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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 10h

Oh I know dw. I bought this P7 Pro a few years ago now second hand for slightly more than a replacement OLED would cost, and the battery was shot already! Not worth replacing with OEM parts. It'll be a useful backup or guest phone tbh. Also the LCD runs SO WARM when it's bright, it's so stupid

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 10h

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.

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 10h

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 🔥

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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 22h

Photos are up brendanjharkin.myportfolio.com/drumcree-dis...

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 10h

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

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 10h

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.

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 10h

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

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 10h

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.

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 28/09/2026

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!!

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 28/09/2026

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.

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 28/09/2026

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.

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 28/09/2026

I'm all too familiar with the shortcomings of the results of the peace process. But we should be preparing for unity because it is basically written in stone that the legal thresholds for triggering a border poll will be met. If we plan for it, it can work.

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 28/09/2026

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.

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 27/09/2026

Don't you think the vast majority of your neighbours in Co Meath are good, decent people? Why would my neighbours up north be any different? The vast majority of them are good people *despite* a lifetime of exposure to bigotry and malice.

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 27/09/2026

You'd think that the commission would think twice about putting their hand in the fire given the evidence that their predecessors got their hands burned every time. But maybe they're just optimists. Who knows. Jesus wept.

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 27/09/2026

It could theoretically be true that they had no intel that there would be an issue. However, I'd imagine the algae suffocating Lough Neagh would be able to come to the conclusion that it's basically a given that there would be

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 27/09/2026

I mean I wasn't born yesterday lol

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 27/09/2026

That's what I meant, yeah. It's important to them but it's also 2026 and we are nearly 3 decades into the theoretical reality of everyone making compromises to maintain an uneasy peace. They've picked the most out in the open, fluorescent land mine to jump on because that's what they do.

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 27/09/2026

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

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 27/09/2026

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.

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 27/09/2026

I don't think the NI government will survive this, I have more doubts than ever that the rest of our institutions will recover either. The reaction from the new Labour Secretary of State for NI doesn't bode well either. Just a shambles.

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 27/09/2026

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.

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 27/09/2026

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.

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 27/09/2026

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.

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 27/09/2026

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.

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 27/09/2026

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.

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 27/09/2026

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.

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 27/09/2026

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.

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 25/09/2026

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

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 27/09/2026

We all wish him the very best ❤️🙂‍↕️

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 26/09/2026

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 :)

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 25/09/2026

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

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 25/09/2026

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

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 23/09/2026

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!

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 20/09/2026

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

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 20/09/2026

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

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 02/09/2026

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.

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 02/09/2026

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.

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 31/08/2026

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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Toni V 🌱 🧶 🐈‍⬛ @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

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

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 24/08/2026

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

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 24/08/2026

Лесно за лесбийки, твн

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 19/08/2026

It's been there long enough, I imagine so!

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 19/08/2026

I've seen a photo of this guy before! A little worse for wear these days sadly

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 19/08/2026

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

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 16/08/2026

After much experimentation, the perfect fried rice has been mastered. Perfect egg char flavour from letting it burn just a little. Shallots. Fermented garlic. Whallop of msg. Fish sauce. Black rice vinegar. Peas and scallions. Day old jasmine rice. It is perfect and my whole apartment smells amazing

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 08/08/2026

Bitta rockwool bitta ply and it'll be like the Hilton in thon

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Ellen Murray @ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 08/08/2026

Last week up by Dunblane in Scotland. The Romans could've maintained this road a bit better! Pothole central station up here

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