https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1lngsj1/smelly_machine_please_help/?sort=old
De-smelling a typewriter:<br /> - sunshine<br /> - airing it out<br /> - baking soda scrub<br /> - toothpaste on the shell, esp. with baking soda<br /> - ozone<br /> - replace felt/foam<br /> - clean case<br /> - car fresheners<br /> - vodka spray and then put in freezer?!?
it probably needs new feet too. I snagged a rubber urethane jeweler's pad off Amazon for $9 and it's enough for 4+ machines. Better than the $35 I saw online. The feet are just 1x1x1/2 in blocks. I cut them a hair big with a utility knife and many passes and sanded them to fit. Kinda messy.
Sottsass, Ettore, and Perry King. Valentine Portable Typewriter. 1968. Acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) plastic, synthetic chloroprene rubber, metal, 2017.169a- typewriter: 3 7/8 × 12 3/4 × 13 1/2 in., 9.3 lb. (9.8 × 32.4 × 34.3 cm, 4.2 kg)2017.169b- cover: 4 3/8 × 13 1/2 × 13 7/8 in., 2.4 lb. (11.1 × 34.3 × 35.2 cm, 1.1 kg). https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/739409.
Sottsass transcended the sameness of typewriter design to give it an endearing personality. He tuned into Pop art, citing the orange nipples and pink breasts in Tom Wesselman’s nudes as inspiration for the orange scroll caps.
Photo still from A Clockwork Orange (1971) combining a Valentine and a Wesselman
The Valentine never reached mass audiences, despite the iconic advertising campaign he conceived.
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/4576
Acquired 1969
New Again: Tom Wesselmann by [[Tom Sachs]] April 20, 2016 in Interview Magazine
Previously ran in March 2006 issue of Interview
Wesselmann, born in Cincinnati, Ohio and trained at both the Art Academy of Cincinnati and New York’s Cooper Union, helped pioneer steel-cut sculpture and the use of molded plastic within fine art.
TOM SACHS: But seriously, with Wesselmann you’ve got this perfect pop-abstract representation of the female figure. You’ve got near perfect primary colors, almost like Matisse; there’s something really cartoon about Wesselmann. He also turned up, in a way, in Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange (1971), which people are rediscovering now on DVD. There’s a lot of art in that movie—even a Wesselmann-type painting. I think that movie represents pop art better than anything.
New Again: Tom Wesselmann - Interview Magazine by [[Tom Sachs]]
https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1lvzn34/say_hello_to_the_monpti/
The Montpi typewriter in 1968 presaged the Olivetti Valentine.
https://www.cbs.com/shows/video/8CdH0yFjbLTaKXqHIh7X9UcODIFs1guk/
3:48 in, Carl Gottlieb with his Smith-Corona typewriter
Which translation of “Les Misérables” do you recommend? by [[Marva Barnett]]
Very sad to report that Jerry Wallace, my typewriter maintenance and repairman passed away last year. This news is new to me since I lost contact with him when he retired and moved to Northern California. What a loss to the typewriter community. I used to take my typewriters to Jerry to fix and polish up at his Salinas home repair shop.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/4770669677/?multi_permalinks=10162232824949678
Reported via Elisabeth Paton.
ACCO Brands Corporation’s roots stretch back to the founding of Wilson Jones in 1893, the American Clip Company (ACCO) in 1903 and the Swingline Company in 1925.
~579 SWINGLINE INC ·11. 5 . 60 1 2782 WILSON JONES CO 10.8 59 10/ /59 1TOTALS FOR .1959 49 MERGERS ASSETS AC .G.UIRED= $1431.1
Wilson Jones Co. was acquired by Swingline in 1959.
via FTC Report on Mergers and Acquisitions 1978<br /> https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/reports/statistical-report-mergers-acquisitions-1978/statistical_report_on_mergers_aug1980.pdf
Wilson Jones Co., est. 1893 by [[Made-in-Chicago Museum]]
In 1937, when the U.S. Securities Commission released a list of corporation salaries to the public, Kulp was the highest individual earner on the entire list. Admittedly, his reported salary of $65,090 doesn’t sound all that impressive, and even after inflation, it’s only a little over $1 million. But that’s probably more of a statement on just how out of whack executive payouts have become in the ensuing decades.
