You need to rinse it out with water before first use. The Preppy is a great pen. Fountain pens should always be rinsed before first use due to residues from manufacturing. Just cool, clean water- not hot water. Let dry. Ink up and write.

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Conklin “omniflex” are not flex nibs. Hard as nails. Lamy calligraphy nib would be a better choice.

In a soft fine, this pen is the bee’s knees.

$: Platinum Preppy-excellent, very affordable. $$: Laban - beautiful steel nibs for midrange prices. $$$: Platinum 3776 good gold nib. $$$$: Pilot Custom Heritage 912 (fitted with ebonite feed from Flexible Nib Factory) or Kyuseido Kakari = mainlining FP bliss.

Call the modern version the "Colossus of Chodes".

Got the Bronze Corydas Nautilus a few years back and did not like the nib at all. More recently got a gorgeous Ikkaku Coiling Dragon Chinkin, however, and the nib is all it should be - divine. So very mixed reviews on Nahvalur for me. I recommend a test drive before buying if possible.

We have been watching in slow motion for decades what happens when a society abandons its children to capitalism. It’s time to stop now. I won’t be satisfied until these monsters are penniless and driven out of public life. And this shit with Grok demonstrates that chatbots are done

And now it’s education and sexual predation. I think we underestimated how many powerful men think it’s a perk to use children (and yes, 14 and 15-y-os are children) as sexual playthings. We have to draw a fucking line somewhere, and this is it