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Added another pixelfed bug to the github repo, but this time for the pixelfed app.
https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed-rn/issues/439
not working on Android or iOS.
it's shown in @…

[Bug]: custom emoji is not shown in pixelfed app. · Issue #439 · pixelfed/pixelfed-rn
Description I added a custom emoji on my pixelfed server and used it in a post. If I use it, it works pretty well in the web: the emoji is shown: but if I am on the official Android Pixelfed app, i...

/me hat heute gelernt, dass 🧻 das #Emoji für Druckerpapier ist. 😉
#TIL

Honestly, #emoji and icons in #Unicode are a true horror.
Yeah, sure. It's great that you don't have to use <img/> anymore and you can just paste a random Unicode character. You can get graphics into fields where only text was originally intended (like bug summaries). Even better, you can now easily get cool colorful icons on terminal with almost no effort.
However, it is an #accessibility nightmare. People are now encoding *information* in random graphical symbols. Symbols that require huge fonts to render, or huge character tables to describe.
Yeah, a bare <img/> carrying information sucks. However, you can add a *meaningful* alt-text to the image, and accessibility tools can use that text to provide meaningful context. Like "bug fix".
However, emojis and icons are symbolic. The best you can get is some description like "hammer and wrench", so people can kinda figure out that it's probably a "bug fix". Or maybe it was a "maintenance task"? Or you'll get a "unknown character 0x1F6E0". And I'm sure people will surely enjoy cross-referencing a "legend" of such "unknown characters".

Serio, #emoji i ikonki w unikodzie to koszmar.
Tak, fajno, że nie trzeba już używać <img/>, tylko można sobie wstawić magiczny znaczek z Unikodu. Można wcisnąć grafikę tam, gdzie technicznie wchodzi tylko tekst (np. w tytułach zgłoszeń błędów). Nawet lepiej, można mieć kolorowe ikonki w środku terminala prawie bez wysiłku.
Tyle że z punktu widzenia dostępności, to jest koszmar. Dziś l…

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Unicode folks: why are there emoji for "spoon" and combined "fork knife" but no standalone fork and knife?

„Emoji-Welt: Eine bildexegetische Annäherung an die kalifornische Ideologie“ bei der Deutschlandfunk-Reihe „Essay und Diskurs“? Muss ich hören!
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/emoji-welt-eine-bildexegetische-annaehe…

Eine bildexegetische Annäherung an die kalifornische Ideologie - Emoji-Welt
Ein Smiley, ein Schmollgesicht oder ein achselzuckendes Shruggie. Schon ist in der digitalen Kommunikation scheinbar alles klar. Was aber lässt sich mit Emojis nicht sagen? Drückt sich in dieser putzigen Sprache womöglich eine krasse Ideologie aus?

Jebus! #Affinity

Very excited for The Emoji Workshop tomorrow! Warm-up starting now ☺️
https://www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/research/groups/super-linguistics/events/the-emoji-workshop.html

It would be so cool to live on the sea

once again offering future riches to anybody who can tell me how to get rid of the emoji button from the typing field an #android gboard so i stop perpetually activating it. this setting is useless (& doesn't remove the emoji switch from elsewhere on the keyboard either).

Test #emojis:
Emoji 1.0 (https://emojipedia.org/emoji-1.0): 😀😃😄😁😆
Emoji 17.0 (…

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/afp_ai_commissioner_barrett_speech/
“Australia’s Federal Police (AFP) is working on an AI to interpret emojis and the slang used online by Generation Z and Generation Alpha, so it can understand them when they disc…

Australian police building AI to translate emoji used by ‘crimefluencers’
: Five Eyes intel alliance has created a team to target these scum who prey on kids

The best part about my emoji naming system for memes and cat pictures is that it is NOT Windows-friendly at all.

#omw to The #Emoji Workshop*! Step 1 ✅
#DB true to form with trains just not running without notice, and this helpful schedule
* https://www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/research/groups/super-linguistics/events/the-emoji-workshop.html

ChatGPT dreht bei der Frage nach Seepferdchen-Emoji ab
Während Gemini und Meta AI ganz entspannt eine Antwort geben, dreht ChatGPT bei der Frage nach Seepferdchen-Emojis komplett ab.
https://www.

Mais uma da série: "meus alunos devem me odiar profundamente" rs.
#TheEvilProfessor

Would really love it if this MR went through somehow https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/8236 - Not being able to paste directly from clipboard manager/emoji picker is one of my bigger annoyances with plasma

I arrived in Oslo! The Emoji Workshop is on Friday - if you're working on the linguistics of emojis and need the Zoom link, contact me via email
https://www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/research/groups/super-linguistics/events/the-emoji-workshop.html

Why is there no goth emoji?

