Version 2.4 of "Famsite", my self-hosted social media site, now features my Faceclick Emoji picker. (I'll be releasing Faceclick itself soon, I just need to finish the README.)

The Emoji picker more than doubled the size of the project, it's over 100Kb now. But hey, you can still fit 10 copies on a floppy! 💾

Also note that 2.1 added the grouping of daily word game result comments, a huge improvement for _my_ family. 😃

https://ratfactor.com/repos/famsite/

#php #javascript #emoji

What does this emoji represent to you?

🙏🏻

#Emoji #Symbolism #Iconography

@SergKoren
Counter: ambiguous meaning is part of #emoji ’s (unnerving to some) defining power

They are adaptable to different situations and creative, sometimes confusing uses

Like slang those in-group uses defy static definition — the up to date fad may change tomorrow

Ignoring it is probably the best response. But the cool kids are gonna talk funny

And scientists writing grant proposals to get tiny cartoons of things like #jellyfish seen on billions of phones is hilarious 🪼

@SergKoren
Counter: ambiguous meaning is part of #emoji ’s (unnerving to some) defining power

They are adaptable to different situations and creative, sometimes confusing uses

Like slang those in-group uses defy static definition — the up to date fad may change tomorrow

Ignoring it is probably the best response. But the cool kids are gonna talk funny

And scientists writing grant proposals to get tiny cartoons of things like #jellyfish seen on billions of phones is hilarious 🪼

Apple has provided around 4K emoji! Most, if not all, have ambiguous meanings. At least there were a fixed set of Egyptian hieroglyphs, and a fixed set of Kanji. Apple, why?

#apple #emoji #failure

Resharing two links for today's #WorldEmojiDay:

Find top emoji from your fediverse posts:

https://data.stefanbohacek.com/projects/fediverse-emoji

A look at custom emoji across the fediverse:

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/custom-fediverse-emoji/

#emoji #fediverse

I use these the most: 🥺🫠💀👀🐺🪽🍉🌸🫧🩵🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸
I wish that there were more pride flag emojis. It took them a long time just to make 🏳️‍⚧️

Resharing two links for today's #WorldEmojiDay:

Find top emoji from your fediverse posts:

https://data.stefanbohacek.com/projects/fediverse-emoji

A look at custom emoji across the fediverse:

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/custom-fediverse-emoji/

#emoji #fediverse

July 17 is World Emoji Day! But is it only going to be Gen Xers and Millennials that celebrate it? https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/07/11/language/emoji-japanese-gen-z-texts/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #language #nihongo #emoji #vocabulary #jlptn3 #jlptn1 #grammar

July 17 is World Emoji Day! But is it only going to be Gen Xers and Millennials that celebrate it? https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/07/11/language/emoji-japanese-gen-z-texts/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #language #nihongo #emoji #vocabulary #jlptn3 #jlptn1 #grammar

LOOK AT ALL THESE AWESOME EMOJIS @rachaelspooky MADE!!!!!

and there's more at https://rachael.cafe/emoji :3

#emoji #emojis

"Emoji are not a language, that much is clear. They are something more intriguing and more disruptive than that."

Read an excerpt of @shadychars's new book, FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY (😂), which tells the entire history of emoji so far 📚 ❤️

https://longreads.com/2025/07/01/emoji-language-keith-houston/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#Longreads #Books #Reading #Emoji #Language #Linguistics #Internet #Technology #Communication #Etymology

"Emoji are not a language, that much is clear. They are something more intriguing and more disruptive than that."

Read an excerpt of @shadychars's new book, FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY (😂), which tells the entire history of emoji so far 📚 ❤️

https://longreads.com/2025/07/01/emoji-language-keith-houston/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#Longreads #Books #Reading #Emoji #Language #Linguistics #Internet #Technology #Communication #Etymology

NEW EMOJIIIIIIIIIIII

sitelen pona, in blue emoji form!

you can get this set at my site, https://rachael.cafe/emoji , or import them all from the reply to this post!!!

#emoji #tokipona #sitelenpona

NEW EMOJIIIIIIIIIIII

sitelen pona, in blue emoji form!

you can get this set at my site, https://rachael.cafe/emoji , or import them all from the reply to this post!!!

