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Chris Budd

@stuffer.bsky.social
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High functioning introvert. Author of The Financial Wellbeing Book, The Four Cornerstones of Financial Wellbeing, and founder of the Institute for Financial Wellbeing. Plus 3 novels (so far). Lover of music, cricket, and joyful things

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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 15m
Breakfast in London this morning. Scrambled eggs, bacon, brown sauce; poorly tuned radio slipping between pop hits and white noise; cheery cockney builder getting breakfast for him and his silent young apprentice; French couple asking for mayonnaise with their fried breakfast. Marvellous.
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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My shelves are full of biographies of musicians. My Dad would cry when listening to Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique Symphony because he understood the pain the composer was going through and he wrote it. And so on.
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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sven And The Ragged Tiger #MakeAnAlbumSwedish
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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
But late, but I finally get the first toddler dancing, so Save Tonight by Eagle Eye Cherry #sellingvinyl
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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Chatting with a customer, he tells me about when he tried his hand at being a supply teacher. Very first class he took, walked into the classroom, and all the kids burst out laughing. Changed career not long afterwards! #sellingvinyl
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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’m #Sellingvinyl at Tobacco Fsctory Sunday Market today. Chap tells me about when he worked in a chain record store and was sent to Florida to buy a collection of 25,000 albums. My dream job!
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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Went to the annual RWA exhibition of their members' art today, in Bristol. As ever, some I liked, some I didn't, but all of high quality, and quite a few truly stunning pieces. Recommend.
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Most riveting thing I've seen all week
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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hey BBC news, please use people’s correct titles. It’s not ‘anti-migrant activist’. It’s ’racist knobhead’. Thank you. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Daniel Thomas pleads not guilty after dinghy slashed in Channel
Daniel Thomas is accused of criminal damage after a video appeared to show him slashing at a dinghy.
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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There’s a film on ITV right now which has the gall to call itself The Magnificent Seven. From 2016. Absolutely the worst Hollywood trash. 7 minutes is all I could manage.
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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Racist knobhead arrested for slashing a dinghy and endangering lives. Good. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Daniel Thomas arrested over video of dinghy slashing
Police had been looking into footage appearing to show the man, also known as Danny Tommo, slashing at a boat in the English Channel with a knife.
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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My son's band, Blackhorse Hotel, has a new single out, Hive Mind. That's 3 singles now, I think this is possibly the best of the three. Please like (if you like!) and subscribe etc Bandcamp: blackhorsehotel.bandcamp.com/track/hive-m... Spotify: open.spotify.com/track/4xktlN...
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Hive Mind, by Blackhorse Hotel
track by Blackhorse Hotel
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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Lots of posts in my timeline about the racist knobheads in the Channel, saying “Why aren’t the Government doing anything about this”, but none saying “Why are the racist knobheads doing this”.
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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’m on a train, in the Quiet Carriage. 3 American ladies have got on and are happily - but noisily - chatting. The train is not busy. So, the question arises - do I?
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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
To conflate two news stories, I’d love to think that a few of the far right balaclava wearing knobheads might look at the news that RNLI donations have rocketed and think: Are we the baddies?
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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Had a meeting yesterday with someone who had just finished reading my novel The Vanishing Point. First thing he did was come over and shake my hand. Which was nice.
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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Nothing quite so exciting as receiving an email entitled 'North Somerset Council: Recycling and waste news."
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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Been on a beautiful drive through the Welsh hills, the Black Mountains the Brecon Beacons. Stopping in little towns like Crickhowell, where all you can hear is the banging and deafening growling of motorbikes ridden by middle aged men. They are a blight.
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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Well THAT’S confusing
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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is how to be rich.
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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Bjork live on telly. I turn on to check it out. She has a dress with massive frills, and wears a lace mask while a guy hits bowls floating upside down in a tank of water and women dressed like faeries play wind instruments. Marvellous.
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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Anyone been to see Kevin Bridges on his current tour? Bristol Hippodrome give no information about support acts, running times, etc, other than '8'. Any info would be appreciated.
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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Clarkson‘s Farm 3 is showing as ‘continue watching’ on our family Amazon account. No one in the family will admit to watching it, as they know that they will be excommunicated and written out of the will by me. 
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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Love this, well done Bristol and well done the Green Party. Even the Tory councillor couldn't really find anything to say against it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Bristol becomes first city to ban fast fashion adverts
New rules prohibits the promotion of flights, cars and travel agents on council-owned billboards.
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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I REALLY hope this B&B wins this battle. Not just because we all hate bullying American global corporations, that's just obvious. But because Rocca Holly-Nambi said: “That’s not just a huge waste of money – of which we don’t have much." Anyone who speaks like that deserves to win legal arguments!
