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Did you know that new #Emoji can be proposed by anyone, simply by following some guidelines laid out by the #Unicode consortium? There's a time window each year where they accept proposals, and a select few might make it into future sets.

This year I turned one in: "Circuit Board", which I was surprised to find 1. didn't exist and 2. had not been proposed before (though CPU and Microchip have both been submitted and declined in the last 5 years)

You can read my proposal here:
https://storage.googleapis.com/greg-kennedy.com/Proposal%20for%20Emoji%20%E2%80%9CCircuit%20Board%E2%80%9D.pdf

and you can see the Unicode emoji proposal guidelines here:
https://www.unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html

Anyway, the odds aren't great of getting accepted, but if it IS then you can say "hey! I know the guy who submitted that one!"

Attached are the sample images I drew up for the proposal - which, incidentally, are now Public Domain as well. Enjoy!

18x18 pixel color circuit board emoji design

72x72 pixel color circuit board emoji design

18x18 pixel black-and-white circuit board emoji design

72x72 pixel black-and-white circuit board emoji design

Not sure what I did, but he dragged his bed out of the room and is now side-eyeing me. #JasperTheCorgi #DogsOfMastodon #bombasticsideeye

Tricolor corgi Jasper, resting on his cushy bed, just mostly in the door frame, with one eye on the camera

It amazes me how close a ton and 1 megagram (~907 kg) are but no one ever calls them megagrams.

@forteller on my pixel phone, media volume, ring volume and call volumes are all separate. What phone do you have?

Screenshot showing the expanded volume settings and different values for different audio types

@foone @timixretroplays tell me what device to buy, I have a box of USB cables to go through

@foone once you have this mapped to use as a driving game, the next trick will be using a regular keyboard with this same input scheme on the game

Jay Rishel boosted:

Dems should come out with Project 2029 with chapters like, “Debt-free higher education,” “Single-Payer Healthcare,” “Imprisoning the Entire Trump Administration,” and “Yeeting Elon Musk to Mars”

#JasperTheCorgi has discovered he can look out the windows from the sofa back. #DogsOfMastodon #corgi #woof

Jasper climbinf into the sofa back, viewing his domain out the window

#JasperTheCorgi has figured out how to jump onto the sofa. And from the sofa to the recliner. #DogsOfMastodon #corgi

Jasper on the sofa, over my head, eyeing up his next leap zone

Jasper having completed a leap only my wife and find a spot on the recliner

#JasperTheCorgi says the snow isn't so bad when the air is above freezing. #dogsofmastodon

My seventh month old tricolor Corgi laying in the snow, looking at me like "do we have to go inside?"

just backed @pluralistic's new kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/picks-and-shovels-marty-hench-at-the-dawn-of-enshittification?ref=thanks-copy

@nyquildotorg an issue that should be much improved when the starship starts launching next gen starlink with inter constellation laser links. But that involves assuming things Elongated Muskrat said were going to happen to actually happen

Jay Rishel boosted:

I propose we replace semantic versioning with pride versioning

Diagram with large number: 2.7.123
First “2” is commented: Proud version. Bump when you are proud of the release
Second “7” is commented: Default version. Just normal/okay releases
Third “123” is commented: Shame version. Bump when fixing things too embarrassing to admit

@nyquildotorg is there a wakeOn setting that could be turned off to enable sleep to still be an option?

Jasper is REALLY suspicious of my neighbor's new Christmas decoration. #JasperTheCorgi #corgi #DogsOfMastodon #inflatable #polarbear

In the foreground, out of focus, the ears of Jasper, my 6 month old, tri color corgi, in focus in the background us the moving inflatable polar bear across the street, which Jasper feels he needs to fight.

My year 2024 in podcasts. #AntennaPodEcho

My top 5 podcasts of 2024:
1. Stuff You Should Know
2. This Week in Tech
3. Maximum Fun Bonus Content
4. Savage Lovecast, Magnum Sub
5. Factually with Adam Conover

Jay Rishel boosted:

TIL the Brave browser is a literal crypto scam. They claim to compensate website owners and content creators with their BAT token, but if you don't or can't claim the rewards within 90 days they pocket the tokens themselves. Apparently it's extremely difficult to signup and claim your BAT tokens...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999

#cryptoscam #bravebrowser #bravebrowserisbad

Jay Rishel boosted:

This is a terrific piece tht traces how the #Reagan admin created policy tht increased #food prices, reduced #grocery store competition, killed 1000s of grocery store #jobs.

This Reagan #deregulation allowed corps to engage in unfair price fixing tht disadvantaged smaller grocers leading to reemergence of #FoodDeserts in the 80s to now.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/12/food-deserts-robinson-patman/680765/

#poverty #racism #greed #antitrust #food #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter