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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 27/09/2026

Tiki two days in a row may have been a mistake, @ehrenenglish.bsky.social

At false idol San Diego. Electroceratops is getting girl drink drunk in front of a wall of Polynesian totems

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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 23/09/2026

𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝓌𝑒 𝑔𝑜 𝒶𝑔𝒶𝒾𝓃

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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 18/09/2026

united airlines is not calling it lake america, which is nice

an inflight map tracking a flight from Ottawa Canada to Washington, DC, USA. We are now just over Lake Ontario, and the map is not calling it anything else

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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 15/09/2026

Testing a new antenna in the back yard, before things got too cold to continue. My tiny ten watt signal was heard as far away as Australia.

A nighttime view of the backyard, overlooking a table filled with radio equipment. A transceiver is tuned to the 20 meter band, and a small laptop is displaying a list of stations being received. In the yard behind the table is a large set of rabbit ear antennae, extended about six metres on either side.

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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 12/09/2026

This sweet kitty found me and @ehrenenglish.bsky.social having barbecue on the back porch and hung out. Eventually we said goodnight and turned off the lights but she wouldn’t leave. Turns out she was lost so we invited her in until her family picked her up.

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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 09/09/2026

We saw Taeg Gollert at a game in Ottawa last month Now that’s a baseball-ass name

Baseball scoreboard showing player stats for Taeg Gollert

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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 02/09/2026

It’s a little more modern these days but essentially yes

A picnic table covered with radio equipment

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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 24/08/2026

Unfair, Jeff the mannequin had way more charisma than this guy

Today’s Special promotional image from the Canadian TVO children’s program that ran between 1981 and 1987. Featuring Jeff the Mannequin(Jeff Hyslop), Jodie the designer(Nerene Virgin), and puppets Sam Crenshaw the night watchman, and Muffy the Mouse.

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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 24/08/2026

On this day, 212 years ago, British forces from Canada captured and burned Washington, D.C., setting fire to the United States Capitol, the White House, and the Washington Navy Yard.

Capture and Burning of Washington by the British, in 1814, wood engraving, 1876.

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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 30/07/2026

Alright, two hours from I-probably-shouldn’t-do-this to hey-I-probably-shouldn’t-have-done-that: I present to you the Acme corp 71’ end-fed random wire antenna, c/w launcher

A plastic bazooka-like tennis ball launcher, several loops of wire, two tennis balls, a 1:9 unun antenna box, and a tent stake

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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 10/07/2026

She’s got the look oramask 811 stencil medium is incompatible with molotow premium paints, which is a shame because they are amazing to work with otherwise. It took me hours of rubbing off glue residue from the pink areas with goo gone, and I had to be very careful as goo gone attacks the blue

A beautifully stencilled Bally Elektra pinball cabinet

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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 08/07/2026

And the stencils on Elektra are complete! I think it turned out pretty pretty. #pinball

A freshly painted pinball cabinet on sawhorses in a workshop. There is a stylized neon design of a woman, electric, radiant, with lightning emitted from her fingers

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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 05/07/2026

a fucking bird shit on my iPad

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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 03/07/2026

just ate vampire-roasted wieners w/ @ehrenenglish.bsky.social and let me tell you that’s the good shit

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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 28/06/2026

they’re back and they’re rocking a colander

drag king gay fieri is getting down with it

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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 28/06/2026

our fledgling beeramid, begging for collision. if you were here this would be taller. next game is july eighteenth

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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 28/06/2026

best derby name awards for they/them mayhem, bi-furious, drunky brewster, five foot furry, and kate’s bush

a lineup of roller skaters in knee pads, helmets, and threatening facial expressions

three roller skaters scrumming for warmup

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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 27/06/2026

gay fieri performing at ottawa roller derby halftime

A drag king is performing to Jesse’s girl while playing air guitar on a pancake flipper. They are wearing a snappy Memphis-patterned button up and a red golf visor

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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 24/06/2026

First stencilled layer on Elektra is now complete. Gonna let the pink settle in for a couple of days before hitting it with the yellow. #pinball

A stencil is applied to a pinball cabinet on sawhorses.

A hot pink pattern emerges on a blue background. Few details are discernible as it is an accent background layer.

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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 22/06/2026

i bought it at tap phong in toronto a few weeks ago to justify using charcoal indoors in the winter; photo below is our summer yakitori grill

a rectangular steel barbecue with notches for skewers and no grill grate

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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 19/06/2026

In three days, Canada’s CHU shortwave time broadcasts will be silenced, forever.

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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 14/06/2026

Bally pinball games have a groundplane made of mylarized cardboard. At forty-five years old they’re kinda crispy. I couldn’t remove Elektra’s without damage, and nobody sells replacements. I fabricated a new one from 26-gauge galvanized sheet metal. I had to buy a bench brake to get straight bends.

A wide rectangle of sheet metal, folded at the sides. There are holes drilled in the metal.

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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 12/06/2026

Okay. Blue enough. This took four cans of primer and 7.5 cans of blue. Now I’ll let it cure for a week before applying stencils.

an empty pinball cabinet on a sawhorse is painted a vibrant shade of blue. Darker than the sky; brighter than the sea

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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 10/06/2026

i blue it again (only needs 4-6 more coats)

a very blue wooden pinball cabinet on sawhorses

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