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jesse @_jlevers

cognitive dissonance on legs

Joined September 2014
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jesse@_jlevers
25 Aug 2025
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
25 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 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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i've been stressing myself out trying to do everything i need to do as efficiently as possible...that approach requires me to hold too many threads in my head at once i'm gonna try going for max focus on one thing at a time instead of max total speed thru everything i need to do
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do i really need to get everything done as quickly as possible? probably not, and analysis paralysis costs me lots of time and energy so i'll get to a couple jobs a few days later...they'll survive
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i'm about to turn 27 and i feel my life's work is just beginning
jesse@_jlevers
May 12
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i feel i'm beginning to have a sense of aesthetic taste that is new. i'm more particular about how i want my life to be, how i want to tell stories, how i want to show up. morally, visually, narratively. i can't quite meet my own taste yet, but i have something to pursue!
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boutta get back from a 6 week motorcycle trip, and for one of the first times in my life i cannot fucking wait to go home there is a woman waiting for me to come back! there are so many things waiting for me to fix them! there are trees to sit under!
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i want to go fast, ride at my limit. i want to go slow, take time to really see i want authenticity more than anything. these trips are filmed, and the experience often felt changed by recording it. schrödinger's moment. any trace of acting for the camera ruins it for me
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i feel i'm beginning to have a sense of aesthetic taste that is new. i'm more particular about how i want my life to be, how i want to tell stories, how i want to show up. morally, visually, narratively. i can't quite meet my own taste yet, but i have something to pursue!
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