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  1. I was completely unprepared and had a lot of trouble operating my camera in pitch blackness, but here's tonight's lunar eclipse as seen from my backyard in southern #Saskatchewan.

    #LunarEclipse #moon #eclipse #astronomy #Canada #SK #YQR #occultation

  2. I was completely unprepared and had a lot of trouble operating my camera in pitch blackness, but here's tonight's lunar eclipse as seen from my backyard in southern #Saskatchewan.

    #LunarEclipse #moon #eclipse #astronomy #Canada #SK #YQR #occultation

  3. I was completely unprepared and had a lot of trouble operating my camera in pitch blackness, but here's tonight's lunar eclipse as seen from my backyard in southern #Saskatchewan.

    #LunarEclipse #moon #eclipse #astronomy #Canada #SK #YQR #occultation

  4. I was completely unprepared and had a lot of trouble operating my camera in pitch blackness, but here's tonight's lunar eclipse as seen from my backyard in southern #Saskatchewan.

    #LunarEclipse #moon #eclipse #astronomy #Canada #SK #YQR #occultation

  5. I was completely unprepared and had a lot of trouble operating my camera in pitch blackness, but here's tonight's lunar eclipse as seen from my backyard in southern #Saskatchewan.

    #LunarEclipse #moon #eclipse #astronomy #Canada #SK #YQR #occultation

  6. Brilliant. The city of #Regina has replaced its in-house map of current road closures and restrictions due to construction etc with an embedded Waze map.

    Which doesn't show anything other than the bare map to me, in Firefox *or* in Vivaldi.

    Well done, lads. Well done. In addition to sending visitors' locations to a US company who then resells it, you've actually stopped it from doing anything useful at all.

    #SlowClap #incompetence #YQR #SK #Waze #privacy #DoesntWork

  7. Brilliant. The city of #Regina has replaced its in-house map of current road closures and restrictions due to construction etc with an embedded Waze map.

    Which doesn't show anything other than the bare map to me, in Firefox *or* in Vivaldi.

    Well done, lads. Well done. In addition to sending visitors' locations to a US company who then resells it, you've actually stopped it from doing anything useful at all.

    #SlowClap #incompetence #YQR #SK #Waze #privacy #DoesntWork

  8. Brilliant. The city of #Regina has replaced its in-house map of current road closures and restrictions due to construction etc with an embedded Waze map.

    Which doesn't show anything other than the bare map to me, in Firefox *or* in Vivaldi.

    Well done, lads. Well done. In addition to sending visitors' locations to a US company who then resells it, you've actually stopped it from doing anything useful at all.

    #SlowClap #incompetence #YQR #SK #Waze #privacy #DoesntWork

  9. Brilliant. The city of #Regina has replaced its in-house map of current road closures and restrictions due to construction etc with an embedded Waze map.

    Which doesn't show anything other than the bare map to me, in Firefox *or* in Vivaldi.

    Well done, lads. Well done. In addition to sending visitors' locations to a US company who then resells it, you've actually stopped it from doing anything useful at all.

    #SlowClap #incompetence #YQR #SK #Waze #privacy #DoesntWork

  10. Brilliant. The city of #Regina has replaced its in-house map of current road closures and restrictions due to construction etc with an embedded Waze map.

    Which doesn't show anything other than the bare map to me, in Firefox *or* in Vivaldi.

    Well done, lads. Well done. In addition to sending visitors' locations to a US company who then resells it, you've actually stopped it from doing anything useful at all.

    #SlowClap #incompetence #YQR #SK #Waze #privacy #DoesntWork

  11. I forgot to mention: if you're in the #YQR / Regina area, tomorrow (Saturday 8 August 2026) is the #Regina Repair Cafe for this month. It's at the Victoria Square Mall, so lots of parking. It runs 10am - 4pm.

    If you have stuff that is not working or broken, there's a good chance one of us volunteers can fix it for you. And it's free! We help keep stuff from ending up in the landfill before its time, and save you the expense of having to replace it.

