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Clifford Dive

@leplonge.bsky.social

Retired from a career in high-tech innovation. Now life is photography, music, tech, jogging, cycling and motorhome travel, in no particular order, and sometimes simultaneously. Living in East Anglia.

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I'm sure our current West Suffolk MP would thoroughly approve of a restoration of such traditional standards ๐Ÿ˜€๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜‚

30.10.2025 17:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's because Brexit made the UK so much more attractive than the EU. Brexit benefits!

30.10.2025 17:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's not a bug โ€” it's a feature.

28.10.2025 13:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Lie baby, lie!!!

27.10.2025 23:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's not a bug, it's a feature.

26.10.2025 15:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Suffolk concerns over Green plans to 'abolish' private landlordism A row over Green Party motion to abolish private landlords has hit Suffolk's flagship Mid Suffolk District Council in a clash over theโ€ฆ

I voted Green and I'm a landlord. There's a problem.
www.eadt.co.uk/news/2557166...

26.10.2025 14:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I don't think I'm alone in not having the slightest interest in this.

25.10.2025 10:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It rather suggests that the whole polling thing is more of campaign propaganda device than a truly scientific measure.

Who'd have thought it ๐Ÿ˜€๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜‚

24.10.2025 09:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

But don't tip your coffee down the drain ๐Ÿ˜€๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜‚

24.10.2025 09:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Once you've jumped off a high cliff you don't actually have a chance to renegotiate the fall halfway down. It's irreversible. You might not die when you hit the rocks and you could even try to struggle back upโ€”but the damage is done, forever.

23.10.2025 23:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What about shaming the billionaires for wanting another $billion? How many luxury yachts does a man need?

23.10.2025 23:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

There was one thing that was certain as soon as Trump said the East Wing wouldn't be touched.

23.10.2025 20:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Vain? Moi?

23.10.2025 08:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That's enough about me ๐Ÿ˜€๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜‚

23.10.2025 08:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

One of them is building a room for big balls.

23.10.2025 08:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A bad case of LFI.

23.10.2025 08:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Perhaps Starmer was there chanting with them?

22.10.2025 17:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's their tax dodging rich mates who are the ones really avoiding taxesโ€ฆ

โ€ฆand how about the royal family? They're foreign and avoid tax.

22.10.2025 17:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Destruction of international reputation seems to be quite a fashionable thing right now.

22.10.2025 15:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Mission accomplished, some would say.

22.10.2025 13:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Sanae Takaichi rode a Kawasaki ๐Ÿ™‚

22.10.2025 12:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I guess the problem is that my assumed starting point was that she's crazy and I didn't make that clear!

22.10.2025 11:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You seem to have missed my point. I am highlighting on the one hand the hypocrisy of her position and secondly the stupidity of it, in suggesting that people from foreign backgrounds should be sent "back home". There is also the irony of the connection to similar thoughts 100 years ago.

22.10.2025 11:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€ฆcontinued:

"This highlights a fundamental challenge: As AI becomes more sophisticated in mimicking human language, the risk of misinterpretationโ€”and the potential for harmโ€”increases."

22.10.2025 10:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I like to get AI to analyse its own problems: "The humorous and frustrating reality is that the model's defensive use of a word like "nuance" is just another example of its inherent lack of it."

Continuedโ€ฆ

22.10.2025 10:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Are you also advocating for ethnic purity?

Fact is, everybody has "foreign" ancestry if you look hard enough.

22.10.2025 09:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Why would they? Their overriding objective is to make money regardless of the consequences.

22.10.2025 09:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Kew woman fined ยฃ150 for pouring coffee down drain in Richmond Burcu Yesilyurt says the fine is

Thought for the day:
Who could have guessed that coffee was so toxic & polluting to our drainage system that it requires such Draconian measures, I guess turds must be just a poo pourri. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

22.10.2025 09:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We need actions, not words, but in truth the damage has been done. Mission accomplished.

22.10.2025 08:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

She does have German ancestry.

22.10.2025 08:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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