Heyβ please reply to this telling me which operating system you are reading this post on, and what if anything you see after this colon: π΄σ ΅σ ³σ ΄σ Έσ Ώ
EDIT: Okay you can stop replying now. Results: This is a nonstandard emoji sequence for the Texas flag; it appears to ONLY display as the Texas flag on Linux, and only SOME versions of Linux, and I can't figure out the pattern for which ones. Most machines show a black flag, which is not the fallback I'd want (I'd want the letters USTX to be visible).
ε° and ε° are probably the meanest thing I've encountered yet in δΈζ. Look similar, sound similar, mean something similar. It's not γ· γ bad but it's pretty darn close.
At some point Jeph Jacques, cartoonist of Questionable Content, just mastered creating single panels that seem designed for me to crop out and post on Mastodon and point at
The Second-Order Streisand Effect is a social phenomenon where if a party makes an effort to censor information, discussion and news about the censoring attempt paradoxically leads to an increased awareness of Barbara Streisand, a musician whom most Zoomers would probably have never heard of if not for the Streisand Effect
Team/single dude behind Blacksky announces plans to ship an open payments app based on ATProto tech. I am very curious about this, as Rudy has managed to build at least one thing nobody else succeeded at, but also skeptical because:
- Blacksky works well but has not (yet?) lived up to its promises on independence/uncensorability
- I know people who tried to create payment processors and the hard part is preventing the upstream from censoring you, not building web apps.