Finally, in 1904, the more recognizable modern concept for the three-ring binder was patented in the United States . . . by the Irving-Pitt Manufacturing Company of Kansas City.
If you believe ACCO Brands’ own corporate website, in fact, Wilson-Jones was actually the company that “invented the three-ring binder“
Ralph Wilson (b. 1870 in Paolo, KS) was something of a notorious showman, prone to exaggeration and theatricality during his two decades as company president. These were traits he’d picked up in his youth, when he spent several years touring with the Ringling Brothers caravan show, serving as the big top’s “advance man,” or glorified publicist. The weird leap from the three-ring circus to three-ring binders, apparently, was merely a logical next step.
The Wilson-Jones Company has managed to survive, too, albeit as a subsidiary of the massive office supply conglomerate ACCO Brands (Swingline, Mead, Trapper Keeper, among others).
https://www.ebay.com/usr/spanghew
A gentleman in MA named Nis Kildegaard heavily refurbishes and sells various electric and mechanical typewriters on eBay under the seller name "spanghew." via Derrell Sherrod https://www.facebook.com/groups/705152958470148/posts/1023976513254456/?comment_id=1024077156577725
See also: https://www.youtube.com/c/NisKildegaard
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_Wt-mzuzLVhNtRyw_Sz9iNRDn37axBO0HAePv7-_dG4/edit?gid=0#gid=0
Typewriter collection of u/JoelBerger via https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1ltj1eh/comment/n1tszxi/
US Navy Underwood Universal<br /> by [[Joe Van Cleave]]
Royal Arrow by [[Joe Van Cleave]]
Joe Van Cleave on the importance of holding your mouth just right as you effectuate typewriter repairs.
Description of a set screw on the drive mechanism on the Royal Arrow / Royal Quiet De Luxe portables' ribbon reversal system for cleanly effectuating the reversal
The adjustment points for the on-feet and motion on a Royal Arrow (and similar for the Royal Quiet De Luxe). The outer screws (one on each side) is for the lower case and the inside set is for the upper case.
https://youtu.be/qrlt6VyC8D0?si=yHjByRVLa2BMYt-4&t=485
Description of typebars sticking at the typing point and needing forming to repair them.
https://youtu.be/qrlt6VyC8D0?si=nqMErXlEd-rfkQL0&t=409
I love that Joe sets up a camera inside the case of the Royal Arrow to show how the metal fixtures on the case dovetail with the machine. In one instance the piece on the right has been bent while the one on the left properly tucks the carriage return arm inside.
That's an important question with several answers. Give it to someone as a gift. Give it to someone as a punishment. Store it in a safe place. Send it to a type pal. Give it to recycling. Rub yourself down with (mud? molasses? butter? beer? blood? snow?) and burn it in a bonfire. Throw it in the sea. Throw it in a volcano. Throw it in a hallway. Throw it in a drawer. Take a picture of it and submit it on one typed page. Type over it in another colour. Type over it in the same colour. Eat it. (The last should only be considered for very little amounts. Please use common sense.)
reply from u/andrebartels1977 to u/Electrical_Raise_345's question: "Hey what should I do with my type writing." at https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1lru709/hey_what_should_i_do_with_my_type_writing/
Capitalism in higher education, example circa June 1998 mentioned in New York Times of an economics professor leaving Harvard to Columbia for more money.
(01:24:14)
taco bell-ification of education (Q&A)
The Point of a College Education by [[C-SPAN]]
Orson Welles quote about so many of him and so few of you at a lecture to 3-4 people in a snow storm.
statistics about the drops in humanities (~42:00)
consumerist spirit in higher education (45:00)
student evaluations (47:00)
education is a buyer's market now instead of a seller's as it had been in past generations
grade inflation
consumerism with respect to feminism and women's studies, gay and lesbian studies, multiculturalism in higher education
radical education as "going to the root"
in short, "let us entertain you" as consumerist education
"The job o education is never finished."
The hidden point of a University of Chicago education: Be an artist, be a scientist, be a statesman, be a teacher of artists, scientists, or statesmen.
Do I imagine it. Or he did one day actually say in response 00:37:59 to an answer. That's so far off. It isn't even wrong
Epstein quoting Norman Maclean, the author of The River Runs Through It and a professor at University of Chicago.
Mike Nichols, the movie director, who was there four or so years before I, said of the university:
Everyone at the University of Chicago during my time there was no neurotic, dysfunctional, weird. It was paradise!
