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Touk

this was the best thing I ever tweeted

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Touk

I appreciate that this got more interaction in five minutes on masto than five years on twitter 🙃

Casey Watts! (he/him) 🌈🫧

@touk we humans decide what’s good here on Mastodon 👹

this is GOOD

DELETED

@touk turns out you weren't a fool of a Touk.

Sorry you've probably heard that one 500 times already

I'll be here all week

May!

@touk my favorite emoji, :ms_woozy:

Hexephre

@touk u tellin me they invented zebras less than five years ago??

caprimoon

@touk is that a mango or a roma tomato or ??

Walken

@CapriMoon @touk Pretty sure it’s a mango, although mine is a touch different.🥭

gwenprime

@touk I've always dreamt of stealing a codepoint by implementing it in an app that's popular enough that unicode has to just knuckle under and accept it as true.

monorail times

@touk Me in 2016: they'll never have a giraffe emoji

2023: my god

Dr. Juande Santander-Vela

@touk well played! I guess you could do a few more here 😉

Albert Cardona

@touk Wonderful piece of "Long Now" art. If the @longnow foundation was on the fediverse, they'd praise it. I praise it: chapeau.

PressF1 ☑️

@touk this is about the closest thing we’ll get to time travel. Bravo 👏, sir!

schratze

@touk wow I thought the floating hearts emoji was way older than that

wakest ⁂

@touk you should do an updated one of these here and see if the instance you posted it on is also here for 5 years

Stacey Campbell

@touk I'm jealous of people who know how to use 🧐 correctly.

Steven Shen

@touk Five years later, “what’s a tweet?”

Heather Evans

@touk
I believe it’s time for an update 😁.

Phoenix Celt

@touk Wow I love how that last one I had to go back and check if you'd already included!

Peter Barnes

@touk The news isn't so good another five years on...
Remaindered emojis 😭

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@touk I'm quite surprised Twitter allowed to post unassigned unicode characters in the first place ?!

clacke: looking for something 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
@tcit @touk Avoids the maintenance burden of keeping track of which codepoints are allocated, and for what benefit?
kategenevieve

@touk ha ha ha it's profound. a way to feel the future breathing...

endrift :nonbinary_flag:

@touk @Cdespinosa aged like *checks notes* Chinese food and paramecia.

Pseudo Nym

@touk Visionary, thought leader. But you are late. You said 5 years, and it's been almost 6 and a half. :⁠-⁠)

Touk

@pseudonym The second screenshot is from Jan 2021!!! account is totally gone now

Pseudo Nym

@touk ah, I sit corrected. I figured you had posted it just now. Very good. Carry on.

Jeff Rames

@touk I love this and my humble suggestion is to make this a madlib next time around.

Rob

@touk makes me think of the #genuary prompt from last year: “Make something that will look completely different in a year” - love it :)

bornach

@Probably @touk
Should check on those posts to see what they look like now that it is a year later

R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:

@touk

Man, that's crazy.

Also, Chicago font lookalike unicode placeholder boxes gives me the double-whammy on feels: Taking me back to the innocent days of 2012 or so, and the *really* innocent days of 1990 or so. :D

Metamere

@touk This is hilarious! The last one fits perfectly. Did you actually set a reminder for five+ years later, or just randomly remember to check?

Touk

@Metamere I think I randomly remembered to check in on it (screenshots are from 2016 vs 2021, the account is gone now)

Metamere

@touk Nice. I wonder if there are any hidden reminder timers running in the back of my mind that I won't know about until they trigger.
Btw, I got your album on Bandcamp and listened to it a bunch last night. Great stuff. Do you have any plans to release the last four tracks, or am I right in assuming you've moved on from that project?

Touk

@Metamere Thanks for checking out my weird songs (how did you find them from here?)

Oof that album is like a decade old, and the remaining tracks are maybe 25-75% done. Would love to finish them. Haven't had much time to make music for a few years (had 2 kids...) but I've dabbled in some recent stuff like trying chiptune eg
smores.town/@touk/107940211185

Metamere

@touk I saw on your profile that you were the "superhero of saladcore", thought that sounded interesting, found a collection of albums on BC matching that tag, one artist had Touk in the name, and I figured that was probably you.

Hey, I totally get it. I'm just glad to hear you're still playing around with music. I love chiptunes. That's a great track. I think you'd enjoy the works of one of my favorite artists, Minusbaby. discogs.com/artist/25910-Minus

Touk

@Metamere
I think I recognize that name from 8bitpeoples where I found a lot of chiptune years ago...

Babu Menos 💬

@touk

This is very funny!

EDIT: Damn, I would so love to have fresh 🥥 again!

Adam Williamson :fedora:

@touk wait are you saying that in 2016 we were somehow living life without the monocle face emoji? i refuse to believe this was possible

mirabilos

@touk That’s supposed to be germ? Looks more like amoeba to me…

Sarah, The Website Therapist

@touk @Shaun_R thank you for bringing this gem over to where I could enjoy it too

David Zaslavsky

@touk I mean this is the best thing most people could have ever tweeted

Joel Mielke

@touk They look like that immediately on my old iMac.

🙃 ɐıunp zsɐɯoʇ 🚌:php:

@touk I am impressed with the level of creativity that allowed to come up with such an idea 😅

ecsd

@touk :

This is brilliant.

But DID YOU KNOW
they STILL have not created the emoji codepoint for the flag for THE UNITED FEDERATION OF PLANETS? :(😭

mooncube

@touk WE COULDN‘T EVEN SAY 🥰 IN 2016???

ArrayBolt3

@touk This is hilarious and also really cool. Out of curiosity (and because I'm too busy to check myself) did you choose the codepoints randomly or are these all in sequence?

C. E. M. Henderson

@touk @arnicas amazed at all the things I could not say in 2016

Tatjana Scheffler

@touk This is amazing I really need this for my emoji class. 🤩

enchantedsleeper 🌈⭐

@touk Omg, for a minute I thought it was the other way around and this was about emoji decay or something 🤣 But that's hilarious!

enchantedsleeper 🌈⭐

@touk this kind of sums up the intervening five years

Rehn

@touk a treat years in the making :blobcatlaugh2:

try

@touk That's some forward thinking. As for myself, I still want to put 📼 next to YouTube mentions. I'm stuck in the past.

On the other hand, the video cassette was instrumental in bringing home video creation to the masses. That's still on brand for YouTube. Maybe I'm just stuck in the present. Upgrades! I'll take it.

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