Louis Salkeld
Winter Jo 
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Owlor 
@ShadowJonathan I've had someone show up in my mentions with an encyclopaedic knowledge of fountain pen restoration and repair, help me successfully nurse a vintage fountain pen back to life and then promptly disappearing into the ether, this is the sort of thing we are missing out on.
Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐
Adriano
Elizabeth 
@ShadowJonathan I know someone like this
They’ll fix most common things
hex@ShadowJonathan /me looks up from a volunteer code review I'm able to do because I'm on medial leave
Yeah, this
Vorsos@ShadowJonathan Brazil (1985, dir. Terry Gilliam)
ilikecats@ShadowJonathan Full post, higher quality. It's not that hard to find this stuff. Original link: https://bsky.app/profile/morbi.bsky.social/post/3majy3zm4es2g
Nicole ParsonsThere's a very good reason why Republicans attack the non-conformists, be they the unmarried woman, LGBTQ, non-Christian, POC, or immigrants...
... to build a whites-only ethnostate that serves solely the greed of billionaires, they need to cull the different & encourage eugenics movements.
David Fleetwood - RG Admin@ilikecats @ShadowJonathan Oh no, we can't have this! If we did this we might accidentally end capitalism!
Eragon@ShadowJonathan Brokin house? No priblim we'll fix it!
StevenSavage (he/him)
Bitslingers-R-Us@ShadowJonathan This SO, SO much. I tell people often about the need to constantly balance the desire to do productive things that help people with the need to have money to live. The world would be so much better if those things were better aligned.
brib [has moved again]@AnachronistJohn @ShadowJonathan This reminds me of David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs theory. Jobs which are useful (shit jobs) don't get paid because the people doing them are supposed to live on the warm glow of doing actually useful things with their lives. Meanwhile the jobs with pay don't help anyone and don't need to exist (i.e. are bullshit jobs)
MWT@sitcom_nemesis @AnachronistJohn @ShadowJonathan I would love to go back to working in a factory as a lowly grunt worker and blogging about it. Wish I could afford to do it.
Lord Kelvin@AnachronistJohn @ShadowJonathan @sitcom_nemesis
My favorite job ever: driving for Jefferson Lines - scheduled motorcoach service.
Getting mostly poor people where they needed to go. Actually helping people.
What job was I doing when we went almost bankrupt? Yup. Same job.
occurrent
Rachel@[email protected] @ShadowJonathan trade ya for fixing bikes or non printer tech
cyplo@rachel @ShadowJonathan @occurrent we could...have freaks build printers that work, because what makes them not work is mostly capitalism tbh
Owl Eyes@cyplo @rachel @ShadowJonathan @occurrent we could print on endcuts of wood from carpenters, using lasers
Pete / Syllopsium@cyplo @rachel @ShadowJonathan @occurrent There's a possible 'open printer' coming along, but it's uncertain when.
In the meantime get a laser printer that has PCL or Postscript built into it. Preferably one that explicitly lists open source support on their website.
Yes, it will take up a bit more space than an inkjet. Yes it will cost a bit more too. However it will work.
The problem is people want a) cheap and b) inkjets, and for inkjets it's necessary to be very careful what you choose, and to maintain it properly.
maya@mayadev @rachel @ShadowJonathan @occurrent I mean yeah ! until recently ... :/ they started to fiddle with parts DRM and all the genuine toner check bs etc
Snapai 
@cyplo
Ive been tempted to be one of those. I fiddle with 3D printers, but it fascinates me how many different machines out there are just
2+ axes
1+ thingy moving around and doing something
Like, give me a nonproprietary print head that I can put on one on these, the only real difference between a vinyl cutter and an inkjet printer is what it's moving around!
Or like, put some sort of print/sprayhead on a router and make Wikihouse blocks that are preprinted with labels and instructions!
Print and cut patterns on fabric for clothing. Only reason you can't change the width of a printer easily is because they have to be mass manufactured. Otherwise, swap two rods, some cables, change a setting.....maaaybe a little more memory idk.
there is beauty in simplicity@occurrent @ShadowJonathan and I'd invite you in
Mad Engineering@occurrent My entire neighborhood needs your help more than they could possibly understand.
Passwordsarehard4@ShadowJonathan of o had me a good chainsaw and trailer sized chipper the trees around me would be gorgeous and the trails would always be freshly mulched. Love doing it but there wasn’t any money in it.
George BWalking out of the bathroom at a house party and going up to the host to say "you know how the handle on your toilet jiggled a bit and needed to be held in just the right way to flush? It's fixed now." is one of my favorite things.
The Orange Theme@gbargoud @ShadowJonathan I would replace so many flappers!
oisin@gbargoud @ShadowJonathan oh dear I have done these kind of fixes at parties a lot too also straightening frames on the walls etc 😀
Baloo Uriza@ShadowJonathan I 100% would go door to door updating OpenStreetMap fulltime if I could afford to, socioeconomically.
