Laszlo J Illustration

Laszlo J Illustration

@laszloj.bsky.social

I'm a traditional painter specializing in imaginative realism. I focus on character-driven fantasy and science fiction. I'm available for commissions and illustration work.

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Karla Ortiz 🔜 LBX
@kortizart.bsky.social

If you’re if Sacramento or nearby, please consider joining a group of voice actors, performers, artists and writers to demand transparency from GenAi companies with AB-412! Rsvp for more info and please if you can go! Your presence can make all the difference!

NAVA@navavoices.org

Our Voices are NOT their trade secret. Join NAVA in person THIS MONDAY 3pm at the Capitol in Sacramento to show your support for AB412, the AI Transparency Act. We need your voices in that room to show how much the voice over community cares.

Laszlo J Illustration
@laszloj.bsky.social

Love friends of the library book sales! I always find great scifi books. But lately I also check the vintage kid's books. Today's was the best haul yet! Cool retro space books! #retrorocket #rocketship #spaceart #midcentury #vintagebook

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Laszlo J Illustration
@laszloj.bsky.social

Love friends of the library book sales! I always find great scifi books. But lately I also check the vintage kid's books. Today's was the best haul yet! Cool retro space books! #retrorocket #rocketship #spaceart #midcentury #vintagebook

Laszlo J Illustration
@laszloj.bsky.social

I'm working on a book cover commission and the brief calls for a monster that's like a spider but without a head or thorax. One idea was a daddy long legs like creature. It got rejected, but you can enjoy it anyway! #InverteFest #scifi #alien

Laszlo J Illustration
@laszloj.bsky.social

Yay! I'm happy to take part in this fun periodic exhibition. There's a wide range of entries and styles. I definitely recommend checking it out! #InverteFest #insect #arthropods bsky.app/profile/fran...

franz@franzanth.bsky.social

We present: The Art of #InverteFest - April 2026 Edition A digital art book showcasing the work of 100 artists from around the world, in celebration of overlooked invertebrate fauna. Thank you to the artists who contributed to our book! Download: drive.google.com/file/d/1RJ5m... #Art #SciArt

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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social

“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands...may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” —James Madison

Laszlo J Illustration
@laszloj.bsky.social

Yesterday's thrift store haul. Vallejo paint rack for $5. TARDIS jewelry box (will reuse for a Dr. Who action figure.) And something not often seen: a manual receipt/note machine from the 1940s. A roll of paper inside pulls through front slot. Tear off when done! #miniaturepainting #retro #drwho

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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

Laszlo J Illustration
@laszloj.bsky.social

Talpra magyar! (Rise Hungarian!) Petőfi Sándor's famous anthem called Hungarians to revolt against the Austrians in 1848. Though ultimately they failed, his cherished poem is just as relevant today as Hungarians finally tossed off Orbán’s yoke! (1/2) #Magyar #Hungary

Laszlo J Illustration
@laszloj.bsky.social

As you can tell by my good Irish name 😉, I'm Hungarian, though I was raised in the US by parents fleeing Communism. Hungarians have a long history of fighting control by other countries. To have one of our act like a dictator and court Russian domination always rankled me.

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Frank Conniff
@frankconniff.bsky.social

My fellow writers might not want to hear this, but AI is a useful tool for certain aspects of the craft, like for instance when you’re engaged in the process of being a talentless shitbag hack who is too lazy to do any fucking writing.

Laszlo J Illustration
@laszloj.bsky.social

This is my dog. The same animal that burns with the eternal rage of a thousand suns when the UPS truck shows up. Cowering at my feet and shaking in fear because there's a fly in the house. A FLY... 🙄

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Karla Ortiz 🔜 LBX
@kortizart.bsky.social

“I don’t want to hear even the slightest amount of bullshit about how you didn’t need to ask for permission to use our names & use our identities. You just wanted to steal, so you stole. You wanted to take things w/o permission, so you did. It’s wrong.”

moryan.comAn open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchantsTo everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...
Laszlo J Illustration
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RIP. It's sad to hear of his passing. However, bI have a love-hate relationship with Dan Simmons. His Hyperion Cantos is simply one of the best scifi series ever (IMHO.) But his other works can be very uneven or downright terrible (I'm looking at you The Terror!)

