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she/her or they/their, elder Millennial, German, soft nerd

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2026-01-10 18:15:04 GMT

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wow, a mother who *wants* her children to remein illiterate, or at least only semi-literate... creepy.

2025-12-13 08:01:50 GMT

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From a Cologne Stadtbahn. Going to change to RegionalExpress in Deutz. Fetching bookcases from my mother's house.

2025-12-10 08:58:15 GMT

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Do they answer the question why modern Europeans have so narrow noses?

2025-10-29 08:02:42 GMT

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I don't think wood should go in the dishwasher...

2025-09-24 06:17:55 GMT

I have found a very nice orange fountain pen ink.
Rohrer & Klingner Sanddorn.
It's a limited edition available only this year.
FML 😆

2025-08-05 13:09:35 GMT

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Seems unlikely, considering inflation, and the fact that a lot of things are subject to enshittification/newer versions being poorer quality than old versions.

2025-08-05 11:43:02 GMT

Things that help with tidying, a slowly growing thread:
1) Have receptables for trash and recycling at hand, as many as needed (e.g. I need one for paper and caradboard, one for plastics and metal, and one for everything else - theoretically also glass and electronics, but there's not much of that, so having those further away is OK)
1.5) Make sure there is room in them, and there is nothing stacked on top of them that keeps you from actually using them...

2025-08-02 17:33:44 GMT

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I adore barn swallows, ever since they started breeding in our garage so I got to see them a lot, and get to watch the fledglings learn to fly.

2025-07-19 20:49:37 GMT

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g'night, friends
Take care :blobCatHeart:

2025-07-19 18:23:36 GMT

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...let's be honest, the rest of the afternoon I just watches MASH, and on the side made backups of a CD and a few DVDs.

2025-07-19 15:03:58 GMT

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Since arriving home, I did a small grocery run, fried myself a snack, and while the stove was heating and the snack was cooking I tidied up on top of the washing machine.

2025-07-19 15:01:04 GMT

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My father drove me home. I didn't take much with me, because I still need to get rid of more stuff here to make room.
Decided to start with towels - I had wanted to replace a few of my towels because they are poor quality and very thin, anyway. Also grabbed a PAPPIS box that was half-full with embroidery floss, and added a few bits and bobs on top.

2025-07-19 12:11:07 GMT

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uncle and two cousins came by and we removed stuff from the house and cleaned. I packed. I'm exhausted

2025-07-19 06:57:49 GMT

Good morning!
It is Saturday.
I slept in.

2025-07-16 14:32:48 GMT

Random fact about myself: I absolutely will say "hello" to a lone pigeon I come across.

2025-07-13 07:19:46 GMT

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If you're interested in reading something whose author thought the same and decided to try to do better, there's the Sharing Knife books by Lois Bujold

2025-07-12 19:39:04 GMT

Why must antibiotics taste so vile?
(this is mostly a tiny vent, but if anybody seeing this knows and wants to infodump, I'd be delighted)

2025-07-09 10:28:37 GMT

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Whee. Managed to get my GP to look at a weird swelling on my ankle.
Diagnosis is abscess, gonna try antibiotics and see if that helps, otherwise I gonna look for a surgeon to drain and clean it.

2025-07-09 05:06:38 GMT

Good morning!
It is Wednesday

2025-07-02 03:28:34 GMT

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It's really silly, but I love that they name so many inks after space stuff, including animals that went to space (or not, like Pushinka).
I got a mini bottl eof Arabella, but haven't tested it yet

2025-06-28 11:04:31 GMT

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Stuff I got done today besides backing up DVDs and watching other DVDs:
I got myself to go outside by making it, instead of just a walk, an errand: taking glass to the recycling container and picking up a few groceries.
*considers* And I made and ate lunch.
Yep, that's it.

2025-06-28 10:11:10 GMT

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Oh yay, the Queen Millennia DVDs have a Subtitle track that only translates the Japanese writing shown on screen, but not the dialogue! :D
(The dialogue subtitles are unfortunately completely different from the audio, obviously 2 independent translations without any kind of exchange.)

2025-06-28 10:00:14 GMT

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I think M*A*S*H with 11 seasons is the second longest-running series with annual seasons I can think of, behind Supernatural with 15.
Well, non-animated; The Simpsons is longer still. Don't know what number they are up to, but it was more than 20.

2025-06-28 08:31:08 GMT

Sometimes I think about how words in different languages don't match 1:1. Today it's hat - Hut
English "the hat" = German "der Hut" (pronounced, roughly, like "hoot"), more or less.
The thing is, German doesn't use "Hut" as an umbrella term as much as English does "hat". "Eine Kappe" is not ein Hut, while "a cap" is a hat.
Ein Hut must have a brim all around, otherwise it's eine Mütze, not ein Hut.
#Language #Hats

2025-06-28 06:14:35 GMT

Good morning!
It is Saturday

2025-06-27 04:42:06 GMT

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I woke up way, way early with (or possibly from) a migraine. Triptan is kicking in, though. yay for chemistry!