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SimonRead @simonread.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Can you trust #AI? Not when it comes to financial advice. AI models give wrong answers to financial inquiries 57% of the time while on harder questions the AI models make mistakes in 88% of cases. Anyone using AI advice faces making costly mistakes www.financialplanningtoday.co.uk/news/ai-mode...
financialplanningtoday.co.uk
AI models found to give inaccurate financial advice
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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If you prefer to make your own choice for the National Trust Council, 'Restore Trust' have helpfully provided a list of their preferred infiltrators. Here's who to AVOID: Bonigala, Cristea, Goldman, Mealing and Omrani 2/2
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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
But I thought a cornerstone of Conservative thinking is the efficiency of the free market? Laissez Faire Economics. All businesses starting equal so that the most efficient will thrive. Why does that not apply to the labour market?
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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Eddy don’t like furniture, however he seems to be fine with… #niche
A shop called Eddy’s Domestic Appliances
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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A young woman asks if I have Tapestry by Carole King, which I do. She explains that she left her copy on the record player in the sun then went on holiday. She buys my copy to replace her warped one - and I give her a free copy of @joanarmatrading.bsky.social ‘s Show Some Emotion. #sellingvinyl
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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I’m #sellingvinyl this morning at Tobacco Factory Sunday Market. A lady in her 60s approaches the stall, waves her hand to gesture at my stock, and asks: “Do you know if there any other stalls selling antiques?”
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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“I have no need of friendship. Friendship causes pain. It’s laughter and it’s loving I disdain.” I think Paul Simon might just be my number one favourite songwriter. Just check out his recent song Wristband.
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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Man who was a business executive and trained as a chemical engineer says that chemical engineering degrees are best because they give the best returns for businesses. FFS.
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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Stevie Wonder is playing a concert. I looked at tickets. For the front secion - £200 each!! Per ticket!! Holy cow! And most of them were sold.
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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Replacement bus service.
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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am a trustee of a hospice. I leave a hospice meeting, during which there is discussion about the funding crisis affecting the whole hospice sector. I look at LinkedIn, where I see a piece about a billionaire hedge fund manager supposedly leaving the UK because they don’t want to pay more tax.
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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Somebody help me. I’m trying to think of an Italian American actor in the 80s. Not one of the obvious ones, like De Niro or Pacino, white T-shirt, ripped. Had a couple of big main roles. This is driving me crazy. 
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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It feels very much like facism is on the march. It’s not just our casually racist parents and grandparents any more.
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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This looks like "a protest that disrupts key national infrastructure," to me, whereupon it's "go to jail, do not pass go, do not collect £200". They do not have "very real concerns," they're just horrible people. People with "very real concerns" don't wear balaclavas in 22C and sunny. Thugs do.
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Andy Morris @drewlilmo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Just seen an advert saying Save Water. Use watering can instead of hoses and take shorter showers. But let's keep building AI data centres that use vast amounts of water for someone to create a little AI image on social media.
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Oh, Fuck Off - Man's Reaction
ALT: Oh, Fuck Off - Man's Reaction
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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I’m in a hotel spa relaxation room. They are playing music. It is hits played on a classical guitar. Currently: Shut Up And And Dance With Me. It is not a very relaxing experience!
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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It would seem to be the anniversary of Diana’s death. Which, to me, also means it is the anniversary of my stag weekend. The worst stag weekend anyone has ever held, I’d venture to suggest.
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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
From a TED Talk with Ken Robinson. ‘A six year old girl who was usually very quiet in her lessons, was sitting drawing at the back of the art class. “What are you drawing?” asked the teacher. “God” she replied. Teacher: “But nobody knows what he looks like.” “They will in a minute” said the girl.’
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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This reminds me of being a teenager learning the guitar in the 80s, when the camera on TV shows would always zoom in on the right hand, not the left. SO frustrating!
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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: Two out of work actors go for a weekend break.
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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I have an idea for a song about an ex-lover of Prince who left him because he lived his life through his own songs. The chorus goes: “All I wanted was a shoulder to cry on. But all you gave me were the Arms Of Orion.”
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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Do you know what I don’t understand? Why really rich people build, or buy and restore, really nice things like hotels, then make them so expensive that only other really rich people can enjoy them. If I was a billionaire, I’d buy lovely places and make them free or cheap to get into. 
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Dave Edwards @realdaveedwards.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I’m so sad to hear this. He was the best, the very best. #RIPTimCurry
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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My personal favourite Dolly Parton moment #RIPDolly youtu.be/OjkihwNeCqA?...
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Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris & Linda Ronstadt - Telling Me Lies
YouTube video by ronhagenees
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Chris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?"
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