Rampant Sloth

Currently, not having Grand Central connected to the Metro network at all makes it feel cut off from the city, and certainly not very "central". The Metro 9's could easily bridge that. For all I know, this might be the plan anyway, just an idea @translinkni.bsky.social

Considering Sandy Row residents have been vocal about how the new station negatively impacted them, giving better connectivity + visibility to their businesses by having 9 go through would make sense. Plus it's a much more logical/faster route, if new layout around GC allows such connectivity.

Extremely niche #belfast centric #urbanplanning #publicTransport post. Wouldn't Metro 9 buses make more sense if, instead of following the same gridlock route up the Dublin Road, they started (or called at) Grand Central, then went up straight up Sandy Row to Lisburn Road.

Trump's got a cheque from big oil recently then?

Trump is now whining to the UN about the UN working with another developer and not him on their building

Wide ranging hopeful speech from Lula - peace, poverty, trade, AI, climate, equality... now Trump on interior design.
#un #unitednations

Tories pledge to get 'all our oil and gas out of the North Sea' The government warns Kemi Badenoch's plans would "only accelerate the worsening climate crisis".

Kind of rare for the Tories to "formally declare" they're bribed by the fossil fuel lobby. Nice to see any belief amongst deluded greenish-one-nation-tories supports suffocated. At this stage though, I reckon they like being choked. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Farage on a doom loop on the BBC now. Every other article is about Reform. I just can’t listen to it anymore. Bye bye BBC radio.

Good God...a policy announcement from ReformUK is the headline story on BBC Lunchtime News AGAIN. When will the government get to grips on the blatant news bias? Step up Ed Davey, Stephen Flynn and other leaders...

BBC reckons the biggest story in the world is the imagination of Farage. Don't think there's been a day that a Reform story hasn't been on its front page in weeks. It is the joint 7th largest party by MPs. It always gave them unfair coverage but recently the bias has levelled up extraordinarily.

One day @monzo.com encourages me to invest in evil incarnate (BlackRock - who I had the displeasure of having to work with once), the next they lower my savings rate. That free sausage roll is tasting a bit off.

World Service - Listen Live - BBC Sounds Listen live to BBC World Service on BBC Sounds

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Manchester airport continues to has the slowest worst designed security of any airport in UK. Along with the loudest staff whose main job appears to be to bark at people rather than process them.

I'd like to offer a formal apology regarding the language used in this recent post. It should of said: 'to appease' rather than 'tib'. A simple typo, please forgive me, don't forgive this gobshite government.

Migrants already in UK face longer wait for permanent settlement People will typically have to live in the UK for 10 years before applying for the right to stay indefinitely.

Fuck right off. What a despicable country. I've lost all respect for Cooper and Starmer. You don't change the rules half way through tib appease the racist cunt in the corner.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Azerbaijan was robbed. Robbed! #eurovision

After due consideration, having weighed up the relevant evidence, assessed the balance of arguments and gamed the likely implications, I have reached the conclusion that Keir Starmer can fuck off from a great height.

When will Starmer learn that no matter how good his Nigel Farage impression gets, it won't save him from wipeout at the hands of Reform? Here's another idea - how about doing the work that's needed to actually make people's lives better? 🧵

Reform didn't have a massive vote surge, same old loud angry minority. Labour voters stayed home because of other issues, not immigration. Austerity light, selling arms to Israel, failure to implement any meaningful change despite their majority. This is visionless reactionary politics at its worst.

Labour immigration policy is racist unpractical nonsense. Care workers? We don't have enough already, training takes time. The best care workers are those with years of experience and training that we don't provide, a plan to replace immigrants with British novices? Best not get sick or old.

Rev Ian Paisley photoshopped to be holding a sign reading "Pope America Antichrist"

666
YANK POPE
ANTICHRIST
666

Gary Lineker, "What's going on there (Gaza), the mass murder of thousands of children is something we should have an opinion on"

Amol Rajan, "The BBC needs to be impartial about it"

Gary Linekar, "Why? It needs to be factual"

Anyone's Google home speaker started laughing lately or am I being hacked and/or haunted?

I really don't understand the logic behind this, all it does is encourage land banking. If you own a vacant property and are doing nothing with it, especially during a housing crisis, you should be penalised, not rewarded. #Belfast

The Empire in Belfast is charging £7 a pint. It's been on the pricier side for a while but that feels like taking the piss. Granted it was a Blue Moon, maybe Guinness or Harp are cheaper, but still. £7. It's significantly more than surrounding bars, they need to catch themselves on.

We are proud to be one of 136 organisations who signed this letter calling on Keir Starmer to protect and welcome refugees.

A man lays in a field with rubble around him, he is wearing a blue shirt and black trousers, and resting his head on his right arm.

The Oscar winning Documentary No Other Land, co-directed by a collective of Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers is available to stream free on Channel 4.

Starmer? Starmer? Has anyone seen Kier Starmer? Think he's gone missing.

Ukraine: fuck everyone
And rightly so.

UK: hold on chaps, we thought colonialism wasn't on any more?
USA: shutup grandad.
Rest of the world: is anyone actually in charge any more?