Lady @Lady@cat.family

the characters are from ISO 5426-2 which has a number of other older characters and Latin ligatures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_5426

code chart: http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/open/02n3126.pdf

they were NOT encoded as dingbats but as signature marks used in bookbinding

today in unicode adventures: U+204C ⁌ BLACK LEFTWARDS BULLET and U+204D ⁍ BLACK RIGHTWARDS BULLET are actually early pilcrow signs??

nothing says “girl” like a killer death robot with a cute heart painted on its chest

@Satsuma from https://www.linkun.info/about it looks like it is Islandora and Alma (we also use Alma for our catalog i believe)

@Satsuma …it might actually have been homemade?! https://library.whitman.edu/blog/welcome-to-sherlock/

@Satsuma i feel like i'm probably in a relatively privileged position as well in regards to being a part of a growing if small library development department actively pretty involved in things like Samvera

but like i think about my undergrad university's library too and i'm sure they didn't make it themselves but it was pretty good and functional

kinda wanna see if i can find technical details on that now, actually

@Satsuma it makes sense but i feel bad for your librarians and the lack of funding i feel like this implies

@Satsuma oof people actually use worldcat as their primary catalog access??

@Satsuma out of curiosity is this your public or school library

@Satsuma alas,

imagine if the interface just looked like that of [insert your local library here]

imagining what AO3 would look like on an actual library technology stack

i forced a bot to watch over 1000 hours of matrix movies and then asked it to write a script

it failed because the bot had no means of transmuting audiovisual data into semantic information, much less that in the form and structure of a film script

also the bot was VLC and didn't understand my request

downsides of having girlfriend: tired 😩

oh my god please don’t sort your CSS properties alphabetically

being exceptional is not the same as being radical

think some people on this website have the explodey brains