John Hornsby
@john-hornsby.bsky.social
I am a creative polymath who runs a strategy and design studio, likes to write and read, prefer dogs over cats, and democracies over wanna be dictators and platforms that support them. I left Facebook and Instagram and am trying this and Substack.
In this week's Beyond the Noise by hornets be creative. We highlight how quiet progress is compounding. Local spaces are getting cared for, statewide arts funding is flowing, and the global design field is formalizing regeneration as a standard.
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October 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
In this week's Beyond the Noise by hornets be creative. We highlight how quiet progress is compounding. Local spaces are getting cared for, statewide arts funding is flowing, and the global design field is formalizing regeneration as a standard.
hornsbycreativegroup.kit.com/posts/beyond...
hornsbycreativegroup.kit.com/posts/beyond...
In this week's Beyond The Noise by Hornsby Creative we focus on attention that rebuilds: attention to place, to people, and to how we make meaning together. When we notice clearly, we design wisely. hornsbycreativegroup.kit.com/posts/strate...
Strategic Hope: Grants, Greenways, and Growth in Motion
This week's Beyond the Noise curates signals of resilience: grants, trails, climate action, and cultural design shaping our shared future.
hornsbycreativegroup.kit.com
September 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
In this week's Beyond The Noise by Hornsby Creative we focus on attention that rebuilds: attention to place, to people, and to how we make meaning together. When we notice clearly, we design wisely. hornsbycreativegroup.kit.com/posts/strate...
🚦 In this week's Beyond the Noise –from Hornsby Creative Group, LLC we're tracking the theme of Restoration in systems, access, and attention. From bus routes to back roads, lab benches to leadership practice, take a gander if you hear the honk. hornsbycreativegroup.kit.com/posts/beyond...
Beyond the Noise: Brand Gaps to Growth Maps
No doomscrolling, no rage bait. Just grounded stories of creativity, equity, and community-powered resilience.
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August 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
🚦 In this week's Beyond the Noise –from Hornsby Creative Group, LLC we're tracking the theme of Restoration in systems, access, and attention. From bus routes to back roads, lab benches to leadership practice, take a gander if you hear the honk. hornsbycreativegroup.kit.com/posts/beyond...
This week in Beyond the Noise from Hornsby Creative, we explore public art, fresh workshops, regenerative systems, biological lasers. hornsbycreativegroup.kit.com/profile?_gl=....
August 9, 2025 at 12:31 PM
This week in Beyond the Noise from Hornsby Creative, we explore public art, fresh workshops, regenerative systems, biological lasers. hornsbycreativegroup.kit.com/profile?_gl=....
In this week’s Beyond the Noise from Hornsby Creative we celebrate how art, public space, and design infrastructure serve as scaffolding for resilience, creativity and reconnection. Plus our new monthly mixtape playlist. shorturl.at/lucWU
August 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
In this week’s Beyond the Noise from Hornsby Creative we celebrate how art, public space, and design infrastructure serve as scaffolding for resilience, creativity and reconnection. Plus our new monthly mixtape playlist. shorturl.at/lucWU
Meditations on the fire of this moment. The Fire, The Cone, and the Seed of Becoming open.substack.com/pub/wrinkled...
The Fire, The Cone, and the Seed of Becoming
The current rage burning down of it all, terrible as it is, may also be the beggining of a new way of becoming.
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July 13, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Meditations on the fire of this moment. The Fire, The Cone, and the Seed of Becoming open.substack.com/pub/wrinkled...
It's a repeating rhythm:
When personal accountability closes in, corrupt leaders externalize their conflict by
expanding war or nationalist urgency as a means of survival.
It is a distortion of leadership itself, and a call for us to evolve how power is held, distributed, maintained and witnessed.
When personal accountability closes in, corrupt leaders externalize their conflict by
expanding war or nationalist urgency as a means of survival.
It is a distortion of leadership itself, and a call for us to evolve how power is held, distributed, maintained and witnessed.
