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MOONFLOWER: WRITERBLR PACK

[ live preview ] ♡ [ get on payhip ] From the moment I understood their concepts, reading, writing, and everything related to literature has been an important part of my life. While I've centered my online presence around graphic and web design I discovered those online spaces thanks to literature. And while I've favored working over writing—which is unfortunately very relatable—in my time as a spectator, I've had the opportunity to get acquainted with Writerblr and their incredible community members. From this experience, I fell completely in love with how Writerblr members curate their blogs and communicate their projects to their followers, and the idea of a package made for them became one of my main goals for this blog.

The Moonflower Writerblr pack was made for writers looking for something elegant and uncomplicated. With user-friendly customization options, a contained layout, and strong typefaces, your words are the focal point. This theme package can be as minimalist—or as maximalist—as you wish. Whether you're sharing updates, writing dissertations in response to anonymous questions, or presenting graphics alongside your projects, Moonflower is for you! I fell absolutely in love with it and adapted it to my needs as an RPC content creator. So it's flexible if you would like to use it for something outside of Writerblr. With that being said, I hope you like it! And good luck with those manuscripts!

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[webfarmhouses-blog]

Web designer in Jodhpur

Creative Web Design

We are a web designing company that has a team of skilled and experienced web designers and developers who can create stunning and functional websites for any type of business or domain. We offer a variety of web designing services, such as custom web design, web development, web hosting, SEO, and maintenance. We also provide you with a free web design consultation, where we can discuss your goals, needs, and preferences, and provide you with a web design proposal that suits your requirements and expectations.

What we do in Web Design

Our web designing services are the services that provide web designing solutions for clients who want to create or improve their online presence. It involves the use of various elements such as colours, fonts, images, graphics, animations, and interactions to convey the message and purpose of the website to visitors. Web designing services can help clients with various aspects of web designing, such as Consultation: Our web designing services can help clients understand their goals, needs, and preferences, and provide them with expert advice and guidance on how to achieve them . Strategy: Our services can help clients develop a clear and effective web design strategy that aligns with their brand identity, target audience, and business objectives.Design: We help clients create a unique and attractive web design that reflects their vision and personality, and that engages and impresses their visitors.Launch: Our services can help clients launch their website to the public, and provide them with web hosting, domain registration, and security services.

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At Web Farm House, we understand that web design is not just about making a website look good. It is also about making it work well, communicate effectively, and provide value to the users. That is why we use the latest web design technology to create websites that are:

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We will also listen to your feedback and suggestions and make any changes as needed. We will work with you as a partner and a friend, not just as a client and a vendor. we value your input and satisfaction throughout the work process. We will communicate with you regularly and keep you updated on the status of your project.

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Our is provides web design services for clients who want to create or improve their online presence. We help clients with various aspects of web designing, such as consultation, strategy, design, development, testing, launch, and maintenance:

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We are a One-Stop Solution for delivering the best web design and development services. We render customized and affordable web design facilities to suit your requirements. Choose the best plans for building a responsive web design according to your needs:

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[pixelcubito]

It's been more than two months since we found out that the amazing QSMP project treated a big chunk of their workers terribly.

When the news first broke, I was naive enough to believe that things could go back to the way they were before. That short break they had? I thought for sure the very first thing they would do is contact every single one of their regular workers, ask for their feedback and apologize for what they had been through. So naive of me...

Three weeks later, the worst possible outcome became true. Lumi's exit of the project did not only further confirm everything that had already been said, but it also revealed that repairing the broken trust of those affected was never a priority for the heads of the project...

In my personal opinion, more than trying to find ways to treat everyone better, it would seem like they chose to spend their time salvaging the project's image while making the least "noise" possible. Having event after event as if nothing had happened.

At some point, I simply stopped supporting the project all together. However, I still get updates because of the accs that I follow and I have some things to say:

-I still don't understand how the main problem (the treatment of their workers) would get better if they didn't contact any of the people that suffered this mistreatment?????? It just doesn't make any sense.

-It seems like with every project the team's ideas would grow ambitious but the budget to pay the people that made these ideas a reality kept diminishing. Don't get me started on those deadlines...

-Let me also say that "resolving things privately" was never an option. I didn't believe Quackity for a second when he said that in his last stream regarding this whole situation. Things would have just continued as normal and we all would have been blissfully unaware, like we were for months and months before.

