Notes

Thanks to this discussion on Reddit I now know another online shop in the EU specialized on pens: PenStore.com from Sweden. While they don’t have fountain pen under the sun (unlike Akkerman), they have quite a nice selections including TWSBI, Pilot, and Platinum and also lots of roller and gel pens!

AND they ship into the whole EU for free for orders of €79 and more 😍

“I am not going on Twitter, I am going to stay on TRUTH,” Trump said. “I hope Elon buys Twitter because he’ll make improvements to it and he is a good man, but I am going to be staying on TRUTH.”

Does anybody actually believe that? My best guess is that Trump’s social network won’t even be around anymore once the Musk-deal closes and so he will be one of the first to be admitted back to Twitter. For me personally, this would be another nail in the coffin for Twitter but that’s a different topic.

Yesterday evening Twitter’s board of directors has announced that they’ve agreed to sell the company to Elon Musk for 44B USD. Personally, I have a really bad feeling about this, especially thanks to how the term “free speech” is thrown around here by Musk and others but also by the fact that a single person now also owns the platform.

Obviously just a nice gesture but a gesture nonetheless: PeakDesign is hiding their online store in favor of their second-hand marketplace for EarthDay!

I still think that Factorio might be one of the best games that was ever created. Yesterday I started a new build after not playing for a really long time and was hooked immediately again. Perhaps I will finally make it to space this time around 😬

In case you missed r/place or simply want to take a look at all those small memes and artworks there is now an awesome atlas available where you can just hover over the whole image and get the details!

A friend recently recommended Rift Breaker to me. The game looks like a mix of Factorio and a tower-defence game with graphics that have a bit of a StarCraft vibe. I should probably try if that works on my gaming PC … which hasn’t been updated hardware-wise since 2016 😅

Exciting! Someone in Graz Puntigam decided to rob a bank and then was suspected to have fled into the parking garage next to my apartment complex. Imagine my surprise when I was just having lunch and a police helicopter was hovering 50 meters over my roof and at least 10 police officers in full gear showed up next-door 😅

I continue being impressed by “Foundation” on AppleTV+. While it’s only roughly based on the books by Isaac Asimov, the show manages to build an amazing atmosphere. Combine that with awesome tech and acting and you got yourself some awesome Sci-Fi 😍

In a recent statement, Boris Johnson compared the fight of the Ukraine people with Brexit. It’s hard to find words to describe that stupidity without requiring insults. Luckily, some EU and UK politicians have already found better words, all summarised in this Guardian article:

The SNP’s leader at Westminster, Ian Blackford, described the comparison between people voting to leave the EU and the resistance of Ukrainians to the Russian invasion as “morally repugnant”.