🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

I have an illuminated text from 1480 AD arriving sometime next week and I'm kinda excited (picture of the actual item I'll be getting attached).

#writing #history #calligraphy #bible #christianity #christian

@koherecoWatchdog

While I will make no claim as to the ethics of shopping amazon I will say this.. I probably buy 90% of my stuff off amazon. If amazon sells it and I am going to buy it, thats where I check first.

If other companies provided half the peks of amazon I might switch (like same-day shipping and the fact they will refund a broken item without needing me to return it most of the time). If we want to get rid of Amazon youll have a lot better luck with that if you encourage other stores to match their offerings rather than through boycotts.

@realcaseyrollins @thenewoil

@vital876 I could easily resell this in the hundreds, if not thousands, I'd expect.I think the seller just didnt know the value of what they had.

@icedquinn No need there are plenty of digital copies out there.

I just bought an Antique 1st Edition of "The End of an Era" printed in 1901 for only 15$

It's a cultural/historic book well known among history lovers. It is basically a autobiography of John S wise describing his life before, during, and after the civil war.

Considering it is a 120 year old book its condition is absolutely extraordinary as well, pictures attached.

@realcaseyrollins ::snaps his fingers in the shape of a Z::

@realcaseyrollins Of course strong women dont need men to defend them, that would be a sexist take on it considering that women are superior to men and anyone who thinks different is sexist.

@vital876 Feel free to keep in touch and ask any questions if you need help. there are tons of resources and communities out there. Some of the best scribes in the community love to give away resources and advice and any teach classes (they are so generous it is virtually free for most of it).

@vital876 If you have never written in any sort of flex style you may have trouble picking it up in only a month, but give it a go and see where you wind up. A lot of what you need to learn or figure out is what pen to buy, what ink, what paper, and then learn to use them. Flex pens really are tricky to learn at first for many. Though it may not be too hard for you to learn it in its non-flex form.

I've attached for you a copperplate exemplar showing its 3 major forms without any flex. I've also attached one that shows some simplified forms that shows the flex. There is another showing the typical and cheap dip pen usually used and the script with it. Keep in mind i use a fountain pen but good flex pens in fountain pen form are very expensive so most people stick to dip pens (not me :) )

@vital876 copperplate doesnt strictly require there to be line variation at all, and even if it did, who cares, write in whatever style you like.

Many people will write in copperplate without utilizing the flex, even professionals far better than me sometimes prefer that style. So no rule saying you need flex.

With that said if and when you are using flex, then yes, typically there is variation in every letter and every stroke.

@vital876 Making the edge of your pencil flat wont help you do copperplate. For copperplate you use flex-nib, the flat-nib you describe is for gothic scripts. You cant really interchange them too easily.

Now with that said you can get something that looks a bit like flex out of a pencil, but you dont do it by making a flat tip. As I understand it you can get the effect with a normal tip but you place the paper on something soft, this gives the illusion of flex by allowing you to vary the darkness and thickness of the line a bit. Your choice of pencil hardness is likely important too but since I never used a pencil to do this I cant really say.

@gaurav It looks like the mosquito is having just as much difficulty sleeping because of you :)

@Bradley_JF Not in any practical sense, potassium in any form strong enough to actually be effective as a vitamin requires a prescription and the pills are horse pills that youd need. This all assumes you just need to replace the difference, but if cannabis is acting as a diuretic you may need to have an even higher dose to balance it out, assume you can at all (it is possible and likely that cannabis effect would cause any additional potassium you consume to be lost as well, as that is usually how diuretics work).

@mur2501 god bless america!

So apparently cannabis consumption causes significantly lower serum potassium levels (bad) and slightly lower sodium levels (good but not significant). Very interesting. I'd love to find a better study however that does a before and after to see how long and how much cannabis needs to be consumed before its harmful. I'd also be curious to see this done with the various cannabinoids in isolation, I suspect this is caused predominately by CBD given its antagonism towards CB2 receptors but I could be wrong.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/291076372_Effects_of_marijuana_on_sodium_and_potassium_na_p_ions_homeostasis_among_smokers_in_Benin_City-_a_metropolitan_city_in_Nigeria

#science #cannabis #potassium #medical #medicinal #medicine #biology #nature

How they teach optics in the UK.