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David Firn

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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 5h
It all feels a bit late stage Austro Hungarian Empire. And that went well.
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 9h
Old enough to remember navy duffel coats being a department store children's section staple - and not costing 500. Also: tempted.
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 10h
We thought things could only get better?
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 22h
On it, Marco.
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Has a bear-level hard stare.
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Has any other car looked so much as though it should waft along almost silently
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A note on the fridge saying: 'all viewings are recorded for training and quality purposes' ?
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Same but an old School Citroen DS
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
👀
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
But Brits will bite your arm off for a Temu Range Rover. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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	In September, Chery, together with its Jaecoo and Omoda brands, took a combined 9 per cent share of the new car sales market in the UK. Its Jaecoo 7 model, dubbed by some as the “Temu Range Rover”, was the country’s best-selling model, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
*Master Po voice* Young man, without the cozy nights there are no longer days.
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I think the idea is, you park it at a camp site and then unhook the Fiat 500 from the back and drive that into town.
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The way that line trips off the tongue is 👨‍🍳💋 - but I am also of the age where Rattlesnakes played non stop in our grotty shared student flat.
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
😹😻
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Did a cat write this?
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Same
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The forges of Coalbrookdale stand ready.
Coalbrookdale by Night, by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1801
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We will prematurely and unnecessarily risk the costs of West Coastwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of owning the libs would be ashes in our mouth.
theguardian.com
Trump suggests he would let Iran ‘take out’ Los Angeles or San Diego
Gavin Newsom calls comments ‘deranged and dangerous’ after president tells Nebraska rally: ‘They can take out a city’
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hard to read your moral compass if you're doing more than 20mph with no seatbelt while breathing tetraethyl lead.
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A face off between presidents of heavily-armed, religiously-driven regimes, shurely? Ed
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ruslan of Yekaterinburg Gained Buboes in vain.
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Impressive UK nostalgia knowledge, but 'three penny bits' is a dead giveaway.
static.klipy.com
Red Army Dance Performance
Alt: Red Army Dance Performance
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I didn't see the film but was read the book by parents (Larkin was right) and this greeting card absolutely knows it's target market.
A rabbit reading a copy of Watership Down and exclaiming: fucking hell
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
'Will my bike be nicked?' is definitely the #1 consideration.
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Research a blog post on the shortest distance between two platforms at New Street that serve termini that are not on the West Coast Main Line.
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Encourage staff to return to the office by cutting space for them to park their bikes, developers have confirmed.
ft.com
New offices in London are full of empty bike racks, complain developers
Rise of rented e-bikes means most cycle parking spaces are unused, industry argues
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
😂
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Questions to which the answer would be no if you could stop laughing long enough.
thetimes.com
Should we feel sorry for (all) the nepo babies — Beckhams included?
They’re actors, rock stars, models — and the offspring of very famous parents. And they just keep coming. There’s no end in sight to the nepo baby boom, says Ben Machell
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Alan!
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So the Iranians have closed the Strait of Hormuz and the Cotswolds?
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Tycho monolith from 2001 a space odyssey
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Get the Dutch in - though I suspect these weren't cheap.
Zuiderzeewg bridge, Railway viaduct over the canal
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Learned a new word today.
No Totting sign at the recycling centre
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Le same.
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Actual snortle into my coffee.
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The 'it's just banter' defence, eh?
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 02/10/2026
YASS. everyone loves stories like this Ex-HSBC banker banned for dodging £5,900 in train fares - as.ft.com/r/6b03ec48-4...
as.ft.com
Ex-HSBC banker banned for dodging £5,900 in train fares
Joseph Molloy was convicted this year of using a ‘doughnutting’ scam to avoid paying for tickets
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Overgenerous interpretation of 'an honest gentleman sent to lie abroad ...' ?
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
*Gavin Campbell voice* "We rang Legal Claret, who said 'This has nothing to do with us'."
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A regular world desk haunt back in the day.
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I miss it since we moved to EC4 - though.
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh that's great. I've not done it since Eurostar went from Waterloo. You had to drop the bike off 24h before your train and then collect it from the parcel office at Gare du Nord and vice versa.
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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 · 27/09/2026
We few, we happy fucking few. (I reckon you could get a fuck in every other line of the St Crispian's speech)
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This isn't that far from some of the Cousteau larks TBH.
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Poor show!
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Went there a few times.
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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Boo.
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