Thanks, I was typing in a rush before. ^^ Also thanks for the HuffPo writeup on it.

Who the fuck is making these graphics? They’re terrible and pixelated and the font choices are always very confusing.

Someone else — apologies for forgetting who! — mentioned that the colors were muted in order to hide just how orange 45's skin is.

Ivanka shared photo(s) of herself vacationing with Wendi Deng, who was supposedly in a relationship with Putin in early 2016.

It makes sense. The Unicode Consortium has standardized emojis for quite some time. I’ll admit; I went into the developer tools to see if there was a non-emoji character equivalent (i.e., :( ), but it showed it there as well.

Thank you for the clarification!

Bugger! There was no date, so I wasn’t sure if that was the one that you meant. I’ve updated my comment (hah, didn’t time out!) to point out that I have the wrong one.

Thank you! I really should have considered looking myself.

Referenced cover for those who were curious:

Apologies for the question, but could someone clarify what is meant by the emoticon? Specifically, 😬. I think that my lack of cognitive empathy frequently extends to emoticons, and I’m unsure as to the emotion that it is intended to convey.

For reference, this may be the episode of the podcast that DrugstoreGlasses mentioned!

I do wonder about the “right” to have children. Is that a right?

Do you think that 45 acts like a petulant child if someone forgets? Or if the same courtesies are extended to others?

I left the Academy shortly before my third year after I was assaulted aboard a ship and the school refused to investigate my allegations. I remember standing in front of one of the administrators pleading them to at least never send another woman to that ship. They wouldn’t even do that much.

Disregarding that not everyone has the option of running away from a job, I think that environments where this kind of behavior is pervasive are also ones that actively go out of their way to maintain it. Reporting results in greater harassment, threats, physical and sexual violence, and myriad other repercussions.

My experiences may be unique (or the result of being in male-dominated environments for the entirety of my life), but every example of hazing that I have witnessed or personally experienced always includes some sort of sexual assault.

This appears to be the full episode, though I only scanned through it very quickly. Thank you again! I’ll take a look at this later tonight.

I’ve mentioned it in the past, but I attended a United States federal military academy. It’s amazing how much gets normalized in small group cultures. Sexual assault as a prank or a form of camaraderie is very common.

Thank you for the additional information! The article notes that he would have been able to exercise and that the physical appearance could have been minimized with clothes, but it definitely did not go into such detail.