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Zoe
@retrozo.bsky.social
I often find myself to be the caretaker of things forgotten or lost.
Tube Radios 📻 CRTs 📺 Retro games 🕹️ Vintage Computers 💾 Dead Media 📼 Drinks 🍺 Etaoin shrdlu 🦤 Vintage Watches ⌚ Talking Machines

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@retrozo.bsky.social, you'll appreciate this post:

Here is my current small project - a 2004 Walkman WM-FX197. Taking this apart wasn't too bad, but belt access is rather cramped. I'm attempting this without a soldering gun, hopefully this works out 🙏🏽📼
January 27, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Finally getting that replacement IC today
Going to finally find out of it was the issue. All the other components around it seemed to test okay, so hopefully it's the solution
I'm still working on they 2-XL

I'm about 75% sure this IC is the issue. It's a governor for DC motors

When I plug it in the LED eyes light up but it doesn't start playing. I know the motor works but it's not being controlled by pressing play

So it's gotta be this chip, right?
January 27, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Chicken, chorizo, and bell pepper taquitos
January 26, 2026 at 11:22 PM
Toastmaster sandwich grill making lunch that
January 26, 2026 at 6:05 PM
I made this for Tiktok but that shits broken
January 26, 2026 at 3:04 PM
And completes a wonderful breakfast
January 26, 2026 at 1:25 PM
I love my juicer
January 26, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Cyndi Lauper museum on tonight's Connector Call on #MeTV
January 25, 2026 at 11:41 PM
Yep
January 25, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Oh yeah, that's a lot of snow. It's about 6in/15cm already and not supposed to stop snowing until 13:00 Monday
January 25, 2026 at 11:05 AM
A fun way a teacher taught me which word to use

"They hung the painting and hanged the artist"
January 25, 2026 at 12:37 AM
Dang, I need 70 bucks
January 24, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Drop an alien that's not from Star Wars or Star Trek
January 24, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Oh hey

If the power does go out, I might finally try out my esbit stove (outdoors)
January 23, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Yeah just got one of those albums?
You know what I mean
January 23, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Another plan for this weekend, of the power doesn't go out

Don Bluth marathon
January 23, 2026 at 8:21 PM
I'm ready to be snowed in
January 23, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Beer acquired
January 23, 2026 at 5:28 PM
I'm currently in the 20in/50cm snowfall range on the edge of where there perfume ice and temps of potentially going down to -20C

Also, I plan to buy some booze
Alrighty, I've got MREs, containers for water, a few batteries, plenty of music (gotta love having a phonograph!), plenty of blankets, some candles

Really hoping to not go without power but I'm ready if it happens
January 22, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Alrighty, I've got MREs, containers for water, a few batteries, plenty of music (gotta love having a phonograph!), plenty of blankets, some candles

Really hoping to not go without power but I'm ready if it happens
January 22, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Oh dang

Guess I'll be watching OTA this week
IMPORTANT NOTICE- due to contract stipulations, MeTV cannot air “King Kong VS Godzilla” on streaming platforms- FrndlyTV,FuBo,Philo,Sling and DirecTV- or in Hawaii. We will have to replace it with “Fiend Without a Face”. We apologize for this disappointment.
January 22, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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Every so often I like to remind people how much money a billion dollars is

Using time as a way to comprehend

One million seconds is 11 and a half days

One billion seconds is over 31 years
April 21, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Haven't shared dinner in a while
January 21, 2026 at 11:21 PM
January 21, 2026 at 5:03 PM
If, my personal hero, Benjamin Franklin saw what was happening to the Post Office today he would beat the shit out of everyone responsible, write a very publicly humiliating tongue lashing, and (consensually) fuck their wives
January 21, 2026 at 2:02 AM