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DaveKidneys

@davekidneys.bsky.social
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Reluctant runner, Berlin based Brit. (Oh, look, accidental alliteration!)

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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Neuruppin keeping the love alive. @manmademoon.bsky.social
The name David Bowie scrawled on a wall with a black heart underneath. It ain't great.
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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Time to start on one of my birthday presents and my son has already said he wants it when I've finished reading it. Let's see what @jonnelledge.bsky.social has in store this time....
A photo of the book "31 Inventions That Built Our World" by Jonn Elledge.
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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
8:15am and it's as warm outside as it is inside. Great.
A photo of a weather station with lots of different numbers. The two important ones are for the outside and inside temperature.
They both read 29°.
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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
If anyone wants to know what Brian Blessed is up to nowadays, he's selling burgers out of a van on Rügen.
A photo of the side of a burger van. There's a painting of a bearded gentleman with a large, open-mouthed smile on his face. He has more than a passing resemblance to Brian Blessed. He's holding a burger.
Next to that are the words "Onkel Zimmi's Bürger".
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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Hydration break.
A glass of Weißbier on a table. It's partially drunk at the moment, but I'm working on fixing that.
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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Finally completed my Christmas present. I thought doing the blueprint side would be easier. Trying to line up a thousand blue pieces with white lines on proved me wrong...
Jigsaw puzzle of the Millennium Falcon. It's the blueprint of the hunk of junk, up in the left corner is the picture of the other side, showing the outside of it.
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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The world may be turning to shit, but after 51 years on this godforsaken rock I finally got to see the Northern Lights. In Berlin!
A shimmer of green across the night sky above some buildings. It's the northern lights.
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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Ugh, I don't wanna. Why do I have to?
A photo of an alarm clock with the alarm set to the ungodly time of 6am.
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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Turning into a little tradition, the NYD run at Brandenburger Tor.
Photo of me in front of Brandenburger Tor holding a running bib with the number 2026.
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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Running when it's a couple degrees below isn't too hard if you've got the kit, but there's no way I'll be trying to get the Toasty badge. I don't do anything when it's over 38°, nevermind going for a run.
Screenshot from the Garmin app showing a badge that has been won today. The Frosty badge for completing an activity when the temperature is below 0°.
There is a connected badge, Toasty, for completing an activity when the temperature is above 38°.
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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Picked this beauty up from the post office today (stupid import taxes). The Tote Bag from @theonion.com Perfect for carrying my existential angst and soup for my family.
A photo of the must have accessory of the millennium, The Onion tote bag.
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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Love the way that they managed to answer this question without any self reflection at all. It was all about the media in general, but they're massive culprits as well.
Screenshot of The New Statesman podcast titled "Are we talking about Reform too much?"
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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Yeah, right James, it's the effects workers who are being paid too much.
Screenshot reads "A recent Forbes article (highlighting the highest-earning entertainers of 2022) confirmed what fans already knew: James Cameron has made an unbelieve amount of money from Avatar: The Way of Water and it's only just beginning.

The article reported that Cameron has already earned at least $95 million in a deal that is "backend-heavy with bonuses for crossing certain box office thresholds."

This means that the $95 million he's already earned will likely balloon to an even more impressive net revenue by the director."
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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Hulk Hogan having his arm felt by Purple Aki.
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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I did it, I finally did it. I crossed the Brimley/Cocoon Line. I'm officially an old man.
A collage of two old white men. On the left, the esteemed actor, Wilfred Brimley in a scene from the film Cocoon. On the right, me.
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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
It's Männertag Here in Germany, the day men go off drinking together. I, instead, went for a run and am admiring the present from my wife of a huge, granite mortar and pestle. I'm so middle-aged and middle-class it's unbelievable.
A black granite mortar and pestle, with a wooden base sitting proudly on a kitchen worktop. It is a heavy thing of beauty.
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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
New profile pic courtesy of the thermal camera at the Technikmuseum in Berlin. Could also double up as the front cover of a @greatdismal.bsky.social novel.
A photo of me using a thermal camera, so bright red face, blue gaps where my glasses are on a blue background.
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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Can someone contact CERN, see if they can find a violin small enough.
Screenshot of a Bloomberg headline that reads "Billionaires at Trump's Swearing-In Have Since Lost $209 Billion".
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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Dresden has a very strange definition of glamour.
Photo of a shop window displaying various books around the theme of old trains. Steam trains, old locomotives from the DDR, old routes.

