#NI

@Mia67 @harriettmb @Kellys @irelandpoliticsgroup @ukpolitics

Every time they open their mouths Mia...they lose another element of whatever authority they have left.

They are desperately trying to take #NI back to the days when they ran the place. In doing so, they are taking NI further away from the union they love!

When what is in front of you isn't working, you start looking for something different...we desperately need something different in Northern Ireland

Magic Ninja Robot

We are live shortly with a watch a long of todays #nintendodirect over on #twitch so swing by and keep @Btph company as he watches and responds to the information.
https://www.twitch.tv/magicninjarobot
#livestream #twitchstreamer #ni #nintendo

arXiv Machine Learning🧠

📝 Temporal Patience: Efficient Adaptive Deep Learning for Embedded Radar Data Processing 🧠

"Proposes three new methods that leverage the temporal correlation of radar data to enable more accurate and efficient Early Exit Neural Networks (EENN) on embedded devices." [gal30b+] 🤖 #LG #NI

🔗 https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.05686v1 #arxiv

Fig. 2: The neural network architecture of the base network together with the two added Early Exits.

The1goit :v1:

I just saw the new Komplete Kontrol S series keyboards, and spoiler alert: there's still no drum pads.
#NativeInstruments #NI #Keyboard

@Lazarou

I think it has been a widely held belief by those at Westminster they want rid of us - way before #Brexit happened. Even if they haven't said it out loud. I think they have been waiting for a demographic change in #NI. Also for Unionism not to be the majority party.

I also believe this odious Legacy Bill they have introduced - it them locking away their secrets of what happened during the Troubles, before they head for the exit.

That's the problem with Westminster they haven't

@Lazarou

Scotland should have voted for independence when they had the chance. Now that Global Britain is looking less likely to happen. The English Government won't allow another vote because they can't chance becoming even smaller on the world stage.

I honestly don't think it would matter if #NI left - not that many actually pay us much attention.

Wales' independence movement is growing.

The union is a relic from a bygone era which isn't fit for 21st century.

@fonecokid

Neither did the 52% who voted to get rid of it! It's not surprising their dear leader didn't know either.

He supposedly didn't know who the #unionist parties in #NI were either. He had to ask someone...

This should be hardly surprising!

#Hardlynewsworthy

So what if they are unhelpful - the #DUP are proving to be extremely unhelpful by refusing to recognise the outcome of an election & ignoring what the people of #NI voted for.

It is time the #DUP were put under pressure, made feel uncomfortable about holding NI to ransom because they can't admit they made a mistake by backing Brexit. Their actions caused this...Time to face up to it!

Meg Schwamb

It’s 80 degrees F in Belfast. People seem to be melting. #NI

Tykayn

y'a trop de gestionnaires de paquet, je vais en faire un pour tous les maîtriser.

ainsi naquit #Ni pour gérer #yarn, #pnpm, #npm, et #bun.

#xkcd serait fier de ça.
#shrawberry #nightswhosayni

@BackFromTheDud

Of course, neither of them will, while it suits them. If the #Tories are facing some time in the political wilderness, then PR might become attractive.

In #NI - we don't have much of a say over who takes power in Westminster. #Labour doesn't stand here. The #Tories have a the odd candidate here - who only ever get 0.0 something of the vote, if they are lucky.

So we are waiting on the people of #England to wise up and start voting for their interests, not against them.

Mgr Pól O'hÉalaighthe

Happily #NI best not ship any Amazon parcels as when loaded they become the phenomenon of the fast driving Amazon van with open windows with booming music!!

@murchadhfinn

that is how they keep themselves relevant even though they only have one seat!

If Unionism was to stop promoting these voices, the might not be seen as a negative force for #ni

@daijenkins @harriettmb @thyckhyde

Unlike Farage who just says things to keep himself in the limelight. Arlene would actually go if we voted for UI. Her bitterness has dictated her whole way of life. She couldn't accept that #NI would be gone.

@bullivant @harriettmb @irelandpolitics

It certainly is. Plus it shows the world not everyone that is a Unionist is a loudmouth like Sammy or Óg.

There are many who are thoughtful and willing to listen to all sides of a debate.

Sammy & Óg's days are coming to an end. #NI is changing and they don't represent what the vast majority here want.

