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Fred Austere

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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Headline: “Ticketmaster accused of misleading Oasis fans”. On easy mode then.
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
if you see this, we implore you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation
A model of a German WWII soldier prodding what is described as an unwilling camel.
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Date yourself with a commercial from your childhood. m.youtube.com/watch?v=XGzu...
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Hamlet Cigars Car Park Advert
YouTube video by The Weird Weird World of Russ
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Downplay a book or a movie: The Distinctly Average Gatsby
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Name an artist/band who's whole discography you've heard.
Missing from this photo: loads but especially ‘Candy Apple Grey’.
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
What's your sign?
Hump-backed bridge warning.  It’s (sob) personal.
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice in Chains
Depeche Mode ‘Violator’, an end-to-end album.
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Did you know that bananas are becoming more radioactive? In around 15 years they will have reached around 17.5GBq (gigabecquerel), enough to stun a small dog.
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Ruin a book by adding a word: The Man With The Golden Squirt Gun
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
If you see this, reskeet with a sentai team that is not Power Rangers or Super Sentai.
Kevin O’Neill’s work for Alan Moore’s ‘The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen’.
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Arabella @arabellaspireship.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
youtube.com/watch?v=tbEy...
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The Atomic Café
YouTube video by YouTube Movies
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
No Star Wars. No Star Trek. Name a favorite sci-fi franchise.
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Red Dwarf Cat Dance
Alt: Red Dwarf: it’s The Cat!
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Invert a band: A A
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle
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Kiki's Delivery Service Airship Over Village
Alt: Well, it’s reliable.
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Good to have as Neighbours.
A mobile kebab vendor in Bristol, named ‘Jason Donervan’.
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Name your favorite alien.
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David Bowie's Side Eye in The Man Who Fell To Earth
Alt: David Bowie's Side Eye in The Man Who Fell To Earth
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
From a local restaurant. Should I be hungry or terrified?
‘Kung-Fu Potato”.
It’ll fill you up or beat you up.
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Make a band out of two others: The Pixie Explodes
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Bon.
Hélas!  Third time lucky.
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
WWCMOTDD?
Ankh-Morpork’s finest, CMOT Dibbler, discovers advertising.
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
It's always "are you on the spectrum?" and never "thank you for those incredibly specific and honestly fascinating nuclear weaponry development facts, with their accompanying metallurgical, evolutionary and cultural footnotes.”
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Legend has it that if you say “Chuck Tingle” three times into a mirror, you’ll be butt-invaded by space raptors.
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
My Own Private Idaho Potato.
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only.
From ‘The Death of Stalin’.  The usual suspects.
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
She’s thinking “silly ape”.
Olympia looking cute.
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Drop a movie that traumatized you as a kid...🖤😬
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two brown rabbits are laying in the grass and one has a sad look on his face
Alt: Watership Down. A lovely tale about bunnies…oh.
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Drop something BLACK & WHITE 🖤🤍
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a man in a tuxedo is dancing with a woman in a white dress in a black and white photo .
ALT: a man in a tuxedo is dancing with a woman in a white dress in a black and white photo .
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
What’s your sign?
Fathers Ted and Dougal making sense.
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Happy Day of the Dude to all Dudes, Their Dudenesses, or, er, Duders, or Los Duderinos if you're not into the whole brevity thing. Abide.
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a man wearing sunglasses is sitting in a car holding a newspaper .
Alt: The Dude, who we celebrate today.
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Still a beauty.
P-51D “Ferocious Frankie”, s/n 44-73149 under restoration (or finished?) at Duxford, October 2014
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The new cat tree arrived. No objections so far.
Clockwise from left: Astapp, Olympia and Alyssa, all looking cute.
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
‘How’re ye?’
Cassidy, presumably in search of a launderette.
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
So it appears that the malign feelers of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation’s marketing department have worked their way into confectionery. I present: ‘Monty Bojangles signature choccy scoffy chocolatey truffles’. Time for a cull.
