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Auto @automatonarchive.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

pulling up in the toilet duck x-wing

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Auto @automatonarchive.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

scratch card from 2001 £50,000 or VCR. call it

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Auto @automatonarchive.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

intriguingly i can't find a single colour image of the Dr Beaks logo anywhere. the Roadchef website on wayback machine clearly had it at some point but the images themselves aren't saved. look at that "special breading" copy. he wanted to be the colonel soooo bad

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Auto @automatonarchive.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

found out today that wimpy launched a kfc rival exclusive to motorway services. not only was it called DR BEAKS but this was the logo... unsurprisingly this name and branding only lasted from 1999 to 2003

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Auto @automatonarchive.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

when i was a toddler i used to call the first gen Ford Ka "smiley car". because of how the tail lights and rear bumper looked

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Auto @automatonarchive.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

cannot see a lindt ad without bursting out in laughter 👨‍🍳 lmao

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Auto @automatonarchive.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

trying to remember why i have this random photo of a partially-submerged bag floating in a body of water saved as "nute-gunray.jpg"

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Auto @automatonarchive.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

i used to call him "the spitting chicken" as a kid because i didn't realize the red part was meant to be that dangly thing roosters have

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Auto @automatonarchive.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

quite possibly one of the worst adverts ive ever seen. maybe even one of the worst bingo ads ive seen which is an impressive bar to clear

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Auto @automatonarchive.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

still not used to W.H. Smith being T.G. Jones now. every time i see one i feel like ive stepped into one of those movies where im about to get a new Lemon MyPhone delivered via FedUp

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Auto @automatonarchive.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

cayce pollard hates this simple trick

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Auto @automatonarchive.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

the bbc in 2005 putting out the most ghastly promos for their digital services (this is the same era as "Faces" to put it into context)

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Auto @automatonarchive.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

The Academy doesnt want me to have this. "90 SCARS" indeed

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Auto @automatonarchive.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

i barely watch tv anymore but i had the simpsons on e4 last night while i was doing something else and i stg every other ad was a christmas one

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Auto @automatonarchive.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

i have acquired 2x direct line telephones

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Auto @automatonarchive.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

burning to death bc i forgot to snuff out the agnes varda candle when i went to sleep

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Auto @automatonarchive.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

"awww a home movie with lots of dogs in it..... oh nvm that's a fox hunt 🙃"

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Auto @automatonarchive.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

a recording of UK Food switches to the same episode an hour later on UK Food +1 unfortunately not seamlessly but still a vaguely interesting find

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Auto @automatonarchive.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

i'm so proud of this lol and yea it's captured from an actual tape. ive never seen an easily accessible vhs filter that looks particularly convincing i should do more stuff like this for LCF and otherwise. i really wanna put some episodes of Andor on tape so that will def be a future project

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Auto @automatonarchive.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

i may have cooked with the new LCF logo........

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Auto @automatonarchive.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

okay Funtime Video Films i WILL adjust my tracking. happy now?

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Auto @automatonarchive.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

added confused dot com Brian to my collection of ad vehicles. still need the direct line telephone

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Auto @automatonarchive.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

found a charity shop using vhs tapes to stop books being pushed too far back on the shelves took a lot of digging and probably some weird looks but i did pull out a couple of recorded blanks. i bought them

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Auto @automatonarchive.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

new charity shop find home video footage of a hoops tournament in an irish pub

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Auto @automatonarchive.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

all that for Teresa May on Playboy TV :/

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Auto @automatonarchive.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

this one was a bit of a disaster cleaned up nicely eventually but not before spewing a blizzard of ground up mold powder all over its own innards and my cleaning vcr 🤢 also put the spools in a new case and disposed of the old one

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Auto @automatonarchive.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

cleaning the mold off some tapes i got last year these had been stored in a goat milking barn. not great for preservation!

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Auto @automatonarchive.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

did none of them think how harmful this machine would be to artists

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Auto @automatonarchive.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

my first splice of a broken tape i'm not sure how much was lost but only seems to be a couple of seconds

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Auto @automatonarchive.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

cbeebies "nail bomb" continuity 2004

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Auto @automatonarchive.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

90s chatline adverts doesnt have a patch on the fabled Chatback but theyre so funny to me

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Auto @automatonarchive.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

cbeebies' Big Cook and Little Cook in a 2005 betting advert

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Auto @automatonarchive.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

i love finding the Sky guide also just realised that isnt justin bieber in the first clip unless he decided to affect a british accent for bbc3

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Auto @automatonarchive.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

another fun find this week: a primary school production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang from 1994 with a working car prop

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