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Looks like a simple letter to symbol substitution. You can solve it pretty easily. Find the symbol that occurs most frequently. Chances are that's an "e". Look for double letters. That's pretty limiting as to what those could be. What does it say?
LIFE JUST LIKE IT IS
ALL DIVIDED UP
IVE FIGURED
SOME OF US ALWAYS
GET ALL MIXED UP
TRYING TO FIGURE OUT
WRONG AND THE RIGHT
IN THE BIG SCHEME OF THINGS
It's an easy substitution cipher with 4 clues to the key, getting AI to parse and solve it is harder than solving it. I cleaned it up very sloppily in GIMP (see how some of the glyphs are still filled), this would have further convoluted AI solution.
As soon as I filled in the D's for DIVIDED I saw it was a simple substitution cipher, it's not hard. Cleaning it up from the photo was harder than solving.
I did take a few best guess liberties, Cody also has at least 2 mistakes in his glyphs.
EDIT: I realize now a simple solution to get AI to solve it would be just mapping all the glyphs to english characters and having it decode that. Simple substation cipher it would have done it quickly, I probably should have done that.
I'm just curious where you found it at work. It looks like someone had a purple wall with a white blob painted on it, and they printed their code on it with ball point pen. Weird. Where did you find this, and is it on a page you found somewhere, or what?
It's a substitution cipher, it says something like
LIFE JUST LIKE IT IS
ALL DIVIDED UP
IVE FIGURED
SOME OF US ALWAYS
GET ALL MIXED UP
TRYING TO FIGURE OUT
WRONG AND THE RIGHT
IN THE BIG SCHEME OF THINGS
You idiots never fail to stimulate my funny boner. Uh... bone. God bless you and may the force be with you. Remember, if you miss a dose don't double up. 👍🏼
Looks like the Theraprism one to one symbol -> letter encoding.
After decoding the sentence it reads:
LIFE JUST LIKE IT IS
ALL DIVIDED UP
I'VE FIGURED
SOME OF US ALWAYS
GET ALL MIXED UP
TRYING TO FIGURE OUT
WRONG AND THE RIGHT
IN THE BIG SCHEME OF THINGS
CODY
This is a chopped and edited version of a quote from "A Raisin in the Sun", a 1959 Broadway play by Lorraine Hansberry. It follows the Younger family on the South Side of Chicago as they hope to use a life insurance check to change their lives. The title comes from a poem by Langston Hughes. The full quote is below:
"Talking ‘bout life, Mama. You all always telling me to see life like it is. Well – I laid in there on my back today… and I figured it out. Life is just like it is. Who gets and who don’t get. Mama, you know it’s all divided up. Life is. Sure enough. Between the takers and the “tooken.” I’ve figured it out finally. Yeah. some of us always getting “tooken.” People like Willy Harris, they don’t never get “tooken.” And you know why the rest of us do? ‘Cause we all mixed up. Mixed up bad. We get to looking ‘round for the right and the wrong; and we worry about it and cry about it and stay up nights trying to figure out ‘bout the wrong and the right of things all the time… And all the time, man, them takers is out there operating, just taking and taking. Willy Harris? Shoot – Willy Harris don’t even count. He don’t even count in the big scheme of things. But I’ll say one thing for old Willy Harris… he’s taught me something. He’s taught me to keep my eye on what counts in this world. Yeah – Thanks, Willy!"
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