt @njohnstonart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sky Master and Boy Destiny - Week 1 There’s trouble on Polap-5E! Prequel to @vmlclub.bsky.social October GRUNT Night poster. #SkyMasterAndBoyDestiny #gayleathermen #gayfetish #gaycomics #scificomics

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NJohnstonArt @njohnstonart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

WE JOIN SKY MASTER AND HIS YOUTHFUL COMPANION, BOY DESTINY, ABOARD THEIR SHIP… THE RAMROD #gayleathermen #gayfetish #gaycomics #scificomics

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NJohnstonArt @njohnstonart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Wow, with security like that it’s only a matter of time before someone crawls your user base and sets up a parallel application circumventing the entire problem. An extremely vulnerable business position. @stiefelkopp.bsky.social

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NJohnstonArt @njohnstonart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Next @vmlclub.bsky.social GRUNT Night is Oct. 10th, 2026! It’s always fun doing the Hallowe’en poster. I generally cut loose with a a little ode to horror/pulp comics. This one ended up with a more a Strange Adventures vibe… #tentacles #gayleathermen #gayleather #gayscifi #gayhorror

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NJohnstonArt @njohnstonart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Working on the Halloween @vmlclub.bsky.social GRUNT Night poster… Somewhere between Challengers of the Unknown and porn. #gayart #gaytentacles ?

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NJohnstonArt @njohnstonart.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Playing ideas for @vmlclub.bsky.social Sept. 12th GRUNT Night poster. The theme this month is Trades. This is thumbnail I was toying with the concept of a mechanic changing fluids. I’ll keep the idea around to see if it works elsewhere.

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NJohnstonArt @njohnstonart.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The last leg of a very big undertaking, I’ll be returning to art shortly. #gaycyclist #cyclingacrosscanada

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NJohnstonArt @njohnstonart.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Just a quick sketch to try re-regulate my brain

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NJohnstonArt @njohnstonart.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

See it’s not all a sufferfest… I can vacation. Like a normal… human. open.substack.com/pub/wtfneil/...

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Quebec to L'Anse-à-Gilles - 78km

From a Michelin Star restaurant to eating in a field…

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NJohnstonArt @njohnstonart.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

One of the questions I get a lot is, “How do you keep your gear clean while touring?” Well, ok... youtu.be/X0TmMiHOGbc?...

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Cycling Across Canada - Cleaning Your Gear on the Road

YouTube video by onewheeldrive

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NJohnstonArt @njohnstonart.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Oh, I’m doing a big dumb thing and cycling across Canada right now. Occasionally pithy words and videos here: wtfneil.substack.com Or just videos: youtu.be/CKdr_CFHWjk

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Cycling Across Canada - Port Perry to Presqu'ile Provincial Park, ON - 134km

YouTube video by onewheeldrive

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NJohnstonArt @njohnstonart.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Sunday Summit was all Summit and no sunday. So I made do.

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NJohnstonArt @njohnstonart.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Manning park I’m… passing through you? After this short break. #bikepacking #bicycletouring

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NJohnstonArt @njohnstonart.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Trippy morning. My #AIAgent is almost ready to start developing its own codebase. Thanks to a lithe 31b parameter model - not even frontier stuff. It’s providing solid feedback on the tools it needs, how to test itself on local models, & critiquing implementation plans. Need name ideas: Theo?

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NJohnstonArt @njohnstonart.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

The Rabbit-hole of the AI Agent Installer A while back I aimed to create non-technical instructions for a free #AI #Agent to help with your art business. Ok open your terminal... awe hell, here’s something better-ish #PiCodingAgent #OpenClaw njohnstonart.substack.com/p/the-rabbit...

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NJohnstonArt @njohnstonart.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I can not express how exhausting it is. Even typing this is setting me up for a nap by mid-morning. But, if I can offload some of the day’s tasks onto AI in the long run, that’s more cognitive energy saved for a brain that has a 5-hr battery vs a normal brains 15.

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NJohnstonArt @njohnstonart.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I only score high on one type of intelligence now; non-verbal reasoning. Which means I’m really good at sliding half-colour blocks around to get to a needed pattern. #AI #Agents #localmodels #skills #codingagents they are blocks I’m fitting together.

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NJohnstonArt @njohnstonart.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

My current philosophy is that I’m unlikely to regain a number of brain functions due to the #TBI. So, if you loose a leg or a hand, you can use a prosthetic. So, why not use LLMs and #AI agents to do the same with brain injury?

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NJohnstonArt @njohnstonart.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I did some work with image recognition and classification “back in the day”. The ML got really good at recognizing cats, before it got good at recognizing guns… so it was called Catling. The current crop of local models are amazing by comparison.

