Dave Christensen

Working in science communication. Former stem cell researcher & occasional joke teller. He/him

[Dave Christensen @ChristensenDRG]

As unwanted birthday presents go, Trump being elected has got to be up there. Thanks America.

[Dave Christensen @ChristensenDRG]

@Herring1967 Really enjoyed the show tonight, thanks!Ticket was a father's day present from my partner to give me a night off from family responsibilities because, in her words, I "enjoy comedy shows about miserable things, like people having cancer".

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

RT if you’d like me to represent the UK at #EUROVISION 2025.

[Dave Christensen @ChristensenDRG]

More vodafone bullshit - cancelling my dad's broadband and landline for who knows what reason as this is the first he heard about it. Note that they sent the email 2 days after their deadline for him to stop them cancelling his account. Helpful

[Fergus Craig @FergusCraig]

Time to settle the debate once and for all. Is Muppet Christmas Carol a Christmas movie?

[Dave Christensen @ChristensenDRG]

Turns out that having a kid with your Spanish wife is a pretty good motivator for ramping up your efforts to learn Spanish!
(Now, if Spotify unwrapped is anything to go by, I'll see a ton of people sharing that they are top 0.005% and I'll feel silly for sharing this...)

[Dave Christensen @ChristensenDRG]

Coolest thing in this year's #SpotifyWrapped for me: my listening most closely matches listeners in my old home town! Seems like Southampton's listeners are a lot cooler than I realised and also have problems getting their baby to sleep

[Dave Christensen @ChristensenDRG]

They can't even organise themselves to reply once

[Dave Christensen @ChristensenDRG]

But I never get mad with the people on the phone because I'm sure it's never their fault as it's the first interaction I'm having with them and likely their first interaction with my account, but I am really mad 😡

[Dave Christensen @ChristensenDRG]

I am so incredibly angry at how useless @VodafoneUK is. Getting anything done takes months. My mum died in the summer and I still haven't managed to deal with the accounts under her name with them. Like a form submitted in September and not really sorted yet...

1/7

[Dave Christensen @ChristensenDRG]

So, clearly still all useless.

Also, every call ending with them saying "Is there anything else I can help you with?" always makes me mad, because I've spoken to loads of people and none of them has really helped me once, so let's just try to do one thing before "anything else"

[Alasdair Beckett-King @MisterABK]

Watching any movie on my parents' TV:

[Dave Christensen @ChristensenDRG]

In ridiculous privacy policies: talking on the phone to Volvo about returning my mum's car, because she died, and I'm told that the only person they can speak to about the specifics of the account is the account owner, my mum... Hope they're employing a medium

[Dave Christensen @ChristensenDRG]

Feels hard to claim this wasn't targeted? We wouldn't be talking about it if a random wedding had orange confetti?

Also, after that whole email thing, surely this is the part of the day that they would be able to laugh about, so it's ridiculous to feel sympathy over *this*

[Dave Christensen @ChristensenDRG]

@FreyaManslayer Obviously men can't do it if they haven't been taking the hormones that support breast development and milk production and it's unsurprising that men don't take those hormones unless they're transitioning, whereas transwomen are far more likely to want to take those hormones

[Dave Christensen @ChristensenDRG]

Transphobes: "I don't mind what they do in their own homes. Just don't force it on us."

Transwoman in her own home: "I'm a mum..."

Transphobes: "NO! You have to give birth to be a mother!"

[Rosie Duffield MP @RosieDuffield1]

Dear @itvnews, I am sure this is a lovely, intelligent and decent human being. This was an important piece. This is not however a struggling 'mother'.