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Ink and Rat Poison

In the Arti che vanno per via in Venezia (1753) by Gaetano Zompini, one of the trades depicted is a man with a long stick with dead rats attached, and also a series of bottles or jugs in his belt.

The associated poem says (in my translation):

I'm the one who sells fine ink for writing,
And I also have the stuff for rats,
That is, a very terrible poison for them.

The man is thus selling both writing ink and rat poison. The containers on his belt are conceivably for the ink and/or rat poison.

#LifeCustomsAndWaysOfDoingThings #Hypotheses #RatPoison #Rats #Venezia #Venice #WritingInk

Read more here: https://historywalksvenice.com/article/daily-life-and-customs/ink-and-rat-poison/

#ratpoison and #links2 in text-mode in #xterm.

Text links was the real challenge, but I finally made progress last night without having to use tmux.

Here I open an invidious instance and play a video, browse mastodon, display an image and browse #gopher.

Unfortunately #brutaldon does not render gopher URLs clickable, so I type in the address manually. In the example @SDF's gopher.club

Yet another step closer to finishing the links2 bible.

#links2gang #serpico @screwtape @thedaemon @matto