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Chris Nelson

@chrisnelsonsdog@mstdn.social

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Socially awkward penguin, rollin' hard in the land of fediverse chicks and reply guys.

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Satoru Hasegawa 16h ago

morning no.2

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dillyd 5h ago

Edited for drama. This orchid is a more pale, delicate yellow in real life. But these edits bring out the details and the sparkliness of the petals.
#bloomscrolling #orchid

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Anemone Nemorosa 3h ago

Silfurreynir (Scandosorbus intermedia)

A whitebeam planted in 1884 in Reykjavik

#thicktrunktuesday #trees #iceland

Petalled sunshine.

#bloomscrolling #flowers #BlackeyedSusans #nature #NaturePhotography #SolaceInNature #DelightOverDarkness

Chris Nelson 2h ago

halama_immuno 3h ago

Windmill and pond #silentsunday #photography #nature

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Dan McCullough 3h ago

Globe Thistles are wonderfully strange flowers that attract pollinators.

The 2nd photo is what my iPhone camera did with the portrait setting. They sort of look like fireworks with ghostly tails.

#BloomScrolling #Pollinators #Flowers

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Mark Macon 2h ago

-- July 2023 --

#nature #clouds #fences #newYorkState #upstateNY #upstateNewYork #canandaigua #fingerLakes

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Kristie 1d ago

My book Drystone – A Life Rebuilt is out in just three weeks.

I really believe in this book. It’s honest about important things, quietly subversive, funny, easy to read, and I’ve poured everything into writing it and getting it into the world as far as I can.

If you can, I’d love your help. A share, a preorder, a message to someone who might love it, it all makes a difference.

Info and links below.

#Books #Bookstodon #Scotland #Writing #Reading #Women

Chris Nelson 2h ago

Kaja 3h ago

Watch out for the little ones...

#photography #sunflower #landscapephotography

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AI6YR Ben 2d ago

U.S. Patent No. 431,207 (Patented July 1, 1890) by G.L. Gray "Drop Cabinet for Sewing Machines" ?

This must be it... Just for the heck of it, I am printing the patent out and will leave it with the future new owner of this cabinet. (I am not going to keep it, although the treadle is FABULOUS. I may consider another one with a more modern machine, post 1940's, in the future).

https://ppubs.uspto.gov/api/pdf/downloadPdf/0431207?requestToken=eyJzdWIiOiI5NjhkOTI3Mi1mNWVjLTQ5ZDQtODUwMi0yNDYyYjdlNDFmYWYiLCJ2ZXIiOiIxMjJhYzQwYS1mMzRiLTQ5MDItYjIzMS1mMzdhOGY1MjIxNDMiLCJleHAiOjB9

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AI6YR Ben 2d ago

Looks like the machines circa 1907 all are similar design... I am thinking people were copying each other. There are two other treadle machines of similar era people have been trying to sell here nearby in town. One's a couple of blocks away from me here, down the street, LOL. (asking much more than my $35 deal)

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Nobody ناچیز नास्ति (he/him)2d ago

@ai6yr
I learned to sew on my mother's Singer, which we still have.

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W6KME 2d ago

@ai6yr Plenty of companies copied Singer's designs, but all is fair etc. Singer was famously unshy about stealing other people's patented designs, including the one that got him into the sewing machine business. Cost him quite a bit of money eventually.

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Stumpy The Mutt 2d ago

@W6KME @ai6yr Our Singer is vintage 1916 and we still use it. Needles and bobbins are still available. All it needed was careful oiling and cleanup of the gummed up mechanism along with rewiring using cotton braided modern wiring for the motor and bulb (also still available).

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John Socks 2d ago

@ai6yr My mom has one like that Singer. I think there were really a lot of them made, and it's really only older people who have a strong connection to them. And so ..

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Chris Samuel 2d ago

@ai6yr what an absolutely beautiful cabinet! Love the work on that.

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Megan Lynch (she/her)2d ago

@ai6yr Treadle power is great. We ought to use more of it, IMO.

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AI6YR Ben 2d ago

@meganL Oh, I agree! I don't know why you'd go electric if you can do treadle power, but I guess only for a hobbyist or someone at home, clearly motors are easier for high throughput.

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Megan Lynch (she/her)2d ago

@ai6yr I'm sure there are times your foot would get tired, but the great thing about the transition era machines is that you can set them up for treadling or for using electrically.

And it isn't just about sewing machines. There's farm equipment, shears, and other machines that can be run by treadle power. It doesn't make sense to mimic this in gyms, but not actually use the power of treadles in our daily lives.

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Bruce MacDonald 2d ago

@ai6yr This is a great thread. I remember my grandma having one of these; the front edge of the treadle could come down on your toes if you weren't careful.

In the film "Fiddler on the Roof," a sewing machine played a part in Motel the tailor's "Miracle of Miracles."

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Stumpy The Mutt 2d ago

@rationaldoge @ai6yr Thanks for today's earworm!😄

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AI6YR Ben 2d ago

@StumpyTheMutt @rationaldoge Interesting, similar design but different tensioning mechanism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOeD6uq-qRs