#NCP

During a short vacation I took this past long weekend, I brought my trusty Mont Blanc rollerball pen to take notes and just have with me. I've written about this pen before. It was a grad gift from my Mum back in '97 when I graduated from UBC. I still don't know how she could afford it at the time, it was pretty expensive. I've probably written a million words with this pen.

The pen broke - snapped at the barrel - somehow in my slim briefcase during this trip. I was heartbroken because it's one of the few keepsakes I have of my Mum, who passed away from cancer in 2004. Nearly every time I use the pen, I think about her.

I wrote about the pen breaking elsewhere, and a local watch collector and repair expert in Victoria reached out to me to offer to fix it. I just dropped the pen off with him, and he's confident he can repair it. Would not even consider taking payment for his work. He's a long time reader of our website, said he's learned a lot from us, and wanted to give me something back for that.

Wow. 😂

All my Black people on Mastodon, you know how hard it's been to find a sizable Black community on here? I recently found the subreddit Black People Twitter (here: reddit.com/r/BlackPeopleTwitte…) and it's really been a place that centers Blackness, as opposed to here, which is very much (still) a white space that has a Black presence. IYKYK.

(NB: I feel like the community I have here is actually pretty decent, but this is a concern that comes up a lot, and I do genuinely like that the sub is as Black as Dead Mike after he left CB4).

#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #BlackFedi

IDF’s next target: The top left one is Mar Mikhael Church where a relative did his baptism just last year. Top right is a hospital. On the right is the popular Karoot Mall.

The target itself is a pharmacy. #Beirut #Lebanon

The 1962 Mets No Longer Hold Season Loss Record.

metsmerizedonline.com/the-1962…

Found another Sparks record in the wild last Friday.

Always appreciate when liner notes list the synthesizers used in the making.

#vinyl #vinylCollection #nowPlaying #synthesizer

Action Alert: We just launched #WinningWithWalz on all major social media platforms.

At 8:50pm we will launch our live chat and I will do a video response right after. Let’s go!

More details here: dworkinsubstack.com/p/how-tim-…

If we keep making a world of every person for themselves

The death machine wins

@MutualAidNet @mutualaid
@disability

Help me uplift these #MutualAidRequest s and mine please

#ALT4me

Game: Hanayakanari, Waga Ichizoku: Kinema Mosaic Original Soundtrack (2012)

Song: The Terrible Sound of a Bell

#music #videogames #gaming #gamemusic

The maker of Carefree menstrual liners failed to appropriately warn customers about the presence of “forever chemicals” in its products, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in Los Angeles state court.

The suit against the company, which also makes Banana Boat sunscreen, comes the same day that Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed AB 2515, which bans the sale of menstrual products containing PFAS by 2027. #ClimateChange

news.bloomberglaw.com/litigati…