what would happen if Germany stopped destroying society and the planet to subsidise the auto industry:

aw my boobs un-swollened. and I've lost too much muscle and my muscles aren't even pumped, and I didn't have time to retouch my nails and <- self-conscious about being on camera

most people who are into writing systems are not into computers and vice-versa. so Unicode drama was a very particular kind of hobby drama. most of you have no idea how funny the current situation is.

see, it gets pretty tricky to define what's a "character" across every writing system in the world. for 20 years, Unicode had very strict rules about what gets into the standard: no "rich text" or "graphical variations", only "plain text abstract characters" are defined. you might think that "A" is a big pointy wedge with an horizontal stroke but from the point of view of Unicode, "A" is a number (65) and a name ("LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A") and some properties ("Letter", "Uppercase", "Narrow", "Left-to-right"). the facts that "A" is usually this triangley thing, but in some styles A looks more like a round oval with a tail, and in blacktext A looks more like an U shape—all that mean nothing to Unicode. all of those are merely graphical variations ("glyphs") of 65, LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A.

this gets of course fuzzy at the edges. The character 骨, "bone", can be written with the top component facing left, or facing right. This is unarguably a "graphic variation"—it's still the same "abstract character"—so Unicode leaves that for the font to decide. Unfortunately it has become custom in the modern era (but not in historical texts) that mainland China draws it to the left, whereas Japan and Taiwan and the others do it to the right. This means that when people changed their systems from legacy encodings to Unicode, suddenly their characters would be drawn in the hated Chinese way / the hated Japanese way, and since Unicode is a "foreign imposition" they would blame foreigner ignorance of their cultural nuances. In fact the Unicode hànzì team was made of specialists from East Asia and the reasoning for this bug was perfectly logical for nerds: if your system is set to Japanese it should be using Japanese fonts with the glyph to the right, it's not our fault if Microsoft/Linux/etc. is getting the wrong fonts. but in your legacy system it would "just work" and look right; upgrade to Unicode, problems happen. the dorks at Unicode would have endless discussions over this and reject the idea of adding "Chinese 骨" and "Japanese 骨" as different characters because that's technically Wrong, these are the same abstract character.

multiply that by a thousand. imagine 20 years of strict gatekeeping like this, with people constantly proposing new characters from this and that source and the guardians of Unicode rejecting them because they can be understood as merely graphical variations of existing characters, or as too obscure to be worthy encoding, etc. (it took so long to get hentaigana into Unicode, like ~8 years between proposal and finally having the characters encoded! you can't represent any premodern manuscripts without it!)

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then Japanese people start making cellphones with Internet, before everybody else.

and they put "picture" (e) "characters" (moji) because they're cute. each company makes their own emoji set, incompatible on purpose so you have to buy into their special, incompatible little internets.

see, the only situation where Unicode would make exceptions to their strict gatekeeping was "round-trip compatibility". a character like ª is just an especially typeset 'a' and thus should not count as an abstract character. but some previous text encodings like ISO-8859-1 already had an 'ª' separated from 'a'. so if you converted a text file from ISO-8559-1 and Unicode had no 'ª', it would become 'a', and now you can't distinguish it from regular 'a', so there's no way to convert it back to ISO-8859-1. you cannot "round-trip" between encodings. so in this case and in only ☝️ this case, the Consortium would allow breaking the usual gatekeeping rules, carefully and case-by-case.

then a guy from Google asked to add all the Japanese emoji from every vendor. after all, without that you couldn't represent Japanese meeru messages in Unicode and convert them back. the Consortium obviously refused all those silly pictures as out of scope. so Google teamed up with Apple and kinda highkey threw their weight, financially and otherwise, transparently because they wanted this feature in the nascent smartphone consumer culture, and powerful interests completely overrode the cabal of writing hobbyists who had hitherto kept Unicode so pure. after years of elaborate technical criteria refusing tons of characters that people proposed for serious use, Unicode 6 (2010) included the first set of emoji.

fast forward to now, and all of those Unix greybeards and linguistics associates just nod sadly in a corner from the purely ceremonial Consortium chairs at whatever Big Tech mandarins came up with this year, like, "yeah sure that's what we need, U+1FAE9 FACE WITH BAGS UNDER EYES 🫩, whatever. U+1FAC8 HAIRY CREATURE 🫈, why not at this point."