The name.  Oh, the name.  Something must be done!
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Looks like Pete (hic) Hegseth is gathering the top US military, and heads will roll! After all, it worked out just fine for Stalin.
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
What’s this? Melanoma Trump starting a children’s charity? www.upi.com/Top_News/US/... So, now Epstein’s gone, they decided to cut out the middleman.
upi.com
First lady announces ‘Fostering the Future Together’ world initiative - UPI.com
First lady Melania Trump announced a global initiative to improve children's well-being through education, innovation and technology at the United Nations.
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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
bond girls but they’re also muppets: thread
Beaker as Giacinta "Jinx" Johnson from Die Another Day.
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Product placement.
A packet of ‘Kittensoft’-brand toilet tissue.  Aww, what a cute kitty!  Pspspsps!  Like a scritch?  Awww!
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Next up in glow-in-the-dark fun in the US: radioactive shrimp. abcnews.go.com/US/fda-warns...
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FDA warns public not to eat possibly radioactive shrimp sold at Walmart
The FDA is warning the public not to eat, sell or serve certain Great Value raw frozen shrimp sold at Walmart due to possible contamination with Cesium-137.
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Got a new spot for my ‘Wolf Hall’ books. It’s a Hilary Mantel-piece.
The books of the ‘Wolf Hall’ trilogy - ‘Wolf Hall’, ‘The Mirror & The Light’ and ‘Bring Up The Bodies’ by Hilary Mantel, on a mantlepiece.
And I’d do it all again.  Bwa-ha-ha!  Bwaaaa-haaa-haaa-haaaaa!
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
www.bbc.com/news/article... I love the line “Environmental groups have criticised the handling of the situation”. They seem to be ignoring the fact that this is A FUCKING NEST FULL OF RADIOACTIVE WASPS.
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Radioactive wasp nest discovered at old US nuclear weapons site
The nest with 10 times more radiation than permitted was found at a facility that once produced parts for US nuclear weapons.
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Sometimes life feels like this. With noodles and kaiju. m.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ9Y...
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自主制作アニメーション『the TV show』
YouTube video by Kosuke Sugimoto
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Wake up, it’s Saturday, make a nice cup of…oh.
A photo of a cup bearing an image of a cat displaying it’s nethers, with the word ‘hello’ inscribed below its jacksie.  It seems friendly enough, if a little preoccupied.
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
To prepare for the coming week, may I recommend a touch of SFA fronted by our very own @gruffrhys.bsky.social ? m.youtube.com/watch?v=GNB3...
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Super Furry Animals - Golden Retriever (Video)
YouTube video by SFAVEVO
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
So REM are auditioning as Top Gear presenters these days?
A photograph of the popular skiffle group, R.E.M. auditioning for roles on the BBC’s broadcast about horseless carriages.
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
A bit of Captain Beefheart, Ry Cooder on guitar, from “Safe as Milk”. Enjoy! m.youtube.com/watch?v=ayUq...
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Sure 'Nuff 'N Yes I Do - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
YouTube video by MrWzzzW
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
I’d forgotten that the capital of Bahrain is named “Manama”.
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two pink stuffed animals are standing next to each other with their mouths wide open .
Alt: Mah Nà Mah Nà, as performed on the first Muppet Show.
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Q: How do you make a duck into a soul singer? A: Stick it in the microwave and wait until it’s Bill Withers.
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Is this the Only Fans I’ve heard so much about?
Lots of fans here, maybe even some air-conditioning.  Woof woof!
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I love the fact that today Newsmax started trading publicly, opening the NYSE. Now, let’s look at the indices… Oops.
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Fred Austere @fredaustere.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
“Festive.” “Welcome to Holiest Day of The Cult Of Black Horror, Suffering and Death! We’ve got…er…Spam™️Upside Down Pie.” <aside> “Dave, this might be slightly excessive even for us.”
This is Spam™️ Upside-Down Pie.
Just…don’t.
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