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Tried sending my mom a funny bleet but she values the arts too much

My goal is to make a website with translations. Just getting started. The Notes app's scanning feature doesn't cut it; Scanner Pro is effective for OCR purposes but loses color and has privacy issues.

For now, please enjoy this effervescent Royal Gelatin ad. Could make a good t-shirt?

Here's the cover of "صوت المرأة" (trans. Arabic: Sawt al-Mar'ah, "Woman's Voice") from November 1949. I'd heard that my grandfather, who I never met, helped publish an early feminist magazine in Lebanon. There isn't much about it online. I bought a few issues that I found for sale.

We’ve regressed

Spotify should introduce typographically distinct commas for the intra- and inter- artist name cases

I asked Claude to list all the physical states that music exists in between hitting play and me hearing it

Answer: UTF-7 being decoded as ASCII. That apostrophe is a U-2019 Right Single Quotation Mark.

A small character encoding mystery. I came across this product review where apostrophes got replaced with "+IBk-". Curious, I tried searching for more examples or information. The only instance I came across is this bizarre Usenet post, which seems like it should be from 30 years earlier.

Wait, they have pizza in America now?

tree grate changelog

i love the internet

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #199!

Some people on chess.com get mad when they lose

Here’s Ivan trying to make fun of me for being American

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finally seen

This dog (Jefferson) only walks on carpets. A lifestyle I hadn’t considered.