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Rhys Davies

@rcdavies.bsky.social
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Common culture and community. Believer in manufacturing & interested in productivity. Trade should be balanced & energy should be renewable.

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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 29/09/2026
If there is artificial intelligence, there must be artificial stupidity.
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Rhys Davies @rcdavies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Graphs like these are best illustration of the consequences of trade imbalances and why politicians of all nations and in all eras should fear the impact of permanent trade deficit on the well-being of their countries more than armies. The current British government should take note.
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Tim Mak @timkmak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here’s what The Counteroffensive is reading today: The Ukrainian army used drones to deliver 4 tons of food to 100 locations in occupied Oleshky in the Kherson region. Regional authorities said this was one of the largest efforts to ease the local humanitarian crisis so far.
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Прокудін Олександр - Офіційна сторінка
В окупованих Олешках росіяни тримають у заручниках близько двох тисяч наших людей, серед яких майже пів сотні дітей. Вони змушені виживати без їжі, електрики та води. А найстрашніше – росіяни фактично...
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Rhys Davies @rcdavies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The complete disappearance of seriousness in US foreign policy. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Trump asked Xi Jinping if China would like to buy US weapons, American ambassador says
David Perdue’s remarks come after a Taiwanese minister spoke of the ‘severe’ military threat posed by Beijing to the self-ruled island
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Rhys Davies @rcdavies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What a waste of life.
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So you can learn about engineering disasters
image of Bent Pyramid of Dashur Egypt against a blue sky with some clouds
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Thakman📎🇺🇸 @thakman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The US sold it's semiconductor technology to China years ago enriching a few entitled dumbfuck Americans.
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Nature will find a way, just so long as we get out of the way! Rainforest biodiversity rebounds within a single generation | The Optimist Daily www.optimistdaily.com/2026/08/rain...
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Rainforest biodiversity rebounds within a single generation | The Optimist Daily
A major Ecuador study finds cleared rainforests can recover 90 percent of their species diversity in just 30 years, as long as humans leave the land alone.
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serious-stuff.bsky.social @serious-stuff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trump is doing a magnificent job of fighting climate change worldwide. Having nearly doubled the price of oil, the smart people are buying solar panels, batteries, heat pumps and EVs. The only thing people can't do at home is build cost-effective wind turbines!
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Andy Burnham announces new homes scheme for first-time buyers. Any help welcome but what about renters? No curbs on rents. Previous schemes boosted house prices. Real problem is low wages, job insecurity, high interest rates, profiteering by developers.
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Andy Burnham announces new homes scheme for first-time buyers
Exclusive: Policy initiative for England will help more young people on to property ladder, prime minister tells Guardian
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Mikey/Leon or Sonic when it’s crunch time @lordofthevan.wsocial.eu · 22/09/2026
Britain is more diverse and millions of people get on perfectly well. But calling multiculturalism an unqualified success is too simplistic. The evidence on integration and social cohesion is mixed. Britain has achieved a lot, but pretending there are no problems is just as dishonest.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026
Trump fucked up the *American* renewable transition but he might have had the largest positive effect on the global transition of any president ever
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Rhys Davies @rcdavies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
...the reason would be that many ethnic minority people are really quite attached to their own heritage and therefore understand and respect that attachment in others, including the ethnic majority. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Guardian extract saying: Interestingly, ethnic-minority adults themselves are more likely to view Englishness as tied to heritage, and prefer an identification with Britishness. I can’t speculate on each individual’s reluctance
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Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is your daily reminder it’s Russia who started this war , and all of this damage and people killed and wounded and missing , it’s all on Russia .
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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 25/09/2026
That's the nature's way of asking "how's that Nordic-Baltic nuclear weapon program coming along"
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Rhys Davies @rcdavies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
EV adoption in many developing nations is going to be quicker than in their wealthier counterparts
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
gold for the mistress/silver for the maid/copper for the craftsman/clever at his trade/"good!" laughed the baron/sitting in his hall/"but iron, cold iron/shall be master of them all".
