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  I was on AliExpress yesterday (bad move), and have an email this morning to say my Majohn flex nib is on the way. I also ordered a Jinhao Century to put it in, since apparently they will fit together. I did manage to make saving throw v shiny regarding the half price Jinhao 20s, though. #FountainPen

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  I have voted even though my polling station has moved and I now have to walk 10 minutes each way instead of 7, the horror... #Election

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  Currently dithering over whether to spend the rest of the afternoon to a) talk some more about #Blakes7 over on my Dreamwidth, where I have posted more often in the last 10 days than in the previous 10 months courtesy of a "talk about Blake's 7" meme; b) mess about with some new #FountainPenInk and then talk about it on DreamWidth; c) work on getting an agent for the finished manuscript; d) finish finding and typing in the handwritten text for the WiP; e) do the laundry...

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  I have finally managed to give money to #eastercon2028 resulting in a low enough membership number that I suspect a good many other people had also not attempted it for a while after several attempts to get the website to cough up with a registration link.

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  Glory be, I went to the Colourmart site to check the details of the last order to put it into Ravelry, and managed not to buy anything while I was there. Having just put the previous order away and seen the size of the stash was a good incentive in this. #AmKnitting

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  RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116375194345663426 In general I'm pro-EU (and I'm very glad they have a presence on Mastodon). But this nonsense... About 99% of the reaction is negative, and multiple people are explaining the difference between generative AI and analytical AI. The techbro confusion between generative and analytical is very, very deliberate, and this shows why. "AI" used to be about analytical models, which are useful and...

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  Anyone know what the model number of the Jinhao with wooden body and black cap is? The thing is *massive* - that's a Jinhao X750 next to it for scale. If I remember correctly it arrived in a pack of second hand pens from eBay several years ago. Rather nice converter which I failed to take a photo of but which looks higher quality than the current bog standard ones. Edit: Joel has identified it as an 8802. #FountainPen

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  Fanfic as resistance panel - so many thinky thoughts that I'm going to have to watch the replay to scribble some of them down. #eastercon2026 #eastercon

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  RE: https://aus.social/@mrandelbot/116358145547294125 This would make a wonderful shawl.

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  About to go. Had a good time in spite of the whining the afternoon it really hit me. The people from the anime con were lovely and definitely fun sharing the hotel with them. Same time next year. #eastercon #eastercon2026

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  We are on the (half hour late) train. I have a cut price bacon roll. And I have a choice of HP or tomato sauce! An abundance of riches.

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  Still chugging through adding my pens to a spreadsheet. Platinum Preppy has been added as a single line with the notation "all of them". 😆 Also separate lines for each of the Crystal Preppies, as they don't come with matching ink and are being/will be used largely with Platinum's pigment ink. #FountainPen

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  #PennedPossibilities 980 Have you ever had your work plagiarized or stolen? 4 ISBNs listed in the Anthropic AI class action settlement. There would be a lot more titles if they had to pay on everything they stole, and not just the titles registered with the US Copyright Office.

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  Currently adding lots of pens to a spreadsheet to try and keep track of exactly what I have. Lots. Manymanylots. About 70 so far. Spousal Unit may have a point about "What do you *do* with all those pens?" #FountainPen

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  I have decided that I really really like Jinhao 20 pens, which is a good thing because I now have several of them after a binge in the shop that is selling some of the basic colours at half price. I also have the Majohn disassembly tool, which I will use this weekend to practice on the nib unit that had An Unfortunate Accident when I was about to put the converter with its first fill in. I should probably have bought a spare nib while I was buying the tool, because I couple of places have them...

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  Last weekend's pen tat from AliExpress included the Majohn A1 pen disassembly tool. I have now disassembled the Jinhao 20 nib unit involved in The Unfortunate Incident when I tried to fill it for the first time (nib down on a tiled floor). I know a) it works on a Jinhao nib unit, b) more about the internal anatomy of a Jinhao 10/20 nib unit, c) if that one wasn't already toast it is now. Good thing I effectively got a 20 for free in last week's batch because the silly bu...

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  It's designed for 18mm tubes so does a nice job of holding the 5ml sample vials ink samples usually come in. The interesting thing is that it has a perforated silicone membrane in the lower half, which grips the tube to hold it steady. So steady that I was able to turn the rack upside down and the two test tubes I'd put in it didn't fall out. :-) Granted, they were empty, but I don't think the weight of ink would be enough to pull them loose. It's a solid...