Mike Brondbjerg

Granny Life Community Build Project Granny Life

Math nerds and crafty geeks! You are invited to crochet a granny square based on a cellular automaton for the Granny Life project at www.grannylifecrochet.com.

Your work could end up in an art exhibit in Paris! There are plenty of motifs still available to claim :)

#mathsky #crochet 🧶

This is so good!!! Like a supercut of all @wblut.bsky.social's best ISO experiments!! Great!

Generative Quilt top 4 of 13. Four colours with a hint of the fifth colour that shows up in Quilt 5. Designed with Processing, sewn with luv. 🖤 #genart #genartclub #generativeart

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Shard, two pen mini-plot

In search of bad vibes A mood of boiling discontentment in Britain is the subject of daily news - but where is the evidence that it even exists?

Why are we hooked on bad vibes when they don't reflect reality?

I took a deep-dive into the data, in search of what is really going on.

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Wonderful!!! Super useful! (Even works on my phone)

Who do UK folks trust to buy/manage domains these days? Thx

When people find out how little is spent on foreign aid, they're less likely to say that the US spends "too much".

This might seem obvious, but many would argue that pointing to data or facts is never successful in changing peoples' minds.

I always find survey results like this staggering (almost to the point of unbelievability).

The US was spending around 1% of its federal budget on foreign aid.

The average guess among 1,000+ surveyed Americans was 26%.

15% thought it was over half of the budget (?!)

www.kff.org/global-healt...

After 93 hours spread over 16 months, it’s finally finished. It measures 27 inches by 18 on white mount board.

I’m getting it professionally scanned and giclée prints will be available in any size. If you are interested in a print, or know anyone that might be, please feel free to DM me.

#lion

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This is wonderful stuff! (Also love seeing the LDN Squared cartogram format being used in the wild)

This from Adobe is quite good though: leonardocolor.io

Don't know if it was connected to the other products? (Didn't you interview someone from Adobe about this once @moritzstefaner.bsky.social ?)

DISTRIBUTIONS: 16 ways to visualize them

Since you folks seem to like lengthy threads, let's look at visualizing distributions. I'll visualize one data set 16 ways and give some other examples of each chart type. #dataViz

Lavarand - Wikipedia

You may know about this already.. but if not, enjoy!!! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavarand

Despicable me, villain-con logo

Ed Miliband would let a turbine farm destroy Brontë country. We need net zero, but at what cost? | Simon Jenkins Of course the climate crisis must be confronted, but history, tranquility and beauty must also count for something, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian will publish scary headlines about ice sheet and AMOC collapse on a Friday, then stuff like this on a Monday: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How are people supposed to navigate this? Is climate change an urgent problem, or not?

You mean the 'European-style "supplementary vote"' that was used for mayoral elections before the Conservatives changed it to FPTP in the (as it turned out, forlorn) hope that it might help them win lots more contests? That 'European style "supplementary vote"'?

A map of London showing levels of broadband unavailability and locations (as dots) which are eligible for Gigabit Broadband Vouchers.

You can also find locations that may be eligible for the government's Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme (GBVS) - www.gov.uk/government/p...

London Connectivity This map shows estimated coverage of broadband services across London by Postcode, Ward or Borough.

Small but important project released by my team this week. The new (simplified) London Broadband Connectivity Map: apps.london.gov.uk/connectivity/

Click or search to find levels of availability and unavailability in your Postcode, Ward or Borough.

#LDN @ldncdo.bsky.social @ldndata.bsky.social

I've been meaning to visit the "fart lamp" myself. Planning to casually take my daughter, so I can point it out and tell her it runs on farts 💩💨😆

this is interesting and balanced research and it confirms my priors so i'm sharing it (h/t @jenvalentino.bsky.social)

but also it makes sense — LLMs speed up the typing part, which often feels like the bulk of the job, but is actually dwarfed by the thinking part. and these things don't think good

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London Data Week has been INCREDIBLE - so much to say, but only time for photos:

Wish I'd been able to see you Jason!!

In Conversation: Tyler Hobbs & Matt DesLauriers - Unit Tyler Hobbs and Matt DesLauriers, two pioneers of generative art, sit down together to discuss the intricacies of their chosen artistic medium.

Really enjoyed this conversation with Tyler Hobbs during his recent book signing event at Unit London, where we talk about generative art & our creative process. 🤗

Full 1hr+ recording (!!) in the link below:

→ unitlondon.com/2025-07-09/i...

I’m thrilled that more than 200 community groups will be bringing Londoners of all backgrounds together in September for my Community Weekend, with funding from the National Lottery.

Hear more from Deputy Mayor for Communities and Social Justice @debbieweekesb.bsky.social:

A good article from @runemadsen.com reminding us that our tools shape our creativity.

"the growing monoculture in digital design where everything starts to look and feel the same, not because of shared intent, but because of shared constraints"

🎉📚 Exciting news!

My new book — Clearing the Air — will be published in the UK in September.

50 of the most common questions I get about how we tackle climate change. 50 short, data-driven answers.

www.penguin.co.uk/books/462676...