I created my own custom emoji "from scratch" for the #Philly#trolley! Behold: :trolley:
It should match the :mfl: :nhsl: :bsl: :bus_septa: emoji Jawns already had.
I pulled the logo from Wikipedia as an SVG. Then I used Inkscape to make it a 400x400 PNG, since the emoji is apparently displayed as 20x20 by default and this should make it look crisp at any resolution:
inkscape -w 400 -h 400 input.svg -o output.png
Then I used Curtail to make the file size smaller with lossy PNG compression.
Today in Labor History January 14, 1895: The Knights of Labor (KOL) initiated the Brooklyn trolley strike over wages and safety (lasting until Feb. 28). It was the largest strike Brooklyn had ever seen. The bosses brought in scabs from Boston, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. The drivers cut the wires, surrounded trains and assaulted the scab drivers. 2 people died. On January 19, the mayor called out the National Guard and declared martial law. Militiamen, with fixed bayonets, battled workers in the streets. Sympathetic locals threw rocks and bottles at the militiamen. When a supporter tried to disarm a soldier and was subsequently stabbed, the crowds of supporters swelled into the thousands. One New York paper called it another Paris Commune. However, the KOL had been weakened by years of poor leadership, and by the witch hunt that followed the Haymarket Bombing, and its membership had dwindled to under 100,000. They hadn’t waged a successful strike in years. In the end, the militia effectively quashed the strike and things returned to business as usual without the workers winning any of their demands.
Oh no! You notice that a #trolley is heading towards 5 people. You can easily pull the lever to divert it to the other track, but your PM wants you to create a #Jira ticket for it first, with a thorough description and steps to reproduce, epic and sprint assigned, story points and hours estimated, and that you keep updating its status through the workflow steps when making progress on pulling the lever.
Russland: Prigoschin an Bord von abgestürztem Flugzeug
Der Chef der Söldner-Gruppe Wagner, Prigoschin, ist wahrscheinlich tot. Laut russischer Luftfahrtbehörde befand er sich an Bord eines Flugzeuges, dass in der Region Twer abstürzte. Auch die Nummer zwei der Wagner-Gruppe, Utkin, soll zu den Insassen gezählt haben.
Do not try to solve the trolley problem—that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth: There is no trolley. General Motors bought them all up and had them dumped in the ocean.
so i did a trolley*, and while watching my trolley, i got an idea, so i googled; the concept exists, but i couldnt find one that is just, well you see... ...like this.