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💛 Mighty 🤍 Mad 💜 Maxine 🖤 @mightymadmaxine.bsky.social · Feb 17

I'm slowly working through my collection and cleaning them

I've got these two up next!

Empire Aristocrat, basically a Baby Hermes made under license in the UK. It's grey and worn

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💛 Mighty 🤍 Mad 💜 Maxine 🖤 @mightymadmaxine.bsky.social · Feb 17

Shout out to that one random ali express shop which stocked such an esoteric size (M8x12x1)

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💛 Mighty 🤍 Mad 💜 Maxine 🖤 @mightymadmaxine.bsky.social · Feb 17

But why does a typewriter need a gasket? It looks like they're used as a vibration damper and possibly to protect the plastic from the metal, but the Dora is the only model I've seen do this. You can see the old ones had perished badly

A rubber gasket sitting around where location the bolt goes through the case. It's starting to split, is misshapen and dry.

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💛 Mighty 🤍 Mad 💜 Maxine 🖤 @mightymadmaxine.bsky.social · Feb 17

Random ali-express store for the win, I got the right sized gasket right and I was able to put this Olivetti Dora back together all clean and nice 🥰

Front view of the typewriter, an Olivetti Dora. Its a no thrills typewriter in a grey plastic cover, very square shaped

A better view looking down into the typebars. The carriage is set to the middle in the transport mode and the lever is folded away.

A look at the typebars and key slugs without the case. They've all been cleaned of dust and dirt, a far cry from it's original state

A sample of the type from the typewriter

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💛 Mighty 🤍 Mad 💜 Maxine 🖤 @mightymadmaxine.bsky.social · Jan 29

America's are always going on about how Fahrenheit and Imperial measurements are 'Freedom' Units, so I'm rebranding them.

They're now Fascist Units.

Conversations will be conducted as follows: "Is this bolt metric or Fascist?" or "It's 100° Fascist today"

And you can keep your Facist Fries BTW

💛 Mighty 🤍 Mad 💜 Maxine 🖤 @mightymadmaxine.bsky.social · Jan 18

The f slur: fahrenheit

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💛 Mighty 🤍 Mad 💜 Maxine 🖤 @mightymadmaxine.bsky.social · Jan 29

America's are always going on about how Fahrenheit and Imperial measurements are 'Freedom' Units, so I'm rebranding them.

They're now Fascist Units.

Conversations will be conducted as follows: "Is this bolt metric or Fascist?" or "It's 100° Fascist today"

And you can keep your Facist Fries BTW

💛 Mighty 🤍 Mad 💜 Maxine 🖤 @mightymadmaxine.bsky.social · Jan 18

The f slur: fahrenheit

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Sandy @dsandy586.bsky.social · Jan 20

I initially went into this one somewhat ironically, but now I sincerely think it turned out kind of cool all things considered.

Shoutout to @graduatedsapphic.bsky.social encouraging the idea ;).

#Eggman #SonicTheHedgehog #TronBonne #MegamanLegends #ロックマンDASH

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The Character "Dr. Eggman" from the "Sonic the Hedgehog" Franchise, but dressed as "Tron Bonne" From the "Megaman Legends (Rockmon Dash)" game series. He is accompanied by an or "Orbot" or "Cubot" looking robot, but remodeled resemble a "Servbot"

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💛 Mighty 🤍 Mad 💜 Maxine 🖤 @mightymadmaxine.bsky.social · Jan 18

The f slur: fahrenheit

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💛 Mighty 🤍 Mad 💜 Maxine 🖤 @mightymadmaxine.bsky.social · Jan 9

Hahaha damn

Two e-clips sit on a mat. They each less than 5mm in diameter. One the of the e-clips is missing half of it.

When I was removing it, I felt something ping off my face. I was worried it was the clip flying off never to be found despite my best efforts, but no, it was instead the demise of it

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💛 Mighty 🤍 Mad 💜 Maxine 🖤 @mightymadmaxine.bsky.social · Jan 9

Ok I've just seen the greatest copy pasta in the wild

ANNOUNCEMENT: I NO LONGER SHIP FRARNEY (Fred / Barney)