Charles I. Epstein quoting Mike Nichols
I would be lucky, I felt, merely to fail in accounting course. More likely, I would turn my participation in such a course. Into a felony. Accounting had to be avoided, but how? Something called the liberal arts, I learned, excluded accounting. As for what they included, I had no idea. But whatever it was, I felt that I had a shot at it. I signed up.
What does Josephs say about himself? (Peter Brier)
I get my education writing about things that until I actually do write about them I don't know that much about. I read. up I think through. I write out.
00:09:57
The End of Truth
Hayek had the Republican party down in 1944.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/487130
Henry Dreyfuss designed a thermos bottle and cups for The American Thermos Bottle Company (Norwich, CT) ca. 1933. An example of them is on display at The Met.
https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1lrkpuy/whats_inside_your_typewriter/
"The Hermes 3000 Mk2 I picked up last Saturday had a purple Polish pencil (still sharp), a marble, a drawing pin, and a well-mouldy green Smartie."
also: - broken glass<br /> - ball bearings<br /> - receipts<br /> - picture of a cat - typewriter servicing receipt - eraser shavings - multiple safety razor blades<br /> - paper clips - disintegrated foam
making my own RAINBOW TYPEWRITER RIBBON by [[Just My Typewriter]]
The Worst Parts of Trump and the GOP’s Disastrous Tax Bill by [[Nikki McCann Ramirez]], [[Ryan Bort]], [[Tim Dickinson]]
New toxic metal has been found in the air and homes after L.A. fires by [[Megan Fan Munce]], [[Susie Neilson]]
Newman added that any wildfire survivors who begin to develop respiratory symptoms down the line should inform their doctors about their potential exposure to beryllium. A blood test exists to check for beryllium sensitization, though Newman advised waiting about a year to be tested.
I'm totally prejudiced as I work at a local typewriter repair shop in Bremerton, Washington. We also have a space where we sell them. In general if the local shop has a bunch of machines that you can put on a table to try out, that is good. If they don't want you futzing with the typewriters, I'm not sure the value. Do they have a warranty? If not, then stick to the internet and local antique shops and buy as low as you can. At least that way when you need repair you have a cost buffer.
Hindsight - I wish I could have just gone to a typewriter shop and bought just two or three machines (desktop standard, portable, and ultraportable).
via u/brianlpowers who spent a lot of time buying and repairing/restoring typewriters. https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1awrqb3/whats_the_consensus_on_typewriter_stores/
I'm a bit curious about just how much "profit" he's made on them? What would his hourly wage be?
We recommend people come to our shop and type. We charge $5 an hour or you can look into our rental programs. We have a lot of people come in just to hang out and type. No plans on actually owning one, and that's fine with us. Come in, play, leave without the 10-30 pounds of metal with you lol. We also sell and service machine. Prices vary some. But all our machine have a 60 day guarantee from date of purchase. We do ship machines as well if you find something on our website that you like. Assuming you aren't near the Dayton Ohio area.
u/Dangerous-Ratio6448 is a typewriter repair person at TB Writers Plus
Trying an ULTRASONIC cleaner...? (EPIC FAIL) by [[Just My Typewriter]]
Sarah uses a very small and inexpensive ultrasonic cleaner for some small typewriter parts. Probably not the way to go. A bigger cleaner and better detergent is probably the way to go.
We use three ultrasonic cleaners in the shop. The two smaller ones we bought on eBay. One is small for screws, springs and such. The slightly larger one is for small to medium size machines, carriages and other long stuff. The large cleaner is a commercial item used mostly for Selectrics.
Bremerton Typewriter uses three different ultrasonic cleaners in their shop.
via u/palump at https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1ad9hge/ultrasonic_cleaner_for_mid_size_portable/kk0npc2/
https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1ad9hge/ultrasonic_cleaner_for_mid_size_portable/
This typewriter was quite grimy, so I removed the shell (fairly challenging) and gave it a bath in an ultrasonic cleaning tank. Mitch Hamm alerted me that such tanks, big enough to dip a portable while keeping its keys out of the water, are now available for a mere $150 or so. Here’s the Royal undergoing what sounds like electroshock therapy, but is really just a micro-agitated bath. Concentrated Simple Green Industrial Cleaner & Degreaser was added to hot water in a 1:20 ratio.
https://typewriterrevolution.com/a-green-machine/
Richard Polt's experience in cleaning a Royal Portable with an ultrasonic cleaning tank with Simple Green in a 1:20 ratio.
https://typespec.com/typewriter-service-apprentice-training-update-2/
Paul Lundy has a 12 week apprenticeship program for typewriter repair at Bremerton Typewriter.
