I've started a Fountain Pen Companion profile: http://www.fpc.ink/users/100495 #fountainpenfun #inkycountdown #fountainpencollection

Okay, #fountainpen folks... I'm curious about the #fountainpenink that you are using... Do you tend to just stick with one brand of ink? Or do you use a range of different brands? How many brands of #ink do you currently have in your collection? How do you go about selecting the inks that you […]

Okay, every day is a new adventure: welcome GNU Tatermark 13.3 -- a single source file text editor. It compiles to only 71K! And yes, the prompts at the bottom are in Russian...

Question for @Waterfox users... What is the 'waterfox-g' binary? This binary is being installed on my distribution alongside the standard waterfox binary... Is this the gecko based version, aka Waterfox Classic? I'm just curious. #waterfox #gecko #webbroswer

The White House announces that the Epstein files will be renamed the Trump Epstein files.

I've been on a bit of a run re-downloading a bunch of #music from my Bandcamp collection...some of which I haven't heard in a decade. Two of the #artists that I've been listening to really deserve to have a wider audience than they currently do. If you are into #electronicmusic, #ambientmusic […]

Just roflmao... https://toot.exchange/@nico/115737868246510869

I joined #GotoSocial at the beginning of this year. I don't think I've made over a 1000 posts in under a year before (well, at least not without doing a live-sync of pre-written posts). This just goes to show: the right front end (in this case the amazing […] [Original post on gotosocial.social]

> “I think what’s actually needed now is a technology company that people can trust,” Enzor-DeMeo says. “What I’ve seen with AI is an erosion of trust.” Then **why the f%$@** : > But there’s still an AI Mode coming to Firefox next year, which Enzor-DeMeo says will offer users their choice of […]

Here's the Announcement for the #FediWriMo Journaling January event: The event is schedule is as follows: 🖋️ Dates: Jan 1st - Jan 31st, 2026. 🖋️ Daily #writing prompts will be supplied, but are optional. 🖋️ The goal is to #write a minimum of three pages a […] [Original post on gotosocial.social]

Did you know: you can avoid the need for backups by failing to do anything worth saving a copy of Follow me for more computing lifehacks

Okay, Amazon, I know I've ordered quite a few #fountainpens from you...especially Asvine fountain pens...but really? #fountainpencollection #fountainpensofmastodon

Ahh - the true #spirit of #christmas - #quizmas bots #terrorizing #minecraft players and lots of #death https://youtu.be/sPXJNeLlS9A?si=BCej4mOot3Uo_bM0

@tag-fediverse Why are you boosting posts that are two+ years old?

So, without going into details, I was thinking today about pulling the trigger on a substantial purchase. But, when I went to look up the product, I found that the #price had literally double on it in the last 60-90 days. Now, I don't know if this is just #holiday #pricesurge or #pricegouging […]

Federation isn’t just a feature, it’s how we reject oppression by design. In the EU, Big Centralised Tech is facing fines for selling verification and hiding ads. At Mastodon, we’re building something different: a space where no one buys influence and there […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

#christmas #music #listening may commence now... I suggest listening to Christmas Music that is not the typical drivel you've heard year after year: https://bfwrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-bfw-christmas-album-2014 https://bfwrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-bfw-christmas-album-2013 […]

With the conclusion of the first #fediwrimo (Fediverse Writing Month) competition, I proposed a next competition: Journaling January (#fedijojan). Here is the rough idea for the competition: Make daily entries in a journal for the month of January. The recommended minimum length for each entry […]

So, a few weeks back, I bought a pair of cheap #Parker 51 #Chinese #clone #fountainpens. I had heard / read that the early editions of these pens (I believe they were cartridge / converter fill style) were not well received. But, when they implemented a […] [Original post on gotosocial.social]

Gotta say... I'm torn...very torn… Between using a #fountainpen for my #writing and using my #eink device. The #fountainpen feels like more of a hobby, but is a lot of fun to write with. The #eInk device lets me get down to business, stay more organized, and is more flexible with all the […]

Well, this is a step in the right direction: https://www.theverge.com/news/841222/rsl-licensing-ai-spec-launch #ai #licensingmatters #licensing #scraping #scrapingbots

