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Proud to be from Kerry. I like to learn. Trying to scroll less and read more.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Facebook really doesn't want you to see the new documentary exposing Elon Musk Neither do TikTok or Google or the eX social media site. Since they won't accept paid advertising, let's do some free advertising. Go see Musk in theaters October 9 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Realtine @realtine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Apparently the bigger social platforms are refusing paid ads for Gibney’s new documentary so sharing the trailer, obvs…
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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...
reddit comment: 

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply: 

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

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The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…
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Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Ancient cave art discovery suggests first known humans in Ireland walked over from Wales www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Cave art discovery suggests first humans in Ireland came from Wales
During the most recent Ice Age, researchers believe there was a "lost land bridge" between Wales and Ireland.
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Tyler K. Stroud @stroudarian.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
#Read #Books
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Virgin Media News @virginmedianews.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Limerick man Pat Lawless has set sail on an epic 30,000-mile solo circumnavigation of the globe. Over the coming months, he will aim to win a race regarded as one of the most demanding tests of endurance and perseverance at sea. #VMNews
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
From District Magazine. Grim.
Screenshot from District Magazine's Instagram post that reads "District.

In the Kerry Gaeltacht in August 2024, there were 543 properties listed on Airbnb and not a single house available to rent on Daft.ie at the same time.

Kerry has 30 short-term lets for every one long-term rental, this was the worst ratio in Ireland, according to renter charity Threshold.

Rents in Kerry rose 10.1% in the year to Q1 2025, almost double the national average of 5.5%."

#SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Look how Norway is fighting back at screens. www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
thetimes.com
Free iPads ruined kids’ reading in Norway. Now it’s fighting back
The nation’s libraries offer rollerskating, rap workshops — and, most importantly, books to reverse the decline caused by a classroom tech experiment
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 13/03/2026
Caoilfhionn Gallagher: X, C, A, B, MZ: I’m thinking of the lonely alphabet of brave, anonymous women and girls
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Caoilfhionn Gallagher: X, C, A, B, MZ: I’m thinking of the lonely alphabet of brave, anonymous women and girls
No one knows who they are, what they went through or the landmark legal change they secured, but we owe them a debt
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An Taisce @antaisce.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Launch of Hedgehog Conservation Ireland — new initiative to support and conserve the small mammals nationwide "Best things you can do are try to leave little parts of your garden a little bit wild - log piles or piles of leaves. Put away the chemicals - the slug pellets are bad news for hedgehogs"
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Ambabheg @ambabheg.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Welcoming the Year of the Horse — a fresh stride into light, luck, and new beginnings. May this new year bring calm momentum, steady progress, and moments that feel like open sky. 新年快乐 to all celebrating today.
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Brian @bwianair.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Just popping in to say that Small Prophets is lovely, melancholic, funny, sweet, strange and deals with serious topics with the lightest of touches. Everybody please watch so that Mackenzie Crook keeps getting to make things like this.
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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Pleased to report Small Prophets is ace, a Joy. Mackenzie Crook is a national treasure.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
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Luke Daly @lukedaly.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
🚨 BREAKING: #NoBarriersToBlanch 🚨 Did you know? ANOTHER Vulture fund has quietly went under the radar to turn the Leisureplex into retail units. Objection windows have passed! Sign our petition; Change.org/NoBarriersToBlanch Keep up to date; linktr.ee/Luke.Daly #dubW #DublinWest #spéirgorm
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Miriam @miriamkennedy.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Here's the link to the petition to help preserve St Stephen's Green Shopping Centre from the proposed monstrosity. #SaveStStephensGreen #Dublin #SpeirGorm c.org/BgQnkd8DCN
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Save Dublin's Iconic Landmark: Help Preserve St. Stephen's Green Shopping Centre from Redesign by Signing Now!
5,180 signatures are needed, let’s get there by the end of the day?
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LiveDrive @livedrive.dublincityfm.ie · 26/01/2026
Public services continue to review their use of social media. Some Bluesky accounts are included in our card below.
Dublin region safety updates on social media
Twitter
| Bluesky
@LiveDrive
@livedrive.dublincityfm.ie
Safety
@MetEireann
@dubfirebrigade.bsky.social
@Gardalnfo
@garda.ie
@ESBNetworks
@IrishCoastGuard
Traffic

@TIlTraffic
@M50Dublin

Public Transport
@IrishRail
@irishrail.bsky.social
@DublinBusNews
@dublinbusnews.bsky.social
@ Luas
@TFlupdates
@ BusEireann
@bus-eireann.bsky.social
@dublin_express
@SwordsExpress
@GoAheadireland
@JJKavanaghBuses
@Fingal _Express