To finish, I think what they created together (Quackity, the volunteers, writers, 3d artists, actors, managers, web developers, graphic designers, music engineers, assistants, translators, editors, illustrators, the ccs and every other worker that I might not even know about) was such a beautiful thing. A real exchange of culture. It felt like we could truly celebrate each other and have fun regardless of where we came from. I still watch clips and smile because the love is still there. It's so strange...mourning a project that's still "alive".

[numbpill]

INTRODUCTION TO THE NUMBPILLED DIGITAL CREEP AND CREATURE OF THE CODEWORLD AKA SPLICER / “DEAD GIRL” :

i never rlly post ~text~ postings but i just wanted to chime in with a couple updates/info/tidbits for u guys to hopefully check out or ask me about !!

regarding my web design / web art / pixel page decor / etc : - please consider following me on ko-fi! i code themes for neocities (and would love to do more for other sites any suggestions?) and it honestly would make me so happy if more people could enjoy what i make ! - on another hand i made @numbpilled-themes as a way to crosspost all themes i make and release on there - i am happy to take any sort of requests or ideas for themes, please shoot me an ask, you might be pleasantly surprised to find that i actually make a theme that you suggest an idea for ! - pixels and pngs! if you have any requests for a theme or type of pixel/background/page decor, please do ask me because i have a RIDICULOUS amount of page graphics stored on my hard drive (5TB). what’s mine could most definitely be yours!

OTHER STUFF:

- here is my IRL personal diary/journal/blog

- here is some of the main lore for elriel / 2133

- more elriel

- deviantart for oc art and graphics

- tumblr page showcasing my photo manipulation/digital collage art is @izkaboz and also here’s the original instagram with a lot of my work

NEOCITIES PAGES:

- main personal one here

- ambien

- elriel (wip)

- hidden layer media

- nolove

MISC / OTHER SITES OF MINE:

- beacons portal room one

- portal room 2

- tree of links

- donate

- straw.page

- lost love letters

ermmm i think that’s the brunt of it !!

please do say hi sometime i am not going to bite you ! rawr hehe xd

[suzy-queued]

ART TAG

Tagged by Molly @deathclassic. So fun to learn more about our artists!

Have you always been interested in creating art? Yeah! My grandmother and aunt are/were professional artists. It feels like the family trade.

What's your favorite medium to use? If digital, what programs do you like? My favorite is spray paint and pastel, no question. But due to time/ease constraints, almost all of my fandom art has been done on a tablet using Sketchbook (with some finishing touches in Photoshop).

Do you create outside of fandom? Yes, although these days my output is heavily skewed toward Gallavich.

Share something you haven't finished and/or never got around to posting. As long as you promise not to laugh! I dabble in animation, but I never get very far. Here is a rough concept of an animated piece.

Favorite piece you've made? Like, ever? That's tough. Here are two pieces that I enjoy a lot:

Draw your icon in a minute or less

An underrated piece you've made in your opinion This piece for Kinktober 2023 made me really happy. It's the closest I've been able to get to a true pastel feel on my tablet.

Do you do art in a professional setting? Yes. I do book covers, and I'm a graphic/web designer. Logo designs, all kinds of stuff.

A piece you don't like but did really well on social media. Nah, I'm pretty okay with the balance of quality versus engagement.

Post an old piece and compare it to your most recent, what are the similarities? Here's the first piece I ever did on my tablet, when I was learning the tools, versus the cover for Then & Now:

Similarities? Ian's pouty lip. The textures within the color areas. Joyful light and shadows.

Have you ever collaborated with another artist/s? My family likes to play Exquisite Corpse. Does that count?

What piece has the most notes? Are you surprised?

Prison? Dominance? Freckles? What's not to love!

Who/What is your favorite subject matter? These days, it's Gallavich. But naturally, I tend to gravitate away from drawing people's faces. It's been a real learning curve for me trying to make these boys look like recognizable humans. I generally draw dark/spooky stuff.

Show us something not from fandom you've made Here are two books covers I've done for my husband (both made with spray paint/acrylic/pastel).

Where do you like to create? At the work table in my basement. With an electric blanket over my lap.