Nu voor consult bij de chemo-internist in het Flevo. H als patiënt, ik als begeleider in de ziekenhuisrolstoel, want ik ben nog niet mobiel genoeg na de mislukte hartrevalidatie van vorige week. <kies zelf een passende emoji>

Emoji Reactions on Telegram Often Reflect Social Approval Over Emotional Resonance
Serena Tardelli, Lorenzo Alvisi, Lorenzo Cima, Stefano Cresci, Maurizio Tesconi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06349

Emoji Reactions on Telegram Often Reflect Social Approval Over Emotional Resonance
Emoji reactions are a frequently used feature of messaging platforms. Prior work mainly interpreted emojis as indicators of emotional resonance or user sentiment. However, emoji reactions may instead reflect broader social dynamics. Here, we investigate the communicative function of emoji reactions on Telegram by analyzing the relationship between the emotional and rhetorical content of messages and the emoji reactions they receive. We collect and analyze over 650k Telegram messages that receiv…

Understanding Textual Emotion Through Emoji Prediction
Ethan Gordon, Nishank Kuppa, Rigved Tummala, Sriram Anasuri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10222 https://

Understanding Textual Emotion Through Emoji Prediction
This project explores emoji prediction from short text sequences using four deep learning architectures: a feed-forward network, CNN, transformer, and BERT. Using the TweetEval dataset, we address class imbalance through focal loss and regularization techniques. Results show BERT achieves the highest overall performance due to its pre-training advantage, while CNN demonstrates superior efficacy on rare emoji classes. This research shows the importance of architecture selection and hyperparamete…

Die F.A.Z berichtet über den und schreibt gleich in der ersten Zeile "1. SC Magdeburg". 🤭
Aber wenigstens kein "F". Aber interessant, was der Alt-Bundesbürger so wissen will, über die erfolreichen #Ossis. Reicht das Geld noch jetzt wo Intel weg ist? Wie machen die das, da im Niemandsland ...
Ich mag Schmedt und Wiegert. Die sind einfach die richtigen.
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/sport/mehr-sport/wie-steckt-der-handballklub-sc-magdeburg-intels-ausfall-weg-accg-110659005.html

Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji? https://vgel.me/posts/seahorse/

Terminal users who use #accessibility tools, what is your take on emoji in console applications, especially compared to marker characters (eg. angular brackets for directions or hashes for comments) and to explicitly spelled out labels?
Does an "info" emoji render "ℹ️ Some information" (or a warning as in "⚠️ X went wrong") get across well for terminal assi…

Scenes from the wannabe-VA-HQ:
Me: "Hey, I only now realized you've added a custom emoji to our server."
Husband: "I did?"
Me: "Yeah, look here "
*A moment later*
Husband: *mumbles* "But I can't find it."
Me: "Show me."
*Is shown a list of emojis sans the custom emoji*
Me: "You are on Mastodon, I'm on Discord."

Finden sich hier zufällig #Mastodon Web UI Nutzende, die Interesse an einer Browser-Extension hätten, mit der man die Mastodon-UI etwas modifizieren kann?
Ich bräuchte Beta-Testende.
Konkret kann meine neue #Extension bisher:
- Emoji Filter in Usernamen
- Username Cleanup

Step 2 ✅ #Emoji #TheEmojiWorkshop

Found a way to use @… 's emojis as sticker on messaging apps.
1. Download any emoji zip file from https://volpeon.ink/emojis/ and extract it on a folder of choice.
2. Ins…

I am baffled that people think peppering a post with 🚨 alarm emoji 🚨 somehow makes it seem more 🚨 urgent and credible.

What if every time we copy-and-paste an emoji, we propagated the history of that particular instance too? So I copy a ❤️ from my friend Alice and send it to my friend Bob, and Bob sees a ❤️ and when he taps on it it says "this ❤️ was from Alice. She got it from Chuck, who got it from David, ..."

Contemplating what I'm doing with my life instead of not joining #OSFair2025 and #RSEcon2025..
At least #OSFair2025 is recorded but this week has been mega hectic and I can't even get to that
I'm hoping to land in more quiet times and do some more tooting soon!

There should be a DRTM emoji.
Here is my proposal:
👩‍⚕️‍™️
Yes, that is a health worker (Dr.), zero-width joiner, and trademark (tm). :D

So, the annual evaluation only covers my performance on 06/30/2025?

I am at the point where if I see ✨ in a post or email or message or whatever, that I assume it’s about some fake-AI tool or feature or shill or scam, and then ignore or delete it (sometimes blocking the perpetrator).
Anyway, fair warning that those corporate LLM anus logos may have ruined that emoji (the symbols in the emoji are generally little four-pointed stars).