Yep, some times hard to tell from the listings. Look for the inside dimensions of the unit. We have a three gallon (screws and small bits), 13 gallon (carriages and dunking half a typewriter) and a gargantuan gallon for Selectric machines.
via u/palump at Bremerton Typewriter https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1jzels9/ultrasonic_cleaner_for_parts/
We switched to Ultra 3 detergent after using Dawn detergent for years. A quantum leap in effectiveness. When we got the new Ultra 2100 cabinet ultrasonic unit it came with a gallon of detergent. We used it ONE TIME and the parts came out so much cleaner, almost brand new. The detergent is expensive, yet we've never gone back.
via u/palump at Bremerton Typewriter
Ultra 3 Detergent: https://shop.ultrasonicllc.com/collections/ultrasonic-cleaning-solutions/products/ultra-3-multi-purpose-ultrasonic-detergent
https://www.reddit.com/user/palump/
Works at Bremerton Office Machine Co., 245 Fourth St, Suite 503, Bremerton, WA 98310
Given the screen name, it's likely Paul Lundy? Bremerton Typewriter
Cross reference: - https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1lgaptx/how_do_you_source_parts/myw369m/
We are often asked what ultrasonic cleaners we use in the shop. We have three. The large cabinet model that holds large typewriters such as Selectrics, a medium sized 12"X20", and a smaller cleaner 10"X12". The medium and smaller ones you can buy on eBay all day. The models change, and the sizes are all similar. The medium sized cleaner is used for small to medium sized typewriters and the small machine is mostly for nuts, screws and other tiny stuff.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C2u5EkVrnq3/
via Bremerton Typewriter<br /> - PS-100A Ultrasonic Cleaner<br /> - Ultra 2100 from Ultrasonic, LLC
https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1i0w488/do_you_tip_for_machine_servicing/
Tipping is generally not encouraged at typewriter shops.
At our shop we know that we'll age out. Everyone does. To seed the typewriter field we have a 12 week apprentice training program. Hopefully a few get the repair mojo and open up their own shop. Or just become more adept at the hobby. I can only hope once the time comes we have someone willing.
via u/palump at https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1i1ydyz/nobody_in_boston_big_enough_to_fill_these_shoes/m7e497l/
Bremerton Typewriter has a 12 week apprentice training program as a means of helping to create the next generation of typewriter repair people.
Reese Electronics on Westwood Blvd in Los Angeles. Helmut was a mechanical engineer for Olivetti.
https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/160pen0/typewriter_repair_shops_in_the_usa/jxryjns/
Card Files and Alternatives for Zettelkasten, Index, etc – Brian Rytel by [[Brian Rytel]]
Mostly a rehash of my list, but one or two alternates.
What's in the Senate Version of Trump's Big Policy Bill? by [[Alicia Parlapiano]], [[Margot Sanger-Katz]], [[Aatish Bhatia]], [[Josh Katz]]
200 Billion for Homeland Security, ICE, and crazy pants?! I can only imagine if instead we invested in education instead.
Those who boast of such high cognition should not keep it backbut should present it publicly to be tested and esteemed.
Kant, Immanuel. Critique of Practical Reason. Translated by Mary Gregor. Revised. Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. 1788. Reprint, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. https://www.amazon.com/Kant-Critique-Practical-Cambridge-Philosophy/dp/1107467055/.
annotation URL: urn:x-pdf:09b93113bad24ed9b2333ba0052d7f65 (alternate)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs_Dalloway
Read intro and stopped so as not to get into spoilers
Young Men Who Elected Trump Just Realized They Screwed Up by [[Leigh Kimmins]], [[The Daily Beast Podcast]]
Jury in Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Trial Reaches Verdict on All Counts but Racketeering Conspiracy by [[Julia Jacobs]], [[Ben Sisario]]
Searching for the Welsh-Hindi link<br /> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4328733.stm
A BBC journalist is urging helpful linguists to come forward to help solve a mystery - why the Hindi accent has so much in common with Welsh.