    And yes, we fix stuff you can't get fixed "professionally" because no one fixes small appliances and whatnot any more, because everyone says "Just buy a new one, it's cheaper". Not everyone can afford to "just" replace stuff, and there's the whole environment thing.

    I guess we're adding a fourth "R" to the circle of life: reduce, re-use, repair, recycle.

    I'm just a volunteer, not an organizer or official publicist or anything like that. But come down and say "Hi".

    #RepairCafe #repair #environment #CollectiveAction #conservation #SK #fix #broken

  12. I forgot to mention: if you're in the #YQR / Regina area, tomorrow (Saturday 8 August 2026) is the #Regina Repair Cafe for this month. It's at the Victoria Square Mall, so lots of parking. It runs 10am - 4pm.

    If you have stuff that is not working or broken, there's a good chance one of us volunteers can fix it for you. And it's free! We help keep stuff from ending up in the landfill before its time, and save you the expense of having to replace it.

    And yes, we fix stuff you can't get fixed "professionally" because no one fixes small appliances and whatnot any more, because everyone says "Just buy a new one, it's cheaper". Not everyone can afford to "just" replace stuff, and there's the whole environment thing.

    I guess we're adding a fourth "R" to the circle of life: reduce, re-use, repair, recycle.

    I'm just a volunteer, not an organizer or official publicist or anything like that. But come down and say "Hi".

    #RepairCafe #repair #environment #CollectiveAction #conservation #SK #fix #broken

  13. I forgot to mention: if you're in the #YQR / Regina area, tomorrow (Saturday 8 August 2026) is the #Regina Repair Cafe for this month. It's at the Victoria Square Mall, so lots of parking. It runs 10am - 4pm.

    If you have stuff that is not working or broken, there's a good chance one of us volunteers can fix it for you. And it's free! We help keep stuff from ending up in the landfill before its time, and save you the expense of having to replace it.

    And yes, we fix stuff you can't get fixed "professionally" because no one fixes small appliances and whatnot any more, because everyone says "Just buy a new one, it's cheaper". Not everyone can afford to "just" replace stuff, and there's the whole environment thing.

    I guess we're adding a fourth "R" to the circle of life: reduce, re-use, repair, recycle.

    I'm just a volunteer, not an organizer or official publicist or anything like that. But come down and say "Hi".

    #RepairCafe #repair #environment #CollectiveAction #conservation #SK #fix #broken

  14. I forgot to mention: if you're in the #YQR / Regina area, tomorrow (Saturday 8 August 2026) is the #Regina Repair Cafe for this month. It's at the Victoria Square Mall, so lots of parking. It runs 10am - 4pm.

    If you have stuff that is not working or broken, there's a good chance one of us volunteers can fix it for you. And it's free! We help keep stuff from ending up in the landfill before its time, and save you the expense of having to replace it.

    And yes, we fix stuff you can't get fixed "professionally" because no one fixes small appliances and whatnot any more, because everyone says "Just buy a new one, it's cheaper". Not everyone can afford to "just" replace stuff, and there's the whole environment thing.

    I guess we're adding a fourth "R" to the circle of life: reduce, re-use, repair, recycle.

    I'm just a volunteer, not an organizer or official publicist or anything like that. But come down and say "Hi".

    #RepairCafe #repair #environment #CollectiveAction #conservation #SK #fix #broken

  15. I forgot to mention: if you're in the #YQR / Regina area, tomorrow (Saturday 8 August 2026) is the #Regina Repair Cafe for this month. It's at the Victoria Square Mall, so lots of parking. It runs 10am - 4pm.

    If you have stuff that is not working or broken, there's a good chance one of us volunteers can fix it for you. And it's free! We help keep stuff from ending up in the landfill before its time, and save you the expense of having to replace it.

    And yes, we fix stuff you can't get fixed "professionally" because no one fixes small appliances and whatnot any more, because everyone says "Just buy a new one, it's cheaper". Not everyone can afford to "just" replace stuff, and there's the whole environment thing.