"Der erste Freitag im Oktober: Tag des Lächelns" 😊
#emoji

noppeさんからご提供いただき、新しいNightfox DAWNのアイコンを追加したよ。
iOS 26以降のアイコン（グラス）がこれ。
:dawn_appicon:
カスタム絵文字の詳細情報
https://fedibird.com/emojis/dawn_appicon
iOS 26以降のアイコン（ソリッド）がこれ。
:dawn:
カスタム絵文字の詳細情報

Contributed talk by Lieke Verheijen on differences in emoji interpretation across cultures and age groups #TheEmojiWorkshop

Ever wonder HOW an LLM can go so very wrong? Me neither, but really, when you look into it, it makes so much sense, it is inevitable.
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/796677506528919552/why-do-llms-freak-out-over-the-seahorse-emoji

Hey @…, it’s Bisexual Awareness Week, could you add this emoji? ❤️ :heart_trans:
:bisexual_pride:

#TIL Weibo's custom emoji shortcodes are in square brackets 🤔 https://emojipedia.org/sina-weibo

Enbee at Den Gamle By in Aarhus.

Dear Apple,
It makes sense for you to reorder my frequently used emoji based on how frequently I use them, but please wait until I’ve closed the emoji keyboard before you do.
I wanted to text my wife three ♥️ but after the first it switched to 🤔and then for the third it went to 🤷. It’s a good thing I noticed because
♥️♥️♥️ is very different than ♥️🤔🤷

We’re all old enough to get the emoji joke here (when code formatting is not compliant and needs to have the formatter run).
This isn’t a privilege I’ve always had at work.

I'm using this emoji way too much just now but maybe that's an entirely rational response to events 🫣🫣🫣

Cowboys’ Micah Parsons says peace out to Dallas with fitting Bible verse after trade request https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-micah-parsons-peace-out-dallas-bible-verse-…

What I can’t be the only one who says “tee-teye”??

🚨 Yesterday, I received official notification that our #emoji project EmDiCom is being funded for another three years! 🥳
I'm looking forward to a lot more 🤩 emoji research 🤩 together with Patrick Grosz and Lea Fricke! #linguistics #dfg #vicom @… https://vicom.info/projects/semantics-and-pragmatics-of-emojis-in-digital-communication/

@… If my imagined memory of information about apples includes a text-size emoji, does that count as visualization? It certainly doesn't seem anywhere near what my eyes would see of a real apple.
#Aphantasia

Das Wort #Allhands kommt aus dem indianischen und bedeutet:
"Die sich an den Händen Haltenden, die zu jedem Bullshit fröhlich grinsend klatschen und ein Herz-Emoji schicken."

So yes, BlueSky finally has bookmarks.
Before this feature came out, people had simply been replying to posts with a 📌 emoji and there was a dedicated feed where you could view your 📌’ed posts.
In an example of how to roll stuff out, someone made an importing tool that either moved OR copied your 📌 posts to bookmarks (saved posts)
VERY well done.

Bluesky (@bsky.app)
v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚 Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to! Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇

a feature that i wish was built into mastodon from the start & hope it eventually comes to heads.social. feel like being able to communicate only with people on your local server is one of the missing pieces in actually making local servers work. (i'd certainly be more apt to live-toot live shows/streams if i knew the readers were specifically the heads server.)

@… thanks to James, ruby.social now has a :sqlite: sqlite emoji in case you want to put it into your bio or so 😉
Also there's the usual :ruby: and :rails: available

⭐ A Star Of The Bytes ⭐
#screenshot #emoji #bytes #star

@…
/me wants weepy face reaction emoji Mastodon feature

Apple removed the Taiwan flag emoji (🇹🇼) from the iOS 13 keyboard for users in Hong Kong and Macau.
#Numbnuts

Oh no the YouTube bullshit of substituting perfectly fine real videos (shorts) with very obvious AI without the creators consent just reached my timeline

@… 壊れてる理由によるけど、リモートURLが変わっちゃってるならそれを差し替えて、自分ちのオブジェクトストレージにファイルがないとか壊れてるとかなら再生成だね。
mastodon@soine:~/live$ bin/rails c
include JsonLdHelper
emoji = CustomEmoji.find_by(shortcode: '0', domain: 'misskey.io')…

🚫 PLEASE STOP USING SPOTIFY! 🚫
Spotify is serving you ICE cream dressed in Gestapo!
You can join the revolution at https://bandcamp.com, but I already know what you’ll whine:
“Oh nooo, but my faaaavorite artist isn’t on Bandcamp! How will I eeeever survive without them?! I’m sooo devastated, this is th…

#FediEltern
Kinderfreizeitaktivitäten.
Verein 1: Kommunikation läuft über Spond 🥳
Verein 2: Kommunikation läuft über WhatsApp
OK, ich mach mich dann mal an einen Versuch, WhatsApp trotzdem abzuwenden. Wünscht mir Glück.

