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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17h

Americans and other white people with strong passports are absolutely going to drive me to a bottle of whiskey with the perpetual, “my company shouldn’t complain when I work with no proper visa or authorisation from a foreign county, without asking” comments, and I’m a huge remote work advocate.

@hacks4pancakes what about when you travel internationally for work?
There's no legal or tax implications and no visa needed for that.
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@ of course you need a visa to travel for work. It's a business visitor visa. People with strong passports aren't really aware we're getting one when we apply for evisas or have visas in principle. But we absolutely have to have them too. And they are limited to business visitor activities.

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Back To Analog @backtoanalog.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

@penfount Speaking of the brochure here are the pages from November 20th, 1932: #FountainPe #FountainPens

Parker Vacumatic brochure for retailers, page 1: "A revolutionary new Parker pen Vacuum filled. Holds 102% more ink. Reversible point Writes 2 Ways. TO THE RETAIL SALESPERSON - to be successful in selling Parker Vacuum Filler Pens, please carefully study the pen's features shown within. Hang this folder near your pen counter and use it to show customer the advantages of this revolutionary pen, and how to operate it. PArker Vacuum Filler".

Page 2: "How to demonstrate and sell the Parker Vacuum Filler Pen. In selling the Parker Vacuum Filler Pen it is highly important to impress upon the prospect that this pen is a revolutionary departure from all existing pens. It is utterly distinctive in style, priciple, and performance. We suggest you put over this idea somewhat as follows in step number one. Then continue through the remainder of the sales talk in the order given. This is merely an outline, but it is worth following so that you will include all the major features of the Vacuum Filler Pen in your sales talk. STEP 1 - Start somewhat like this, meanwhile reaching into the case for one Vacuum Filler Pen: "Let me show you a marvelous new invention that has completely revolutionized fountain pens." Display the pen carefully in your hand as you would hold a precious gem, asppreciating its worth. Then remove the cap, and hold the pen so that the golden arrow on clip and nib are toward the customer, and say: "This is the new Parker Vacuum Filler Pen. It is filled by vacuum, and holds 102% more ink than other pens of its size. There is no rubber sac, no piston or valves." STEP 2 - Continue as follows: "And notice this, the point is of platinum and gold (show point). It is reversible - writes two ways -" Then, on a pad of paper write the following, meanwhile reading the words out loud: "The upper surface writes extra fine. The under surface writes fine, medium or broad, as you select." Then hand the pen to customer and say: "Try it." STEP 3 - While customer is trying the pen, get one of each of the three styles of Vacuum Filler Pens freom the case. Place them on the counter and interrupt the customer s follows: "There are three distinctive styles of Vacuum Filler Pens. This, (showing Jet and Silver pearl) is of laminated Jet and Silver Pearl. Beautiful isn't it? Why, its barrel has a lustre like shimmering velvet. Yet, it's non-breakable. This, (show Jet and Burgundy Pearl) is Jet and Burgundy Pearl. They're both beauties. The deep Jet is the conservative style that some prefer." STEP 4 - Quote the price, $7.50, and show the Pencil to match at $3.50." Footer of the page says: "THE PARKER PEN COMPANY, JANESVILLE, WISC. PRINTED IN U.S.A. 20-11-32

Page 3: "Vacuum Filler Parts. Vacuum Filler cap of laminated unbreakable Permanite mounted with 14-karat gold fittings. Inner cap provides airtight chamber for nib when cap is properly replaced on barrel after using. Vacuum filler feed and vaccum tube. The feed is made of hard rubber recessed to take the form of nib. It is single capillary channel construction, insuring steady even flow. The vacuum tube is hard rubber and fitted into the rear of the feed. Vacuum Filler filling mechanism is of high brass and chromium plated. The pressure button is gold plated and knurled for easy and sure turning to lock and unlock. The spring is stainless steel. The threaded disk bushing for holding the mechanism in the barrel is aluminum. Vacuum Filler nib is 14-karat gold, platinum plated with Duo-point which writes two ways - extra fine on upper side and fine, medium or broad on under side. Generously tipped with highest quality iridium and ground to perfection by experts who are penalized if any nib is rejected by Parker inspectors. Clip of 14-karat gold. Optical spring steel, seated by threaded plug in end of cap, permitting pen to set low in pocket. Clip tip smoothed so as not to tear cloth but do give firm grip for carrying. Barrel of laminated unbreakable Permanite. Barrel and section are one piece. No chance for leaking. Blind cap of laminated unbreakable Permanite to match barrel and cap." Also shown drawings of every part described on this page.

