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Interested in politics, theology, cinema, jazz, and assorted other topics. Believe in making up my own mind, never accept anything on authority. Racism and xenophobia have no place in grown-up debate. Ecumenical Christian.
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The Telegraph is guilty of the most blatant abuse of statistics I’ve seen. They claim 94% of terrorist murders in GB since 1999 are Islamist. What they don’t say is that if they’d used 1998, and UK, it would have included the Omagh bomb which killed 29. The 94% would have been cut to around 70%.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

I’m still on X, but it’s becoming ever more dominated by people (or, I’m coming to suspect, AI-generated bots) who have absolutely no regard for Truth, combined with hatred for people who aren’t like them.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

I’m convinced that more and more of what I see on X is AI-generated. The same names come up, with lots of posts which are near-identical. No point in replying to them, even if they’re genuine they’re clearly penned by people with no interest in Truth.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Have you ever met someone who thinks Trump is a good US President?

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Just had a look at what’s going on in X, and some of them are now demanding the return of the death penalty! Even Russia doesn’t have that (not officially anyway).

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

It’s increasingly hard on X to know if the posts you’re presented with are genuine, or some kind of AI generated Russian bots. No point in replying to the latter.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

As X becomes increasingly dominated by what can justifiably be called the anti-truth brigade (I’m still hanging on in there for now in hope) it’s important that pro-truth platforms like Bluesky increase their reach.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

“The lamps are going out all over Europe” famously wrote Sir Edward Grey just before the outbreak of WWI. Today, as the bad guys and truth-deniers take power in the US and elsewhere, the outlook seems just as grim. Hold fast to truth, not the “freedom” to spread dangerous lies.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Neither Farage, nor Tice, nor any of their leading fellow-travellers like Goodwin, appear to be here on Bluesky. Is that because they’re banned, or because the hate-speech they invariably spew forth has been banned, or because they don’t want to be on a platform where you’re expected to be polite?

submitted 96 days ago • 1 comment

Anyone else suffer from severe sleep inertia, which has crept up on me in the last 2 years? Groggy all morning, especially if I’ve slept relatively well. Any suggestions other than strong coffee?

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments