I didn't think there was any chance that Erebus Crater would get picked as one of the 3 #fountainpen inks from the 2025 Colorvent for Colorverse to keep producing. I'm over the moon that it did! One of my favorite inks right now and I was afraid I was going to run out.

I really hate when I have to type "killall orca".

Congrats to @nprofile1q... !! So well deserved. #FOSSY25 https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/aug/01/distinguished-award-in-lance-albertson/

Someone the other day was insistent with me that Sailor Kiwaguro #fountainpen ink was not water resistant (smeared easily) even after drying for over half an hour. They might as well have told me the sky was ivy green. It was coming out of a fine nib pen, was on watercolor paper, and the amount of water was just drops from a brush. Any theories / corroborating experiences? It has to be the paper, right? But I know a lot of people who use it on watercolor paper generally.

Was always sad to see Mozilla promoting a proprietary extension and centralized service over the objections of many many many people, even sadder to see them formally make it part of Mozilla, sadder yet to see them becoming just like any other company that runs and shuts down centralized services, and the saddest to see them do it without ever following through on their initial statements that all of this would become open source https://www.engadget.com/apps/mozilla-is-shutting-down-its-read-it-later-app-pocket-183247576.html -- I see there is https://github.com/open-pocket/open-pocket

What does it mean if I have a Sailor Pro Gear 21k #fountainpen with just "M" on the nib, vs one (Realo 1911) that has "H-M"? I thought all of Sailor's Ms these days were H-Ms..? The M was bought within the last 5 years; the H-M I have no way of knowing but the other nib markings look contemporary.