[US Politics, kinda funny, but kinda not funny] Gotta be honest, this was the last thing that I thought I would see from this addle-brained administration, but here we are... > Then-Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken ordered the 2023 typeface shift on the recommendation of the State […]

So, I thought it would be interesting to post a hand-written note to the FrediVerse-

please just hear me out

So, I opened a kinda large #ebook today...there were 80 pages of front matter before I got to the Preface. Yeah, the #book is over 7,000 pages... Just a bit of light #reading... I'll be done before New Years, right? :nc_laughnvrs:

How can there be a #pens website that doesn't sell #fountainpens?

I do really love this "tweet". https://mastodon.social/@eunews/115677736225951886

There is so much censorship in the EU that 7 of the 8 countries with the most freedom of the press are EU member states. #eupol

So, I thought I was going to #write a couple of pages in my #journal about #writing with a computer vs eInk device vs fountain pen and paper. Yeah, I should have known that wasn't going to be a simple, or short bit of writing. I'm 11 pages in, and I'm not done yet. And I have the feeling there […]

I posted this over on the FediWriMo community about a week ago... I am wondering if there would be people interested in doing a #journal #writing "competition" in January? The idea is: 31 days, write 2–3 pages per day. The idea isn't like the FediNoWriMo, where the goal is to only reach the […]

So, I set myself a goal to write a page-a-day using my #fountainpen in my #journal by the end of the year: 61 pages in 61 days. It was a modest goal, just to see if I could get used to writing with a fountain pen on a daily basis.... I think I've […] [Original post on gotosocial.social]

If you haven't heard this...you're welcome. If you have heard this...you're welcome. https://youtu.be/drSoBNL8seY?si=Ah7lV7_cLkEhXM1N #mintfantome #singing #christmassong #christmasplaylist

@nanowrimo2 Test to see what happens to this message.

So, an interesting discovery... I've had to deal with a lot of forms over the past few years that didn't allow eSigning. Meaning, I would have to print out the form, sign it, and then scan it back in before I could send it wherever it needed to go. But, my #boox #noteair3c has provided me with […]

From: "Mastodon creator shares what went wrong with Threads and ponders the future of the fediverse" https://coywolf.com/news/social-media/mastodon-creator-shares-what-went-wrong-with-threads-and-ponders-the-future-of-the-fediverse/ @Gargron : "People no longer want to rely on US tech companies […]

Rocket gets it. #coffee #cat #cats #catstodon #catsofmastodon #humor #humour

Good morning

I always wince a little when I see graphs and charts on the homepage of some news outlet, but this one was really well done and conveyed a lot of interesting and timely information in very few words. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/24/sp500-stock-market-tech-nvidia/

Oh great - this might start another migration off #x (#twitter) for people that have a need to keep their location private... What a stupid pile of mouse dung Musk truly is... https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/115597447343000301

Was destroying everyone in Halo with abandon as per usual when I really felt like the haptics had kicked up quite a bit. Then I realized it was my watch vibrating from getting about 1000 Signal requests. Yes, distributed denial-of-Signal is a thing. #krebsisveryrevenge

Virginia Giuffre’s probable most violent abuser (Ehud Barack, the “well-known Prime Minister”) will speak at the New York Times DealBook Summit on 12/3/25. Call Andrew Ross Sorkin and/or NYT about this if you agree it should NOT be allowed. Contact Andrew Ross Sorkin […]

#cubyz is showing promise.... #minecraft

Has anyone else had a day where you suddenly realize, literally out of nowhere, that you have a really fucked up family? And worse, there is nothing that you can do about it?

Okay - I just came across a whole new level of bullshit... The "Free to Install" application. You can install it, but you can't use it without paying....

Okay, now that was something I hadn't expected...my #casio #watch (pictured below) decided to go to sleep at midnight.... #watchesofbluesky #casiolineage #casiowatches #casiowatch

So, I just lost $30K. :ab_flushed: :ab_cry:

I think I am going to a dark, dark place right now... Man I hate thinking about dystopias....