Ellen Murray

Saw Street Fighter with @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social yesterday, I think there were 9 people in total. Genuinely impressive how unwatchably shit it was lmao. I liked the evil pervert though

Is there any "mundane task" quite as enjoyable as going to the recycling centre on the bike

catching up on the new old school runescape quests cos I took a break for a while. top tier silly one: become a crab matchmaker by helping a bunch of crabs make a crab band to have a romantic crab dance to find crab wives, while rejecting KGP spies. i adore this janky old game. this is lovely.

look at the subject of this email google just sent me to my work email. complete gobbledegook. nonsense.

My Bulgarian textbook has this great joke: A programmer is out in nature on a picnic with his girlfriend. At one point he says "Look, what a blue sky! Just like on Windows 98!"

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for when you're skint but currys pc world has that tv you're after

girlfriend :)

for when you're skint but currys pc world has that tv you're after

[ spider 🕷️ ] Tis the season! Love these guys.

Smashed my phone screen in a very unlucky drop. Phone on last legs anyway so got the cheapest screen I could until I get a replacement refurb phone posted. Shout out to INCELL UK for the biggest piece of shit screen I have ever, ever used lmao, but it was £20 and arrived in 18hr so all good.

New phone arrives tomorrow thankfully. It's a refurbished Pixel 8 Pro, I've been using refurb Pixel phones for a decade now basically. Very very much looking forward to being able to see colours on a phone again.

New phone is pretty wonderful! Big fan of how affordable refurb Pixel phones still are. Got a basically pristine Pixel 8 Pro for £245. Need good cameras and a colour accurate screen for work and so far I'm very impressed.

Kinda love it. It pisses me off so much that I'm actively avoiding my phone. Great success!

Here's the best demonstration I have of the touchscreen polling using Swype (remember that?) style typing. This is a slow one cos it just doesn't work when I Swype normally. Oh also! The phone is now so thick that the new screen PROTRUDES PAST THE CASE 🔥

It's not OLED. Didn't expect it to be, no worries. No fingerprint reader, same deal. Not 90Hz, who cares?

Lads. It adds 50% more thickness to the phone and about the same in weight, the front facing camera is now unusable, the touchscreen polls at TEN HERTZ so typing is miserable and every colour is wrong and desaturated. It came with only metal tools and adhesive worse than foam craft tape.

The Orange Order can compromise and have their march, from the same starting point to the same ending point if they wanted. But they don't. Because there ARE people who want to rip up the peace process, and that list has the Orange Order at the top! Compromise is what's been happening for 28 years!!

Ickletayto@ickletayto.bsky.social

Could you be anymore patronising

If they force the Orange Order parade down the Garvaghy Road today or any other day, I'm afraid the complete collapse of the government of Northern Ireland will seem almost cute compared to the rest of the utter shitstorm that engulfs this place.

Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social

Always remember: things can get worse

Dark day back home, lads. Drumcree standoff in 2026 wasn't on my predictions for this year. Wouldn't be surprised if in 20 years from now, this is seen as one of the cascading moments that led to the end of Northern Ireland.

The standoff continues today. Local news is reporting that sources say the OO are "confident" they'll get to do their march today. Basically nothing has changed since yesterday though, except more people are aware and more people are furious. The NI government is on the brink of collapse.

I will say, it's genuinely impressive that the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland is this shit. We're not new to an SoS who's a bit clueless about NI's ~cultural complexities~ but this one is knocking it out of the park. Absolute balloon.

This demonstrates the complaints of your political enemies, committed Irish republicans, who say NI cannot move past this crap while it remains in the UK. More importantly for the unionist cause though, it turns the vast majority of the "undecided" against you. This road leads to Irish unity.

The police service is there with riot shields and batons, undoubtedly with "less lethals" too. Are they gonna force the protesting crowd off the road to allow the march? There's UK MPs in the crowd, elected reps from Stormont, Irish TDs too. Catastrophic self injury for NI authorities to touch them

Not a clue. The idea that the Orange Order being allowed to march the route that sparked the unbelievably violent Drumcree standoff, 28 years after the peace agreement, is "lowering tension" is an idea based in complete cultural incompetence.

Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social

"I don't think any elected politician should be supporting an illegal protest" Chris Bryant (the secretary of state for Northern Ireland) says Michelle O'Neill (the first minister of Northern Ireland) is wrong to stand with people defending their community.

Portadown is where the first Loyal Orange Lodge was founded. I don't discount that Drumcree is important to them. But the Orange Order is also a sectarian hate brigade that's inexorably linked to paramilitary violence over the years. They're bigots through and through.

If Unionists want NI to remain part of the United Kingdom - for NI to exist at all - this is not how you do that. This turns people against you, and for good reason. Nobody wants this shit.

The OO could march from where they start their route to where they end it, no problem, just by choosing basically any other route. They want this route because it's antagonistic, because it's outrageous. Most famously, three children, the Quinn brothers, were murdered in a firebombing attack.

That happened at the height of the Drumcree standoff in 1998, AFTER the Good Friday Agreement peace deal was signed in April that year. The NI Parades Commission is responsible for governing parades since 1998 and they gave 11th-hour consent for the contentious route on Friday. Unforgivable.

For the uninitiated, the Orange Order (notoriously sectarian organisation) has been, for the first time since the 1998 NI peace agreement, been allowed to march through a predominantly Catholic part of the town of Portadown. This march has led to so much violence and many murders over the years.

Ellen Murray reposted

Get yourself a partner that loves you, loves traipsing up the mountains and loves cats. Your life will be so good!!! @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social

Waiting for my lovely girlfriend to finish their dance class while chilling in the sun and catching up on work emails. Picked up a few things for the flat from the Everything Shop I like in Edinburgh. Life is good, better than it's been in many years. Feels like the clouds are lifting :)

Get yourself a partner that loves you, loves traipsing up the mountains and loves cats. Your life will be so good!!! @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social

big day for me: spending a long weekend with my lovely girlfriend who is my world. life is good 🙂‍↕️

Started a new prescribed ADHD medication today whose information sheet says they've no idea if it's safe for adults and the pills look exactly like dodgy ecstasy pills you'd be sold by a teenager in 2003. I feel like my eyes are in front of my brain, if you know what I mean. They work!

20 Sept

whoever battered Belfast's big fish should be duly battered by the big fish. fuckin disgrace lads

20 Sept

it's a dog eat dog world out there. a fish eye for a fish eye.

2 Sept

Teenage Sex and Death and Camp Miasma is an incredible film btw. You should watch it. It is very homosexual and very stupid, and very moving. 10/10.

2 Sept

I got used to the woke brussels bureaucrat tethered bottle caps really fast and since I live in N Ireland (still under the caring boot of Brussels), going to Scotland is a constant humiliation ritual because half the caps aren't tethered. Opening a bottle with abandon is such a gamble over there.

2 Sept

my girlfriend only has eyes for me #EnormousSegmentedGirlfriendEyes @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social

@eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social

31 Aug

I've witnessed a new type of evil: the perfume section of the airport duty free is already a hostile environment. Edinburgh Airport has a live DJ blasting electronic music through a PA system in the middle of it right now. Stop this at once.

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28 Aug

this is a chronicle of Ellen's first experience at the Edinburgh Fringe @ellenfromnowon.co.uk

18 Aug

learning Bulgarian with my lovely girlfriend on voice chat is so much fun. ОБИЧАМ ЖЕНА СИ❗❗❗❗

24 Aug

Some of these letters I do not trust yet, but over time they're all becoming friends. Харесвам котки!