tinycarnivoroussheep

@tinycarnivoroussheep@possumpat.io

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Headbanging aunties and punk rock rez shows? An archive puts Indigenous punks in the spotlight⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Shit, I’m down

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plato's burial place finally revealed after AI deciphers ancient scroll carbonized in Mount Vesuvius eruption⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have beef with him, tho TBF it’s mostly CS Lewis’s fault. Platonic ideals are social constructs, suck on that, fundagelicals who pretend to be intellectuals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plato's burial place finally revealed after AI deciphers ancient scroll carbonized in Mount Vesuvius eruption⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Who wants to go on a roadtrip to piss on said grave? Up yours, Plato.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Earliest 'true' saddle in east Asia discovered⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In the interest of horse-girl infodumping, I recall seeing some at the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, OK, and luckily they have some pics for their online collection, thank you Gilcrease.

  This one is the one I remembered offhand, with a high pommel and cantle (turns out it’s not Cherokee): collections.gilcrease.org/object/84987

  Here’s one that used antler for the pommel and cantle, which I thought was neat: collections.gilcrease.org/object/84984

  This one actually has stirrups, looks like the girth attachments are more sophicated than my Dunning-Kruger ass imagined, but the stirrup leathers are, in fact, looped over each of the wooden bars: collections.gilcrease.org/object/84985

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Earliest 'true' saddle in east Asia discovered⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wondered what the heck a “true” saddle was supposed to be, but it looks like they roughly defined it as a treed (wooden frame) saddle with stirrups attached. I can’t seem to parse whether the tree came before the stirrup – it’s implied but not stated – but it looks like a single mounting stirrup was invented before paired riding stirrups. I’ve seen a Native American (Cherokee? IIRC dated about Removal Time) saddle that was basically just a tree, presumably used with blankets above and beneath for comfort, without any indication of rings for girth or stirrup attachment, but that doesn’t rule out looping them through the gap between the tree bars (where the spine floats underneath). It was/is a trend within the last decade or so to use an untreed saddle for more “natural” horsemanship (whatever that means), and I’m sitting here wondering what that means for stirrup attachment. Layered on top of the girth, I hope, for stability. Gonna go fall down the google-hole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Winter migration from windowsill to countertop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Crisis averted, my dude pulled the other cat bed out of the hall closet. But why was it in the hall closet?

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should We Stop Visiting Historic Sites?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  IIRC they built a replica for Lescaux Caves to protect the real one from tourists and their lung humidity. May not be a viable solution in all cases, but maybe enough of them? Also too I want immersion in recreated scenes of plausible daily life. Also I wanna touch the things, that’s part of immersion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Box of donated artifacts turns out to be treasure trove of Neanderthal bones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Wtf, someone just had a bunch of bones in their attic or something? Like, arguably human bones?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ohio's Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks now a UNESCO World Heritage site⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the few reasons I would want to visit Ohio