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Igor Sushko @igorsushko.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Lockheed Martin sent an F-35 canopy and weapons-bay door with radar-absorbing stealth coating, classified technology, from Australia to the US via UPS. The package ended up in Chinese hands when the UPS shipment was diverted to Hong Kong. US Air Force has 550 cargo aircraft...
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Rhys Davies @rcdavies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
😶Worked for me.
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ECIU @eciu.net · 24/09/2026
"It's not a race to save the polar bears anymore. It's all about industrial strategy." Renewables hitting all time records in UK & globally Gas and oil price spikes based on whims of foreign regimes highlights the case for renewables as a national security measure 693GW installed in 2025 alone
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Rhys Davies @rcdavies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Van Gogh's spirit never died.
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
1/x In the 1840s, a lame American naval officer, grounded at a desk in Washington, cut weeks off the world's ocean voyages without inventing a single machine. His raw material: a warehouse of logbooks nobody had ever read. Matthew Fontaine Maury, Pathfinder of the Seas. A 🧵 #maritimehistory
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Rhys Davies @rcdavies.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
...And having just seen it, I thoroughly recommend the second part of De Galle too. Engaging & beautifully written while remaining true to overall historic events. The script writers have done a magnificent job in the characters they created & the stories they wove together. Spell-binding stuff.
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Rhys Davies @rcdavies.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Constraining another's power, no matter how abusive, is hard when you think it might constrain your own. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Union leaders resist political donations cap after Reform given £72m
General secretaries say union funding is ‘cleanest money in politics’ and different to that from wealthy individual donors
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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
3/3 The former is a proxy for GDP and the latter for consumption. When GDP grows faster than consumption, the economy must balance either with a rise in investment or a surge in the trade surplus. In August, fixed asset investment plunged 7.2% year to date, deepening from a 6.7% fall in July.
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Antonia Bance MP @antoniabance.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
With the announcement today that the government is intending to publicly acquire Speciality Steels UK from the Official Receiver, I asked the Business Secretary about what this means for the workers and production at Wednesbury Bright Bar, owned by SSUK.
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Pops @pops131.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It’s hilarious to me that people continue to purchase this nonsense! 😂
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Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I’m sorry, but this strikes me as plain old eschatological religiosity. You know these crazy cults who stand in a field waiting to be beamed up in the rapture or for God to descend on the day of judgement? This AI shit would seem to be that in another form..
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Bass @styrrellou.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026
Worth remembering that the motor industry then pushed to regulate people, reserving disproportionate amounts of space for motor vehicles and penalising people who encroach on it, rather than the new technology. The AI industry will also try to regulate our behaviour not its products.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Seems to me that tech bros are hijacking the narrative to claim Some Mysterious and Uncontrollable Thing is being created, even as they continue to create The Very Thing. At this development stage, there is 0% chance that AI destroys humanity. There's a decent chance humanity destroys humanity.
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Offa’s Tyke @offastyke.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
They’ve pumped an INSANE amount of money into this tech with absolutely no clue how to recoup the literal trillions of dollars back. It’s nothing less than complete madness! And for what? Glorified calculators and IP theft machines. They just keep thinking they’re going to make Skynet. 😒
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Will Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
And now another £36m. Two crypto billionaires. £72m to one political party in two days. More than every UK political party received combined last year. This isn’t healthy political participation. It’s a flashing red warning about the power of extreme wealth. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Reform receives second £36m donation in two days as crypto investor matches record
Cryptocurrency investor Christopher Harborne says he has matched a donation from Ben Delo announced late on Friday.
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ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
If you teach archaeology the one thing you know is that all your pupils want to learn archaeology. Perhaps you can fold some management training into that by having some students organise and manage a group expedition to a dig site, but if you send them to management training they will doss off.
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Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró) @biotay.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
1/5 Shelling (the use of mollusc shells as traps to catch fish) may be more widespread among dolphins than previously thought. It has now been documented on the opposite coast of Australia from Shark Bay, in Queensland. (paper) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Rhys Davies @rcdavies.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Not a tenable way to run a democracy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Reform receives second £36m donation in two days as crypto investor matches record
Christopher Harborne says he has equalled a donation from Ben Delo - the single largest gift to a UK political party.