Brazilian anime/videogame characters tier list

• He was Brazilian I guess?: Aldebaran, Marco Rodriguez, Rikuoh, B.D. Joe, Carlos Miyamoto
• Olé, samba!: Roberto Miura, Zarina, Liza (Kaiser Knuckle), Rila (Breakers), Kamen Rider Amazon, lots of other randos
• So bad it's good, beloved national icon: Blanka
• Well they tried: Sean Matsuda
• Dae sim porra: Eddie Gordo, Laura Matsuda, Carlos Oliveira, everybody in Tsubasa, Michiko Malandro + Hatchin
• Eternal legend: Allejo
• Suco de Brasil, S+ no notes: Anna Aveiro Nakamura dos Santos Moreira Cuccittini

honorary mention: Luffy (would be Brazilian if he was from Earth, according to author) (makes every sense too) (cangaceiro cearense btw, destinado a erradicar o world government = hegemonia estadunidense e acabar com a fome no mundo)

without a doubt the most realistic Brazilian rep of all anime. I'm not even joking she just literally is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n7scpKeRQs

Will leave standing here a request of help for my immigrant daughter to not be deported 🙇‍♀️ Please let us know if you know of a good job opportunity for her:

• Daughter is a sensitive, sociable and sunny 19-year-old who likes animals and plants, and worries about social causes. She's been in Germany for 4 years, has telc B2 Deutsch, native-level English, and a (Brazilian) high school certificate. No work experience. Her main skill is drawing (digital and traditional, including animation), and she's also handy with the written word, textile crafts, hairdressing; but she's up for any entry-level job, really.

• She's a legal immigrant, for now, but she needs a formal job still this year to secure that situation.

• A Pratikum also would work.

• We're in the Ruhrpott. She's willing to move for an opportunity, especially if it's a lively and queer-friendly place like Berlin, but there might be difficulties with finding a place to stay given the housing crises etc. Basically it would be good if the job pays enough to cover the living expenses of a young woman living in a WG in whatever place the job is located.

• Otherwise that's all that's needed. It's not important that the job pays a lot, and she has no objection to doing manual labour, officework, cleaning work, odd hours etc. Her red line is no job handling meat or otherwise dealing with animal exploitation, or other directly unethical positions.

Please DM me if you have any suggestions of concrete job openings currently taking applicants, as in, specific positions in a definite location with an address (please not things like "have you tried a warehouse/carework/delivery?" or "have you considered a Berufskolleg/Studienkolleg?" or "have you talked with the Arbeitsagentur?" – yes we have, all of that we have.)

#Berlin #JobSuche #getFediHired #getFediHired_de

Now that I'm a citizen I feel safe enough in posting my best poetry here: https://files.transmom.love/poems.pdf .

Some of it has been published in occupation zines and alt-mags; all of it is meant for performance and has been performed in balaclava under police lines, spoken-word-style. Some of it has been recited by strangers at funerals; others are, I'm told, study material on sociology courses. All that is still wild to me.

