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<p>Hello! I fix <a href="https://retro.social/tags/pinball" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>pinball</span></a> machines and <a href="https://retro.social/tags/arcade" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>arcade</span></a> games, and tell you all about it! I fix lots of other things too, and occasionally tell you about that. I also run one of the web&#39;s longest-surviving <a href="https://retro.social/tags/textAdventure" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>textAdventure</span></a> games, called Improbable Island, and I often write here on Fedi about decade-scale online community management stuff. Husband, dad, professional Thing Fixer and amateur woodworker in my early 40&#39;s, an <a href="https://retro.social/tags/immigrant" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>imm

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  • Post #4112057

    Good morning fedi from normal island

  • Post #3973426

    Alright so ROBINSONS SQUASH We have this drink in the UK where it&#39;s a very very concentrated fruit juice and you put a teeny tiny little bit into a big glass of water and it makes the water fruity and nice, and you can choose how concentrated or dilute you want your drink to be for different situations This is what I drank in my childhood because it&#39;s delicious, it&#39;s incredibly cheap and it comes in many flavours, and I miss it terribly But now there&#39;s this new stuff, the incr...

  • Post #3972528

    Anyway America please do this, make and sell squash, it&#39;s a lot less plastic and a lot less weight to truck around on lorries to have a nice fruity drink, but also please don&#39;t make it fucking disgusting and 100% undrinkable thx

  • Post #3917117

    oh fucking hell it&amp;#39;s smoke outside

  • Post #3869285

    Me: ๐Ÿฆ Expecting someone to know how to install an operating system or that Substack is a nazi bar is honestly really specialized information, the world is full of things and nobody knows more than a tiny fraction of it and that same tiny fraction is never the same between any two given people, expecting everyone to know the same things that you and your peers know is a recipe for a life full of confusion, frustration and disappointment Also me, watching Jeopardy just now, where a contestant was...

  • Post #3841368

    Where are folk going to stream the world cup matches then

  • Post #3813585

    CURSING the PATRIARCHY every time I, a tall man, have to mop the floor with this CRAP SHORT MOP made for TINY WOMEN and not GANGLY MEN so it makes me BEND OVER and HURT MY BACK Introducing MANMOPSโ„ข, MOPS FOR MENยฎ The Invention: Same as other mops but six inches longer so you don&#39;t have to bend down After the marketing department has had their grubby little fingers all over it: all black, armour-looking plastic panels, choice of New Car or Barbeque scents, TURBO DRYING FAN, takes the same...

  • Post #3708571

    Thing that&#39;s impossible to search for because the search engines have gone to shit and I need to ask Actual People; fruit fly traps to buy online, do they work as well as an old jam jar with little holes punched in the lid and apple cider vinegar with a bit of dishsoap to break the surface tension, have you tested, have you or someone you trust done a side-by-side comparison

  • Post #3660716

    ๐Ÿด ๐ŸฆŠ ๐Ÿบ ๐Ÿฆ† ๐Ÿน ๐Ÿง ๐Ÿด...has he gone ๐ŸฆŠ๐Ÿ‘€ ๐Ÿน... ๐Ÿง...I think so? ๐Ÿฆ† People keep boosting the start of the thread though ๐Ÿบ Ugh, hmm, yeah, that&#39;s just gonna remind him of it ๐Ÿง Look it&#39;s been over a month, I think it&#39;s safe to - ๐Ÿฆ *kicking the door open* FUCKING KNOW WHAT ELSE, THE THING THAT KILLED RSS WAS IT BEING CALLED RSS ๐Ÿน shit run ๐Ÿฆ THE ONLY TIME NORMAL PEOPLE LIKED IT WAS WHEN IT WAS CALLED GOOGLE READER

  • Post #3659319

    My Mint running laptop has become shit-slow and I&#39;m only noticing now

  • Post #3618576

    yikes I&#39;m at anthrocon

  • Post #3567441

    ohhhhh I am looking at the whole house fans and going... what actually, nuts and bolts, specifically, makes the difference between a hundred dollar fan and a thousand dollar fan, and is that Something a thing that I can make happen with grasping raccoon claws

  • Post #3564427

    37 degrees today so of course I went out in the sun to do the Ugh Fine I Guess It&amp;#39;s Air Conditioning Surrender Time job, yanking off the panels and pulling out four years&amp;#39; worth of spruce needles and spiders and leaf mold, spraying it down with the foamy gunk and the hose and getting those fins Sparkling because y&amp;#39;know what if I&amp;#39;m gonna turn on a machine that draws Literally Two Thousand Nine Hundred Watts to do what is honestly a pretty mediocre job of cooling hu...