So I'll be honest. When I first got into the Flintstones fandom, I was incredibly young and naive. (For starters, I thought the show featured documentary footage of real cavemen, dinosaurs and prehistoric technology.) But over the years, as I got deeper into not just the series lore but also the behind-the-scenes aspects of the production, I began to realize that it was a just a cheaply animated knock-off of The Honeymooners and all the storylines were nothing more than stock mid-century sitcom plots mixed in with puns on the word 'stone.' The writers, tasked with churning out 30-episode seasons of childish drivel, would not have had the bandwidth to craft hidden messages to the show's audience about a secret love between two crudely drawn Neanderthals. Furthermore, as I began to question the validity of my once-cherished ship, I found myself under attack by increasingly toxic 'Dark Frarnies' who review-bombed my earlier fanfics into oblivion. The fact is, while shipping Fred and Barney may have brought me joy during a dark time in my life (I had recently been exiled from the Jetsons fandom for what was, in retrospect, a misguided pairing of Rosie the Robot and Astro the Dog) I just don't feel at home in the Frarney community anymore. And while it may be bittersweet to say goodbye, at least I can still find consolation in my folder with over 10,000 hyper-realistic, anatomically correct Scrooggi (Scrooge McDuck x Yogi Bear) drawings.

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💛 Mighty 🤍 Mad 💜 Maxine 🖤 @mightymadmaxine.bsky.social · Jan 9

I wish I was them (either)

The statue of naked woman, reclining in what with her knees up, the arms of an octopus wrapping around her and in the water, concealing chest and other parts

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💛 Mighty 🤍 Mad 💜 Maxine 🖤 @mightymadmaxine.bsky.social · Jan 9

I wish I was them (either)

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QueenBeanMachine @queenbeanmachine.bsky.social · Jan 9

(probably) Temp comm sheet, also a link to sprites I have made for infinite fusion (as much as i don't like that dev team its a good resource for things I've made) www.fusiondex.org/artists/quee...

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💛 Mighty 🤍 Mad 💜 Maxine 🖤 @mightymadmaxine.bsky.social · Jan 9

No brain, only pasta

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💛 Mighty 🤍 Mad 💜 Maxine 🖤 @mightymadmaxine.bsky.social · Jan 9

I don't know it's is serious or not, but regardless, it's amazing

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💛 Mighty 🤍 Mad 💜 Maxine 🖤 @mightymadmaxine.bsky.social · Jan 9

"I can still find consolation in my folder with over 10,000 hyper-realistic, anatomically correct Scrooggi (Scrooge McDuck x Yogi Bear) drawings."

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💛 Mighty 🤍 Mad 💜 Maxine 🖤 @mightymadmaxine.bsky.social · Jan 9

"I had recently been exiled from the Jetsons fandom for what was, in retrospect, a misguided pairing of Rosie the Robot and Astro the Dog"

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💛 Mighty 🤍 Mad 💜 Maxine 🖤 @mightymadmaxine.bsky.social · Jan 9

Highlights include:

"The writers, tasked with churning out 30-episode seasons of childish drivel, would not have had the bandwidth to craft hidden messages to the show's audience about a secret love between two crudely drawn Neanderthals. "

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💛 Mighty 🤍 Mad 💜 Maxine 🖤 @mightymadmaxine.bsky.social · Jan 9

Ok I've just seen the greatest copy pasta in the wild

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💛 Mighty 🤍 Mad 💜 Maxine 🖤 @mightymadmaxine.bsky.social · Jan 9

👀 🫘

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#FreeLink — p o t z {er} 🐉🦝 @handle.invalid · Jan 9

if you don’t have the love and support of the employees of a restaurant themed discord server are you even living?

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💛 Mighty 🤍 Mad 💜 Maxine 🖤 @mightymadmaxine.bsky.social · Jan 6

But hear me out

....

Woman 🥰

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💛 Mighty 🤍 Mad 💜 Maxine 🖤 @mightymadmaxine.bsky.social · Jan 4

A view into my mind

A screenshot of my phones photo galleries. They're organized into individual albums for each of my typewriters

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💛 Mighty 🤍 Mad 💜 Maxine 🖤 @mightymadmaxine.bsky.social · Jan 5

I knew what was coming. I knew what was coming and I clicked anway

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💛 Mighty 🤍 Mad 💜 Maxine 🖤 @mightymadmaxine.bsky.social · Jan 5

Listening to the song Wonderwall, and actually listening to the lyrics and it's actually a horrible song.

Man pushes the burden of recovering onto a woman, tries to guilt trip here into doing it, all the while setting her up as some sort of savior.

Why does anybody like this?

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