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[mysterious old lady flips tarot card revealing a dude who looks exactly like me flying a hot air balloon into the moyle interconnector] Me: is that good

A Cosplay in 3 acts: 1) Say you support two proscribed terrorist groups on stage. 2) Incite murder against British MPs on stage. 3) Deny meaning any of those things as soon as the legal ramifications for public incitement to terrorism & murder become clear.

Wow the local weather has made it to Bloomberg

I asked o3 for some Northern Ireland business news and it told me a Belfast supermarket was using nitrogen data obtained from satellites to update the price of mince in real time. When asked for details it said it was from an unpublished slide deck at an industry roundtable.

THE SHOW GOES ON! 🎉✅ #AFCW 🟡🔵

Random decluttering finds - a set of copies of Northern Ireland political party manifestos from my wife's Masters thesis. Some improvement in the SDLP's graphic design skills between 1979 and 1984.

glad to know they're focused

Getting towards Reform landslide territory here

Pope Leo XIV (D-IL)

There's been a huge increase in the number of successful Irish (N&S) professional wrestlers recently. Five on the WWE main roster; also David Finlay (NJPW), LJ Cleary (Pro Wrestling NOAH), Brogan Finlay (NXT) and Myla Grace (TNA). Up there with golf for punching above our weight.

The Swedes could learn from the Irish regarding this particular problem

I can't stop reading the Grok reply page. It's going schizo and can't stop talking about white genocide in South Africa. x.com/grok/with_repl…

Que sera sera...

The boring but important sea border development today is UK decision to relink with the EU’s emissions trading scheme which should avoid all sorts of fiendish complications on the trade in electricity & high carbon goods.

Belfast stork do do do do do do do

Is it normal for a stork to be walking around the Ormeau Road since yesterday evening or is there someone that should check it's ok?

A successful day out at Wembley

The stork is still hanging around South Belfast - getting towards a Fungie the Dolphin scenario. Come and get your photo taken with Ned Stork.

When you compare supermarket market share with the % of shoplifting crimes reported by supermarkets, it's obvious that reporting rates vary enormously. The Co-Op report more shoplifting than any other chain despite being 7th by market share.