niucllos

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[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

The feeding issue seems like it's probably just newborn lazyness/lack of muscle still and bottles are easier, but tongue ties, lip ties, and muscle strains are all incredibly common in babies and can make suction much harder. If your wife is dedicated to breastfeeding then you could go to a lactation consultant now if you want, but if that's difficult you can definitely keep offering nipples at most feedings and then supplement with a bottle. Not sustainable forever but will help the baby start developing the right muscles and energy for proper latch suction. If the problem persists then a lactation consult would be a good next step.

Hang in there, it's a tough few weeks with a tiny human who doesn't know how to live yet! Things change quickly though so what seems impossible today may well be routine in a week.

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago

Although they've also shown willingness to lay the smackdown on cities for little to no reason

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Idk if this is what they meant but I don't care if it's true if the machine altered votes, if it's suspicious they should do a paper recount either way and prove the machine integrity or lack thereof.

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

I started out as a mountain biking kid with my dad, but pretty much exclusively road bike now. To be honest, I routinely go over grass and dirt on my road bike for shortcuts, as long as you're careful it's fine. Especially if you throw slightly more robust tires on them and it's more the occasion than the rule I wouldn't worry about it.

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Also used huckleberry, didn't find it until after the baby was here but in my sleep addled state it seemed to be decenly private. Syncs well across iPhone/android too.

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

I recently got a supernote, same idea but a bit cheaper, they offer a smaller one, and it runs an android fork instead of a Linux fork. Great for notetaking, haven't used obsidian but you can side load almost any android app with mixed success

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago

Yeah I'll believe it when he tries and they stand up to him

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

I don't have a steam deck, but my understanding is that would work pretty well. Might be overkill though, I emulate GameCube games with few problems on an android phone from a few years ago with a cheap Bluetooth controller

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago

That's a bigger screen than my pixel 6a, which is borderline unusable one handed for me. I'm in the market for a new, smaller phone, but unless they've warped space to get this thing smaller I don't know how it completes against all the non 'mini' phones which will be mere millimeters larger

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Thanks for the replies everyone! It definitely looks like a dip pen from what I can see, I can't even see where a feed or reservoir might attach now that I'm looking. I'll try to post some better pictures of the actual nib and interior tomorrow, today escaped me.

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

$4 for the cheapest at the cheapest grocery store near Charlotte, NC. Limit 2 per customer too

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by niucllos@lemm.ee to c/fountainpens@lemmy.world
 

Recently I had some guests stay for a while, and while they were packing and cleaning this pen rolled out of a bedroom closet. I can't find any identifying marks on the pen itself anywhere, and in fact it looks quite a bit different inside than any pen I have seen before (not that I have tons of experience)--it's just a completely hollow tube made of very thin metal, with a friction-fit cap that holds a #773 R. Esterbrook & Co's Natural Slant, also friction fit and with no reservoir to speak of.

The only information I can find on the nib is that the nib is possibly from around 1938, or at least that that model was being manufactured at the time (The Esterbrook Project).

The house where this was found was constructed in ~1939, and I have no idea how long the pen was hiding in the closet since we've cleaned it out several times before and it wasn't even the first time this month that we had guests staying in that room. We're also far from the first owners, though I found a penny from the 1940s when we did a demolition project in the garage so there are some artifacts from the early days of its life still hiding around!

Any pointers would be appreciated! I'm not sure what to call the raised vine and flower motif on the outside to help narrow my searches to try to find similar pens by blind luck.

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