@rye

Other commenters have expert suggestions far beyond my own unhandiness. And it's been a couple of days: maybe you've unscrewed yourself already.

But if not, and you want to try the extraction pliers route, I've had good luck in several cases with this VAMPLIERS model. (Plus the name is pretty cool.)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B006YJKAPQ?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_2&th=1

#HomeMaintenance #Tools #LifeHacks

#HomeMaintenance #Tools #Pliers #LifeHacks

I glared at the tangled leads. "Get me some #pliers."

"You can fix it, right? It was only a prank—"

"No, I can't fix it. I'm using them on YOU."

#MastoPrompt #MicroFiction

Combination tongs
can be a perfect tool mate
at fixing a fence

#Mastoprompt
#pliers
#dailyhaikuprompt
#friend

#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
#SmallPoems
#writing

@stevencudahy
@dailyhaikuprompt

all fenced in weirdly
wires were twisted last year
time for the pliers

#Haiku #Poetry #Writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity
#MastoPrompt #Pliers
@stevencudahy

The #MastoPrompt for Wednesday 18 February 2026 is:

#pliers

The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.

@ me, if you like, or just include the #MastoPrompt tag (to allow people to follow or filter their feeds), or keep your work to yourself - all the options are good as long as you're writing.

If you're including an image please do include alt-text if you’re able to.

#Writing #SmallPoems #Poetry #Fiction #MicroFiction #SmallStories

First Collate show of 2026 is next weekend in Portland & it's an all-ager at the record store / in the basement of the comic shop:

Saturday, February 21, 2026

Collate
Fine (Seattle)
Pliers

My Vinyl Underground (below Books With Pictures), 1401 SE Division Street
doors at 7pm, bands at 8pm
all-ages, $10 / pay what you can

accessibility note: venue is down a flight of stairs

(three-color risograph print on paper, by me.)

#Punk #PostPunk #ArtPunk #NoWave #Risograph #Portland #Collate #Fine #Pliers

20+ Work Shop Tool Kit - Mechanic Carpentry Tool #Scissors #File #Pliers #Screwdriver #Toolkit #Tools #Wooden #Saw #Hammer #Carpentry #Wrench #Workshop #Props #Mechanic #Cutter #AssetStore

https://u3dn.com/packages/20-work-shop-tool-kit-mechanic-carpentry-319549

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix

Chaka Demus & Pliers:
🎵 Murder She Wrote

#ChakaDemus #Pliers

https://djmickeyknox.bandcamp.com/track/chaka-demus-pliers-murder-she-wrote

https://open.spotify.com/track/1HGyhNaRUFEDBiVLbvtbL6

Chaka Demus, Pliers - Murder She Wrote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uiL5ewGP1w

#ChakaDemus #Pliers #MurderSheWrote #Music

Hand tools vent. Maybe this will save someone some grief and #expense if they find it with a search.

Wiha - great drivers & bits. Love 'em. Well-machined, good tough tool #steel.

But their needlenose pliers? Rubbish. I have a set of full-sized needlenose, plus their "micro" set. With both of them there's too much slop in the joint, so the jaws are never quite aligned. I don't recall if they were bad right out of the packaging, but I certainly noticed it within the first handful of usages. I have the full sized "standard" / linesman-type pliers as well, but you don't tend to notice slop because of the much shorter jaws.

Wiha's micro-needlenose pliers are no better than - or even noticeably worse than - #cheap #Chinesium ones I have.

Save your money.

#vent #venting #HandTools #review #drivers #DriverBits #pliers #needlenose #Wiha #junk #ExpensiveJunk #JointPlay #joint #play