[holistio]

There is still no walnut emoji. Blonde-haired, black-skinned pregnant man? Yes. Walnut? No.

[wpm]

Be the petty, small change you wish to see in the world: https://joypixels.com/blog/how-to-submit-an-emoji-to-unicode

[holistio]

I will be. Thanks.

By the way, Walnut Creek is less than 100 miles from Cupertino.

I love walnuts.

[CGMthrowaway]

I'll bet you could find a place named after most any nut within 100 miles of Cupertino.

[Jtarii]

Gotta love websites that hijack basic browser functions, in this case forcing smooth scroll on.

[embedding-shape]

Seems to be some sort of design agency or similar, it's basically internet-law at this point that those always fuck with the scroll movements of your browser, for some reason.

[frollogaston]

Yeah I felt that and left so fast, forget that

[hollerith]

Gotta love browsers that let websites hijack basic browser functions.

[ErigmolCt]

Also "petty, small change" is exactly the right scale for a walnut emoji campaign

[hbn]

I love the pregnant man emoji, I use it all the time after a big meal

[asdff]

No more gun emoji. Humanity could not be trusted with the cartoon revolver emoji. Take your squirtgun, citizen.

[j1000]

Also no thief emoji or pirate emoji. Can someone enlighten me why we don't have it?

[dagmx]

Simply because nobody has successfully pitched the Unicode group to add one.

Anyone can pitch new emoji, they just have to go through the fairly easy but strict formal process.

[blanched]

Alex Schmidt, a humor writer (formerly of Cracked and others) did this process for the bison emoji. I enjoyed his “miniseries” about it: https://www.bisonemojipodcast.com/

[basch]

does the reverse notebooklm exist yet that turns podcasts into longform journalism?

[blanched]

Not that I know of. And I generally prefer written pieces to podcasts :).

The show notes for episode 2 have good references (no fun commentary though): https://www.bisonemojipodcast.com/show-notes

[hbn]

I was looking for a pirate emoji like 5 minutes ago. I'm sure it's not the first time but I'm super surprised that still isn't in there. Seems so obvious.

[frollogaston]

Well there's a pirate flag

[wvbdmp]

What’s next, a cowboy emoji? A ninja emoji? But seriously, as much as I like emojis, I kind of feel like they should stick to emotions. Maybe other intangible things. They’re hard to convey verbally (and succinctly), simple concrete nouns are good for a bit of fun and for UI icons, but really not very useful if we’re being honest. Unless you’re texting with a lizard, or my lazy elementary-school niece who shouldn’t really have a phone anyway…

[customguy]

If we add 26 more emojis, one for each letter, we could use them to spell out all sorts of words - emotions, objects, anything!

[frollogaston]

There are really 26 emoji letters that are used for spelling country codes in the flags, like https://emojipedia.org/regional-indicator-symbol-letter-u

[jtolmar]

26 emojis? You could do the entire bestiary from the original Rogue with that!

[holistio]

Or you're texting with people whose native language uses a logographic system.

[helterskelter]

We got the mpreg emoji instead of a chainsaw, which makes me feel like we need an emoji lobbying group for things like sex, drugs, sawed-off shotguns and jury nullification.

[ErigmolCt]

Representation emojis and object emojis are solving different problems

[carrozo]

still no Guillotine Emoji either, although not for a lack of trying.

https://www.carrozo.com/guillotine-emoji

[joshmn]

Been waiting for seahorse myself.