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Here's something to brighten up everyone's timeline. Yesterday she who is my girlfriend and I went to the pen museum in Birmingham.

Fun fact: back in the day 75% of all pen nibs were made in this city ✒️

It was a fun experience where you got to make your own nib on Victorian machines (under supervision) and got a free antique nib.

Pictures of my nib will be forthcoming as I left mine at my swimgf's place.
#Birmingham #history #pen #Stationary

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A display of all the pen bibs made under the name of William Mitchell, a pioneer of industrial pen manufacturer. The nibs are artistically arranged on an obelisk of black and red with the words William Mitchell in gold letters

Boxes of containers half full with nibs.

Not so fun fact: the women at the machines would have to fill a tubs (with about 18000 nibs) to get paid that day. — Boxes of containers half full with nibs. Not so fun fact: the women at the machines would have to fill a tubs (with about 18000 nibs) to get paid that day.

A cabinet of curiosity containing various writing equipment and documents

Just Plain Simple BridgeMakes⚪

@Bridgemakes@friendsofdesoto.social · 3 weeks ago

Here's something to brighten up everyone's timeline. Yesterday she who is my girlfriend and I went to the pen museum in Birmingham.

Fun fact: back in the day 75% of all pen nibs were made in this city ✒️

It was a fun experience where you got to make your own nib on Victorian machines (under supervision) and got a free antique nib.

Pictures of my nib will be forthcoming as I left mine at my swimgf's place.
#Birmingham #history #pen #Stationary

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🍉 wimi

@wimi@social.spejset.org · last month

Besökte museet i staden i dag. Egentligen bara för att gå på toaletten. 🤭

#Photography #darktable #mft #MicroFourThirds #olympus #Pen #EP5 #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome

En stående svartvit bild på en gång med fönster på vänster sida och en vägg på höger sida. I förgrunden en häst gjord av trä. Folk sitter vid bord vid fönstren till vänster. I taket sitter små fyrkantiga lampor och golvet är stenplattor.

Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator boosted

Cyat

@cyat@mastodon.art · 3 months ago

🦊

#art #furry #furryart #anime #sfw #redfox #fox #traditionalart #coloredpencil #pen #ink #artistsonmastodon #artistsonfediverse #commsopen

Coloured pencil and pen artwork of an anthro red fox drawn in a retro anime art style.

Cyat

@cyat@mastodon.art · 3 months ago

🦊

#art #furry #furryart #anime #sfw #redfox #fox #traditionalart #coloredpencil #pen #ink #artistsonmastodon #artistsonfediverse #commsopen

Charlie Stross

@cstross@wandering.shop · 7 months ago

Ed Zitron takes an axe to the AI bubble hype:

"ChatGPT is a very successful growth product and an absolutely horrifying business. OpenAI is a banana republic that cannot function on its own, it does not resemble Uber, Amazon Web Services, or any other business in the past other than WeWork, the other company that SoftBank spent way too much money on.

"And outside of ChatGPT, there really isn't anything else."

LONG (and detailed) evisceration of the hype mongering here: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/

gary

@gary_alderson@infosec.exchange replied · 7 months ago

@cstross more powered to the guy or the ai as the case may be #pen names

jaz :twt: :wales_flag: boosted

Jac

@inabox@tech.lgbt · 8 months ago

I'm hoping the internet might be able to help me.

My favourite pen, ever, was a Papermate FelxGrip Ultra MED in Purple, which I bought from the student's union in Huddersfield about 20 years ago.
I've lost it about 10 years ago (i changed the ink inside of it many times), but I've never forgotten about my favourite pen and i deeply regret ever losing it. I've found pictures of it online but it seems out of stock everywhere. If you can help me get another one just like it, I would be ever grateful. I've attached a picture of what it looks like (though I think mine might have had a black cap, but im not THAT picky). Please! help me find my pen!

https://www.aceofficemachines.com/paper-mate-flexgrip-ultra-ballpoint-stick-pen-purple-ink-medium-dozen-pap9650131.html
https://www.newegg.com/paper-mate-9650131/p/N82E16848000939

#pen #yesImABitOfANerdHowCouldYouTell #IAlsoHaveAFavouriteBrandOfBattery

A Pen! Specifically A Papermate FelxGrip Ultra MED in Purple, featuring a removable cap.
This is the best pen in the world. I've tested many others, but none of them measure up to this workhorse. — A Pen! Specifically A Papermate FelxGrip Ultra MED in Purple, featuring a removable cap. This is the best pen in the world. I've tested many others, but none of them measure up to this workhorse.

Jac

@inabox@tech.lgbt · 8 months ago

I'm hoping the internet might be able to help me.

https://www.aceofficemachines.com/paper-mate-flexgrip-ultra-ballpoint-stick-pen-purple-ink-medium-dozen-pap9650131.html
https://www.newegg.com/paper-mate-9650131/p/N82E16848000939

#pen #yesImABitOfANerdHowCouldYouTell #IAlsoHaveAFavouriteBrandOfBattery