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Chris Davies

@cdavies.bsky.social
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he/him. I was c_davies on the bird app; an odd little man with a British accent everywhere else. Cat-lover; Michigan-resider; SlashGear writer; car geek; 🌈 I do not 'like' skeets; it's nothing personal it just gives me anxiety.

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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Many thanks to 1stDibs, for understanding my tastes so specifically as to recommend I purchase this beautiful painting.
A painting of a somewhat fey shirtless boxer, standing in front of a rural scene, clenching his fists in a way that looks more petulant than threatening.
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I like this "outsource the hard stuff" approach 😁
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I shall see what I can do! I am fairly camera-shy these days 😂
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I'm pretty sure I could hear Lalita laughing all the way down the street 😂
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
If your ears were burning yesterday, it's probably because I was singing your praises 😂
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
And Mercedes! Honestly, I'm astonished they haven't already done it.
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Who will be the first to use spy photography to photoshop a realistic image of the actual driver inside the picture of the car?
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
We need an equivalent app to Merlin, to identify rare and weird cars by sound alone.
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I saw one of those yesterday, just after I spotted a PT Cruiser convertible, and shortly after an early-2000s Thunderbird. I felt like I should get some sort of badge for such a trio.
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The last time I had it, it was kinda oddly thick and not-entirely-pleasantly-unctuous. I expected it to be bright and fresh, but it was... claggy. Which is to say, you may not be missing out.
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I'm so sorry, Stacey. I never met him in person, but his presence in the industry was a huge one.
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
This wouldn't fix me but I want it anyway
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Perfect, I'll put it on the team calendar 📆
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
There's a "passenger-side crank" joke here somewhere, but I'm too busy to workshop it. Let's just agree to laugh, okay?
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It's okay, I expect I'll get it free as part of my T-Mobile subscription. Assuming I'm okay adding another (shipping) line, that is.
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Right! I don't know why nobody from the government has called me about my idea, yet.
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
It's so easy to criticize, rather than make helpful suggestions. Shame on you all. Look, if every true American patriot took just a few gulps of reflecting pool water, we could easily refill the whole thing with what I'm tentatively calling Freedom Piss™ 🦅
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Lalita we have all been falling behind, this is shameful
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
John's right, someone's been feeding you incorrect information. If anything you probably need two more.
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Will you buy me a slushy?
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
There comes a time in every man's life...
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Thinking once more about geodesic domes.
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Y'know, for some reason I had it in my head that you were a convertible person! (I agree with you, though)
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
This is a lot of stress for a Saturday morning, I have to say. I'm going to guess... you're team Cappuccino 👀
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Well NOW I am 😬
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Dare I ask which side you each fall on?
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I wish the wheels weren't black, but... that actually looks pretty good, with that grille in that paint color 👀
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I had one of those, for a while.
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I really, really wish I hadn't seen that blue one 👀
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
This is exactly what my third wife said about me.
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I figure there's a good chance you've already read Blindsight by Peter Watts, but just in case you haven't...
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
If it helps, I think you should actually definitely do it.
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Eternally frustrated that I wasn't a car writer when those things were floating about
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I suspect people want "the summer they remember as a kid, when everything felt easier"
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Definitely. I wish we were all more in the habit of listening to science! Though if the science is saying "we will see impacts on our way of life in 10 years, and widespread starvation in 20 years" I think there are inherent mental blocks a lot of people have, just so they can operate day-to-day.
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I think you're correct, there, but I think there's also an element of "I cannot handle that degree of awareness" among those who we'd consider educated and like-minded.
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Indeed. Though I think there's a difference between "believe in it" and "believe the situation is as dire as it actually is." As in, I speak to plenty of people who believe in climate change but who aren't necessarily ready to acknowledge things will change dramatically in the next decade or so.
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
And, like, I *get* it. Because acknowledging it means facing the reality that very rich people need to change, and very quickly, if we have a hope of improving things. Which we know they won't. So you end up in the "my kids will likely die horribly in this world" headspace. Self-deception is easier.
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I live in the Midwest now, and the Venn diagram of "people currently terrified by the uptick in tornadoes and other extreme weather" and "people who've said how nice it is to have milder winters and earlier spring" is very nearly a circle. Attempts to dig into either are met with clear resistance.
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I suspect this is a significant factor in people refusing to acknowledge things like climate change. Accepting it's real, and things are really precarious, means facing our own individual impotence. And that's uncomfortable for the human brain, so we just say "a warmer summer will be nice, though."
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
You can expend a lot of energy - and thus presumably be "exercising" - by simply laying on the floor and flailing.
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Put a large sheet of tempered glass on top, and use them as inconveniently-tall coffee tables.
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Which one is which?
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Again, biased, but I am so impressed by what he (and Nat, his partner) have achieved there. Supporting fair-priced coffee growers and roasters from around Europe; paying staff fair wages; being great stewards of a special building. And the coffee is fantastic!
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Where I live, tbh the coffee I make at home is as good as I'll get in most of the local places. Outside of that, I'm exceptionally biased (as it's my brother's shop 😂) but COFFI in Liverpool www.instagram.com/coffiliverpool
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Joe pye weed?
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
And that would leave you about eight months to get your affairs in order before it arrived.
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Yep. There are various different pieces of legislation in various different stages about trying to better regulate it, but y'know how that goes.
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
If you found a well-trafficked spot (like a pretty town on a holiday w/e) it could be a lucrative thing, I'm told. But the curing later on was a nightmare: those getting paid to collect were a lot less stringent about making sure signers were eligible/lived in the right area/etc.
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
It's the gatherers getting paid. Was a big thing a couple of years ago in MI, when we were trying to get abortion and voting rights onto the ballot. You'd have people coming in from neighboring states, with 10+ different petitions on them (sometimes competing sides) trying to chase signatures.
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