    I guess we're adding a fourth "R" to the circle of life: reduce, re-use, repair, recycle.

    I'm just a volunteer, not an organizer or official publicist or anything like that. But come down and say "Hi".

    #RepairCafe #repair #environment #CollectiveAction #conservation #SK #fix #broken

  16. Today was this month's Repair Cafe in my city. I think it also marks a full year I've been volunteering at them. I enjoy it a lot.

    After last months good results - everything brought to me successfully fixed *except* one item - I got exactly the same result today. A bunch of successes, and one failure. And it's a weird and annoying coincidence - they are basically the same thing, #Sony all-in-one bookshelf #stereo systems. You know the type, they're on the order of a cubic foot and look like a small stack of stereo equipment units, but it's just a cosmetic look. Inside, the tuner, preamp, amp, CD player / changer, tape deck are all one thing. #Boombox in a suit, basically.

    Both times, I figured out what was wrong - but I couldn't get to the bits I needed to actually fix them. I got stumped trying to take the front #fascia off the chassis. There's usually a few screws to take the back and/or top off, and then some #clips holding the front fascia to the (usually) one-piece sheet metal sides and bottom. Taking a #spudger to them releases all along the top and sides, but at the bottom of the fascia, it doesn't release - there's something weird about the clips I can't see, and I don't see any #screws responsible, inside or out. I don't want to force it more than I have because it will break.

    Any Sony-heads out there know the secret with these things? They're from the 80s and 90s, at least the ones brought into me.

    #RepairCafe #YQR #repair #fix #FixDontReplace

  17. Today was this month's Repair Cafe in my city. I think it also marks a full year I've been volunteering at them. I enjoy it a lot.

    After last months good results - everything brought to me successfully fixed *except* one item - I got exactly the same result today. A bunch of successes, and one failure. And it's a weird and annoying coincidence - they are basically the same thing, #Sony all-in-one bookshelf #stereo systems. You know the type, they're on the order of a cubic foot and look like a small stack of stereo equipment units, but it's just a cosmetic look. Inside, the tuner, preamp, amp, CD player / changer, tape deck are all one thing. #Boombox in a suit, basically.

    Both times, I figured out what was wrong - but I couldn't get to the bits I needed to actually fix them. I got stumped trying to take the front #fascia off the chassis. There's usually a few screws to take the back and/or top off, and then some #clips holding the front fascia to the (usually) one-piece sheet metal sides and bottom. Taking a #spudger to them releases all along the top and sides, but at the bottom of the fascia, it doesn't release - there's something weird about the clips I can't see, and I don't see any #screws responsible, inside or out. I don't want to force it more than I have because it will break.

    Any Sony-heads out there know the secret with these things? They're from the 80s and 90s, at least the ones brought into me.

    #RepairCafe #YQR #repair #fix #FixDontReplace

  18. Today was this month's Repair Cafe in my city. I think it also marks a full year I've been volunteering at them. I enjoy it a lot.

    After last months good results - everything brought to me successfully fixed *except* one item - I got exactly the same result today. A bunch of successes, and one failure. And it's a weird and annoying coincidence - they are basically the same thing, #Sony all-in-one bookshelf #stereo systems. You know the type, they're on the order of a cubic foot and look like a small stack of stereo equipment units, but it's just a cosmetic look. Inside, the tuner, preamp, amp, CD player / changer, tape deck are all one thing. #Boombox in a suit, basically.

    Both times, I figured out what was wrong - but I couldn't get to the bits I needed to actually fix them. I got stumped trying to take the front #fascia off the chassis. There's usually a few screws to take the back and/or top off, and then some #clips holding the front fascia to the (usually) one-piece sheet metal sides and bottom. Taking a #spudger to them releases all along the top and sides, but at the bottom of the fascia, it doesn't release - there's something weird about the clips I can't see, and I don't see any #screws responsible, inside or out. I don't want to force it more than I have because it will break.

