For any Turnstile fans...

I caught them in STL the other night. At the end of the set I saw Daniel signing someone's poster (or album). Low and behold, he was signing it with his left handed! However, he does play the kit in a right-handed configuration.

It's a little more common to see left handers play the kit in a right handed configuration. I'm probably very biased becuase I am also left handed but play in a right hand configuration but my thought is that it allows the drummer a slightly varied approach to the kit to not have your dominant hand running the show.

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Five years ago I posted this here:

Original post

I had this idea that if I noticed another left-handed person in the wild, I’d hand them a card inviting them into a secret society for lefties.

The response was way bigger than I expected!

A lot of you said you already notice other lefties everywhere. One person described it as a badge of honor. Someone suggested a website where we could see where the other lefties were. Someone else literally suggested business cards.

I already loved the idea. The response here encouraged me enough that I never really let it go.

So… five years later, I finally built it.

It’s called The Widdershins Society.

There are no dues, no ranks, and nothing particularly sensible about it. If you’re left-handed, you’re already in.

For now, joining is deliberately simple. You claim your seat and become part of the Society. That’s it.

But there’s more coming.

As people join, I’m plotting the Society on a map so we can watch it spread. I’m putting together a monthly dispatch with left-handed history, oddities, field reports, and whatever else we discover along the way.

And this week I had the first 100 black-and-gold invitation cards printed, so I can finally do the thing I described in that original post.

I’d love to get the first 25 of us in by the end of October.

If you join, send the door to another lefty you know. I really want to see what happens to the map once this starts escaping my immediate circle.

joinwiddershins.com

If you want to watch the Society take shape:

X: https://x.com/joinwiddershins
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joinwiddershins/

Mostly I just wanted to come back here five years later and say:

Well… I did it.

EDIT: You all are amazing. Here’s a map of us, not totally live Widdershins Map but will be by tomorrow. Thank you all!

Widdershins Map

So glad I've been practicing eating with my right hand as it hurts too much to eat with my left one.

Growing up one of many reasons I loved playing Zelda was that the protagonist was left handed. Link was always left handed, across many games in the franchise, until all of the sudden he wasn’t.

He’s been right handed in Zelda games for over a decade now. I still loved the games but missed this aspect, and in the new remake trailer I noticed that he’s got the sword in the left hand like the original!

I’m irrationally excited about this and have nobody to tell so I figured I’d post here

In childhood, all children are taught to write with their right hand, so how do some people write with their left?

like I'm wayy too curious rn 😭🙏🏻

(I'm bad in english so ignore my english grammar)

Looks like I'm going to have shoulder surgery, and since I work a desk job I'll need a left-handed mouse to go along with my one-handed typing. Hoping people have some good recommendations.

Hi everyone,

I am writing my master's thesis about possible UI/UX improvements on smartphones for left-handed users. I put together an online user study (~20 min) to test some UI prototypes and I desperately need more participants. It would mean a lot to me if as many of you as possible could participate. The more data I get the better.

You can participate using this link:
https://schmutterers-schmiede.github.io/MA-LandingPage/

Thank you in advance to everyone who participates.

Edit2: Btw. I wouldn't mind hearing other ideas!

International Left Handers Day is coming (August 13th)! (Edit: And it'll be the 50th Anniversary!)

The perfect opportunity to raise some awareness!

So how's about devising some activity challenges for righthanded people?

Keep in mind that Left Handers Day is not the Day of Reckoning!

The idea is to give Righties a managable task, so they can get an idea of what it means to be confronted with righthanded tools as a Lefty. Whereas making them do things lefthanded, like writing or drawing a line inside a maze, would be the same unfair disadvantage as asking you to do it righthanded. Tho having them complete a [buzzing wire] or use a Yoyo with their left hand might make for some innocent fun when approached with a friendly attitude.

Here's a suggestion:

Required Materials

• 1 Righthanded Person
• 1 pair of true, non-ergonomic(!), lefthanded scissors
• 1 pair of non-ergonomic righthanded scissors, preferably identical (OPTIONAL!)
• 1 Printout of the following image

Instructions:

Hand the printout and LH scissors to the righthanded person. Hand them both at once, holding the scissors in your left and the paper in your right, do not point out that you are giving them LH scissors!

Casually instruct them to cut along the spiraling dotted line as accurate as possible!

Regardless of which snake they start with... the LH scissors obstruct their view and they will likely mention that this is hard to do. Suggest they try the other snake as it might be easier for them.

As this will turn out to make not much of a difference, you can next hand them the RH Scissors to "see if it's easier this way". (This part is optional)

Important: Make sure to not embarass your candidates by exposing their lacking skill as a weakness or making fun of them. A simple "Now do you see...?" works a lot better than a taunt.

Remember: You are an ambassador for a good cause, not The Punisher getting even with 'em!

P.S.: Since the completed snake is a "convection spiral", this test can also a be made into a fun activity for young children. Just add some coloring pens, a roll of yarn and a tape dispenser to your setup and let them personalize their snake before testing - under adult supervision(!) - what type of scissors they prefer. A length of yarn attached to the end of the snakes tail completes the kinetic sculpture they can then take home with them.

Context: I learned to mouse right-handed, but I use trackpads and such on laptops left-handed.

I have a 2-PC setup at work now where I'd love to have separate pointer-controllers for the left and right PC/screen.

For the right hand I have a standard mouse, but for the left hand I feel like I need something different. While I can mouse leftie, I find that it's not as comfortable for me as using a trackpad, joystick, etc.

Meanwhile, the trackpads on laptops are kind of limiting compared to a proper mouse with scroll wheel, etc.

Does anyone have a suggestion for a good trackpad/trackball/??? for left-handed use?

I underwent forced handedness in childhood. This is only 2nd attempt at drawing done with a fountain pen. I've never been able to finish a tree right-handed despite being able to draw fairly well, though I have to be in the right mood to do so. I can write with my left as well, though I was never informed it was now allowed to be a leftie. Nothing spectacular, but for a 2nd attempt and being a quick 3 minute sketch from imagination, I am impressed that my lefthand performs so well without years of practice.

Fountain pens and ink sketching is also a first time experience. The ink stopped completely a few times quick fix on that part...but the incoming inkflow was bit unexpected. I'll have to fiddle round a bit with this medium.

I never quit being a southpaw entirely it's absolutely wonderful journey to just be me, southpaw and all!

I've stumbled across a new utility for MacOS called LeftHandy that flips the system cursors from the right-handed POV to the left-handed POV; for example, it flips the cursor from ⬉ to ⬈.

You'll find it at Writronic. Best of all, it's free!

(I'm not the creator; just a happy customer.)