#emoji #tokipona #sitelenpona

working on an emoji font

#PixelArt #MastoArt #fonts #emoji #wip

working on an emoji font

#PixelArt #MastoArt #fonts #emoji #wip

The @shadychars Periodic Table of #Emoji.

“The table arranges emoji by category and then by how positive or negative they are, so that you can understand something about emoji and their properties just by glancing at the table.”

https://emoji.shadycharacters.co.uk/

The @shadychars Periodic Table of #Emoji.

“The table arranges emoji by category and then by how positive or negative they are, so that you can understand something about emoji and their properties just by glancing at the table.”

https://emoji.shadycharacters.co.uk/

@lemonde

<U+1F1E7, U+1F1EC> 🇧🇬 #Bulgarie #Bulgaria
<U+1F1ED, U+1F1FA> 🇭🇺 #Hongrie #Hungary

#Unicode #Emoji #Drapeaux #Flags

@lemonde

<U+1F1E7, U+1F1EC> 🇧🇬 #Bulgarie #Bulgaria
<U+1F1ED, U+1F1FA> 🇭🇺 #Hongrie #Hungary

#Unicode #Emoji #Drapeaux #Flags

Ah yes, my favorite Wafrn feature: The Yinglet Shaker.

With apologies to @mynotaurus

Ah yes, my favorite Wafrn feature: The Yinglet Shaker.

With apologies to @mynotaurus

I know it's been at least so long since i drew something, but drawing is so exhausting…like…i had no much motivation, welp, i just came up to create this for making it as Discord emoji & that's why i decided to draw again lol

Drawing & edit by me!

I know it's been at least so long since i drew something, but drawing is so exhausting…like…i had no much motivation, welp, i just came up to create this for making it as Discord emoji & that's why i decided to draw again lol

Drawing & edit by me!

The #podcast #99percentInvisible is zooming into #Emoji
Its interpretation in the court room, misunderstandings and obviously the history of the 💩 #Emojigeddon
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/626-emoji-law/

The #podcast #99percentInvisible is zooming into #Emoji
Its interpretation in the court room, misunderstandings and obviously the history of the 💩 #Emojigeddon
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/626-emoji-law/

I feel like these two should just be shipped default with #GNOME, the flow of just hitting `super+.` anywhere, starting to type the #emoji you want and hitting `Enter` to have it pasted regardless of which app you're using is just great 🚀. One of the things #windows did well and I'm so happy I can have it on #Linux too 😄

I feel like these two should just be shipped default with #GNOME, the flow of just hitting `super+.` anywhere, starting to type the #emoji you want and hitting `Enter` to have it pasted regardless of which app you're using is just great 🚀. One of the things #windows did well and I'm so happy I can have it on #Linux too 😄

👁️short note on emoji text alternative variations

"Unicode symbols do not have inbuilt text alternatives. They are exposed in the browser accessibility tree as a text symbol"

#emoji #screenreaders #a11y #unicode #webDev

https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2022/01/17/short-note-on-emoji-text-alternative-variations/

👁️short note on emoji text alternative variations

"Unicode symbols do not have inbuilt text alternatives. They are exposed in the browser accessibility tree as a text symbol"

#emoji #screenreaders #a11y #unicode #webDev

https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2022/01/17/short-note-on-emoji-text-alternative-variations/

👁️short note on emoji text alternative variations

"Unicode symbols do not have inbuilt text alternatives. They are exposed in the browser accessibility tree as a text symbol"

#emoji #screenreaders #a11y #unicode #webDev

https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2022/01/17/short-note-on-emoji-text-alternative-variations/

Unicopedia Plus is a developer-oriented set of Unicode, Unihan, Unikemet & emoji utilities wrapped into one single app, built with #Electron.

