Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

i think the absolute worst thing about the way writing is taught and understood is the way that people say “you should do this” or “you shouldn’t do that” instead of saying like “when you do this, it has this effect” or “when you do that, it does that” and letting people fucking decide for themselves what they want

i Just Don’t

i don’t agree with authors’ takes on language

i’m like “these sounds are all clear and i can hear them well but there’s a part of my brain going ‘somebody just dropped a piano lmao’ ”

mum got new headphones so i tried them out and i think they’re okay but i can’t really tell because i’m so not‐used to the closed‐back sound

#pandemic

unicode: we will make it easier to send people hugs with a HUGS 🫂 EMOJI

everybody: what is a hug

did they run out

remember when the internet used to give out hugs where did all the hugs go

ASH (turning around after running off): Where did they run off to?

managing the Kibicat github like “cat won’t learn good development practices at work so æ might as well learn them here”

think that’s about everything lol

The font of a bunch of CJK symbols in the code charts has changed to <https://github.com/unicode-org/cjk-symbols/>, which is mostly derived from Source Han Serif. It looks pretty good!

Variation sequences have been defined for Math “script” letters! You can now distinguish between “chancery” and “roundhand” script styles via variation selectors.

Other Emoji You May Grow To Love:

• Melting Face
• Face With Open Eyes And Hand Over Mouth
• Face With Peeking Eye
• Saluting Face
• Dotted Line Face
• Face With Diagonal Mouth
• Heart Hands
• Biting Lip
• Troll
• Beans
• Mirror Ball
• Low Battery
• Bubbles

Unicode finally realized that there wasn’t an equals emoji, so you might have difficulty doing basic arithmetic in emoji characters (why not?). They added one!

Both SIGMOID S and MIDDLE SCOTS S have been added in both uppercase and lowercase; MIDDLE SCOTS S is kinda like that ß thing from German, but cooler and Scottish

Unicode ⁜finally⁜ added the medieval exclamation point and question mark signs, which look like the exclamation point and question mark signs you know and love, but a little wonky.

Also in the “encoding punctuation marks, but wonky” category is OBLIQUE HYPHEN, which is like a hyphen, but oblique.

Programming languages have ++i and i++ but now in Unicode you are able to do “++ above” and “++ below”, which are evidently used by some linguist for something.

There is also COMBINING NUMBER SIGN ABOVE, which has the wonderful annotation “superscript octothorp”.