Mastodawn

Here, have some #mondog

My son is looking to get into sewing machine repair as a business. There's demand for it up here. But search engines in 2025 are shite.

Does anyone know any good resources? Things like old manuals, online communities, forums, wikis, YouTube channels.

For example, he's got a 1928 Singer that's binding. He seems to have good instincts about what's wrong with it, but he's been unable to find a manual. He's got several others he's tinkering with, and wants understand them and become the go-to person in this area with all the knows.

I've directed him to archive.org but I suspect it might not be organized on this topic and it won't offer much community.

Any resources would be appreciated!

[Tagging him: @bamboy ]

#AskFedi #Solarpunk #RightToRepair #sewing #RepairCafe

mirbrewer Jun 2

Oh crap it’s #mondog almost forgot

mirbrewer May 26

Oh is it #mondog ?

mirbrewer May 14

InarticulateQuilter Oct 19, 2023

Going thru my photos tonight and forgot I’d saved this infographic on how to help someone being targeted for Islamophobic harassment

AltText’d if you can’t read the small print

mirbrewer May 12

https://www.patreon.com/posts/128587992?utm_campaign=postshare_fan

mirbrewer May 4

🌈 Tilly Bridges ✨May 4

this May the Fourth, let’s not forget the reason for the Star Wars season: glow sticks are fun and fighting fascism is good

mirbrewer Apr 23

Laffy Apr 23

Delete all Meta accounts

“ #Meta's advisory board approves videos containing disparaging remarks about #trans people, in a first test of looser content rules introduced in January.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/04/23/meta-oversight-board-trans-content-moderation-hate-speech/

Videos disparaging trans women aren’t hate speech, Meta board says

Meta leaders Joel Kaplan and Nick Clegg told the social media company’s Oversight Board last year that videos reposted by Libs of TikTok should be treated carefully.

The Washington Post

mirbrewer Apr 22

Christof Ritter Apr 22

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Sini Tuulia Apr 11

No but: A context appropriate platonic escort service. You could hire a historian to keep you company at a museum, take an artist for a nature walk. Or a biologist on a nature walk. Somebody extremely into tomatoes with you for a garden centre run. A carpenter to come drool at tools with you in a museum and/or hardware store? Just somebody to enrich and liven up an experience you'd not enjoy quite so much alone. 🤔