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Erik Swedlund
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Pinball he/they
Brooklyn PinPride. APAB. NYC Pin Pod. ScrappleLeague. NYCFSA cap, Butter Baller.
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Call for Boycott of IPFA Open Tournaments, by Polly-Jean Vernon, IFPA Ontario Women's Representative, Founder and TD of Belles and Chimes Toronto, and Founder and TD of Assigned Pinball At Birth Toronto

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Good times at the Pinball NYC end of season party and awards ceremony with friends and teammates; both NYCFSA and Butter Ballers picked up our third consecutive trophies!
December 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
New profile pic: a button made by Alisa McLain from pinball women+ Ottawa that Polly-Jean showed us when we recorded NYC Pin Pod

NO TRANS EXCLUSIONARY WPPRS
December 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Call for Boycott of IPFA Open Tournaments, by Polly-Jean Vernon, IFPA Ontario Women's Representative, Founder and TD of Belles and Chimes Toronto, and Founder and TD of Assigned Pinball At Birth Toronto

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December 15, 2025 at 2:53 AM
NYC Pin Pod episode 514: Yellow Card #pinball

Our last episode of this season is a big one: Polly-Jean Vernon joins the panel to discuss her call to boycott IFPA events circumstantially

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Episode 514: Yellow Card
is posted to all your favorite podcatchers and here in which a panel (BCF, HIP, PJV) discuss location pinball in NYC (and gobally). This week: Ball 1: Competition results including the Pinball NYC …
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December 15, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Butter Ballers captain Courtney asked me to transport our trophy to the Pinball NYC end of season party Monday, so I snagged it from its place of honor at Buttermilk Bar last night
December 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
A few weeks ago we noticed a pair of stickers on the underside of the toilet seat in a bathroom at Buttermilk Bar. They appear to spell “BCF” which coincidentally are the pinball initials of my NYC Pin Pod co-host Benjamin. He said he would add some of our podcast stickers to the seat…
December 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
South Slope Pinball League had its finals last night. I had missed a few weeks and didn’t qualify—but a couple people couldn’t make it and I got bumped up to the last slot in B. My incredible week of pinball rolled on and I finished in 3rd!
December 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Just had my best night of league ever. Wow this week #streak #pinball
December 11, 2025 at 5:05 AM
My Tuesday teammate, Sonny, is also a captain of a Monday team that also won their division, so we did a Winning Captains photo shoot, hee hee!
December 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
My Tuesday team, Butter Ballers, are champions of Pinball NYC’s Right Inlane division for season 29!! Last night we played the Trolls (in their first ever championship match) to an 8-8 tie, then took the win on a 1-2-3 game of Jurassic Park.

That’s three straight seasons for we Butter Ballers!
December 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Look, no hands!

Here's me playing pinball for the first time in 40 yrs, thanks to @projectpinball.bsky.social & #HexaPinball

Read about the world of accessible pinball, & those making #pinballforall

A fun day at the office, for sure!
#NewMobility #disability #MultipleSclerosis #InclusiveGameWerks
Flipping Accessible: The People and Devices Tilting Pinball Toward Access
When I was an arcade rat in the 1980s, my idea of heaven looked just like what I discovered when I attended the 41st Annual Pinball Expo this October in Schaumburg, Illinois, outside of Chicago: a…
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December 9, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Our New York City Flipper Sport Association has won Pinball NYC’s Season 29 championship in the Left Orbit division—for the third season in a row! Last night we defeated The Mutants (for the third season in a row!) at Scrappleland, 10-6. Love this team!
December 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
NYC Pin Pod episode 513: The iPad Sherpa

Local competition results including Pinball NYC semi-finals, location updates and bullet journals, more OBX fallout plus controversy in Pinball NYC’s finals venues selection

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Episode 513: The iPad Sherpa
Episode 513: The iPad Sherpa is posted to all your favorite podcatchers and here in which a panel talks location pinball in NYC (and nearby surrounding areas). This week… Ball 1: Local compet…
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December 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
One of the great perks of attending the monthly South Slope Strikes is that tournament director Jess always makes cookies or treats #pinball
December 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
My Tuesday night #pinball team also won our semi-finals match; the venue was At the Wallace, my Monday night team’s home bar, heh. We Butter Ballers defeated Everybody Loves the Sunshine 11-5. I played great on these familiar machines, including a personal best on Deadpool (with a 5x Mechsuit).
December 4, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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NYC #pinball peeps, here’s your reminder to come play for the kids this Sunday.

@projectpinball.bsky.social fundraiser at SingleCut in Astoria. 3pm
December 4, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Last night at Rullo’s Bar, in Pinball NYC’s Left Orbit semifinals, our New York City Flipper Sport Association defeated Lionpersons! by a score of 11-1. I personally got one of those points with a pitiful ball 3 walk-off win on 007 with a score of 15M (I played it out to something like 125M).
December 2, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.

Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I won’t play this machine, personally, but I dig this from those who do
when you get the high score on harry potter you gotta 🏳️‍⚧️
#pinball #transrights
November 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
NYC Pin Pod episode 512: Another Week to Contemplate Their Fate #pinball

Ball 1: Local competition results and calendar
Ball 2: Location Update plus pinball bullet journals
Ball 3: Further OBX fallout

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Episode 512: Another Week to Contemplate Their Fate
…is posted to all your favorite podcatchers and here, in which a panel (BCF, HIP) talk location pinball in NYC. This week… Ball 1: Local competition results including Pinball NYC and th…
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November 24, 2025 at 2:37 AM
11:30pm drawbridge lift contributes to 90-minute subway trip home from pinball league and author’s yawning this morning
November 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
We Butter Ballers were the virtual home team at Barcade FiDi tonight as we took out Pinister Six in the first round of Pinball NYC’s Right Inlane playoffs, 10-6. I had a meh game of Congo and a good game of Rush, both in doubles rounds and both in our favor
November 19, 2025 at 4:28 AM
I can recommend a visit to the Red Hook Pinball Museum!
Join ART for a tour of the Red Hook Pinball Museum! We'll be led on a tour by the museum's co-founders before the space is open to the general public, to get an in-depth look at the pinball machines, many of which are from the 1960s and 1970s. Register: nycarchivists.org/event-6443225
November 18, 2025 at 9:42 PM