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chat she’s saying im ace

@deobald@fantastic.earth pretty sure their new ceo was even more pro-slop than the old one?

At least they have a killswitch now, but yes, looking forward to the bubble popping (not so much to economies collapsing afterwards)

@AccordionBruce@mastodon.social @catsalad@infosec.exchange @Tattooed_Mummy@beige.party @emojipedia@mastodon.world @katemorley@hachyderm.io to be clear, I’m not involved in that campaign, I’m an observer

@AccordionBruce@mastodon.social @catsalad@infosec.exchange @Tattooed_Mummy@beige.party @emojipedia@mastodon.world @katemorley@hachyderm.io according to https://moreprideemojis.com/ it even took 4 attempts for the trans flag

@AccordionBruce@mastodon.social @catsalad@infosec.exchange @Tattooed_Mummy@beige.party @emojipedia@mastodon.world @katemorley@hachyderm.io right, like i don't care that much about country flags either. There are good uses for them, but most often than not they are being used for nationalism

@shio@eepy.moe fair enough, it was just extremely random and why that specific game out of all of them (also yes, I find it hard to imagine anyone except teenagers getting excited about angsty hedgehog with a gun)

not doubting its ost is good, since even the 06 one is

@shio@eepy.moe im not even a sonic fan and youtube recommended me shadow the hedgehog ost. Of all things

And well, that game seems to have been targeted at 15yos too

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@catsalad@infosec.exchange @AccordionBruce@mastodon.social @Tattooed_Mummy@beige.party @emojipedia@mastodon.world @katemorley@hachyderm.io and if the concern is "oh but what if their design changes" - emojis had had a million of those changes already and it was never a problem until pride flags got mentioned. E.g. https://emojipedia.org/beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes#designs or https://emojipedia.org/pistol#designs would be some of the notable examples :beaming_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Meanwhile "oh, this font has :flag_lesbian: while the other one has :flag_lesbian2:" is a non-issue. Same as twemoji changing :old_twemoji_pleading: to :new_twemoji_pleading: is a non-issue in practice

@AccordionBruce@mastodon.social @catsalad@infosec.exchange @Tattooed_Mummy@beige.party @emojipedia@mastodon.world @katemorley@hachyderm.io that's not a problem for pride flags and never was one

@AccordionBruce@mastodon.social @catsalad@infosec.exchange @Tattooed_Mummy@beige.party @emojipedia@mastodon.world @katemorley@hachyderm.io i know, but them conflating country flags and pride flags is extremely questionable, and the justification is complete bullshit which comes across as telling an already very vulnerable group of people to fuck off:

Identities are fluid and unstoppable which makes mapping them to a formal unchanging universal character set incompatible.

Like what? They are being asked to add very specific symbols, and this is their reply?

Like - languages are also fluid and unstoppable, didn't seem to have been a problem.

Hearts are among the most frequently used type of emoji and the nine colored hearts are often juxtaposed next to each other to denote markers of emotion (“I’m sorry 💙” or “love you ❤️”) and identity or affiliation that are not represented with atomic emoji in the Unicode Standard (ex. “Pan African pride ❤️️💚🖤”, “Hi I’m bi 💖💙💜”, and yes even sports teams “Go Mets! 💙🧡” ).

Ah yeah. I'm sure screen reader users will appreciate "Pan African Pride red heart emoji green heart emoji black heart emoji" and "Hi I'm bi sparkling heart emoji blue heart emoji purple heart emoji". Like that sounds like sth from a matt rose video, but this is quite literally how it would be read out here.

So - that doesn't hold water for even a moment. So no, this is unicode consortium telling queers and screen reader users to fuck off. After all, in a couple years we'll likely be all murdered by people metaphorically carrying 🇺🇸 flags, or 🇷🇺, or even 🇬🇧 (wait no, it would be 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿), or maybe even U+5350 (not gonna type it out, feel free to paste it into a character map of your choice) and stop asking without unicode consortium having to do anything, right? 🙃

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