Tootfinder

"Some designs of emojis are very different for the same codepoint, especially the ones depicting emotions/reactions. Examples coming to mind are 😨, 🔫. What are your thoughts on this?" - The (water) pistol 🔫 was originally a hand gun which looked a lot more real. In response to its frequent use in criminal or other unsavory contexts (e.g., as a threat), most platforms replaced it with the colorful plastic toy gun design in 2018. (In 2024, Elon Musk had it turned back into a realistic hand gun for the Twemoji design 🙄)
I'm torn. On the one hand, I don't think we can stay on top of all potential uses of emojis (or should even try to limit them) and people who want to use emojis for threats probably can still do so. On the other hand, I do find it rather hard to imagine that the green plastic 🔫 could be used as a threat... so... I guess good job, designers/tech firms? #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
https://emojipedia.org/pistol#designs

Graham had been advocating for much stronger sanctions on russia. Super lucky for russia: he’s gone now.
“The office of U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham says the South Carolina Republican has died following a brief and sudden illness.”
“In a statement released Sunday, Graham’s office said he passed away Saturday evening, July 11.”
“Graham had recently returned from a trip to Kyiv, Ukraine, where he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/story/annie-andrews-lindsey-graham-november-election

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TheEssay
- The Dawn of Music
When did we learn to make music from green and growing things? Grasses, reeds, woods. Archaeologist Dr Brenna Hassett unearths the origins of human music.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002yn2g

I am sure that I am far from the first person who woke up this morning, saw the news and said “well, they finally admitted the SOB is dead” and then realized it was Lindsay Graham
Even in death, a second-rater.

"Another Wasted Life.”
That’s the name of a remarkable new song by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Grammy-winning artist
Rhiannon Giddens.
She released a video of the song on October 2 to mark International Wrongful Conviction Day.
The song was inspired by
Kalief Browder,
a Bronx resident who died by suicide in 2015 at the age of 22
after being detained at Rikers Island jail for nearly three years,
after being falsely accused at the age of …

“Another Wasted Life”: Rhiannon Giddens on How Death of Kalief Browder Inspired Her Song
“Another Wasted Life.” That’s the name of a remarkable new song by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Grammy-winning artist Rhiannon Giddens. She released a video of the song on October 2 to mark International Wrongful Conviction Day. The song was inspired by Kalief Browder, a Bronx resident who died by suicide in 2015 at the age of 22 after being detained at Rikers Island jail for nearly three years, after being falsely accused at the age of 16 of stealing a backpack. He was held in solitary co…

Relaxed morning ride around 22° instead of a morning walk. Good to wake up.
#lenggries

Getting closer to Rust replacement for my Arduino LED code on ESP32. In addition to parallel outputs, I now have wifi, a web server, and very basic audio in. (I2S Audio with async DMA only works with git `esp-hal`, depending on some very recent not yet released enhancements)
Next steps for full parity: DDP in over UDP, key/value store in flash to preserve settings (eg save brightness), more advanced patterns, and hopefully using the second core.

It was no coincidence that Soumia Bensalah,
a French Moroccan with a pending green card application,
was released from the Pinellas jail and then sent back at regular, 72-hour intervals,
according to legal experts.
That’s the maximum amount of time that county jails like Pinellas’ can hold immigrants on behalf of ICE.
The limit exists to prevent immigrants detained on civil charges from spending too long in jails meant for people detained on criminal charges. …

These Local Jails Were Supposed to Detain Immigrants for Only 72 Hours. One Woman Was Held for a Total of 26 Days.
Rebookings of immigrants into local jails are an effort to circumvent federal rules and regulations, legal experts say. Our nationwide analysis shows that in the past year, two Florida jails had unusually high numbers of rebookings.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Pianissimo!
Winners of the Géza Anda Competition perform concertos by Haydn, Beethoven and Mozart with the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra and conductor Gšbor Takšcs-Nagy.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ynqk