this logo. who is going to tell them https://circle.gnome.org/
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Applications and libraries extending the GNOME ecosystem.

@wingo the Internet truly ruined us
@ebassi @wingo The graphic would work just fine without the hands, and then: problem solved. (Although perhaps change the size and the circles relative to the plants. But even removing the hands would be a quick fix.)
@garrett @ebassi @wingo I saw the other post and was wondering. And then I saw this. It's not just me...

@hub @ebassi @wingo Previous version of the logo... was even moreso... https://jimmac.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/Circle/

(I'm going to mark this graphic as 'sensitive', but it's the GNOME Circle logo (on that page). The hands are a bit more suggestive though, so... um...)

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Applictions and libraries extending the GNOME ecosystem.

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@garrett @ebassi @wingo at least the hands are turned inside
@wingo If this isn't proof that Linux is gathering new and young users, I don't know what is
@wingo should I ask why ?

@jnpn, not unless you either have a very specific fetish or want to be scarred for life

@wingo

@hook @wingo and no questions were ever put forward

@hook @jnpn @wingo it's a picture of a man's asshole. It's not actually life changing trauma.

Please, stop this.

@wingo opened your replies and there isn't an edit with a ring already, the disappointment is immense
@wingo now I can't unsee it. Thanks Andy! :)
Your logo looks similar to goatse (#50) · Issues · Teams / Circle · GitLab

The logo on https://circle.gnome.org/ looks very similar to a widely known shock image. I'm not alone in thinking that, a lot of...

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@xayah @wingo No one today cares about the feelings of internet veterans, traumatised for life by that image imprinted on their minds

#GoatseVeteransUnion #GoatsesWitnesses

@xayah @wingo I always love the collective "they" for GNOME. It's obviously one person who somehow missed the whole phenomena (somehow)
@zeenix @wingo and someone else in enough of a position of power to do so who closed the ticket on the day it was opened. I think a collective "they" is fair given that fact.
@xayah @wingo not really. That's one very specific subproject/repo. Allen has no such rights on most GNOME repos/projects. The same is true for most GNOME contributors
@zeenix @wingo but we are only talking about the GNOME circle project and that ticket is in the GNOME circle project repo's issue tracker.
@xayah @wingo Also while I don't agree with the assessment, I think closing the issue promptly is **much** better than just ignoring it for years.
@xayah @wingo I can't help but ask "Aren't they right? Who cares about some boomer sex meme forcefully popularized largely by homophobic online sentiments in the early 2000s?"
@Elucidating @xayah @wingo An ageist accusation of homophobia isn’t quite the strong argument you think it is

@mjgardner @xayah @wingo Would you like to talk more about your "lived experience" of feeling compelled to remind people, unprompted, of a picture of a man stretching his anus for sexual pleasure? Maybe bring that card back. 🤔

As for the "homophobia", I'm not directing it at you. Goatse was shoved in everyone's face because G*AA, a homophobic and explicitly nazi trolling group.

That is the history of that meme.

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- We got caught with our pants down. https://mastodon.social/@Elucidating/112205137939203881 - Luckily this isn't a logo, just an illustration, so the embarrasment isn't that wide. - The new composition is a...

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@wingo absolutely not, we need to keep quiet about this until it shows up on some kind of news broadcast
@wingo Without scarring me with links, what is this accidentally referencing?

@Zach777 An image known as "goatse" (do not search for this unless you want to risk being exposed to a very unpleasant image) of a man's distended anus being pulled open with his hands.

I'm explaining this as being mysterious about it will just lead to more people seeing it and wishing they'd hadn't.

Trolls would post it, deface websites with it, etc. in the late '90s, early 2000s, IIRC.

@wingo
Tell them what exactly?
Seems I'm a bit blind, but I'm unable to witness anything out of the ordinary.
@wingo Ah, us, old timers... remember it mainly on slashdot... In fact, that's what my mind immediately went to, even before reading the post... bad choice of a logo for us old timers...
@wingo oh good, it's not only me
@wingo the ring is missing 💍
@wingo
Just reminds me of the Nokia N-Gage, what's the big deal?
@wingo I was thinking, "What's wrong with it?" And, then I saw, no wedding ring.

@wingo Wow.

Just needs a ring on one finger.

@wingo not ANOTHER open source project with a subtle backdoor
@wingo There is no way this isn't entirely intentional 🙄 It even looks added on after the fact.
@wingo congratulations on making Today in Tabs
@wingo What makes you think they don't already know - that they knew all along.
@wingo i think it's the perfect logo for gnome.
Is the attitude of their UI-design paradigm perfectly visualised.
@wingo I thought you meant the other one, which is the Target logo. "What aisle is the Warp client on?"

@wingo I asked a gen z coworker if they understood this logo, and they did not. They came back, said they asked their older brother, and he didn’t get it either.

Our culture is dying.