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posted about Freddie Mercury / Queen in the last 24 hours? look for your profile in these photos!

built on top of @surf.social - happy birthday Fred! #QueenBand #FreddieMercury

A photomosaic portrait of Freddie Mercury, built entirely from the profile pictures of 777 people who posted about him online, marking his 80th birthday on 5 September 2026. Freddie faces the camera in a black vest against a red backdrop, head tilted, his dark hair and moustache clearly defined. Seen from a distance it reads as an ordinary photograph of him; up close it resolves into roughly 10,800 small square avatars, each recoloured to match the part of the picture it fills. Pale profile pictures form his face and the highlights on his shoulder, dark ones make up his hair and vest, and warm red and pink ones fill the background. The contributors posted about Freddie Mercury on Bluesky, Mastodon and RSS feeds in a single 24-hour period: 687 from Bluesky, 64 from Mastodon and the fediverse, and 32 from RSS and YouTube. Everyone who took part appears at least once. A Queen and Freddie Mercury 80th birthday tribute assembled from the open social web.The cover of Queen's 1975 album A Night at the Opera, recreated as a photomosaic from the profile pictures of 777 people, for Freddie Mercury's 80th birthday on 5 September 2026. The band's crest sits at the centre on a white ground: two lions for Leo, a crab for Cancer, two fairies for Virgo, a crowned letter Q, and a phoenix rising from flames above, drawn in pink, cyan, orange, yellow and gold. Below it, in dark blue script, the words "Queen" and "A Night At The Opera". The whole image, the crest and the white field around it alike, is built from around 25,600 small square avatars, each recoloured to match its position, so the pale expanse that looks blank from across a room is in fact hundreds of individual profile pictures. The contributors posted about Freddie Mercury on Bluesky, Mastodon and RSS feeds within 24 hours: 687 from Bluesky, 64 from Mastodon and the fediverse, 32 from RSS and YouTube. Every one of them appears at least once. A Queen 80th birthday tribute made from the open social web.The poster artwork for the 2018 film Bohemian Rhapsody, recreated as a photomosaic from the profile pictures of 777 people, marking Freddie Mercury's 80th birthday on 5 September 2026. Freddie is shown in silhouette from behind, arched backwards in his famous Live Aid stance with a microphone stand held aloft in his right hand, standing on a stadium stage. Behind him a sunburst gradient runs from deep purple and magenta at the top through pink and orange to bright yellow at the horizon, with the stadium's tiered stands curving away to the right. The title "BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY" is set across the top in gold capitals. The entire image is assembled from around 14,400 small square avatars, each recoloured to match the colour of the part of the poster it fills: dark ones form the silhouette and the stands, warm gold and magenta ones the sky. The contributors posted about Freddie Mercury on Bluesky, Mastodon and RSS feeds in one 24-hour period, and every one of them appears at least once. A Queen and Freddie Mercury 80th birthday tribute built from the open social web.Frank Kelly Freas's robot artwork from Queen's 1977 album News of the World, recreated as a photomosaic from the profile pictures of 777 people, for Freddie Mercury's 80th birthday on 5 September 2026. A vast silver-grey robot fills the frame against a deep green background, looking down with an expression of dismay, its mouth open. It holds the limp bodies of band members in white stage clothes in one huge hand, another figure falls through the air below, and at the bottom left more figures lie among broken rubble and a pool of red. The whole painting is built from around 23,900 small square avatars, each recoloured to match its place in the image: mid-tone ones form the robot's metal plating, pale ones the white costumes, and green ones the background wash. The contributors posted about Freddie Mercury on Bluesky, Mastodon and RSS feeds within a single 24-hour period: 687 from Bluesky, 64 from Mastodon and the fediverse, 32 from RSS and YouTube. Every one of them appears at least once. A Queen 80th birthday tribute assembled from the open social web.
@spookymusic.bsky.socialSep 5, 2026, 6:15 PM

#FreddieMercury #MusicisLife 💫

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@spookymusic.bsky.socialSep 5, 2026, 6:11 PM

#Queen #FreddieMercury #MusicisLife 💫

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@spookymusic.bsky.socialSep 5, 2026, 6:09 PM

#Queen #FreddieMercury #MusicisLife 💫

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@spookymusic.bsky.socialSep 5, 2026, 6:04 PM

#Queen #FreddieMercury #MusicisLife 💫

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@spookymusic.bsky.socialSep 5, 2026, 6:00 PM

#Survivor #FreddieMercury #MusicisLife 💫

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@spookymusic.bsky.socialSep 5, 2026, 5:56 PM

#Aerosmith #FreddieMercury #MusicisLife 💫

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@thekannibalkrunch.bsky.socialSep 5, 2026, 5:53 PM

Happy birthday, Freddie Mercury!
This is my 2025 picture disc of his first solo album Mr. Bad Guy.
📸 Andrzej Sawa
#freddiemercury #mrbadguy #picturedisc #queen #80thbirthday

@spookymusic.bsky.socialSep 5, 2026, 5:50 PM

#Europe #FreddieMercury #MusicisLife 💫

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@wernerkeil.bsky.socialSep 5, 2026, 5:47 PM

#FreddieMercury: So war seine Zeit in #München #FreddieMercury80 www.faz.net/-3bs7hw?shar...

@ignacioprigar.bsky.socialSep 5, 2026, 5:45 PM

Viendo en el canal Sky Arts el concierto de Queen en Brasil (Live in Rio). #Queen #FreddieMercury #SkyArts

Ya me gustaría a mí que en Ejpaña haya un canal así que ofrezca emisiones de conciertos de rock y otros géneros en televisión en abierto de vez en cuando.

@spookymusic.bsky.socialSep 5, 2026, 5:45 PM

#Queen #FreddieMercury #MusicisLife 💫

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@jaynesworld.bsky.socialSep 5, 2026, 5:41 PM

I saved the best for last…
Happy posthumous birthday to an absolute legend…
Freddie Mercury♥️👑
#freddiemercury #queen

@spookymusic.bsky.socialSep 5, 2026, 5:40 PM

#Queen #FreddieMercury #MusicisLife 💫

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@philipdulle.bsky.socialSep 5, 2026, 5:39 PM

Vor 80 Jahren wurde der britische Popstar #FreddieMercury im ostafrikanischen Sansibar geboren. Bis heute ist sein kurzes Leben ein modernes Märchen zwischen politischer Flucht, der Suche nach sexueller Freiheit und dem Streben nach der Unsterblichkeit als Musiklegende. orf.at/stories/3440... #Queen

@spookymusic.bsky.socialSep 5, 2026, 5:34 PM

#BonJovi #FreddieMercury #MusicisLife 💫

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@spookymusic.bsky.socialSep 5, 2026, 5:29 PM

#GunsNRoses #FreddieMercury #MusicisLife 💫

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@spookymusic.bsky.socialSep 5, 2026, 5:24 PM

#Queen #FreddieMercury #MusicisLife 💫

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@wycombegigs.co.ukSep 5, 2026, 5:21 PM

🎗️Remembering Freddie Mercury
Born Farrokh Bulsara
#OTD 5th September 1946
Singer, songwriter, musician
Frontman man of Queen
This 'promising group' with 'high pitched vocals', played Friars, Aylesbury, in 1974
#FreddieMercury #Queen

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