Lady, EVOLVED @Lady@cat.family

Unicode originally designated these characters, proposed in 2023, for a 17.0 release, which is a frankly glacial pace and i’m glad people succeeded in getting them to move it up

most importantly to me personally, Unicode 16.0 comes with U+A7DA LATIN CAPITAL LETTER LAMBDA, U+A7DB LATIN SMALL LETTER LAMBDA, and U+A7DC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER LAMBDA WITH STROKE

these letters are siblings to the long‐encoded character, U+019B LATIN SMALL LETTER LAMBDA WITH STROKE. they originate with an American phoneticist notation and are used as part of the orthographies for many Salishan and Wakashan languages, spoken in the Pacific Northwest

see the proposal for more details: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2023/23191-three-latin-additions.pdf

wake up nerds, new Unicode® is out

baldur’s gate has really good writing but thankfully i could not care less about the worldbuilding of the forgotten realms so i don’t have to get fannish about it

i don¦t stream but i would do a letsplay

do you think i will finally beat baldurs gate 3 before the new zelda comes out

yes i know Cohost did not actually aggregate RSS feeds, what it did was worse

if Cohost had features other than this feel free to let me know in the comments

anyway, if you used to be on Cohost and want a different site which is just a glorified RSS aggregator plus comment functionality, Dreamwidth is still up

suburban-ass motherfuckers talking about Mastodon like it’s a bad thing our communities aren’t bankrolled by anonymous benefactors

when you’re trying to accomplish something that doesn’t make money, you don’t get the good fortune of getting paid for it

unless you’re Cohost for three years!

S·P·D·X versions their R·D·F vocabulary?? 😬

fedi needs more minecraft servers

everything i’ve heard from Northwestern is that they’re a great place to work and they’re in Evanston!! all my folks love Evanston!!

why did they sign up for a grant to bring AI into libraries tho!!

“Northwestern is hiring” oh shit, Northwestern is great, i better send this link to all my folks

“to help us build best-in-class AI driven, opensource discovery and metadata description applications” 😬😬😬😬😬

i jest but this is social media where there are no consequences to anything, and having large numbers of people routinely fucking around and finding out is an extremely viable strategy for garnering sympathy.

the things you gotta learn are :⁠—

• antiracists on fedi aren’t invading social circles, breaking down doors, flipping over tables, rifling thru drawers. they’re standing in one place and that place is usually pretty clearly labelled. racists go and come to them.

• the REASON racists go and come to them is to manipulate you and garner your sympathy, or as a kind of perverse show of solidarity within their own ranks. they are doing this willingly and voluntarily, fully expectant of the consequences, because they have decided that the consequences (getting blocked and reported by an antiracist) do not matter to them.

and yo, stop giving them the time of day. stop being a pawn in their boring, self-aggrandizing game of chess. you see a racist get taken out? you say “well, i guess they got what they asked for” and move on. you don’t give it any more seconds of your thought than that. savvy?

if you don’t roll up to “nazi haters incorporated” looking like a nazi i think you’ll probably be fine there, dude

nazis: *walking up to “nazi haters incorporated”; volunteering for the firing line*

random white bystander: oh no! that “nazi haters incorporated” sure is going on a crusade! look at all the nazis they’ve taken out! what if they come after me next?! 😳

man they don’t fuck around with this cinnamon bread