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Thoughtful interesting people are being bullied off this site by unhinged loons, and it's a shame.

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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.

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

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A successful day out at Wembley

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Belfast stork do do do do do do do

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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.

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“The pope will be from Chicago” sounds like an 1880s Republican’s dire prediction for if we don’t stop Irish immigration

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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.

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Nonzero chance the Conservatives win fewer seats at the 2029 general election than Sinn Féin

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First result of the night - Reform gain in Hartlepool www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

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I reckon the win probabilities of a fight between men and a gorilla would look something like this

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It's very plausible that in 2029 there'll be a nationalist plurality in Stormont and Nigel Farage will be the Prime Minister.

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As Liverpool win the Premier League for the second time, they complete the opening of a quite remarkable sequence, 33 years in the making. #Fibonacci

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For post-Brexit red tape weirdness it's hard to beat GB residents having to declare the unusual features of their pet ferrets if they want to travel to Northern Ireland

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I said his name He appeared

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Curves and Straight Series, by Alfredo Hlito, 1948, 📸 via @nolayingup.com

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There won't be an oat milked in Holywood tonight

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I've noticed a severe lack of cottage cheese availability in the last few weeks. Presumably TikTok related? I'm getting withdrawal symptoms.

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I was trying to work out what the cheapest possible source of protein is and I'm pretty sure it's feather hydrolysate, made from chicken feathers. Unfortunately it's both disgusting and completely pointless due to low bioavailability, so it's only for the brave.

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No sir this isn't contraband from Heard Island and McDonald Islands, it's innocuous chlorinated chicken

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It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.

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We go now live to our economics editor who has broken out the good whiskey and seems to be playing with a revolver. How are the markets reacting Greg

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Northern Ireland had the lowest median incomes out of the UK regions in 2017, but has since overtaken Wales and all regions in England outside the South. Nominal median incomes in NI grew 25% from 2017 to 2023, the highest in the UK (ROI incomes were also up 25% over this time).

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This isn't cute or heartwarming, football teams from southwest London seeking promotion to the third tier only do this when they're very distressed

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A rum state of affairs when Stormont is the sober reasonable legislature on the island whilst every speech in the Dáil sounds like this

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Me in the national security group chat

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At the WWE event in Belfast last night The New Day came out and started criticising the local healthcare system, full marks for well researched heel work

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Great craic at the WWE event in Belfast this evening

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Swami John Reis has a new album out and I'm going to watch CM Punk wrestle tomorrow, it's like the 2000s never ended

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Then you add Kurt Angle to the mix, your chances of winning drastic go down

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My son managed to convince me that a new Muppets themed cafe had opened in Belfast called Kermit's House of Tea and I was genuinely devastated to find out that it doesn't exist

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A bracing afternoon up at the Causeway

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Why did the chicken cross the road??

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Lovely view up Cave Hill earlier

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I realised I hadn't read a novel for fun in decades and my attention span is, uh, not what it was. Going to attempt to read a novel every week from now on, this is my first one.

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They're really putting the FFS into tariffs is what they're doing

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The new Northern Ireland Programme for Government has been published and here are the signatures of the Northern Ireland Executive ranked from most legible to least legible.

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I've been to the Feldman Ecopark in Kharkiv and I am certain that it holds no military or strategic value

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I took this photo the last time I was in Kyiv in 2019. I hope to make it back soon 🇺🇦

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I wonder what song they'll use for the montage if it goes wrong

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603,628 km² 🇺🇦

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Increasingly distressing that music I assume was released 18 months ago is actually decades old. Somehow good kid, m.A.A.d city was released 13 years ago? Fleet Foxes' debut is absurdly nearly 17.

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We've clearly entered some sort of bizarre mirror dimension when the Irish and Maltese national Eurovision finals are stacked whilst the Norwegian and Ukrainian ones are meh

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If the groundhog in Hilary Benn's office saw its tail and a border poll was held tomorrow, you wouldn't be surprised if it was a similar result to Scotland 2014.

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