Reposted by Chris DaviesDuncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 4hI also sometimes manage to infuriate people with my favourite offbeat policy suggestion: there should be a link between university student fees and the average fees paid for 11-18 education. 021
Reposted by Chris DaviesFunranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 14hWell, I'm 20 years late to the party on this one but this is why it pays to hangout with the Earth Sciences people when you're near their building. TL;DR - Geology is complicated. It's good to ask geologists before you dig deep holes or you will learn SURPRISE GEOLOGY.en.wikipedia.orgStaufen im Breisgau - Wikipedia 1515036
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 14hThis whole State of the Force speech thing is just weird, isn’t it. A political speech delivered in a way that expects applause, which is never going to come from its actual audience. Just so awkward. 000
Reposted by Chris DaviesJack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 21hTeaching Swift today, and will always share this on “Modest Proposal” day. 531696352
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 15hSee, even the millionaires' cars run on the blood of the workers 000
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 19hFeel like such a chump for thinking it'd just be a decade of faffing to get back to something close to what we had... 000
Reposted by Chris DaviesJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I accidentally spent £17,700 on 400 subscriptions to the LRB for Home Office staff and now the Life in the UK test is asking applicants to rank Derek Jarman films from most to least emotionally resonant? 125161
Reposted by Chris DaviesBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I want a Batman story in which Bruce Wayne invents video games, ultimately providing a low-cost home entertainment option that helps significantly reduce street crime from the mid-1990s onward. 2948235
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Facts. The whole technocratic shift in 90s politics has a lot to answer for 000
Reposted by Chris DaviesJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 28/09/2026"Once, I went out on the rob for diesel, and sparked a major international security incident" 17845155
Reposted by Chris DaviesChristina Martin @christinamartin.bsky.social · 26/11/2024My junk folder reads like someone has had it up to here with chiropractors 819437
Reposted by Chris DaviesRyan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives. 253932735
Reposted by Chris DaviesRobin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 26/09/2026One question I have started asking at job interviews which is a bit full on is "what's the most difficult thing about working here" and if nobody gives a non-bullshit answer I don't want the job. 3718
Reposted by Chris Davies"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I absolutely agree, but what a lot of people are doing is competing for status within an organization, institution or movement, with not so much thought as to the success of that institution and in that context, harnessing the McVibes can be personally advantageous. 424810
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This is an endemic problem extending outside the dating world. People don’t know how to have conversations any more. So many interactions are just people talking at each other and there’s zero curiosity - as though you can make people like you by overwhelming them with your content 010
Reposted by Chris DaviesParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"The Bank of England was set up by Tony Blair" It's easy to forget that Tony Blair had been in power since 1694 when the Bank of England was founded. Good job Brain of Britain Liz Truss is here to remind us. 2381822480
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 25/09/2026How did Americans survive urban living before they had their massive water bottles? 000
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Absolute scenes in Clapham Customised 4x4 with a label ‘Chelsea Truck Co’ screwing up the traffic by trying to create a third lane in the middle of the road when there’s a queue, and then hitting someone else Bingo card completed in one go 010
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Yeah but we shouldn’t be pursuing Net Zero because no one else is… 🙄 010
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I think they should deal with him like British TV did with Gerry Adams in the 90s and voice his words with an actor 000
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Always a good sign when we get to ‘you can’t make this up’ 000
Reposted by Chris DaviesLyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 23/09/2026You're going to be needing specialists in: languages, narrative, history, psychology, information, mythology, conspiracies, etc, etc. then? #humanities #socialscience 1116761
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The numbers on this are pure, multidimensional BlueSky 000
Reposted by Chris DaviesTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The complete and total collapse of state function in the face of far right extremists. It is frankly ludicrous that Daniel Thomas continues to be at large given the series of crimes committed which he has literally filmed. 281173378
Reposted by Chris DaviesJessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Started watching Sky’s War Game last night where Michael Gove is the PM during the Russian attack and I’m afraid it is just very difficult to watch it without thinking of this, one of the great cartoons ever published 541632391
Reposted by Chris DaviesJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 12/04/2026Dan Neidle looking at your taxes is the financial equivalent of the MenswearGuy examining your trousers. 1641643
Reposted by Chris DaviesJohnny Mains @johnnymains.co.uk · 21/09/2026Someone from Exeter was buried on Friday and one of their wishes was to have dinosaurs and the Grim Reaper present. Legend. Photo source: Exeter & Devon Crematorium and Memorial Gardens 17756177
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A beautiful part of the world that takes *forever* to get to 020
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Hard for those of us who are of a certain age to understand…but it is true that UK GDP per capita is meaningfully higher than Japan’s 032
Reposted by Chris DaviesDuncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It is both really obvious and seemingly often forgotten that an awful load of pressing economic problems would be an order of magnitude easier if the Strait of Hormuz was open. 626238
Reposted by Chris DaviesAstronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl... 6644161391
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Reminded of the marvellous Geoffrey Burgon score for the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Is that the last kids TV show to have proper symphonic music? youtu.be/oClLr_qw9oc?...youtu.beBBC Chronicles of Narnia OSTYouTube video by Andrew Schoen 010
Reposted by Chris DaviesJonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026Although the cost of housing in London is insane and makes life difficult for anyone under 50, youngsters are mostly unaware much of the city used to look like this 3338187
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Read this thread and fuck the fascists. A level of bravery they just cannot understand 010
Reposted by Chris DaviesStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Why are Gen Z more anxious and less workplace ready? It’s a mystery. 76825121
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Remember kids: restore the Jacobite claim, personal union with Liechtenstein, UK into EFTA Much better than this EU associate membership nonsense they're dangling at Canada. You know it makes sense! 010
Reposted by Chris DaviesNicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy! 180140446458
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Really great production of The Children @lyrichammersmith.bsky.social Fantastic ensemble cast, and a piece both wittily funny and poignant about age, parenting and our responsibilities. Definitely recommend. 001
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 16/09/2026And this is the difference between the 'legitimate concerns' brigade and the reality of racism. Some vague sense of discomfort vs people being singled out and abused for their skin colour, religion or whatever These things are not the same 030
Reposted by Chris DaviesRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers. 1062354688
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Yeah. So many larks in the twentieth century. So much light-hearted mucking about. 000
Reposted by Chris DaviesJames Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026From food introduced in the 1850s by Spanish and Portuguese Jews to lionised in dodgy AI as the backbone of our nation. Multiculturalism rocks 0101
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Humans are little better…Reminded of this story from Fred Kaplan’s ‘The Bomb’. 000
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Really hasn't landed any distance at all from the Winter Palace aesthetic Imperial Russia ftw, clearly 000