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A quick side note on inks for fountain pens: some ink mixtures are optimised for the capillary system the pens have. Or the other way round; chicken, egg… Viscosity, size of the pigments or whatever. I’ve noticed this with OMAS inks and pens and, to some extent, with Montblanc.
Bottom line: of course you can more or less use any ink with any pen without breaking it, but the flow of the ink may be not as one likes it and/or the pen needs to be cleaned in shorter intervals.

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These were all the rage when I was at school:

You write a lot of prose?

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This caused sprinkled pencil-envy at a recent drawing session

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I’ve never seen that before. Does it work well?

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The person using it produced some decent drawings, I haven’t tried it myself.

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My wife used to use these all the time, for critiquing stories, reviewing documents, taking notes, etc. Now she uses multiple pens of different colors that write better – like gel pens.

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Who dey?

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I think they are:

I really wish google still worked. Had to to use tineye to find her name then google that to find that pic in that interview.

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Another version of the grafitto Ben Heine photographed years ago!

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Yes, that’s Pylon. That’s the best picture I’ve seen of them.

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No idea if true. But a huge thing if it is.

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During a three-day operation in Kern County, undocumented workers were targeted walking in and out of gas stations, getting breakfast, at Home Depot, or while driving along the 99 Highway, leaving many with no other option than to simply stay at home.

“We’re in the middle of our citrus harvesting,” Casey Creamer, president of the industry group California Citrus Mutual, told CalMatters. “This sent shockwaves through the entire community. People aren’t going to work and kids aren’t going to school. Yesterday about 25 percent of the workforce, today 75 percent didn’t show up.”

Losing the bulk of America’s agricultural workforce overnight is a recipe for “absolute economic devastation,” according to Richard S. Gearhart, an associate professor of economics at Cal State-Bakersfield, who spoke with the nonprofit news outlet.

“You are talking about a recession-level event if this is the new long-term norm,” Gearhart said, arguing that the end result of Trump’s policies will be felt in the grocery store check-out lines across America.

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Don Lemon thinks it basically is:

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The worst states to be single are the ones with the most people who think there is something wrong with being single.

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