I'm a dark-mode person on computers, and I'm also a visual artist. When I draw digitally I always prefer drawing light colors onto a dark background, and when I paint I always prefer painting lighter colors onto a black-primed canvas. I think I first tried that after seeing a behind-the-scenes about Batman's artists doing it that way, and realizing it made much more sense to my visual and artistic sensibility.
Mastodon is my main social-media daily driver, so I do check it out during downtime at work. Lemmy less so, but every now and then.
I'm fortunate to have a decent data plan as well as good mobile signal in my workplace, so I just keep my phone off the company wi-fi to avoid any worry about what I'm loading through my company network.
If you are alone there may be functionally little difference between sitting on the couch watching TV and lying in bed with a smartphone balanced on your chest, but as soon as you're sharing the viewing experience at all there's still value in having a big shared screen.
Thank you for sharing your perspective and informing us that cowardly evasion of accountability in the execution of inhumane operations is a common practice in the service. Some folks out there might not have suspected this already.
It's terribly easy to be an ally when you're excluded. Helping people to have the space and community they need can be an incredible act of allyship, even (perhaps especially) when that space and community is not also for you.
A good article on Walled Culture, marred by its being illustrated with AI slop. Surely a normal, real public domain Shakespeare image could have illustrated the point of the article just as well, if not better.
I'm a dark-mode person on computers, and I'm also a visual artist. When I draw digitally I always prefer drawing light colors onto a dark background, and when I paint I always prefer painting lighter colors onto a black-primed canvas. I think I first tried that after seeing a behind-the-scenes about Batman's artists doing it that way, and realizing it made much more sense to my visual and artistic sensibility.