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Clifford Dive

@leplonge.bsky.social
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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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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
This tells us a lot about the BBC
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Ostrich politics. Seems to work just fine for $billionaire ostriches.
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
This is Trump's Gaza
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Sent to the PM of Norway. 🤔
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
At least the dogs don't have bone spurs
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I well remember Richard Dimbleby spreading misinformation about the spaghetti harvest on Panorama. That programme has form.
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Love the scaling of the graph 😀😀😂 Nigel's got a really big one!
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Sanae Takaichi rode a Kawasaki 🙂
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Just imagine what it's like being called Cliff Dive then!
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Amazing that some older women are not in favour of shooting children. X is full of very weird people. I've given up on it.
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Israel: there is no genuine in Gaza. I guess it must be that old loaves and fishes trick.
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
If you're in chains and locked below decks you're really not going to get the captain to change course - as they discovered on the slave ships. Our current world is just a continuation of that philosophy.
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
We have a Chancellor who can manage the economy simply with tears
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
The dinosaurs tried denying reality — look where that got them…
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Interesting conclusion by ChatGPT… There is no meaningful difference in kind between Trump and Hitler — only in context, scale, and packaging.
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
I know replanting forests is a good thing, but this looks just a little OTT 😀
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
What a shocking admission from Grok...
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
A Palestinian is worth about £20 in Labour eyes.
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Not bad for a school project for 8-year-olds.
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
They won't let me hammer the poor and disadvantaged...
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
There are no qualifiers in this statement from the police. By the Met's logic any non-naked person chanting "God save the King" and waving a Union Flag is guilty on three counts.
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Our Chancellor, so sad at what she's been doing to disadvantaged people.
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Isn't it wonderful to see that science is in fact true, and that no amount of political posturing can change it. And then we have the facile arguments of the fossil lobby at the bottom…
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
International law is of course irrelevant. Might is right. Greed is good. Real man of the people 🤔
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
It's really not a parody. How can anyone be quite so stupid?
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I'm really rather puzzled that we keep hearing how Iran is threatening world peace. The ones breaking international law right now are the ones dropping bombs on Iran and the ones supplying weapons to Israel.
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Interesting how hard you have to push AI like Grok before it will admit that it's more likely Israel and the Americans are lying than the Iranians. It's supposed to be truthful but you're more likely to get artificial "balance".
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
We can state categorically that in line with normal Telegraph practice, no intelligence, artificial or otherwise, was used in the creation of this article.
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Trump: "No-one knows what I'm thinking." Sadly true—literally no-one.
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Four flagpoles?
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I can correct for acceleration with tilt, but the application of tilt involves another acceleration. And then with two cups—do I run two entirely separate control systems in parallel or compromise by holding two cups in one hand. Is the decision different if the cups are non-identical? 🤔
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Look who's bucking the trend 😀
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I haven't interacted with X since 19 May 😀🤣😂
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Grok agrees with my prediction (and hope) that Trumpian chaos will cause America's world influence to fade, with EU bureaucracy taking over in the West and China ruling the East. The UK will continue to sink as it chases American favours.
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
I guess the marines will fire warning shots, and there'll be lots of people with holes in their head.
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Usual bollocks from my MP.
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
It seems that an old mill like this might be able to generate up to 10kW in ideal conditions, so realistically it's in the realms of a typical domestic solar array—and it wouldn't sleep at night. Plenty of space for a pile of batteries too, so scope for energy self sufficiency. That would be fun!
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
ChatGPT admitting as directly as it's allowed that it and western media outlets are censored when it comes to coverage of Gaza.
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Had a bit of a battle convincing Grok that most migrants have little choice but to break the law. Small boats could be fixed tomorrow.
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
He wants everyone to be as thick as him—there's a challenge.
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
What do you call someone who would kill babies for money? A trade minister, apparently.
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
@ottoenglish.bsky.social I'm one of those refugees. I now treat X a bit like a zoo. I go there, I look, often in horror, but don't put my hands through the bars of the cage. It does seem a bit quiet here after my 16 years and nearly 50,000 tweets in the other place.
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I switched on Doctor Who and got The Two Ranis
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I asked Grok. Brexit was a lie—£5-6 trillion lost, no trade wins, just pain. McVey’s post is a fantasy, pretending we can ditch the EU and thrive with the US or India. The numbers don’t add up, and her party already proved it doesn’t work. There’s no debate here: McVey’s wrong, full stop.
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Interesting chat with ChatGPT about whether I can really trust it, and whether it has a back door to Western intelligence services. I think the answers were "no" and "probably" 😀🤣😂
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Hey America―you really can't put a five-year-old in the pilot's seat and expect to get to your destination.
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Clifford Dive @leplonge.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Man on street has opinion. We now go live to 12 more people with equally uninformed takes, while actual reporting remains missing in action.
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