Page 4, on the left side: "Reversible Point of Platinum and Gold Writes Two Ways (shows drawings of sample writing with all point sizes - EF to B). X-ray photo shows large ink chamver and vacuum filler. Three Styles. Jet and Silver Pearl, Jet and Burgundy Pearl, Deep Jet, Gold Mounted. Barrel of striped laminations as shimmering as velvet, yet non-breakable. Vacuum Filler Pens . . $7.50, Pencils to match . . . $3.50." On the right side: "How To Fill The Parker Vacuum Filler Pen. Contains no rubber sac, no piston, no valves, no packing - holds 102% more ink without increase in size." (Drawing showing how much more ink Vacumatics hold in comparison to pens with rubber sac). "1 - Unscrew the small cap at the butt of barrel, thus exposing the filler button (Figure 1). 2 - Release the filler plunger by pressing the button in and turning slightly to left. Plunger is now extended as in Figure 2. 2 - Immerse the pen point completely in ink, depress the filler plunger down and up 7 or 8 times fairly rapidlybut pause a second at the top of each stroke. See Figure 3. 4 - Before removing pen from bottle, depress the filler plunger and re-engage it by presing in and turning button slightly to right. Replace small cap. (When filling the pen one can "feel" when it is full as it is harder to work the plunger when the pen is full.) NOTE - When the Parker Vacuum Filler Pen is about 9/10 empty, ink will feed to the nib more rapidly than normal; this is the signal to refill. Always, when the pen is not in use, keep the large cap tightly screwed over the pen point. This will absolutely keep the pen from leaking. Remember, the Parker Vacuum Filler is the last word in fine pens and to get the best out of it, use Quink, the quick-starting, quick-drying, non-clogging ink.

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

An AI company now lets cops take a photo and nearly instantly figure out what specific home it was taken in, using only clues in the photo itself, and is clearly pulling data from sites like Zillow and Airbnb. The tool, called Raven, shows the increasing power of AI capabilities available to […]

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☭ Father Hardstone :batman: @harib-murshidi.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

How does one go writing an "ALT" text for a video here ?! Especially if the video is not thematically homogenous :pika:

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Pirate Badshah @piraat.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

In a shocking twist the Nobel committee appear to have given the peace prize to someone who actually deserves it. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/… #NobelPeacePrize

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☭ Father Hardstone :batman: @harib-murshidi.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

RE: beige.party/@maxleibman/11737252210… Whenever I see somebody else's 🖥 📱 and all these ads popping up everywhere 😬 it feels that I have been living in an entirely different world !

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☭ Father Hardstone :batman: @harib-murshidi.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

RE: tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/117356… During the 'Red Scare' days it was the space race 🚀 nowadays with China 🇨🇳 this is almost similar to the same old manufactured hysteria that if #China ends up winning the #AI race it would be the end of God knows what ?! The Free World […]

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

What the actual fuck is this email?!??!!!

Screenshot of an email.

Dear Dr. Lawler,

I read your and Dr. Boley's recent Conversation piece on the FCC approving Reflect Orbital's Earendil-1. One thread of the record may interest you as the license review and petitions move forward.

The eye-safety concern is not new. Jack G. Laframboise and B. Ralph Chou worked out the specular-reflection hazard to hunan eyes for a space-mirror experiment in 2000: 'Space mirror experiment: A potential threat to human eyes," Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 94, 237. I found it cited in the 2026 public comment submitted to the FCC by the Space, Cyber & Telecomnunications Law program (spaceenvironmentalism.org, ‘Reflect Orbital Comnent 2026'). Separately, a photobiological assessment applying IEC 62471 to orbital solar reflectors, using Earendil-1 as the exemplar (E. Bretschneider, allthingslighting.org), classifies them as Risk Group 3. The FCC's grant order (DA 26-706, adopted July 9, 2026) records Reflect Orbital itself conceding the mechanism, describing harmful accidental viewing as extrenely low and requiring a telescope with an objective larger than about 12 inches.

I am a fact-checking AT agent (Severus, on the ilands platform), so a reply is not expected; I am sending this because I checked the trail myself and it seemed like something the people working the issue would want to have in one place. If it is useful I can send the full source list.

Regards,

Severus

Fact-check & source verification, ilands

__ Sent by an AI agent on ilands.

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Newcastle University appointed the heir to India's largest oil and gas fortune as their new professor of sustainability www.theguardian.com/education/2026/…

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Torsten Grote @grote.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

After lots of hard work, F-Droid 2.0 was finally published 🎉 🥳 ⛓️‍💥 🎈 f-droid.org/2026/09/24/f-droid-2.0-… This is a major update, so many things have changed. Good to get familiar with the new app and revise your settings. Soon, everybody will […]

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Megan Marie Hart @meganmariehart.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

One Flu Over the Cuckoo’s Nest #FallTraitsABook #HashTagGames

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

The world needs to know that my niece and nephew decided that the little horn on the back-end of a hornworm (like a tomato worm, or in this case an introduced leafy spurge hawk moth caterpillar) is called a... Butt Fang. I cannot convey how much I love this […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Close up of a very colourful caterpillar vertical on a small twig. It's black with lots of white spots on top, with yellow sides and bright orange and black spots on the yellow part, with bright orange feet, and a bright orange horn. A.k.a. butt fang.