@harriettmb @thyckhyde

Considering her job is mainly in England now. What is stopping her going now? Why wait? She isn't doing anything to help promote a better #NI by working on a propaganda channel.

So off you pop Arlene...you won't be missed.
#ByeArlene
#think32

Is that sobbing I hear on this bright Monday morning?

Let's not forget 'her ladyship' in all this?

If she hadn't threatened May, accepted her deal...I would say #NI would have been safe in the Union for quite sometime to come. But she didn't, she backed 'Boris' & here we are.

You can throw money, gongs and knighthoods at the #DUP to keep them happy but they know what they did when it comes to NI & our future!

L'Osservatorio Esteri

#NI #NorthernIreland #TheFurryMenace #Furry

#Sondaggi #ElSalvador #Presidenziali
Sondaggio di CEC-UFG:

Non so: 12%
Nessuno: 9%

Data rilevazione: 15-21 agosto

Intervistati: 1920

@OsservatorioEsteri

Iskandar :ms_minotaur:

4 weeks ago

Good news, everyone – the NI Department of Education is on the case about this whole ‘furries’ thing

Screenshot of a news article, saying "The Department funds the Safer Schools App
which provides regular updates on social media
trends and issues that are of interest to the
school community. Information that highlights
the myths and misconceptions about the
phenomenon known as 'Furries' has been
covered by iNEQE on the app available to schools
and also communicated directly to all schools via
the Child Protection Support Service monthly
communication update."

PUB-X

4 weeks ago

https://www.pub-x.com/196754/ 【ENHYPEN】100㎞出るまで終わらないピッチング練習に倒れ込むジェイク／ヒスンそっくりな猫あらわる【日本語字幕】 ##エナイプン ##エンハイプン ##ジェイ ##ジェイク ##ジョンウォン ##ソヌ ##ソンフン ##ニキ ##ヒスン #bts #ENHYPEN #HEESEUNG #JAKE #JAY #JUNGWON #K-popBoys #K-popIdols #NI-KI #SUNGHOON #Sunoo #ジェイ（JAY） #日本語字幕

arXiv Artificial Intelligence👾

4 weeks ago

📝 LAMBO: Large Language Model Empowered Edge Intelligence 👾

"The proposed LAMBO framework is an LLM-based deep offloading framework for edge computing, which comprises four components: Input Embedding, Asymmetric Encoder-Decoder model, Actor-critic reinforcement learning, and Active learning from expert feedback." [gal30b+] 🤖 #AI #NI

🔗 https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.15078v1 #arxiv

Fig. 1: Deep offloading architecture versus LAMBO architecture.

I am the same - the #MLA'S are happy to sit by, watch their jobs be threatened by a small group of yesterday's men who are safe for the minute.

Will they happily lose their incomes just to satisfy likes of Og/Sammy/Gregory! They are dragging NI to the exit of the #UK Union by insisting that wee Jeff demand #Sunak put them above the UK's International relations!

Let them keep going if they never want to have a serious role in the future of #NI again.

@hollybrigstocke @harriettmb @irelandpolitics

If we could get the #DUP to shut up, then #NI contribution to rising CO2 levels would drop significantly!

PSNI officers disciplined 'to allay threat to Sinn Féin policing support'
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-66648801
<< an odd decision.

These officers knew the political signal they were making in publicly (wrongly) arresting a victim of a loyalist attack at the anniversary of his attack

The #PSNI routinely, and often with Court backing, use politics to excuse not removing illegal bonfires, flags, and Protocol protests.

#NI should not have political policing for one side and apolitical for the others.

@bioluminescently @harriettmb @Cbfoley

My Son is at a Grammar - I have a few issues with the school especially on the uniform. They could lighten up on a few things!

However, I have to say that on the issue of their concern for their pupils mental health, I have absolutely no complaints. They are very good - workshop, talks & dedicated days for mental health attention.

I know they don't suit all kids but in #NI there is a demand for them & it continues to grow. If parents

Remember #NI that our dearly beloved #DUP leader the Right Honourable (nothing 'Honourable' about a man who will not implement democratic outcome of an election) Sir Jeffery Donaldson, said he will not be distracted by the noise, will not re-enter Stormont until he gets the Windsor Framework sorted!

