Richard Atkinson

Lifelong atheist; teaching (and admin.) career; philosophy graduate (and amateur philosopher ever since); skeptic, especially w.r.t. doctrinaire 'skepticism'.

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@Richmuskheart1 I remember that. Dynamo?

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@themuskarmy HOPE

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@GBPolitcs Liam neeson

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@drbronowski My favourite polymath philosopher. Underrated.

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@neiltyson Stethoscope…

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@elonmusknews30 👍

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@labourpress Nigel Farage at 13 is to be the scapegoat for a whole culture? Where do a child’s attitudes come from? TV? Farrage was 13 in 1977, the heyday of “It Ain’t Half Hot Mum” (still running when he was 17) and of Bernard Manning. STARMER IS A DESPERATE MAN RESORTING TO GUTTER POLITICS.

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@basilthegreat “Mass stabbing…” You are dangerously exaggerating:
“A student was confirmed as needing medical treatment and he is in hospital with non-life threatening injuries.” The only victim, apparently.

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@RachelReevesMP “We will hold to account all those enabling his illegal invasion of Ukraine.” Does that include his far eastern partners?

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@beverleyturner @clim8resistance @BBCNews Oh the whataboutery…

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@SammyObeid Literally every white person, too, where I come from. I suppose there are poshe aristocrats who refer to their “first cousin once removed”. Not round here, though.

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@newscientist A month or so ago I cancelled. NS is now overwhelmingly political - especially about climate change. This headline is a perfect and indefensible example. Storms worse than Melissa struck before they were even named. Check out the Labor Day hurricane of 1935.

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@newscientist I was one of the New Scientist’s most loyal readers. I read it from its first issue, in 1956, when I was a nerdy, science-mad 9-year-old, and my father bought it. It became one of several magazines I read faithfully in the public library. I subscribed for 40+ years. Until now…

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Spectator online:

‘ “This action will do nothing to… secure the release of the hostages…” Starmer called for an immediate ceasefire, an increase in humanitarian aid, the release of all hostages…’

Would hostages back 6 IDF divisions or Starmer’s puny “Abracadabra!”?

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The law against free speech online - hidden behind child protection. Why not two separate laws? To enable Peter Kyle’s spurious slander. https://t.co/sUSgrEd07n

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@ilovenostalgia Drawing a moustache on a portrait of the Queen. Well, strictly speaking, I was the lad on whose shoulders the vandal was perched. Nice Anigoni portrait.

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@Ginalilvol Piano Man. Of course.

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@karenfthompson What about the buck?

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@karenfthompson “Guilty pleasure” springs to mind.