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never looked at it that way and i hate that it's probably true

RT @ElSandifer@twitter.com

I maintain that we are probably very lucky not to have heard Douglas Adams’s opinions on Brexit, trans people, and sexual harassment given that his close friends have all been subsisting on a diet of their own feet for the past decade. twitter.com/jonnymorris1973/st

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one of my co-workers who doesn't like me committed same exact fixes to a file i had already committed 4 days ago bc he didn't pull before editing the code & now he's credited with that in the commits & compounded with how subjugated i've been feeling at work i'm kinda pissed off

as for the keyboard, it really is just a matter of dirty contacts, the more i've been using it the more i can touch-type it again. gonna try to open it up and clean once i open the machine to replace the gear as well

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on another note, the gears at first were grinding a lot when returning the carriage, then they started working smoothly, now grinding again. likely the infamous pinion gear but that's gonna have to wait until i have the time to take it all apart. gonna try 3d printing that too

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... such that the ballpoint dislodged itself into the pen tip. so considering i can't recover the original pens, i ordered some 0.7mm ballpoints & i'm going to try to devise a way to make them into brand new no-old-parts plotter pens through some 3d printing. digits crossed!

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so i left the ballpoint tips soaking in alcohol overnight because there's still ink in the pen bodies (my stained paws are proof) but it wasn't getting up to the ballpoint tips. unfortunately not only did this not work, i ended up mechanically breaking the tip for my black pen...

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boba/bubble tea or nitro brew coffee? — i've never heard of nitro brew coffee but i looked it up and it sounds like something i'd love with some tapioca balls at th… retrospring.net/maple_syrup/a/

my ordinary life, ep 006:

@Atatra_Millie@twitter.com, about Aqua Teen Hunger Force: "i don't remember this veggietales spin-off"

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RT @LaserScheme@twitter.com

oh no i am in this game boy advance and also that one video game how did i get here?

🐦🔗: twitter.com/LaserScheme/status

RT @zeinsadd@twitter.com

the ROOF of notre dame burned down and people raised billions. israel is turning al-aqsa into a literal war zone and yet!!!!!!! crickets!!!!

🐦🔗: twitter.com/zeinsadd/status/13

RT @paulrickards@twitter.com

@maplesbian@twitter.com You're in luck! I won an auction for one that included the manual and I scanned it. Thanks for the reminder, I just uploaded it: archive.org/details/panasonic-

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refilling the pens also doesn't seem like such a difficult task after having opened them up, as long as i can find good water-based pen inks here i should be able to saturate the felt in them and flush out the ballpoint, then hopefully they'll work like new!

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okay! managed to make some time to mess with it, and
- think the pens aren't completely dry but rather dried out. been soaking them inside and out with some alcohol and look how great that blue came out!
- definitely will have to replace some nylon gears; losing steps frequently

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