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Hamish Campbell

It’s not easy, and it’s not as simple as clicking “sign up” and walking into a ready-made community

Q: Very interested in what you have to say. I've been trying to find a place in the #Fediverse that's not in thrall to big tech. How do I join up? #OMN #OpenWeb. Hungry, feed me! A: This is harder than it should be, and that itself is a telling sign of where we are right now. The #Fediverse is a fascinating, messy, and diverse space, but much of it is still trapped in the gravity of the #dotcons. What you’ll mostly find are either clones of corporate social media—Twitter-like, […]

hamishcampbell.com/its-not-eas

#blocking#diy#dotcons
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Nathan Avots-Smith

Day 19: I got the wagon up in the air for the first time! And discovered the difference between a lifetime California car (the 530i) and one that's spent good chunks of its life in places like Massachusetts and Seattle (the wagon).

Was planning to remove the exhaust, but couldn't even get started; the four nuts that attach the exhaust to the manifold studs are super rusty. One broke off, which is fine, but the others wouldn't budge. #WeirdCarMastodon #WrenchEveryDay #DIY #BMW #EngineSwap #E39

My blue 2003 BMW 525iT wagon is raised on QuickJack portable lifts on my driveway in anticipation of removing its exhaust to begin removing its engine and transmission, which will be replaced by refurbished items removed from my former 2003 530i sedan.
A very rusty nut and stud sit on a blue shop towel on my driveway, the only one of the four fasteners I was able to remove between the exhaust and the downpipe.
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

V. is away visiting #Funcik. Check out the weird happy grin he does when he's really excited. No, it's not a snarl, he's smiling - perhaps something he learnt from humans.

Meanwhile I'm using the opportunity to shift the furniture out of the living room, scrub the floors and then lay down that cheapest of carpets we bought a while ago.

An interim solution for X years until we get around to tearing up the floor and putting in a new one.

Small brown mutt in the frontdoor of a house. He is standing on his hind legs, front paws on a pair of human knees, head raised up to the camera. His teeth are exposed, fangs sticking out, but it's an expression of excitement, not a threatening one at all.
#Renovation#Homestead#DIY
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Magic Cauldron

Whoop, ihr Märzbunnys! Am Samstag, dem 29.3.25, ist ab 17.00 Uhr wieder #VersponnenerSalon (offenes Online-Treffen für #Crafting aller Art, LGBTQ+-friendly) - freue mich auf euch! 🥰
ACHTUNG: Wir treffen uns auf Jitsi! Schickt mir ne PN, ich schicke dann den Link zum Meetingraum! #Handarbeitstreffen #DIY

Unverbindliche Einladung:

@1Atalante1
@Catobelli
@DamnedSnob
@ulktante
@brombeertuerkis
@nahlinse
@Loewenmama
@Apfelkucheneis
@meet_judith
@700Sachen
@mamsell
@zyni
@c_ristina
@shortkath
@fraeuleinwusel
@levampyre
@DancerOnSand

Ich hab hier noch nicht die üblichen Verdächtigen zusammen. Meldet euch einfach, dann wandert ihr auf meine Liste für den monatlichen Reminder. (Gleiches, wenn ihr runter wollt.) Alle anderen: Fühlt euch bitte eingeladen, bitte! Newbies welcome! 🥰
@fiberarts
@handarbeiten

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Sebastiaan Ammerlaan 🇳🇱
A birthday present I got. I wanted a stencil for #sashiko. (I'm bad at drawing grids, especially on fabric.) This was what I got—the local sewing shop apparently recommended it.

You use a hot needle to poke holes into the plastic, then I pinned it to my fabric and used a heat-erase pen to draw dots. I started out going row by row but then thought of a different strategy, as I'm connecting the dots with a ruler, anyway.

Promising results, so far! Though the hot needle poking part was a bit tedious.

#sewing #diy #visiblemending #embroidery @sewing@a.gup.pe
A transparent A4-sized sheet of plastic, with a grid printed on it. Holes have been poked into about a quarter of the sheet on the intersection points of the grid.
A photo of me poking holes into a sheet of transparent plastic with a grid printed on it. A candle sits next to me, for heating the needle.
A piece of fabric with white dots on it, to help with making a grid.
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Jer 🚵🏼

Now that I have a whole afternoon of sewing machine experience I'm branching out into bigger projects. You know, like making bike frame bags. 😉

LearnMYOG sells patterns (plus free ones) and videos talk you through how to sew all of the elements.
youtu.be/e3A6f-WRrbc
learnmyog.com/framebags.html

Six Rolling Wheels sells completed bags, their videos more meditative.
youtu.be/MgI2UICVtDk
sixrollingwheels.com/en-us/col
#BikeTooter #sewing #DIY

LearnMYOG sewing part of a frame bag. It’s inside out, and only gets turned right side when most of it is sewn. He’s using a commercial sewing machine
SixRollingWheels sewing zippers using a fancy commercial machine, he has a number of specialized machines and tools for different elements being sewn.
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