Tom Lechner

Ask your legislators to restore funding for the Gorge Commission in the Washington House Budget

Washington state House Appropriations defunded the Columbia River Gorge Commission. This would end up cutting Oregon's funding to protect it from the bastards trying to destroy our parks. Saturday, it goes to the WA House to vote on the budget. Here's a form from Friends of the Gorge to get to reps:

28.03.2025 23:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

FOSSY 2025 | Call for Proposals

#Fossy2025 in Portland July 31st - Aug 3rd! If you make art with open source stuff, like Inkscape, Blender, Krita, or maybe you make your own custom art tool, or you do other #FOSS art coding, come give a talk in the Libre Graphics track!

Proposal call ends April 28.

#floss #libregraphics

26.03.2025 20:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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26.02.2025 15:13 — 👍 185    🔁 55    💬 14    📌 3

How to make video game vegetation sway | SCALE 22x

I'll be giving a workshop in Pasadena on March 9 for how to make video game vegetation sway in the wind, as part of the #Scale22x linux conference's Libre Graphics track. Come on down, and let any gamedev/open source art meetup folks in the LA area know! www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x/pr...

23.02.2025 23:15 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns.

100% of his salary is paid by WA state.

Elon fired him. Share his story.

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A screenshot of an email notifying Spotsylvania parents that funding for a program for youth with disabilities has been canceled

the richest man in the world has decided that your kids don't deserve special education programs

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My hand holding a veinlike twig that is encased in a heart shaped blob of ice.

I think I found the heart of the forest! It's called the Barkenstone.

02.02.2025 23:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Call for Participation - Libre Graphics Meeting 2025 – RE:imagination, Nuremberg, Germany

If you are into making art with open source software, or you make such software, you should consider talking about it at this year’s Libre Graphics Meeting! If you are just curious, come to it anyway, it’s a good way to meet people passionate about making art software free to all.

25.01.2025 18:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Great conversation about the editorial cartooning profession with colleagues @jackohman.bsky.social @jensorensen.bsky.social and Barry Blitt--->

22.01.2025 16:40 — 👍 359    🔁 75    💬 6    📌 1

A view of Mt. Hood, which is rising above a vast cloud bank covering the valleys and slopes below. Wispy clouds above in otherwise blue sky, and a variety of frost covered trees in the foreground.

Mt. Adams hiding behind a grove of burnt, dead tree trunks poking up out of snow.

The snow covered talus slope covered with snow on the way down with sun shining through trees on the left, casting long shadows on the right.

Had I done the loop instead of out-and-back, it would have taken so long that by the end I would have gotten past Starvation Ridge, and ended in darkness, but I didn't want to push the metaphor that far. As Sam Gamgee says, "there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for."

21.01.2025 06:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What's up, in this case looking up at firs covered with frost, and a lot of rope like lichen (or moss?) snaking up the tree trunks.

Some footprints through a snow covered talus field. Some fast moving freezing fog blows over the slope with some blue sky beyond.

Cool viewpoint at a slope with piles of rocky slabs peeking through the snow.

Sun shining through a gap of some fir trees, making a sunny path over dappled snow with twigs scattered on top.

To celebrate MLK day today, the only thing worth celebrating today, I went #hiking at Mt. Defiance on the Columbia River. A brutal incline, with only a couple of good views, but still worth it to put in the effort. I only did an out-and-back hike, so it was a lot of defiance.

21.01.2025 06:36 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I asked the same question! He said it was just really slimy mouth.

30.10.2024 20:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

7 Carved pumpkins: a howling Trumpkin, a gooey many eyed, a golem-esque, a Little Nightmare, big chinned laugher, grumpy Grommet, scarred cackler.

What happens when you combine cartoonists, pumpkins, and knives.

28.10.2024 18:19 — 👍 56    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

A western skink with a bright blue tail, taking a breather on a mossy rock, after having escaped a ring-necked snake.

Orange Turning fork fungi on a rotting log.

Orange capped mushrooms growing out of cracks in a downed, burnt tree.

What seems like a wild candy corn factory, is instead Orange Jelly Spot mushroom, growing of of the bark of a downed tree.

Some fungi and a skink, who is also a fun guy with a great tail, for Friday the 13th! Well, technically they were from yesterday, along Eagle Creek in the Columbia River Gorge, but I didn't process them till today..

13.10.2023 20:38 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0