  • Post #3564426

    Thanks @cpi whose flyer scans at http://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2026/06/scans-rare-arcade-flyers.html?m=1 got me looking at this Micropin brand tiny bartop pinball machine https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V4nQFlzcj-k I legit can&amp;#39;t tell if this is rad as hell or Engineer&amp;#39;s Disease: The Pinball or whether it&amp;#39;s somehow both

  • Post #3564425

    Tomorrow I plan to celebrate the 250th anniversary of this country by going downtown and paying my respects to the brave men and women and non-binary individuals willing to make the sacrifice of donning ten kilos of fur and parading around as gay neon foxes in 34 degree heat ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐ŸŽ†๐ŸŽ‡๐ŸฆŠ #anthrocon

  • Post #3564424

    Seriously considering stacking two box fans atop each other strapped with furring strips and duct tape to create a poor-man&amp;#39;s Windsday Addams a la #thisOldClownHouse

  • Post #3456583

    Anyone on the fence about those fans that look like headphones, you hang them around your neck and they blow up under your hair, don&#39;t be on the fence anymore, they&#39;re really great

  • Post #3440106

    ๐Ÿฆ why&#39;s everybody posting goose ๐Ÿฆ oh OK I will read the goose thing ๐Ÿฆ bring brain computer to life

  • Post #3411331

    Oi @mullvad@mastodon.social, you&#39;re a completely unrelated account who just happens to share a name with someone I&#39;m cross with, carry on, my bad

  • Post #3363374

    Thinking &amp;quot;Whatever happened to the VG Cats guy&amp;quot; and the Wikipedia article got nominated for deletion and I had a gander at the talk page and someone cited the deletion discussion of Eric Schwartz and Sabrina Online and I&amp;#39;m here like, you guys know text takes up fuck-all disk space right

  • Post #3346183

    LB: remembered that I&amp;#39;m giving away advertising space for free PURELY BECAUSE THE WORST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WANT TO CHARGE LOADS OF MONEY FOR IT, please give me your 468x60 pixel non-animated banner for your hobby website or small (small!) business. Make it colourful and cool looking like something that someone would want to click. I&amp;#39;m not going to put it over content or move stuff around just as someone&amp;#39;s moving their finger to tap on something or any of that bullshit,...

  • Post #3346182

    Youtube&amp;#39;s recommending me a ceiling fan video and I love ceiling fans and I think they&amp;#39;re genuinely one of the greatest inventions ever but fucking hell I wish it were someone else doing this video dude could make &amp;quot;Good morning&amp;quot; sound condescending

  • Post #3318128

    Whoever this is putting these stickers up, thanks, my kid is making a game of spotting them and it&amp;#39;s a lovely little Everyday Whimsical Interaction Thing

  • Post #3318127

    Got some thoughts on reading and weird things that leapt out at me when I was listening to that Sold A Story podcast and I guess I need to do a thread or a post about that at some point &amp;#39;cause not only do I have OPINIONS like any middle aged Man On The Internet, I might actually have some concrete nuts-and-bolts Suggestions lol I&amp;#39;m KINDA WEIRDED OUT by the fact that I have a blog and it&amp;#39;s sort of this, invitation to bang on about shit as though I&amp;#39;m an expert on i...

  • Post #3206730

    What are the Fedi people using for podcasts on F-Droid? I was using Antennapod but it looks like they&#39;re rolling around in AI shite now

  • Post #3177961

    It&#39;s 1998, you make a website in the copy of frontpage express that came with your computer, it&#39;s just like Word and it&#39;s very easy, you figure out how to upload it to the couple megs of web space that your ISP gives you (the instructions are on their website), you visit your site in your browser and everything&#39;s fine and the site&#39;s readable and everything looks the way it should ๐Ÿฆ &quot;Wow, if it&#39;s this easy in 1998, I bet it&#39;ll be even easier in 2026&quot; you thi...

  • Post #3144401

    Gender Neutral implies existence of Gender Live and Gender Earth (or Gender Hot and Gender Ground overseas), tag yourself (See also https://wandering.shop/@troublewithwords/116703373903551836)

  • Post #2620752

    I think the post where I started restoring this Firepower was two servers ago. Anyway Mab and Herne are helping

  • Post #2573067

    Been watching Red Dwarf with kiddo, I end up on the Wikipedia page of course, follow that round a little bit, huh Grant/Naylor wrote the Spitting Image chicken song - oh. Oh no. ๐Ÿ” HI I SEE YOU HAVEN&amp;#39;T THOUGHT ABOUT ME IN THIRTY YEARS ๐Ÿฆ yeah ๐Ÿ” WELL I&amp;#39;M BACK ๐Ÿฆ yeah. ๐Ÿ” ๐ŸŽต STICK A DECKCHAIR UP YOUR NOSE ๐ŸŽต ๐Ÿฆ .

  • Post #2532184

    Alright I&amp;#39;m finally getting organized, here are ALL MY GOOD POSTS (or all the good ones that I remember anyway), this took all morning so please tell me I&amp;#39;m good and virtuous https://danfixes.blog/fedi:importanttoots