Scifi Art@scifiart.bsky.social

RIP Dan Simmons (April 4, 1948 – February 21, 2026). Author of my favourite ever science fiction book series, the Hyperion Cantos.

Laszlo J Illustration
@laszloj.bsky.social

Musk undermines democracy everywhere. X is his pulpit; alt-right parties & influencers his lackies. Now he profits from facilitating deepfake sexual abuse material. Call on elected officials to stop using X and supporting his depraved actions. #DumpYourToxicX actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

actionnetwork.orgTell Elected Leaders: Dump Your Toxic XWe are calling on elected officials, celebrities, activists and everyday people to Dump Your Toxic X. Elon Musk is making a profit by enabling the creation of sexualized deepfakes, which experts call ...

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Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D.
@repdexteror.bsky.social

Replying to @repdexteror.bsky.social

Through the great words of James Baldwin, “The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

Laszlo J Illustration
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Just to add my two cents here: the last 5 years of my library career at Stanford was managing the Media & _Microtext_ Center. It housed all of the audio-visual materials in our humanities library. So I know a little about microfilm... 😉 See more details in my comments: 👇

Rick Hasen@rickhasen.bsky.social

🚨 President Trump’s Claim of an “Irrefutable” Argument Supporting His Right to Unilaterally Impose Voter ID and Election Rules May Be Based on Insane Claim that Marriott Hotel Manager Found Secret Text in the Shadows of a Microfilm Copy of the U.S. Constitution electionlawblog.org?p=154326

electionlawblog.orgPresident Trump's Claim of an "Irrefutable" Argument Supporting His Right to Unilaterally Impose Voter ID and Election Rules May Be Based on Insane Claim that Marriott Hotel Manager Found Secret Text ...Yesterday I noted the latest set of unhinged social media posts from President Trump in which he declared that voter id requirements and other election changes would be imposed in the midterms via exe...
Laszlo J Illustration
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Modern microfilm readers ain't your grandparents' machines, even in public libraries. They're 26MP digital cameras with OCR, image editing, etc. You see everything to *be* seen. The idea he brought a magnifier to find something "hidden in the shadow" is ludicrous... (Here's an example of a scan:)

Laszlo J Illustration
@laszloj.bsky.social

Just to add my two cents here: the last 5 years of my library career at Stanford was managing the Media & _Microtext_ Center. It housed all of the audio-visual materials in our humanities library. So I know a little about microfilm... 😉 See more details in my comments: 👇

Rick Hasen@rickhasen.bsky.social

🚨 President Trump’s Claim of an “Irrefutable” Argument Supporting His Right to Unilaterally Impose Voter ID and Election Rules May Be Based on Insane Claim that Marriott Hotel Manager Found Secret Text in the Shadows of a Microfilm Copy of the U.S. Constitution electionlawblog.org?p=154326

electionlawblog.orgPresident Trump's Claim of an "Irrefutable" Argument Supporting His Right to Unilaterally Impose Voter ID and Election Rules May Be Based on Insane Claim that Marriott Hotel Manager Found Secret Text ...Yesterday I noted the latest set of unhinged social media posts from President Trump in which he declared that voter id requirements and other election changes would be imposed in the midterms via exe...
Laszlo J Illustration
@laszloj.bsky.social

Microfilm, just like anything else scanned, photographed, printed or otherwise reproduced, can and _does_ have mistakes. Sometimes ghost images and words from subsequent pages show through. There's stains, tears, creases, etc. So a shadow is just a shadow.

Laszlo J Illustration
@laszloj.bsky.social

I can't say enough how important it is to oppose these camps with every fiber of our beings... As commentators pointed out many of these proposed concentration camps are near railroad tracks. 'Nuf said.

Arizona Right Watch@azrww.bsky.social

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

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God
@thegodshow.com

This is the winter of our rage. Bless the protesters in Minneapolis.

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Sahil Kapur
@sahilkapur.bsky.social

The massive government funding package just failed badly in the Senate, 45-55. Needed 60. Zero Democrats voted for it. SEVEN Republicans opposed it: Budd Johnson Lee Paul Moody Rick Scott Tuberville (John Thune switched his vote to no for procedural reasons.)