Do you have a tag that you use to group your creations? Tell us so people can follow it. gallavich fan art

Give yourself a shoutout, where can we commission/buy/follow you for more pieces? You can follow my art on AO3. I have a few galleries: My Gallavich Art A.U.gust 2023 Gallery Gallavich Kinktober 2022 Collection

I'll tag these lovely artists (sorry of there are any repeats of Molly's tags): @gallapiech @sweetperversiongirl @deedala @michellemisfit @doshiart

@crossmydna @darthvaders-wife @heymrspatel @spookygingerr @filorux

[sirfrogsworth]

It's hard to be nostalgic about Tumblr without remembering my friend Tru.

Truett McGowan.

What a fantastic name.

We met each other because we were both tech geeks following Leo Laporte. He was the very first live streamer. Originally he hosted a TechTV cable show called The Screen Savers. But once G4 took over and focused more on video games, Leo's show was cancelled and he was looking for a new way to broadcast content.

So he built a studio near his home and created his own infrastructure in order to live stream video on the internet. He called his new show "This Week in Tech" or TWiT for short.

Along with his new streaming venture he created a TWiT community using an open source microblogging platform called Laconica. It was a form of Twitter that you could create specifically for a single community. Basically a custom niche Twitter feed. I was trying to be a web designer back then, so I created custom themes for Lacnonica.

This was my own personal theme for a website that I ended up never launching.

Leo called his custom Twitter, "The TWiT Army." And I was his graphic designer and webmaster. I made all of the cute little graphics for the website.

I also did fun holiday themes...

For the Thanksgiving theme, if you hovered over the Turkey it would change to being cooked.

I also took it upon myself to photoshop a little army helmet on the avatar of every single user of the site.

This was the zombie avatar I made for myself during Halloween.

The TWiT Army was also where I started posting my first attempts at Photoshop comedy. Many of them related to The TWiT Army.

And The TWiT Army is where I met Tru. He used a space invader avatar. I made him a couple of different versions.

You may have seen his avatar on the sidebar of my main Tumblr.

We became fast friends. We finished each other's jokes. We talked pretty much all day, every day. He loved Apple back then. I was strictly PC at the time. So we debated about that quite a bit. He would probably be astonished I have a MacBook and that I really love it too.

Our friendship lived in a little text box. We never talked outside of instant messages. But it was one of the most profound friendships of my life. I loved Tru just as much as any friend I've ever known in real life.

Tru started blogging on this brand new site called Tumblr. He reviewed apps for the iPod Touch. Not the iPhone, as that wasn't yet a thing.

I made the banner for his Tumblr.

He kept trying to get me to join Tumblr, but I was busy trying to create my own custom comedy website. But my site kept getting more and more complicated and I could never quite finish it. I was trying to arrange guest authors and create 3 months of content and I was always futzing with the theme and never happy with it.

I was getting frustrated that I could never launch my perfect comedy website and Tru suggested just making a Tumblr and posting funny stuff so I could be creative and have an outlet until my big site was ready to launch.

Little did I know Tumblr would end up being my big comedy website. Eventually I abandoned months of work and just stayed on Tumblr. All of my success here is pretty much because that little space invader pestered me to join when I was being stubborn.

Unfortunately, as some may have figured out already, the story gets sad from there. Tru mentioned briefly that he had a heart defect, but he never said it was serious. He acted like it was no big deal so I never thought too much about it.

We always talked through instant message and email, so we never exchanged phone numbers or addresses or anything like that. Tru was a very private person so he never even published an image of his face online. I only knew him as a space invader.

One day I woke up and sent him a message and got no reply. He usually woke up before me and answered as soon as I said hello. This had been our routine for nearly a year.

An hour went by. Two hours. Three hours.

It was odd for him not to respond for that long. I was really worried but all of my TWiT friends told me I was being paranoid. But there was a huge knot in my stomach telling me otherwise.

But then those hours turned into days. Days into weeks. Weeks into months. My worry grew exponentially as more time passed. I didn't know what to do. I tried finding his family. I even looked into hiring a private investigator. I don't know if I have ever felt a combination of depression & anxiety that intense.

In my heart, I knew what had happened. I knew that heart defect took his life. He was only 26 and it just didn't seem fair. But the not knowing for certain ravaged my mental health. Before all of this I had lost nearly 90 pounds and I gained it all back.

I think maybe a year or so later I found a friend of his who knew him in real life. They were finally able to confirm my suspicions. He passed away from his heart condition. That was my first real experience with grief. But I was so thankful for that bit of closure. I was finally able to let go of my anxiety and mourn him properly.

But Tru gave me such a wonderful gift. He pushed me to just start making things. To stop stalling and just create things to make people smile.

