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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

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Hello! I fix #pinball machines and #arcade 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 […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ retro.social/@ifixcoinops, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 14h
Don't worry, that's not the end, I'm literally typing the next bit now, I'm just a bastard
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 15h
[Alex rattles his hands against his front door and none of the fucking keys work.] None of the fucking keys even _nearly_ fucking work. The world got _so_ dark and _so_ loud and _nothing fucking works._ There should be light here, now, there should be at a bare minimum a little fucking porch […]
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
Well I finally got out to see #thisOldClownHouse and dang I need to hang out with the fedi clowns more
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
As a household we have agreed that I will not give him a little plate of cat food
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
I have named him Barp, short for Barpolomume
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
Lil porch racc
Raccoon under a chair on my front porch
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
Dude redoing the pavement outside my house just pulled his phone out to take my number and I was like WHOA WHAT THE HELL IS THAT because it was I kid you not three times thicker than any phone I've seen in the last ten years, it has a camping light, he charges it twice a week and it doesn't mind […]
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
Remembering all the different sorts of Halloween candies I've made for Improbable Island over the years
A range of sweet wrappers in various designs against a beige background.  Each one is a little bit different.

The candies include:

Hello.
Suck
Mange!
Bumpy Frank
Momf
FLICK (with bad kerning so it looks like it says FUCK)
Jimmy Crumbles
Blunge
NipNips
Chocolate Rings
Snudge
Swizzler
Flippler
Sweet Touch
Henson's Traditional Fish Cubes
Llama Bar
LIPS
Slippery Starfish
Twungle!
Dong
Country Hunny
Balls
Dave
Mister Finger
ButterBum
Furtler
Rumpadoo
Spanky
Nutty Log
Squirty Giggles
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
[It's a little bit into our future and everything got worse and then everything got better and then everything got exciting and now everything is the sort of interesting that's only interesting to us, not to the people here, because to them it's normal but to you it's just a little bit into our […]
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
Wrote them a shitty review then noticed there was an equalizer button, so pulled them out again and gave the three EQ modes a go. They were all shit. Like these were $20 headphones so I know not to expect miracles but fuck me they sounded Way Way Worse than I expected
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
different headphones showed up, they had FOUR BUTTONS for forward/back/volumeUp/volumeDown and unfortunately one capacitive sensor for pause/play, the closest I've found yet to sensible headphone controls, but the sound quality was absolutely appalling, worse than you'd get given for free on a […]
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
Perfect little three-act play that
Email chain in which someone's AI assistant asks for permission to post an ad to my explicitly-AI-free ad hole, I tell it to fuck off, and it replies with "yes sir"
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
@hannah Has he reached that interesting age yet where he forgets how to sleep and you have to teach him all over again how to sleep and he's not happy about it and neither are you
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
Boosting my owt toots 'cause someone went through my back catalogue and boosted one I don't remember writing At All and I'm wondering what the hell else was going on that day that I wouldn't remember it
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026
Chat systems have emoji reactions now and that's good because sometimes someone says something funny and you laugh and you want to convey that and 🦝 Hot tap full of mousetraps [😂3(🐰🐯🦊)] Is better than 🦝 Hot tap full of mousetraps 🐰 haha 🐯 ha 🦊 hah but they still miss out on a lot of […]
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
[SCOUSE PINHEAD] No listen right, I'll fukhkhkhkhn tear yorrr soul apart la'
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
[SCOUSE PINHEAD] Doug Bradley as Pinhead but using Doug Bradley's own accent and vernacular SCOUSE PINHEAD bsky.app/profile/tauriq.bsky.social… SCOUSE PINHEAD
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
@nevonnen yeah those are two hundred and fifty euro
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
PUT A FUCKING VOLUME KNOB, a REAL VOLUME KNOB, let us hear it CRACKLE and POP until we TAKE IT APART and CLEAN it, we have a need to periodically maintain and care for things, maintenance-free switches ROB us of the opportunity to fulfil this basic human need in a newbie-friendly non-threatening […]
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
That's where the Gen Z Stare comes from, it's from shit headphones
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Also, you know what, my old headphones have a power switch. Off, on, on with noise cancelling. If someone comes up and does a friendly/solicitous upward head tilt, I reach up and flick the switch and hello at them, it's done before I'm even done with my own here's-my-chin headtilt. Some of […]
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
@syvash podcasts
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Put a fucking volume knob sticking out the side of headphones you cowards
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Anyway I ended up reading a LOT of manuals for headphones and wtf is up with that bizarre button behaviour Volume up and skip 30 seconds of adverts being on the same button is already Dickensian street urchin levels of Please Sir May I Have One More Input but fuck me, lads, you OBVIOUSLY want […]
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Remember I was bitching about my cheap headphones that work fine and are just kinda falling apart and ugly, well they started having charging problems so I was like YES FINALLY I CAN JUSTIFY BUYING A NEW PAIR and then I went all around trying to find a pair that had comparable features and […]
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
@tael I mean I for one would quite enjoy being able to post long threads that other people can read but you do you I guess
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