Repository: 🔗 https://codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unicopedia-plus

#characters #chinese #cjk #codepoints #desktopapplication #electronjs #emoji #ivd #japanese #javascript #kangxi #kangxiradicals #korean #normalization #opensource #regex #segmentation #strokecount #unicode #unicopedia #unihan #unikemet

Tein aiemmion kyselyn tästä emojista/käsimerkistä (🤟).
Halusin nähdä kuinka ihmiset tulkitsevat tai tietävät ennestään kyseisen käsimerkin tarkoituksen. Äänestystuloksen perusteella 14% äänestäjistä tiesi käsimerkin alkuperäisen merkityksen.

Kyseessä on hyvin vanha käsimerkki. Merkin tarkoitus on ilmaista "I love you" tai "love you". Sanojen ensimmäiset alkukirjaimet sormitetaan samanaikaisesti sormiaakkosina eli I, L ja Y.

Käsimerkin historia on pitkä, se ulottuu 1900-luvun tienoolle ja on tullut alkujaan amerikkalaisesta viittomakielestä. Kyseinen käsimerkki on levinnyt viime vuosikymmeninä sosiaalisen median kautta laajasti yleiseen käyttöön ympäri maailmaa. Tätä käytetään myös täällä meillä Suomessakin viittomakielisten kesken.

Äänestystulokset voit lukea täältä: https://mementomori.social/@mustikkasoppa/114279578956664082

#viittomakieli #ASL #ILoveYou #emoji #SuomalainenViittomakieli #AmericanSignLanguage #historia #history

Tein aiemmion kyselyn tästä emojista/käsimerkistä (🤟).
Halusin nähdä kuinka ihmiset tulkitsevat tai tietävät ennestään kyseisen käsimerkin tarkoituksen. Äänestystuloksen perusteella 14% äänestäjistä tiesi käsimerkin alkuperäisen merkityksen.

Kyseessä on hyvin vanha käsimerkki. Merkin tarkoitus on ilmaista "I love you" tai "love you". Sanojen ensimmäiset alkukirjaimet sormitetaan samanaikaisesti sormiaakkosina eli I, L ja Y.

Käsimerkin historia on pitkä, se ulottuu 1900-luvun tienoolle ja on tullut alkujaan amerikkalaisesta viittomakielestä. Kyseinen käsimerkki on levinnyt viime vuosikymmeninä sosiaalisen median kautta laajasti yleiseen käyttöön ympäri maailmaa. Tätä käytetään myös täällä meillä Suomessakin viittomakielisten kesken.

Äänestystulokset voit lukea täältä: https://mementomori.social/@mustikkasoppa/114279578956664082

#viittomakieli #ASL #ILoveYou #emoji #SuomalainenViittomakieli #AmericanSignLanguage #historia #history

#Unicode #Emoji: #Hearts #Galore

U+2764 U+FE0F U+1FA77 U+1F9E1 U+1F49B U+1F49A U+1F499 U+1FA75 U+1F49C U+1F90E U+1F5A4 U+1FA76 U+1F90D

U+1F49F U+2764 U+FE0F U+200D U+1F525 U+1F494 U+2764 U+FE0F U+200D U+1FA79 U+2763 U+FE0F U+1F498 U+1F493 U+1F497 U+1F496 U+1F49D U+1F495 U+1F49E

U+1F970 U+1F60D U+1F618 U+1F63B U+1F48C U+1FAF6 U+1FAF6 U+1F3FB U+1FAF6 U+1F3FC U+1FAF6 U+1F3FD U+1FAF6 U+1F3FE U+1FAF6 U+1F3FF U+1FAC0

#Unicode #Emoji: #Sweat & #Tears

U+1F4A6 U+1F4A7 U+1F979 U+1F639 U+1F63F

U+1F602 U+1F605 U+1F613 U+1F622 U+1F625 U+1F62A U+1F62D U+1F630 U+1F923 U+1F972 U+1F975

#Unicode #Emoji: #Skintones

U+1F473 U+1F473 U+1F3FB U+1F473 U+1F3FC U+1F473 U+1F3FD U+1F473 U+1F3FE U+1F473 U+1F3FF

U+1F478 U+1F478 U+1F3FB U+1F478 U+1F3FC U+1F478 U+1F3FD U+1F478 U+1F3FE U+1F478 U+1F3FF

#Unicode #Emoji: #Math #Geekiness

<U+1F605> <U+1F4A7> <U+1F604>

This is great: https://emoji-stretcher--maxbittker.on.websim.ai/

#Emoji #Shitpost #Memes

#Unicode #Emoji: #Japanese #Buttons

U+1F201 U+1F202 U+FE0F U+1F233 U+1F237 U+FE0F U+1F236 U+1F21A U+1F251 U+1F238 U+1F23A U+000A U+1F22F U+1F250 U+1F239 U+1F232 U+1F234 U+3297 U+FE0F U+3299 U+FE0F U+1F235

