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  • My point still stands. A general lesson about how to treat other humans is not enough, parents need to teach especially boys how to treat women, because the society will teach otherwise. You don’t need to teach that men are humans; unfortunately we have to teach that women are too.

    So yes, let’s teach our sons how to treat women.







  • Your machine is not only pretty, but also very interesting!

    So, after asking on the typewriter Discord, people there confirmed my suspicions, there’s something off with this number: it lacks a prefix and is black on white while normally they are white on black. Conclusion: it’s probably reinscribed, so there’s no way to know if it’s the original one or not.

    However, the features are coherent for a machine with that serial, so it’s probable that it’s the original one, but reinscribed after a service, for example. So it looks like you have a machine constructed within the first year of production. It turns 100 this year, or in 2026, that’s cool :-).

    But there’s also an other possibility: there’s stories that typewriter enthusiasts tell each others around campfires that some Underwood could have been assembled in Europe. Is the country of fabrication mentioned anywhere on the machine? Probably in the back, under the patents?




  • Gorgeous thing! The model is quite easily discernable: it’s an Underwood Portable, in the 4-bank version (there were a 3-bank version too). Constructed between the end of the First World War and the Great Depression of 1929 and the 1950s, it’s a very beautiful machine!

    If you give me its serial number (on the right front flange or leg by which the machine is fastened to the case board) I should be able to give you its exact year of construction, if you’re interested.






  • I’m a typewriter fan. 15 days ago, I asked the admins of lemmy.cafe to be nominated moderator of !typewriters@lemmy.cafe which was abandoned and they quickly and kindly answered positively.

    I’m not sure it’s a good strategy, but for a month and a half I post links to all typewriter-related blogposts, YouTube videos and podcasts that appear in my RSS-feed, and I have a handful upvotes for every post, so at least a few persons find them interesting. And three other persons published things since I begun, even if each one published only once; it’s more than in the months that preceded my implication. It’s still not much, but I’m quite happy with the result for now!

    I also created !typecasts@sh.itjust.works, which is a home for things published with a typewriter but not necessarily about typewriters. It’s even more niche than !typewriters@lemmy.cafe, nobody but me ever published, but it works I guess.