Anyone wanna share interesting things?

[malymin]

I kind of miss how easy it was to see people talking about media, technology, history, etc that I'd never heard about before on Cohost... despite Cohost having some structural similarities to Tumblr, I just don't get that experience there.

I'm pretty bummed out by recent events (to put it mildly), and I imagine a lot of other people here are too. Anyone wanna share stuff that brings them joy, or at the very least positive stimulation? Books you're reading, hobbies you've gotten into, etc.

I had been reading Who Owns this Sentence by David Bellos and Alexandre Montagu, which is very good, but had to take a break because it was just making me depressed thinking about how we're going to get out of the enclosure of the cultural commons on top of... everything else. I've had a bit of fun with a short free fangame RPG on Itch.io, made by a user going by Atena. And I'd like to share an old middle-school favorite website, "Dog Coat Colour Genetics" by an artist named Jess, as well as the even bigger and older "MessyBeast" website run by Sarah Hartwell, which is an especially thorough as a resource on cat color genetics, but has many other interesting alleyways to explore.

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[bootjack]

oh man i've been a huge fan of messybeast for a long time and didn't know there was a similar site for dog coat genetics, thank you for posting about that!!

as for interesting things to share, hmm... if you like watching big machines doing their thing, there's all sorts of railcams, airport cams, and harbor cams on youtube. with the harbor cams you can often see which ships are coming and going by cross-checking with marinetraffic or vesselfinder, although some like duluth harbor cam has a bespoke website for ship arrival and departure schedules. some of the harbor cams will have time tables for the expected arrivals of ships coming in so you know when to tune in (this is a bit harder for the railcams since there's no train tracking websites for freight, only passenger rail gets tracked). my favorite harbor cams are duluth harbor cam and stream time live for their extensive collection of ship streams (STL also has a couple airport cams), as well as virtual railfan for train stuff.

[malymin]

It's nowhere near as big as Messybeast, but very few things are. XD The site-runner used to be incredibly involved in a virtual pet game I played as a kid, that's how I found out about it - it used to be linked from their fansite! (That fansite is now long gone, I'm pretty sure...)

I'm probably more of an animal-cam person than a machine-cam person, but it's cool to know that this exists!

~~I love your boat icon and your writups about boat drama, btw~~