Miscellany № 106: pistols, punctuation and print

I came across a post last July on Emojipedia , in which Keith Broni * noted that Twitter, or X, had redesigned its PISTOL emoji. PISTOL had always been controversial: most online platforms started off with PISTOLs drawn as realistic firearms, but, over the course of the mid-2010s, most of them moved to toylike renderings of water pistols instead. Twitter had followed suit. Read more &rarr; * From…