June 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
It's a repeating rhythm:
When personal accountability closes in, corrupt leaders externalize their conflict by
expanding war or nationalist urgency as a means of survival.
It is a distortion of leadership itself, and a call for us to evolve how power is held, distributed, maintained and witnessed.
When personal accountability closes in, corrupt leaders externalize their conflict by
expanding war or nationalist urgency as a means of survival.
It is a distortion of leadership itself, and a call for us to evolve how power is held, distributed, maintained and witnessed.
Meditations on power. open.spotify.com/episode/4fYT...
On Powers, Great and Small
The Emerald · Episode
open.spotify.com
June 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Meditations on power. open.spotify.com/episode/4fYT...
What if for Father's Day, we could agree to Make America Ours Again, for the children.
Submitted for consideration: open.substack.com/pub/wrinkled...
Submitted for consideration: open.substack.com/pub/wrinkled...
Make America Ours Again
A Civic Invitation, Not a Campaign
open.substack.com
June 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
What if for Father's Day, we could agree to Make America Ours Again, for the children.
Submitted for consideration: open.substack.com/pub/wrinkled...
Submitted for consideration: open.substack.com/pub/wrinkled...
Make of it what you will. Wishing everyone a day of joyous peaceful demonstration.
June 14, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Make of it what you will. Wishing everyone a day of joyous peaceful demonstration.
“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch. Hope is an ax you break down doors with.” — Rebecca Solnit
June 7, 2025 at 12:26 PM
“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch. Hope is an ax you break down doors with.” — Rebecca Solnit
It’s just sad. Imagine having global power & wealth—yet choosing to attack the most vulnerable to enrich billionaires.
This tax bill guts Medicare, Medicaid, & SNAP. Families like mine rely on them—especially post-Hurricane Helene.
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This tax bill guts Medicare, Medicaid, & SNAP. Families like mine rely on them—especially post-Hurricane Helene.
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The current Republican tax bill could cut $500 billion from Medicare — ‘This bill just gets more and more cruel’
Medicare provides health insurance for about 68 million older adults and people with disabilities.
www.marketwatch.com
May 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
It’s just sad. Imagine having global power & wealth—yet choosing to attack the most vulnerable to enrich billionaires.
This tax bill guts Medicare, Medicaid, & SNAP. Families like mine rely on them—especially post-Hurricane Helene.
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This tax bill guts Medicare, Medicaid, & SNAP. Families like mine rely on them—especially post-Hurricane Helene.
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Sunday collage meditation. "I was going to see you, but they wouldn't listen"
#papertart #art #collage
#papertart #art #collage
May 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Sunday collage meditation. "I was going to see you, but they wouldn't listen"
#papertart #art #collage
#papertart #art #collage
Creative South is already delivering and Day 1 hasn’t even started!
Dinner with the Asheville crew, bumped into WCU design folks (including a neighbor!), and met a bunch of rad designers at Ray’s.
Fired up for today’s programming!
Dinner with the Asheville crew, bumped into WCU design folks (including a neighbor!), and met a bunch of rad designers at Ray’s.
Fired up for today’s programming!
April 11, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Creative South is already delivering and Day 1 hasn’t even started!
Dinner with the Asheville crew, bumped into WCU design folks (including a neighbor!), and met a bunch of rad designers at Ray’s.
Fired up for today’s programming!
Dinner with the Asheville crew, bumped into WCU design folks (including a neighbor!), and met a bunch of rad designers at Ray’s.
Fired up for today’s programming!
It’s been a YEAR already... and it’s only April.
That’s why I’m extra excited for some Creative South energy this weekend.
If you’re going to be at Creative South, let’s meet up!
I’m always down for a good conversation about strategy, design, growth — or just life.
Let’s recharge together.
That’s why I’m extra excited for some Creative South energy this weekend.
If you’re going to be at Creative South, let’s meet up!
