Mark Taylor
@markiswrit.ing
Manchester-based fiction writer, bee enthusiast, father and nincompoop.
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@christianp British formality requires us to give our emoticons noses :¬|
(According to these notes from Marcus Kuhn, "They were solely motivated by their appearance in EBCDIC, and satisfy no contemporary user need whatsoever". So I suppose that kicks the question a little further down the road.)
(According to these notes from Marcus Kuhn, "They were solely motivated by their appearance in EBCDIC, and satisfy no contemporary user need whatsoever". So I suppose that kicks the question a little further down the road.)
EBCDIC - Wikipedia
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January 9, 2026 at 10:10 AM
@christianp British formality requires us to give our emoticons noses :¬|
(According to these notes from Marcus Kuhn, "They were solely motivated by their appearance in EBCDIC, and satisfy no contemporary user need whatsoever". So I suppose that kicks the question a little further down the road.)
(According to these notes from Marcus Kuhn, "They were solely motivated by their appearance in EBCDIC, and satisfy no contemporary user need whatsoever". So I suppose that kicks the question a little further down the road.)
They both fell in a waterfall and drowned, fuck this game forever
January 7, 2026 at 7:06 PM
They both fell in a waterfall and drowned, fuck this game forever
It's OK, everyone, I flooded the living room 👍
December 31, 2025 at 7:17 PM
It's OK, everyone, I flooded the living room 👍
The second of these persists despite everyone having been a child and the second is persisting despite everyone being online, so it's going to take some pretty fundamental change to do anything about it.
December 29, 2025 at 9:21 AM
The second of these persists despite everyone having been a child and the second is persisting despite everyone being online, so it's going to take some pretty fundamental change to do anything about it.
@derbadian They dropped them in 2011, possibly I should have got over it by now
December 23, 2025 at 10:09 AM
@derbadian They dropped them in 2011, possibly I should have got over it by now
@derbadian Valuable work, thank you. I would add that I think it's always worth explicitly stating "Galaxy Truffle × 0"
December 23, 2025 at 8:49 AM
@derbadian Valuable work, thank you. I would add that I think it's always worth explicitly stating "Galaxy Truffle × 0"