2025-06-27 04:40:59 GMT

Good morning
It is Friday.

2025-06-08 05:14:00 GMT

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got dishes that need washing. I want to get my home to a state where I feel comfortable in it

2025-06-01 17:57:34 GMT

Actually sat down and listed the fountain pens I have inked.
Caramel Sparkle and Sepia are for my BuJo (title and text respectively).
The second block is my "penbow", sort of rainbow colours. I like Candle Light a lot, but I'm not sold on it in this set. All the pens are Lamys Safari or Al-Star, with F nibs. I'm not sure if the orange looks bolder because the ink flows differently, or because the nib is different.
The rest is just what I happen to have inked.
#FountainPens #FountainPenInks
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2025-05-25 05:46:35 GMT

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current gender: Craving a heavy denim bib dress with utility pockets

2025-05-25 05:37:21 GMT

Good morning!
It is Sunday

2025-05-24 05:58:24 GMT

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grocery shopping. Laundry. Hopefully tidying and drawing.
Date ❤️

2025-04-29 19:12:12 GMT

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So in the few hours between arriving home and bedtime, I put away the clean, dried dishes and clean, dried laundry, and watered my plants, and a liiiiiiitle bit of other tidying, and played Wandering Village for over an hour.
For after work tomorrow I've written down doing dishes - there isn't much, but I want to wash my water bottles more regularly.
And that's the only chore, and then I get to draw.

2025-04-29 14:48:12 GMT

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On my way home now, both the light jacket and the zippered hoodie I wore this morning stuffed in my backpack.

2025-04-29 10:21:46 GMT

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I want a naaaaap :blobCatSleep:

2025-04-29 04:24:45 GMT

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Huh. Merlin tells me that short call repeated at long intervals is not a blackbird complaining about something, like I thought, but a greater spotted woodpecker. I've seen those around, so not hard to believe.

2025-04-29 03:53:07 GMT

Good morning!
It is Tuesday.
Weather forecast for my town says it's 6° now, and will get up to 26° later. (43F - 79F).
That's inconvenient to dress for.

2025-04-27 05:15:32 GMT

What level of #fountainPen person is finding that you put the tube of silicon grease in your meds drawer? 😆

2025-04-20 12:37:44 GMT

I came to the end of the ink in my BuJo fountain pen: I'd half-filled the converter from a sample of Octopus Fluids Barock Charleston to see what that looked like in writing rather than as a swatch. I like the colour, but I think I like Diamine Sepia better.
Fireside Snug is still in my orange pen.
I think I'm just gonna refill it with Pelikan Pelikan Brilliant Brown, because I have half a jar left and well, gotta use stuff up occasionally? Yeah.
#FountainPenInk #BulletJournal
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2025-04-16 04:58:21 GMT

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On my way to work, to refactor and document the coding project that's been in the works for months. Fun times! (genuinely)
Have a good day!

2025-04-10 05:27:48 GMT

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kinda. Seven people a day might be an overstatement, but from what I remember reading, it's pretty unusual for that kind of instant attraction coming up with anyone else but the designated partner.

2025-04-10 04:57:52 GMT

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It just feels fake to me, but then, I'm on the ace spectrum.
It seems particularly weird when it's the designated love interests only. I'd think someone who went from zero to "I want to have sex with that person" in a minute would have that reaction to more people, and it would usually not lead to anything.
It's baffling.

2025-04-10 04:53:18 GMT

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On a lighter note, a question about a romance trope: Is the "two people see each other for the first time and immediately think 'whoa, that one is hot'' and then they get together later" a trope that romance writers expect their readers have to suspend disbelief for, or is that how romance works for a significant portion of humanity?

2025-04-10 04:28:36 GMT

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I do like Ursula Vernon's style, going from funny to serious and whatnot.
These two work way better if you think of them as one doorstopper, I think.
I don't really want to read more books in the same setting, particularly if they have more paladins. Seeing being possessed and used as a tool by a god presented as something good just sends me into negative thought spirals about the evils of Christianity. (You know, queermisia, eugenics, genocide, all that)

2025-04-10 04:20:34 GMT

Good morning!
It is Thursday

2025-03-25 05:46:17 GMT

Good morning, friends!
It's Tuesday in my timezone

2025-03-17 20:12:27 GMT

I'm chasing a rainbow of 6 inks and matching pens!
Red, blue, green and violet ink are settled; orange needs to be lighter and yellow darker.
I think the orange, yellow, and blue pen are settled, and the violet one might be, too (it looks teal here because it's a bicolor coating).
The green pen is beautiful, but it's the only one in the bunch with a screwtop.
The red one is too pink.
#FountainPens #FountainPenInks #Inks
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2025-03-12 06:40:54 GMT

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I have one of those mini PCs that you could screw to the back of a screen, and that one does.

