#kmart — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #kmart, aggregated by home.social.
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Here's one for the caffeine connoisseurs who insist you need to re-mortgage the house for a decent espresso.
Kmart's $79 espresso machine just topped a CHOICE blind taste test, outscoring a $4,349 Breville that costs 55 times more. The $4,349 machine scored 50%. The $79 one scored 75%. Turns out the coffee doesn't know what the machine cost. Who knew "premium" was mostly a vibe and a brochure? -
K mart “camp-o-rama” (1978)
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#Kmart #Camping #Tents #PitchingATent #Sleepingbag #Advertisement -
K mart “camp-o-rama” (1978)
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#Kmart #Camping #Tents #PitchingATent #Sleepingbag #Advertisement -
Someone asked, 'What did the '80s smell like?' and the scent memories are a time warp
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Outrée par un livre de coloriage pour adultes : promo sur la tartuferie rayon Scandale https://actualitte.com/a/PLofwuTg #Tartuffe #tiktok #cliente #mandala #livredecoloriage #pouradultes #maispasque #teamslowburn #enrayon #edition #kmart #lecture #coloriage #emplettes #reseaux
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okay idk, if you're not aware of ... stuff up here ... this may not be the home-run to you that it is for me?
but it is xD
@TheNeedling
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okay idk, if you're not aware of ... stuff up here ... this may not be the home-run to you that it is for me?
but it is xD
@TheNeedling
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PowerPCME – Kmart 1989-1992 (The Definitive Edition)
#Electronic #Kmart #ambient #mallsoft #vaporwave #Utica
CC BY-NC-SA (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike) #ccmusic
https://powerpcme.bandcamp.com/album/kmart-1989-1992-the-definitive-edition -
@mirlo I was 6 or 7 years old, bought it at #KMart. 50 cents, maybe? 🎶 👍️ 😁 #SmokeyRobinson #Motown #Detroit #Music #PopMusic #ClassicPop #SoulMusic #ClassicSoul #RhythmAndBlues https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=51B55OQysj8&pp=ygUQdGVhcnMgb2YgYSBjbG93bg%3D%3D
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From the @internetarchive, 2 hours of in-store #Christmas music heard at #Kmart in 1974 - perfect as you start your decorating! https://archive.org/details/KmartInStoreMusicChristmas1974
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From the @internetarchive, 2 hours of in-store #Christmas music heard at #Kmart in 1974 - perfect as you start your decorating! https://archive.org/details/KmartInStoreMusicChristmas1974
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And since I have your attention, if you live in Minneapolis and haven't yet completed the “New Nicollet Redevelopment Survey” — now is as good a time as any to get that done.
https://www2.minneapolismn.gov/government/programs-initiatives/new-nicollet/
#MNastodon #Minnesota #Minneapolis #Mpls #MinneapolisMN #TwinCities #TwinCitiesMN #Kmart #LakeStreetKmart
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And since I have your attention, if you live in Minneapolis and haven't yet completed the “New Nicollet Redevelopment Survey” — now is as good a time as any to get that done.
https://www2.minneapolismn.gov/government/programs-initiatives/new-nicollet/
#MNastodon #Minnesota #Minneapolis #Mpls #MinneapolisMN #TwinCities #TwinCitiesMN #Kmart #LakeStreetKmart
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Lake Street Kmart Fire thread/3
Small selection of local coverage continued:
Southwest Minneapolis Patch: https://patch.com/minnesota/southwestminneapolis/blaze-consumes-abandoned-kmart-lake-street-s-minneapolis
Bring Me The News: https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/large-fire-at-former-lake-street-kmart-in-minneapolis
StarTribune: https://www.startribune.com/large-fire-burning-at-vacant-kmart-on-lake-street-in-minneapolis/600313599/ (paywalled)
#MNastodon #Minnesota #Minneapolis #Mpls #MinneapolisMN #TwinCities #TwinCitiesMN #Kmart #fire #LakeStreetKmart
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Lake Street Kmart Fire thread/3
Small selection of local coverage continued:
Southwest Minneapolis Patch: https://patch.com/minnesota/southwestminneapolis/blaze-consumes-abandoned-kmart-lake-street-s-minneapolis
Bring Me The News: https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/large-fire-at-former-lake-street-kmart-in-minneapolis
StarTribune: https://www.startribune.com/large-fire-burning-at-vacant-kmart-on-lake-street-in-minneapolis/600313599/ (paywalled)
#MNastodon #Minnesota #Minneapolis #Mpls #MinneapolisMN #TwinCities #TwinCitiesMN #Kmart #fire #LakeStreetKmart
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Lake Street Kmart Fire thread/2
Commuters should plan to avoid Lake Street around Nicollet (including the I-35W exits) and Nicollet, Blaisdell and 1st Ave near Lake St.
