L James

@ljamesart.bsky.social

Vector artist, free and open source software ghoul, south-central WA cryptid, berry bear, compost king they/them or he/him Profile picture by @meg-james.bsky.social Website: https://l-james.com/ Commissions are open: https://l-james.com/commissions/

In WA we need to do everything to make our state a sanctuary for trans folks. 1.1 million voters being misinformed and/or hateful towards trans folks with the election results tonight must be met with public information campaigns and the WA Dems solidifying around protecting trans people.

Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

Julie S. Lalonde@julieslalonde.bsky.social · 3w ago

Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.

All this too knowing that your wages haven't increased in at least thirty years as a independent artist and you'll get the joy of being taxed more than the average worker because you have done the great US injustice of being a freelancer

"LibreOffice 26.8 contains no generative AI features. Documents are not transmitted to remote services for processing, and no component of the suite requires network access to function. This is a deliberate position."

Linuxiac@linuxiac.bsky.social · 2mo ago

LibreOffice 26.8 is now available with a new Paragraph Composer in Writer, native OpenType variable font support, Calc improvements, and better document compatibility. linuxiac.com/libreoffice-... #OpenSource #OfficeSuite

I LITERALLY SAID THIS WAS THE RISK OF CONTINUING TO USE TWITTER. EVEN IF YOU JUST POST ART THERE AND LEAVE, YOU ARE STEADILY INDOCTRINATING YOUR AUDIENCE BY PUTTING THEM IN CONSTANT PROXIMITY TO FASCISM AND RIGHT WINGERS.

John Pfaff@johnpfaff.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Evidence is already accruing that spending time on Twitter pulls ppl to the right, bc the algorithm feeds you horrible stuff. And again: academics are likely more vulnerable, bc they convince themselves they are less.

Watching multiple artists I follow unofficially announce their bsky departures bc of their state rolling out age verification hits hard- doubly so when I think about the online safety classes I got in ELEMENTARY SCHOOL that hammered hard “do NOT give out your personal info on the internet.”

PSA to people on Instagram: people who don’t have Instagram can’t see your posts! They see a login prompt. That information about your business or your event? Literally inaccessible