This obsession spawned out of maps not updating fast enough in Portland 20 years ago to reliably run a courier service and kinda getting screwed by that, ultimately leading me to learn about and start contributing to OpenStreetMap just to have accurate navigation in a city that was changing the street grid daily.
@BalooUriza @ShadowJonathan Thank you for your service! :3
Mother Anarchy@ShadowJonathan this is so fucking true. Source: am one of those freaks
walnut 🌱@ShadowJonathan
I'd love to bounce around like a roomba and fix things as I went
I'd love to bounce around like a roomba and fix things as I went
S T E L L A R 
@ShadowJonathan that's why we need freak polycule communities to help eachother with our basic needs to be able to quadruple the freakyness of earth
R.L. Dane 
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Will write fun, dinky shell scripts and sci-fi fanfic for food (and catfood... and snacks... and cat treats... and occasionally a little bit of RAM and SSDs...)
@ShadowJonathan i still randomly get favs on a comment i posted on bsky forever ago:
"who's going to make the trains run on time:
- someone who's in it for the money
- an autistic train guy"
...it might have been in response to this very screenshot being posted there too, come to think of it...
"who's going to make the trains run on time:
- someone who's in it for the money
- an autistic train guy"
...it might have been in response to this very screenshot being posted there too, come to think of it...
James Zimmerman@ShadowJonathan
I would go from town to town evangelizing instant runoff voting. Then I might wax poetic about growing wine grapes without fungicide.
I would go from town to town evangelizing instant runoff voting. Then I might wax poetic about growing wine grapes without fungicide.
Trip@ShadowJonathan This is rather like those code libraries or repositories I hear about sometimes, where half the internet is built on this thing, and it's just one person in obscurity, obsessively keeping it updated, in their own time, with no compensation or recognition.
Milly@ShadowJonathan I actually had a though once that it'd be cool to be responsible for a small community. Not in the administrative sense mind you, but in the janitorial sense. I'd go around fixing, replacing and upgrading things all day and never need therapy again in my life. Could have a simple network too. Setup with a firewall and some IDS, maybe a honeypot, protecting the normies that'd live there from baddies. Go and oil some hinges after killing a printer. Basic janitor stuff.
Ari "Two Sheds" Jackson@ShadowJonathan I had one friend who bought a headlight polishing kit and he honestly went around and cleaned up all of his neighbors' old headlights. I believe this is absolutely true.
DistroWatch@ShadowJonathan I feel this in my soul. If I didn't need to work for a living every computer in a 30 block radius would be fixed and kids would have free coding lessons.
Dmytro Oleksiuk@ShadowJonathan We don’t have such system yet because for each million of freaks there’s a billion of normies who will abuse & scam the shit out of it 😬
Municipal Adhesives@d_olex @ShadowJonathan booooooo you're the reason we have a billion slaves and a million unhappy workers rather than a million fully realized people and a billion moochers. BOOOOOO
@municipaladhesives @ShadowJonathan Sure I am, there’s no way to have sustainable society with 1/1000 proportion of decent people to moochers
@d_olex @municipaladhesives @ShadowJonathan an official assessment from a qualified psychologist certifying the freaks as fully qualified, would reduce the moochers
MortenTorten 
@d_olex @ShadowJonathan Most people say, they would go on working, but they don't trust others would. Maybe just have a little more trust in others.
@mortentorten @ShadowJonathan “The others” has obvious issues right at this moment with very basic stuff like not electing dictators and criminals for presidents, it does not inspire any trust like at all
@d_olex @ShadowJonathan That's because people get only shitty alternatives and are led to believe those dictators have their interests in mind. Why else are they always talking about the hard working people?
@ShadowJonathan Not only that, but a lot of what people have to do to pay the bills is actively harmful. Imagine if all the people doing cold calls all day could just stay home and play PlayStation. Everybody wins!
Violet MadderDavid Graeber wrote a book about this, called "Bullshit Jobs"
@ShadowJonathan I love Post 10!
Unclogging Culverts To Relieve A Flooding Road So It Can Dry Out
Virginicus@Hazzbenn @ShadowJonathan I might have done that once or twice.
Coach Spore DieselI would voluntarily organize, sort, alphabetize anything and everything.
Peter Brown@ShadowJonathan we need #ubi
Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧Feeling seen here.
Turning off TV's lazy-ass 'fitness' freaks leave blathering from idle machines at the gym.
Snowshoeing popular dog walks through the local park after a fresh sky drop.
Doing computer shit for pals who hate them.
Obsessive weirdos with extremely niche special interests MUST BE SPONSORED.
Who ELSE is going to do that work, if not the person who was born to do it?
There are enough people, and enough resources. There is no excuse not to do this.