Mark C. Samples<br /> Zettelkasten practitioner<br /> cross-reference email in June 2025
5 Ways to Stop AI Cheating by [[Ted Gioia]]
professors in the US would refuse to spend so much time face-to-face with students. They would complain that the Oxford approach is too labor intensive, too demanding on their precious time.
I did well and thus got exempted from the dreaded viva voce—the intense oral exam that (for many students) serves as follow-up to the written exams.
(1) EVERYTHING WAS HANDWRITTEN—WE DIDN’T EVEN HAVE TYPEWRITERS.
In ‘Comedy Samurai,' the Writer-Director Larry Charles Tells Tales of Working on ‘Borat’ and ‘Curb’ by [[Jason Zinoman]]
What appealed to you about the concept?I’ve always been attracted to the transgressive. I tried to bring as much transgression to “Seinfeld” and “Curb” as I could, but there were still rules. With “Borat,” I was encouraged to break rules, to offend, to not worry about the results. I found that to be liberating.Can you do great comedy without transgression?There are gentle comedians who can be very successful. But if you want to cut through, if you want people to lose it, to lose control, then I think you need to go to the forbidden places.
You don’t see working class humor much anymore, except in standup.
"Fridays TV Show" (1981) [Show L-03] "The Masked Magician" [04 of 12]
1981 Bob Zmuda as the Masked Magician was showing the "secrets" of magicians before many others....
A free-form typewritten scorecard by u/joe_skidiachi_irl
Berkeley’s California Typewriter, star of documentary, closes shop by [[Cirrus Wood]] 2020-02-21
Ken Alexander worked for 20 years at California Typewriter as the shop’s principal technician on manual typewriters. But these days he’s working three days a week at Berkeley Typewriter, “though that number will likely go up,” he said.
Tom Furrier, who owns the Cambridge Typewriter Company in Massachusetts, has sold several typewriters to Mr. Cidoni and said that high school and college students have become a staple of his business.
Typewriters are making a comeback in Berkeley by [[Edward Derbes]] 2011-06-22
Edward Derbes earned his B.A. in Rhetoric from UC Berkeley last year. He still resides in Berkeley, and can often be found on the front steps of his apartment building reading Kierkegaard and Nelson Algren.
Fascinating to see that it sounds like a guy who would have his own typewriter possibly writing about a typewriter comeback.
Joe Banuelos, its third owner, has run the shop for nearly twenty years. Joe’s brother, Jesse Banuelos, who works as a typewriter technician at the store
Herbert Permillion, who runs California Typewriter Company on San Pablo Avenue, said he was also at a loss to explain the trend. “I’m almost in awe to some extent, but then I can sort of understand that some people tend to reach back and some people want things a little simpler.”
California Typewriter Company was opened as California Typewriter on Shattuck Avenue by Glenn Tuttle in 1949. Permillion bought the shop in 1981 from its second owner, Joseph Mundy, at its second location on University and moved it to its current location on San Pablo in 1986.
Jesse said that he sold a typewriter for $350 just minutes before this reporter’s arrival. Most of the restored typewriters in the store sell from between $295 to $400.
A fascination with vintage typewriters also accounts for the recent rise in sales, said Joe. In particular, people in Japan are buying typewriters built in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s. The store will charge $250 to repair a classic Olivetti, but that machine can be resold for $1,000 in Japan, said Joe. “They buy them because they are antique. There’s a big demand because they are part of American history.”
from 2011
“I happen to be a person that knows how life works,” Trump remarked in 2017, explaining why he trusts his instincts. This is the fatalistic kernel within all instantiations of social Darwinism: everything you see around you—all the irrationality, all the hierarchy, all the pain—is just the way of the world. The only way we can debunk this claim is to create a world that works differently.
This last seems like it could have been from the lips of David Graeber, though here it isn't stated as forcefully that we make choices about how to live.
Now we can look back and see the festering presence of social Darwinism lurking throughout the whole postwar era, like a monstrous Forrest Gump. The United States’ enduring attachment to empire and racial domination helped ensure the survival of social Darwinist ideas, just as the imperialist expansion of the late nineteenth century gave the ideology its initial purchase. In turn, these ideas, repackaged and sanitized by popular psychologists and libertarian economists, eventually helped to sanctify inequality as the foundation of the neoliberal order—to create a dog-eat-dog political economy that only strengthened the appeal of social Darwinism as an explanation of how society operates.
