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Apple released iOS 13.2 earlier today, and the update includes 398 new emoji. There's a bunch of brand-new ones (I love the otter) as well as emoji to represent people with disabilities, gender-neutral emoji (following in Google's footsteps), and a new way to select the skin colors of each individual in the holding hands emoji.
The new batch of emojis also help to normalize menstruation:
For too long, those of us with periods and clitorises have been brutally silenced from talking about our cramps and orgasms by Emoji's lack of yonic and vagina-related emojis. While we gab and gossip freely with eggplant dicks, the best digital icon we currently have to talk about periods and vaginas are the taco (no shade to tacos, it just sounds like a joke a 13-year-old boy would make), and the bloody syringe, which feels unnecessarily gruesome (we're trying to teach kids that periods aren't scary).
This dark time has come to an end. Apple has released iOS 13.2, and the update includes 398 new emoji, including a gorgeous menstrual-red blood drop. [...] The collection also includes a luscious, dignified and highly yonic oyster emoji, replete with a pearly clit, for all your sexting and storytelling needs.
Also at Emojipedia and SFGATE.
Previously: Unicode Consortium Adding 230 New Emojis in Emoji 12.0
(Score: 2) by Arik on Thursday October 31 2019, @05:56PM
Hong Kong was handed over from the UK. Taiwan is an entirely different situation.
"Short of war, there is nothing that can be done about it now. Unless we are willing to commit to war, any intercession by us will only make the takeover more painful, and more bloody, than necessary."
You're speaking of Hong Kong, yes?
There's some truth to what you're saying in that case, but you're overlooking the elephant in the room. There is no question here of war or no war. We're actually still at war. We never signed a permanent peace, we never resolved the underlying disputes, we just started mutually ignoring the problem. Thank you tricky dick Nixon!
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?