And you all probably know the rest from there.

[princemick]

✨✨positivity chain! tag some of your favorite creators (artists, gif makers, writers, etc) and say what you love about them. Share with as many people as you’d like✨✨

fucks!!! love this, love doing blog recs!!!! here go baby! my lil treasure chest of people I adore and follow!

(also this is all people who r activele posting abt f1, love all my mutuals who have moven on or r insactive sm <3 s/o to u, also I am only naming like the 2/3 guys I associate w these people but most post more then just the ones I mentioned ofc)

first of, honorable I am forced by marriage @milflewis s/o, she is a required have to follow if u r into rpf on f1blr I dont make the rules sorry

artists:

@russilton beloved brother and lewis and george fan // @shovson jense, george lewis and GM's fan, amazing art // @ilikecarsandlike4people belovved drawings of all the lil guys // @penaltyboxboxbox one of THE most incredible artists on f1blr //

gif/graphic designers

@argentinagp insaneeeeeeely good graphic designer, alex and charles fan // @oscar-piastri one of tHE OGS in f1 graphic design // @brawngp2009 insane graphic design, old school f1 and alex fan // @queerbenched insanely good lewis main graphic designer // @livetogether--diealone one of the charles giffers imo // @f1-stuff amazing charles and carlos giffer // @alpinegasly litteraly look forward to the race graphics every weekend increidble stuff //

others

@fewtrell lando fan and one of funniest people on the dash// @formulaonedirection also amazing graphic designer when she makes smth, mainly lando fan // @acrosstobear the mick, callum, lando source blog // @estiebestieban THE esteban blog imo // @raceweek THE !THE! alex blog on this webbed site // @alexalblondo funniest text posts, one of my fav on the dash, alex fan // @alxalb alex, logan fan, just a pleasure on the dash, love seeing her pop up sm // @racewinnerlandonorris THE lando blog // @vegasgrandprix somehow knows everything abt SO many guys, so funny, checo, charles and logan fan //

[bitchesgetriches]

Hello bitches! I’m sorry if you’ve answered something like this before, but I need some advice!

So my college offers a major that’s Design but a bit more™️ and includes stuff like graphic design as well as web design, game design, Artificial intelligence, animation, etc and I’ve been told, teaches you python coding as well. It seems pretty well rounded to me but I’m not a major yet, and my main concern is that I won’t get what I paid for, or that I might still end up in a non-lucrative career cause, well, most of it is still design and the way creatives are treated and paid is just not the best. I was wondering what thoughts you had on this major, (does it sound like a good choice?) or what kind of information do I need to ask my advisor for to make sure its a degree that gets me job that pays well? Should I even trust what they say? I would love to hear you guys’ take on this.

Thanks so so much and hope you guys have a lovely day!

Hello pet! This is a great question and we're very proud of you for thinking critically about this decision before picking a major. I also think it's a good idea to ask questions from your advisor. To that end, we wrote the following articles, which should help guide the conversation:

Your College Major May Not Prepare You for Your Job—but It Can Prepare You for Life

High School Students Have No Way of Knowing What Career to Choose. Why Do We Make Them Do It Anyway?

The Actually Helpful, Nuanced, Non-Bullshit Way to Choose a Future Career 

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[lantura]

Doll History: Pinkie Cooper

Slogan: "Their world is their runway!" Creators: Carter Bryant and Anjanette Abell Company: Bridge Direct From: 2013–2014(Discontinued) Height: Approximately nine inches tall

History The doll line's first concepts first began back in 2009 with inspiration from Anjanette Abell’s cocker spaniel and dog of the same name, Pinkie Cooper. The dolls themselves were set apart from other doll lines by making the andromorphic dogs with humanoid bodies.

Abell and her brother Carter (the creator behind the original Bratz dolls) wanted to make a doll that “wasn't as edgy and was more sophisticated and glamorous.” The targeted age range they was hoping to appeal to was young children between the ages of 4 to 8.

They were released in the late Summer 2013. However, sales failed to match up to expectations and Bridge Direct soon discontinued the line.

Core Characters

There are three characters in the series:

Penelope "Pinkie" Cooper (Middle): Pinkie grew up in St. Louis, Missouri and moved to New York to study fashion. Her fashion sense is described as “Elegant and uptown with a touch of unexpected.” She runs her own blog called the "Pinkie Post" that is posted on the official website.