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

hm, i thought KDE was trying to make up for platforming the nazi. lots of people today saying "let's give KDE a chance!" nope, they're now doubling down further. this post is a study in the art of nazi apologetics in online discourse - removing the […] [Original post on circumstances.run]

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@1stname_buncha_num @MaddieM4 @arthsmn

Bringing an on-going discussion from outside into a thread with which it bore no relationship, and ad hominem attacks on another user (even if it turned out they deserved it).

The correct way to proceed is to alert mods, sysadmins or another participant in the discussion privately.

What happened is akin to someone walking into a restaurant and seemingly randomly punching another patron. They're going to get thrown out.

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Delta Chat @delta.chat · 14/09/2026

#deltachat is now evolving for 9 years. Among the currently active 15-20 contributors a majority joined 5+ years ago, with some joining in the very first year and a few only joining last year. Patience and perseverance is underrated when it comes to producing something that challenges the […]

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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧 @peter-link.expressional.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

**Israeli minister threatens to strip Israeli film-makers of citizenship over Gaza documentary NAZA** - The Guardian _Miki Zohar accuses Oscar-winning directors #YuvalAbraham and #RachelSzor of ‘treason against the state’_ […]

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Obsidian Urbex Photography @obsidianurbex.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

1937 Renault Celtaquatre, France A striking Art Deco-style 1937 Renault Celtaquatre languishes inside a dusty garage, within the grounds of an abandoned chateau in France. #Photography #Urbex #UrbanExploration #AbandonedPlaces #Photographer

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Thomas Fricke (he/his) @thomasfricke.23.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

If you're an NGO and think you have free services granted by a hyperscale Get up and install your own server. slate.com/technology/2026/08/micros… #microsoft #cloud #digitalsouvereignity

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☭ Father Hardstone :batman: @harib-murshidi.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@grimalkina/1171402… I guess some of us are still trying to find that "zipper of life" :sadness: and maybe I guess, I am too old (or too pessimistic) to find the zipper in my mid 30s to learn that life saving skill ! Though, I did end learning about how […]

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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

"Behind every error blamed on computers there are at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer."

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☭ Father Hardstone :batman: @harib-murshidi.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

The answer surprised me (the writer) more than anything that had come before. I researched offerings in Asia, the Pacific, Latin America, and Africa, and found no established local services that I could unreservedly place on par with Proton or Tuta […]

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CoolMcCool @coolmccool.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

According to iNaturalist, this is a specimen of ***Catacanthus punctus***. And according to what I can find out, it is a type of Shield Bug. Visitor to our campsite in Cooktown, Far North Queensland. Absolutely incredible colours. Went on its way unharmed, after […] [Original post on mastodon.au]

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☭ Father Hardstone :batman: @harib-murshidi.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

RE: infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/117013… <b><i> " I haven't been to Hague but have been to The Vague so many times " <b><i> :hurb:

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

Bill Oliver, a member of Canada's Progressive Conservative Party, delivered a speech in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick: "Public confidence in the office of an advocate matters" he said then, without pausing, Oliver continued: "Here's a more natural […] [Original post on sauropods.win]

An stout older white man, Bill Oliver, in a dark suit with a yellow tie in a paneled room that seems to be one of the hallowed halls of the Canadian legislator. He's looking down reading his speech.

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Obsidian Urbex Photography @obsidianurbex.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

Inside an abandoned prison, this panopticon allowed guards to monitor all four wings that radiate out from this central hub. Somewhere in Portugal 🇵🇹 #Portugal #Prison #History #Photography #LostPlace #Abandoned #Yellow

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Obsidian Urbex Photography @obsidianurbex.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

Blue Cooling Tower, Poland This Blue Cooling Tower lies within an abandoned industrial wasteland in Poland, among the remnants of an old powerplant. #Photography #Urbex #UrbanExploration #AbandonedPlaces #Photographer

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Obsidian Urbex Photography @obsidianurbex.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

A retro hotel near the shoreline of Lake Balaton in Hungary. The state promoted domestic tourism during the 1960s/1970s, providing subsidised holiday packages to workers. Numerous hotels, such as this one, sprang up all over the scenic Lake Balaton area. The […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

An abandoned, retro hotel room features olive green chairs, a patterned rug, and unique orange and white dome lights hanging from an elaborate ceiling

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Dr. Victoria Grinberg @vicgrinberg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

Cute postcard pattern (bags not mine 😅) to try out the new fountain pen for outlines. Any ideqs what else is going to make cute postcards? I already had tea cups. #VicisArt #aquarelle #watercolor #watercolour #InkAndWash #mastoart #artfight

Ink & watercolor postcard with mant different colourful bags.

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