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David Firn

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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 3h
Is it: join a local group objecting to wind turbines / solar farms / pylons? Asking for a Nimby.
theguardian.com
Energy bills: what to do as prices head for £2,000 a year, from switching deals to insulating
The price cap is to soar for about 20 million households in Great Britain from January, but there are ways to save
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It’s far too early to speculate what’s going on down there, but it’s obviously posh kids, a dog, and lashings of ginger beer.
Five arrested for alleged terrorism offences after
'major incident' near RAF
Fairford.
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Can't ditch streaming if you never embraced it.
static.klipy.com
Think About It Meme with Reece Simpson
Alt: Think About It Meme with Reece Simpson
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ending your bike tour and finding your hotel room has a bath ... with a view. 10/10 no notes.
A hotel bathroom
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Drink opinion: Switching out the strong drip coffee for self service bean to cup set to 'inoffensive' (I'm looking at you, Dutch hotel industry) was a crime against mornings.
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If 26% of your country being below sea level already doesn't focus the mind the rest of us have no chance.
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Today's CafeThatIsNotAFranchise is FOAM Amsterdam. Crockery: your nan's best.
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Hello. French Secret Service? The money's in the post.
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I think I now understand how the Netherlands produces such good cyclists with no* mountains. #Headwinds. #ModeratelyBroken (*yes yes, Vaalserberg. I know).
Wind speeds for North Holland.
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Today's CafeThatIsNotAFranchise is het Open Coffie Huis in Haarlem. Vibe: community project with adjoining second hand exchange. Coffee: excellent.
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Dutch hotel bike parking is a thing to behold, eh.
Lots of bikes in a hotel basement car park
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Civilisational collapse.
giftarticle.ft.com
Heatwave triggers potato shortage in Europe
Extreme weather wiped out about 3.1mn tonnes of spuds, worth up to €620mn
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Look away now if Christmas in September triggers you. Caffettino just served rigatoni topped with a Parmesan crisp nativity scene.
Pasta topped with Parmesan crisp
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Is 'the recently reinvigorated experimental synth pop band' a @secondmentions.com if you get it in before the first mention of Globo?
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
That half-eaten apple you threw away on Loughrigg Terrace is doing fine.
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
AI has paid for a Trumpling's wedding, hasn't it.
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The water butts are agreeably full. cc @chimpman.bsky.social
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Has the BBC wildlife unit been sued for invasion of privacy?
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Remind me, how many councillors has Reform UK lost since the May 2026 elections?
Reform would appoint 100s of new peers if Lords sought to block its government https://www.ft.com/content/e252a325-8ee2-43d1-b2f5-002732210395?syn-25a6b1a6=1
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
An 87% loss in a month 🤔 www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...
Properties with biggest gains and losses in SW11 since 2025
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Add jobs. Lower rates. Be Patriots. Stop trade ...
Opening scene of Trainspotting
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"What the Voice of the People is saying is: 'Look at that frightful ass Spode swanking about in footer bags! Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher?"
Undercover footage of Nigel Farage and Dan Jukes taken by Verbatim
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Brexit not 51st Statey enough, US confirms.
ft.com
UK is failing to capitalise on Brexit, says top Trump trade official
Jamieson Greer says Britain’s alignment with EU is a ‘problem’ for a US trade deal
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
*Pops kettle on and opens a bumper pack of Hob Nobs*
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Named after German botanist Leonhart Fuchs, so frankly my dear ...
Women are giving their partners the ‘Illiterate Boyfriend’ test: “I want you to do your best to pronounce these words,” one woman asks her boyfriend in a clip viewed more than 8.8m times. He gamely nails his first attempt, reading off the herb “thyme”. But he’s less successful with “epitome”, “challah” and “fuchsia”. (“Foo-chia?” he guesses). “Conscientious” and “faux pas” also prove tricky. He ends up with a score of five out of 17, or 29% – very much a failing grade.
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Bob Mortimer Would I lie To You Meme
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The knob came off our 20-odd-year-old Le Creuset lid last week and it took less than five minutes to order a replacement. (The kitschy steel hearts were cheaper than the phenolic ones honest). In a world of obsolescence and unrepairability that's a small joy. Vive la French cookware.
Casserole lid knobShiny new casserole lid knob.
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
At the what? DHL
Screengrab of package status: At the sortation facility
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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If a robot called Jeeves doesn’t intone ‘I could not advise it, sir’ to most requests and then accidentally on purpose dispose of a rather fetching white blazer you had worn to great acclaim in Cannes, it is not worthy of the name.
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Was this written by a flea?
newscientist.com
Should you stop using preventive flea treatments on your pets? | New Scientist
It has been assumed for decades that tick and flea treatments for pets pose no threat to wildlife or people, but there is growing evidence that we have got it wrong
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
He has no idea how many northerners live in London does he.
bbc.co.uk
Sir James Cleverly accuses Andy Burnham of 'war on London'
Sir James Cleverly resigned from the shadow cabinet on Saturday to run for mayor of London.
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Is it not hearing stuff?
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
On balance I think I could have lived with a boring Vuelta where the outcome was inevitable 🫣
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
James Bond writer tempted to set next 007 movie in surprise locationBalamory
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Is anyone not a terrorist?

Seven charged with damaging Trump’s Scottish golf course accused of ‘terrorist connection’Intimidation of public after A66 crash is terrorism, MP says
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The legend of el Dorango originated in 21st-century accounts of a ruler known as el D'orango, or the Orange One, who was said to cover himself in gold dust before washing it off in a sacred lake the name of which was printed in gold-coloured polystyrene.
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Name a Scouse- or Brummie-accented news anchor.
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
How is it that the Cat Distribution System has never been nominated?
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Eau d'80s student.
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Fox cub has decided our garden is a safe snoozing spot, but not exactly which spot.
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Not that sort of academic freedom, the far right has confirmed.
wsj.com
Germany’s Far Right Has a New Enemy: The 100-Year-Old Bauhaus
The architecture and design school closed by the Nazis is battling a new culture war.
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Corporal William "T Bill" Jones, who won a VC for his action during operation Iceberg Lettuce, runs the numbers on the US yield curve.
Army pay corps officers
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Catch 22 basis points #BondWarMovies
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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Great piece by Gill Plimmer - who has been on water companies for years giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... The fight to save England’s rivers
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Fake mews 😼
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
How your email finds me.
A sleeping fox under a garden table
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
My favourite Star Trek crew
static.klipy.com
Life Aquatic: Bill Murray as Steve Zissou with Crew
Alt: Life Aquatic: Bill Murray as Steve Zissou with Crew
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Vets advertising 'We are not owned by private equity' is quite something.
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