🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

@Absinthe got a new challenge soon, been a bit busy but ready for the next!

Pseudo-intellectual definition: A word used to describe actual intellectuals by anyone who is not themselves an intellectual.

Four pens, four inks, pick your champion (favorite).

1) A new TWSBI Demonstrator modified with a 120 year old Waterman 52 nib, fine point. KWZ's gold Iron-gall ink (starts light yellow, turns black after 30 seconds).

2) An actual 120 year old waterman 52 with broad nib. Diamine's Skull & Roses ink. This ink has a very unique sheen I've never seen in an ink.

3) A Pilot Falcon with extra food be nib. Diamine's Burnt Sienna ink.

4) Pilot Custom 912 with a modified nib (Mottishaw Spencerian Modification). Sailor Carbon Black pigment ink.

#Calligraphy #writing #cursive #fountainpens #fountainpen

If you are worried about the environment and climate change, focus on saving the whales!

https://boingboing.net/2019/09/30/whales-worth-about-1-trillion.html

lolol what a stark difference a few generations makes.

If you ever wondered where that naked Suit picture comes from? The attached link has a video with some background.

https://ww2.kqed.org/spark/anna-maltz/

@Gargron I recently got a reply a few hours after making this post. For transparency here is the official response::

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/102881959653298127

If you are ever considering starting a non-profit on the Mastodon platform, DONT, here is why.

About a month ago I received a little less than a 10K donation to fund the QOTO effort (A space of distributed and federated services for open-source projects and project owners). The mastodon component is intended to be the social media aspect of that to replace the need for facebook or twitter accounts as a home for future software projects.

I reached out to the joinmastodon, the organization behind the Mastodon project, because I wanted to forward some of those donations to the mastodon coding efforts, as well as potentially offer additional donations to fund specific features on the mastodon to-do list, however after more than month of trying to reach the organization through e-mail as well as contacting @Gargron directly there has been nothing but complete silence.

This in turn has myself, as well as the donors, seriously dismayed about the future of the project. Unresponsiveness, particularly in the face of contribution or donations to a project, has myself and others worrying mastodon is a dead or dying software. At the very least it means bug fixes and other contributions never make it since contacting the team is a near impossibility.

I am now in the position of reaching out to the developers of competing ActivityPub software and seeing if we can use the donations to pay them to write a complete fork of mastodon, with my own contributions as well added on top.

What a mess, its such a shame that a project with so much potential is going to die because of rampant mismanagement. The in ability to even respond to basic email.

I hope I'm wrong but after a month of all communication channels being dead its time to reevaluate where to go from here... But it is clear mastodon is NOT a technology I recommend others adopt as part of any new project.

#fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon

@Gargron Another half a week, still no response of any kind, not a peep. Whats going on?

@mngrif I am very disappointed in you for never telling me about Cocaine Bear!

https://www.mirror.co.uk/science/pablo-eskobear-story-legendary-cocaine-8474914