leinir @leinir@computerfairi.es

Design us a 3D Konqi

You have the Blender skills, we have the reference!

https://kde.org/anniversaries/30/#design-a-3d-konqi

Send us designs we can use in graphics, animations, 3D printed figurines, action figures and trophies for Akademy Awards and forever be revered by the KDE Community!

Want to collaborate with other 3D artists? Share your work on this active thread:

https://discuss.kde.org/t/design-us-a-3d-konqi/49862

I'm thrilled to announce that my first full-length album, "Into The Trees," comes out on October 2! It's a little love letter to the Pacific Northwest and it's been quite a journey going from concept to a real record. I hope you'll join me for the release!

#ProgressiveHouse #PNW #OrganicHouse

Hey my favourite chat app Conversations is free in the google shop for the next couple of days, get it downloaded while it's free and worry about setting it up later.

It's an XMPP client, one of these doodads where you can run your own server and they can all talk to each other, just like Fedi. I like it a lot. It has an old-school web revival vibe to it, there's chatrooms you can join etc. Also you don't need to give your phone number and it handles multiple accounts really nicely for, y'know, Purposes. Conversations is normally a couple of quid, but I think if you "buy" it now at 100% off then it'll stay in your google account and you can redownload it whenever as though you've bought it. Deets at https://conversations.im

Y'all know I seldom recommend shit except when I really really mean it so 👍

So... after almost a decade of failure in the online regulation space, perhaps some legislative navel gazing is finally about to take place...

I encourage every single person negatively affected by the #OnlineSafetyAct to submit evidence here:

https://committees.parliament.uk/work/9955/the-online-safety-act-implementation-and-impact/news/217266/online-safety-act-inquiry-launched-by-committee/

If your freedom of expression has been curtailed in any way, however minor, submit evidence.

I will be submitting evidence as a website/service operator.

#OnlineSafetyAct

I've been slowly introducing the word 'creatures' in place of 'people' in the way I phrase things, specifically in those places where it's unambiguous and where one would expect the word 'people', and it's interesting how barely anyone seems to notice and basically nobody has made an issue out of it

My mom has been running a community art & poetry project using the fence around her home for the last 15+ years, which she calls The Poetry Fence. She takes it very seriously and uses it as a base for all sorts of poetry outreach in her neighborhood. She's recently written a book about her experience with this project which she's trying to get published by a small press.

And in her mid-70s, she's just created her first ever website. It'd mean a lot to her if you take a look! https://www.poetryfencecommunity.com/

She doesn't know I'm posting this, but if she did she'd probably want me to add that science is real, no person is illegal, trans rights are human rights, and banned books are worth reading. And most of all, that poetry is for everyone.

Boosts on her behalf appreciated.

#poetry #community #SmallPress #publishing

Yo, I'm heading up a brand-new community project. 👥

We write code by hand. 🤚🏽⌨️

It's a growing opt-in directory of software developers who write code by hand. When you hear someone tell you “nobody does that” you can point to this and say “well these folks do.”

If you're #ProCraft and care about the future of handcrafted software, please add yourself to the list! I'd love to see this grow to 100s of signatories (I know y'all are out there!) and really send a message.

https://handcraftedcode.org

"The angry defensiveness at play makes me think that the writing tool that best resembles generative AI isn’t the typewriter. It’s cocaine…

Writers integrating liberal amounts of drugs and alcohol into their writing process is well documented: they fall into the catch-22 of needing it to create, but having it progressively impair their ability to do so. [It's] a great metaphor for using generative AI: use it too much and it strangles your ability to think for yourself."

https://www.maproomblog.com/2026/07/gatekeepers-luddites-haters-and-ai-generated-maps/

Petition: Create a government-owned, free software for Making Tax Digital (MTD)

With the roll-out of Making Tax Digital going ahead, HMRC must provide an in-house, government-developed, fully-functional software that allows easy and confident compliance with MTD. Self-employed people should not be obliged to hand data to private companies.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/769610
#uk #ukpol #hmrc