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Just want to clarify, I get that these tariffs aren't made in an economically an socially sound way or even half-way thought through. It's just the part where people think not being able to buy a 700 USD fountain pen without added tax or customs is going to kill the hobby that seems a bit odd.
Seeing US people panic over the Trump tariffs feels a bit weird to be honest. Like, there's plenty of more objectionable politics coming from your neo fascist overbuttface. But once postal services & sellers have figured out how to handle the tariffs, it will just be more like what we have here? 3/3
If it's above 150 EUR, the seller doesn't need to collect the tax. It'll be added at border/by courier service together with the duty fees that are also due beyond that threshold. Duty fees also differ according to different product groups. 2/3
In Germany we don't even have a de minimis. If it's 150 or less Euro in value, you ONLY pay import tax (7 or 19 % depending on type of product). Sellers are obligated to collect the tax themselves if they want to export to EU. 1/3
A quick Reddit search will show you more but main points of criticism are that they rebrand cheap Chinese pens to sell them at ridiculously high prices and use of AI "art".
You might like to try Kobeha Graphilo paper, too. It is kind of expensive but it's excellent for fountain pen. Decent dry times, crisp lines, great colour rendition, and it shows off sheen and shading very well. It's just a little bit textured.
Apica seems to have some problems with consistency of quality. The one notebook I got from them (CD Premium) had massive issues with bleed-through. Yurisari paper is very nice (and affordable!) although I have seen people complain about qc as well.
Ah, of course. Thank you! Didn't click for some reason. Thanks for the list, too!
What does J6 mean?
The swatch card is Jaquere paper by Wearingeul, the notebook is 68gsm TRP Sanzen. I got a bottle because it's a great neutral colour for my ochre/yellow-coded Thursday journal entries.
Do you want to see my swatches and writing samples of it?
They're a shitty company in other ways, too. Supporting JKR is kind of the dot on the i.
Massive price hike. The previous Dried Flower set was 230 € a pen, if I'm not mistaken.
I was the same the first time I did that. It gets easier with every spider that you gently escort outside like that.
Anyone else fascinated by the developments on wplace? They illustrate so clearly what fascists are all about and what destruction they wield on society. Not like there's a lack of real-world examples, I know, but this one is so clear and easy to see.
A lot of younger people seem to feel the same way about any style of cursive these days.
Aren't birds basically dinosaurs?
Sailor Yukiusagi might also work. It's a blueish grey that shades warm green. Very pretty. FWP Storied Blue is a Celadon Cat lookalike that is just slightly more blue-leaning, giving it a cleaner look.
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Wow. A group of top scholars at Harvard just sent a letter to its president, Alan Garber, warning against surrendering to Trump. Signatories include Steven Levitsky, Dani Rodrik, Ryan Enos, Theda Skocpol, and Steven Walt. Someone forwarded it to me. Read it here:
That sounds as if they might claim they shipped the pen.
Lamy pens and accessories are the absolute worst to clean. I don't get how they make it so that the ink gets stuck in places where you never can fully remove it. In all three, cartridge, converter, and pen itself. None of the other brands I use have this problem.
Right?
I believe the allistics talk to other people. 😅
I thought I had more to say but my thoughts feel half-baked so I'll leave it at this for now.
So, AI in the workplace. We're supposed to start using it, let it do the rough work, then control and fine-tune. But studies show that our brains stop working well when we use it, so how is this control supposed to happen? 1/x
AI art debate. Has anyone written about how this removes the last shred of scruples, a conscience from the production of "art" that a large numbers of people will consume? The artist "class" used to hold a little power against dictators.
Did it work? :)
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Ich fühl mich ja schon manchmal wie so ein Verschwörungsdödel, aber Palantir oder überhaupt die Überwachtungsmöglichkeiten durch neue Technologien machen mir wirklich Angst. www.change.org/p/verbot-der...
You should be able to take your dad to an autism assessment for Father’s Day. A bit like how you’d treat your mother to a full body massage, or an afternoon tea
Thanks for explaining! I seem to remember that there has also been a study or something that showed that false self-diagnosis is very rare, and that most people who self-diagnose as autistic actually are autistic. But I can't vouch for how reliable the info was, I don't have a link either.
I'd turn to Reddit for that: r/fountainpens will answer her questions, and r/Pen_Swap is good for selling, buying, trading fountain pens.
