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nice home you got there... would be a shame... if you... got stuck in it

do not, my friends, become addicted to rich text. it will take hold of you and you will resent its absence.

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@Petzlux This is also why it's terrible for news websites to limit the number of articles people can read for free. Propaganda websites don't do that.

One very bad thing about scientific papers being behind paywalls is that (competing) pseudoscience isnโ€™t behind paywalls, so itโ€™s easier to find misinformation online than to find facts.

Manual boost because infosec, cops being cops, masto meta, that cop owned/run instance, and location data. D:

monsterprom.space/@Irina/10198

Thinking about the Wikipedia edit war over whether "Guy Standing sitting" was an appropriate caption and how they eventually protected the page and cropped the image.

The dragon quest series has some nice puns for its enemy names.

Earlier, I had an arena fight against Attila the Hunk, and just now I encountered some bats in a cave, called vampire battlers.

would the inverse of the Young's modulus be called the Old's modulus?

we don't need text formatting because we have unicode babey

unicode font hackery is
โœ… compatible with pretty much everything except on some devices where it just displays as white squares but thats good enough
โœ… completely unintuitive so you can prove that you're cooler than other people by knowing how to make the ๐”€๐“ช๐“ฌ๐“ด๐”‚ ๐“ฌ๐“พ๐“ป๐“ต๐”‚ ๐“ต๐“ฎ๐“ฝ๐“ฝ๐“ฎ๐“ป๐“ผ
โœ… not actually formatting at all
โœ… check it out you can do ๐›๐จ๐ฅ๐ and ๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ and even ๐’ƒ๐’๐’•๐’‰ all using different character sets meaning that some devices support some and not others
โœ… hey people with screen readers? get fucked

q. why does windows do [bizarre action]
a. for compatibility. to answer in more detail, we'll need to discuss a flaw in
:brain1: earlier versions of windows NT
:brain2: pre-NT windows versions
:brain3: MS-DOS before networking support had been added
:brain4: CP/M
:brain5: the discovery of electricity

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"Strike the Earth!!" from Shovel Knight is a goddamn amazing tune i might add

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