I’m always down for a good conversation about strategy, design, growth — or just life.
Let’s recharge together.
April 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
It’s been a YEAR already... and it’s only April.
That’s why I’m extra excited for some Creative South energy this weekend.
If you’re going to be at Creative South, let’s meet up!
I’m always down for a good conversation about strategy, design, growth — or just life.
Let’s recharge together.
That’s why I’m extra excited for some Creative South energy this weekend.
If you’re going to be at Creative South, let’s meet up!
I’m always down for a good conversation about strategy, design, growth — or just life.
Let’s recharge together.
Encourage your red hat reps to seize this moment from the brink for America. text SIGN PKULCN to 50409 or share: resist.bot/petitions/PK...
Now Is the Time for Republicans to Lead with Courage and Principle
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April 9, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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A sneak peek of my part of the collaborative interaction installation "Paddling the Same Canoe" for the Connect Beyond festival tomorrow @ Third Room in AVL. Shout out to Dean at Innovation Woodworking for doing all the heavy lifting of building out my design.
connectbeyondfestival.com
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April 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
A sneak peek of my part of the collaborative interaction installation "Paddling the Same Canoe" for the Connect Beyond festival tomorrow @ Third Room in AVL. Shout out to Dean at Innovation Woodworking for doing all the heavy lifting of building out my design.
connectbeyondfestival.com
connectbeyondfestival.com
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It’s very discouraging to watch our country slowly re-learn the lessons that led to the end of segregation, among them that people who think they’re racially superior are nearly universally incompetent fools unable to face up to their own deficiencies and putting them in charge is suicide
March 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
It’s very discouraging to watch our country slowly re-learn the lessons that led to the end of segregation, among them that people who think they’re racially superior are nearly universally incompetent fools unable to face up to their own deficiencies and putting them in charge is suicide
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When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.
March 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.
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Imagine believing your child was “killed” just because they don’t identify with the sex they were born with.
A real father would love their child unconditionally.
A real father would love their child unconditionally.
March 23, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Imagine believing your child was “killed” just because they don’t identify with the sex they were born with.
A real father would love their child unconditionally.
A real father would love their child unconditionally.
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every person involved in this needs to be in prison
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
every person involved in this needs to be in prison
March 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Defend Democracy—Stop Trump and DOGE’s Treasonous Power Grab
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March 22, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Oppose Trump’s Attack on Libraries and Museums—Save the IMLS
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Oppose Trump’s Attack on Libraries and Museums—Save the IMLS
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March 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Oppose Trump’s Attack on Libraries and Museums—Save the IMLS
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Well, that’s it for democracy.
10 Senate Dems just caved to MAGA, handing Trump a budget that guts checks & balances, consolidates power, and paves the way for authoritarian control. This isn’t bipartisanship—it’s surrender.
We need leaders who fight, not roll over.
thehill.com/opinion/5199...
10 Senate Dems just caved to MAGA, handing Trump a budget that guts checks & balances, consolidates power, and paves the way for authoritarian control. This isn’t bipartisanship—it’s surrender.
We need leaders who fight, not roll over.
thehill.com/opinion/5199...
Schumer surrenders, but so do Senate Republicans
Congress has surrendered its power to declare war and control federal spending to the executive branch, giving President Trump and Elon Musk blanket authority over all federal spending.
thehill.com
March 19, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Well, that’s it for democracy.
10 Senate Dems just caved to MAGA, handing Trump a budget that guts checks & balances, consolidates power, and paves the way for authoritarian control. This isn’t bipartisanship—it’s surrender.
We need leaders who fight, not roll over.
thehill.com/opinion/5199...
10 Senate Dems just caved to MAGA, handing Trump a budget that guts checks & balances, consolidates power, and paves the way for authoritarian control. This isn’t bipartisanship—it’s surrender.
We need leaders who fight, not roll over.
thehill.com/opinion/5199...