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if i started to call myself trevor i would not be doing so ignorant of how that name is typically gendered

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for some people with heavily gendered names, in fact, i think the anomaly might be part of the point

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if you have a heavily gendered name, i do not think it is possible, or possibly even desirable, for pronouns which do not match the name to not be seen as anomalous

why do zoomers like saying “let’s fucking go” so much

@witchfynder_finder if you turn it upside down you get MZCU which sounds like a weird offbrand Marvel Cinematic Universe

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

code chart: std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/open/02n

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

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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 linkun.info/about it looks like it is Islandora and Alma (we also use Alma for our catalog i believe)

@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

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