In a 2013 lecture, the social psychologist and soi-disant centrist Jonathan Haidt railed against the tendency of “both sides” to deny “inconvenient truths.”
soi-disant as self-styled or so-called
The neoliberal economist Gordon Tullock shared his admiration for Wilson’s “excellent” book. Tullock’s own foray into “bioeconomic theory,” The Economics of Non-Human Societies, argued that economic modeling could help explain how nonhuman animals like ants managed complex social coordination without central planning. “Social insects and other social species normally only have an economy, but no government,” Tullock wrote. “Humans think that government is a necessary precondition for the function of the economy, thus this proposition may seem bizarre.” This was precisely the premise that the most radical neoliberals sought to use sociobiology to question.
government as regulation of social trading/economies?
In the Seventies, the evolutionary-biological approach to the study of human behavior grew even more popular. Its leading exponents were Hamilton’s Oxford colleague Richard Dawkins—who has called Hamilton “the greatest Darwinian of my lifetime”—and the Harvard entomologist E. O. Wilson, who recalled his imagination being “captured” by Lorenz at a pivotal point in his graduate studies.
Dawkins and Wilson both influenced by W. D. Hamilton
W. D. Hamilton, one of the most influential evolutionary biologists of the second half of the twentieth century. Hamilton helped develop new theoretical tools that allowed scientists to postulate a genetic basis for a range of complex social behaviors. Among these behaviors, in Hamilton’s view, was genocide, which was a natural if morally regrettable response to population growth among a competing “tribe.”
After World War II, when the United States’ embrace of the antifascist struggle raised the possibility that its own apartheid system would be the next target, a vanguard of white nationalists and Nazi sympathizers rallied around a private philanthropy called the Pioneer Fund, which had been established shortly before the war. The fund’s grants helped ensure that scientists who shared the founders’ enthusiasm for the Third Reich’s “selective breeding” policies could pursue their work under an all-American aegis.
Reasoning along similar lines, the historian Carl N. Degler asserted in 1991 that the struggle against Nazism had at last left social Darwinism “definitely killed, not merely scotched.”
see prior note at https://hypothes.is/a/zg9nllXhEfC3JvvsD89bQA
Scotched is an uncommon use now, though perhaps more prevalent then....
In Social Darwinism in American Thought, the 1944 book that popularized the term, Richard Hofstadter writes that the ideology, at least “as a conscious philosophy,” had “largely disappeared” in the United States by the end of World War I, thanks to its uncomfortably Teutonic overtones.
last October, Jonathan Chait argued that the social Darwinist commitments Trump shares with the rest of the Republican Party distinguish it not only from the Democrats but “from conservative parties in other industrialized democracies.”
first months of his second reign
the use of reign with respect to a President in such Harpers is certainly both telling and troubling....
I can’t help but suspect that Trump’s own explanation is closest to the mark: “I’m a very instinctual person,” he told Time magazine in 2017, “but my instinct turns out to be right.” One need not agree with the latter judgment to recognize that Trump’s account of himself rings true. He values the irrational quality of his decisions as an end in itself.
Baker, Erik. “Trump’s Darwinian America.” Harper’s Magazine, July 2025. https://harpers.org/archive/2025/07/trumps-darwinian-america-erik-baker/.
https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1lo8jr5/asking_the_important_questions/?sort=old
Apparently the first instance of Snoopy with a typewriter on July 12, 1965.
La Machine à écrire is a three-act play written by French dramatist Jean Cocteau, premiered on 29 April 1941 at the Théâtre Hébertot in Paris. It has been translated into English as The Typewriter by Ronald Duncan.[
Video shows federal agents blast their way into Huntington Park home by [[Lauren Coronado]], [[Jonathan Lloyd]]
Which keys are those? It's possible that they slow down keys which would otherwise risk penetrating the page. If they're on period, comma etc then this is likely the case.
via Koponewt:
https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1ln920i/missing_springs/
Sotomayor Warns No One Is Safe After Birthright Citizenship Ruling by [[Robert McCoy]]
The destroyed typewriter was recovered from the Jackson Park Lagoon on June 7.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/705152958470148/posts/1013993200919454/
Royal X typewriter in Tintin in America
https://museum.wales/articles/1186/Christmas-customs-Toffee-Making/
Gallia County in Ohio was formerly known as “Little Cardiganshire”. Welsh was spoken here widely, and remained the county's most common second language until 1970.
https://www.wales.com/about/welcome-wales/wales-and-world/links-between-america-and-wales
https://clickamericana.com/topics/science-technology/vintage-portable-manual-typewriters
The Smith-Coronas were offered in 4 different colors.
