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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

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[–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Dear Mr Encyclopedia, when were raspberries discovered? Wasn't Avalon "the isle of apples?" When did Christian bibles start describing the forbidden fruit as "apples?" Were they not red apples?

What color did they call ripe ribe avu-crispa (a gooseberry)?