Chris Davies

Chris Davies

@cdavies.bsky.social

he/him. I was c_davies on the bird app; an odd little man with a British accent everywhere else. Cat-lover; Michigan-resider; SlashGear writer; car geek; 🌈 I do not 'like' skeets; it's nothing personal it just gives me anxiety.

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It's so easy to criticize, rather than make helpful suggestions. Shame on you all. Look, if every true American patriot took just a few gulps of reflecting pool water, we could easily refill the whole thing with what I'm tentatively calling Freedom Piss™ 🦅

This article describes me awkwardly well, but I considered not posting about it because then someone might reply. Yes, yes, I know. I KNOW.

theguardian.comI never text back – and it’s ruining my relationshipsExperts weigh in on why some people have an inexplicable barrier to responding – and what they can do about it
Chris Davies@cdavies.bsky.social

I have a single 2026 resolution and that's to be (a little) more social. Turns out, when you do most of your socializing on work trips and then largely stop traveling, you get pretty insular! Who knew! Anyway, brain kinda fizzled; if I left you on unread in 2025, it was me not you.

The great thing about the internet is you think "oh, I should wash the car today" and then go online to get some recommendations and then fall down several rabbit holes, and an hour later you have no greater insight but all the car-washing time is used up by fruitless research and it's lunchtime.

It's fascinating seeing the continuing reaction to people saying "No, we won't vote for Gavin Newsom, he's a terrible pick*" being "Yes, but Gavin Newsom, though, right? 😉" from certain (vocal) quarters. *which is, to be clear, a sentiment I agree with

They closed the airspace above El Paso because the Big Goose was back, but they knew you'd panic if they told you. The public isn't ready to know about the Big Goose.

When you're next furious that MN kids are going hungry, well, there's a fund for that; & when you're livid that brave observers may struggle with rent, there's one for that; & when you're heartbroken about pets being left behind when their owners are kidnapped, well, there's a fund for that, too.

Ghostly Bree@mostlybree.kitrocha.com

go to standwithminnesota.com and pick someone on there and give them $5. tomorrow go back and give someone else $5. do it every day for a week and you will have made life immediately & materially better for 7 different people, at the cost of $35, and you will feel so much better than you do now.

I don't know if you're like me, but I get overwhelmed with this sense of "I know I can't help everyone, so where the hell do I start?" Five bucks a day to turn down the volume on that sense of being powerless, even if it's just a fraction, feels like a good deal to me.

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Transphobia is a cancer of the heart and mind. It is a useless fear, based on ignorance and cruelty. Trans people are not responsible for a single one of the problems we face. Do the world a favor and grow the fuck up.

Ack, just remembered the strike. I wonder if I can repurpose something we already have 🤔 I may spend slightly too much time worrying about the wellbeing of possums.

I strongly believe that there is no billionaire alive who would not fall for the "paint a tunnel on a mountain" trick made popular by a cartoon coyote.

I have a single 2026 resolution and that's to be (a little) more social. Turns out, when you do most of your socializing on work trips and then largely stop traveling, you get pretty insular! Who knew! Anyway, brain kinda fizzled; if I left you on unread in 2025, it was me not you.

Adjacent: stopping using Instagram and Facebook felt right and proper, and I am happy to minimize Meta's involvement in my life, but I definitely miss the (easy) feeling of connection they can deliver. Revisiting Instagram feels like a slippery slope, though. Still not sure what to do, there, tbh.

This is not a subtweet but if I come to your house at the holidays and ask if you have a little bit of feta I might have, and you say no but then later I find you in the back pantry gnawing on a big chunk of feta, I'm going to be pretty upset. This is not a subtweet.

Whether you celebrate it or not, a very happy "Christmas email from the CEO of every single company you ever had any interaction with, however long ago or tenuous it was" day, to you and yours 🎄

Psst. If you woke up feeling positive about yesterday's election results, then remembered things are still terrible and precarious and scary for a whole lot of people right now, donating to a local food bank is a good way to push back on that wave of dismay.

Now we get to see who ignores the "be a genuine, authentic person with tangible beliefs" and "don't throw trans people under the bus" lessons, here, and jumps instead to "make fun videos" because that's easier than legacy Dems changing tired old habits.

Already, six hundred political journalists are in their cars, fanning out to mom & pop diners across the country, to ask people there how terrified they are - on a scale of 1 to 10 - that New York City has a new mayor.

It's almost reassuring, watching 'Dem Strategists' cling desperately to "We dressed old Chuck-E-Cheese robots in blue ties, and loaded them with 3.5-inch floppy discs of 'we must move to the center' talking points." The same sort of reassurance as feeling your guts gurgle after taking a laxative.

I'm no numbers guy, but it sure is fascinating seeing the Big Tech Companies announce their hefty revenues today, shortly after gnashing their teeth and wailing about how redundancies were a sad price to pay because of dwindling revenues.

In an ideal world I'd have the clever words to encourage the strong, capable, intelligent, talented, and ever-promising people around me to not give up hope, but I don't, so I'll just have to hope that they feel the love and support radiating out of me instead.

Shameful that this is so surprising - if not outright shocking - to hear a politician who doesn't simply make vague and easily-deniable comments about trans people needing support, but calls for that support in no uncertain terms.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

This is well worth reading after you watch the video, too. bsky.app/profile/kate...

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning: www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

If I was a politician or advisor, my takeaway would be that people are EXHAUSTED from sifting through mealy-mouthed, vague, try-to-please-everyone-even-the-bigots statements for a hint of support, and they will SURGE toward someone authentic. Honesty + Clarity + A Real Plan is all it takes.

Look, kids, if a strange man approaches you and tells you he needs your help to build a Dyson Sphere around the solar system, run home and tell your parents. Do NOT get into that van.