Randall Munroe

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Bracket Symbols xkcd.com/2954

Jul 04, 2024 at 06:00 UTC

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Friend Of Justice @bigbadbugsteak.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 01:23 UTC

No Japanese brackets to indicate the name of the Stand?

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Noah [noh-uh] @noah-the-bard.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 13:43 UTC

**__//I do, in fact have a favorite monospaced font; Cascadia Mono!//__**

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Ru’etha Dreams of Healing (she/her) @ruetha.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 22:52 UTC

: : I read way too much Mercedes Lackey ** ** I played on Two Moons MUSH

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Sean Cannon @sjcannon.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 10:00 UTC

I'm still traumatised by Dirac notation from bombing in final year quantum physics. Still have no idea what it means.

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Jens Müller @jens0331.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 06:23 UTC

„“ some German is talking

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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 06:02 UTC

"" a programmer is talking

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XXX-L Feral Æ A-12s @tr3vin.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 06:17 UTC

«My favorite character is Aximili-Esgarrouth-Eiffel»

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Dwegmull @dwegmull.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 03:55 UTC

<> HTML is talking.

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@lorodran.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 07:42 UTC

love this just because Animorphs got mentioned XD

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Mr. Xypher Orion 🐀 @xypherorion.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 11:17 UTC

<An animorph is talking> XD

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Pedro Gonnet @pedrogonnet.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 06:27 UTC

»« A German speaker found these in the Unicode table and thought they look cool, but doesn't know how to use them right.

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Slow Fox @nutzbuch.at
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 06:15 UTC

// could be an indicator for regular expressions as well, does not need to be /italic/

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Der Ex-Nordhessische 🐳 @nordhessische.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 06:14 UTC

So there are probably no „German animorph“, I guess.

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Ronronia Adramelek 🦋 @ronronia.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 14:06 UTC

Help, I'm a mathematician... that's so very precisely on the point, OMG😂

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 07:46 UTC

I will never not be salty about my middle school English creative writing assignment getting points docked for depicting telepathic dialogue with <CLEARLY telepathic dialogue brackets.>

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Carla Austin @dswgratm.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 14:38 UTC

*a millenial is glomping*

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Ethan @hellhound007.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 07:36 UTC

I do, as a matter of fact, have a favourite monospaced font. Yes, it's Consolas/Inconsolata.

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Garek Maxwell @garekmaxwell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 06:12 UTC

You can nest language and it gets even better. I'm not anywhere close to an expert, but as far as I'm aware, after " ", you can ' ' for a quote within a quote. But.... You can ' ' for a quote within a quote within a quote So she said "she said ' she said 'she said 'she said' ' ' " I think is correct

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Gunnar the Liberated Husky @nhusky.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 15:30 UTC

I feel very called out as someone with very strong opinions on font choice. I do have a favorite and it's courier because courier is accessible to people with vision problems, dyslexia, and dyscalculia.

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MoonSong @moonsongw.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 08:17 UTC

Nice post # I wish I had thought of that #

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Timpanogos Slim @timpanogosslim.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 07:44 UTC

You missed the (((Someone))) who is jewish and thinks internet nazis are dipshits is typing.

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@infintecycle.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 10:58 UTC

\********************************* Starved for attention **********************************\

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Ross Originals @rossoriginals.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 08:53 UTC

Tildes are now used for "flirty" voice mostly (e.g. ~oh my~), or just to denote wavering tone, at least... which is usually flirty.

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Dave Dissents @dconrad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 06:09 UTC

I do have a favorite monospaced font. Consolas!

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rusty potato @rosty.me
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 07:01 UTC

came down here to squeeze a markdown image ![]() with a link []()

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 09:57 UTC

[this [would [be [very [simple [to [implement [in LISP]]]]]]]]

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Nephrite Heart @nephriteheart.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 11:00 UTC

there was a time when these bracket symbols could clock what online RP chat you frequented on AOL or IRC

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TJ / 😻CATLIT🔥 @catlit.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 22:53 UTC

( ) This is part of the song title [ ] This is an alternate version of the song / This song transitions into the other song x This song mashed up with that song

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Padishah Emperor of the Known Universe @wericsson.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 01:28 UTC

Silence, Animorph. A French Animorph is speaking

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Midwest Emu 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 @phlkn.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 09:05 UTC

The next person to use dirac notation is getting a pistol whip

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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 13:18 UTC

<| lol |>

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BiFuriosa @bifuriosa.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 06:27 UTC

'Save ink/pixels - use single marks for quotes', I say! Also a way to distinguish "actual words said" from 'precis of what was said'.