When your dad's had a spare couple of hours recently and you're bimbling along in the car and he theatrically wipes his brow and goes "Hmm, it's hot in here, think I'll wind the window down" and then he winds the window down ALL THE WAY and you sit there like 😮 and he looks over to you all 😉 and […]
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
[AI, grim] Not to mention the regrets these fathers are gonna have, like remember Elon's sockpuppet account on twitter telling himself what a great dad he was, that's these guys' future
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
[AI, grim] Aw jeez redlib.catsarch.com/r/antiai/commen… Like IDK if it's one of those where this guy's joking and it's impossible to tell joking from sincerity anymore or if he's 100% serious but yikes we've gotta pop this bubble […]
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2026
Have I mentioned yet that this is cool as hell? It's cool as hell. By all means get into photovoltaics for environmental reasons or financial reasons or preparedness reasons or futureproofing reasons or flexibility reasons but a lot of folk get into it just as a hobby because it's legitimately […]
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
I've still got no fucking gas and it's starting to get chilly, this suuuuuucks
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
Yeah yeah individual action versus collective blah blah wait for the government to fix it because you can't fix climate change by yourself whatever, but I'm *not* doing this by myself. Loads of people are putting up solar panels, loads of people are reducing their consumption because they get a […]
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
I dunno how much of this is down to My Particular Flavour Of Mental Health, being that the actions of cutting and stripping and crimping and connecting already associated with Correcting The Problem because of my job, there are pre-existing neural pathways that say that making these particular […]
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
This whole project has really rammed home, like, "The antidote to despair is action." Well the antidote to anxiety, is it? IDK how the saying properly goes, the antidote to Bad Head Stuff is taking actual physical action with your hands to try to fix the problem. I've got a lot of climate […]
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
Also I tried one of those long wands that go on your garden hose and try to blast the leaves out with water pressure. It was 100% shit and didn't work At All. Suck 'em out instead.
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
AUTUMN PRODUCT RECOMMENDATION It's time to clean your gutters and blokes with ladders round here have been asking DAFT MONEY the past couple of years, like double or triple what they were asking pre-covid, and my roof is Extra Scary so earlier this year I got one of those […]
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✨Let me heraldify your character!✨ 🌟B/W version base price 50€ 🌟Coloured version base price 100€ Any species is welcome! Other commission types (www.corruptedfox.com/?cat=43) and my TOS (www.corruptedfox.com/?page_id=133)
A side view draw of a feline with bat like wings. Drawn with pencil.A side view drawing of a feline with bat wings. It looks like a heraldic creature. The background is a photo of a wall.
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
Need moar boosts, did I mention YOU PLAY THE POND
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
Echoing my last boost, go check out www.backerkit.com/c/projects/nessun…, it's Rusalka by fedi's own @nickwedig. I've played it with Nick and some other mates and it slaps. It's a collaborative storytelling game. You're the vengeful […]
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
[Sam Altman rape case update, Very Very grim] Annie's released some of her deposition video on youtube m.youtube.com/watch?v=akjrfwYPvy8 Just like with the original case story, this was front page for a couple of hours, and if you weren't online or watching the news during those couple […]
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
🦌🪧 INJRD HAIRY NONBI NARY
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
So hey, y'know what's terrifying about solar specifically? Fuses and breakers don't work the way you're used to them working. Say I've got three panels in parallel that can put out 8 amps each, and a battery that can pull in 20 amps. All good, right? I've got up to 24 amps of supply and my […]
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
Or he'll have his mind blown because he didn't know about this either, but I don't think that's very likely tbqh I think it's more likely that he'll go "oh shit he figured it out" and kill me
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
75 people boosted that toot and a bunch of y'all went "holy shit this is life changing" so I'm wondering why I had to figure this out myself instead of from my dermatologist, so next time I see him I'm gonna ask him hey why didn't you tell me about the easy way to take off a plaster, and he's […]
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
Tip also applicable to injured hairy women, injured hairy boys and girls and injured hairy nonbinary individuals 🦊🚬 If you're injured and hairy then buddy I've got what you're after
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
[Top tip for injured hairy men, medical, holes] By which I don't mean my enthusiastic dermatologist gave me the top tip, I mean my enthusiastic dermatologist gave me MANY NEW HOLES and I stumbled across the Alcohol On The Front Of The Plaster trick by semi-accident just now
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
[Top tip for injured hairy men] If your plaster/bandaid is the sort that's more clothy/fabricy than plasticky/rubbery then rubbing/isopropyl alcohol will wick right through the fabric to the adhesive underneath and dissolve it damn near instantly. Put a dab on your fingers and rub the cloth and […]
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
See the problem with buying 16 solar panels and then hooking up 3 is that 3 is nice, and then the drive for hooking up the rest has to be provided by fighting with the gas company
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
I got this positioned so that I can run conduit out of it sideways to go up the hill to The Big Array but I've also got MC4's coming outta the bottom for if I wanna temporarily just lie some panels down on the other hill in front, for future Big Nasty Storm Knocks Out Power For A Week sort of events
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
🎵 Fuck yer gas and oil, I've a box outside,
Grey electrical box on a brick wall, REAL BORING LOOKING
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