Pepper Parson (Right): Originally from New York City, she originally dreamed of designing theatrical costumes, before deciding to pursue her passion as a DJ. Her fashion sense is described as “off beat and eclectic with an ethnic touch.”

Ginger Jones (Left): Pinkie's other BFF who is from Los Angeles. Her fashion sense is described as “ultra-girly with dainty touches.”

Lines Released in the Series

Travel Collection- A line featuring Pinkie in fashions from various countries (London, Paris, and Beverly Hills)

Runway Dolls-There are two different variants, a release with hats/headbands and the original release without hats/headbands.(Introduces Ginger Jones and Pepper Parson)

Jet Set Pets- The dolls with their pets (Lil' Pinkie, Sprinkles, and Saltine)

Unreleased Lines

Cabana Cool

Deluxe Resort

Website The official website was launched along with the dolls in July 2013. It features character profiles, games, and crafts to make. It also features wallpapers, videos and webisodes, merchandise list, and a blog named Pinkie Post. The site is no longer supported. Web series:

A webseries was released with 7 episodes were made between in 2013 between July and December.

Pinky and Pepper Forever, the Graphic Novel TRIGGER WARNING: SUICIDE

This fan made graphic novel, based on the doll series main characters Pinkie Cooper and Pepper Parson, is considered to be more popular than the discontinued doll series itself.

Pinky & Pepper Forever was created by Eddy Atoms and was revealed at the 2018 Toronto Comic Arts Festival, before being widely released on May 30, 2018.

In summary, Pinkie Cooper is an art student who, after an argument with her girlfriend Pepper, commits suicide by submerging herself in resin in a bathtub for a fictional performance art piece called, “Final Piece”. Cooper gets sent to hell and Pepper decides to follow her. They become grim reapers with blow-up inflatable scythes. The comic was positively received by comic critics and was nominated for the Outstanding Artist award at the 2018 Ignatz Awards. To begin reading the comic:

[beardedmrbean]

Colorado officials have agreed to pay over $1.5 million to cover attorney fees for graphic designer Lorie Smith, who successfully challenged the state’s antidiscrimination law at the Supreme Court.

The settlement, announced Tuesday, comes months after the high court ruled in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis that Colorado violated Smith’s First Amendment rights by attempting to compel her to create wedding websites for same-sex couples against her religious beliefs. Earlier this year, a federal district court issued a final judgment requiring state officials to cease efforts to compel Smith's speech, a resolution that brought an end to years of legal and personal hardship.

“After enduring Colorado’s censorship for nearly seven years, I’m incredibly grateful for the work of my attorneys at Alliance Defending Freedom to bring my case to victory,” Smith said, referring to the religious liberty law firm that represented her. “As the Supreme Court said, I’m free to create art consistent with my beliefs without fear of Colorado punishing me anymore."

Under the terms of the settlement, Colorado's Civil Rights Division agreed to pay the hefty legal costs of Smith’s attorneys from Alliance Defending Freedom, a legal advocacy group specializing in religious liberty cases. ADF President Kristen Waggoner described the payout as a necessary consequence of the state’s actions.

“For the past 12 years, Colorado has targeted people of faith and forced them to express messages that violate their conscience and that advance the government’s preferred ideology," said Waggoner, adding that "billions of people around the world" believe marriage is the union between a man and a woman, and that "First Amendment protections are non-negotiable."

Lawyers spent nearly a decade arguing in court that Colorado’s enforcement of its public accommodations law against Smith constituted a form of compelled speech. After the justices agreed to consider the case on the merits, the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in June last year affirmed her claim, holding that the state’s actions infringed upon her constitutional right to free expression.

Justice Neil Gorsuch, the author of the 303 Creative decision, wrote that through its public accommodation law, “Colorado seeks to force an individual to speak in ways that align with its views but defy her conscience about a matter of major significance."

The Supreme Court's majority ruling was met with swift dissent by the three Democratic-appointed justices, including a dissent by Justice Sonia Sotomayor accusing the ruling of granting "business open to the public a constitutional right to refuse to serve members of a protected class."

However, Smith has argued her free speech case was never about rejecting clients based on their identity but about making sure her custom website business does not create designs or promote messages that do not conform to her religious beliefs.

"This is a win not just for me but for all Americans — for those who share my beliefs and for those who hold different views. I love people and work with everyone, including those who identify as LGBT," she said.