    Any Sony-heads out there know the secret with these things? They're from the 80s and 90s, at least the ones brought into me.

    #RepairCafe #YQR #repair #fix #FixDontReplace

  19. Today was this month's Repair Cafe in my city. I think it also marks a full year I've been volunteering at them. I enjoy it a lot.

    After last months good results - everything brought to me successfully fixed *except* one item - I got exactly the same result today. A bunch of successes, and one failure. And it's a weird and annoying coincidence - they are basically the same thing, #Sony all-in-one bookshelf #stereo systems. You know the type, they're on the order of a cubic foot and look like a small stack of stereo equipment units, but it's just a cosmetic look. Inside, the tuner, preamp, amp, CD player / changer, tape deck are all one thing. #Boombox in a suit, basically.

    Both times, I figured out what was wrong - but I couldn't get to the bits I needed to actually fix them. I got stumped trying to take the front #fascia off the chassis. There's usually a few screws to take the back and/or top off, and then some #clips holding the front fascia to the (usually) one-piece sheet metal sides and bottom. Taking a #spudger to them releases all along the top and sides, but at the bottom of the fascia, it doesn't release - there's something weird about the clips I can't see, and I don't see any #screws responsible, inside or out. I don't want to force it more than I have because it will break.

    Any Sony-heads out there know the secret with these things? They're from the 80s and 90s, at least the ones brought into me.

    #RepairCafe #YQR #repair #fix #FixDontReplace

  20. Today was this month's Repair Cafe in my city. I think it also marks a full year I've been volunteering at them. I enjoy it a lot.

    After last months good results - everything brought to me successfully fixed *except* one item - I got exactly the same result today. A bunch of successes, and one failure. And it's a weird and annoying coincidence - they are basically the same thing, #Sony all-in-one bookshelf #stereo systems. You know the type, they're on the order of a cubic foot and look like a small stack of stereo equipment units, but it's just a cosmetic look. Inside, the tuner, preamp, amp, CD player / changer, tape deck are all one thing. #Boombox in a suit, basically.

    Both times, I figured out what was wrong - but I couldn't get to the bits I needed to actually fix them. I got stumped trying to take the front #fascia off the chassis. There's usually a few screws to take the back and/or top off, and then some #clips holding the front fascia to the (usually) one-piece sheet metal sides and bottom. Taking a #spudger to them releases all along the top and sides, but at the bottom of the fascia, it doesn't release - there's something weird about the clips I can't see, and I don't see any #screws responsible, inside or out. I don't want to force it more than I have because it will break.

    Any Sony-heads out there know the secret with these things? They're from the 80s and 90s, at least the ones brought into me.

    #RepairCafe #YQR #repair #fix #FixDontReplace

  21. We had a visitor in the back yard early this evening. This is a young white-tailed jackrabbit (which is a species of hare, not a true rabbit) probably from this spring's first batch, so he's probably about 3 months old. The proportions are different from an adult. This species is also known as prairie hare or "white jack", or just "jack" hereabouts.

    This one was sitting in the long grass and then sat up when I came into view. He wasn't scared, but kept a wary eye on me. Pardon the lousy picture quality; I didn't get out the Big Lens so this is a tiny crop out of the middle of the frame. I have a little video I might post later.

    Of course, he immediately started being cute(r), having a bath, after I put the camera away.

    Pardon the weeds; it's been too hot and humid to mow lately, and I went chemical-free a few years ago.

    #wildlife #UrbanWildlife #jackrabbit #hare #WhiteTailedJackrabbit #PrairieHare #jack #SK #YQR #prairies #Canada #RabbitsOfMastodon

  22. We had a visitor in the back yard early this evening. This is a young white-tailed jackrabbit (which is a species of hare, not a true rabbit) probably from this spring's first batch, so he's probably about 3 months old. The proportions are different from an adult. This species is also known as prairie hare or "white jack", or just "jack" hereabouts.

