Lady @Lady@cat.family

if your protagonist is silent, it means that your protagonist is actually an asshole and you just censored them for reasons of making the game fun to play

(also writing education is INCREDIBLY misogynistic but that’s another topic)

makes me kinda understand why jazz

we could be having much greater works of literature being written right now but instead in order to even BEGIN doing something interesting you have to fight against a decade‐plus of people telling you there is a Single Right Way of doing things, and most people don’t

95% of writing education is cheap shortcuts to produce something which looks passable most of the time and not an actual education in the language

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.