The settlement follows a contentious history of Colorado officials enforcing antidiscrimination measures against religious business owners. Smith’s lawsuit drew comparisons to the earlier Masterpiece Cakeshop case, in which the Supreme Court sided with baker Jack Phillips, who refused to create a custom cake for a same-sex wedding.

Critics have accused Colorado of selectively targeting religious individuals, a claim bolstered by comments from state officials during litigation that suggested hostility toward faith-based beliefs. Smith’s attorneys argued that these patterns highlighted the need for stronger protections against government overreach.

The Washington Examiner contacted the Colorado Civil Rights Division for comment.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Object permanence

Picks and Shovels is a new, standalone technothriller starring Marty Hench, my two-fisted, hard-fighting, tech-scam-busting forensic accountant. You can pre-order it on my latest Kickstarter, which features a brilliant audiobook read by Wil Wheaton.

#20yrsago Shirky: Net is a kayak, driven by its environment https://corante.com/many/folksonomies-are-a-forced-move-a-response-to-liz/

#20yrsago Whistler’s Delight mashup mixes 22 whistling songs https://web.archive.org/web/20050909012025/https://www.djriko.com/music/DJ Riko - Whistler's Delight (Full version).mp3

#15yrsago Londoners: Mass photography event in Trafalgar Square today! I’m a photographer, not a terrorist https://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/tags/phnat

#15yrsago Activist ejected from “public” meeting on secret copyright treaty for tweeting https://pisanty.blogspot.com/2010/01/acta-consulta-del-impi-en-mexico.html

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#15yrsago O’Reilly drops ebook DRM, sees 104% increase in sales https://web.archive.org/web/20100406013442/http://toc.oreilly.com/2010/01/2009-oreilly-ebook-revenue-up-104-percent.html

#15yrsago Defective by Design anti-DRM picket at Apple tablet launch https://www.defectivebydesign.org/apple-tablet-san-francisco-launch

#15yrsago EFF won’t give up the fight over NSA warrantless wiretapping https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2010/01/21

#15yrsago Canada’s National Film Board online archive: a success story https://blog.nfb.ca/blog/2010/01/21/online-video-stats/

#15yrsago Naked airport scanner catches cellphone, misses bomb components https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/01/german_tv_on_th.html

#10yrsago They put a Pirate Party MEP in charge of EU copyright reform: you won’t believe awesomesauce that followed https://www.discuto.io/en/consultation/6240

#5yrsago The 1970s called and they want their proto-McMansions back! https://mcmansionhell.com/post/190405899096/the-mcmansion-hell-yearbook-1970

#5yrsago Angelenos! Come to ICANN this Friday to Save Dot ORG! https://www.eff.org/event/savedotorg-protest-icann

#5yrsago The sordid tale of Microsoft’s epic tax evasion and the war they waged against the IRS https://www.propublica.org/article/the-irs-decided-to-get-tough-against-microsoft-microsoft-got-tougher

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#5yrsago Sonos warns customers that their older speakers will shortly be e-waste https://www.theregister.com/2020/01/21/sonos_bricking_laudio_gear/

#5yrsago Year of the Rabbit: a graphic novel memoir of one family’s life under the Khmer Rouge https://memex.craphound.com/2020/01/22/year-of-the-rabbit-a-graphic-novel-memoir-of-one-familys-life-under-the-khmer-rouge/

#5yrsago In serving big company interests, copyright is in crisis https://memex.craphound.com/2020/01/22/in-serving-big-company-interests-copyright-is-in-crisis/

#1yrago Boeing, Spirit and Jetblue, a monopoly horror-story https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/22/anything-that-cant-go-on-forever/#will-eventually-stop

Check out my Kickstarter to pre-order copies of my next novel, Picks and Shovels!

[notfinancialadvice]

WordPress Shifts in industry news I am not a part of but enjoy gossiping about

I used to do a a lot of work using WordPress as a system. It's easy, cheap to build and maintain with, etc.

I do not anymore. This has nothing to do with WordPress. It was exclusively a "a few years ago I received the opportunity to bow out of the industry as a graphic designer in order to pursue a cocktail of art, fantasy, economy, and business"

I used to be a customer of Advanced Custom Fields. I am no longer, for the same reason as above, I am no longer a web developer. Their service was good to me and I enjoyed it tremendously while I had it.

I have therefore no stake in this game and thus no public opinion.