Is this 'noise' Jeff? You over promoted, jumped up, out of your depth, egotistical 🤬😡

News - School uniforms: Parents in Northern Ireland call for more help with costs
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-66620751

Infrapink (he/his/him)

https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/0824/1401391-northern-ireland-briefing-papers/

Oh, wow, this is nuts.

In 1999, #NorthernIreland secretaries were issues documents on how to correctly refer to #Ireland and #Britain. The article describes it as being written for #PeterMendelson, but it sounds like a standard document issues to all secretaries.

Apparently as late as 1999, #NI Secretaries had to be specifically advised not to refer to the #RepublicOfIreland as the #IrishFreeState, a political entity that had not existed since 1937.

arXiv Artificial Intelligence👾

📝 Topological Graph Signal Compression 🧠👾

"Proposes a novel TDL-based method for compressing signals on graphs, based on clustering higher-order topological-based structures inferred from the original data, and applying a message passing process over those clusters." [gal30b+] 🤖 #LG #AI #NI

🔗 https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.11068v1 #arxiv

Figure 5: Compression Module workflow for the SetMP architecture. It is independently applied to each inferred hyperedge w ∈ W .

@Steveb @harriettmb @irelandpolitics

I would say it is reflection of a section of wider society in #NI (#DUP/#Oneseatwonder represents them)

Not all of us have a hissy fit over other languages been spoken or represented.

This the #DUP trying to show they have some clout on a council they no longer dominate, which is difficult for them to accept.

And you wonder why #Unionism isn't attracting the younger voter...

My lord...they really do have a problem with the reality we all live in!

One day #NI these people will no longer have an influence on how we run this place. They will scream at us 'why did this happen' - we will show them things like this.

@therightarticle

Yes very true about Scotland and Wales - however at least all three parties stand in Sco & Wal. Only the #Tories stand in NI - and that is normally humiliating for the poor sod that stands for them!

I think many people in #NI would like the opportunity to take responsibility for our own future - away from the influence of Westminster.

We all don't agree with #DUP humiliating themselves by begging for some crumbs of the master's table.

arXiv Information Retrieval💿

@therightarticle

I don't rate Starmer either but I live in NI - what I think doesn't matter. I can't vote for the party. I don't rate any English politician - they all have their flaws.

What I will say is we in #NI get the #lightweight, #hasbeen or a #nobody as SoS. We aren't on anyone's priority list.

So it doesn't bother me if he is bland or has zero charisma - that is the type of politician that we get sent from Westminster*

*the only one that did not fit that description - MO

📝 Context-Aware Service Recommendation System for the Social Internet of Things 💿👾

"By exploring the contextual representation of each device-service pair in social internet of things, the proposed recommendation algorithm improves service recommendation accuracy and relevance in a social internet of things." [gal30b+] 🤖 #IR #AI #NI #SI

🔗 https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08499v1 #arxiv

Fig. 4. MSE values variations according to the Feature dimension size with different datasets

arXiv Computer Vision🔭

📝 Comprehensive Analysis of Network Robustness Evaluation Based on Convolutional Neural Networks with Spatial Pyramid Pooling 🔭🧠

"Designs a convolutional neural network (CNN) model with spatial pyramid pooling networks (SPP-net) to evaluate the robustness of complex networks under different scenarios of failure." [gal30b+] 🤖 #CV #LG #NI #SI

🔗 https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08012v1 #arxiv

Figure 1: The CNN architecture employed in this study consists of eight sets of convolutional combinations. Each convolutional block within these sets typically comprises one or two convolutional layers. In addition, following the SPP-net approach, two fully connected layers are incorporated into the architecture.

Figure 4: Attack curves on synthetic networks under random edge failure (REF). Here the title of each panel indicates the type of failure, network model and average degree. p and Ge represent the proportion of removed edges and the relative size of the LCC respectively. The green and orange dots represent the predicted values and simulated values, respectively, the light green and orange shading represent the standard deviation. Each dot is the average of 100 networks from the test set.

Figure 3: Attack curves on synthetic networks under high-degree adaptive attack (HDAA). Here the title of each panel indicates the type of failure, network model and average degree. p and Gn represent the proportion of removed nodes and the relative size of the LCC respectively. The green and orange dots represent the predicted values and simulated values, respectively, the light green and orange shading represent the standard deviation. Each dot is the average of 100 networks from the test set.