The Remington Quiet-Riter was eventually offered in white sand, desert sage, mist green, and French gray,
The Royal HH was offered in 6 colors including green, pink, and blue. Brown was the most ubiquitous.
https://uppercasepublishing.squarespace.com/typewriter
The Royal FP typewriter came in five different colors including pearl gray, sandstone (yellow), willow green, sea blue, and cameo pink.
In the late 1950s Royal released versions of the Royal Quiet De Luxe in 6 different colors.
VOGUE by [[Lucas Dul]]
Lucas talks about swapping out the segment and typebars of a Royal P to transplant a Vogue typeface.
The design changed in about 1930 for a different width.
https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1ll06y7/metal_balls_came_out_of_my_typewriter_and_now_i/
We R Memory Keepers with ball bearings that fell out.
Takeaways From Graduation Speeches by Trump, Taraji P. Henson and Others by [[Mitch Smith]], [[Arijeta Lajka]], [[Caroline Kim]]
Michael Sugrue, 66, Dies; His Talks on Philosophy Were a YouTube Hit by [[Trip Gabriel]]
Margaret Mary (Clancy) Sugrue, who managed the home.
compare with "stay at home mom", this statement gives more productive value to the woman in the house
interesting to see this turn of phrase pop up in a relative quotidian obituary in the New York Times
Event by Indy Type Shop, Siren Hand and 2 others2621 Shelby St, Indianapolis, IN, United States, Indiana 46203Duration: 9 hrPublic · Anyone on or off Facebook14 MAY | 11a-8p | GRAND OPENING!2621 Shelby Street, Indianapolis 46203Indy Type Shop opens its doors for regular business hours, starting 11am May 14th.
grand opening of Indy Type Shop in Indianapolis, IN on 2025-05-14<br /> https://www.facebook.com/events/9811716722250635/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1713118022537412/posts/2146096495906227/
Diagrams and photos of how several latches and locks are put together on typewriter cases.
Gwneud Cyflaith / Toffee Making by [[Amgueddfa Cymru]]
Repairing typewriter broken carriage spring. #typewriters #Olympia #repairing by [[Subham Kumar]]
Royal QDL Carriage Removal/Install-The Easy Way…do you want to fight? by [[The HotRod Typewriter Co.]]
SM7 carriage bearings won't work on a QDL-style typewriter, but Royal Diana ones will. It requires removing a pin from the tab mechanism (after loosening a side nut). There's also bilateral carriage stop nuts which require removing at least one.
Reinier Verkleij, a typewriter collector, aka u/DonaldDutchie on reddit via https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1ljl9xq/fraktur_erika_2/ and uploading of https://typewriterdatabase.com/1915-erika-2.25838.typewriter with Fraktur typeface.
https://www.greetingstour.com/
classic large letter postcard style
https://www.facebook.com/groups/705152958470148/posts/988157953502979/
Dr. Who appearance of an Imperial typewriter
Searching printables.com, thingaverse.com, and makerworld.com might unearth other printable rubber typewriter parts like feet. (Be sure to search for singular and plural versions: i.e. "foot" and "feet".) Etsy and Ebay searches might uncover others who make and sell the feet you're looking for.
edited reply for: https://www.facebook.com/groups/705152958470148/posts/1013945174257590/
National Typewriter Day (and all my unfinished projects!) by [Just My Typewriter]]
Hedges traces this alarming erosion of democratic principles back to the 1971 Powell Memo, a pivotal document that laid the foundation for the pervasive influence of corporate America over political processes.
https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1leoo6j/what_are_these_extra_symbols_on_this_erika_2/
Capital glyphs with ligatures can be indicators of Fraktur typefaces on German typewriters.
https://mrmrsvintagetypewriters.com/en-us/blogs/news/typewriter-fonts
Lots of examples from various manufacturers
https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1lhemm3/olympia_sm9_1973_model_platen_and_feed_roller/
Notes for platen removal on an Olympia SM9.