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Rhys Davies @rcdavies.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
To those on the inside track, crypto wealth seems easily acquired and spent. In recent UK political history I can think of no donors who could readily drop this sort of money on a party. A few "£'000ks or the low £ms, perhaps. But not this. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform UK given record £36m donation by British crypto billionaire
Ben Delo was convicted in US for failing to implement adequate anti-money laundering controls but pardoned by Trump
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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My 9/11 was odd. First week of 6th grade. Teachers let the 7th and 8th graders watch CNN but kept my class in the dark. No big deal except: I lived right by the Flight 93 crash site, so worried parents came in droves to take their kids home. By day's end I was one of a handful left. Bewildering.
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"China's oil demand is expected to fall by 600,000 barrels a day, or 8.9%, in 2026" And they are now using the phrase "oil demand destruction" in the media. Things are changing.
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China oil demand to fall 8.9% in 2026, Sinopec research says
China's oil demand is expected to fall by 600,000 barrels a day, or 8.9%, in 2026, marking ​a third straight annual decline, while refining capacity is forecast to shrink up ‌to 5.5% from 2026 levels ...
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Rob Carlson @robcarlson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
But, remember kids, there’s no such thing as an energy transition. #energysky
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gesser60.bsky.social @gesser60.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Bluesky needs a policy where repeat posters of AI slop are suspended
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GreenEngineer @eubanksengineeringresearch.com · 06/09/2026
Anyone who seriously believes that AGI is here right now is a credulous moron.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
«You got a problem with him, then you got a problem with me» Original post
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Dan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The government has decided not to support small biomass power plants as their Renewable Obligation contracts begin to expire next year. Although they don't produce a significant amount of electricity, they do provide a domestic disposal route for millions of tonnes of waste wood a year.
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Small-scale biomass subsidies to end without replacement - letsrecycle.com
The Government has ruled out new support for small-scale biomass generators once their existing Renewables Obligation support comes to an end.
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Rhys Davies @rcdavies.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The strange case of Britain's free trade agreement fixation. In reality, what matters in the medium and long term is that trade be balanced. Trade growth is good only under these conditions, but UK politicians will celebrate any deal regardless of consequences. www.cityam.com/dont-underes...
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Don't underestimate the free trade agreement Britain just joined
The UK’s entry into the CPTPP, the world's largest free trade area that does not include the US, EU or China, should not be underestimated.
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Rhys Davies @rcdavies.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The failure of Mexico, with its huge auto industry and market, to generate an indigenous volume brand remains a mystery
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Rhys Davies @rcdavies.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
If ever there was a place where high speed rail should work......
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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Julian Gewirtz: "Pushing Beijing to accept policies that would reduce the advantages enjoyed by its export sector and require a shift toward household consumption will be hard enough without a framing that will generate maximal political resistance." substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Want China to Revalue the Yuan? Stop Saying “Plaza Accord.”
Some analogies should stay in 1985.
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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
L'économiste américain Michael Pettis : "L'Europe souffre indéniablement d'un problème d'efficacité" www.marianne.net/agora/tribun...
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L'économiste américain Michael Pettis : "L'Europe souffre indéniablement d'un problème d'efficacité"
Chercheur à la Carnegie Endowment et auteur, notamment, de « Les guerres commerciales sont des guerres de classes » (Dunod, 2022), l'Américain Michael Pettis explique pourquoi le problème de l'Europe ...
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Maev MacCoille @msmaev.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I went to see the De Gaulle: Resistance film today, which is interesting for a tonne of reasons (it acknowledges the role of colonised nations in the war!)… one of which is that I think Simon Russell Beale does the best performance of Churchill that I think I’ve ever seen.
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CGT Environnement @cgt-environnement.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Ecouter De Gaulle permet de mesurer la trajectoire de notre société en quelques décennies.
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