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.
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 https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/police-pop-hoods/
h/t @frostotron in https://tenforward.social/@frostotron/101927173788223520
Will delete my repost with the false information tomorrow so people have more of a chance to see this.
@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.
autism awareness, autism acceptance, anti-autism (boost with CW)
From @maples in https://preciouslittle.life/@maples/101855105375425273
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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 https://www.autismacceptancemonth.com
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): https://f.d9.lv/difficulty.gif
I 💖 @orrery
I 🕹️ retrogaming
I 🔊 chiptunes
I 🦄 ponies
I ☁️ cannabis
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and yes to 🤖 but #nobot
avatar art by Dana Simpson (danasimpson.com)