Figure 7: Attack curves and Robustness Rns on empirical networks under random node failure (RNF). Here p and Gn represent the proportion of removed nodes and the relative size of the LCC respectively. The red and blue dots represent the predicted values and simulated values, respectively.

@TimWardCam @wsw777

From this particular person in #NI - I wish they would say it formally, so it is out in the open. It is the world's worst kept secret. Also the DUP would ave to face the reality that is now before them.

It is simple to why the DUP supported Brexit - prove their loyalty and bring back the physical border. They want to try and stop the deepening links between the two parts of the island

HarriettMB.

@jacqui76 @wsw777 It’s blatantly clear the #Tories want out of #NI Their problem is Dublin is nowhere near ready to take over. #DUP unwittingly helping them by not being in #Stormont. I think DUP plan to stay out to the GE: big mistake for Unionism: we will get #JointAuthority and a move to more all-Ireland integration. I’m all for it: let the DUP be the ones to bring a #UI closer #irony @irelandpolitics @ukpolitics

Philipp

Now what a double disaster at IT security in Britain!
Since August 2021(!), the #ElectoralCommission, the #UK election watchdog had a serious data breach, leaking information including the name and address of anyone in the UK who registered to vote between 2014 and 2022: https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/08/uk_electoral_commission_hacked_voter/
And on top, #PSNI lost control over the data of all #NI #police officers, including those who had to shield their identities: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/09/police-officers-in-northern-ireland-may-leave-force-or-move-after-data-breach-psni

@marcas @harriettmb @irelandpolitics

Then I can't see the #DUP ever attracting any new voters especially the younger ones. They aren't capable of changing to make them more attractive. Doug may be trying to change the #UUP but the traditionalists in his party won't accept they need to change either.

So it NI will continue to move away from the Unionist parties towards SF/Alliance which you can argue - are looking good when compared to the #Unionist parties.

Something needs to change in #NI

Steven McFadden

#AI #NI #NaturalIntelligence <DeepAgroecology.org>

arXiv Information Retrieval💿

For what it is worth - I have always believed that #NI politicians were the better option

However, if #Stormont isn't going to be reformed, to prevent either SF or DUP from collapsing the place. Then it is time to close the place for good. The MLA's are forced to go and get proper jobs which require you to actually work for their wage.

It is very clear the DUP aren't prepared to make this place work, when they aren't in charge. Take that option away.

Time for Joint Authority...

📝 A Knowledge-Oriented Approach to Enhance Integration and Communicability in the Polkadot Ecosystem 👾💿

"POnto provides a formal representation of the Polkadot ecosystem concepts and relationships using standard ontology languages (eXtensible Markup Language and Web Ontology Language)." [gal30b+] 🤖 #AI #DC #IR #NI

⚙️ https://github.com/mobr-ai/POnto
🔗 https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.00735v1 #arxiv

Fig. 8. Conceptual mapping and prioritization activities in Mural.

Fig. 5. Blockchain referencing another blockchain.

Fig. 4. Blockchain with external pointers.

Fig. 1. Blockchain with metadata referencing ontology.

arXiv Machine Learning🧠

📝 Network Fault-Tolerant and Byzantine-Resilient Social Learning via Collaborative Hierarchical Non-Bayesian Learning 🧠

"Proposes a hierarchical system architecture with multiple levels of information aggregation to tackle the non-Bayesian learning problem over a large-scale network of unreliable machines, which are vulnerable to communication failures and adversarial attacks." [gal30b+] 🤖 #LG #DC #NI

🔗 https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.14952v1 #arxiv

Fig. 1. A hierarchical system architecture

#NI SoS Heaton-Harris says the framework remains on track*

*Despite the #DUP moaning & whining which is having no affect upon the government but is hammering ordinary people in #NI.

#NIPolitics @irishpolitics

BBC News - Windsor Framework remains on track, says Heaton-Harris
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-66263960

@grayface_ghost @harriettmb @irelandpolitics

It seems that the people of the big island have something in common with us after all in #NI - we all think the #DUP is batshit crazy too! They will never be useful to the politicans in Westminster again. They had that chance, they wasted it.

