Thank you all for your birthday wishes, they were appreciated. Between working from home til 6 and the citywide 8PM curfew, I had to spend it alone. Anne and I are planning on celebrating over the weekend.

Before I start heading down this road has anyone done a Drupal 8 migration to import a facebook account export? I can't find any information documenting the schema.

This is a background project but one I've wanted to do for a while. I have requested a JSON export and will see what I can dope out. I'll post about it as time permits.

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Setting the Title of a Bootstrap 3 Dropdown to the Active Menu Item

So, I have a dropdown menu on my blog page and I wanted to have the title of the menu be the link to the current page. I'm using a standard bootstrap3 dropdown for the menu. Since this is a Drupal 8 site, drupal thankfully adds a class of is-active to the active a tag. The following code is chunked out:

<div class="dropdown blog-topic-menu">
    <button class="btn btn-default dropdown-toggle blog-topic-title underline" type="button" id="dropdownMenu1" data-toggle="dropdown" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="true">
        &nbsp;
    </button>
    <ul class="dropdown-menu" aria-labelledby="dropdownMenu1">
        <li class="blog-topic-menu-item first-item" title="All Posts">
            <a href="/blog" data-drupal-link-system-path="blog"><i class="fas fa-fw fa-list"></i> All Posts</a>
        </li>
 
        <li class="blog-topic-menu-item" title="Life">
            <a href="/blog/life" data-drupal-link-system-path="blog/life" class="is-active"><i class="fas fa-fw fa-user"></i> Life</a>
        </li>
 
        <li class="blog-topic-menu-item" title="Frosty">
            <a href="/blog/frosty" data-drupal-link-system-path="blog/frosty"><i class="fas fa-fw fa-cat-space"></i> Frosty</a>
        </li>
 
        [...]
 
     </ul>
</div>

In order to swap out the title I added the following Js

$('.dropdown BUTTON.blog-topic-title').html($('.dropdown a.is-active').html() + ' <span class="caret"></span>');

When you go to /blog/life, the menu title is replaced by "Life".

Doing some cleanup on the blog and found a piece I wrote last year about tribalism and thought I'd reshare it.

Sean Reiser

Tribalism and Hate.

Food for thought:
Tribalism is the default state of humanity. Every other form of extremist behavior is a realization of that: Racism, Homophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, bullying, (fill in the blank)-ophbia, heck even the all or nothing in the political divide .. all the same thing. We are programed to find out what's different.

Since it's become traditional to ask for donations to a non-profit for someone's birthday I'd like to ask that people give to the Little Shelter, the animal shelter where Anne and I got Frosty.

I don't want to ask people to give facebook their financial information so I'm linking to their site where there is a donation page.

Thank you.

Little Shelter

Little Shelter Animal Rescue & Adoption Center - Huntington - New York

Little Shelter Animal Rescue & Adoption Center is a no-kill animal shelter rescuing dogs and cats from kill shelters, and placing them into loving homes.

On another note, I hate this photo which gives the impression that Cuomo is a saint.

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New York's Cuomo says businesses can turn away people not wearing masks

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said he would sign an executive order on Thursday authorizing businesses to deny entry to anyone who does not wear a mask or face covering, stressing masks were critical to preventing the spread of the novel coronavirus.

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So I know I’m on record as a person who believes that a business owner has a right to choose his customers. Although this is immediately conceived as racist / homophobic / etc. I believe that same right allows me to refuse members of the KKK or the Westboro Baptist Church. It allows that restaurant in DC to refuse service to the Trump Administration, it also allows a place to refuse service to members of the Biden campaign. It allows business owners to refuse service to that “creepy guy” who sits in the corner of a coffee shop looking a women a little too long and making them feel uncomfortable.

This same right allows business owners the right to refuse entry for people who don’t wear masks. You don’t need the governor to give businesses dispensation any more than a fine dining establishment needs permission from anyone to require jackets and ties for men.

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New York's Cuomo says businesses can turn away people not wearing masks