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Calvin Jones
@calvjones.bsky.social
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Regional Economist and sometime troublemaker.

Energy, climate, post-growth, guitars, Sci-Fi, bikes, world-systems.

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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 1d
Too late for the Valleys 🫥

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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 1d
this. I can bear the Rest is History in my lugholes but man, have you seen those boys IRL?

Also, they ABSOLUTELY HAVE EACH OTHER'S EXPECTED VOICE it's so annoying.
laurenshippen.com Lauren Shippen @laurenshippen.com · 3d
*banging a metal pot with a wooden spoon very loudly*

people want to LISTEN to podcasts!!!!!!!!!!!!

*hitting you on the forehead with the spoon*

STOP PIVOTING TO VIDEO

www.westwoodone.com/blog/2025/11...
Audio Remains The Primary Mode Of Podcast Consumption, Despite Growing Video Use; 92% Say They “Listen” To Podcasts, According To Cumulus Media And Signal Hill Insights’ Podcast Download – Fall 2025 Report

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d
Microsoft Excel also does not understand jokes

Genuinely, it is such a serious problem that academics and media outlets are presenting text processing software as if it could ever "understand" anything. All this does is misinform the public and do supply free PR for tech companies
Can’t tech a joke: AI does not understand puns, study finds
Researchers say results underline large language models’ poor grasp of humour, empathy and cultural nuance
www.theguardian.com

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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 1d
Not a great parallel. Not that anything is actually parallel at cosmic scale.

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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 1d
Saucy!

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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 2d
As someone with a sentiment attachment to dark skies I look forward to reading this.

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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 2d
I'm sure @steveormerod.bsky.social will tell me it's common as muck but still...

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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 3d
It's inordinately depressing that Cymru are staying doggedly on track to qualify for what could be the most politically nefarious global sporting event since 1936.

www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Ronaldo dines with Donald for glamour portion of grotesque Saudi-funded spectacle | Barney Ronay
A pension-pot World Cup is looming for CR9 and with Donald Trump in the White House and Mohammed bin Salman at his back, it seems this is now a safe space
www.theguardian.com

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Lauren Shippen @laurenshippen.com · 3d
*banging a metal pot with a wooden spoon very loudly*

people want to LISTEN to podcasts!!!!!!!!!!!!

*hitting you on the forehead with the spoon*

STOP PIVOTING TO VIDEO

www.westwoodone.com/blog/2025/11...
Audio Remains The Primary Mode Of Podcast Consumption, Despite Growing Video Use; 92% Say They “Listen” To Podcasts, According To Cumulus Media And Signal Hill Insights’ Podcast Download – Fall 2025 Report

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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 4d
Here in RCT it's weed all the way.

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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 5d
It's a date!

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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 5d
Who would ever belong to a club that would have @adamlbrown.bsky.social as a member?😆

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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 5d
I think we should give the journos & academic economists & banker talking heads a term to sort it all out.

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 5d
A semi-regular AI map-drawing test. This was my older attempt

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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 8d
What a great article about an amazing event.

www.theguardian.com/football/202...
‘It touched us from the start’: Palestine savour historic night in Bilbao | Sid Lowe
More than 50,000 fans cheered on Ihab Abu Jazar’s team with the coach and players ‘shocked’ by the outpouring of support during their visit
www.theguardian.com

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David Morley @profdavidmorley.bsky.social · 14d
Let the mind take its photograph
Of the bright scene, something to wear
Against the heart in the long cold.

from 'A Day in Autumn' by R.S. Thomas

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.bsky.social · 18d
Today is the anniversary of Adrian Mole writing his finest work. Political commentary at its best.
Saturday, 6 November 1982 Mrs Thatcher Do you weep, Mrs Thatcher, do you weep? Do you wake, Mrs Thatcher, in your sleep? Do you weep like a sad willow? On your Marks and Spencer's pillow? Are your tears molten steel? Do you weep? Do you wake with 'Three Million' on your brain? Are you sorry that they'll never work again? When you're dressing in your blue, do you see the waiting queue? Do you weep, Mrs Thatcher, do you weep?

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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 20d
😏

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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 21d
Not a great article. I distrust AI because I *know* how it works, not because it's a scary black box.

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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 21d
So apparently we need to leave the poor banks alone to engender growth. A return on equity of 10% isn't very much 'because tech and pharma earn more'. 🙄.

Financial Times UK Tue, 4 Nov 2025

If the UK is serious about growth, the bank bashing must stop

ftdigitaledition.onelink.me/i9DX?deep_li...
Today's International Newspaper
All the stories that featured in today's newspaper, available to digital subscribers.
ftdigitaledition.onelink.me

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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 21d
Sometimes, distrust of machines can be a rational reaction.
Why do some of us love AI, while others hate it? The answer is in how our brains perceive risk and trust
Sometimes, distrust of machines can be a rational reaction.
tcnv.link

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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 21d
Thank you.

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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 21d
No, cos #enshittification

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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 21d
I thought a 4% version of Chouffe would be a travesty, and I was right. But still managed to drink it all.

(It's basically Hoegarden)

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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 22d
In the Head of Steam in Birmingham,, wondering why Cardiff had such utterly abysmal pubs.
A good pub

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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 23d
Recommend me a pub in the middle of Birmingham for tonight...

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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 26d
I'm not sure it should have been 😂

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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 26d
Smooth crossing? In in Bilbao early Dec but ferry not really an option 🙄

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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 26d
The problem is, without those events & consequent cross subsidy Welsh professional rugby just... doesn't exist. I have something coming out on this but embargoed until early '26 🙄.

It's a terrible predicament that is hard to solve without people actually going to watch club rugby.

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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 26d
€300 too rich for my blood 😭