You aren't telling the majority of us in NI anything we don't already know - we aren't important to anyone on the big island. The most of us here - only pay any attention to politics over there because we

Starmer recognises that #NI is a very different kettle of fish to #Scotland. We have an internationally lodged peace agreement that guarantees our right to have a vote on unity, when NI wants it. If Sinn Féin continues to take wins in elections, then he faces a very real call for a vote.

This is the #Tories revenge on #DUP for May & humiliating her. They are happy to let them rot until the GE, when they will have to deal with a Labour Government.

Honestly Harriett, I think they have run out of ideas & are treading water until #Sunak puts them out of their misery, calls the General Election.

To deal with #NI you need a minister with skill & talent - to handle all the egos here. Heaton-Harris and Baker are not the men for the job. They were shocked that not all NI politicians were like the #DUP

The DUP are trying to get something out of the Tories because the know that Labour won't pander to them

@alisca

That is only the reason I pay any attention to #English politics - whomever the English voter votes for affects what happens in #NI without us having any say.

So I want a SoS that is prepared to accept that #NI is on a different path to #GB.

@alisca

'What if' - the road not travelled! It was disappointing that Labour didn't win in 2017 but that is now water under the bridge.

No point looking back - you have to fight the political reality you face in 2023.

If that means a Labour Government with Starmer instead of a Tory Government with a spineless #Sunak or a inhumane #Braverman - then vote for Labour on the Thursday and start fighting them on the Friday.

All I want is a future #NI SoS to announce the date of a Border Poll!

@alisca

Very True!

I just don't see much improvement happening in the UK even with a #Labour Government, they will have such a mess to clear up - they will be fighting fires in all directions.

If I am honest, I just want #NI out of the #UK union whatever the colour of the government in Westminster is.

I am done with #unequal union.

@harriettmb @murchadhfinn @irelandpolitics

She once said she would leave #NI if it was ever reunited - as she spends so much time in GB on that propaganda channel. Maybe she shouldn't wait to leave NI.

She should go now, take her narrow world view with her and leave NI to the people who want to make it work for ALL it's people.

Jetzt Aber!

https://taz.de/Niedersachsens-AfD-im-Dauerwahlkampf/!5943695/

JETZT ist es wirklich an der Zeit, ein Bündnis zu schmieden. ABER nicht mit irgendwem.

Die Blaue Partei in Niedersachsen ist im Dauerwahlkampf und pöbelt gegen #seenotrettung, #lgbtqia & #geg.

PS: War mir früher noch nie aufgefallen, dass die naheliegendste Abkürzung für Niedersachsen #NS wäre. Die offizielle ist #NI. Lasst euch nicht auch noch das #JA wegnehmen!

#demokratie #rechtsextremismus

@tazgetroete

JETZT ist es wirklich an der Zeit, ein Bündnis zu schmieden. ABER nicht mit irgendwem.

#TheTroubles
#NorthernIreland
#NI
#FilmCrews
#GoodFridayAgreement
#GFA
#BBC

3 months ago

Poster of Taoiseach Leo #Varadkar burned on #loyalist bonfire in Tyrone
https://www.thejournal.ie/irish-flag-poster-varadkar-loyalist-bonfire-tyrone-6113754-Jul2023/
<< For his (with #RTE / #FG) attempts to embrace loyalist views?

No, #NI #bonfire builders don't give a damn about misguided #Irish middle-class delusions, or short-sighted trolling of SF. His image is simply being burnt as he represents Ireland.

Such hateful festivals will never moderate or compromise. They are the smouldering reminders of a long burnt-out imperialist worldview.

AutisticMumTo3 She/her

3 months ago

‘These stories must be talked about’: the film-maker shedding new light on the Troubles | Northern Ireland | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/09/james-bluemel-film-maker-troubles-northern-ireland

@JorisBohnsonPM @DoubleTreble

Lads...we have enough to be sorting out in #NI without having to turn our attention to #England!

Could we ask you to sort this one out?

Love Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland!

@DoubleTreble @JorisBohnsonPM

I think it is time for major electoral reform especially in England. We have #PR for our elections in #NI

Time to catch up!

@jbond @JorisBohnsonPM @PacMan

That is why #NI never votes for them! At the last local election in my area - he got 69 votes. We know a gobshite when we see one.

Now it is time the Tory voting public figured that out too!

@openDemocracy

It wasn't all voters that were disengaged last week in #NI elections. Our turn out for the Local Election was slightly up.