There is a sign at the top that reads "Glamour".
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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I think I'm going to have to take a restraining order out against Sandra Bullock. All of these accounts are getting a bit out of hand.
Screenshot of a notification of a fake Sandra Bullock account liking my post about a fake Sandra Bullock account following me. Below that is a notification that another, different fake Sandra Bullock account is following me
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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
I'm sure that this is a totally real account and I can't wait for Sandra to start messaging me.
Screenshot of a Bluesky account purportedly from Sandra Bullock.
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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Just finished reading this Christmas present from my wife. A wonderful piece of art. If you're in contact with Hr. Kleist @manmademoon.bsky.social please pass on my compliments and thanks.
Photo of the graphic novel "Low: David Bowie's Berlin Years" by Reinhard Kleist.
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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Instead of nursing the mother of all hangovers, I'm now so old and boring that I'm off doing a fun run on New Year's Day. #running
Photo of me stood in front of Brandenburger Tor holding a 2025 bib number.
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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Post a concert picture you took this year. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
Picture of Nick Cave and Warren Ellis performing at the Uber Arena, Berlin.
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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Happy Hogswatch to all who celebrate! #GNUTerryPratchett
A wooden disc, carved with the word 'Death', a skeleton and a cat.
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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
It's that time of year where I have to explain to everyone that this is not a Gryffindor scarf, and is in fact the Unseen University. I really need to calm my reaction down a notch, people are beginning to back away from my exasperation.
A photo of a grumpy me, holding a scarf in the colours of the Unseen University, with the badge and motto "Nunc id vides, nunc ne vides."
Now you see it, now you don't.
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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
Look what I found in the wilds* of Berlin @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social (I bought one of them of course). *Dussmann Kulturhaus.
Photo of the three books by Ian Dunt & Dorian Lynskey: Centrism, Fascism and Conspiracy Theory.
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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 27/09/2024
I mean, @iandunt.bsky.social isn't wrong, but it is a bit harsh to come straight out and say it.
Screenshot of a substack, text reads
"What's the solution? Plainly it is to fiddle with the rules in a way that is too boring for most people to notice. But it's not too boring for me or you, of course. Our lives have so little meaning that we are prepared to take time out to understand these things. We are so fundamentally broken as people that we sometimes enjoy it. "
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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
I know that this won't make much of a difference, but you have to try.
Screenshot blocking Gemini, the Google AI, and reporting it as spam.
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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 14/08/2024
Ah, a great holiday souvenir! I didn't believe the first one and how quickly I got two lines so repeated. Bugger.
A photo of not one, but TWO COVID tests. Both positive.
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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 05/08/2024
Finished this appropriately as I'm about to board a ferry from Sweden to Germany. Highly recommend for anyone's holiday read. @jonnelledge.bsky.social
A copy of "A History of the World in 47 Borders" by Jonn Elledge, on the dashboard of a campervan.
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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 30/06/2024
If you see this, you have to post a picture from your phone but don't explain it.
Screenshot of an article headline "The mysterious sex appeal of Nigel Farage l" by Ann Widdicombe.
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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 22/06/2024
Oh, you think darkness is your ally. But you merely adopted the dark; I was born in it, moulded by it.
Screenshot from Duolingo for 1546 day learning streak.
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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 08/06/2024
Come buy my kids old clothes! I need to get rid of it all!
Poster for a flea market for today at Zillestr. 54 Berlin. Closes at 15:00.
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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 07/06/2024
I've seen enough horror films to know the lights going out on the underground are a Bad Sign.
A dark selfie on an unlit underground.
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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 21/05/2024
Brian Blessed.
A picture of Brian Blessed from the first season of Blackadder. He's shouting of course.
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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 04/05/2024
Happy Star Wars Day!
A picture of Nathan Fillion as Mal from "Firefly", background is from "Lord of the Rings" with the quote "Live long and prosper" falsely attributed to Han Solo. 
It's very funny.
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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 12/04/2024
Achievement unlocked.
Picture of me drinking a well-deserved beer.
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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 12/04/2024
First two stories I see when I open the Guardian app. Can't quite put my finger on what it says about the current government in the UK.
Screenshot of the Guardian app showing 2 stories. First is a man convicted of benefit fraud totalling £20,000 because he ticked the wrong box. He lost his home.
Second story concerns a UK politician using £34,000 to defend herself against libel. She lost the case and kept her job.
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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 03/02/2024
Fuck, and I can't stress this enough, fascists. #WirSindDieBrandmauer
Brandenburger Tor with a crowd of people.Crowd of people in front of the Reichstag.Crowd of people in front of the Reichstag.
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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
Hey, at least they're talking sense!
Picture of Phil Collins wearing a t-shirt that says "Nonce Sense"
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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
In good news, my wife has made some stollen. The bad news, I have to wait until December before I'm allowed to eat it.
Picture of 4 homemade stollen.
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DaveKidneys @davekidneys.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
I wouldn't trust Hancock to decide what to have for dinner, never mind in regards to life or death.
Screenshot from the Guardian website claiming that Matt Hancock should make decisions during the COVID pandemic about who should live or die.
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