The Unicode Consortium announces release 17.2.0 of the Unicode standard.

A. Summary

41 new Emoji characters have been added, most notably:

◦ The smell of rain
◦ The feeling of being asked to remove your headphones on public transport by a stranger hitting on you (U+F0AD)
◦ The sound of standing on your spectacles while trying to locate them in the dark
◦ The moment at 5am when a cat is delightfully making biscuits on your abdomen but you need to get up to pee

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

@Unixbigot It's just wrong that there's still no drop bear emoji. Fscking unicorns.

@dshan @Unixbigot Dropbears should be added to Unicode and composed as

🩸 U+1FA78 DROP OF BLOOD
U+200D ZERO WIDTH JOINER (ZWJ)
🐨 U+1F428 KOALA

We also need to inform the Unicode Consortium of the importance of Bunyips for proper internationalization and cross cultural communication.