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Irene

@derbren.bsky.social
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books, bikes, cats, cheese, and cinemas. Non-practising German. Unreliable narrator, ready for my close-up. Probably have a crush on you. For more, go here: linktr.ee/DerBren

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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 57m
not possible because why would such a man work at that place?
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 1h
they’re all broken, pretty much until you get to your gate. Then you may find one or two . If you land at Stansted there’s nothing. you basically have to buy water from WHSmith
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 1h
I would refuse to drink Potable water
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Douglas Cheape @douglascheape.bsky.social · 1h
Norman has just the thing…
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 1h
I assume all my mutuals are solid 4s. which is why I never meet them.
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 1h
or as the Italians would say, pocketable water
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 1h
💙
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 1h
I prefer poetable water
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 1h
this is so good!!!
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 1h
static.klipy.com
Al Pacino: Tired and Frustrated
Alt: Al Pacino: “I’m dyin’ here”
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 1h
meeting a decent, interesting, attractive man who has his shit together is almost as hard as finding a functioning water fountain at Stansted airport
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 18h
ok Mr Dunelm
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 18h
I will take the basket though
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 18h
but I don’t hate it I just don’t want to see the carpet
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 18h
You can never step in front of the same tapestry twice
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 18h
I was hoping they’d touch me up a bit
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 18h
Down the Bayeux
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 18h
harsh
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 19h
I have absolutely no interest in seeing the Bayeux tapestry, will they deport me
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 20h
chanterelles ❤️❤️❤️ love them. with cream and parsley. or in an omelette with butter. The bread went to my neighbours in the end. It was all gone the next morning.
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Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 22h
They are so you can make a Pepper's Ghost! bsky.app/profile/alis...
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 22h
I take everything back
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 22h
one thing I’ll always find ridiculous are the clear spherical plastic lids on takeaway cups. You just bought a smoothie, you’re not on a space mission
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 22h
haha no I meant some should be made
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 22h
there are several film scripts in his wikipedia entry
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
they just keep going! Usually blocking the pedestrian crossing, too. The other day, as I was about to cross, an impatient delivery driver on a motorbike got annoyed that he had to wait at the red light and decided to back up and overtake the waiting car in front of him, reversing straight into me.
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
i’m always amazed by the people I learn about on here when they die. like that evil journalist recently. And now the MP whose name sounds like it’s out of Portrait of a Lady
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Cars at the pedestrian crossing considering red lights a mere recommendation.This isn’t me getting old. it’s mad. (this is not an anti-London post. I love it here. Just for different reasons.)
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Everybody in London has lost the plot. Kids on Lime bikes coasting through red lights onto intersections at high speed, never taking their eyes off their phones. International video calls competing with TikTok reel music from 12 different mobile phones on the overground.
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The Card @thecard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Home is where your stuff is.
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
i’m so sorry, that’s so distressing! I hope she gets proper care asap. x
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
knew it
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Grise l’Indécis @wildobliquities.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
no reason
no reason
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
😍
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
yes. ‘22-‘26. ‘25 is missing
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
yeah, this year was tough. There was wry laughter during a screening of “He Ran all the Way” when a character says “we’re going to the pictures. They have air-conditioning there.”
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I am. I’m in Tottenham
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I don’t have space on my book shelf for these anymore. I don’t want to throw them away, would love to give them to somebody who can use them. ifanybody you’re interested, let me know. feel free to share. @pamhutch.bsky.social @filmfan1971.bsky.social
four festival catalogues of Cinema Ritrovato (2022, 2023, 2024, 2026)
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
yessss
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
lol that was the bleakest book that’s ever cheered me up :)
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Braden Serkas @portmanteauface.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
All I’m saying is before the internet existed every bar had a cigarette vending machine and everybody had sex all the time
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I have reasons to suspect a DFW bro
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
it’s been a pretty tough weekend, but this was such a highlight. Thank you!!! i’m going to settle down on the sofa with the cat and read this from start to finish now and I strongly recommend that you all follow @davidwaywell.bsky.social and buy this book
A drawing of an owl in a tricky situation 
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
whenever people say that social media is toxic, I would like to let everyone know that there are incredibly sweet people who do kind things for you even though they’ve never met you. @davidwaywell.bsky.social surprised me today when his book landed in my mailbox
The book Pea Green boat by Stewart Lee, illustrated by David Waywell. A black-and-white cat is looking for attention next to itTo Irene

Sorry to hear that you’re having a tough time, but for the sake of all of us, you need to get back to shit posting asap
sending thoughts
David Waywell
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
what’s wrong with readed
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just saw a guy with a t-shirt that said “Enfield Tennis Academy” 🚩🚩🚩
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Sanjeev Kohli @govindajeggy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The loud showy front-of-house staff at Costa are called baristas. The behind-the-scenes guys doing the nuts-and-bolts work are called solicitas
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
As a new runner i’m afraid I have to agree
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I couldn’t quite believe it when I first saw it
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