    This one was sitting in the long grass and then sat up when I came into view. He wasn't scared, but kept a wary eye on me. Pardon the lousy picture quality; I didn't get out the Big Lens so this is a tiny crop out of the middle of the frame. I have a little video I might post later.

    Of course, he immediately started being cute(r), having a bath, after I put the camera away.

    Pardon the weeds; it's been too hot and humid to mow lately, and I went chemical-free a few years ago.

    #wildlife #UrbanWildlife #jackrabbit #hare #WhiteTailedJackrabbit #PrairieHare #jack #SK #YQR #prairies #Canada #RabbitsOfMastodon

  23. We had a visitor in the back yard early this evening. This is a young white-tailed jackrabbit (which is a species of hare, not a true rabbit) probably from this spring's first batch, so he's probably about 3 months old. The proportions are different from an adult. This species is also known as prairie hare or "white jack", or just "jack" hereabouts.

    This one was sitting in the long grass and then sat up when I came into view. He wasn't scared, but kept a wary eye on me. Pardon the lousy picture quality; I didn't get out the Big Lens so this is a tiny crop out of the middle of the frame. I have a little video I might post later.

    Of course, he immediately started being cute(r), having a bath, after I put the camera away.

    Pardon the weeds; it's been too hot and humid to mow lately, and I went chemical-free a few years ago.

    #wildlife #UrbanWildlife #jackrabbit #hare #WhiteTailedJackrabbit #PrairieHare #jack #SK #YQR #prairies #Canada #RabbitsOfMastodon

  24. We had a visitor in the back yard early this evening. This is a young white-tailed jackrabbit (which is a species of hare, not a true rabbit) probably from this spring's first batch, so he's probably about 3 months old. The proportions are different from an adult. This species is also known as prairie hare or "white jack", or just "jack" hereabouts.

    This one was sitting in the long grass and then sat up when I came into view. He wasn't scared, but kept a wary eye on me. Pardon the lousy picture quality; I didn't get out the Big Lens so this is a tiny crop out of the middle of the frame. I have a little video I might post later.

    Of course, he immediately started being cute(r), having a bath, after I put the camera away.

    Pardon the weeds; it's been too hot and humid to mow lately, and I went chemical-free a few years ago.

    #wildlife #UrbanWildlife #jackrabbit #hare #WhiteTailedJackrabbit #PrairieHare #jack #SK #YQR #prairies #Canada #RabbitsOfMastodon

  25. We had a visitor in the back yard early this evening. This is a young white-tailed jackrabbit (which is a species of hare, not a true rabbit) probably from this spring's first batch, so he's probably about 3 months old. The proportions are different from an adult. This species is also known as prairie hare or "white jack", or just "jack" hereabouts.

    This one was sitting in the long grass and then sat up when I came into view. He wasn't scared, but kept a wary eye on me. Pardon the lousy picture quality; I didn't get out the Big Lens so this is a tiny crop out of the middle of the frame. I have a little video I might post later.

    Of course, he immediately started being cute(r), having a bath, after I put the camera away.

    Pardon the weeds; it's been too hot and humid to mow lately, and I went chemical-free a few years ago.

    #wildlife #UrbanWildlife #jackrabbit #hare #WhiteTailedJackrabbit #PrairieHare #jack #SK #YQR #prairies #Canada #RabbitsOfMastodon

  26. @jeffhorton

    "A European thinks a hundred kilometers is a long distance, while a North American thinks 100 years is a long time."

    Calgary <-> Regina: 7 hours
    Regina <-> Winnipeg: 5 hours

    #YQR #Regina

  27. @jeffhorton

    "A European thinks a hundred kilometers is a long distance, while a North American thinks 100 years is a long time."

    Calgary <-> Regina: 7 hours
    Regina <-> Winnipeg: 5 hours

    #YQR #Regina

  28. @jeffhorton

    "A European thinks a hundred kilometers is a long distance, while a North American thinks 100 years is a long time."

