ACARS drama

Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw:⁠:paw:

ACARS drama

Ground to Air Message:

WE HAVE BEEN TRYING TO REACH YOU REGARDING YOUR PLANES EXTENDED WARRANTY

Area: Washington DC, USA
Type: Airbus A320neo
A: #⁠a68bc80691f
F: #⁠fc25519c061

aburka 🫣

@catsalad weird, how do you get inactive hashtags like that

aburka 🫣

@catsalad I thought maybe it was a fake unicode pound sign but it isn't so I'm out of ideas

Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw:⁠:paw:

@aburka Put a U+2060 WORD JOINER after the #⁠

aburka 🫣

@catsalad aha so I *was* right about unicode shenanigans

AccordionBruce

@aburka @catsalad
My fave hashtag trick is you can use the num pad #️⃣emoji to set them off

I guess you would need the U+2060 to avoid the #️⃣ ⁠acting as an #

aburka 🫣

@AccordionBruce @catsalad exposed a rendering bug in @phanpy! @cheeaun

ManMachine

@catsalad I absolutely adore that even in very precarious situations, using highly specialised communications channels, if given the chance people will shitpost

nilclass

@AccordionBruce @aburka @catsalad some of those extra bytes make it into the URL even, when following the hashtag link (using mastodon on the web)
The popup is also affected

TayFoNay, Sigh-D

@catsalad Outstanding