The point has been made repeatedly, but I still cannot get over how "there is a market for labor, sometimes market conditions change, and companies actually have to participate in that market" is being covered like some crisis that requires desperate and unorthodox measures.
I know I've seen this discussed before, but I can't find the conversation. Apologies for retreading old ground.
My node currently is not displaying link previews. If I draft a post and attach (using the paperclip icon in Frio) a link to this blog post, a rich preview of the link appears in the post composer, complete with featured image and subtitle:
However, when I publish the post, the rich link preview is gone, replaced with a very plain link that only contains the title of the post:
I'm running Friendica 2021.04. What might be causing this issue, and how can I troubleshoot and fix it?
Yesterday's crafting project: finally assembling my #piecepack! I did some serious redesigning this week, and sat down yesterday with my long #themagnusarchives backlog and put it all together.
I plan to release the files and create a version for sale on The Game Crafter soon.
After many hours today spent cutting and affixing labels, here's a finished piecepack! It definitely bears the idiosyncrasies of a homemade, DIY project, but I like that—gives it a bit of charm.
If you haven't heard of it, a piecepack is a public-domain game system/set of components. It's not a game, but rather, pieces that can be reconfigured and used in any number of different games. It's like a deck of cards for board games!
The icons I used here are from
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I finished it!
After many hours today spent cutting and affixing labels, here's a finished piecepack! It definitely bears the idiosyncrasies of a homemade, DIY project, but I like that—gives it a bit of charm.
If you haven't heard of it, a piecepack is a public-domain game system/set of components. It's not a game, but rather, pieces that can be reconfigured and used in any number of different games. It's like a deck of cards for board games!
The icons I used here are from game-icons.net, which is an excellent resource for Creative Commons-licensed vector images for a variety of purposes. I made the designs in Inkscape, which has been my go-to open-source vector editor for what feels like a decade.
I'll probably be putting these files up for download on BoardGameGeek, and possibly my own website too, before long, and I'm also thinking of using these assets to make a piecepack you can purchase through The Game Crafter. I've also got designs for two of the existing "expansions" for the piecepack, Four Seasons and Playing Cards, so I may work on those some time in the future. For now, though, I'm stoked to finally have this project completed.
Okay, here we go. This is boring but I guess I'm doing it.
This story of Eric Carle and his publisher "fighting bitterly over the stomachache scene" in The Very Hungry Caterpillar is fake. Eric Carle never said this, the interview is a parody, it was an April Fools joke. 1/?
A MAGA-obsessed, AR-15-centric religious sect has bought a sprawling compound in Texas, which it hopes will be a safe haven to "patriots" from what they believe is an imminent "deep state" war. The property was listed at just under $1 million.
People keep asking questions like "how can misinfo literacy help when everyone is so polarized" but it completely misdiagnoses what goes on with most people, who have *zero* idea what they are consuming harpers.org/archive/2021/0…
My piecepack design fizzled out about a year ago. Someone laser-cut acrylic tiles for me, and I thought I’d landed on a design I liked, but I just couldn’t bring myself to print it and start assembling the thing. When I left it, this is what it looked like:
It just wasn’t clicking for me. I love the watercolor effect in theory, and I was happy with the symbols, but the pieces weren’t gelling. Certainly no
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My piecepack design fizzled out about a year ago. Someone laser-cut acrylic tiles for me, and I thought I’d landed on a design I liked, but I just couldn’t bring myself to print it and start assembling the thing. When I left it, this is what it looked like:
It just wasn’t clicking for me. I love the watercolor effect in theory, and I was happy with the symbols, but the pieces weren’t gelling. Certainly not enough for me to commit by putting it all together. So it sat for over a year as an unfinished project.
Last night, I started wondering how one might make an engine-building board game with the piecepack, which led me to the realization that it would be much easier to prototype if I, y’know, had a piecepack. So I returned to my design.
I thought about incorporating some type of geometric design into the backgrounds—enough to give a bit of texture and character to each suit. I poked around looking at ceramic tile designs before I realized that half-square triangle quilt blocks had exactly the kind of patterns I was looking for. So this morning, before my first client, I banged out a new proof-of-concept:
These people are so desperate to uphold a white supremacist mythology about this country that they are literally introducing bills that would, in essence, compel teachers to straight up lie about how racism shaped our current society. nytimes.com/2021/05/20/us/…
This @CNN internal memo directs staff to say “Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health” when reporting casualty numbers. It was sent by the Jerusalem bureau chief.
This is a page straight out of Israel’s playbook. It serves to justify the attack on civilians & medical facilities
Do you recognize this cat? He is a very big, very friendly kitty who is about 2 years old. He was found on a forested trail in Rockwood by a kind family who brought him to #UCHS. Please contact the shelter at 519-833-2287 if you recognize him.
[share author='Max Kennerly' profile='https://twitter.com/MaxKennerly' avatar='https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/2272212478/b00wlaliuo2qbd5vyit8.jpeg' link='https://twitter.com/MaxKennerly/status/1394386276875395080' posted='2021-05-17 20:16:09']So while extremist groups were openly talking about their plan to use violence to keep Trump in power, the DOJ—filled with stalwart Republicans who have since been picked up by corporate law firms—was ignoring that and instead going after @NunesAlt with a secret subpoena.
Welp had our first "I'm not wearing a mask, I'm fully vaccinated!" run-in at the day job today despite the MASKS REQUIRED sign on the door. It went about as bad as you'd expect.
CDC really didn't think about how violent this will be for retail/food service/in-person places.
New: A since-deleted video from 2019 shows MTG harassing @AOC's office through a locked door. Calling her "crazy eyes" and telling her through the office's mailbox slot to "get rid of your diaper" while telling the office to open the door and come out.
I think we on the left could use a lot more friendly, approachable media. While I love me some good aggressive graphic design, right now, I think the right is consistently winning the propaganda game in part because they wrap their ideas with really easy-to-swallow tone and appeals to common sense. We can do that too, in pursuit of a more compassionate, humane, and just world.
So I made a couple images for my local chapter of the IWW that I'm pretty proud of.
I have SVG versions of these if people want to play with them. I'm happy for these to be spread widely; please download them, share them, modify them, whatever. Information wants to be free!
anyway my thesis is on how shakespeare is positioned as 'timeless' and 'universal' and therefore deployed for social conservatism. the perceived 'timelessness' of shakespeare is used to position transness as a new, niche cause that is fundamentally unserious
At the rate crypto-capitalist exploitation is progressing, we won't be able to produce anything that requires a data processor or flash bit storage by the end of the year.
And well...that's pretty much everything.
We're rapidly sprinting towards the neo dark ages.
