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  • walden@wetshav.ingtoWetShaving@sub.wetshaving.social•Thursday SOTD Thread, August 28th, 2025 (#807)English
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    2 小时前

    August 28th, 2025: Much better

    • Brush: Zenith - 508A XL/Bristle (B35) (MOAR BOAR) 31mm Boar
    • Razor: Joseph Rogers & Sons Near Wedge (8)
    • Lather: House of Mammoth - Mood Indigo - Soap
    • Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. - I, Rich Moose - Aftershave
    • Post Shave: Declaration Grooming, House of Mammoth - Cerberus - Liniment

    Same brush, soap, and razor as yesterday, but this time I stropped. I didn’t even strop all that much - about 15 on linen and 30ish on leather. The difference was very noticeable! The shave is closer and more comfortable. It also just plain felt better during the shave.

    I can’t definitively say it was 100% the stropping that improved the shave, but I do think it had a lot to do with it. I’ve always thought this razor felt “soft”, as in the metal has a certain soft feel to it compared to the Koraat Moarteen, for example. I’ve had poor shaves and superb shaves from both razors, and this being my 65th straight razor shave I’m starting to have more of the latter from both!

    On a different note, welcome @putneycj@sub.wetshaving.social!

  • walden@wetshav.ingtoMeanwhileOnGrad@sh.itjust.works•Hexbearians are pissed at Fedia and PieFed for the audacity of not wanting to deal with them LMAOEnglish
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    15 小时前

    A lot of folks think their decentralized internet forum of choice should be a free for all, but that’s not realistic.

    Moderation and censorship are easy to get confused. Moderation includes reviewing content and sources for quality and safety, while censorship aims to control or manipulate a narrative. (general words taken from this page)

    A PieFed instance defederating from a historically nasty fediverse server or 12 is just a form of moderation, and is up to whoever runs the server. The reason for blocking hexbear/lemmy.ml/lemmygrad could just be to cut down on the amount of manual moderation that’s required by having their stuff federate to your server – not trying to control a narrative or suppress any opinions – just historically lots of wrong, inaccurate, inflammatory stuff that adds to a moderator’s workload. Easier to avoid it.

    Lemmy.ml removing comments and banning people for having opinions that differ from theirs is censorship, because 1) they are very consistent about it and 2) it drives their narrative.

  • walden@wetshav.ingtoWetShaving@sub.wetshaving.social•Wednesday SOTD Thread, August 27th, 2025 (#806)English
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    21 小时前

    August 27th, 2025

    • Brush: Zenith - 508A XL/Bristle (B35) (MOAR BOAR) 31mm Boar
    • Razor: Joseph Rogers & Sons Near Wedge (7)
    • Lather: House of Mammoth - Mood Indigo - Soap
    • Post Shave: Brut - Brut - Splash On
    • Fragrance: Noble Otter - Hamami - EdP

    Very nice! I didn’t strop, but I do wonder if stropping would have improved the feel. The end result is really good, but I think overall it could have been better. I think this razor is made of relatively “soft” steel, so in theory I’d think stropping would help. Maybe I’ll try it again tomorrow.

  • walden@wetshav.ingtoWetShaving@sub.wetshaving.social•Monday SOTD Thread, August 25th, 2025 (#804)English
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    3 天前

    August 25th, 2025

    • Brush: AP Shave Co. - w/Maggard SHD 26mm Badger
    • Razor: Union Razor Cutlery 5/8 Full Hollow (9)
    • Lather: Fanzine Saponifications - Caravaggio - Soap
    • Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. - I, Rich Moose - Aftershave
    • Fragrance: Fanzine Saponifications - Caravaggio - EdP

    Another superb shave from Fanzine Saponifications. I used my favorite synthetic brush last night and got one of the best shaves of my life, and today I used a badger knot. I knew from the start that I probably didn’t load enough soap, but pressed on anyway. Results are still amazing.