If I have confidence on anything, it's on being entertaining. If you want me to perform any of my pieces at your queer/antifa event, DMs are open :pinkgirl_bigheart:

duckduckgo how 2 kickbox in geta

karan koron karan koron :blobcatmmm:

(elilla& got some geta at last)

karan koron
karan

English actually has a pretty rich vocabulary. not due to borrowing words from other languages like English speakers seem to believe, but due to its synaesthetic tendencies. when I translate English into any of my other languages, I periodically struggle to convey not just the meaning but the feel or texture of a word ("glisten" as opposite to "glimmer", for example).

the one semantic field where I struggle when translating my native tongue is: love, affection, cuddling, promiscuity, and sexual vulgarity. it's very difficult to convey concisely in English or Japanese the nuances between asking for a chamego as opposed to some carinho, between a girl being my ficante or my peguete, between asking her to grab on my jeba rather than my pau. for this as in many things, I am exceedingly proud of my culture

vulgar words for "cock" in my native language: pau caralho vara cacete pinto rola pica piça jeba neca piru piroca manguara peru piru pirulito pirilau banana verga vergalho chibata bimba careca manjuba peia pichuleta pila pipi tora bilau caolho etc.

vulgar words for "cunt" in my native language, excluding the ones I perceive as misogynistic: buceta boceta buça bucéfala xota xoxota xoroca tcheca xeca tchetcheca xexeca xereca xana piriquita pitrica perereca sapa cona aranha buça nhanha katchanga pixota tchonga racha talho velcro xabasca greta banguela passarinha pombinha pepeca etc.

I am excluding more situational or comedic double entendres like "sword", "hairy twig", "hot popsicle", "table foot", "oyster", "box of happiness", "armpit of the thigh", "the beast who kills the men" etc. cos otherwise about half of the Portuguese vocabulary counts as "metaphor for penis that will get you hooted in 5th grade when you accidentally say one aloud" (the other half is metaphors for "cunt", and the other half is metaphors for "gay" (they overlap)).

people who misunderstand how languages work: did you know that the "Eskimo" have 100 words for "snow"

Brazilians:

I mean to a degree I realise that the bump-up on my cleavage is not just a factor of the design of the tank top; it's also that my breasts are super swollen due to the hormone boost from passionate lesbian sex 15 nights in a row, plus, you know, vigorous manipulation from said passionate sex every night. The push-up bra I was wearing last month is too tight now… But the tank top also helps—without a bra, or even with a bra if it lacks good hold, my breasts would just flop down with their considerable weight.

At one point last week babygirl was ogling at them mommy milkers with that fiery hunger in her eyes that, by itself, is enough to get horny, and then she exclaimed a very genuine outburst like, "wow, these are filled with pure sex". I felt like, dang this girl really gets me, fr fr

I got this tank top from Dolls of Berlin (a gift from babygirl :pinkgirl_hearts: ) to support them, and mostly because I liked the motif. but it has a sort of built-in bra system and I really like what it does to my breasts, pushing them up and giving me back some of the cleavage I lost to age. to the point where you can't really see the motif so I'm suffering from success again haha

I have some fujo feelings, I think. the situation where I find men to be at peak attractiveness is when they're kissing one another. not so much attractiveness as in "I want to be between them" but more like wanting to pull a foldable chair and popcorn and go like, "go on"

