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There’s a new lady at my work and I’ve been left alone to show her the ropes and in the dead silence I searched desperately for appropriate small talk and started with “so… did you grow up in the area?”

This woman has a Spanish accent thicker than a pound cake

We are in British Columbia

Today we were going over how to interact with people while in uniform and she asked me “what is ‘no cussing’?” and instead of saying “swearing, cursing, profanity, rude language” I blanked and went uh. Like. Shit fuck dick ass bitch hell. While in uniform

That's called disadvantage, where you roll twice and pick the lower number

Her aura making me roll with disadvantage. White in uniform

Top icons OVERALL posted to @oldinterneticons in 2025

Happy new year!

ID. nine icons.

  1. animated gif of an ascii person walking with LOL on each foot, captioned "lollerskates."
  2. windows 95 style options menu with the options, "Make Sense, Delete Internet, and Call Everyone Cunts." the latter two are selected.
  3. looping animated gif of a stick figure trying to eat food when their cat jumps up on the table, so they pick the cat up and put it on the floor.
  4. icon made to look like an unloaded image error, with text that reads, "my icon is busy fucking another icon of the same sex."
  5. art of jesus being crucified with a speech bubble that says, "I'm sooo writing about this in my Livejournal LOL."
  6. animated gif of Gir playing Dance Dance Revolution on an arcade pad.
  7. photo of a gray tabby kitten sitting inside a sealed jar with text added that just says "fuck."
  8. all caps text that reads, "I cannot go to bed there is epic shit happening on the internet."
  9. blue-on-blue text reading, "Artificial intelligence is no match for REAL STUPIDITY." End ID.

Lots of posts out there about falling down a Textile Hole where you start doing yarn stuff and then acquire drop spindles and spinning wheels and looms and then start dreaming about having a sheep farm, but that's far from the only kind.

You can also start off sewing and pattern drafting and embroidering and then your vintage sewing machine is acting up so you snag another one for super cheap while that one's being fixed, and then that one also needs fixing and you had a bad and expensive experience with the repairman so you look up youtube videos on how to do it yourself, and then a friend of a relative is decluttering and gives you an antique treadle which mostly just needs a lot of cleaning, and then you find 2 more vintage cast iron machines for dirt cheap at a garage sale and hey how hard could it be to replace a rotten wooden case?

I've not yet posted about my 5th machine on @vincentbriggs but here's the whole family currently. Oldest is from 1885 and youngest is from 1970. (Excluding the serger, which is from about 2000. It was free and I managed to fix it.)

Oh how I yearn for garage space and more tools!!

6 now :)

I just remembered Car Guys exist and am suddenly very grateful for how relatively clean, inexpensive, and compact sewing machines are.

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