2025-03-11 07:28:28 GMT

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Time to build more affordable housing in cities. Past time, actually...

2025-03-10 06:34:50 GMT

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NRW. The strike in question is at Kölner Verkehrsbetriebe

2025-03-10 06:25:07 GMT

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morning!
Waiting for the last bus of my 3-step commute. Need to talk to boss about working from home the next two days because of a public transport strike.
High temperature predicted today is 17°, tomorrow 7°

2025-03-02 11:39:52 GMT

Dear #language friends,
is there a term for the thing where you forgot what something is really called and instead make up a new term that makes sense in context?
Examples:
- "drippy basket" for "dish drying rack"
- "food weapons" for "cutlery/silverware/flatware"
- "cobra chicken" for "Canada goose"
:PleaseReblog:
#askFedi

2025-02-28 18:41:55 GMT

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Not from Diamine, as far as I can tell... Unless it's already been a country exclusive in another country before XD

2025-02-28 15:42:39 GMT

Dimanine has three new inks for the German market:
- British Racing Green
- French Racing Blue
- Rosso Corsa (I guess that's "Italian Racing Red")
Just saw them listed at fountainfeder.de, with scanned swatches: https://fountainfeder.de/Diamine-Rosso-Corsa-80ml/SW14450
#FountainPens #Ink

2025-02-21 15:16:20 GMT

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Also two of my #FountainPens are in a state of "I tried to pull off only the nib but instead pulled out the entire feed, and when I tried to push that back in it got stuck and now isn't moving in either direction", which is kinda sad. One is a super-cheap one, but the other I've had for 20 years and am kinda attached to :(

2025-02-21 15:12:14 GMT

#FountainPens inked right now. I tested violet inks, so there are several in here still, and the Parker pen was new and for testing, too. I haven't been using the one with Diamine Vibe mich, because that ink is one with a lot of sheen, which I don't like much for notetaking, which is most of the writing I do.
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2025-02-08 20:15:38 GMT

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- Pelikan 4001 violet is somewhere in the middle hue-wise. Not entirely sure about how dark it is, but over all I think it's the best candidate for colour-coded notetaking. I like Athol Violet, partly because it's very close to the base colour of the shimmer ink Diamine Rainbow's End, but it's a bit too close to blue.

2025-02-08 20:11:42 GMT

Did a quick comparison of violet #Ink I have samples of...
- Kaweco violet is reddish, dark, and desaturated, and I don't like it much.
- Lamy violet is... bright, reaching towards fuchsia and that's too much for me.
- Octopus Fluids Aubergine is the reddest in the rest, and on the dark side of medium
- Diamine Athol Violet is also medium-to-dark, but almost blue.
- Octopus Fluids Flieder (lilac) and Diamine Jacaranda are both lighter than the others, with Flieder more reddish than Jacaranda

2025-01-26 13:59:16 GMT

#FountainPen #Ink test on dit grid A5 ringbook paper I want to use -- I just used the pens I have inked up.
- I had 5 Kaweco inks in the lineup, and the only one of those doesn't have ghosting (royal blue). Green and red are quite bad (though red is in a particularly wet writing pen), and violet and grey also show, with grey showing least)
- Two other inks that showed ghosting, though less than the red and green Kaweco inks, were Diamine Blue Velvet, and Octopus Moosgrün...

2025-01-24 22:09:12 GMT

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How else would you get them out?

2025-01-24 22:04:38 GMT

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Ripping pages out of a notebook isn't exactly fun...

2025-01-13 04:53:35 GMT

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I think I don't write with pens so much that I'll be able to write them all empty before some of them dry in the pen

2025-01-12 19:30:54 GMT

Due to testing stuff, I have 20 #FountainPens inked right now. That's too many.

2025-01-12 08:23:10 GMT

...A squirrel just "hid" a walnut in the corner of my window, about 2 metres from where I'm sitting. (The window frame was in the way so I only saw an eartip, but there were clacking noises and now there is a walnut.
#BackyardNature
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2024-12-27 13:53:48 GMT

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Can you give me a hint what search terms to use when looking for a box like that? I have quite a few 5 ml test tubes with ink by now and would like to store them in a way that stops them from falling over...

2024-12-27 11:06:14 GMT

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Tangential real story: At the University of Cologne, in the 80s they cleared out a cellar and behind some shelves, they found a coal mine.
It's a 40m long, life-size model built in 1932 for the economics and social sciences faculty, and the equipment was sourced used from actual mines.
They just sorta forgot about it for a couple of decades.
(sorry, another German language source) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarastollen_(K%C3%B6ln)

2024-12-26 11:12:56 GMT

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I think here's some info on Quentell! https://www.whoppah.com/designers/quentell

2024-12-26 11:11:19 GMT

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Those are three German last names, so three people seems likely.

