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Tallastro 🇺🇦 @tallastro.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 22h

#swatchwednesday #ink #fountainpens We ordered 3 inks from Dino-Writes. Swatched on Iroful on the left and Col-o-dex on the right. Kobe Akashi Museum Gold is a dirty yellow that leans greenish on Iroful. I'm looking forward to putting this in a pen. 3Oysters […] [Original post on flipping.rocks]

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Tallastro 🇺🇦 @tallastro.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Found some of these guys by working up from a frass pile. Azalea Caterpillar Moth is much more colorful as a larva with

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Tallastro 🇺🇦 @tallastro.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

#swatchwednesday on Saturday. I'm either late this week or early for next. Two inks from Sailor's Yurameku series, Date Gokoro and Byakuya that are designed to look different with pen or paper. Two images, Colodex on top and Iroful below. Date Gokoro is […] [Original post on flipping.rocks]

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Tallastro 🇺🇦 @tallastro.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

Happy Stationery Shop Day Visited The New Crazy Alan's Emporium @cae today to celebrate and picked up the large mystery box. I have no idea if all the boxes are the same but I got flower stickers, stars, #washi tape, mine tarot, butterfly hole punch, and mini ducks. #stationery

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Tallastro 🇺🇦 @tallastro.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

New pen day. Pilot Volex pocket pen, medium nib stamped H578 that shouldmean May 1978. I wanted this for the reverse falcon shaped nib. It writes well, very wet. #fountainpens

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Tallastro 🇺🇦 @tallastro.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026

Found another ink that varies greatly by paper, Teranishi Guitar Gentle Green. It's blue when wet but dries to green on some papers. Green on Col-o-ring (not pictured), Rhodia, MD, and Endless. Blue on Iroful, Cosmo Air Snow, and Graphilo. I like both colors […] [Original post on flipping.rocks]

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Tallastro 🇺🇦 @tallastro.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2026

Triangle Pen Show haul. Fun show, met friends, talked pens all day. Nahvalur Nautilus Mylandia Blue Notebook Anderillium Tolype Moth Warm Olight Sphere 2 photos to show off the orb. #fountainpens #ink

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Tallastro 🇺🇦 @tallastro.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2026

It's a month old but I want to post this before the next pen club meeting. We did our annual ink swap. We brought 5 inks to share: Birmingham Pens Co Distressed Leather and Lilac Cotton, Plus x Sailor Yumeyoi, Colorverse Redshift, and Diamine Forever Cherry […] [Original post on flipping.rocks]

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Tallastro 🇺🇦 @tallastro.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2026

Did something I said I wouldn't do. I own a pen with a sac filling system. Found this in a random antique shop and it looked cute. Some cleaning and a new sac, it's back in business. Conklin gold filled ring top crescent filler, from 1920s, probably. Photos […] [Original post on flipping.rocks]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2026

Reflect Orbital wants to destroy the night sky to deliver "sunlight as a service". SpaceX wants to destroy Low Earth Orbit to launch one million "AI datacentres" The only way to formally protest these two ideas is to file a comment with the US FCC, which is horribly complicated, but the […]

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Flipboard Science Desk @sciencedesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/01/2026

Ugh, everything is falling apart and now apparently we don't tie our shoelaces correctly? Here's a story from @Gizmodo about the Berlutti knot and Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot, which are apparently far less likely to come undone than conventional ones. flip.it/7s.69f #Science […]

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Tallastro 🇺🇦 @tallastro.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 29/12/2025

Gifted a couple of lovely pens. They're almost both wooden. A Lamy Accent, ef nib, and inked with Sailor Shikiori Kamo-shika. The colorway is called gray, yep. Wood section might be a dyed walnut. And a Kanwrite Emperor with the teak print on brass, fine flex […] [Original post on flipping.rocks]

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Tallastro 🇺🇦 @tallastro.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2025

Sailor Shikiori Kamo-shika, another variable color ink. It seems to drift between dusky purple to brown depending on paper. Here it is on Iroful and Col-o-ring. #swatchwednesday

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Tallastro 🇺🇦 @tallastro.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2025

Queen snake found resting along the river.

