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Dave Kahn #FBPE

@dkahn400.bsky.social
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Regional cycling commissaire. IBM i (iSeries, AS/400, System/38) nerd. RPG programmer - JDE World. Knotter. Vegetarian. AuDHD. Parle français, snakker norsk, latine loquitur.

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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Still showing as Lake Ontario for me.
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Similar vibe?
1st century BC Hellenistic bronze statue: The Boxer at Rest.
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
My favourite Star Trek crew
Cartoon showing Peter Griffin from Family Guy with Dr. McCoy from Star Trek in McCoy’s surgery on the USS Enterprise. Peter says, “so can you help me out, Dr. McCoy’”
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Illegal electric motorbike carrying unprotected child passenger in Southall. Shopping on handlebars, rider helmeted, child pillion passenger bare headed and wearing sandals.
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
My Twickenham clubmate Atiba is the poster boy for the Antigua and Barbuda national championships. #twickcc
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
This afternoon’s impulse buy.
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Photo by Aerocoach.
Photo of Jess Disley in racing kit at Newport velodrome holding a sign reading “One hour behind Derny. Jessica Disley. 60.160km.”
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Post a pic to bring some zen to your feed
A flooded field with a line of trees standing in the water. Branches of a tree in the upper foreground.
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
New bell rope made from three strands of 4mm jute.
Picture of a light brown knotted rope on a light blue background.
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Hillingdon Slipstreamers Youth Cyclo-Cross. Pre-event course walk.
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
One caveman is saying to another, “Ah, here comes Oog with the business plan. “ 
A third approaches with a large stone tablet on which is written, “HUNT GATHER.”
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Punching 80-column Hollerith cards with a hand punch. www.computinghistory.org.uk/userdata/ima...
A Hollerith hand punch. A metal frame into which a card is placed. On the right are 12 keys for punching holes in the cards at specific points.
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Clear view of London from Redbridge Cycling Centre early this morning.
View of London in the distance from hilltop.
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Bell rope by me now hanging in the Pelican Notting Hill.
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Defensive posture with arms folded. Compare with Zelenskyy in the Oval Office. i.abcnewsfe.com/a/1b299771-0...
President Zelenskyy of Ukraine sitting with arms folded in Oval Office meeting with Trump and Vance who are both making a “push away” gesture.
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Its earliest known printed appearance is in “The Power of the Positive Woman” by Phyllis Schlafly (1977).
Snippet of page from Google Books. Schlafly claims John H Bunzel, president of San Jose State University, attributed the quote to Orwell.
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Dead link.
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
There we go.
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
E.g. tomorrow.
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Yours truly at same velodrome yesterday.
Commissaire standing by finish line at outdoor velodrome holding up finger showing 1 lap to go with furled red flag in other hand.
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Loggos, Paxos: vine trained up building to provide leafy canopy on the roof.
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
In a bar in Lakka, Paxos, and a cat has stolen my backpack.
Dark tortoiseshell cat fast asleep on a small backpack on wooden floor boards.
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Just before the fish shop opens in Gaios, Paxos.
Local cats on the pavement waiting patiently for the fish shop to open.
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Dunwich, 2018.
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Scene from Blackadder with Rowan Atkinson as Blackadder and Robbie Coltrane as Dr. Johnson. Blackadder saying, “Oh well, in that case, sir, I hope you will not object if I also offer the Doctor my most enthusiastic contrafibularities.”
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Twilight Zone: It’s a Good Life.
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Atiba Quildan (Ward Performance) holds off Ukrainian Andrii Bilobub at the final Full Gas Winter Track League meeting at Lee Valley last night.
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Youth Track League from the sky box at Lee Valley.
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Photo of Zelenskyy and Trump during the disgraceful Oval Office scene. Handwritten comments point to each man. Zelenskyy’s says “Leader without suit.”  Trump’s says “Suit without leader.”
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Thank you, MapQuest. gulfof.mapquest.com
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Atiba Quildan vs Andrii Bilobub at Lee Valley this evening. #track #cycling
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Dw i'n dysgu Cymraeg ar hyn o bryd.
Banner showing the Duolingo owl in gold and orange with the text “I’m on a 3500 day learning streak”.
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
London and South East Cyclo Cross League Team Championship at Ardingly. #cycling #cyclocross
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Paul Bold’s gorgeously presented track bike at Lee Valley Velodrome. #track #cycling
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Full Gas Winter League. Riders warming up at Lee Valley.
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery
A picture of the Ponte Vecchio over the Arno in Florence showing the base of an ornate cast iron lamppost in the foreground.
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Cartoon by Nick Anderson.
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Sunbeam Talbot plaque at Ladbroke Hall. Brilliant concert tonight by Ilya Shmukler.
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
It seems the second word is “imperatores”. I think the film makers intended it to say, “Fuck the emperors,” and unwisely relied on Google Translate which consistently produces gibberish when used for Latin.
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Duolingo milestone.
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
The first published text of 1780 had colly birds meaning grimy or sooty, possibly indicating blackbirds.
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Medics working on two members of the public injured when Katy Marchant went over the barrier in the keirin in tonight’s UCI Track League at Lee Valley. Event cancelled. Reported Katy has a broken arm. No news on condition of the spectators. #cycling
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
This morning’s West London 10k at Gunnersbury Park has been cancelled because of high winds from Storm Darragh. Was one of the lead bikes so get a lie-in instead.
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Yours truly signalling final lap in yesterday’s rain and gloom.
Cyclocross commissaire standing by lap board in heavy rain with stop watch in one hand and bell rope in the other.
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Dave Kahn #FBPE @dkahn400.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Today’s #cyclocross in Corby. Strong winds in the morning and torrential rain in the afternoon form Storm Bert. #cycling
Cyclists struggling up muddy path through the woods in a cyclo-cross race.
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