2024-12-22 09:03:54 GMT

Inked pens update. Paper is Leuchtturm 1917 100g/m² - which is a little too big for my scanner, thus the shadows on two edges.
#FountainPens #Ink
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2024-12-21 14:50:15 GMT

hrmp. I wonder if Exacompta filecards changed in quality, if I use more ink for my swatches than I used to, or if the inks just happen to be different. Recent swatches with cards from a new package included more where the ink soaked deep into the paper
#FountainPens #Ink #Paper

2024-12-12 19:29:50 GMT

I did finish the cartridge of Pelikan Aventurine ink I had in the Pelikan Ineo pen, and refilled it with Octopus Moosgrün (moss green).
Pelikan advertises their Edelstein inks claiming they have a special formula that makes writing extra-smooth. It might feel a bit different, but not much, or it might be my imagination, I'm not sure.
Colour-wise they are pretty close, but I prefer the Octopus ink. It is a little bit warmer, more saturated, and maybe darker.
#FountainPens #ink #green

2024-12-07 19:48:56 GMT

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I suspect it has to do with discouraging SEO spam.
I'm not sure if it matters any more, but domains passing on something... gosh, did they call it link juice? To the domains they linked to. Which led to people/bots signing up to big, old, trusted forums just to post links, not only hoping someone would click them, but to improve the target domain's google ranking.
Noreferrer links don't pass on link juice...

2024-12-02 18:46:09 GMT

#FountainPens update...
I wrote with the pen with deep green ink until it was empty. And when I went about cleaning it, I decided to empty the Write & Draw ink out of the cp1 with the EF nib. I just don't enjoy drawing with that, at least at the moment.

2024-12-01 18:57:12 GMT

#FountainPens update, this time sorted by inks
I dumped the Kölner Brückengrün ink on some paper and dabbed at it, not sure if I'll use the result for anything, but it's pretty.
The pen with the black ink and B nib I used until empty.
A new pen with an unusual nib arrived and I had to ink it for testing...
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2024-11-24 19:40:13 GMT

So I wrote down which pens I have currently inked, and what I do with them.
#FountainPens
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2024-11-17 15:35:36 GMT

I got my first pocket fountain pen, to go with my pocket BuJo ringbook.
#fountainPens #Hongdian
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2024-10-25 17:03:48 GMT

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For anyone who wants to play: Incompetech has equilateral triangles in their printable graph paper selection: https://incompetech.com/graphpaper/triangle/

2024-10-20 11:26:30 GMT

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I was used to lids that didn'T come apart from the non-fancy Pelikan ink XD

2024-10-20 10:14:32 GMT

I like some Octopus Fluids ink, but the jars for their plain fountain pen ink, not so much.
The lids are hard plastic, and there's a silverish dish thing inserted loosely into them for a seal. Didn't even attempt to glue it on the lid, so of course it sticks to the glass instead and ugh.
But without it, the jar isn't watertight (I tested, laying a closed jar on its side on a tissue, and yes, it leaked a bit)
#ink #fountainPens #OctopusFluids

2024-10-16 18:03:24 GMT

Yesterday I repeatedly tried to take the end off a tablet stylus, because I kept mistaking it for a fountain pen.
Lamy cp1 to be precise...
#pens #fountainPens
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2024-09-30 11:00:11 GMT

List of Lamy Al-Star special edition colours at Goulet Pens:
https://www.gouletpens.com/blogs/fountain-pen-blog/lamy-al-star-special-edition-history
#reference #fountainPens #Lamy

2024-09-18 11:17:46 GMT

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I thought the female equivalent of "lad" was "lass"?

2024-09-07 06:52:55 GMT

I just came across Incredipede, a puzzle game where you build a weird creature to solve puzzles. It stood out to me because of the woodblock-print-like art style. I haven't played it and I'm not sure I will, but since it's steeply discounted on GOG right now, I thought I'd share the link:
http://www.incredipede.com/about.html
https://www.gog.com/game/incredipede
#indieGames

2024-09-05 16:19:28 GMT

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I'm fine with 20 years from publication for anything produced by a media conglomerate, but when it comes to single creators or small groups, I'm for lifelong creator's rights.
Thinking of an author ending up homeless late in life despite their work being everywhere because it gets reprinted and poorly adapted because it's popular and public domain... That doesn't sound like a desirable outcome

2024-08-05 14:04:32 GMT

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*hits them with a pool noodle*

2024-07-05 16:26:14 GMT

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I am almost completely certain this is a "no shoes inside!" household