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Dan Davies

@dsquareddigest.bsky.social
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"if that's the strangest thing you ever seen in your life, I'd say you haven't done much"

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Over at efinancialcareers, I throw a little bit of shade...
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"in this fast-moving if somewhat ill-advised game, players are given a set of cards with rap lyrics on them...
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Research reveals it was this one
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I have no idea why this dog park has a knuckleduster for its logo
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I would like to see the prosecution drawing up a quite widely drafted application for a Criminal Behaviour Order
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
after consideration, I have produced this necessary reference guide, perhaps @sundersays.bsky.social may be interested. If someone wants to provide funding after the fact, I can promise it won't constitute a donation in kind to Reform.
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As with the University of Austin, the problem is that really quite early on, someone is likely to try the "anti-woke, uncancellable, maximally truth seeking" bullshit on somebody who has parents who are able to hire a lawyer.
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Previously in this series
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The late DJ John Peel apocryphally once said to a colleague at radio 1 "I don't understand why this record isn't in the charts - everyone I know has bought it". The colleague replied "no John, you know everyone who bought it"
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Context:
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm not sure they needed a separate disclosure of this bit as if it was a new concern
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Hahaha the system works
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Just had this suggested on LinkedIn, do you think I should apply?
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
so much for the so-called tolerant left
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Google AI search results, you really are not putting the A team on this one (I was trying to find an image and went back to the search tab)
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
oh come on this has to be a wind up. you are not telling me that there is an ultra-high-net-worth private banker whose name is "Cayman Wills"
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
every mf loves to say they would give up their equity, no mf wants to give up their equity
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It contributes to the impression of dodginess that most of the time it's "LLMs are totally inscrutable, we can't tell anything about the relationship between training data and output, we can't explain any decisions" and then when it becomes inconvenient they're "nope, definitely didn't happen"
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It's in the DfE report, p21 assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a9ea5...
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
obviously I hesitate to gainsay as you're the expert here, but that doesn't seem to be what the report says? It looks like all the Welsh kids were at the start of year 11, one third of the English were just before mock GCSEs and two thirds just before real GCSEs
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Another fine application for my Northern Granny Theory Of Historiography. Before writing anything, historians should address the question "do we really need to keep on dragging this up when it just causes arguments?"
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Auckland is even more of a sell side chart triumph, with so many urbanists expecting me to be impressed at this astonishing two and a half point decline in the rent to income ratio. Life changing.
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I wonder when the public debate will catch up with this chart. (What is this showing is that house prices measure human capital; they are the value of a basically fixed proportion of household income, capitalised at roughly the mortgage rate. It's asset pricing, not supply/demand)
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Joke's on him because I've already bought an NFT of the galaxy, when his status symbol has blown up and turned into a black hole mine will still be pristine and perfect.
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Selling golden shovels in a gold rush
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Only one lanyard class in this house son
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Beach day
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
It is always pleasant to reflect that if Elon Musk and Bill Gates put all their money together, the best pint of cider they could buy would be neither better nor worse than mine
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I can think of another example of something that a lot of people suspected and that now everyone knows
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
🎶 shut your f**king face, uncle-f***er
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
(still makes me chuckle)
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
tbh, if someone thinks that Pembrokeshire is in the North of Wales and Wexford is to the north of Dublin, they definitely need the help of a wizard in order to get their cable project finished.
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
tbh Keir Starmer was a product of punditry's soft bigotry but I didn't have a go at you about that
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
the famous baroque Church of St. Charles Borromeo in Karlsplatz, Vienna. Or as the local Scottish community calls it, Charlie Kirk.
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
A non-dom is, by definition, someone who is going to leave. If they are planning on staying in the UK for the rest of their life then that is their domicile!
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Selling the public equity stakes in order to concentrate on illiquid holdings is it?
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I can see we're going to have to start calling this guy "Sherlock"
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Again, the most important legal and ethical issue raised by this is something like "no you didn't, that's a lie, that didn't happen"
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Hahaha what a knobber. (Reason for blocking: "insufficiently respectful of the difference between an audio drama and a podcast")
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