NAS needs a Jolly Roger.
Maybe some abolitionist symbolism, broken chains or something? A fractured all-seeing-eye? I don't want something that implies that we're all a homogeneous group, because we're plainly not. But I have no real ideas for how it should look. I'm a terrible artist.
Anyone with talent want to give it a go?
@eriner i have no talent, but I could give it a try.
Do you have any theme or iconography in mind?
@Richard nope. Simplicity is probably better, mainly because it'll probably eventually be shrunken down to a 32x32 emoji, so larger is better.
@eriner partial to any particular 2 or 3 colors?
@Richard nah, full creative license. I'll probably know "it" when I see it (though I'll probably put it up for a vote anyway), but I'm too untalented to give artistic guidance.
@eriner first draft, feel free to select other colors
@eriner 600px, 100px, 32px
@eriner obv super simple and minimalist. I'd be sort of shocked if this was already a symbol for something else
@Richard yellow and black makes me think of Libertarians, which I don't recoil to. Were it black on red or yellow or red or something, I'd probably physically recoil and assume you were intentionally trolling.
@eriner i resisted the urge to go for the obv meme submission
@Richard is it easy to swap the yellow out for #0073bd?
I tried the paint bucket but the dithering leaves 2 yellow-gray lines that would be tedious for me to fix by hand (because I'm a gimp amateur and don't know how to do it "right").
I think this design is the winner, but I might put the colors up for a vote. Yellow looks good, so does blue (a shade darker than what @LCCMV had posted in his edit). I can't decide.
@eriner Yeah, changing colors is easy.
LMK what other combos you want.
@Dudebro @Faelyn @Richard @Wyliesau that, or they have electromagnetic senses that we can't understand or quantify. I know some people posit that bees are attracted to flowers not exclusively by color, but by sensing of electrical charge. If this is true for bees, then there's no reason to suspect that other animals might have a similar sense that we don't know about because it's not outwardly and obviously expressed.
@eriner @Dudebro @Faelyn @Richard @Wyliesau
Cryptochrome cells are understood to be an animals' magnetic field sensors. Bird use these to navigate and humans have them too (there is a study on humans orienting themselves in sense-deprived environments). That part is weak for us though. They mostly have to do with setting our circadian clocks.
This is an awesome (and mostly related) read:
https://worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/6928#t=aboutBook
Yowl! We had electric fences around our pastures. Now first off, we kept the lowest wire just above the dogs tails when they put them straight up. Next these wires were pulsating wires. Birds could sit all day on them & wouldn't be affected. But if ya leaned into one sooner than later you got a punch! just like a heavyweight swinging at ya. Now, who do you think would slip in the mud around these fences & reflectively reach out and grab one to keep one's balance?
I have one better.
We had two small ponies and an e-fence around the property.
One morning, in the summer holidays, i fed the ponies and had to pee.
I was about 5 feet away from the fence but the grass was quite high and wet in the morning.
Some grass touched the lowest wire.
When i peed it somehow connected ….. the rest is nsfw
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