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Paul Southworth @pws.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Today's walk was near Starksboro #Vermont. We did the reverse of this route so the hill came first: ridewithgps.com/routes/57530666 I went hunting for all dirt loops of around 5 miles within around 30 minutes drive from home by scanning the maps. I noted […] [Original post on social.coop]

Colorful fall foliage on a hillside visible from a gravel road

The grave of David Stokes, died March 7, 1884, age 67 years

View of various grave stones visible in the cemetery

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Paul Southworth @pws.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

The rest of my library tech help kit is a bag of mostly cables. Sometimes I also bring an iFixIt toolkit but only when I know there will be a little hardware work, which is rare - usually just installing or removing storage or DIMMs in a laptop since the […] [Original post on social.coop]

Assortment of cables all described in the text of this post

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Paul Southworth @pws.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

For my library tech help appointments, I assembled a wallet of media, adapters, and other things I bring to work with most devices that are brought in for support. If you do this type of work, what's in your kit? 1. Zipper wallet designed for flash drives 2. USB […] [Original post on social.coop]

A flash drive zipper wallet with a variety of media and adapters arrayed next it. All described in the text of this post.

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Paul Southworth @pws.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

CW amateur #juggling there will be drops Most of my juggling is just to make my hair stand up, it is not a performance. everything moves to small and too fast for a performer but whatever LFG

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Paul Southworth @pws.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

The finished product... I chopped up the eggplant stuff because I thought it was too big, chopped up some of the peppers that I mentioned in the previous post about the joy of eating compost, added some tinned artichokes that I cut in half again, a homeopathic […] [Original post on social.coop]

Ingredients for the dish: the stewed eggplant stuff, the roasted pepper stuff, pasta, artichoke hearts

Baked pasta dish with some browned cheese on top

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Paul Southworth @pws.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Welcome to the latest episode of Cooking With Compost... straight out of the compost bin at the Burlington #Vermont food shelf, some rather hideous eggplants and some tomatoes that are actually fine they just got packed in a box with too many tomatoes and had […] [Original post on social.coop]

The eggplants cubed up, looking a little brown inside

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Paul Southworth @pws.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Back at the Burlington #Vermont food shelf today. Busy as usual but we had a donation from a local grower who had peppers that weren't so good, and the staff decided to toss some of them. Yes that means I shopped from the compost bin again, but check this out, a […] [Original post on social.coop]

A heap of bell peppers with all manner of damage

The peppers after I put too many on a roasting pan and put them in the oven

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Paul Southworth @pws.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

I'm perfectly willing to hate on Apple for planned obsolescence of perfectly usable machines, and poor repairability of their modern equipment, but I have to give respect to whoever makes it possible to sync a 23 year old iPod on the latest version of macOS with no trickery required. It just works.

Screenshot of the finder window for a 3rd gen iPod

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Paul Southworth @pws.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

Quick little repair project. I came across my old 3rd gen iPod and wanted to use it in my (also old) car that only has a radio and CD player. I don't use a phone in the car. Battery was $10 on eBay. Synced the library from a machine running macOS 26.6 with no […] [Original post on social.coop]

3rd gen iPod, Griffin PowerPod car adapter, FireWire charger and cable, iPod dock, iPod remote control, iFixit tool kit

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Paul Southworth @pws.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

@danyork ...and being inside the house this evening I didn't notice when the crap blew in but AQI went from the low 20s to over 160 today. www.iqair.com/air-quality/usa/vermo…

Ugly AQI graph showing low numbers until early afternoon and rising to look pretty bad

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Paul Southworth @pws.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

[CW cooking with free meat CW CW CW] The food shelf has a policy of not distributing donated meat when the packaging is damaged, so when I'm volunteering I keep an eye out for this kind of "trash" that will go in the compost bin. And it's not unusual for the […] [Original post on social.coop]

Two giant lumps of beef in damaged packaging

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Paul Southworth @pws.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

@SnoopJ I picked up a couple cheap needle oilers (sometimes sold as "gun oiler") and they've become some of my most-used tools. I just fill them with scraps of motor oil. Great for injecting oil into small openings like that. Better than the old plastic straws I'm always losing.

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Paul Southworth @pws.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

Good #LitterPicking at the high tide line on Dungeness Spit

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Paul Southworth @pws.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

A couple teeny red efts on the Jerusalem trail, near Starksboro #Vermont #Amphibians

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Paul Southworth @pws.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

“Remember, it’s illegal to use your phone while driving. Instead, use the giant iPad built into the car.” www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a61688

A parent teaching their child to drive a car

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Paul Southworth @pws.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2026

I count 11 juvenile Great Blue Herons in this rookery in a ~100 foot tall dead cottonwood tree. This is where Emigrant Creek enters Emigrant Lake in Jackson County Oregon. #Birds

Four nests at the top of a dead cottonwood tree with (I think) 11 almost-fledged herons waiting for their next meal like a bunch of slouching teenagers

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Paul Southworth @pws.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 10/05/2026

Yes it's THAT holiday, you know the one, with special hugs... National Cactus Day. Please give a hug and a kiss to your nearest cactus. #Cactus #MothersDay #Hugs

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Paul Southworth @pws.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026

37 years ago I flew to London with a work visa arranged through the British Universities North America Club, walked into a temp agency in Vic station to do a typing test and was immediately employed as a typist. They were overjoyed that I knew how to use a Mac […] [Original post on social.coop]

Clothing label from J. Farella, 352 Livingston St, Brooklyn
J. K. Chung
10/15/28 - 563

Picture of a grey overcoat that looks its age

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Paul Southworth @pws.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13/03/2026

I thought the new white feet would make it look clean and sharp again but I’m kind of disappointed tbh

Stepstool splattered with paint with new white feet

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Paul Southworth @pws.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2025

@jfparis AWS means everybody's doing business continuity testing today 😊

Downdetector screenshot showing Strava outage

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Paul Southworth @pws.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2025

At the #RepairCafe in Charlotte #Vermont today. I was there for the bikes but as usual there weren't that many to work on. I made this junk bike roll again and fixed up a Trek Navigator that needed rear hub bearing service, wheel truing, and brake adjustment. I […] [Original post on social.coop]

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Paul Southworth @pws.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2025

I don't know how to make meatloaf so I went to the bad food bible, Betty Crocker: www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/tradit… Substituted ground beef/pork/veal for plain beef, sloppy joe sauce for the ketchup […] [Original post on social.coop]

Picture of a can of sloppy joe sauce, Stouffer's stove top stuffing mix, two packages of ground meat, and an egg.

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Paul Southworth @pws.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2025

@ai6yr After around 35 years of working on bikes and bottom brackets, I got a cheap electric impact wrench. OMG it just rips a stuck BB out of a bike in 1 second 🤯

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Paul Southworth @pws.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2025

Standard Saturday notification from @mookie can't wait for the next one

Mastodon notification: steve mookie kong followed you

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Paul Southworth @pws.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2025

Harder, but not impossible, right?

Bathroom sign reads “PLEASE DO NOT PUT PAPER TOWELS IN THE TOILET BECAUSE IT MAKES IT HARDER FOR US TO RE-USE! THANK YOU”

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Paul Southworth @pws.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2025

Holiday in Borrego Springs last week, just after 6AM

Sunrise over the desert with pink clouds over an orange horizon, desert landscape in the foreground

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