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For the record, I would never knowingly use or share AI generated art in anything I post, so if you ever catch me doing so, it was an accident, and I'd like you to let me know so I can delete it.

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How Not to Break Your Sewing Machine

I work in a shop where we repair sewing machines (a LOT of sewing machines), and unsurprisingly we see a lot of the same problems over and over again, so I'm here with some advice on how to keep your machine running longer.

When you break a needle, dig around until you have found the broken piece. If you leave it in there, it can end up in the wrong place at the wrong time and break something vital.

SLOW DOWN. The function of your sewing machine depends on the different moving parts ending up in the right place at the right time. Having to go through a lot of/heavy material slows the needle down, but it doesn't slow down the mechanism underneath the needle plate. If you try to go your usual speed, the needle will arrive too late and collide with something it shouldn't, breaking either the needle or the bobbin case. If the material is especially heavy (say you're sewing several layers of denim, or sewing webbing onto canvas), take your foot off the pedal and turn the machine by hand.

Clean out the bobbin area after each project. Really. Your machine comes with a little brush for this purpose. If it doesn't, a little dollar-store paint brush will work just fine. Remember what I said above about things being in the right place at the right time? Everything needs to be able to move freely for this to work. I know it looks like it's just a little dust and fluff, but it will jam up your machine eventually.

If you can, get your timing adjusted by a professional. I know most people don't have a sewing machine repair shop in their neighbourhood, but if you can do this, it's worth it. If the machine's timing is good, then you're more likely to have a little leeway for heavier fabric or a lintier bobbin case. When the timing is just a bit off, it takes less of an obstacle to put the needle in a place it shouldn't be.

If you can, buy a machine built before 1980. If it's still working 50 years after it was made, it's gonna keep working. Those older machines are made with metal gears and therefore weigh a ton, so they're definitely not a good choice if you don't have a permanent setup for your machine, but it means they basically last forever. Newer machines are made with plastic parts, and no matter what you do, they will break.

Don't buy a Singer Heavy Duty. I'm sure those machines have their benefits, but they are absolutely not heavy duty. We repair more Singer Heavy Dutys than any other single model of sewing machine. If you're already stuck with a Heavy Duty, then follow my advice above even more scrupulously, and start shopping around for a replacement if you can. You can get a used sewing machine of better quality for significantly less than a new Heavy Duty.

To keep things working properly, make sure you're:

threading your machine properly

using the right kind of bobbin

adjusting your tension properly

and using the right kind of needle for the fabric you're sewing!

(These things are unlikely to break your machine, but they will keep it from sewing properly.)

Other than that, get your hands on your machine's manual and read it carefully. If you can, bring your machine in for a cleaning and adjustment now and then. Your machine will need repairs every once in a while: it's a lot of little moving parts! But these are some basic precautions you can take to avoid some common problems.

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I don’t know who needs to hear this today, but intrusive thoughts are basically your brain’s (sometimes very upsetting) way of saying “If there were two guys on the moon and one of them killed the other with a rock would that be fucked up or what?”

I’ve personally found that adding the “would that be fucked or what?” part in myself really helps put the more disturbing thoughts we sometimes get into perspective. Helps me say “yeah thar sure would be fucked up” and move on with my day.

It’s not not a secret desire, it’s not something that only occurs to you because you’re a bad person. It’s just your brain deciding to process the fact that it knows an uncomfortable thing exists in the world by feeding it to you in an absurd “what if” with you as the main character.

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I’m going to keep this short. Do not scroll without reblogging.

Mohammed’s campaign has become stagnant. This is dangerous. Temperatures are freezing in Gaza. Food prices are incredibly high. His middle daughter Wateen suffers from osteoporosis and desperately needs medical treatment.

Please donate if you can. Even £5 helps.

DONATE HERE / VETTED HERE

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don't go Nanamin don't go

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israel banned mosques from playing the adhan

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you gotta stop showing support for Luigi in a way that implicitly frames him as the perpetrator. you can show support for Luigi as a man and as a suspect who is innocent unless proven guilty, and you can show support for the Claims Adjuster and what they did WITHOUT saying it was luigi, cos that only hurts his case. they can both be heroes, the adjuster for the message they sent and the fear they've struck into the American oligarchy, and Luigi for being an innocent man unjustly paraded as an example of the punishment we face when we step out of line. I hope Luigi is exonerated and freed, and i hope the claims adjuster is still out there having made a clean getaway

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I can’t draw very well and hated that I couldn’t draw my DnD character, a tabaxi cleric named Merry Thing, but then I remembered I’m pretty good with a needle and thread so I made her

All made by hand, hand embroidered details, and I even crocheted the lace trim on her shift!

