It's easy enough to follow a mastodon user, but I while I only tried for a few minutes I wasn't able to figure out how to follow an entire mastodon instance.
I have some Amazon funny money from Father's Day, so per the title, I want something that writes big and easy. No calligraphy nibs that depend on perfect position to be smooth. Possibly delusional, but hoping for recs that orbit around either side of the $100 USD mark. Gold nib and impeccable fit&finish is not necessary, but...
When I subscribe to /m/technology here on kbin, do I get to see /c/technology posts from lemmy and can interact with them from within kbin?
Not automatically, but they do use the same protocol. If you went to http://kbin.social/m/technology@lemmy.world (note that last part) it would show up fine as a new magazine to be added. I think once one person on kbin.social subs manually, it becomes populated and will show up in searches for new magazines, but I start to get a little fuzzy on the specifics. Still, you can participate in most lemmy instances with an extra step or two and without perfect subject-matter integration, but also without leaving your home kbin instance. Also, a site like lemmy.ml is just as distinct from lemmy.world as kbin.social is, the first two just run the same back-end software and have similar names.
Because the domain names are really part of the community's name, even if sites don't show them by default (in kbin, the default behavior is to show them when you hover over them), then similarly named communities can coexist, though they generally don't integrate either. There has been some noise from us Reddit refugees to make automagic multireddits from identically named communities, but that's not really what the original ActivityPub architects had in mind, so it may not be as simple as it sounds.
Also, If they're automatically federated, then how does it work with /m/askkbin and /c/asklemmy, both with different names.
Those two would just be two completely different mags for a kbin user, inefficient to consume maybe, but very simple. Think in terms of /r/funny and /r/humor.
Yup, but you only need the one website, and while the benefits of federation are not fully realized right now -- and frankly it doesn't seem like it's going to evolve quite how the original devs imagined it -- it does mean less content goes away if one site goes off the rails.
I mean, I'm okay with barring a company in the technology space from having a blatantly apple-themed name, or using a logo that largely consists of a monochrome or rainbow themed fruit with a lens-shaped leaf. There's clearly abuses and bad actors trying to pass of their work as being related to or even confused with companies offering goods and services that people actually want, but there's got to be some rationality, and any ambiguities should be construed against the assholes who named their company after a fruit.
Just finished The Expanse books, and now reading The Wall by Adrian Goldsworthy. It’s absolutely beach-reading sword-&-sandal nonsense, but the author loves his (paper thin) characters and is an Oxford-educated professional historian who writes novels on the side, so it’s fun and the world building and research are impeccable.
Technically I am also still wading through In the Name of the Rose. Gotta get back to that one and wrap it up. I’m fond of ol’ William, but my bandwidth to understand and allegorize the intramural politics of late-medieval monastic orders is limited.
I have stopped using fountain pens because going even one day without writing with the ones I have makes the ink inside the cartridge irredeemably dry, sometimes I can keep going for a few days but the cartridge is pretty much spoiled....
What pens? Are they clean? What brand of cartridges? When were the carts purchased versus used? How much are you writing? Did you try anything to get the pen flowing again? Would you consider bottled ink? There’s a lot of variables that might help us troubleshoot.
And, of course, In the end there’s a reason ballpoints of all things outcompeted FPs in the marketplace. Fountain pens can be finicky and high maintenance. It may just be that the hassle outweighs the writing advantage for you as an individual.
Still tough to say, but that's helpful. If you've only got the one or two, I'd say it's a pen issue, possibly the interior "blind" cap inside the cap like @WaDef7 said. You could also have an issue with a clog in the feed. A simple soak might not be enough for this particular problem. If left uncapped, fountain pens can dry out, but it shouldn't be a constant battle if you have decent ink in cartridges less than a year or two old.
If you'd like to continue trying out fountain pens, get a new, cheap one from a reputable company and see if you notice the same issues. In Europe, Bic, Faber Castell, Platinum and others should sell school pens for less than 10 pounds/Euros. If you find that a cheap FP seems to work better than your family's Waterman pens, you could look into more invasive ways to work on the old one(s) or consider buying something fancier.
I just read them alongside my daughter, having previously skipped them in favor of the movies. I’d actually say they’re a perfect entree into reading for pleasure, and while hardly Faulkner or James Joyce, they’re sophisticated enough that you won’t feel silly, and the writing subtly grows with the characters (and the original audience), so the last book is longer and denser than the first, though again, it’s not trying to make you dance with the prose or analyze the book in order to glean any enjoyment.
Jo Rowling is who she is, as a writer and a person, and I won’t judge if you find a way to read them for free, but she really did assemble something magical with that original run of books.
Stuff like this is absolutely horrifying to read about. There's a saying that circulates among some in the south:
When you're young, you learn that the Civil War was about slavery.
When you're older, you learn it was about states' rights, tariffs, and many complicated things.
When you're an adult, you learn that the Civil War was about slavery.
Every country has its injustices and sins. Few have a moment in an era of mass communication where their fellow citizens, for many reasons, some more just than others, said "here we draw the line, here and no further. This is wrong and must die, if not today then when it withers away."
Once that moment came, when the choice was laid bare by their own contemporaries in time and place, no one who fought to preserve the right to own human beings like mules had any claim to another legacy. Pity the anonymous soldier too blind and with too few options to make any other choice, but even he deserves no other celebration, and as for the rich men who led him and who could have set their beloved homes on another path, they don't even deserve that much.
