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Twitter owner Elon Musk has issued a warning to journalists contacting the company's press department, via the platform. Each response, quite simply, will include an automated poop emoji. On Sunday morning, Musk tweeted out: "press@twitter.com now auto responds with 💩" As of midday Sunday, Musk has yet to expand on his poop-related tweet.

A recent software update for Apple's iPhones includes a "pregnant man" emoji as well as a number of other gender neutral cartoons. Apple rolled out the update in mid-March according to the Wall Street Journal, adding the pregnant emoji, as well as a gender neutral "person with crown" emoji to go alongside the king and queen cartoons. Apple also added 35 other emojis. Apple first rolled out the pregnant man and "pregnant person" emoji in January as part of an optional update, but it came to all users with the iOS 15.4 update. The decision to roll out the new...

Jennifer Rubin, a "pro-democracy opinion writer," cares more about Ukraine than anyone else living within the Acela corridor, a Washington Free Beacon analysis has determined. The Washington Post journalist's verified Twitter account lists her name as "Jennifer ‘I stand with Ukraine' Rubin," which suggests an extraordinary level of dedication to the Ukrainian people and their efforts to defend their country in the face of Russian aggression. The intensity of Rubin's passion for Ukraine is further evidenced by the double Ukrainian flag emoji that also appear on her verified Twitter account. This means that every time Rubin posts a tweet—whether it...

A snake breeder who accidentally bred a ball python with the shape of three smiley face emojis on its body said he sold the designer reptile for $6,000. Justin Kobylka, who has been breeding snakes for two decades, said he was attempting to breed ball pythons for the color combination of bright golden yellow and white when he ended up hatching a snake with three yellow smiley faces on its scales. ADVERTISEMENT The breeder said the snake was born after about eight years of working to breed pythons for the color combination. Kobylka said he estimates about one in 20...

The Unicode Consortium announced Wednesday that a variety of transgender inclusive emoji will be added to platforms like Apple and Android in 2020, including an emoji of a gender neutral Santa. The new emoji come as part of the Unicode Consortium’s addition of 117 new emoji for 2020, including a polar bear, bubble tea, an emoji showing people hugging, a woman or gender inclusive person wearing a tuxedo, and a transgender flag, according to Tech Crunch. Google reportedly sponsored five of the new emoji and co-sponsored the transgender flag emoji with Microsoft.

Since 2016, Twitter has offered advertisers the ability to see which emojis users are sending in the app. That data turns out to be a gold mine for advertisers, which look at your emojis to determine your emotional state, then deliver highly targeted ads depending on your current mood.... Twitter noted that advertisers can use the emoji data to show users ads based on their mood, 'target people who tweet food emojis' and 'reach people on their passions.' 'If someone puts a thumbs up or a smiley face, show them this ad,' Aaron Goldman, chief marketing officer at 4C Insights,...

An Islamic preacher based in Saudi Arabia is warning Muslims against using certain emojis. Wajdi Akkari posted a video where he speaks out against a number of emojis that he believes are blasphemous, including the angel and any emojis that are “devilish.” According to the DailyMail, Akkari was born in Lebanon, moved to the US to become a rapper when he was 18, and then eventually moved to Saudi Arabia where he teaches Arabic. Read more: http://www.everyjoe.com/2016/05/05/news/islamic-preacher-says-emojis-forbidden-muslims/#ixzz4IBib2cHN

In Jonathan Franzen’s novel “Purity,” a 1970s college student having a long, captivating initial phone conversation with the woman who will capture his heart reflects, “My world had been shrinking to the size of her voice in my ear . . . It seems crucial that we had our first real conversation on the phone, which distills a person into words passing directly into the brain.” Olden days. Lately a young lady telephonically contacted by a suitor must content herself with something more along the lines of “U so hot want 2 come ovah 4 chill sesh?” Which is more or less...

Now is the winter of our…frowny face. There’s a new line of “books” that translate Shakespeare for kids. With emojis and text messages.

The liberal is a particular breed of herd animal, a breed which tramples all to get to the front of the stampede, leaving behind nothing but a wide trail of destruction and feces. Such as it is with the latest eruption of bat guano that advanced the notion anything can be racist.  Kimberly Ross aptly described this mindset as “Generation Wuss,” but now that the stampede has started, the faster hooves are trampling into what can only be described as harebrained absurdity. At least Generation Wuss had the decorum to publish their declarations in The New York Times, with proper grammar and an...