And yet I enjoy the drama of it all so here we are.

WordPress is forking.

Or maybe it isn't a fork.

The core, mesmerizing, (and I do not say this lightly) potentially civilization changing beauty of open source software is the ability to meet different, often diametrically opposing, priorities.

"Civilization-changing is kinda heavy language?"

via

No :)

A significant portion of the internet as we know it today is powered by WordPress. It has and will continue to shape the entire scope and scale of internet development for longer than anyone reading this will be alive -- for good and for ill.

WordPress was primarily a blogging system that could build websites as well. With the introduction of externally-based Advanced Custom Fields, it became a powerhouse web builder as well.

The short version: You could easily say "put this image / text / whatever here in the template."

It was a game changer to many smaller scale developers (hi) with a tiny staff. It allowed us (me + team) to grow much more powerful very quickly and very affordably.

Digging into the news further, there is / was chatter about pulling in the core functionality of ACF into WP's main system.

It brings an interesting point to the open source space.

And goes to my original points above.

If you make something open, how much control do you have over it? If you profit from it, how long can this last before it gets pulled into the core?

That is a risk as a developer -- you could potentially lose your business because it gets folded into the larger entity, but on the other hand, until that point, your reward was immediate accessibility to a market / system a million times larger than you, that you had previously no hand in building.

It is a tragedy of the commons.

I had long forgotten this phrase.

I'm familiar with the concept -- a public finite resource is at risk of overuse from all because it is available to all -- it largely joins with the core issue of economics itself -- how do you find balance with finite resources and infinite desires.

It is the nature of art on the internet.

Artists want to make art and it to be seen, they put it online. Audiences do not by nature owe them anything, the art is available to view for free, but without audience support, the art will stop or degrade in posting frequency.

More directly, to the WordPress sphere, what is the responsibility to the core system (thus other users)? What is the responsibility of the users to the core system?

Objectively speaking, building and maintaining a system like WordPress requires a lot of resources.

The open source nature allows for competing priorities to be served provided enough resources, because you can always say "I don't want to follow your path of ABC, I want to do BCD" and then do that.

The open source nature also allows you to say "I made a widget, it costs $100/year"

But the core can say "Hm. That would make our system stronger. Yoink. Now it's ours and is free."

Then you have a market race to push to build the better whatever.

I...

...do not have answers.

To any of this.

I am left realizing.

It feels like macroeconomics and personal economics grinding against each other in a way that is traditionally seen across countries (if not the world) and decades (if not centuries) -- but in this instance, it's a much smaller scale (kinda? WP powers a lot of the internet and influences a significant portion of what it doesn't power).

And weeks and months.

Instead of decades and centuries.

This is a fun piece of bone to chew on.

I freely admit it is fun exclusively because I am not involved. If I were, it would be fucking nerve wracking.

[blbl-official]

Hello, everyone!

As progress continues on BLBL, our BL library website that will catalog original English BL (M/M) webnovels, novels, ebooks, graphic novels, visual novels etc.., we’re looking for more volunteers!

(Thanks to everyone who voted on the names 🥰)

If you’re interested in the following and have time to complete the task(s) (with at least one other person, in a team), then please contact @bafflinghaze:

Branding: logo design

Marketing: art/graphic design for marketing purposes

Wireframing/Web design: help iterate and finalise designs

Web development: backend and frontend (need to be able to work with others)

We also need data collectors (gathering information from novels and uploading it to our to-be-created system) and website content copywriters (writing all the miscellaneous text that a website needs), but this is less urgent. If you’re interested, also contact bafflinghaze.

[fujocoded]

Final Campaign Showcase

It's time! With our campaign concluded, and our energy replenished, let's do a final campaign tally and look at all the amazing contributors that helped make this fundraiser an astounding success. Hold on to your seats, we're going for a ride! For obvious reasons, this is going under the cut 👇 If you're curious about what this is all about, check out our (now concluded) BackerKit campaign here!

First of all, the final numbers: as you know, we raised $9,258 from 170 backers, 309% of our goal for an average of more than $50(!!!) per person. Our most backed tier was "Mandarin Seed" with 41, followed by Lime at 34. (hope you enjoyed all the citrus-y references 🌱)

For the high level tiers, we got 4(!!) Bronze Fujin backers at $250+ and 1 Gold Fujin at $1,000. There are no words to quantify our gratitude for this amount of support. But there's a sponsor wall on which we'll soon showcase our generous patrons' names (or not, as they wish)!