@Aircoach
@Irish_Ferries
@irish-ferries.bsky.social
Infrastructure

@DublinAirport
@dublin-airport.bsky.social
@DublinPortCo
Councils

@dubcitycouncil.bsky.social
@ DLRCC
@WicklowCoCo
@wicklowcoco.bsky.social
@SDublinCoCo

@FingalCoCo
@fingal.ie
@KildareCoCo
@kildarecoco.bsky.social
@MeathCoCo
Unofficial but fun
@CarlowWeather
@carlowweather.bsky.social
@Shauns_Aviation
@shaunsaviation.com
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Danielle Ryan (Lestat Era) @danirat.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
RT if you don't even know how the hell to open a ChatGPT tab
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TG4 @tg4.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Nollaig na mBan shona daoibh! 👯🍸🎄
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Realtine @realtine.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
The first full-moonrise of 2026 and sunset over the Shannon #Speirgorm #IrishSky #FullMoon #sunset #Kerry
A pale full moon over Co. Clare, over a fairly still high tide, with a pier in the foreground Golden sun descending towards Tarbert Woods and the light reflecting on the full tide and the old pier
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Realtine @realtine.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Forgot to hashtag! #Speirgorm #IrishSky #NYE #NewYear #2026
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Realtine @realtine.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Beating Out the Old Year in Tarbert, Co. Kerry. It’s a very old tradition that’s died out in many other places. We take the light to the different corners of the town.
People lining up with torchesMusicians and torch-bearers getting set up for the march The crowd builds as people fall in as the march passesEveryone gathers back in the village Square to countdown the New Year & then sing a few songs. It’s a great place to meet old friends as do many return for this special night. People hug and wish each other well in front of the Christmas tree
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Realtine @realtine.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Just started now! #Solistice #Newgrange #SpeirGorm #IrishSky
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Office of Public Works @opwireland.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The #WinterSolstice livestream link is now available Join us on 21 Dec @ 8:40 am to witness the solstice sunrise live from inside the #Newgrange chamber, weather permitting. Save the link now and be part of this extraordinary moment. 🔗www.gov.ie/solstice #ShareTheSolstice
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Realtine @realtine.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Know the weather forecast isn’t great for Sunday morning but delighted that the Solstice is being live-streamed & broadcast again from Newgrange www.gov.ie/en/office-of... 🤞 the clouds clear for those few minutes #SpeirGhorm #IrishSky #Solstice #ShortestDay #Nollaig #GrandAuldStretch #Newgrange
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This rare phenomenon, which has captivated visitors for generations, marks the shortest day of the year.
This rare phenomenon, which has captivated visitors for generations, marks the shortest day of the year.
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Tom Gleeson @tggleeson.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
The Speir Gorm feed is gone, this replacement Spéir Ghorm collects the same set of hashtags in text and alt-text as the deleted one. #speirgorm
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
"There’s no genuine, citizen-driven demand to ban veggie burgers or sausages – just a meat industry push to protect its profit margins from a rising tide of dietary change” - Joel Scott-Halkes, @weplanetint.bsky.social
theguardian.com
Ban on veggie ‘burgers’: plant-based products may lose meaty names in UK under EU law
Exclusive: Trade agreement means UK is subject to some food labelling rules, with vote on vegetarian food terms this week
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Realtine @realtine.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Adopting this as my excuse!
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Spudislander45 🇨🇦❤️🌎💪🫡 @spudislander45.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
#MeidasTouch ad that isn’t being played on US #FOXNews. #Share #Canada #USA #UK #GERMANY #France #Ireland #Scotland #Finland #AUS #NZ #SouthKorea #Taiwan #EU #Ukraine #Denmark #Iceland #Norway #Sweden #Japan
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
“I can’t think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people’s understanding of what’s going on in the world.” Seamus Heaney
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Forgot to add: #SpeirGorm
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
as a free speech champion, Trump will hate these arrests www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Four arrested after images of Trump and Epstein projected on to Windsor Castle ahead of president’s visit
Trump arrived in Britain late on Tuesday for an unprecedented second state visit in which he will be hosted by King Charles
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Duncan Jones (aka Merrion) (he/him) @duncanjonesmerrion.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
The link to the actual voting form is here: www.anpost.com/Irish-Booksh... (but sadly Oxfam books not on the list)
anpost.com
Irish Bookshop Awards 2025 | Vote For Your Favourite Bookshop| An Post
Voting for the Irish Bookshop of the Year 2025 is now open. Submit your vote for a chance to Win a €100 voucher.
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Visual Artists Ireland @visualartistsirl.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Open Call | Residential Artists’ Studio 2026 from Dublin City Arts Office Residential Artists’ Studio Open Call 2026 Dublin City Council Arts Office is pleased to announce an open call to Irish and international Artists as well as Arts Organisations interested in visualartists.ie/advert/open-...
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Open Call | Residential Artists’ Studio 2026 from Dublin City Arts Office
Residential Artists’ Studio Open Call 2026 Dublin City Council Arts Office is pleased to announce an open call to Irish and international Artists as well as
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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 15/09/2025
Any vintage stereo lovers out there in the #spéirgorm world? I'm trying to find a home for a 1960s Murphy stereogram, preference is to donate it to a non-profit org with an interest in restoring or preserving them. Electronics need some work but it's in great nick cosmetically. Reposts appreciated
Brown wooden cabinet with inbuilt speakers on each sideManual for Murphy A891 SR stereogram
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Adrian Legg @adrianlegg.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Irish version.
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Realtine @realtine.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
👏🏻 Might just be the wrong time for you or a mismatch in mood, but no-one *has* to be dutiful about finishing books, films, or box sets on the basis of other people’s opinions.
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Carlow Weather @carlowweather.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
The calm before the storm this morning with a stunning sunrise at Hook Lighthouse in Wexford. Make the most of the sunny spells this morning if you have them.
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Roland Moore @rolandmooretv.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Careful using WeTransfer - especially if you’ve signed an NDA for the work you’re transferring… thanks Simon.
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Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Seven, Seven… *Seven* more followers required to get us to 1,000! What should we do to get us over the line…time for a #SuperSheltie stunt perhaps? 🙂7️⃣👍
Three Enid Blyton Secret Seven books.
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Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland @screenireland.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
With €1 billion gross value added (GVA) to the economy, 15,000 full-time-equivalent jobs, and unmeasurable cultural value, Ireland’s film industry has well and truly blossomed - as explored in today’s @irishtimes.com.📽️ 💚 #IrishFilm
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A far cry from The Quiet Man: Ireland’s film industry has its moment
Audiovisual adds €1bn to Irish economy but sector’s contribution can’t be counted in euro alone
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Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Related: Ireland, for the love of god, get off WhatsApp. These platforms are not safe. #spéirghorm
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Reese Waters @troubledh2o.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I believe it to be true. How about you?
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Realtine @realtine.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
#History #HistoryBookChat This is fascinating! Wonderful to be granted a glimpse behind the scenes 😃
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Realtine @realtine.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Poets celebrating the the 70th birthday of Rita Ann Higgins at Listowel Writers’ Week. L to R Gabriel Fitzmaurice, Victoria Kennefick, Rita Ann Higgins & Moyà Cannon in the Plaza 🎂
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Jeremy Godfrey @jgodfreyie.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Coimisiún na Meán - Ireland’s media regulator and media development agency - is now on BlueSky. Coimisiún na Meán is Ireland’s Digital Services Coordinator under the #DSA, and regulates broadcasters, VOD providers and video sharing platforms based in Ireland. ‪@cnam-ie.bsky.social #speirgorm
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Franchesca Ramsey @chescaleigh.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
“If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you” —Oscar Wilde
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Emma Rogan 🇵🇸 @emmadragon.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Three days! And it was posted at the wkend Friday 8th May?? Something up with An Bord Pleanála asking for feedback, but not really. Check it out because the dates are off and the feedback time seems to MINIMISE the potential for feedback 🤦🏾‍♀️ @wereontheditch.bsky.social #spéirghorm #speirgorm
Public Consultation – Strategic Plan and Customer Service Action Plan

