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Belfast - musing on tech, politics and other minutia. Centrist Dad.
Un-fucking-forgivable.
06.08.2025 18:20 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It's almost like people don't want to live in areas plastered with flags, who knew?
bbc.co.uk/news/article...
SAME!
06.08.2025 09:35 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0So waste water can sieve through the flag? Seems appropriate.
04.08.2025 13:55 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If you can't see the immense similarities between these two images already by simply squinting, I can't help you.
04.08.2025 13:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Incredible example of useful AI to get such a high fidelity image decades later.
04.08.2025 09:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Ahh - another day of routine banalities. Wake up, make bed, brush teeth, brew coffee, open the laptop and once again read that Israel has indiscriminately slaughtered over two dozen starving people queuing for food.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
The day before the Brexit vote.. arch-Brexitier Daniel Hannan wrote a think-piece predicting what today, 24 June 2025, would look like if Brexit happened.. hilarious read:
www.reaction.life/p/britain-lo...
United States of North Korea
23.06.2025 13:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It's strange how little we talk about Brexit now, isn't it?
The word has vanished from the headlines. But the issue hasn't.
It's just showing up in different places, disguised as other problems.
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The five year old princess to me earlier:
βDaddy, get me off this gravy jugβ
* stray loo paper already there
Colin McCrae Rally?
15.06.2025 08:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Also - subconscious signals sent every year by allowing all types of public furniture to be illegally bedecked in loyalist flags, while those tasked with enforcing law look away. When loyalists are openly allowed to demarcate large areas as their own, why are we surprised when they chase outsiders?
14.06.2025 21:14 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Would love to hear more analysis into the downstream effects of PUL leaders spending decades preaching to their electorate the doctrine of 'We are the people', 'We are what we hold', 'Not an inch', etc. All slogans still seen today scrawled on gable walls today - the nods & winks in plain sight.
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13.06.2025 20:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I filed out of a BBC Building during a fire drill behind Louis Theroux.
13.06.2025 12:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0People in Ballymena are so concerned about attacks on women and children that they attacked a house with women and children in it and torched the family car while her husband was at work in Wrightbus.
10.06.2025 16:11 β π 22 π 11 π¬ 0 π 0Catching up on developments in LA where US Marines are preparing to deploy against US civilians, I'm found wondering where I've already read about his... ah, yes - step 8 of 10 in the Classic Coup Playbook
medium.com/@aletheisthe...
www.thejournal.ie/ciaran-mullo...
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29.05.2025 21:41 β π 1 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Spotted: Toronto, Canada
26.05.2025 13:49 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Your backup is not a backup if it's not tested regularly when not needed.
22.05.2025 09:42 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Stop the world and let me off. π
www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
If you ever doubt yourself in work, think of this Russian guy who kicked off a project in Feb 2022 with a 3 day scope that's now overrun by 3 years and killed nearly 1million of his own side in the interim π«
20.05.2025 08:12 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Now you sound like a HGV driver
14.05.2025 18:18 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Slight bridge problem.
14.05.2025 14:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Wait, WTF.. Ms. Rachel showed empathy for... children being carpet bombed? Honestly, what is the world coming to?
13.05.2025 09:05 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Of course he did. π
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