For the nervousness, I started commenting here a couple of weeks ago for the same reasons of wanting to help keep places like this active but it was daunting after probably going a full decade without commenting on anything online. Starting with no-risk things helped a lot, so just posting my daily game results in !dailygames@lemmy.zip was a nice way to get going without the possibility of things getting misconstrued. After that, it just gets easier with time. I probably spent half an hour redrafting my first proper comment on here that wasn't a games post and just a couple of weeks in now it feels natural enough to only take a couple of minutes!
They should copy the blank paper protests that happened in China. I wouldn't put it past this government to claim that holding up a blank piece of paper outside parliament is somehow terrorism at this stage and it would show how ridiculous this is.
I've been here! Clubbing isn't really my thing but it was a fun night. Haven't been since covid happened, and it's supposedly more of a tourist trap for straight people these days. I remember some Eurovision act got a lot of shit for "performing at the Kremlin" but it was actually this one in Belfast.
My favourite tidbit of queer history in Northern Ireland happened here after our former first minister's wife, Iris Robinson, was caught having an extra marital affair with someone 40 years her junior, a 19 year old that she bribed to try and hush it all up. She was disgustingly homophobic to the point that there's a whole section of her Wikipedia dedicated to her homophobic remarks. After the story broke of her affair, the DJ in the Kremlin stuck on the song Mrs Robinson by Simon and Garfunkel.
It's a bit odd. I understand the argument against since we're a different jurisdiction (for now!), but we do also have the automatic right to Irish citizenship and it's a right that even ardent unionists have begun to claim post-brexit. Given the president's quite limited political power I've always seen them more as a representative of the Irish people than of the state. And we've already had a brilliant president from the north before in Mary McAleese, so the border hasn't ever been a barrier to becoming the president, just in voting for them.
Tightrope, a daily trivia game | Britannica
Aug. 7, 2025
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Saw her a couple of years ago and been a fan ever since. She's fantastic live. I'm in the north so can't vote but it would be class if she single-handedly stops a Bertie presidency.
Tightrope, a daily trivia game | Britannica
Aug. 5, 2025
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