Dolly's 1992 appearance in HIV/AIDS ads was considered newsworthy because so many people were still bigoted at the time.
But her first fundraiser for HIV/AIDS research was in the mid 1980s before there were 10k US deaths. She was that connected to the queer community. She was that good of an ally.
When people talk about breaking up these megacorps, this is a prime example of why.
Google's search got worse because they got their money from ads and good results reduced how many ads people saw. Now they are pivoting to AI because they hope to make money on that someday somehow but it's so expensive to operate that they have to stuff it with ads to bridge from now until that imaginary future.
All three of these things are awful because one company is abusing dominance in one area to subsidize the others. If Google were broken up into a search company, an ad company, and an AI company all three would be better. But capitalism ruins all three.
RE: https://tech.lgbt/users/catraxx/statuses/116616134102606047
So that's where neomoji come from.
https://bsky.app/profile/gotyoureyes.bsky.social/post/3mcpe2dynl22b
It's freaking wild the things people on Bluesky say about the Fediverse to convince each other to not migrate here.
I don't know any tech bro worshippers, anyone from the Pacific North West, or ancaps on here. I rarely see them and when I do, I block them. Racism, antisemitism, anti-Palestine sentiment, transphobia, and misogyny are less common on my timeline here than Bluesky too.
While it's not done, here's a collection of most of the neomoji that I have been able to find kinda sorted with some duplicates removed. The password is Volpeon.
I'm not making any guarantees about future availability of this resource, so download the 7z in here if you want to preserve a copy for yourself.
https://1drv.ms/f/s!AnBi_AG0eSVeiox5-pFDVClXKJ13-Q?e=rdWhv4
🎵Oh, the weather outside is frightful.
And the fire is so delightful.
Since there's no place to go
door explodes open
HASHIRE SORI YO
My fault for taking so long on this one but the past 20 days have given us a bunch of great stuff for the #NeomojiRoundUp.
Neobot got a small update from @SymTrkl@anarres.family giving us powered off variants.
This was so exciting, neobot exploded all over the place. Though I'm not sure who to credit because people have been using :neobot_explode: for months but nobody seems to have created the emoji until November 11th where @thermia@sk.girlthi.ng and @onyx@catgirl.cloud posted it within 2 minutes of each other.
@nora@cybre.club tracked down six pride heart floofs and the first animated this is fine fire. I unfortunately don't know who originally created them because it looks like firetribe.org got them after Nora posted about them.
Speaking of pride flags, @brainworms@inanimate.brainworms.nl created neocat_genderqueer in response to someone being bummed that they didn't exist.
Neocat floof is very excited about something. I'm fairly confident that @gen@ck.catwithaclari.net created it based on several posts thanking them for making it.
It might be about geting some floof affirming therapy that turned them into an angel. I made that one in the mixer.
It could also be excitement over eating their own tail, courtesy of @dispencer@mk.absturztau.be
Though not every neocritter is thrilled about this development. Neohaj can tell you to go f yourself thanks to @Erpel@hai.z0ne.social .
The finder app on Apple devices got a neo version. I can't find the source of this one because neofinder is the name of an actual project.
But the next neocat doesn't care, they just want to know if you have any games on there. This might come from this post by @benjae@plasmatrap.com but that seems to indicate they're quoting someone?
And it turns out the answer is yes, there are games on the phone. At the very least, Minecraft must be on there because @jeremystartm@fly.staropensource.de made a pixelated neocat rainbow for use on an upcoming Minecraft server.
There were a bunch of woozies too but I'll have to make another post to cover them.
OMG, Inkscape 1.4, released earlier this week, now supports importing files from Affinity Designer.
@volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip, can I get some of the neocat .afdesign files to see how well that works? It might be possible to automatically make SVGs out of them at long last!
Hey guys, check out this cool mask I got at WoozyCon!
I made a neocat asking for uppies and two frames of being picked up for uppies. I don't really like how they turned out though, I'll need to rethink this design later since I suspect there's a lot of demand.
The neobot_bus can get pretty crowded during commutes but it's still the fastest way to get around. Think of it as an opportunity to make new neofriends.
The Hoard Burger from McDragon's: When you have a whole lair to feed.
Delivery powered by neobot.
RE: https://kitty.social/notes/9yjq0fzyq3sk000p
🎵Just slide'em. Ooooh yeah. Just slide'em. McDragons's burger sliders. Get 'em now before they slide away.🎵
Abyssal neogob loves the latest single by neomilk. It's on the radio all the time between other songs.
Unicode 16 adds a "Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement" that adds support for weird glyphs previously exclusive to devices like the Mattel Aquarius, Atari ST, and Tandy Color Computer. That gives us four game sprites sections in Unicode that we could pick from to be the new Fediverse logo instead of the freaking asterism. How are none of those a more popular choice?
RE: https://grimgreenfo.rest/notes/9y3bmk964buz00nd
Hey, @vel@gib.schmus.is, should I add arms_baby_woozy to the mixer?
It was inevitable but my #neomoji roundup is starting to reach the point where I'm not finding tons of new stuff except from instances I've missed before (description in comments).
That's it. I'm adding an imagehash field to my master emoji file. Same name wouldn't work for consolidating because of how much name variance there is. Trying to match image files exactly isn't going to work either because of compression artifacts. Time to start reading up on how that works.
@volpeon@is-a.wyvern.rip 's name ends with -eon. Does that imply he's an eeveelution?
:drgn_think_confused::sylveon_aww:
I just noticed something, @vel@gib.schmus.is . Why doesn't your instance have overlay woozys? Surely the ability to arbitrarily woozify anything using MFM would be useful sometimes.
