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@raspberry_boy sapiosexual pride flag

dj spring section

You ever accidentally invent a bird and then realise it was a bad idea? It’s just like, instant egret.

The Ghost Nebula, observed with the the Mosaic camera on the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. https://humanoidhistory.tumblr.com/post/188698488197

Docker is a Linux ravioli; a flavor of Unix sandwich.

reminder that gendered emoji and race-specific emoji were invented in 2016.

that's three years ago.

before then, emoji did not have races or genders assigned to them.

@aradinfinity

Apple and Google are credited with the Emoji 1.0 specification.

U+1F491 is defined as "COUPLE WITH HEART" in Unicode 6.0 and is depicted by two circles with crescent-shaped eyes and pressed lips.

Unicode 6.0 was released in 2010. Emoji 1.0 was released in 2015.

Or in timeline form:

5 years: U+1F491 exists as two people kissing with a heart over them. they do not have races, ages, or genders.
1 year: Apple and Google make U+1F491 into a heterosexual white adult couple
3 years: Apple and Google add the ability to make them a heterosexual black adult couple
now: Apple announces that you are now permitted to depict a third gender

In the 2010s people decided they didn't like writing blogs and instead preferred to write "tweetstorms," which is like a blog except randos can start replying to you after you're only halfway done, and you can get realtime feedback on whether the mob likes or dislikes every single sentence in your post. People vastly preferred this new system

honestly there are many good discussions resulting from this 'meta discourse', and i encourage folks to read them

however every so often i remember that part of what made things kick off (at least, the incident i was able to follow relatively recently) included a body pillow of charles the second of spain and i just [BSOD NOISES]

Holy shit