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.NE. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.NE/new
[1/1]:
- Understanding Textual Emotion Through Emoji Prediction
Ethan Gordon, Nishank Kuppa, Rigved Tummala, Sriram Anasuri

I woke up at 2am (I'm having trouble sleeping), saw that production was down, saw that I can't fix it myself, and sent an email looking for a fix. Do I leave it down and go back to sleep?

Ok, time to sleep bc I already should’ve gone like two hours ago. Please fedi still exist tomorrow

And… the bundle size for JS emoji pickers will increase for every site… every year… 📈🤷‍♂️
https://mastodon.world/@emojipedia/115174595873838133

I hope i could use this emoji outside mastodon :ablobcatbouncefast:

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/new
[1/8]:
- Semantic Journeys: Quantifying Change in Emoji Meaning from 2012-2018
Alexander Robertson, Farhana Ferdousi Liza, Dong Nguyen, Barbara McGillivray, Scott A. Hale

meow

Meine Emoji-Forschung auf Insta kurz erklärt von @… 🥰 #emojis #linguistik #wisskomm https://www.instagram.com/p/DNfJ8xWtRKQ/

Wisst ihr noch, Sisypho? Ich hab es heute wiedergesehen.

Gn fedi

lol 🤦‍♂️ https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/commit/965bcc44dc6b5c5fa9d013b32da3cc9f8fdce93a

learning to be more assertive by rebinding my . key to the 🗿 emoji

nini, fedi!

Hinter jeder #Emoji-Begrenzung steht eine Geschichte ...

I just noticed that #Thunderbird supports #IRC and #Matrix protocols . When did that happen? I feel like I live under a rock...
#matrix_org

Am merkitty

i think i just sent an email to Everyone by trying to edit an event in thunderbird

Other girls on fedi are so smart

Danach dann wieder in den VIP-Bereich. Ein paar weitere Häppchen. Und statt Prosecco gab es anständigen Champagner. Aber nicht irgendeinen. Pavel Kasik, der Besitzer des Tatra 80 hat nämlich eine Magnumflasche mitgebracht, die er am Concours d'Elegance am Château Chantilly für seinen Sieg in der Kategorie beste Restaurierung bekommen hat, und die wollte er unbedingt mit uns teilen.

What mobile clients (iOS) do y’all use for fedi (other than feditext) that supports stuff like emoji reactions, rendering markdown and etc?
(mastodon/chuckya api, not sure if *key clients would work with that)

#Spotify #ICE #FuckICE #Fascism

A new paper whose authors include Eric Schmidt, Gary Marcus and Yoshua Bengio not only defines AGI, but also has this nice figure. It shows us that GPT-5 has reached the maximum possible ability in math.
I think they are trying to say that they are done with #math. They solved it. End of story.
I don't know what emoji to put here ... I'll try 🤡 for a start.
And they don't put their paper on the arXiv with the riffraff. They have their own domain for their paper: https://www.agidefinition.ai/

Spooky season!!

Irgendwie wollte ich gerade den Satz "Let's keep the billionaires honest" schreiben und raus kam
Let's keep the billionaires honest 🤡.
Aber jetzt denke ich, das kann ich so nicht veröffenlichen, weil der Publisher bestimmt das Clown-Emoji nicht drucken kann.

Oh wow.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/innovation-starts-problem-technology-martijn-van-dijk-sfbye/
Die Story mit dem Fahrzeug, das in der Regennacht einfach weiter beschleunigt... erklärt einiges!
Falls sich jemand fragt, warum unsere Zulassungsregeln so "fürchterlich streng" sind, dann darum: Weil es wieder und wieder Buden oder Bastler gibt, die echt Scheisse bauen.
Unter anderem wird nämlich genau das geprüft. Wenn gebremst wird, darf der Motor nicht mehr beschleunigen. Aus Gründen.

Would you be interested on a European #coop alternative to #Github for your private/for-profit projects (paid service)?
I welcome comments elaborating on why you said "yes", "maybe" or "no" .
Note: I'm aware of other alternatives like Gitlab, Bitbucket, Gitea, Codeberg... None of those match what I'm asking about for one or more reasons.
#EU #SovereignTech #SovereignCloud #privacy #GDPR #cooperatives
No
Maybe
Yes

OK, I have done this seahorse thing which people recommend.
It goes like this. You go to chatGPT and ask: "Is there a seahorse emoji?". And then it goes in crazy loops printing wrong emojis again and again. Almost like it is having a breakdown.
Reminded me that after many months of intense study of quantum physics I could not write the letter h reliable. I would mostly write ħ and then try again but the bar was always so quick ...
Some insight is here: https://vgel.me/posts/seahorse/

Total emotional diese weißen A4 Blätter mit “Jaron” drauf in MS Word Standard Schrift, selbst gedruckt. Gänsehaut. 🤡