Post #3483192

2026-06-29 11:27 UTC

of course making toffs joust today would require leaving the horses out of it, too. Make the humans who think Jesus gave them vast swathes of real estate carry their own pointy sticks.

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@akareilly@hachyderm.io 2026-06-29 11:29

Imagine telling a medieval king that his great-great etc. grandson is charging cart storage rent to the monks who transport the sick and injured to monasteries for treatment, and no one is conspiring to get him dethroned.

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@http_error_418@hachyderm.io 2026-06-29 12:14

@akareilly@hachyderm.io for every million of personal net worth over the first twenty, one joust per year. The lower limit to rise in proportion to the national minimum wage.

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@Hex@kolektiva.social 2026-06-29 13:09

@akareilly@hachyderm.io why not motorcycles?

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@DaveMWilburn@infosec.exchange 2026-06-29 15:47

@akareilly@hachyderm.io There's an opportunity hiding somewhere here to encourage the aristocracy into boarding more leaky yachts, submarines, and rockets.

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@zuthal@floofy.tech 2026-06-29 17:05

@akareilly@hachyderm.io if you want to ride something you could do motorcycle jousting

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@LukefromDC@kolektiva.social 2026-06-29 17:24

@akareilly@hachyderm.io You can joust on bikes today, and this is popular in some areas. I myself used to ride around protests carryng a camera tripod couched under my right arm as though it was a lance. Was a convenent way to carry a long heavy pole.

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@LovesTha@floss.social 2026-06-29 23:35

@akareilly@hachyderm.io I'm plenty happy for them to get to use a modern steed for their jousting. Even a 250cc motor bike is going to increase the lethality more than modern armor will decrease it. And as we are talking about nobles jousting I think the increase in lethality is an upside to this tweak.

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