08 / 05 / 2025

An Bord Pleanála is in the process of reviewing its current Strategic Plan and Customer Service Action Plan while developing new plans in the context of our transition to An Coimisiún Pleanála.

Please find enclosed links to the current Strategic Plan and Customer Service Action Plan below.

Strategic Plan 2018
Please find enclosed links to the current Strategic Plan and Customer Service Action Plan below.

Strategic Plan 2018

Customer Action Plan 2014

In this regard the Board seeking feedback from the public on our role, performance and our service provision. The key feedback we would like to hear is what your views are on what our focus should be on over the next three years and how we might better position ourselves as an organisation to deliver as we transition to An Coimisiún Pleanála. 

Feedback can be provided through the survey link below;

Public Consultation

Any queries can be sent to g.duffy@pleanala.ie 
The survey will be open until midnight on 11th May 2025
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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
On camogie and skorts … it’s not difficult www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/66...
bbc.co.uk
England hockey team make history in new skorts and shorts kit at Euros
The England Women’s hockey squad makes history competing for the first time internationally in a combination of skorts and shorts at the Euros 2023.
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Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
I don't think Trump can put tariffs on films? Under the 1988 Berman Amendment, films are explicitly exempted from any Presidential tariff order, whether emergency or not. Here's the relevant clause from The International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA): 1/3
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