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@nemo20000

Senior software engineer – graphics, print and font technologies; PIA/GATF award winner. RISC OS bore: https://20000.org

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No. The stock market thinks they'll be BELIEVED.

The stock market doesn't gamble on companies, it gambles on the belief in those companies.

09.03.2026 21:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Android notification from the Bluesky app, which has removed the Zero Width Joiner from all the compound emojis, breaking them into their constituent parts.

Android notification from the Bluesky app, which has removed the Zero Width Joiner from all the compound emojis, breaking them into their constituent parts.

But sadly the Android notification is incomprehensibly bust. Here, the ZWJ is being stripped throughout.

09.03.2026 10:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Traveller" spelt wrong means it's American. AI content means block.

09.03.2026 09:33 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The above post from the notifications tab, without blue highlighting of hashtags, with emojis working correctly.

The above post from the notifications tab, without blue highlighting of hashtags, with emojis working correctly.

And in this view, because Bluesky isn't trying to highlight the hashtags, the emojis don't get broken: @support.bsky.team

09.03.2026 09:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
musician Gary Numan, born March 8, 1958, aged 68

musician Gary Numan, born March 8, 1958, aged 68

actor Gary Oldman, born March 21, 1958, aged 67

actor Gary Oldman, born March 21, 1958, aged 67

Happy Gary Retrograde everyone!

The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman

08.03.2026 15:37 πŸ‘ 4723 πŸ” 1405 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 72

See:
#BugReport πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ #BugReportπŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ
#BugReport πŸˆβ€β¬› #BugReportπŸˆβ€β¬›
#BugReport πŸ§‘β€πŸš’ #BugReportπŸ§‘β€πŸš’

09.03.2026 08:46 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The font system replaces that sequence by a single symbol (πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ).

However, you put it on the end of a hashtag. A Bluesky bug allows emoji in hashtags but disallows the ZWJ, breaking the emoji sequence into separate pieces. #BugReport @support.bsky.team

Put a space between hashtags and compound emoji!

09.03.2026 08:42 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It's because you appended it to the hashtag and because of how emojis are structured.

The base emoji in this case is ungendered (🀦) a single Unicode.

The male version is encoded by following that by the Zero Width Joiner Unicode (normally invisible) and the male symbol (♂️). 1/2

09.03.2026 08:42 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

nemOS is not a thing (yet).
But nemoBasic is!

08.03.2026 16:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

As a household of car lovers (my wife has done Skip Barber Racing School at Leguna Seca, we’ve both tracked super cars & daily drove manual sports cars) we made the EV switch 3 years ago & would never, ever go back to oil burners. Driving an EV is just better. Past gas 🀣

#ev #electriccar #gasprices

08.03.2026 00:47 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Much better! Now doing what I intended [which may be even be correct who knows].

07.03.2026 22:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A string of interesting Unicodes, with mysterious plus and bar symbols beneath, and a digit for each grapheme too, hinting at mysterious and complex algorithmic hooha. Which isn’t working correctly yet.

A string of interesting Unicodes, with mysterious plus and bar symbols beneath, and a digit for each grapheme too, hinting at mysterious and complex algorithmic hooha. Which isn’t working correctly yet.

Exciting and oft-requested nemoBasic functionality incoming.

[By which I mean twice, and OS functionality, but nemoBasic will have syntactical support]

07.03.2026 21:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"Select all squares that contain seeds"
😑

06.03.2026 09:08 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Put the right people together and get out of their way"

05.03.2026 19:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The oracle of awful.
The fountain of fail.
The spigot of spite.

Faucet? I barely touched it!

04.03.2026 19:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's a mixer - you can dribble hot, warm or cold water on your shoes, as is your want. And you get to inspect the water before it falls, in case you don't like the look of it.

04.03.2026 17:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"Isn't the water supposed to go in the sink?"

"Fascist! Luddite! I'm an artiste."

04.03.2026 17:50 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Both patience and pause are virtues!

Somebody chose this. "No, not that boring one, the one that looks like a water feature in a overwrought shopping mall!"

04.03.2026 17:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Design!

Pay no attention to the puddle.

04.03.2026 17:39 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

There's an apparent yearning for a strong daddy to make everything all right, and who might even voice his approval. It's deeply sad, really. A vast hole they'll never fill.

04.03.2026 11:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not in a Polestar. The throttle and brake control is incredibly finely tuned.

Adaptive cruise control is a bit Leeroy Jenkins though.

04.03.2026 11:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

#2 is mind-blowing. 🀯

04.03.2026 11:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Ah but the 10% is up a mountain driving solely on scavenged cooking oil... I bet.

04.03.2026 01:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I blame the Vikings. Coming over here...

03.03.2026 11:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you want to know how the British print news industry ends (which is, de facto, amazingly still what supports most newspaper websites) it's the distribution channels getting banjaxed. When you lose "TG Jones" etc even people who want a paper can't get one. That'll be the real start of the ending.

03.03.2026 10:07 πŸ‘ 353 πŸ” 132 πŸ’¬ 49 πŸ“Œ 11

It could benefit from a couple of inches in the rear, but not a scintilla wider.

03.03.2026 00:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So sorry that you and your hair had insurmountable creative differences.

02.03.2026 14:53 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm tired of angry looking SUVs why are you so big and angry.

10.08.2025 12:42 πŸ‘ 581 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 0

The two minutes of hate has been going on for so long now that none of them can remember why they were doing it - it's just "what you do".

02.03.2026 11:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Practice!

01.03.2026 16:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0