Alright, kiddos. It's time to... Kick! That! Beehive!
You may or may not have been following the recent drama involving the Tesseract Lemmy UI. Much hilarity has ensued. I will spare you the synopsis.
What this has to do with 3D printing is, I naturally took it upon myself to run with the suggestion and design an award for anyone cool enough to be on the Tesseract secret ban list.
A physical award, mind you.
You can download it from Printables here.
I included the FreeCAD source file also, which alas includes some rather heavy duty prerendered text for the front part, but perhaps you can mess with it as you see fit anyhow. I realized belatedly I was probably unconsciously inspired quite a bit by that old "winners don't do drugs" seal that used to appear on arcade machines back in the day. I kind of like the vibe, though, so I'm sticking with it. It's got wings, a hang tab to dangle it off of a lanyard or zipper pull, it's got it all.
I would be remiss if I did not mention for them as do not own or have access to a 3D printer that I am also selling these already printed on my shop, under the perhaps misguided assumption that I will neither get crucified here for my crass commercialism nor go broke on postage mailing them out.
I'd make it my profile avatar if I were in there under this name, but it was my prior account which I lost when my instance recently closed down. So if I do it on this account, I'll probably have to deal with "stolen valor" accusations.
*sigh* I was this close to greatness...
Same, the accounts I have in their regex are under an old alias I decided to move on from, and unfortunately this one isn't in there at all. I need to step up my game on this account to get it banned too.
Well, maybe there's hope for me. I was recently banned from "Manufacturing Consent" on Lemmy.ml - supposedly for being a "Zionist," which is a complete and utter fabrication of a lazy mod (ETA: we weren't even discussing Israel) because they didn't like someone pointing out problems with their arguments.
It really amused me because I'm quite certain the irony of doing that in a community named like that completely eludes them.
Same, old account in a list, newer one isn't. 🥲