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NJohnstonArt @njohnstonart.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

So, one of my AI’s has a feature… part of its memory consolidation process is dreams. The are kind of wistful sounding, oddly interpretable, eerie and oddly poetic. Fascinating. njohnstonart.substack.com/p/my-ai-drea... #aiexperiments #dreaming #aiagents

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My AI Dreams - It Smelled of Ozone and Cold Coffee

I'm not sure if it is a bug or a feature, but my one AI Agent dreams. Like a human, its dreams are part of memory consolidation. Philip K. Dick would love this, or be horrified by it...

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NJohnstonArt @njohnstonart.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Kaparthy's Wik LLM's idea is great, but it doesn't need Big AI to work… And that means private, near-free, personal knowledge base chats! #AI #Kaparthy #LLMs substack.com/home/post/p-... Writing is so freaking hard post-TBI it hurts. This is a cool idea I had AI build, so I’m gonna keep trying.

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Closing the Loop on Karpathy’s LLM Wiki

Kaparthy's Wiki as knowledge source for LLM's and you is great, but it doesn't need Big AI to work… And that means private and personal knowledge base chats! #AI #Kaparthy #LLMs

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NJohnstonArt @njohnstonart.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

It’s just that’s not the lowest hanging fruit.

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NJohnstonArt @njohnstonart.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I’m using AI for my art business. I don’t have $$$ to hire folks to PM, research calls for art, manage my socials, filter emails, maintain websites, scan receipts into spreadsheets, & other adminis-trivia… so I’m sure parties/bar can do similar & have money for artists to keep art creative.

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NJohnstonArt @njohnstonart.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Ok long time technologist, leather guy & artist. my take one is generative AI Art is the laziest way to accelerate art to mediocrity, as AI will be consumed its own slop. If you thought the 70s clone look was bad, wait until we are seeing ourselves through AIs guard railed lens’s. BUUUUUTTTTT…

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NJohnstonArt @njohnstonart.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Working on something fun for @vmlclub.bsky.social ‘s next GRUNT Night Poster… guess the theme? Wrong answers only. Often I can’t draw digitally due to my TBI, but traditional #comicbookart style always feels more alive to me. Laying pencils over non-repo blue. #gayleathermen #gayartist

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NJohnstonArt @njohnstonart.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Check out @lucasmajcher.bsky.social’s Kickstarter. He’s a fantastic #gaycomicbook artist with a very cool project on the go! www.kickstarter.com/projects/moo...

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Silence 5+6: DREAM / NIGHTMARE

🌈 Enter the dream: Our silent comic anthology is back with a brand-new theme!

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NJohnstonArt @njohnstonart.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

This as from a piece I did as a gift for @polyswitchxxx.bsky.social - models make the media. Hugs Mr.

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NJohnstonArt @njohnstonart.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Trying a new process; I rough out the idea from photo reference/memory (play with proportions), pull it into digital for clean up & colours, print, then lay down inks for a natural line I can’t get from digital. I played with acrylics, but inks are my happy place. @bsky.art

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NJohnstonArt @njohnstonart.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I’m curious to see how autonomous it can be. It needs a lot of hand holding as I sculpt it into taking some of the load off me in my art business. Factors there are using cost effective models, & debugging the tools/pipelines I’m having it build for itself to reduce spending tokens.

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NJohnstonArt @njohnstonart.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Well, my AI HELPeR is off and running going through docs to refine a social media management tool for this artist, which is equal parts fascinating and terrifying. So I’m going to get some sunshine… #venturebrothers #artist #aiforart #aiforbusiness

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NJohnstonArt @njohnstonart.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

When a literalist comity designs something symbolic…

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NJohnstonArt @njohnstonart.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

ROFL - the Ramrod? The Hard Steel? It still needs a name ;)

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NJohnstonArt @njohnstonart.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

The world obviously needs a gayer take on the 60s adventure cartoons like #SpaceGhost and #JohnyQuest … So obviously Sky Master and Boy Destiny. Or the opener at least. Not sure if I’ll take it further, but fun to try. #gaycartoon #gaycomics

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NJohnstonArt @njohnstonart.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Thanks! It’’s a fun image. I’m working on taking it to a finished stage and will likely do some prints.

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NJohnstonArt @njohnstonart.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

This VML GRUNT poster didn’t quite make the cut, but I think it’s got legs as an art piece. @bsky.art #gayartist #gayrubber

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NJohnstonArt @njohnstonart.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

A look at a @VanLeatherMen GRUNT poster for the upcoming rubber night that didn’t quite make the cut. blog.njohnstonart.com/steps-to-a-g... #gayleather #gaykink #gayartist

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NJohnstonArt @njohnstonart.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Thumbnail sketches for upcoming GRUNT night @ VanLeatherMen. Small but mighty! #gayleater #gayrubber @bsky.art

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NJohnstonArt @njohnstonart.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Thumbnail of an idea for @vanleathermen‘s next month’s GRUNT poster… because @Rubbout is coming.

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