I'll go against the grain here a little bit. I like The Orville, but I've never been able to make myself love it. I am not a fan of Seth MacFarlane's animations or of Ted, and even his Cosmos reboot felt oddly thin, but The Orville is my favorite project of his, and it's clearly his love letter and wish fulfillment for 90s Trek. I think it's got more issues than people like to let on, and it gets a pass because for so many folks it compares favorably to much of nuTrek.
Some gripes:
Many of the scripts show their age as slush pile retreads from 90s-trek. Generally they were treading old ground and not any better than the ST shows that inspired them. There were also a lot of pretty uninspiring settings suitable to filming in LA's thirty mile zone.
The VFX got to be pretty decent, but the set design, costumes, and prosthetics were weak for its entire run; it often just looked bad, and the bright, clean aesthetic showed it off that much more.
The humor almost always falls flat for me, and it is frequently distracting in a show that's otherwise trying to be more than a silly pastiche. Maybe that's just on me, not being a fan of Family Guy, Ted, etc.
Many of the scripts present an interesting moral conundrum, but then they generally feel a need to pick a side and hammer it hard, whereas Star Trek would be a little more nuanced and often let the consequences of a character's or planet's choices speak for themselves. I can watch The Orville and just about visualize 20-something Seth shouting at the TV that Picard was ignoring the simple solution to problem X.
The Orville has some of the worst acting I have ever seen on network TV. Seth is not great, his girlfriends were worse, and Scott Grimes and J. Lee just seemed amateurish. Penny Jerald and Adrianne Palicki generally elevated their material, as did the three Moclans, even through the clumsy latex. Still, large stretches of the show are filled with people who broke my suspension of disbelief JUST with their line readings.
Descending dangerously close to personal pet peeve, the heavy reliance on pop culture references and humor also really highlighted how obsessed Seth is with the 80s and 90s, and maybe early 2000s. How many life lessons and "ancient earth stories" do we need from MacFarlane's specific formative years? Also... Avis?
Now, lest people think I'm just hating, here's a few things that I did like:
The Bortus family arc was presented with sensitivity and nuance, and is a credit to the show in the best spirit of Trek.
Palicki actually did great with the stresses of using her position to make up for personal mistakes and the dynamic that created with Seth worked better than it had any right to.
It was obvious the people making the show were enjoying it, and that sort of heart makes its way into the show. Some of the awful acting (but not all of it) could be brushed aside by sheer earnestness.
The world building was treated more seriously than I originally thought it would be. As time went on, I could see their Union as a real place.
The sort of Squidward meets TNG aesthetic for the Union ships really grew on me over time.
Like I said, I like the Orville. Despite my grousing, it's more than the sum of its parts. I just don't think I can agree that it's much better than decent runs of nuTrek. For me, Lower Decks is better, SNW is better, and Picard S3 is better. Prodigy, Picard S1, and parts of Discovery, at least when not in the Mirror universe and when Michael is not whisper-shouting at me, are about as good. I just think The Orville gets overpraised because it was clearly an homage to people's favorite Trek shows.
Just needs to make he tells mom and dad to back down. They can crow all they want if and when Gregg flames out, but there is literally nothing they can do to help Gio right now.
Thanks. I just haven’t had it in me to really dive into the DCU stuff. I’ve seen Aquaman 1, WW 1, and the second Suicide Squad, then Peacemaker. I had heard enough about James Gunn and casting to know it was a multiverse movie, but I haven’t seen much.
This is just reinforcing that I need to see AtSV, lol.
How do I interact/subscribe to tabletop.social from my kbin.social account and browser?
I see they are a mastodon instance, but our microblogs Let us interact with mastodon peeps I just want to know how.
SDSU and MWC breakup is not looking like it will be all buddy-buddy, Conference says no exceptions to normal deadlines, penalties, etc. (twitter.com)
Trying to game this one out, if SDSU announces before the end of the month, they join B12/PAC (probably PAC) for 2024 and $17M....
OC Requesting Recommendations: Want a "signature pen," so a stub with generous tipping material, or a BB with a hint of line variation.
I have some Amazon funny money from Father's Day, so per the title, I want something that writes big and easy. No calligraphy nibs that depend on perfect position to be smooth. Possibly delusional, but hoping for recs that orbit around either side of the $100 USD mark. Gold nib and impeccable fit&finish is not necessary, but...
Are lemmy community posts automatically federated into their kbin counterparts?
One thing I don't get right now, is how kbin/lemmy interact with each other?...
Apple Is Taking On Apples in a Truly Weird Trademark Battle (www.wired.com)
How do we call kbin users?
Kbinners? Binnies? Kbinators?
What are you reading this week? [6/18/23]
What book is currently on your nightstand? How do you like it? Would you recommend it to others?
Any tips on how to avoid dry ink cartridges?
I have stopped using fountain pens because going even one day without writing with the ones I have makes the ink inside the cartridge irredeemably dry, sometimes I can keep going for a few days but the cartridge is pretty much spoiled....
I have never read a book recreationally and I love fiction.
Which book would you recommend me as my first ever book?
How a Grad Student Uncovered the Largest Known Slave Auction in the U.S. (www.propublica.org)
10 Ways The Orville Is Better Than Modern Star Trek (screenrant.com)
Canada - 0 US -[2] - Folarin Balogun 34’ (dubz.co)
Balogun also getting his first goal for the USMNT.
Are there any addons like RES for Kbin yet?
Looking for something similar. Thanks!
Warner Bros.'s The Flash grossed an estimated $55.1M domestically over the 3-day weekend (from 4,234 locations). Estimated 4-day weekend gross is $64.0M. (twitter.com)
Less than Black Adam's 3 Day.