Yes, and very judgemental about traits that they have worked hard on suppressing themselves. Being late diagnosed, I see this in myself and have to actively work on changing my own reactions.
I hate that I need so much more time and effort for everything, too. Wouldn't be so bad if there was less pressure to perform, compete, etc.
Mine stopped happening after a certain age when pressure/demand was too high. What sometimes works for me now is reading the text I'm working on out loud in funny voices, or if the task is less text-based, voice-stimming along with music. Good luck!
Thank you. I am not sure I am reading you correctly now. You said you were leaning toward feeling off about #actuallyautistic and that you think I agree, but I kind of was defending #actuallyautistic. Am I not getting something? 😅
I get that it can be hard looking at autistic people who seem to fare better than oneself. Like many younger autistics I see are able to do things I cannot or can't anymore. They are still autistic.
Very few, if any NT want to be autistic. If someone is mistaken in their self dx, it's not like they are taking away any ressources from anyone. At best it helps them on their way of figuring themselves out.
It's a bad take. You are strengthening predominantly neurotypical voices, that try to ridicule autistic self-advocates through this narrative. Just really not helpful in times of a rising fascism that is already targeting us.
Can you please not? Plenty of people are autistic and not fascists.
One of the dangers in German politics right now is seemingly how many in the center right are actively enthusiastic about the idea of imposing a border regime that is illegal and defies the judiciary, specificially because it is enacting a migration plan that defies the law and the judiciary.
Bei dieser Petition können cis-Frauen ein starkes Zeichen gegen Hass und Hetze unter dem Deckmantel des Feminismus setzen. #TransRightsAreHumanRights #FightTransphobia #NotInOurName bsky.app/profile/test...
Das ist das eine, das andere ist, das Menschen den KI generierten Scheiß weiter verbreiten werden. Die meisten Leute denke ja nicht nach. Als Uni-Dozentin korrigiere ich inzwischen Texte, wo tiefste nationalistische Geschichtsnarrative vertreten werden.
*dann
Mag sein, dass gewisse Arten von psychischen Erkrankungen eine Korrelation mit faschistischer Einstellung aufweisen können, aber selbst das sollte den nicht automatisch angenommen werden bei Betroffenen.
So pauschal "krank(haft)" abwertend und stigmatisierend zu nutzen, spielt den Faschisten in die Hände. Psychisch Kranke waren unter den ersten Opfern der NS-Tötungsindustrie.
Cool. Apparently I'm left-eyed, although mostly right-handed. There's only a few odd things that I do like a left-handed person: opening cans, crossing arms, and clapping.
While research data is being deleted off the internet and Wikipedia is under attack.
He looks like his face is melting.
Nah. He's high af. Sincerely, an autistic person.
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Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"
A Japanese study found paper-calendar users lit up memory-related brain regions and recalled details 25% faster than phone-calendar users. "notebook aided acquisition of rich encoding and/or spatial information, [was used] as retrieval clues, led to higher activations in specific brain regions."
I sent myself down a rabbit hole there. Check out SomedaySomeplace on Etsy for more cute Japanese letter paper.
You might have to look online but Midori from Japan makes very pretty letter paper sets. They are often small format (A6) though, a few are A5. I have never seen an A4 size set from them.
As per this Financial Times article, it's a global trend with the sharpest divide in South Korea (among the countries that data was collected from). www.ft.com/content/29fd...
Kaküno is my favourite fountain pen until much higher price segment starts. Especially the fine nib.
There are excellent inexpensive fountain pens. Platinum Preppy is around 5 €, Pilot Kaküno around 12 - 19, depending on style.
How they look depends a little on the paper used and the pen. On Tomoe River paper both inks look teal-ish in swatches - but not in writing. They look warmer on Jaquere swatch cards. Also, they are VERY similar. I'm not entirely convinced they are different inks at all.
Yes but also, it's not just art. I like organizing my thoughts and tasks myself, too.
I'm not a luddite, I'm not anti technology, I'm pro worker, pro nature, pro art. I want the process, I want to get to the end of something and feel accomplishment. That's what being human is.
You put it so well.
Diamine Evergreen is inexpensive and lovely. Sailor Rikyu-cha or Shirakashi are interesting dark brown-green shading inks.
I agree, it might look nice. Not be as resellable if that matters at all. I don't have any other reason to not buy it that hasn't been mentioned yet. 😅
The wood will stain easily. Ink would soak into it and might not even be removable by sanding.
