The European Commission has ambitious #RightToRepair plans! 📍 Energy label for phones & tablets from 2023 📍 mandatory repairability & durability rules Today we joined their discussions about smartphone repair scoring—which is one of many aspects the EU wants to cover. A thread 👇

It's our 2nd birthday! Can you help "upgrade" us to 4k followers? Please share/RT. 👋 We're campaigning for the Right to Repair the stuff we own, in Europe. Too many of our products die a premature death. The system is rigged

Quick update after yesterday's repair event. It was good to be back fixing things and drinking tea (of course). As always there were a mix of items brought in. And of course many thanks to all of the volunteers who showed up and made the whole thing possible.

The most sustainable phone for the environment already exists, and its in your hand 😮 CNN Rachel Ramirez Clare Duffy cnn.it/3iyIpyl

It's that time of the month again and Repair Cafe Rugby will be opening its doors this coming Saturday at 10am. If you'd like to volunteer please let us know and if you'd like to bring along something for us to try and fix, we'll see you on the day. facebook.com/events/1834189…

If you just watched #ITVTonight and believe we need to the Right to Repair our electronics and appliances, please sign our petition therestartproject.org/petition-right…

Over 40% of UK adults have thrown away an electrical item in the last 12 months 😬 Don’t bin it - bag it! Everything with a plug, battery or cable can be fixed or recycled. Our website has all the info you need to donate, fix or recycle your electricals: bit.ly/3DxAt8o

Events across Europe, from Iceland to Greece to Estonia planned for International #RepairDay tomorrow. Good to see many are about premature obsolescence and the #RighttoRepair. Find an event near you or materials in your language: openrepair.org/repair-day

For International Repair Day, we don't have the PR power of industry or big institutions 💰, but we definitely have the people power. Great to see so many grassroots initiatives participating. 🙌 high fives everyone openrepair.org/repair-day Share your experiences on #RepairDay

We think it would be great if everything was easier and cheaper to repair. 🛠 Do you agree?✅ The The Restart Project have a #RightToRepair petition asking the government to help make this happen. 👊🏼 Please sign therestartproject.org/petition-right… Thank you 💚 #RepairDay

It's International Repair Day. Join in by repairing something and by doing so help reduce CO2 emissions.

Today is #InternationalRepairDay! Repairing old electricals can save money - and it also saves resources by reusing the precious materials found within electrical items. Find out more about repairing your electricals here - bit.ly/3Dxt7BO #RecycleYourElectricals

Very successful event last week. 80% fix rate. Although this is partly because we didn't have our usual number of items brought in. It was also good to see a few new volunteers join us (welcome). Thanks again to everyone at St. Andrews church and we hope to see you all next month

Our partners at Repair Café Coventry will be opening their doors on Saturday 26th March this year. If you or someone you know would like to volunteer for them then please get in touch. [email protected]

On Saturday the 26th of March we're planning on helping out at an event in Coventry. If you're available to help repair items brought in by the public, please let us know. 👍

A plan was hatched to open ‘fixing factories’ on every high street in the UK — plus seven other good news stories from this week positive.news/society/positi…

iFixit Pro Tip: Have you tried turning it off and on again? 😜

When you're working on making a work bench but you have to then use the bench in question to fix the tools that you are making the bench with. #circleoflife #willthiseverend #repairs

Valve’s new Steam Deck is here, and we’ve got a full video teardown of this intriguing (and impressively repairable) device.⁠ Spoiler alert: we didn't die, despite Valve's warnings that we could: bit.ly/3LFXdbd

Exciting times. Well over a year ago I promised myself a new laptop. This one is showing its age (bought in 2013). I've chosen a fully repairable & upgradable one, but apparently, I have to build it when it arrives. frame.work - DIY Edition #Dull #makingworkformyself