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who’s gonna tell tumblr that executive dysfunction is more than Not Doing Things?

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lost in soulless city

Hello 👋, My name is Momen Al Madhoun / I am a digital artist /a father of two children " Ezzdeen & Amir " I live in Gaza City in the heart of the Genocide, working tirelessly to amplify my voice to the world through my artwork.

I want to say thank you a lot. Your donations helped me improve our displacement conditions. But my family still needs your contributions to keep going We rely on you, you are our hope for survival.

🌟 Our campaign is vetted by 🇵🇸 @/gazavetters List at #291

Gofundme Campaign Link

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‏Please can you reply to my messages? Don't ignore me my friend, my father is here dying he needs your help, my father is here dying and no one is helping us please don't ignore me and help us as much as you can. 💔🥺🍉

‏My father suffers from cancer and needs treatment quickly. The cost of treatment is $250. Donate what you can to save my father. My friend, my father's life is in your hands.

‏If I cannot provide medicine tomorrow, I cannot imagine what will happen to my father Help save $250

‏ Don't be the reason for my father's death or anything bad to happen. Please donate to save my father

‏50$ can save my father if everyone donates we will reach our goal quickly please donate to save my father my father needs your help don't ignore me my father's life is under your kindness and support🙏🏻

‏My campaign was filmed by @90-ghost

‏https://gofund.me/927a7ce5

This is a very achievable goal lets help this family!

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Not to go "if you have ADHD just go for a run" or anything, but I am so serious if you have ADHD you should regularly go outside, no headphones no phone no nothing and just stand and observe for a while until you've had enough. Not until you get bored, until you've had enough. Drink your coffee without watching tiktok. Have a bath without music. Turn down the volume in your headphones. I cannot overstate how much learning to be bored is cruicial with ADHD. Life is not just about pleasure, no matter what your dysregulated dopamine system thinks, and when you teach your brain to be okay with being bored, then boring tasks stop feeling like torture. By letting yourself be bored you are yoinking your system out of the high/low binary and allow for the highs to feel like actual highs and not just anything that isn't low. I am so serious go literally touch grass. Listen to the sounds in your flat. Stimulate your body the way it was designed. It lowers anxiety and makes you feel like you're real and best of all it's completely free

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hey guys this is an urgent campaign to get a little boy surgery and therapy to save his life. the goal is super achievable, just 250 usd. i’ve seen people raise more in minutes so i know we can do this. the linked tweet is from a gazan woman who evacuated last year, so i trust her.

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Vergo has to keep gently reminding him that he can't be walking around the navy wearing jewellery worth more than half his yearly salary. The brooch he can get away with but anything more? People WILL ask. The biggest threat to Vergo's undercover mission isn't Vergo's forgetfulness or Smoker's shrewdness or the security of the transponder snails or anything sane, it's the fact that Doffy is a possessive little maniac who gets such a thrill out of the idea of everyone knowing Vergo's on the take from him. And it IS sexual. He loves being Vergo's mob-boss sugar daddy and spoiling him whenever he can, and he gets such a kick out of the idea of everyone finding out. Which would not be good. Given the whole spy thing.

Nothing will convince me that that gold and purple brooch Vergo has fastening his tie was not a gift from Doffy. Sure Vergo knows how to dress himself sharply, but he's not the type to bother with jewelry on an everyday outfit that he also fights in. That was 1000% Doffy on his bird-of-paradise behaviour

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i must not feel cold in my little butch bait outfit. feeling cold in my little butch bait outfit is the mind killer. feeling cold in my little butch bait outfit is the little-death that brings total obliteration. i will face the cold. i will permit it to pass over me and through me. and when it has gone past, i will turn the inner eye to see its path. where the cold has gone there will be nothing. only me and my little butch bait outfit will remain