"I sometimes miss the scent of spring flowers on a breeze in May", one billionaire survivor said to the other.
Wird sie vielleicht bedroht?
Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
Bei der Tagesschau reden sie sich und uns ein, dass man gar nicht so genau sagen könnte, ob sich das Ausgrenzen der AfD lohnt. Die Wissenschaft hat hier eine klare Antwort: www.volksverpetzer.de/analyse/fors...
Timeline: How Trump is roiling science and health | STAT
On a positive note, ads that are a complete miss indicate that you did a good job on the privacy front and remain a mystery to the algorithms.
Wow. That's impressive.
I still feel that in completely uncapped pens, the dry-out time would depend on the ink rather than the pen. But I might be wrong. If you like easy slip-on caps, the Pilot Prera cap is really nice. It slides on very smoothly, then a little increased resistance and a small, satisfying click.
The lightly capping probably makes a difference. I've noticed the Capless drying up quickly when not clicked shut, too, lately.
I think you'd rather be testing the ink this way. The only thing keeping the nib from drying up is the cap seal. Have you tried the Pilot Capless/Vanishing Point or any of its clones?
YAAYYYYSSS PUT IT IN MY VEINS. This kind scrappy, get it done, spit in the eyes of those who would destroy us grassroots collaboration is one of the BEST parts of humanity. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN DELETE" Indeed. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Und was ist der anschwellende Gesang in der CDU gegen NGOs und mithin gegen die Zivilgesellschaft als Ganzes wenn nicht 1 immer lauter werdende Diskreditierung, die letztlich in gesetzlichen Maßnahmen enden wird. Praktiziert wird es ja schon im grauen Machtraum von Polizei und Staatanswaltschaften.
Das Verwaltungsgericht Wiesbaden hat die Suspendierung eines Polizisten, der im rechtsextremen WhatsApp-Chat „Itiotentreff” aktiv war, aufgehoben. Das Gericht konnte eine verfassungsfeindliche Gesinnung des Polizisten „nicht mit hinreichender Wahrscheinlichkeit feststellen”. https://bit.ly/4jE62mM
I can't anymore with the fucking cruelty
Yes, that's what autistic means /s.
I think they are completely cut off from any reliable sources of information. They live in a parallel world where the spins and propaganda we think are ridiculous are authoritative.
Fascism is not a simple product of bad people making bad choices; it takes root and grows in the soil of social, economic, and political abandonment. ericreinhart.substack.com/p/resistance...
The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.
I'm not the love of anybody's life. A lot of autistic (and allistic) people aren't. This is a bullshit criterion.
Ja, auch wenn es Mut erfordert. Giving in to bullies only encourages them.
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943
Please repeat over and over: “Bending to the whims of a bully will not end his cruelty. It will only embolden him. The response to authoritarianism isn’t acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face.” —Gov. JB Pritzker
I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case but I think they have another reason to not bring him back and that is it would make them look weak. They want to show that they don't care if it's legal or not, that they will do as they please. That's what the deluded MAGA cult wants, them to do, too.
Zur Erinnerung: Palantir ist die Firma des durchgeknallten Peter Thiel, dem die neue Bundesregierung die Daten der deutschen Polizeibehörden übergeben will.
You are right. He's horrible.
We are not an epidemic. variety.com/2025/tv/colu...
Colin Killick, executive director of the Autism Self Advocacy Network, joins ABC News Live to discuss how HHS Secretary RFK Jr.’s comments about autistic people impact the community. abcnews.go.com/US/video/aut...
Please don't promote ABA. neuroclastic.com/is-aba-reall...
Temple Grandin sadly has some highly problematic (eugenicist) views.
Please don't promote ABA. It's conversion therapy for autistic people invented by the same person that came up with gay conversion therapy.
ASAN’s Executive Director Colin Killick went on ABC News Live today to discuss how RFK Jr.’s comments about autism impact the autistic community. abcnews.go.com/US/video/aut...
Irgendwie kam mir The Handmaid's Tale immer wie eine eher unwahrscheinliche Dystopie vor. Hab mich geirrt.
Project 2025 ist ein transatlantisches Unterfangen.
Psychisch Kranke gehörten zu den ersten Opfern des NS. Und eugenisches Gedankengut ist bei Thiel und Yarvin stark implementiert. 2/2