Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 48sClassic stock and flow confusion. Like everyone who claims company x is bigger than country y, when they are confusing market valuation and gdp 000
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 2mThat it ends is so important. There is no second chance. This is it. Make the most of it. 010
Reposted by Chris DaviesAnna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 6hAs a society, we have forgotten that the phone still works when you hold it up to your ear 431801258
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 1hEnjoying Youtube's auto captioning trying to make sense of Prisencolinensinainciusol in an Easyjet advert.... 001
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 2hAnd conversely, people who think that the reason one produces content at work is to meet some higher need and that any AI use is therefore immoral 020
Reposted by Chris DaviesSiem De Cleyn @siemdc.bsky.social · 11hThere are only two events clearly visible in the post-war global number of deaths. 1304
Reposted by Chris Daviesmolesworth1 @molesworth1.bsky.social · 16hThe Britannia Shield sounds like a bowls tournament you might find on ITV4. 14711
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is not true. In Wales, where we are true connoisseurs, we do lasagne and chips. 000
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Good to see a proper ragù traditionalist. None of this watery tomato sauce nonsense. 000
Reposted by Chris DaviesPJ Taylor @thepjtaylor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Watching the #damilola doc on #BBC2. It was when this atrocity occurred I learnt the meaning of 'anomie' which described the mindset of the perpetrators. 121
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Might help if we got over the fixation with £100k as some magic salary of significance - given it’s been mesmerising policy making for at least 15 years. 030
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Yep - was deserted when we were there. This whole thing is an impressive bit of PR. 010
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Quite - really not hard to get to from the UK. The fuss really does seem like a triumph of PR! 010
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Meanwhile our two were completely different. One an atrocious sleeper, hated being swaddled etc etc, the other at their happiest wrapped up in a little pod and would fall asleep blissfully. Almost as though they’re individuals! 000
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The desperation you have in week 3 when the buggers aren’t sleeping and you’re exhausted and some well meaning but smug peer parent says ‘Aren’t you doing Gina Ford? Rigorous routine is magic. You just need to stick with it.’ It’s very seductive. And makes you feel crap when it doesn’t work. 110
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 04/10/2026And just emphasises how weird the Christo-Fascism stuff from our neo-right is. There’s no meaningful constituency for it. (I know it’s all about US money…) 040
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The sooner the racists just come out and say what they want the better. Just hope that when that happens we are, as a nation, who we claim to be. 020
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 04/10/2026And even that works for some people and not others. When they are tiny, what kids really need is functioning parents, so absolutely just do what you need to do to get through. 010
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Absolutely this. Wanted to write a book for new parents summarising all the advice (controlled crying! attentive parenting!) and saying: here it is. None of it is guaranteed. Go with what works for you. But don't get hung up if it doesn't work, try something else. Whatever you choose: it'll be fine 130
Reposted by Chris DaviesDewie @judgedewie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026OMG I had to check my work emails regarding an extra case in court tomorrow and I've just read this from an HR person. "on a knee to nose basis" A KNEE TO NOSE BASIS 😳 2503543645
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Am enjoying these little journo cameos, clearly designed to get them sharing 040
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I mean, I know there's a certain integrity to believing you should only act in your own best interest... ...and I also know that geopolitics is the last place you should look for morality... ...but wtaf 000
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Yeah can’t wear that hat in the forest. Will knock into the branches 010
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Sadly. I buy @stephenkb.bsky.social ‘s take that the archer here is John Healey rather than anything more sinister, but still 110
Reposted by Chris DaviesMichael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Dave Brubeck’s 1960’s Connecticut home was as cool as his music. 1292910346
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Of course! People have been reviving stuff for centuries. Fashions come and go. But for every Bach there’s a thousand Salieris. And so the world turns. It’s a great reminder that even things we personally hold dear are, in the end, ephemeral. 120
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 01/10/2026What this conversation has done, however, is prompt my daughter and I to dig out the biggest selling music from the 1920s. A fascinating tour, and amazing some of the numbers these records did! 020
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Absolutely. My sister, who is pushing 60, wouldn’t be found dead listening to 60s music (and in fact would rather be listening to hardcore). This is the challenge for popular music: it’s so intimately linked to fashion that it’ll be difficult to sustain itself in the long run, regardless of merit 320
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 01/10/2026There’s definitely part of this that’s driven by patient demand. We should invent an activity that makes people feel like they’ve had surgery without any of the actual surgery 000
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The contemporary music my kids listen to is tremendously varied in its influence. If I had to push it, I’d say Latin music was more significant than Anglo rock for their generation. 110
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yeah my teens have heard plenty of Beatles growing up but they don’t feature much in their music tastes now. 110
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 01/10/2026And there’s a particular benefit to emphasise being the victim if you can’t be the big dog. But you’re spot on that big dog is where everyone wants to be 000
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I mean, if anyone can play a long game, it’s got to be the Greeks 030
Reposted by Chris DaviesDuncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I 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. 141
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 01/10/2026That's precisely my point - not that we don't consume art from the past, but that we consume a tiny fraction of what has been produced. In the now we often conflate popularity and merit - but it's a poor indicator of what genuinely endures. I mean, Mrs Brown's Boys has been popular... 100
Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 30/09/2026And the special forces lot. Fans of beards and famously rubbish at that war thing. 030
