Doug @douginexeter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Depends on what one means by a democracy, I suppose, but in terms of practical outcomes, it looks pretty oligarchic 000 0
Doug @douginexeter.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Yeah, dichotomous thinking. Not something exclusive to progressives, by a long way, though. It can also lead to problems with mental health and more. A cognitive bias like that makes it much harder to deal with the complexities of life (political, familial, or otherwise) 030 0
Doug @douginexeter.bsky.social · 21/04/2026...between cause and effect" is "an esoteric and metaphysical one" 2/2 020 0
Doug @douginexeter.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, and post the second sentence. "In fact, Candrakirti would heartily applaud any effort to avoid contradicting "the common sense of mankind" and he would as well agree with Hume, given certain qualifications, that "the idea of a necessary connection... 1/2 140 0
Doug @douginexeter.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Here's the link to the blog post on the mozilla site blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/a...blog.mozilla.orgAI controls are coming to Firefox | The Mozilla BlogAI is changing the web, and people want very different things from it. We’ve heard from many who want nothing to do with AI. We’ve also heard from 141 0
Doug @douginexeter.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Even if he doesn't know it due to poor mental health and cognition, if people around him see that Trump's strategy isn't going to work, then they may be less inclined to support him. I don't think it's just about what *he* knows, but about what others believe are likely outcomes of Trump's ideas. 010 0
Doug @douginexeter.bsky.social · 22/11/2025Thanks Alasdair - glad you posted this - I'm now booked to see your show in Exeter, and will mention to some of my friends - really looking forward to this! 120 0
Doug @douginexeter.bsky.social · 31/10/2025I'm sorry to hear that....my condolences. It's hard - take care of yourself. 020 0
Doug @douginexeter.bsky.social · 10/10/2025...and, grief is a process. It can take time to work through. So be kind to yourself. 010 0
Doug @douginexeter.bsky.social · 10/10/2025I get ya. Grief is grief - I certainly felt it when I had to have one of my cats put down due to her aggressive cancer. I sobbed and cried about as much as when I lost a parent. So, IMO, grief like that in relation to a pet is understandable and completely natural - one's lost a friend after all. 110 0
Doug @douginexeter.bsky.social · 31/07/2025No, but I sometimes find myself saying things like "I know the word in French/Thai/whatever, but I don't know the English word for it..." 120 0
Doug @douginexeter.bsky.social · 22/07/2025e.g. "So, Will, what do you think of the new car?" "I dunno, Harry, seems a bit flashy to me" It just comes across as very odd, stilted language to me and, if someone does use my name a lot in conversation, I can't help but view them as using a salesmanship technique and instinctively disliking it. 010 0
Doug @douginexeter.bsky.social · 22/07/2025So, to me, using a name when there's no clear need to smacks of a conversational power play. As an aside, I'm an amateur actor and, in some of the scripts we read, it's clear that the author didn't read the lines out to an audience as part of the writing process. 110 0
Doug @douginexeter.bsky.social · 22/07/2025It's just a remarkably odd thing to do in a conversation. We use others' names very little in practice IMO. We use others' names ofc when we want to address this person rather than that one, but the usage that sticks with me is when one's telling off a child e.g. "Douglas, what are you doing?" 100 0
Doug @douginexeter.bsky.social · 09/05/2025I've just ordered a copy - very much enjoyed your first book 120 0
Doug @douginexeter.bsky.social · 06/05/2025IMO, he won't seriously try to. He'll do what he can to give the appearance of negotiating, but will mostly just take the opportunity to blame France for any failure of his policy. 020 0
Doug @douginexeter.bsky.social · 03/05/2025Maybe Conform? Perhaps an image of prison bars? Would hit a few authoritarian vibes... 020 0
Doug @douginexeter.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Agreed - I also don't see Musk or Trump as having the patience for a more gradual and systematic approach 050 0
Doug @douginexeter.bsky.social · 27/11/2024I should add, I used to take both the brown (beclomethasone?) and blue salbutamol inhalers to manage asthma, but that didn't work very well to control symptoms. Moving to fostair was a notable improvement, and meant that I no longer needed the blue inhaler 040 0
Doug @douginexeter.bsky.social · 27/11/2024I have asthma and take fostair (dry powder now) - it's a LABA so provides long-term relief (very effectively too). I switched to the dry powder version and that does also work (on the rare occasions that I've needed to) to relieve acute symptoms, albeit maybe 20-30 seconds slower than the gas one 120 0
Doug @douginexeter.bsky.social · 15/11/2024I'm on the committee of a local amateur theatre, and we closed our Twitter/X account about 6 months or so ago. We got very little useful engagement there, and any replies were bots or similar, so it just wasn't worth it for the very minimal increase to reach that we got. 070 0
Doug @douginexeter.bsky.social · 10/11/2024That's absolutely amazing! I can almost smell the orange now. 120 0
Doug @douginexeter.bsky.social · 17/10/2024I'm asthmatic too, but was told I wasn't eligible for the free covid jab. I used to use the blue salbutamol inhalers - my asthma was deemed "poorly controlled". I now use the magenta "fostair" one twice a day, and my asthma is well controlled...so sadly had to get my covid jab privately (£98!) 000 0
Doug @douginexeter.bsky.social · 05/09/2024My mum used to be one of his constituents, with her raising a number of issues with him. He was helpful and responsive (esp. in regard to her concerns re some developments), so I think he has some positive aspects, at least as a constituency MP. I'm not Tory at all, but do want to be fair to him 000 0
Doug @douginexeter.bsky.social · 08/08/2024He's already been reported (I tried, but was too slow!) and the account is suspended. FYI, the link I used to access his profile was bsky.app/profile/stur... What a change from twitter's slow and ineffectual policing approach!bsky.app 270 0
Doug @douginexeter.bsky.social · 12/11/2023Have sent one. On first trying, twitter immediately locked my account, but I was able to unlock it by passing an "arkose" challenge to prove I'm human (debatable before coffee tbh) 010 0
Doug @douginexeter.bsky.social · 07/11/2023Back in the 1970s, when I was a child, I remember my mum feeding our cat "pigs' melts" (so pork spleen?). IIRC my parents had decided that meat/offal like that would be better for our cat than packaged food, not to mention cheaper too - something my dad was keen on! 030 0
Doug @douginexeter.bsky.social · 09/10/2023I'm a 1. I'm an amateur actor, and find it striking how it has an impact on line learning - I can almost see the page in front of me. However, I'm poor at internal auditory construction, so whereas other actors swear by voice apps repeating lines to them, I find that almost useless 000 0