This is great: https://emoji-stretcher--maxbittker.on.websim.ai/

#Emoji #Shitpost #Memes

Someone on fedi creates new emojis, I have a request.... The standard (all devices) emoji train carriages fit none of the train engines... This is wrong.

🚈🚃🚃🚃🚃

🚄🚃🚃🚃🚃

🚝🚃🚃🚃🚃

🚅🚃🚃🚃🚃

These amazing engines shouldn't be attached to these rickety misfit local carriages, and they don't even align... This is a train travesty... We need more standard emojis with carriages that fit the engines

#trans #train #emoji

#UserAgent based banning of #textmode browsers is sooooo lame.

$ lynx -useragent=🖕 https://[…]

#Lynx #TUI #Browser #TextModeBrowser #Unicode #UTF8 #Emoji

Here are some emojidentifiers for your next Python code:

import math
乁_ツ_ㄏ = None
乁_益_ㄏ = math.nan

def minnums(values: list | 乁_ツ_ㄏ = 乁_ツ_ㄏ):
if (
values is 乁_ツ_ㄏ
or not all(isinstance(n, (float, int))
for n in values)
):
return 乁_益_ㄏ
return min(values)

#python #unicode #emoji

Random thought. Is the 🆓 emoji localized?

How about 🔙🔚🔛🔜🔝?

#emoji

Yingmotes v4.0!

https://github.com/Mynotaurus/Yingmotes

i finally finished it!!! 52 new emotes!! 2 new animated emotes!! You can now customise all zhe 2-player yingmotes!!

brings zhe total up to 355 different emotes

comes in neat easy to import (hopefully) tarballs for mastodon instances in 4 preset colours, or generate your own wizh zhe included script!

#yinglet #yingmotes #emoji #emotes #emote #furryart

Do you love blobcats? Are you a fan of free culture? Then you’ll be happy to know there’s been a brand new blobcat pack made specially (but not exclusively) for the Fediverse! Now also available in English!

Designed from scratch for a neater look, these new blobcats try their best to preserve and emphasise the original’s fuzzy feel. Bold, yet lean. Refined, yet silly. Blob, yet cat.

And best of all? They’re all free! Not just free of cost, but free to use, share, and change in whatever way you see fit! Possibly the first truly original blobcat pack released under a free culture licence. What’s a blob if not malleable? Make them yours today! (Or tomorrow. No pressure.)

More info on the website, link above. Come in for a visit!

#lang_en #art #blobcat #blobcats #emoji #emojos #English #Fedi #FediArt #Fediverse #free_art #free_culture #stickers

#VivaldiSocial …と言うか #Mastodon 4.3.1、まだこの絵文字「🏃‍♂️‍➡️」対応してないみたい。Mona だとちゃんと右向きに走る人の絵文字だけど。Web版だと左向き走る人「🏃‍♂️」+「➡️」になる。茶色キノコもそうだった。「🍄‍🟫」が「🍄」+「🟫」に。

#Emoji

You can now see #emoji #reactions in #Hollo (but you can't leave emoji reactions yet). We've implemented the FEP-c0e0 spec and tested it on #Misskey, #Akkoma, and #Fedibird.

#ActivityPub #fedidev

iOS 14 gets support for the Unicode Power Symbol!

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/09/ios-14-gets-support-for-the-power-symbol/

#emoji #ios #power #unicode

Do you have favourite emoji? Show them here! Mine are: :loading: 🦜 :ablobwhatisgoingon: :flipcat: :bunneawwheart: #emoji

Some recent articles I wrote about the #fediverse:

"A lot of people think that the pentacle was chosen because of its occult or satanic connotations."

