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jesse

@_jlevers

cognitive dissonance on legs

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Joined September 2014
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hire me to diagnose or fix your: - cars & trucks (incl heavy trucks) - motorcycles (even super old ones) - metalworking machinery i care about fixing things well, and about avoiding waste. i'll make as little waste as i can, reusing as many existing parts/materials as possible.
Ioan Mitrea (@awarenesss) profile pictureIoan Mitrea@awarenesss25 Aug 2025
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so if we try to get jobs for you in the @elkenmist neighborhood or in Portland around @BridgeSpacePdx what should we be looking for? We have some other friends who want to get a pop up teaching repair clinic around Portland
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i felt like a bad motherfucker driving the big truck to work for the first time today
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i may be topping out at 60mph but damn is it a fast 60mph
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W's of the past several months: - gf is moving in with me on the farm - starting a small mechanic business has not yet bankrupted me and i think i'll be cresting the financial ridge this winter - i get to be outside all day
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many things have also been hard, but i am v grateful
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my day job is fixing stuff my night job is finding and buying parts to fix stuff tm
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if i have to look at another goddamn o-ring tn bad things will happen
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i have been in disorganized tool hell for 6 months now i finally did the tiniest little bit of (temp) organization of all the small stuff (screwdrivers, pliers, picks...) and ratchets + extensions + wrenches into two mostly empty toolbags and i think i'm already twice as fast
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as soon as i get this fkn transmission fixed i can go pick up the service body i bought (pic is the body on its old truck) and then i can get organized fr fr
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this clutch swap escalated now i'm rebuilding the whole transmission and put a new floor in the cab
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luckily i don't know how to weld
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no matter how many tools i buy i always have some problem that would take 30 seconds with the right tool, but instead takes 4 hours without it
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every time i'm faced with a problem i don't know how to solve, and have failed to solve multiple times, i kinda freak out even tho every time this has happened in the past i have eventually figured it out
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part of why i decided to become a mechanic was to try to work with the part of the world that seems most environmentally terrible and try to approach it in a less terrible way now that i'm actually scratching the surface of it, it's even more terrible than is externally obvious
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the ways i've found so far to make this a little environmentally better: - buy bulk. bulk oil, bulk grease, bulk coolant all come in reusable metal containers instead of single-use plastic ones - re-refined oil. companies like safety-kleen take old oil and make new oil out of it
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but there's no getting around it, the machinery that runs the world also destroys it. we need fewer machines, we need to build less stuff, we need to use and reuse more of what we already have
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snowy nyc on b&w :)
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(and pre-snow)
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i somehow went from more or less no work to more than i can do in like...2 weeks? wtf happened, apparently i am a mechanic now now i gotta be careful not to fall back into the goingreallyfastallthetimetryingtogeteverythingdone trap again
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brilliant timing on my part to have pulled the transmission out of my truck two days ago, i need that fuckin thing
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