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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

imagine if the interface just looked like that of [insert your local library here]

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imagining what AO3 would look like on an actual library technology stack

i forced a bot to watch over 1000 hours of matrix movies and then asked it to write a script

it failed because the bot had no means of transmuting audiovisual data into semantic information, much less that in the form and structure of a film script

also the bot was VLC and didn't understand my request

downsides of having girlfriend: tired 😩

oh my god please don’t sort your CSS properties alphabetically

being exceptional is not the same as being radical

think some people on this website have the explodey brains

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this isn't coming from a place of neoliberalist productivity worship but from a place of brains don't turn off and if you don't give them meaningful tasks they explode

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sometimes i see people on the internet and i am just like what do you DO?? what is this FOR??

“oh yeah, i don’t pay any attention to the mainstream media”

“you mean like CNN?”

“i mean like Harry Potter”

it was then i learned the difference between “having sex” and “being really gay”

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