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Athamanatha

$550/$2000 #mutualaid request
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The situation on the Vulpibus is never cheap it seems, though we have managed to get some things for free there's some we don't expect to be free at all.

Things we need:

Plywood
Sheet metal
Angle iron
Screws
A towing dolly for our car to be pulled behind the bus
Oil filter
A full engine check and service to deduce where coolant is leaking

Can we say $2000 to cover most of this?

We are still months away from me getting employed in a job where the pay will be something but not exactly much in the face of inflation.

Please find us free parking for a few months... PA, NJ or NY state

#queermutualaid#helpfolkssurvive#helpfolkslive2025
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Silver Arrows

We had a customer in who insisted he had to talk to the owner about the issues with his bike.

So when my boss came back from his break, I told him and he got really annoyed. The customer came back a little later, and told my boss the issues. My boss got really annoyed and said couldn't the customer tell me that himself? And he mentioned an incident with his previous mechanic in the old place. The customer insisted on making the boss come up for a second opinion because he didn't trust the (female) mechanic's quote. So my boss told him the exact same thing the mechanic told him, and added a tenner to the quote for wasting his time! 😆

So now I know my boss has hired at least two female mechanics before me (one of them was the lady with us at the bike show. I do wish my boss would tell me how he knows a person when he introduces them!).

You know, I've experienced general bullying, racial abuse and religious abuse, but the only time I've experienced overt #sexism is in my current industry.

In my previous job, I'd frequently be ignored by male customers who would walk past me and look for a man. Once, both I and a female colleague asked a customer if he needed help, he blanked up both, went to a male colleague and was promptly told, "ask one of the two ladies there."

Once I had a customer completely ignore me, then actually walk into the back room. I ran after him and told him he can't just walk into staff areas. He said he needed help. I said I asked you twice if you need help, I could have helped you. When he did eventually get the male member of staff he so desired, he decided to shout at him as well. "Why are you asking be what's wrong with my bike! You're paid to do it! Why don't you tell me!"

I bet when he goes to the doctor, he just sits there refusing to tell the doctor what's wrong.

Later I told one of my homies and he gave him a lecture, and when I said" yes, actually I'm a technician and I could help you if you didn't ignore me", he basically talked over me. I told him, "You're literally ignoring me when I'm talking to you!" He didn't learn. I think women are just invisible to him.

Once I was helping a male customer choose accessories as he was planning on starting to cycle to work. There was another male customer looking towards us. He then asked the CUSTOMER if he can help him. I said, he isn't staff. The second customer ignored me and again asked my customer for help. When the customer said he doesn't work there and that I'm the staff member, he walked off to the till to my male colleague.

Once I was actually building a bike, and a lady came up to the till area asking if someone can help her choose a bike. The supervisor was busy doing admin stuff on the till, so I got up and said I can help. The lady then said, I mean I need someone who knows about bikes.

I WAS LITERALLY BUILDING A BIKE FFS.

Instead I said, yes I know about bikes and went on to show her our range and help her choose the best bike for her. At the end, she's like, you really know a lot about bikes... but of course you do, you work here!

I'm used to men patronising me, but it was a bit weird getting sexism from a female customer. She was fine at the end though. So at least I got a teachable moment out of that.

There was an interview in the trade magazine where a female mechanic had a customer who expressed surprise at seeing a female mechanic. And she thought, he was going to say something about how it's a pleasant surprise or something, instead he said she should do the repair for free since she's a woman.

#bikemekanik#bikerepair#bikeindustry
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The Square Fireball

Who Wants What Weapon Groups?

One of the design choices in the structure of 4th edition Dungeons & Dragons is the way that weapons are given categorical signifiers that let you treat them in shared, mechanically related ways. What did these groups do, and who needs help?

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squarefireballs.invincible.inkWho Wants What Weapon Groups? – The Square Fireball
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#gear#mechanics
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Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

Interesting story of a #women owned #garage in #Yorkshire in the 1980s (and the ladies who ran it were also #lesbian #activists). Whilst society has got marginally better for #LGBT people in the meantime, its still a shame that even today such a business remains unusual (whilst there are slightly more female #mechanics, they are still relatively rare or dependent on men as employers, and other women tend to just end up in admin roles) #automotive #cars

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2dz0

BBC NewsFilm screening about 1980s women mechanics in Sheffield sells outThree friends set up their own garage because they could not find jobs in male-dominated industry.
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Giving @davepolaschek's suggestion a try. The T-40 wheel I found in the garage is getting some use as uh, round lever? What do you even call this.

It kinda worked. Well, it didn't budge as I was pulling, but when it fell over while under tension it levered the beam out of the ground sideways and a little forward.

Still refuses to go further, but I'm having a strong coffee and sweets and shall stubbornly continue.

The pesky concrete beam in our garden is now attached with a very beefy chain to a very beefy piece of wire rope. A big tractor steel wheel (sans tyre) is rolled in front of it, with the wire rope leading over the wheel and off to a tractor not depicted here. The ground is churned up from pulling many other concrete beams out of the garden already.
Same arrangement, excep the wheel has fallen over sideways. The wire rope still leads through what used to be its top. The beam however has shifted in the direction of the fallen wheel and left its deep groove for the first time.
The rear end of the beam with a gap that is now about a metric foot longer (we only have metric feet here, sorry, they're about one foot long though). The standard reference foot including boot is next to it. It's a size 44, in case you need to calibrate.
#Farm#Mechanics#Concrete
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Pustam | पुस्तम | পুস্তম🇳🇵

An Article in the Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics on Turbulence by KR Sreenivasan and J Schumacher
annualreviews.org/content/jour

What is the turbulence problem, and when can we say it’s solved? 🌪️ This deep dive by Sreenivasan & Schumacher explores the math, physics, and engineering challenges of turbulence—from Navier-Stokes equations to intermittency and beyond. A must-read for anyone fascinated by chaos, complexity, and the unsolved mysteries of fluid dynamics! 🌀

A summary of the talk presented by KR Sreenivasan in December 2023 at the International Center for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR) in Bengaluru, as part of a program on field theory and turbulence.
youtube.com/watch?v=fwVSBYh-KC

"Field Theory and Turbulence" program link: icts.res.in/discussion-meeting

#FluidDynamics #Physics #NavierStokes #UnsolvedMystery #Mechanics #Dynamics #FluidMechanics #Science #Chaos #TurbulentMotion #Randomness #Chaotic #Fluid #ClassicalMechanics
#Turbulence

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