Hello new fountain pen folks! Unlike Reddit, conversations about the "political" end of fountain pens aren't "moderated" out of existence for "civility" purposes, here. It usually winds up being me dropping into folks' mentions delivering the unfortunate news about Noodler's... - ThreadSky

karidru.bsky.social • 106 days ago

Hello new fountain pen folks! Unlike Reddit, conversations about the "political" end of fountain pens aren't "moderated" out of existence for "civility" purposes, here.

It usually winds up being me dropping into folks' mentions delivering the unfortunate news about Noodler's...

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penfilled.bsky.social•102 days ago

Keep it up, we need to know these things.

nightrythm.bsky.social•106 days ago

📌

happyphantom.bsky.social•103 days ago

Apologies if this was brought up elsewhere, but Lamy recently was advertising a new Harry Potter collection. Very disappointing.

karidru.bsky.social•103 days ago

Yeah we've been talking about that but not on this thread evidently. They also recently got bought so I have no real idea what they're going to do, whether that was the old crew's idea or the new crew's.

rblemberg.bsky.social•106 days ago

And thank goodness for that.

mscollette.bsky.social•106 days ago

Thanks for this thread! I’ve been getting back to the hobby lately and this is great for being conscientious.

mscollette.bsky.social•106 days ago

Noodler’s has some wonderful inks but after some time it was clear that it wasn’t something I wanted to give money to (I almost bought the very political 2016 “Berning Red” ink as a novelty and sign of our times, but thought better of it)

karidru.bsky.social•106 days ago

I'm glad it's helpful. I think I care about this possibly an unreasonable amount but I want to feel good about what I'm using to make my words happen, you know?

syzara.bsky.social•106 days ago

i'm more lenient with necessities for myself, but if i know my very specific hobby provider is terrible in one way or another?

i really love to know and act accordingly

karidru.bsky.social•106 days ago

Right, like I'd love to kick Nestle out of my house but good luck to me.

But where I CAN do better, I want to. Slavery free rice and chocolate for instance. And for luxuries? If I can't buy an ethical version, I don't want it.

karidru.bsky.social•106 days ago

But there are a lot of folks now so I'm just gonna talk about it a bit.

I know Goulet are popular and easy to find, but they helped plant a Southern Baptist Convention church. They are on staff. One of the pastors said homosexuality was as bad a sin as murder on a podcast.

gabriellehecht.bsky.social•103 days ago

Super helpful. Had no idea, was buying from Goulet. No more.

Not giving an inch to any of those assholes, especially not now.

karidru.bsky.social•106 days ago

And if that doesn't seem like a reason to stop shopping there... tithes. If you don't like the incoming USian administration, you wouldn't like the sorts of things the SBC as a whole sends money to.

There are a LOT of lovely pen vendors out there. They've never been the only game in town.

inkrasands.bsky.social•103 days ago

Please enlighten this confused cephalopod... what is USian?

karidru.bsky.social•103 days ago

Someone from the United States. Instead of saying American because there are several countries that are in the Americas, so many of us find it to be more specific.

inkrasands.bsky.social•103 days ago

Thank you for the clarification.

karidru.bsky.social•106 days ago

When this first came out, I compiled a list of things I personally find distasteful about several fountain pen companies. They are not all the same kind of thing. You may or may not care about them but here's a thread of them.

https://bsky.app/profile/karidru.bsky.social/post/3l4daetre6g2b

hnmalcolm.bsky.social•106 days ago

Thanks for this! I didn't know about Muji and had missed the whole TWSBI thing

karidru.bsky.social•106 days ago

Muji makes me SAD.

hnmalcolm.bsky.social•106 days ago

The severity of that one really took me by surprise.

I have a ton of Muji notebooks too. I love their undated weekly calendars. I'm not going to throw it out, but I won't buy anymore.

karidru.bsky.social•106 days ago

And if at the start of this, you were like "wait, what about Noodler's?!" The owner's horrid politics and tendency to name inks things that had a white supremacist tinge to them were on record before this blew up, but, things really came to a head when this happened:

https://www.reddit.com/r/fountainpens/comments/142w0bi/the_noodlers_ink_drama_in_one_spot_content/?rdt=39083

mithrilmechanisms.com•103 days ago

Appreciate the heads up.

techstepper.bsky.social•103 days ago

Thank you for the thread. I knew about some (Noodler’s, Goulet) but not about others (FPR, TWSBI).

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