Sewing friends, Costco is selling the Singer Heavy Duty machine for $179.99, which is a great price. This is a really nice general purpose machine for starting your sewing hobby! It'll make crafts, clothes, bags, quilts, it's a good little tank.

- It can easily handle things like denim or canvas, two fabrics a lot of beginning sewists using for things like bags and totes

- It has a strong motor and with regular maintenance will last a long time (I wish I'd kept mine!)

- Specialty presser feet can be a hidden expense with sewing, sometimes they're hard to find in different brands (my Bernina's feet are hard to locate). But Singer's feet are generic and you can get variety packs for $20, very nice!

#sewing #costco #crafting

This article features some US bookstores that still have masking policies: if you are blessed with a book budget please consider supporting indie stores that still mask, and drop them in the comments.

https://www.whoevenreads.com/indie-bookstores-promoting-masking-and-covid-consciousness-in-2026/

#CovidIsNotOver

On the train and four older (60+) people are having a nice little grumble about how annoying it is that there's always AI at the top of search results and it's usually wrong.

Just in case you were worried that only young people hate this crap.

*waves book* *WAVES BOOK*

#bookmemes #getnotified #bookstodon

Cervical cancer deaths in England fall to zero in young women given vaccine

A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c621z28z138o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

(c) #BBC #News