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unicode, chaos magick, possible time travel, long, rollercoaster of a post 

Today in "things that are extremely fucking weird in Unicode": ⍼

U+237C, aka RIGHT ANGLE WITH DOWNWARDS ZIGZAG ARROW, aka "something that makes no sense mathematically or in a graph".

Until you find out it's very, very nearly the exact form of the "ellis sigil", or the "linking sigil", commonly used in occult or chaos magick, as seen here.

This is the only thing that looks at all similar to U+237C, and U+237C doesn't look anything like anything I've ever seen in any actual tech usage or math, which is interesting as it purports to be a "math symbol".

This would be at least mystery solved as to how it could've happened, albeit weirdly: someone snuck in a chaos magick symbol and said it was from math.

Except the ellis sigil was created in 2003.

Unicode 3.2, released in 2002, contained this nonsense symbol.

I have no answers for why.

social ???? 

someone in a discord room apparently decided that I was getting defensive and offended because I used an exclamation mark when I said "oh, I'm just curious!"

I am completely baffled at this and don't understand why they're all bristly at me now

krytron, ignitron, sprytron, gyrotron, audion, selectron, dekatron

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why do electron tubes all seem to have Extremely Good Names

just tell me the names "thyratron", "klystron", and "magnetron" don't sound cool

fun fact: the entire reason that vacuum tubes like the 6N8 exist is because germany decided they would tax electronics based on the number of tube sockets in them... so tube manufacturers started making multiple tubes in a single glass envelope, that fit together into a single socket

it's interesting to realize that I have the power to completely change someone's mood just by putting words in this box... I hope I tend to change moods for the better!

@monorail I take back what I said about them being mostly better than mm2wood

mm2intro is awful

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@monorail after you showed us that mm2wood.mid youtube recommended us this and it turns out there's a whole set of bad midis of mm2

though mm2wood seems to be the worst of the bunch by a fair margin

youtube.com/watch?v=LyntvWgsEY

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so uh, apparently people think dragon quest builders 2 is really good

was the first one also good? i feel like we might have missed out on a good game and kind of want to go try it now. we can't really afford it now but when we can, what system would be best to get it on?

re: ph -, mh -, plural 

ph-wise it feels like we need food but also like we're full? maybe we had something yesterday that had gone bad or something >.<

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ph -, mh -, plural 

ugh, stomachache
also feeling like we need to switch but can't right now because we're waiting on a phone call and I'm the one who can do phones

okay and then we got four emails in rapid succession that say, in order,
-"Hello, Status of following WO has been changed" (followed by the work order number and some minor details)
-a completely blank email with no subject
-"Work order has been placed on hold" in the subject line, with body text "Hello," and nothing else
-"Hello, a maintenance member will contact you shortly"

I think something is wrong with the ticketing system

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just placed a maintenance request with our apartment and uh. Apparently I placed this in the future?

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Spotter finds a nice hot place to relax for the evening~
Painting commission for ropistike
#furryart #mastoart

hmm. the vinesauce guy is doing final fantasy ix now apparently

and he agrees with me that it's the best one, nice

re: plans for this thing: 

okay so I started putting together a mouser order for parts that would be useful for this thing, and yeah i made sure to get a whole bunch of spares but $700 is a bit much

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