@aescling @wallhackio Bad idea: Clodsire head & Clodsire tail emoji, which can then be joined together with zero-width joiner like the big coffee cup emoji

(The reason why I'm calling it a bad idea and not just an idea is that I'm not sure what screenreaders do with zero-width joiners...)

@vaporeon_ @wallhackio ‍

@aescling :clodsire_head:‍:clodsire_tail:

@aescling Oh, wait, I forgot that I'm on a different instance than you SMH

@vaporeon_ lmao

@vaporeon_ @wallhackio i think the gap is a consequence of the emoiim being slightly wider than they are tall

@aescling @wallhackio Hmm... Probably possible to use ImageMagick to add some extra padding on top and below the Clodsire?

@vaporeon_ @wallhackio how’s ‍

@aescling @wallhackio Bumby still has a gap...

@vaporeon_ @aescling @wallhackio someone sliced him with a katana......

@The_T @aescling @wallhackio Poor Bumby :(

@vaporeon_ @aescling @wallhackio I like that Firefox spell check considers katana to be spelled wrong. Guess I should type 刀

@The_T @vaporeon_ @aescling @wallhackio katakana

@onfy @vaporeon_ @aescling @wallhackio かたかたな

@onfy @vaporeon_ @aescling @wallhackio just realized I should have written that in katakana and not hiragana

@onfy @vaporeon_ @aescling @wallhackio カタカタナ there

@The_T @vaporeon_ @aescling @wallhackio ひらな

@onfy no idea what you're trying to say

@The_T hirana, the less angular counterpart to the katana

@onfy groan

You had me looking up that ひらない would be the negative 放る / ひる to expel/to defecate

@The_T would that be in reverse

@onfy no it would mean like, not doing that

@onfy that's how grammar works in Japanese, every verb has a negative version that means "not doing that verb"

@vaporeon_ @wallhackio well. i’ll cheat then. on specifically GlitchCat i’ve added a custom CSS hack that seems to work

.emojione:is([alt=""],[alt=""]) {
  object-fit: initial;
}

@vaporeon_ @wallhackio or maybe the old versions of the emojim images got cached and i didn’t need to do that. anyway i might have broken federation by neglecting to give the test versions a diffurent name from what i was gonna settle on as final because i dunno how deleting and then recreating an emojo federates

@vaporeon_ @aescling @wallhackio legit question how do you use zero width joiner

@The_T @aescling @wallhackio You can copypaste it from this Wikipedia page if you want https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_joiner

And then you type out the big coffee emoji, and then replace the whitespace with the zero-width joiner

@vaporeon_ @aescling @wallhackio that's not convenient enough... and the ctrl+shift+1 aint workin...

@The_T @aescling @wallhackio I agree that it's not convenient (I need to stop being lazy and add it as a Compose sequence at some point), but I can't fix your Windows problems for you 🤷

@The_T @vaporeon_ @wallhackio if you select from the emoji picker in the official front end it always adds one, secretly

@aescling @The_T @wallhackio What?

@aescling @The_T @wallhackio Test test test

:bigcoffee1::bigcoffee2:

@aescling @The_T @wallhackio No. Didn't work.

@vaporeon_ @The_T @wallhackio i might be lying but it adds something fur weird shortcode parsing reasons

@aescling @vaporeon_ @wallhackio

@aescling @vaporeon_ @wallhackio nope there's a space there

@aescling @vaporeon_ @wallhackio aesc spreading lies on the internet!!!!

@The_T @vaporeon_ @wallhackio no fuck aaaaaa i didn't mean tooooooooo

@aescling @vaporeon_ @wallhackio it's okay I forgive you

also I love accidentally leaving Japanese text entry on and I start typing いt’s丘yI forgive you