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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Re: Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

It came up in one of my fun history classes. Forks were a late-arriving type of silverware, so not everyone caught on to how they were used immediately. Some peasants decided that forks were tools for picking out the eyes of armored knights. At the time, a knight was like a human tank. Even if you got him down off his battlesteed, he remained a tough nut to crack. But if you could knock him down, he was somewhat more vulnerable. Then if you had a fork, you could stab through the narrow slits of his visor and, if not kill him outright, at least render him useless as a combantant.

In some places, the nobility responded by banning forks. LOL history LOL