Fred Maynard
fredmaynard.bsky.social
Fred Maynard
@fredmaynard.bsky.social
opinions, alas, my own
I have been on Twitter's "for you" feed recently and discovered that just about every post can best be responded to with this
October 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
October 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
September 18, 2025 at 11:27 AM
August 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Kings for some, miniature American flags for others
June 14, 2025 at 12:56 PM
April 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The tariff logic is beginning to resemble the Dr Strangelove doomsday machine
April 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
March 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
March 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I still occasionally remember this headline and get extremely mad at Angela Merkel.
March 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
"Do you have any evidence of this conspiracy against your government?"
"Well, your honour, we have plenty of hearsay and conjecture. Those are *kinds* of evidence."
February 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
"So when you failed to deal with this existential crisis, South Korea collapsed?"
"No, it did not."
"Kids, help"
February 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Me everytime Spotify tries to handle classical music
February 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I do not understand the tagline "the electrifying new musical". Hercules is not a lightning deity nor does the Disney film portray him as such!

You get the feeling the marketing team budgeted for a logo and then just improvised from there
December 1, 2024 at 2:42 PM
The parallels between the leaders of US/FRA/UK/GER 45 years apart - Scholz and Schmidt as the cautious Hamburg SPD lifers, Macron and d'Estaing as the effete centrist emperors of France, Biden and Carter as the hapless one-term Democrats, and Starmer and Callaghan the Labour PMs with massive specs
November 5, 2024 at 2:17 PM
Macron:
September 5, 2024 at 3:38 PM
September 2, 2024 at 12:07 PM
I have inbuilt affection for Governors of Minnesota ever since playing a game of Kaiserreich in which an alternate-history Floyd Olson saves the USA from 30s fascism and becomes godlike social democratic President
August 7, 2024 at 4:08 PM
Incredible that these two top stories are presented side by the Telegraph website without any embarrassment
August 7, 2024 at 9:03 AM
I predict a lot of leftist UK men are about to be Extremely Normal about this woman
July 23, 2024 at 7:36 PM
July 21, 2024 at 7:09 PM
It's very funny to me that the Democrats have the most generic looking president-from-the-movies serving as Governor of North Carolina, as if this is all a simulation and he is the button marked "base scenario"
July 18, 2024 at 10:04 PM
I hope everyone can agree that the funniest possible outcome is the left agreeing a coalition with Macron on the sole condition this guy is the Prime Minister
July 7, 2024 at 8:25 PM
July 7, 2024 at 8:16 PM
That Sun editorial endorsing Starmer
July 3, 2024 at 3:02 PM