Are #LeftHanded People Really More #Creative?

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/84560/are-lefties-really-more-creative

OOOOoo One for my fellow lefties The new @corsair.com M75 Wireless Mouse looks pretty sweet for a very reasonable price in both wired/wireless modes. #lefthanded #southpaw

https://amzn.to/3YSPXRM

LEFTY IN A RIGHT HANDED WORLD, when you are forced to change. #Surgery #RotatorCuff #LeftHanded

http://teepee12.com/2025/05/11/lefty-in-a-right-handed-world/

Ich bin ein zwangafter Wuchstabenverbechsler.
Muss irgendwas mit dem #Wetware Chaos bei der Neuverdrahtung durch die äh... bruteforce Umerziehung vom Links- zum Rechtshänder zu tun haben, long time ago. Das geht ganz ohne Überlegen, in Echtzeit 😉
Any way: Meine Lieben überhören es meist, auch mal Augenrollen, ab und an auch ein anerkennendes Lachen.

Mein absoluter Hit derzeit:
SCHNIMTZECKE 😅
Selbstgebacken, superlecker

#Wortspiel #Linkshänder #LeftHanded #HandednessSwitch #Neuroplasticity​

Why are butter and fish knives made with right-handedness?
#lefthanded

@BasicAppleGuy
Is a #lefthanded trackball an option?

@kleavens In France Marion Cachon working on a project about #lefthanded writting. She organize #lefthanded calligraphy workshop. Here an example here, sorry for the french http://la-perruque.org/processes/petition-pour-la-main-gauche-la-gauchere-par-marion-cachon.html

One of my students shared this with me yesterday. A Latin alphabet #calligraphy style developed with Lefties in mind! https://undercase.xyz/custom/a-guide-to-sinistral-hand

Are you a #lefthanded calligrapher? I’d love to hear your thoughts on it.

◀️ I've always been (at least partially) a downright sinister person. Well, not in the modern sense (I hope), but in a much, much older one.

◀️ In everyday usage "sinister" means "that arouses feelings of fear, of horror", "suggesting or threatening harm or evil", "dangerous, lugubrious, criminal", and the first time this word appeared with a similar meaning ("false, dishonest, with ill will") was in the 15th century, in France, being taken from Old French from the 14th century ("contrary, false, unfavorable, on the left side").

💬 "PAROLLES. ... you shall find in the regiment of the Spinii one Captain Spurio, with his cicatrice, an emblem of war, here on his sinister cheek; it was this very sword entrench'd it." — William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well [Act II, Scene I] (1623) 💬

◀️ In the end, it all comes from the Latin word, also called "sinister", which means "left" or "on the left side". How did an adjective that meant "left" come to signify "evil, criminal, dangerous"? According to the Merriam Webster website, most likely the modern meaning evolved due to the predominantly right-handed population (about 10% of the population is left-handed) and probably due to the clumsiness that people have when making movements with the left side of the body.

◀️ Now, the Celts of Antiquity did not see the left as something diabolical, associating the left side with femininity and the fertile womb. But once Christianity gained momentum in Europe, the idea that "left = immorality" was also fixed.

📸 Photo: I reveal my "sinister" self in a session of Dominant Species, a board game whose action takes place at the beginning of the last ice age (in 90,000 BC). Each player represents a "genus" of animal (insects, arachnids, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals) and tries to dominate various "ecological niches", adapting to various types of food. It is a eurogame-wargame-abstract, whose theme, however, is felt in all components and all game mechanics. It is a complex, strategic and extraordinary game.

#sinister #lefthanded #shakespeare #WilliamShakespeare #DominantSpecies #linguistics

@futurebird

Thanks to you and all the commenters sharing stories of their experiences: it’s important to recognize the harm done enforcing right preference in children.

My connection to this is tricky, because I teach violin and viola to youngsters, and consistently get the expected percentage of little lefties in my studio, except that the violin is a remarkably asymmetrical instrument…

#Violin #LeftHanded

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@futurebird Absolutely agree! Forcing left-handed people to conform to right-handed norms is not only outdated but harmful. It stifles individuality, creates unnecessary frustration, and can even hinder learning and development. Embracing diversity in how we use our hands—or any aspect of our identity—leads to happier, healthier, and more capable individuals. Let’s celebrate differences, not erase them.

#LeftHanded #Diversity #Inclusion

EP 202 is ready for your listening enjoyment! https://bit.ly/3CvCjMs
#righthanded #lefthanded #BLE #biglabiaenergy #jingle #doubledeuces #diaper #medical #issues #tomfoolery #factory #Happy #dog #working #valentinesdayshow #crooners #standupcomedy #lovejokes #oldercrowd

Leroy Evans "Chick" Maynard (November 2, 1896 – January 31, 1957) was a #shortstop in #MajorLeagueBaseball who played briefly for the #BostonRedSox during the 1922 season. Listed at 5' 9", 150 lb., Maynard batted #lefthanded and threw #righthanded. A native of #TurnersFallsMassachusetts, he studied at #DartmouthCollege. In a 12-game career, Maynard was a .125 hitter (3-for-24) with one run scored without any #homeRuns. At shortstop.

@Algot I am among the damned, err, left-handed folks who tried and gave up using fountain pens.

I went through a big pen and ink phase in high school - drawings, calligraphy, you name it - but eventually gave up.

The brain is willing, but the hand is covered in ink and the page is a smeared mess. #LeftHanded

@KarinWanderer If Mark Twain wanted us to do #ShrimpSunday, who am i to refuse

#mastoArt #ArtChallenge #CSP #Nature #MarineLife #Shrimp #LeftHanded #LeftHandedArt

Android Handedness

Androids, especially advanced or physically active varieties, have a much higher likelihood of being ambidextrous than human or mutant human characters do. Roll 1d10 on the following table at character generation, however, medical, technician, scientific and military android categories all gain +2 on the following 1d10 roll.



Table XR-51/ Android Handedness, Roll 1d10

1-3. Left Handed

4-9. Right Handed

10+. Ambidextrous

Ink art from page 51 of The Mutant Epoch RPGs Expansion Rules Book.
See a huge art gallery from this book: https://www.outlandarts.com/TME-Expansion-Rules-ArtGallery1.htm

#handed #lefthanded #righthanded #ambidextrous #prosthetic #skeletal #cybernetic #longhair #hairstyle #femalerobot #skeletal #android #selfaware #noaiart #ink #rpg #ttrpg #scifi #mutantepoch #expansionrules #tme #themutantepoch #roleplayinggame #apocalyptic #postapocalyptic #outlandsystem #outlandarts like #gammaworld or #fallout or #mcc or #mutantcrawlclassics #inkart #williammcausland

This was probably one of the most difficult photos I have ever taken... but what a revelation... using a little mirror... makes the pictures in #crochet books make sense to #Lefthanded people... Thank you so much @markroseboom.com for the tip (via Crochet Journey book) 🧶

Dear Logitech—

If you sell a #LeftHanded mouse...

Don't make me have to search through settings to "swap” the mouse buttons! Obviously, the default setting should be that the right mouse button is the primary!

Got a pair of scissors for Christmas from K1. May not seem like anything special, but it is the first time now that I have scissors that are made for left handed people. 😊

K1 hat mir eine Schere zu Weihnachten geschenkt. Mag etwas banal scheinen, doch es ist das erste mal, dass ich eine Schere habe, die für Linkshänder gemacht ist. 😊

#lefthanded #linkshänder

AL.com is doing a caption contest with this image (asking what lyrics Big Al is singing) but all I can think about is whether the artist meant to make him left-handed.

#RollTide #guitars #lefthanded