    Calgary <-> Regina: 7 hours
    Regina <-> Winnipeg: 5 hours

    #YQR #Regina

  29. @jeffhorton

    "A European thinks a hundred kilometers is a long distance, while a North American thinks 100 years is a long time."

    Calgary <-> Regina: 7 hours
    Regina <-> Winnipeg: 5 hours

    #YQR #Regina

  30. @jeffhorton

    "A European thinks a hundred kilometers is a long distance, while a North American thinks 100 years is a long time."

    Calgary <-> Regina: 7 hours
    Regina <-> Winnipeg: 5 hours

    #YQR #Regina

  31. Great. I just got a "high water use!" notification from my city utility. It seems to think I used roughly two thousand liters of water between 1am and 8am Saturday. Other than a couple of toilet flushes in the night, there shouldn't have been anything using water in that time. I don't believe the water softener did a recharge cycle in that time.

    The icons on the meter are also blinking back and forth between "leak" and "high forward flow" and "back flow" even though the usage number isn't moving at all.

    We had work done on water pipes in our neighbourhood in the last week, resulting in sediment and lots of air in the pipes. I guess I have to contact the city to figure out if that could be making the meter go screwy.

    #water #WaterMeter #YQR #Regina #utilities

  32. Great. I just got a "high water use!" notification from my city utility. It seems to think I used roughly two thousand liters of water between 1am and 8am Saturday. Other than a couple of toilet flushes in the night, there shouldn't have been anything using water in that time. I don't believe the water softener did a recharge cycle in that time.

    The icons on the meter are also blinking back and forth between "leak" and "high forward flow" and "back flow" even though the usage number isn't moving at all.

    We had work done on water pipes in our neighbourhood in the last week, resulting in sediment and lots of air in the pipes. I guess I have to contact the city to figure out if that could be making the meter go screwy.

    #water #WaterMeter #YQR #Regina #utilities

  33. Great. I just got a "high water use!" notification from my city utility. It seems to think I used roughly two thousand liters of water between 1am and 8am Saturday. Other than a couple of toilet flushes in the night, there shouldn't have been anything using water in that time. I don't believe the water softener did a recharge cycle in that time.

    The icons on the meter are also blinking back and forth between "leak" and "high forward flow" and "back flow" even though the usage number isn't moving at all.

    We had work done on water pipes in our neighbourhood in the last week, resulting in sediment and lots of air in the pipes. I guess I have to contact the city to figure out if that could be making the meter go screwy.

    #water #WaterMeter #YQR #Regina #utilities

  34. Great. I just got a "high water use!" notification from my city utility. It seems to think I used roughly two thousand liters of water between 1am and 8am Saturday. Other than a couple of toilet flushes in the night, there shouldn't have been anything using water in that time. I don't believe the water softener did a recharge cycle in that time.

    The icons on the meter are also blinking back and forth between "leak" and "high forward flow" and "back flow" even though the usage number isn't moving at all.

    We had work done on water pipes in our neighbourhood in the last week, resulting in sediment and lots of air in the pipes. I guess I have to contact the city to figure out if that could be making the meter go screwy.

    #water #WaterMeter #YQR #Regina #utilities

  35. Great. I just got a "high water use!" notification from my city utility. It seems to think I used roughly two thousand liters of water between 1am and 8am Saturday. Other than a couple of toilet flushes in the night, there shouldn't have been anything using water in that time. I don't believe the water softener did a recharge cycle in that time.

    The icons on the meter are also blinking back and forth between "leak" and "high forward flow" and "back flow" even though the usage number isn't moving at all.

    We had work done on water pipes in our neighbourhood in the last week, resulting in sediment and lots of air in the pipes. I guess I have to contact the city to figure out if that could be making the meter go screwy.

