John Trendler
Interests: calligraphy 🖋️ fountain pens (especially flex nibs), art, digital asset management, solo backpacking, metaphysics and philosophy, joining social media sites and then forgetting about them
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- www.nj.com/education/20... handwriting!
- www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/o... Pen and ink on paper ✒️
- www.creativebloq.com/design/produ... ...with handwriting becoming known as the ultimate act of AI rebellion in 2025 😀
- Taking the train into LA today, glad I opted to leave earlier than I had previously planned
- Whoo hoo, look at all this time I saved
- FYI: Fountain Pen Day is the first Friday of November
- AI Competencies for Academic Library Workers www.ala.org/acrl/standar...
- just back from Portland, where I bought Oregon Marionberry ink from Oblation Papers and Press - highly recommended shop
- #nokings LA
- there's a subreddit about trees sucking on things 😂
- www.npr.org/2025/04/24/n... keep writing letters
- Letter additions - based on acanthus, pencil and Lamy lx with EF nib
- Rustic bridge, Golden Gate Park.
- yes, write more letters www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
- Just swapped out an M nib for an EF in my old Lamy, thinking I'll use it more now. I never really liked the M size
- New pen, tried a few in store - really like the extra fine nib
- I haven't been doom-scrolling the news lately & I have to say it's quite nice
- Reposted by John TrendlerClaudia Sheinbaum, the President of Mexico, has announced a lawsuit against Google, if they continue to label the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America across its entire body of water. The lawsuit argues that Trump's order to rename the region is only limited to the section under US control.
- I renewed my library card the other day 📚
- time to renew my passport
- Normalize not hustling
- ❤️ happy ❤️ Valentine's ❤️ day❤️
- Wow. It's REALLY rainy in So Cal. I stepped in 3 or 4 urban rivers on my walk home & got soggy socks 🫤
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o-V... fascinating look into silly animals in marginalia. TIL the word drolleries
- @briantylercohen.bsky.social exposing the corruption of former Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Scott Pruit's staff spending over $1,500 on fountain pens - but all I can think is that $1,500 on fountain pens isn't really that much, is it? 😂 #fountainpens
