Just finished up with the #repairCafe at the library.

I was main for bicycles and backup for laptop repair and Linux Install.

I managed to:
- tune a derailleur on one bike
- attach a kickstand to another
- swap out fresh tires and inner tubes for a third (and taught the family how to do and supervised them while they did the second tire!)

As backup for laptop repair, I helped diagnose and find a mitigation for a set or USB headphones/mic that was only pushing sound through one speaker.

I also met a lot of folks throughout town. Talked to some city organizers and officials. Talked to other groups and folks and had a great time.

The other repair stands besides my bicycle station were:
- A sewing and mending station
- An electronic / appliance repair station
- A historical preservation station
- A furniture repair station
- A laptop repair and Linux install station
- A kids section with coloring and activities

It was a good day.

#solarPunk #libraries

@trashheap @gael I was happily running e/os and liking it, and then they made it clear they were going in for AI, and now I’ve ditched them and they’re out of consideration.

RE: https://writing.exchange/@golgaloth/117577592462196554

When my author friends meet at a book fair! Go tassie 🥰 #author

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And now the powers that be in the Linux world are fucking it all up with slop. They saw Windows hammering itself on the dick and wanted in on that action.

They're all idiots.

$TOOT +0.28 84.64 #TrendingNow #Crypto #Web3 #BTSE

For a while, I was under the impression that all spiciness, or burning sensation in food flavoring, would come from capsaicin, the compound that causes it in chili peppers. Then I realized that Sichuan peppers are a quite different kind of heat. Wasabi (horseradish) is different yet again.

How many hot-flavored compounds are there? At least five!

Kalsec: "The Elements of Heat"

kalsec.com/insights/crafting-t…

thinking about it I may’ve just discovered why this thing was abandoned originally

the middle gear is kinda fucked, and if they tried to pull the crank and fucked it up _then_, original owner may’ve been all “oh FUCK THIS” and got a newer better bike, probably something with an aluminium frame instead of steel for lower weight.

#BikeRepair #BikeTooter

is it guid like squid or guid like boo-urns

@shaunyata As for Daniel Smith she's busy reinventing herself as a federalist and has suddenly been born again into working with the rest of Canada. If her own party doesn't take her out the voters most likely will.

@apps impressive, ten years! so fedilab has been around as long as mastodon?

@anticomposite Hmm... how much money from this one is going to Trump stuff, though?

@ai6yr

direct to disc - means there was no magnetic tape used to record, which was then transcribed to the analogue master but was recorded direct to the analogue master. this was the highest level of recording at the time to avoid noise and distortion.

Both of these musicians are in my collection today and I have listened to throughout my life. Not primary but they've always been there. I never fully appreciated Les Brown until this last year. First heard of him in my 20's from people who were nuts about him. Nearly 50 years later I've heard enough music now to really appreciate him.

Buddy Rich was one of the greatest drummers of all time. I'll get you a link.

Birdland was a jazz club in NYC. An important one. And just as important, was a song composed by Joe Zawinal in the mid 1970's . He started what we know today as Jazz Fusion with this song. It changed music. Completely.

Congrats on an amazing score of music

https://youtu.be/94DeieWZgTM?list=RD94DeieWZgTM

will journalists ever figure out they can cite someone's hateful speech without reproducing it in a harmful form

You... you announced an offer ? I thought Trump's post just meant that it had been offered and ACCEPTED. Who the hell posts this publicly before getting a yes ? XD

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/11/07/politics/dana-white-trump-press-secretary

#USPol

@jaz

Show me your dinner is all gone before I let you have any dessert.

or

Did you brush up and down, all the way to the back teef?

@m_berberich Terminating their bloodline? ...heh... If you want to take care of "the bloodline" in question, be my guest.

Here, I can't, and it's better for their health (it stops social fight for mating and offer them a more peaceful life)

Stuck in rush hours traffic somewhere between #Noto and #Catania. Some are visibly stressed after a day at the office.

@ai6yr America 250 is the controlled-by-Congress mostly-nonpartisan one, Freedom 250 is the Trump one

@cazabon