    #water #WaterMeter #YQR #Regina #utilities

  36. The next #Regina Repair Cafe is tomorrow! Boy, time flies. It seems like just a month ago that we did the last one.

    This one is at the Victoria Square mall. It runs from 10am to 4pm as usual. Advance bookings of repair appointments have closed, but they do take walk-ins when time and volunteers are available - I've never seen a walk-in turned away. For some reason, lots of people book appointments and then don't show up, so there's a fair bit of time freed up from that.

    I'm just a volunteer, not an organizer. If you have electronics, small appliances, tools or "general repairs" that could use a (free!) look-at, diagnosis, and possible repair, come down and see me. That's my usual remit.

    Virtually anything else can also be looked at; there are many volunteers covering every possible category from bicycle fixes to repairing garments to tuning up guitars.

    Helping to keep stuff in the hands of people that use it, rather than it ending up in the landfill for want of a small repair, is rewarding for me.

    #RepairCafe #YQR #SK #repair #fix #environment

  37. The next #Regina Repair Cafe is tomorrow! Boy, time flies. It seems like just a month ago that we did the last one.

    This one is at the Victoria Square mall. It runs from 10am to 4pm as usual. Advance bookings of repair appointments have closed, but they do take walk-ins when time and volunteers are available - I've never seen a walk-in turned away. For some reason, lots of people book appointments and then don't show up, so there's a fair bit of time freed up from that.

    I'm just a volunteer, not an organizer. If you have electronics, small appliances, tools or "general repairs" that could use a (free!) look-at, diagnosis, and possible repair, come down and see me. That's my usual remit.

    Virtually anything else can also be looked at; there are many volunteers covering every possible category from bicycle fixes to repairing garments to tuning up guitars.

    Helping to keep stuff in the hands of people that use it, rather than it ending up in the landfill for want of a small repair, is rewarding for me.

    #RepairCafe #YQR #SK #repair #fix #environment

  38. The next #Regina Repair Cafe is tomorrow! Boy, time flies. It seems like just a month ago that we did the last one.

    This one is at the Victoria Square mall. It runs from 10am to 4pm as usual. Advance bookings of repair appointments have closed, but they do take walk-ins when time and volunteers are available - I've never seen a walk-in turned away. For some reason, lots of people book appointments and then don't show up, so there's a fair bit of time freed up from that.

    I'm just a volunteer, not an organizer. If you have electronics, small appliances, tools or "general repairs" that could use a (free!) look-at, diagnosis, and possible repair, come down and see me. That's my usual remit.

    Virtually anything else can also be looked at; there are many volunteers covering every possible category from bicycle fixes to repairing garments to tuning up guitars.

    Helping to keep stuff in the hands of people that use it, rather than it ending up in the landfill for want of a small repair, is rewarding for me.

    #RepairCafe #YQR #SK #repair #fix #environment

  39. The next #Regina Repair Cafe is tomorrow! Boy, time flies. It seems like just a month ago that we did the last one.

    This one is at the Victoria Square mall. It runs from 10am to 4pm as usual. Advance bookings of repair appointments have closed, but they do take walk-ins when time and volunteers are available - I've never seen a walk-in turned away. For some reason, lots of people book appointments and then don't show up, so there's a fair bit of time freed up from that.

    I'm just a volunteer, not an organizer. If you have electronics, small appliances, tools or "general repairs" that could use a (free!) look-at, diagnosis, and possible repair, come down and see me. That's my usual remit.

    Virtually anything else can also be looked at; there are many volunteers covering every possible category from bicycle fixes to repairing garments to tuning up guitars.

    Helping to keep stuff in the hands of people that use it, rather than it ending up in the landfill for want of a small repair, is rewarding for me.

    #RepairCafe #YQR #SK #repair #fix #environment

  40. The next #Regina Repair Cafe is tomorrow! Boy, time flies. It seems like just a month ago that we did the last one.

    This one is at the Victoria Square mall. It runs from 10am to 4pm as usual. Advance bookings of repair appointments have closed, but they do take walk-ins when time and volunteers are available - I've never seen a walk-in turned away. For some reason, lots of people book appointments and then don't show up, so there's a fair bit of time freed up from that.

