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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[kossai]

kossai dive back into sky: children of the light - beautiful places to explore !

[tresfoyle]

you might get a kick out of this

[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.

Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

I'm reading a graphic novel on the history of food. I love fact-based graphic novels.

>> resource on cat color genetics <<

Have you seen the salmiakki cats?

[onlyknownothing]

The Eye is a public archive whose works are available in an only-somewhat-categorized directory "data dump." There's all SORTS of stuff in there if you'd like to take a look, from old RPGs to vintage radio plays to (on their new "beta" site) digitized VHS recordings of broadcast television.

Peelopaalu is a Neocities web directory of sites which contain interesting things. Not 100% up to date, probably 50% not of interest to you in particular, but worth digging through to find the stuff you'd find cool.

Radio Garden lets you listen to radio from all over the world via web-radio broadcasts of the various stations. A great way to explore what cultures around the globe are experiencing in this moment and share in their art and creativity.

Petit Tube is a random selection from the vast number of YouTube videos with 10 or less views. See someone's home movie. See a video someone took of their dog being sweet. See something shared with the world that few people have ever seen.

[wobblegong]

I was introduced to the Dreamwidth community Little Details just the other day, and while the focus isn't exactly on supplying a steady diet of curiosities it sure does seem like an interesting place to lurk/browse. (Or you know, actually ask highly specific, factual research questions like you're meant to, but I'm the wrong kind of writer for that!)