Small selection of local coverage:
KSTP/ABC: https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/fire-at-former-kmart-building-on-lake-street-in-minneapolis/
WCCO/CBS: https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/kmart-fire-minneapolis-lake-street/
#MNastodon #Minnesota #Minneapolis #Mpls #MinneapolisMN #TwinCities #TwinCitiesMN #Kmart #fire #LakeStreetKmart
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Lake Street Kmart Fire thread/2
Commuters should plan to avoid Lake Street around Nicollet (including the I-35W exits) and Nicollet, Blaisdell and 1st Ave near Lake St.
Small selection of local coverage:
KSTP/ABC: https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/fire-at-former-kmart-building-on-lake-street-in-minneapolis/
WCCO/CBS: https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/kmart-fire-minneapolis-lake-street/
#MNastodon #Minnesota #Minneapolis #Mpls #MinneapolisMN #TwinCities #TwinCitiesMN #Kmart #fire #LakeStreetKmart
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Follow-on to my last post about my stand-up hobby workstation. You weren't imagining it. This is an "Expanse" themed drill press, right down to the MCRN property identification tag! Yes, there's a story.
Back at the end of the last century, when I bought the run-down little 1943 house on the Oregon coast where my wife and I live, my dad showed up from back-east to help with repairs, and brought suitcases full of tools, hardware and parts from his own shop. I had only a few tools of my own at the time, and so this was mostly really useful stuff. But I didn't know what to make of this toy-like drill press that he gave me.
It was from KMart of all places, a long defunct discount department store chain in the US, known more for prices than the quality of their goods. The housing was not only plastic, it was BEIGE, like some kind of 1970 kitchen appliance. Surely it was junk. Dad helped, dad left, and the drill press went into the back of my tiny, cluttered garage, where I never had a space or reason to set it up. Then a storm blew part of the roof off the garage and lot of things were water damaged, including the drill press. We tore down the garage, put anything we could salvage into storage, and set about building a new stand-alone shop building behind where the garage had stood. I ALMOST chucked the drill press at that point, but something made me hesitate, and I put it into storage.
It stayed in storage for years, even after the rest of my tools went into my new shop. I'd see it back there once in a while, and I had some vague idea I could tear it apart some day and maybe salvage some useful gears or something. Finally, during the pandemic, I pulled it out and decided to tear it apart for fun and salvage.
But when I split the case, I was shocked. The plastic held a sturdy and well-made frame, a gearbox with all metal gears rather than the plastic I'd expected, and a nice little motor. Most of the original grease was no longer in contact with the gears and had mostly solidified into gunk, but the guts of it looked good. I scraped out all the grease residue and repacked with fresh grease. I replaced the rotted original power cord and strain relief, and put the casing back together. It worked! I was quiet and strong, and I simply couldn't trash it.
I took it back apart again, cleaned the corrosion off the base and upright, disassembled, cleaned, and lubricated everything. I mounted the pedestal to a store display cork flooring sample that I'd gotten for free from a local flooring store, and on a lark, I decorated it with striped safety tape and some metal trunk handles that I had laying around the shop, going for an industrial look. The drill actually looked pretty good, but that plastic case! That BEIGE! I had to paint it! But what color?
Well, this was the covid shutdown, so shopping was hard. I did have plenty of flat-black spray paint though, so... It looked -- almost as ugly as beige. I decided to experiment with some weathering techniques I'd learned from Adam Savage YouTube videos, and make it look like painted metal that had become worn and chipped. I also added some prop-replica stickers from the TV series "The Expanse" that I'd picked up somewhere.
While I don't know that it was ever shown on TV, in the books Amos Burton can often be found at has "machine shop" in the space ship Rocinante. Now, probably this machine shop is some kind of 3D printing or multi-axis CNC device, but who's to say it doesn't have a little drill press somewhere? Yes, it's absurd, but I thought it was fun, and a bit of a conversation piece.
I'm really glad I didn't throw this away. It was a fun project to restore it and make it useful again. It's not a precision device, but fine for a lot of light drilling tasks, and it goes with my new work station well.
#making #PowerTools #hobby #Workshop #toolrestoration #TheExpanse #KMart #vintagetools #retrofuture #maker #makers -
Een half uur de perfecte kerstboodschap..
Terug naar de basis..#Christmas #Essentials
#vaporwave #lostsignal #mallsoft #kmart
@Vlerelientjehttps://dokidokibeats.bandcamp.com/album/the-backroom-tapes-a-merry-kmart-christmas