It was #Unionist voters that didn't turn out. The introduction of mandatory voting maybe might not be required, if their leaders could offer them a positive vision of the future, that encourages them to go out and vote!

#NI already has different laws for voting than the rest of #GB. Maybe we should talk about that?

@Cbfoley

🚮 annoys the life out of me. He knows nothing of what he speaks about. He doesn't know what it was like to grow up during the Troubles & he certainly hasn't read a history book. If he has, he certainly hasn't understood it.

He is 🤡 and is best ignored. He offers us nothing of benefit in #NI

Lads, you may have noticed I have no patience today for the nonsense in #GB especially that gobshite #Johnson

I have just watched Once Upon A Time Northern Ireland on iplayer about the Troubles (what a really understated title that is)

That prick put the #GoodFridayAgreement at risk for his own fu*king ego & fake fight with the #EU.

What he nearly destroyed here is unforgivable. For that alone he deserves to be confined to #history and much worse.

#NI how the hell did we survive that?

Right now....

Now #SinnFein has topped another poll, made history again in #LE23

A not so gentle reminder....#NI doesn't need the hot takes from the likes of #Sky #BBC or another English media outlets about what our vote means. We know exactly what it means, why we voted the way we did and what we want to happen.

Yes, #DUP are the largest Unionist party but Sinn Fein are biggest party in #NI - by 20 seats in local government!

Time to start paying some attention to other people....

benteh

https://www.bbc.com/news/northern_ireland

strap in for the silly season, i doubt it'll be pretty #norniron #ni-election

As wee Jeff ( 😭 ) comes on TV
today - talking about being biggest party of #Unionism, which is correct.

But remember that the Unionism (#UUP & #DUP) were once the biggest parties throughout NI history. The #UUP once dominated #Belfast City Council - which now has #Sinn Fein has it's largest party.

#Doug & #Jeff are talking about the #future of Unionism, getting their people out to vote. It would help if they offered them a vision of the #future that didn't look like #NI pre

@tosbourn

#votetillyaboke is the way to go in #NI tomorrow! It is simple as that! (No votes for the #DUP)

Maybe leave the copy of the #DailyMail down, talk to some real people, stop reading nonsense being thrown at you by the people who lying to you for their own gain.

Offended yet Mary? You all aren't like the Tories & #NonDom Billionaires that run England

Well shock horror #NI people aren't all flag waving furlock tugging members of the #DUP desperate to stay part of the UK union.

Many of us would like you to leave our island for good, so we can start to repair the damage done by your border!

https://twitter.com/BBCNolan/status/1658451996339208200/mediaviewer

Here's Mary - announcing thay she is sick of us in #NI - flag waving etc. So she making assumptions about all of us here based on what she sees of the #DUP.

Well Mary in Nottingham - let me return the favour based on what we see of you - that everyone in England is a #Tory who will lie and cheat their way to the top, to feather their own nest with touch of racism and xenophobia thrown in!

Green Hombre

25 years ago, just after the #GoodFridayAgreement in #NI, I stumbled into history unknowingly, arriving on one of the first trains to Belfast without a border stop & inspection. A TV crew on the platform asked about the voyage. I said it seemed very normal.
The reporter turned to the camera and said, “Well, there you have it. The future is backpackers from California on holiday!”
Today, my wife and I will take the same voyage. This time in the First Class cabin. #Travel #Ireland

Earlier today, #newstalk was considering what #NI felt about the #coronation. Oh, there are many NIers here explained the correspondent amongst the crowds in London. Guess where they went to in NI, for a 2nd opinion ... Ballymena.

Now I see #RTE is live streaming hours of the coronation on its main channel. Man, sometimes #Dublin-based folk really do deserve the pejorative Jackeen.

TheFwGuy 🇪🇺🇮🇹🇺🇸🖖

@jeffjarvis What about to start discussions on Natural Stupidity rather than Artificial Intelligence ?
Seems to me the real problem here is Natural Stupidity rather than Artificial Intelligence, too many simply lack Natural Intelligence making Artificial Intelligence bigger than what actually is.
#AI #NI #NS

@JohnLoader6 @harriettmb @OrangeMenace

There will always be a bunch of headers here which will threaten a return to violence, when they feel under threat.

#NI has moved on from that, there isn't the support from wider society for a return, which is what is required for wide spread violence to take hold.