hey look, it's my mastodon account

Here comes the women's train, my aunt tells me
in our tongue, está passando o trem das mulheres,
see? Here it is, viu,
the women's train,
look, it's the wagon of the vain women,
who spend their pensions and children's support on dresses
& skincare, how they laugh!, the vain women,
and this is the wagon of the fat women who don't diet
and don't shave, the ugly women who don't care,
que foi? you can't tell who is which? no no one can,
they all mix together in the women's train
and they don't use makeup, or use too much
and laugh and kiss cheeks and get it,
my aunt says, her heavy wrinkles melted
from the mask of hostility she had all her life,
she seems a bit wistful, my old aunt
looking at the women's train,
like a little girl she points happy, look!
the smokers come here to smoke
in the wagon of the women who hate children,
all the other wagons have mothers
but they're taking a break, no trem das mulheres,
and that's the wagon of the lesbians
with sweaty hair and open shirt buttons
they do sex all the time, the lesbians, and there's never
a boyfriend to watch & they never call a man to join in
no cameras in the women's train, it's all for them,
look at that girl with green hair! me too, I get it eh,
my ancient aunt tells me, I get it why women
dye their hair green, and she mimics petting
a green-haired belle on her lap with ancient
hands.
there's the wagon of maids wearing jewels from madam
and that one's all illegals and whores
no one can catch them in the women's train
that wagon? oblique women of fibrous calloused hearts
razor sharp and sweet poison the murderers,
they can look like anything and be
anywhere, they hate men and trick them
and hunt the bad ones and drink their blood.
they don't feel anything anymore, they went thru too much
& their hearts stopped beating, my dead aunt tells me
with her eyes wet, and she doesn't have to tell me
that the other women respect them, feel for them,
my eyes are also wet, we all have had some heart tissue
deadened, frosty.
It doesn't stop here, the women's train,
but it exists. Did you see it?
I wake up.
It will pass again, my dead aunt
tells me, vai passar, viu?
Did you see the women's train?

(2026-02-05)

@symcasolari @elilla @delta no phone number required; self-hostable (but not the easier); open source; a lot of useful applications... and the list of pros would be even longer!

I'm pinning the list of specifically sapphic (not just queer) fantasy (not sci-fi or urban fantasy) novels I've read and recommend, also because I'm starting to get trouble keeping track of this list myselves so I want it somewhere I can edit. Yes I will resurrect my bookworm account at some point ok, in the meantime I'm making a pinned.

S tier, top picks

1. Locked Tomb (series)
2. Landlocked in Foreign Skin
3. This Gilded Abyss
4. The Serpent Gates (series)
5. The Tensorate (series)

A tier, recommended

(no particular order)

• When Women Were Warriors (series)
• Spear (Nicola Griffith)
• Their Bright Ascendency (series)
• The Unbroken
• Girls Made of Snow and Glass
• Legends and Lattes
• The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry
• Metal From Heaven

B tier, still OK

(no particular order)

• The Priory of the Orange Tree (series)
• Of Fire and Stars (series)
• The Witch's Heart
• Ash / Huntress
• Gentlest of Wild Things

To-read list

• The Sapling Cage
• The Burning Kingdoms (series)
• Bairu Cormorant (series)

Literally cannot remember whether or not I've already read these

• The Radiant Emperor duology
• Girl, Serpent, Thorn

FAQ

• "Gideon / Landlocked are sci-fi": not according to my definition

#books

dry fire—I didn't know how to measure "enough" of that so I just used my shadowboxing timer settings, 3 rounds of 3 minutes each, only with shorter rest periods because 1 minute for the trigger finger felt like too much. after doing it, I think it's not too much and I'll put 1 minute back lol

plio pushups—I can't clap yet but I'm at 11 triceps pushups lifting off the ground. did the last remaining set.

kendō: bokutō ni yoru 1–3; katate-jōge-no-suburi; ryōte-jōge-no-suburi; hiraki-ashi-naname-buri; men; kote; dō; tsuki; kote-men; fumikomi-men; 21 each of all previous, plus 11× jōdan-no-kamae katate-fumikomi-men; plus one round of (shadow) kiri-kaeshi. my daily routine.

later than planned but still safely before bedtime. that was all. finished them in the dark and cold and in the rain, and still happy as a little girl playing sword with a stick, which is after all what I still am at heart.

day #14: kanryō :blobcatuwu: haven't missed a day so far :blobcatuwu:

I was originally planning to do my suburi after lunch, then when that didn't work out after work, and now it's 21:30 and with all that's happening I still haven't done the second part of the daily routine. but there's still time to finish what's left (suburi; dry fire; one last round of strength training) and still be able to claim I didn't miss a day, before interfering with bedtime. so let's put a pause in the household maintenance—it will probably take me over a week to finish organising all this anyway—and go tick those last checkboxes :abuffgirlfitnessstrong5: