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Fred Cook
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Bristol based
🧑‍💻programming
📽️cinema https://letterboxd.com/fuverdred/
✒️cryptic crosswords
🚴‍♀️cycling
🧗‍♀️climbing
🍻pubbing
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Farewell to Bristol's Odeon on Union Street that closes today.

Saw so many classics there over the years, but the opening night screening of Deep Blue Sea in 1999 will forever remain a highlight with the whole audience screaming, cheering and gasping in surprise at certain key deaths!
The Odeon on Union Street in Bristol... with a Lidl now underneath it.
February 11, 2026 at 10:10 AM
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I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.
bluesky-map.theo.io
February 8, 2026 at 10:59 PM
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Had my first visit to the Brunel in the week, report on the dartboard here:

fredcook.co.uk/2026/02/07/T...

🎯🎩🎯🎩🎯🎩🎯
🎩 Pub Dartboard Review - The Brunel · Fred Cook
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February 7, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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boakandbailey.bsky.social
GOOD MORNING! Here's this week's edition of news, nuggets and longreads, with pubs, pub crawls, pub dartboards, more pubs, and a taproom. 🍻🍺

boakandbailey.com/2026/02/news...
News, nuggets and longreads 7 February 2026: Big Air
Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got a lot of lovely pubs.
boakandbailey.com
February 7, 2026 at 8:03 AM
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I'm starting a series of pub dartboard reviews! First edition. The Bell:

fredcook.co.uk/2026/02/03/T...
🔔 Pub Dartboard Review - The Bell · Fred Cook
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February 4, 2026 at 10:16 AM
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I'm starting a series of pub dartboard reviews! First edition. The Bell:

fredcook.co.uk/2026/02/03/T...
🔔 Pub Dartboard Review - The Bell · Fred Cook
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February 4, 2026 at 10:16 AM
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It's Bath bass tour day, first stop Ring O Bells 🔺🔔🔺🔔🔺🔔🔺🔔🔺
A map of bath showing the pub crawl route, ring o bells, the curfew, the star inn, coeur de lion and finally the trinity. It also has lots of orange lads dotted all over the route
January 24, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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@yplac.bsky.social 🌚
A blue car parked half in a drive half out, blocking the entire pavement
January 19, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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If you like cryptic crosswords repost this
December 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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anisota.net/harvest

This is interesting and a bit fun.
Anisota's Annual Bluesky Harvest 2025
A recap of your year on Bluesky. Discover patterns, connections, and insights from your journey in the ATmosphere.
anisota.net
December 3, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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fwfilmfestival.bsky.social
Our good friends at @wshed.bsky.social have been shortlisted for @bifa-film.bsky.social's Cinema of the Year award!

Give them a vote and hopefully we can all enjoy the free nachos if they win!

www.bifa.film/coty-vote/
November 6, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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its-derek.bsky.social
if you are going to Forbidden Worlds this weekend, and you are on letterboxd, and you want to connect with other people there who are also on letterboxd, then check this site (and tag your reviews or logs to show up too)
filmfestivalsocialwall.com/forbiddenwor...
@fwfilmfestival.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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I've come up with a way to make entering One Time Passwords more interesting, OTP bingo:

fredcook.co.uk/2025/10/22/O...
🎲 OTP Bingo · Fred Cook
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October 22, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Go on, treat yourself
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October 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Off on the Bristol tour de Bass today, first stop Avon packet 🔺🔺🔺🔺🔺
A screenshot of central Bristol with 7 pubs that serve bass highlighted, the Avon packet, nova Scotia, rose of Denmark, Myrtle tree, sportsmans, bank tavern and crown tavern. Little orange lads are dotted along the route in various poses, drinking beer, waving, looking drunk
September 27, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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I've written a little script converting the great work done by the national Bass directory (nationalbassdirectory.wordpress.com) onto google maps:

www.google.com/maps/d/edit?...
🔺🔺🔺🔺🔺
#Bass #GreatStuffThisBass
Bass - Google My Maps
Taken from the national bass directory https://nationalbassdirectory.wordpress.com/
www.google.com
September 25, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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If my analysis of my #letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched is correct, going to be a good weekend for films. I'm planning to watch Casino Royale and Anora so could well be accurate
A quadratic graph of my most recent 4 film ratings on letterboxd (The Florida project, Heretic, The Room Next Door and Magic Mike)
November 8, 2024 at 2:10 PM
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#letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched #filmsky
Posters of my 4 most recent watches: strangers on a train, starve acre, get carter and one false move
September 13, 2024 at 1:13 PM
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On my way @johnzee7.bsky.social
Eurostar train
January 31, 2024 at 8:48 AM
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I've tried to work out the distribution of total Beatles minutes listened based on two data points from my Spotify wrapped this year and last year. It's not a great model, as 70% of listeners listen to less than 0 minutes. Suggestions / more data points welcome
A graph showing an exponential distribution of Beatles minutes listened with a significant amount of listens less than 0
November 30, 2023 at 10:39 AM
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First post can be from my walk today on the Isle of Wight, saw a boat on fire on the solent (no one was hurt www.countypress.co.uk/news/2391716...)
Rolling green hills of the isle of Wight with some lens flare. In the distance on the solent you can see a few whisps of smoke
November 11, 2023 at 5:05 PM