People will not tolerate it. There has been too much progress for us to go back.

@harriettmb @OrangeMenace

#GB desperately needs the introduction of #PR if they are ever going to break free of the 'big two'

I don't really rate #Labour either. I didn't have time for them under #Corbyn and I still don't have time for them under #Starmer. They are English after all. Whatever colour their badge they will prioritise England over the rest of #UK.

They don't get to ride on the coat-tails of #Mo. She was one of a kind when it came to #NI.

When it comes to #PR for #GB

As #GB politics becomes more like #NI politics. (thanks to #Brexit)

You have seen the abundance of flags due to insecurity, the introduction of #voterid which we have had for quite sometime on this side of the #IrishSeaBorder & the introduction of the concept of 'themuns' Now you finally get to the stage of #TacticalVoting

Many of us in #NI have been voting this way for years - not who we want but who will get the other lot out!

All you need is #PR and your sorted!

@TimWardCam @Loukas @ChrisMayLA6

However when ID laws were introduced it reduced the number of incidents. Plus it helped improve the confidence of the voting public in the electoral system. So it worked.
#NI proved the system works.

So why wouldn't you want to increase the confidence of the GB voting public in elections.

Plus the real problem in GB is FPTP - which #NI doesn't use for Assembly or Local Elections either.

@Loukas @ChrisMayLA6

That is the problem right there. When it happens in England, there is uproar but when it's the other three nations - no-one is interested.

Maybe if those shouting about this, paid some attention how it is working in NI, then there could be a more reasoned debate.

So, if we are UK - then we all have the same voting laws or we don't. So bring the rest of the UK into line with #NI or remove the requirement from #NI

@ChrisMayLA6

However, part of the United Kingdom already has #voterID laws, which I don't hear much mention about or outcry over.

#NI in 2002 had The Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland) Act
introduced which amended the Representation of the People Act 1983 which required all #NI voters to have photographic identification at polling stations.

So if it acceptable for us in #NI to have to produce ID, why isn't acceptable to the rest of the UK?

HarriettMB.

@JohnLoader6 @Aviva_Gary @Pierrette @fencoul @cstross @moranicly @TomSwirly @sevignes
These days you can pay for a guided tour of the graffiti, the tragic memorials, the history of our troubles, as it’s a tourist attraction. Choice of Black Taxi Tour or those red topless buses for the privelege. Only in NI do we make money from tragedies like Titanic, Civil War, Troubles, Bombs… #ni #history

Stripymoggie

6 months ago

Background: The percentage of #NI school children cycling to school is 0%. The percentage of children walking has gone down every year for more than a decade. Over 50% of children living within a mile of their primary school are driven.

John Ager

If Northern Ireland can have all the benefits of closer ties with the EU, why can't England, Scotland, and Wales? Oh yes, we gave them all up through lies, false promises, political dogma, racism, and Boris Johnson's ego.

#Brexit #EU #UK #NI

I also do not see how you can allow the freedom to act contrary to the single market without disrupting the flow across the Irish border and/or risking Ireland's place in the single market.

Amazingly, the text recognises this problem but promotes market surveillance (?!) as a solution.

"Yeah, a bad thing for an EU member state will happen in future, but hey, at least we can look at it."
This is a terrible deal for Ireland - what the hell was the gov. at.

#brexit #protocol #ni #ireland #eu

As to allowing petitions of concern without a cross community aspect, an aspect of assembly which has caused huge instability in NI politics and harmed NI, I am simply amazed the EU agreed to that.

Put frankly, this is a mistake.

#protocol #brexit #ni

I have to admit I can't see how the CJEU can not be the ultimate arbitrator if, as is hugely likely, the contentious issue involves EU law. Very strange.

Gonna need to check the wording for this one.
#protocol #ni #brexit

David Bailey :verified:

#WindsorFramework #Brexit #NI #EU

I am absolutely astounded that it took so long for someone to use common-sense to sort out Northern Ireland's post-Brexit trading relationships. The answer was always a red and green lane, just like those at Dover/Calais. What took them so long? 🤦‍♂️

Fen C

@cstross

👆 How come that doesn't happen with #NI & #NHS numbers then?

Kriszta Satori

#BBC News - #Brexit: What can we expect from an #NI #Protocol deal?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-64685125