tiny gripe of the day: why does apple's emoji recommendations think I want to add the literal translation of the word I just wrote? that's the exact opposite of how I use emojis, namely to *add* contextual sentiment.

No one ❌ writes ✍️ like 👍 this☝️

I proposed to my girlfriend last weekend, and even managed to slip in a ggplot documenting the 220k+ km we've traveled together over the years!

hard to say if it was because of the figure or in spite of it, but she did say yes

well it may not have been at work, but at least I accomplished SOMETHING this year.

Thanks NYT for some ~100 hours of puzzling (plus however much I spent on spelling bee, connections, and wordle 😬)