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Tony in ‘t Veld-Brown
@tonyivb.bsky.social
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Brit living in 🇳🇱 with family & a menagerie of pets. Avid podcast listener, with interests in politics, science, nature & weird stuff.
Strong supporter of LGBTQ+, Neuro-Divergent & Human rights.
Geologist for last 20 years, who knows for the next 20?
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Dread to think how big it will be for me, on my trusty 5yo iPhone SE?

Should I take the plunge and see what it does to the already shaky battery performance?
Screenshot of the ‘Software Update’ on an iPhone SE, showing the current OS as iOS 18.7.1 is up to date, and offering iOS 26 as an upgrade option.
November 5, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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What’s it like in your head?
November 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Check out this humongous #fungi
Four large brown toadstools growing from some grass next to an oak tree. There are sticks, oak leaves and acorns lying around them, and on top of the largest is a €0.50 coin for scale. Photo taken 31/10/25 in Hoogeloon, NL A large brown toadstool growing from some grass next to an oak tree. There are sticks, oak leaves and acorns lying around them, and on top of the largest is a €0.50 coin for scale. Photo taken 31/10/25 in Hoogeloon, NL View from above of a large brown toadstool growing from some grass next to an oak tree. There are sticks, oak leaves and acorns lying around them, and on top is a €0.50 coin for scale. Photo taken 31/10/25 in Hoogeloon, NL
October 31, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Post something random or you’ll have an AWFUL November
A three-dimensional piece of ‘art’ seen in a Thrift Shop… made from black resin(?), it is a large (approx 60x100cm?) depiction of a female lying chest-down on a bed, but it looks like her limbs and head have been chopped off at the edges of the piece. The torso is naked apart from a white thong lodged in the crack of her arse!
October 28, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Irresponsibly posting my location on social media
A sign saying “Melancholy Lane, No through road”. Screenshot from google maps, location is in Stoborough, Dorset, UK
October 28, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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A tabby cat in a red onesie, curled up asleep in a fluffy circular bed
October 13, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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A large mascot type costume of Woodsy the Owl, stomping across the earth. On Woodsy is the text ‘Me’, and underneath his raised foot is the text ‘Monday’s landmine’
October 13, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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Close up of a spider’s head, showing two large black eyes above four smaller eyes
October 12, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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I’ve seen this reposted many times now, and each time the photo reminds me of this:
A scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail where a guard/soldier looks down from a castle wall while shouting insults A scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail where a guard/soldier looks down from a castle wall while shouting insults and tapping the top of his helmet with his hands
October 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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A few moments later…
Two kittens asleep in a fluffy basket on top of a kitchen table. The tabby is nuzzled up to the tuxedo’s neck
October 11, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Fell asleep while grooming each other!
#Caturday
October 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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The automatic translation on this Dutch auction site occasionally throws up something quite poetic!
#LostInTranslation
Screenshot from the Troostwijk auction site showing a white bread slicing machine… the description says “Spronk and his bread slicer”
October 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Boss: Did you finish the design for our new range of ovens?

Worker: Yep, just like a miserable cyborg frog, just like you asked!

Boss: Wut!!!
A Turbochef i1 Sota Touchscreen oven. A fake ‘Priests sock’ black upright rectangular body, with a silver handle across the middle in the shape of a frown/upsidedown smile. At the top left is a circular silver knob with the Turbochef name across the middle, looking like the slit pupil of an eye. Top tight is a digital screen, reminiscent of a cyborg.
October 4, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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A bit on the nose!
Screenshot from the crappy AI video of a young scrote wearing a black baseball cap with ‘OBEY’ in large white letters on the front Screenshot from the film ‘They Live’ showing a black and white street scene, with lots of advertising boards/screens saying things like ‘OBEY, CONFORM, CONSUME etc’
October 1, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Starmer: “That’s real Britain.”
October 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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The infamous ‘Willy Wonka Experience’ with a woman dressed to (supposedly) look like an Oompah Loompah, behind a large table that has a chemistry laboratory setup and some bottles on it Starmer: “That’s real Britain”
September 30, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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- Bacon Squirts

Saw this listed on a Dutch auction site today, and instantly recalled this thread.
It is most likely a dodgy translation (bacon in Dutch is ‘spek’), but if it isn’t, somebody has invented a new bacon delivery system.
Screenshot from an auction website, with a picture of a decidedly knackered piece of contractor equipment. The description of the item says “bacon squirts”
September 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Was the photographer trying to recreate this?
Three bronze dildoes against a white background. They have ‘realistic’ shafts and foreskins, but the helmets are replaced with the heads on Mao, Stalin & Hitler
September 30, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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New #ProofOfCat and #Caturday post… our new kittens have fallen asleep on my lap
Two kittens, a black one lying across someone’s lap (who has their left leg crossed on their right knee), and a tabby lying on the black cat, with its bum in the hole where the crossed legs meet
September 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Indeed… and here is the spotty orange bugger using me as a mattress!
A selfie of a 50 something bloke dressed in a t-shirt & shorts sat in a chair with a spotty orange kitten asleep on his chest and over his right arm.
September 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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A late #caturday post… we have got two new kitties.
5 months old, brothers, and soft as clarts!
Two kittens sleeping on a desk. They are forming a ‘T’ shape with a ginger kitten lying with it’s head and legs on a black kitten’s tummy.
September 20, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Kind of cheating as I saw this on an auction site… advertised as “for spare parts”, and somebody has bid on it for €50!!! #chodspot
A white (?) Renault 5 sitting in a patch of overgrown weeds A view inside a decrepit old Renault 5 through the driver’s window. The seats are a horrible brown colour, and plant tendrils can be seen growing across the seats and the steering wheel. Obligatory rust spots can be seen on the bodywork around the windows
September 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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When you come across something that you never knew existed… an Allis Chalmers WD Rowcrop “maïskolvenplukker” from 1946.
Was this the #TractorPorn that that MP was looking for?
An Allis Chalmers WD Rowcrop “maïskolvenplukker” (corn cob plucker) from 1946. An old style tractor with three long conical protrusions, one in front of the engine/front wheels, and one each in front of the rear wheels, that extend low to the floor. From the rear is a conveyor arm rising up diagonally. Oh yes, the whole thing is painted in ‘traffic cone’ orange!
September 20, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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If a Smurf was a vehicle
A camper van parked on the side of the road. The body is painted in almost the same blue as a Smurf, and the high-top roof is white
September 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Gee, Pastor Wesley, you use your tongue prettier…
Scene from Blazing Saddles where Mr LaMarr is in the bath talking about his thought processes, and Mr Taggart responds with “Gee Mr LaMarr, you use your tongue prettier than a $20 whore”
September 15, 2025 at 5:52 AM