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Got a face full of ominous weather
Smirking smile of a high-pressure ridge
Got more faults than the state of California
And the heart is a badly built bridge

Emoji are just characters. In technical terms they're ordinary text that fonts happen to render as a little picture. That means this is a silly, trivial way for anglocentric coders to discover a bug that also prevents you from, for instance, ever writing a commit in Chinese.

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Anybody know where a bun could procure an Apple ][ serial mouse, mechoptical innards, one-button, DB-9 connector for cheap to Toronto, ON? Non-functional preferred.

Feel free to boost.

I just heard someone say this and it's hard to disagree: unicorns are much more plausible that giraffes

I have questions...

* Does it come with a tool for converting my old analog air?
* Will it fry all of my air, or just the air I've digitized?
* Does it use DRM so I can only use their brand of air?
* Has it been tested to make sure it won't install a rootkit that gives it control of *all* the air?
* (most important) Can it be gendered? (I need a pink version that's safe for my daughter to use. I'm sure you understand.)

retraction re: police misconduct psa (boost with CW) 

Above post is an urban legend according to Snopes at snopes.com/fact-check/police-p

h/t @frostotron in tenforward.social/@frostotron/

Will delete my repost with the false information tomorrow so people have more of a chance to see this.

Making a custom music box for my tabletop campaign

Because I’m extra

oh sure, when generations of ancient humans feed animals and teach them useful tasks it's called "domestication", but when *i* do it it's called "trespassing" and i'm made to "leave the zoo" by "force"

@Leucrotta (bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom
bom bom bom bom bom) x2

Mister Maslow
Bring me Esteem
Give me self-respect
Like they've never seen
Help me to turn, a new chapter over
And show them that my doormat days are over!

Mister Maslow? ("Yesssss?")
Please hear these sighs
I beg you, help me, self-actualize
Does that contradict theory?
Mister Maslow, bring me Esteem!

re: Tom Swifting it 

@kelseyhusky "I don't pay attention to kerning or x-heights," she said crookedly.

Tom Swifting it 

"I don't care about typefaces!" she said boldly.

As a sighted person I find image descriptions valuable because they tell me what about the image the poster thinks is important. It's great when the image has unclear composition especially.

Also, very handy when the mobile connection isn't good though to load images!

I firmly believe that given enough time and freedom, everyone can learn the basic skills of an artform enough to make something that really says something, and that the deprivation of that time and freedom to everyone and anyone is the greatest loss of every generation

autism awareness, autism acceptance, anti-autism (boost with CW) 

From @maples in preciouslittle.life/@maples/10
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hey, its autism awareness day! here are some things you need to know about it:

- awareness doesn't mean acceptance
- many people are aware of autism and refuse to acknowledge us as equal people
- the wear blue campaign is headed by a charity that sees autistic people as a burden
- don't celebrate autism awareness day
- instead celebrate autism acceptance day and wear red autismacceptancemonth.com

april fools. It's a day where you celebrate fools. Go out and compliment your local jester, clown, or similar entertainer. Remember to leave a tip, and never _ever_ look them directly in the eye.

That's how they get you.

Brexit, humor 

So tempting to print a pile of these out and stick them up around town. =:D

The best superheroes are not cops, they are activists.

Based on an idea I had last night.

Description: An animated gif (very slow animation, no flicker) shwowing a (mocked up) difficulty selection screen from a video game.
It cycles through "Medium", "Hard", "Impossible", "Skip combat" and "Easy", while the description box to the right says "Play the game as it was meant to be played.", no matter which difficulty is selected.

Original file (not ugly-compressed): f.d9.lv/difficulty.gif

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