The unicode character '⍼' was a mystery first noticed in 2022: https://ionathan.ch/2022/04/09/angzarr.html. It's in the Unicode standard as a mathematical symbol. But no one could find any examples of it having been used, and no one knew what it represented. It was like the only record of an extinct species, fossilized in the Unicode standard.

But now someone has found the document it originally came from! It represents the angle 'Azimuth', and the symbol probably comes from the path light takes through a sextant. https://ionathan.ch/2026/02/16/angzarr.html

(@johncarlosbaez might appreciate this symbol!)

**taizou** @lion@computerfairi.es · Mar 10, 2026, 02:10

**taizou** @lion@computerfairi.es · Mar 10, 2026, 02:10

Mar 10, 2026, 02:10

taizou @lion@computerfairi.es

re: ukpol

i know i've been talking about this a lot & it's really because i don't see anyone else talking about it & as i've said before i think people should be aware and pushing back against it. i don't particularly want to be the guy trying to keep on top of this. feel like i'm pissing in the wind a bit

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**taizou** @lion@computerfairi.es · Mar 10, 2026, 00:20

**taizou** @lion@computerfairi.es · Mar 10, 2026, 00:20

Mar 10, 2026, 00:20

taizou @lion@computerfairi.es

re: ukpol

honestly though i read the parliamentary debate about these amendments and it was depressing. opposition to the government amendment was only framed in support of the lords' own massively-overreaching one, clamouring for a ban asap rather than a potential one in 2 months

so i can't imagine debate over future measures would actually make a difference either way given the set of uninformed authoritarian wankers that occupy both sides of both houses at the moment

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