    I'm just a volunteer, not an organizer. If you have electronics, small appliances, tools or "general repairs" that could use a (free!) look-at, diagnosis, and possible repair, come down and see me. That's my usual remit.

    Virtually anything else can also be looked at; there are many volunteers covering every possible category from bicycle fixes to repairing garments to tuning up guitars.

    Helping to keep stuff in the hands of people that use it, rather than it ending up in the landfill for want of a small repair, is rewarding for me.

    #RepairCafe #YQR #SK #repair #fix #environment

  41. In the news today in my city...

    "Police received 911 calls reporting a man waving a gun in the air at the corner of <X avenue> and <Y street>. They arrived on the scene in moments, and ..."

    I should hope they arrived in moments. That corner is where the police station is 😆

    #YQR #police #immediately

  42. In the news today in my city...

    "Police received 911 calls reporting a man waving a gun in the air at the corner of <X avenue> and <Y street>. They arrived on the scene in moments, and ..."

    I should hope they arrived in moments. That corner is where the police station is 😆

    #YQR #police #immediately

  43. In the news today in my city...

    "Police received 911 calls reporting a man waving a gun in the air at the corner of <X avenue> and <Y street>. They arrived on the scene in moments, and ..."

    I should hope they arrived in moments. That corner is where the police station is 😆

    #YQR #police #immediately

  44. In the news today in my city...

    "Police received 911 calls reporting a man waving a gun in the air at the corner of <X avenue> and <Y street>. They arrived on the scene in moments, and ..."

    I should hope they arrived in moments. That corner is where the police station is 😆

    #YQR #police #immediately

  45. In the news today in my city...

    "Police received 911 calls reporting a man waving a gun in the air at the corner of <X avenue> and <Y street>. They arrived on the scene in moments, and ..."

    I should hope they arrived in moments. That corner is where the police station is 😆

    #YQR #police #immediately

  46. Ayyy, the new Federal NDP leader @avilewis is touring Saskatchewan in a couple weeks! Local EDAs are working together to put on some events and screenings of The Take. Hop on to RSVP or volunteer! linktr.ee/SaskFederalNDP

    - May 14th in Pasqua First Nation and Moose Jaw #ymj
    - May 15th in Regina #yqr
    - May 16th in Saskatoon #yxe
    - May 17 in Prince Albert #ypa

    #NDP #Canpoli #skpoli

  47. Ayyy, the new Federal NDP leader @avilewis is touring Saskatchewan in a couple weeks! Local EDAs are working together to put on some events and screenings of The Take. Hop on to RSVP or volunteer! linktr.ee/SaskFederalNDP

    - May 14th in Pasqua First Nation and Moose Jaw #ymj
    - May 15th in Regina #yqr
    - May 16th in Saskatoon #yxe
    - May 17 in Prince Albert #ypa

    #NDP #Canpoli #skpoli

  48. Ayyy, the new Federal NDP leader @avilewis is touring Saskatchewan in a couple weeks! Local EDAs are working together to put on some events and screenings of The Take. Hop on to RSVP or volunteer! linktr.ee/SaskFederalNDP

    - May 14th in Pasqua First Nation and Moose Jaw #ymj
    - May 15th in Regina #yqr
    - May 16th in Saskatoon #yxe
    - May 17 in Prince Albert #ypa

    #NDP #Canpoli #skpoli

  49. Ayyy, the new Federal NDP leader @avilewis is touring Saskatchewan in a couple weeks! Local EDAs are working together to put on some events and screenings of The Take. Hop on to RSVP or volunteer! linktr.ee/SaskFederalNDP

    - May 14th in Pasqua First Nation and Moose Jaw #ymj
    - May 15th in Regina #yqr
    - May 16th in Saskatoon #yxe
    - May 17 in Prince Albert #ypa

    #NDP #Canpoli #skpoli