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Tallastro 🇺🇦 @tallastro.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 19/11/2025

New inks to try from The Wet Pen. Emerald City Blue looks matte in the swatch with a green sheen. The sheen shows up in writing just at the edges of lines. A nice rich blue that leans blurple. Everettt Massacre #1 is a red looking like its name would suggest […] [Original post on flipping.rocks]

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Tallastro 🇺🇦 @tallastro.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 15/11/2025

Ever have an ink that just gets better as you use it in a pen? After the 1st couple of weeks, evaporation slightly darkened the Birmingham Pen Co Tiger Lily in a Lamy Scala. It went from an ok ink to a favorite. Here's the end of the Scala and switching after […] [Original post on flipping.rocks]

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Tallastro 🇺🇦 @tallastro.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 07/11/2025

Happy Fountain Pen Day Currently inked Nahvalur Schuylkill Pelikan M650 Platinum PKG-4000B Lamy Scala Sailor vintage pocket pen #fountainpens

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Tallastro 🇺🇦 @tallastro.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2025

Pelikan Hub in Hillsborough was a great time. Ink of the year Apricot Achat (agate) and a bonus prize of Organic Studio Ernest Hemingway Santiago Sea Blue. #fountainpens #ink

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2025

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch. A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out […]

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Tallastro 🇺🇦 @tallastro.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2025

Email from Pensachi today with news from Pilot. The price increase was expected, but the list of discontinued models wasn't. The Explorer (Lightive) and Prera are my usual recommendations for someone new to fountain pens. "... Pilot has announced that the following fountain pens will be […]

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Janice in GA @archergal.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2025

Cardinal Pens (Lisa & Brian Anderson from Anderson Pens) on YouTube! And their new website is live! www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH2SyW9Oq2g #FountainPens

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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 24/07/2025

Interesting. "Liu worked with professors at Princeton to test how people responded to two different graphs. One showed winter temperatures of a fictional town gradually rising over time, while the other presented the same warming trend in a […] [Original post on stefanbohacek.online]

Two charts side-by-side.

Left: A scatter chart of winter temperatures from 1940 throgh the 2020s, gradually growing from 22°F to 36°F.
Right: A scatter chart with only two values, Freeze and No Freeze, showing how the lake froze almost every winter until around 1990, when it became far less common.

Accompanying text from the image:

"The climate binary

Both charts demonstrate the same warming trend, but the gradual temperature data is less striking than the binary lake data."

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Tallastro 🇺🇦 @tallastro.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2025

Found some my favorite orchids while hiking in this cool dry weather, not normal for August. Tipularia discolor, crane fly orchid. They look like ghosts floating above the ground. Hard to see until you form a search image, then they're everywhere.

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Tallastro 🇺🇦 @tallastro.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2025

Testing a new ink, River City Pens Unnamed Blue. Allegheny Blue would be a good name. I enjoyed seeing Rich at the Triangle Pen Show and meeting his ink collaborator. A quick smear of water to answer my water resistance question looked favorable. But this ink is complicated. Anyway, most inks […]

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Tallastro 🇺🇦 @tallastro.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2025

Ph’nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh, wgah’nagl fhtagn.

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Tallastro 🇺🇦 @tallastro.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2025

Found this 1 inch long rove beetle on a walk last weekend. I didn't realize it had bronze setae until I downloaded the photo off the camera. #insect #inatualist #beetle

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Flipboard Science Desk @sciencedesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/03/2025

Shocker: This tropical tree thrives after being struck by lightning. From @SciMag: "The almendro withstands thunderbolts that blast away parasitic vines." flip.it/.X3QEd #Trees #Plants #Botany #Science #Ecology

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Laffy @gottalaff.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/03/2025

NBC News: The Espionage Act contains a provision making it crime to disclose national defense secrets "through gross negligence." The law does not require info be classified, because it was written before the classification system existed. The law refers simply to "national defense information […]

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Roel Griffioen - #antifa @roelgrif.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/03/2025

Hear hear! Een senator die van zich af bijt. De microfoons en luidsprekers hebben het er maar zwaar mee.

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Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2025

Yes, Nature is completely right that #Trump is assaulting science and that he is swinging a wrecking ball to all publicly funded science: www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-… After all, this is what he and his ilk have been pushing for all along, since 2016: to abolish publicly […]

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