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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 1h

I saw an advert for tallow skincare the other day with a tag line about not putting anything on your face you wouldn't eat.
I suspect the few Battersea residents old enough remember the stink turning tallow into candles at Price's had a good laugh at that.

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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 12h

West London looks very red

David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 15h

Oh

Revealed: how Ineos asked riders to inhale deadly carbon monoxide

Seasoned professionals and teenagers from Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s team underwent controversial rebreathing tests of CO gas in room 101 of a Spanish hotel

www.thetimes.com

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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 15h

Research from the department of Old Enough to Remember the Red Triangle at the University of Channel 4 presumably.

Trigger warnings may only encourage people to keep watching

Flagging up distressing content does not seem to change people’s behaviour — and could make them more intrigued, a study finds

www.thetimes.com

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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 16h

Started / Going: We Shall Overcome edition

Jan Rose Kasmir at an anti-Vietnam war rally at the Pentagon, in 1967
Photograph: Marc Riboud/Magnum Photos

Seth Todd confronting US immigration officers while wearing an inflatable frog costume
Photo: Carlos Barria/Reuters

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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 17h

Worth it. We had a range of varieties from very earlies, which were out between Christmas and New Year to lates.

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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 17h

We planted about 100 daffs last autumn. Brought much joy in spring. 10/10 would recommend.

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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 19h

Roxanne: I see through it all now - that generous iImposture - the letters - it was you.
Chat GPT No.
Roxanne It was always you. The mad, dear foolish words -
The voice in the night,
You.
Chat GPT Upon my honour.
Roxanne lt was all and always you ...

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder

Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...

www.theguardian.com

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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 21h

Post Office CEO clearly in the pay of Big Printer.

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 21h

Handwritten envelopes may become a thing of the past as the new boss moves to modernise the business ⬇️

Why Royal Mail could axe stamps and addresses on letters

Handwritten envelopes may become a thing of the past as the new boss moves to modernise the business

www.thetimes.com

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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 21h

I asked Chat GPT to plan my perfect holiday and credit where it's due, this is my perfect summer holiday.

Northern Norway — midnight-sun hikes & Arctic diving

David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 1d

Strong "Your cheese scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should" vibe
www.newscientist.com/article/2496...

They crossed moulds from stilton, gorgonzola and roquefort, and then inoculated cheese with the offspring. “We got some that tasted a little bit like the parents,” says Dyer. “But then we got one that was way out there. We had some professional tasters in, and they said it was the best blue cheese they’d tasted.” That was the extraordinarily tasty Danish blue I tried in Nottingham – an intense explosion of flavour and aroma, blue to its core, but with no hint of the acrid ammonia or sweaty-socks notes that often come with that territory. Plus, some flavour notes I had never experienced before.

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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 1d

Presumably the missiles are hidden at the end of the only very straight road leading from the Pyongyang parade ground.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Columns of soldiers and a procession of powerful nuclear missiles rolled through the capital of North Korea on Friday, as senior officials from China and Russia joined the country’s leader, Kim Jong-un, for a show of solidarity against the American-led global order.

North Korea Flaunts New Missiles in Parade With Chinese and Russian Officials

The parade, held in North Korea’s capital to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the ruling Workers’ Party, gave its leader a chance to show off his growing power.

nyti.ms

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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 1d

You do not imagine that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples.

Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 2d

Guess who just got both the updated COVID vaccine and flu shots today? Your dear Leader Trump. Maybe you should get them too.

Sincerely, An Epidemiologist Who Told You Trump Would Get COVID Booster.

David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 1d

What is the SAS for if not quietly rounding these people up and rendering them to a black site until they sign over the money.

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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 1d

Man convicted of 38 paedophile offences revealed as police informer who spied on UK activists

Trial of Nick Gratwick, 68, who schemed to rape children as young as six, exposes previous role among green protesters

www.theguardian.com

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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 1d

Unsolicited Slick pic

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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 1d

I think it was a combo of FoM ending at the same time as London was becomeing more economically homogeneous due to independent shops, cafs and restaurants that had opened when rents were still cheap being taken over by brands you see on every high street.

David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 1d

Derek Hatton's Liverpool?

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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 1d

Ah - the Sandra Dee look. There definitely weren't any Roman orgy parties - or at least not that I was invited to. 🤔

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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 1d

January 1980, 5

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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 2d

Given how many of today's London prime properties were subdivided into grotty flats the last time the UK was 'over,' it's just more bohemian squats in Notting Hill for the rest of us (well maybe the young people).

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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 2d

Right I think. Left arm is much weaker. Which is why I'd always choose badminton rackets in a duel.

David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 2d

Writing: left. Camera: left eye. Rifle right eye. Can't use the number pad at the right side of a keyboard with right hand. Kitchen knife, screwdriver: right. Racket sports: can use both. Confuses the opponent.

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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 2d

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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 2d

Is this Antichrist in the room with us right now, Peter?

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

wapo.st

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