Lady @Lady@cat.family

an outstanding question is whether i want to duplicate the star for single‐word emphasis like ✧this, or only for ✧multi‐word emphasis✧ (which is the convention i follow with † dagger as a proper name mark, and which i think makes more sense for nonpaired bracketing punctuation)

plus it’s impossible to use on any social media site

for a bit i considered using # but # has a slightly different meaning i think

i considered dotted cross ⁜, which i have used in the past, but font support is bad and it’s a pretty busy glyph

i considered ❇️ but it renders as an emoji these days, and can be quite busy when it doesn’t (as is ❈)

✧ is simple and conveys the sparkle without taking up too much space, and it’s easy to handwrite

why not just use asterisks you may ask

well raised asterisks are used for footnotes and low asterisks are too small

one of the questions of this keyboard design is what character i wanted to adopt for plain text emphasis and i decided on ✧

now a QWEHDT keyboard

yeah i am

wonder if i should swap T and G as well

made some changes to my keyboard layout including swapping D and H

https://kibigo.gitlab.io/KibbenKeyboard/

today i learned that the following unicode symbols are classified as rating symbols:

U+1F5E1 🗡 DAGGER KNIFE
(rated for violence)

U+1F5E2 🗢 LIPS
(rated for sex; compare 💋)

U+1F5E3 🗣 SPEAKING HEAD IN SILHOUETTE
(rated for strong language)

i would ask you to please compare these characters in ⓐ Menlo, and ⓑ any sensible font

❇❈❉

time is a human construct and it should be organized in accordance with human culture and institutions

i do not understand the people out here who are like “actually, i prefer it when it is pitch black before i even get off work in the winter; spending every daylight hour in a windowless office is great”

@Satsuma no i think you misread

23:59 awake
00:00 sleep
01:00 sleep
...
06:00 sleep
etc

@Satsuma the senate just passed yearround DST; people are complaining because they wanted yearround standard time; where i live yearround standard time would mean sunlight from 4AM to 8PM in the summer and i would find that unbearable

fuck 4AM sunrises i would like 2 hours DST

00:00 should be the first hour of sleep and 23:59 should be the last minute of awake