For add-ons, the winner is "Additional Sticker Set" (SO glad you love them as much as we do), followed by the "Shipping on Company Time–AO3 edition" sticker. This was our "target audience"-bait stretch goal, so we're glad to see it worked! FujoBoards are also ever-popular.

And speaking of stickers... let's talk about our sticker sets and the people who made them! We didn't get to shout out our artists quite as often as we wanted to during the campaign (the rapid pace of “all that needs doing” made it hard), so it's time to put names to the art!

Our Brand Sticker Pack mostly features graphics and art like the logo and raccoon) by anonymous collaborators who 💜 their privacy! The stickers themselves were designed by @essential-randomness, and the brilliant "fujin inside" joke was a last-minute stroke of genius by @enigmalea.

For the slogan pack, "Boba-tan's Big Integers" features art by @moksutinn, the "be gay commit code crimes" chibi are by @ikam177, and office lady Boba-tan is by @ymkse–all long-term collaborators! Once again they were assembled by @essential-randomness with help from our community

Next is the amazing "fujin/sickos" parody by Ererifan (as sticker and shirt/tote), and our 88x31 badges by Goblin. And don't forget the anonymous artist for our teasers!

They too had already collaborated with us in previous initiatives! As they say, "the gang is all here".

Now, our website! It was primarily coded by @essential-randomness, but is heavy in community contributions. Check code (and contributors) on GitHub: https://github.com/FujoWebDev/fujocoded

Even here, a lot of long-term collaborators, some in their first foray with git!

For the art (once again, have you tried moving the browser windows on the site?), we have two amazing artists to thank: @brokemycrown, our FujoGuide KS art director, created the "web" trio pics, while the rest is the work of @ymkse, with us since the very first Boba-tan art!

As you know, more goes into a project than coding and art. Between writing, proof-reading, alt-texting, cat-herding, pep-talking, and "running around getting things done" so many community contributors pitched in! We're still confirming who wants public credit, but here's a few:

@enigmalea, without whom so many of our projects wouldn't exist in their current form, did a bit of everything: from styling, to design, to wording, to typing... not even technical difficulties can keep her down!

VCat, without whom our website wouldn't have shipped in time

@starfieldcanvas, at their first big projects with us, gets the credit of "first volunteer to write a @bobaboard retrospective" (rather than founder @essential-randomness), which alone would be an incredible feat. However, Dove did a lot more, handling all our newsletters through the lead up to the campaign, thus making it possible for the team to make everything that needed happening actually happen. She also helped with design, FujoVerse copy, and even picked up coding (!) and GitHub (!!) to help update things here and there!

@elendraug picked up everything that needed picking up! From the humongous task of adding all our collaborators to @fujowebdev, to writing most of our alt text, to proofreading, to helping with drafts...

@xieliansbignaturals who took care of alt text, proofreading and cheerleading

@tarantasina, who kept the team on track and delighted us all with their Signature High-Spirit Emotional Encouragement™

@thebiballerina, who gave us social media wisdom, help with proofreading and wordsmithing, and other invaluable support

...and then me, @essential-randomness, who has written most of the posts delighting your days, manned an inordinate amount of social accounts, did everything-not-done-by-others, and somehow managed to get a company started on the wings of being a fujoshi–the highest of achievements.

With all of this said, the plan for the future: this campaign took us months to prepare on top of working on our other projects. We're now going to take a deserved couple of weeks to rest, then regroup to discuss next steps and priorities.

Formalizing all this into a company won't always be straightforward, and there will be decisions to make we haven’t even encountered yet. Our first priorities will be finishing FujoGuide Issue 2 and producing + shipping the rewards for this campaign.

Alongside this, we'll start contacting the lawyers you all recommended (seriously, thank you) so we can begin hiring with confidence, and continue the work making @bobaboard's governance independent so we can finally onboard more volunteers and push the project forward.

There's a lot to do (as you can see), and it will take time to realize the full potential of what you've helped us launch. We're incredibly excited to get to work, even more so now that we have some seed (money) to help lighten the load. And with this, we say (a temporary) goodbye.

Thank you everyone who supported us, and thank you everyone who's been at our side all along, and everyone who is joining our journey for the first time.

Looking forward to the future, The FujoCoded LLC Team

[luigimangionefan]

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