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/the-history-of-the-fediverse-logo/

Analysis of the usage of link verification feature.

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/verification-in-the-fediverse/

A look at custom emoji used across the fediverse.

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/custom-fediverse-emoji/

#emoji #verified #verification #mastodon

Mastodon Emoji Update:
New link where #MastodonAdmin will find the #Mastomoji in 50x50 pixels and with purple hair.

If you need the emoji for your instances in another size or format, just contact me.

https://next.niemann-sebastian.de/s/gByQDQWptqrnJL5
@admin
#admin #emoji #update #v4

Mastodon Emoji Update:
There are some new Mastodon Emojis.

Instance Admins can download them here -> https://next.niemann-sebastian.de/s/gByQDQWptqrnJL5

or get them here -> https://emojos.in/kopfkino.social

#Admin #Mastodon #Emoji #Mastoadmin

Is there an emoji pack of ONLY fediverse icons and mascots?

#Emoji #Fediverse

What's your server's favorite custom emoji? Are there any you added or requested to be added yourself?

https://fedi.tips/what-are-custom-emoji-how-do-i-access-them-can-i-add-new-ones/

#fediverse #emoji #CustomEmoji

Changed my #OpenBSD writing-dedicated box from running #cwm to #i3wm -- I like cwm, but it's still a bit too mousey for my taste.

I also changed all of my fonts (both xterm and i3/i3status) to be bitmapped (the "fixed" font), so everything is looking REALLY crisp.

Maybe I'm getting quite crochety, but at this point, I think I'd much rather have a lower res screen with crisp bitmapped fonts than a crazy high-res screen and vector fonts.

The only thing I'm missing is #emoji. My i3status looks like
cpu 31% | load 0.80 | mem 9% | dsk 13.4% | net Gallifrey 82% | chrg 89% 0.00W | Sun 2024.05.26 06:42 AM

instead of
cpu 05% | 📈 load 0.29 |  28.5% |  disk 59.7% |  Gallifrey 67% |  Sun 2024.05.26 06:42 AM

Unicopedia Plus is a developer-oriented set of Unicode, Unihan, Unikemet & emoji utilities wrapped into one single app, built with #Electron.

Repository: 🔗 https://codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unicopedia-plus

#characters #chinese #cjk #codepoints #desktopapplication #electronjs #emoji #ivd #japanese #javascript #kangxi #kangxiradicals #korean #normalization #opensource #regex #segmentation #strokecount #unicode #unicopedia #unihan #unikemet

I gather it helps to write an #Introduction (including that # ) as a pinned tweet that includes a bunch of other hashtags so people can find you on here?
❤️‍🔥🪗
#accordion #AccordionMastodon #Music #Books #FolkMusic #MusicHistory #Jazz #Blues #ExperimentalMusic #Klezmer #Zydeco #TraditionalMusic #ClassicalMusic #Punk #EthnoMusicology #Radio #CommunityRadio #Vancouver
#Emoji ❤️‍🔥🪗
#Disability ✊🏻

Okay, #introduction time! I'm Ell, and I love figuring out how things work. Been having a very gendery time as of late, getting to know my #trans #femme self in my 30's has been just so wonderful.

Dayjob is software dev, but I also studied #ElectricalEngineering and am always tinkering with and fixing things, both #hardware and #software.

Interests more or less at random: I do a lot of playing with #data and finding useful ways to present it, which results in various #maps and #charts.

Things I can talk a lot about include #emoji, how the internet works, and #space.

I'm into amateur #astronomy, I've got a small #telescope 🔭 and am always thrilled to use it to share the cosmos with folks.

I play the #piano reasonably well, #guitar and #clarinet less so, and enjoy singing as long as you don't hold me to the lyrics 😄​

I don't play a ton of games, but I've put a bunch of hours into #HollowKnight and still stream it occasionally, and also adore #Transistor and #Celeste. Also into #boardgames and such!

also mel
#sticker #emoji #emotes #art #furry

emoji stickers of meeee :)

#sticker #telegram #discord #emoji #art #artist #furry