There's a reason why Sweden and Finland held out for so long.
And that they're doing it with no say from the people.
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Apparently Apple and Google decided to drop all the family emojis in favor of generic icons.
(hexbear.net)
Shown is a man, woman, girl family, but every 2 adult 1 child family now shows the same, with similar icons for the other numbers of each.
Actually it looks like Google still represents women and girls in the new ugly icons, but man and person (gender neutral) show up the same as do boy and child (gender neutral).
This is literally no steps forward, many steps back. Especially for Apple, wiping out both sexual orientation and gender representation. And Google conflating male and gender neutral is pretty bad too. I see no good reason for this change, not even a profit-motivated reason. I think it might have something to do with representing race. i.e. a silhouette is more race neutral than yellow. But they could just support mixed race families instead.
Microsoft on the other hand supports all the possible family combinations of both gender and skin tone, which Apple and Google never supported. Here's the built in Windows 11 tool to make a family. Each person's gender and skin tone can be changed.
Tangent: on the other hand, Microsoft refuses to support country flag emojis for some reason which is annoying.
It’s actually from a couple years ago but hilarious how apt it is.
If you can’t see it
the crossed out text is “no human is illegal”.
They better include a reference to the bear. They already have Wojtek and the polar bear.
The Ukraine war was just a distraction all along. Russia has developed FTL travel and now has nukes stationed in Andromeda, waiting to strike the US.
https://twitter.com/saladshooter9/status/1741985174709997980
The first 4 points (not in the screenshot, in the full thread) aren't horrible, depending on what calls of ableism they have in mind, but it's just way down hill from there.
Their bio:
Brunch lib. Basically a KHive/Bonds Dog amalgam. I stand with 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦🇬🇾🇹🇼🇦🇲
Just the worst collection of flags, except 🇬🇾 and 🇦🇲, but I'm guessing 🇬🇾 is just to follow the State Department line on their territorial dispute with Venezuela.
I so want this to be a parody, but they have a lot of threads about how horrible various 91° media pundits actually love Trump.
(Not that all their targets are undeserving, ♫Michael Tracey Crypto-Fascist♫ is definitely not.)
Literally nothing there is true. It’s not a loaded question, it’s not disinformation, and Ukraine has absolutely been doing things to the Donbass despite the scare quotes.
Edit: later in the article
Before Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the intensity of the hostilities in the Donbas had been steadily declining since the signing of the Minsk agreements in February 2015.[9] For example, according to Ukrainian authorities, 50 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in clashes with Donbas separatists in 2020.[10]
Absolutely no concerns for deaths on the Donbass side. Less Ukrainian soldiers died so clearly that means everything is getting better.
Both hopefully.
Communists tried to kill my grandfather during WW2, what’s wrong about wanting to live?
People are for sure gonna try that "well i was always against the iraq war" shit with so many more receipts this time.
I need this. I need to be able to dunk hard on liberals when this is over. It’s the only treatment to all the NAFO shit I’ve been exposed to.
I’d rather not have brain chips be legitimized.
Was WWII the US's fault? No it wasn't.
Hitler was heavily inspired by American treatment of Native Americans and black people. Although not completely, he thought the one drop rule was a little too much.
Unfortunately I got some harm reduction bs from a fellow Hexbear not too long ago. Saying I have "Biden Derangement Syndrome" because I said 
ing for "harm reduction" is some :LIB: shit
NAFOs malding that Russia... built a school.
I felt sick to my stomach after listening to the school principal brag about the school providing additional education and some new incredible activity clubs that Mariupol didn’t have before for free.
Yeah, how horrible of them. That's absolutely evil!
What the heck does it even means? Additional endogcrination?
endogcrination
The $&@# build a school on top of the building they destroyed!
Because they're just supposed to leave an empty lot there?
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lmao at all the states around Louisiana using "Louisiana Hot Sauce", but Louisiana uses Tabasco.