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Kaia Ball (They/Them) @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 14:03 UTC

The French animorphs were always the deadliest ones too

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Possible Cabbage @possiblecabbage.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 06:56 UTC

Really the last one should be <| |>, since a bra by itself is an operator and a ket by itself is a vector (i.e. a quantum state.)

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LeRoc @leroc.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 06:34 UTC

Haha, I love the one for ||.

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JonMan @jonman.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 01:17 UTC

I thought double carrots was for edgy antagonist fighter pilots saying << Buddy. >>

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Matt Gordon (He/Him, mostly) ✡️🏳️‍🌈 @drmattyg.com
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 06:59 UTC

WELL AKTUALLY the last one is just a ‘ket’. <| is a ‘bra’. “Don’t ask me where the C went.” -Prof Peter Meyers, 1997ish

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@ilmariwalker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 06:04 UTC

[[ ]] I edit wikis

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The Rodent of Unusual Size @therous.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 13:43 UTC

(()) I LISP a lot.

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W. Ethan Duckworth @weduckworth.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 11:23 UTC

📌

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Affreux Jojo @kaonashi806.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 06:27 UTC

// = xkcd.com/208

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MintzBuck @mintzbuck.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 14:37 UTC

Brings a whole new meaning to the Caravan Palace album <|°_°|>

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Kosmic Stoat, Dookterate @stoat.gay
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 06:19 UTC

@byelacey.bsky.social content relevant to your interests

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Chris Hind @hindchristopher.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 07:42 UTC

\"\" : I'm already in a " and I want to stay there

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tho @treeshateorcs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 06:16 UTC

i had a tumblr account in 2009

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Jerod Poore @jerod23.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:54 UTC

If only bsky had a scheduled reblog function like Tumblr. Then I could reblog this for Precedence Day.

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Paul Vorbach @pvorb.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 11:22 UTC

“Someone British is talking” LMAO 🤣

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Death_by_Democracy 🇵🇸 🇾🇪 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🍉 @deathbydemocracy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 13:21 UTC

There's also: (((profile name))) These mean "I am a racist"

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Everyone's backup friend @ejoty.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 23:40 UTC

Quantum Country PTSD is real. If you or someone you love is considering computing probability amplitudes, help is available. Call our hotline number: 1

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Will Greeenwald @willgreenwald.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 13:19 UTC

:: :: Someone in an AOL chat room is role-playing

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a3bc7f71c2a7fc1daf9512d638fc14573c6cfd5fff1ca21a131d55e3dec138f5 @xoreaxeax.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 14:44 UTC

Guillemets give me openArchitectureWare PTSD from 20 years ago.

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Cameron @sweetcammymac.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 07:00 UTC

Violin… brilliant.

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Badbeard @badbeard.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 06:24 UTC

<< A Citroen has fallen over >>

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Marie @blammarie.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 22:30 UTC

~~~~ feeling called out

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Sebastian Mathis @semanthis.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 10:21 UTC

semanthis thinks: „as a German, I feel unmentioned!”

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thief | guy 🇳🇿 @thief-gold.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 06:03 UTC

Writing everything with extensive commas and parentheses, because I'm #AuDHD, like structure, and terrified people will misunderstand me (so I couch as much meaning into a single sentence as possible)

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Robert Gill @rtgill.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 06:02 UTC

You mean `` isn't included as the most favorite monospaced font?

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Chad @mettaurreef.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 06:35 UTC

You say Python function, I say 7+ cheats in Fallout's terminal hacking that all give allowance replenishments.

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Entroper 🛩️ @finalfantasyrandomizer.com
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 00:41 UTC

That's not fair, I've never had a Tumblr account.

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Dan Moore @danm628.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 07:01 UTC

This is why I prefer languages with fewer characters.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitesp...

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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 08:13 UTC

“Someone British is talking” Oh man. The arguments over that at various publications. (It’s very common now to see British newsstand publications go for double quotes but books tend to stay single quotes. Except when they’re thinking about a worldwide audience, in which case also -ization. Argh.)

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