Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸
@beebsymca.bsky.social
Cycling. Public Historian.
Northern Ireland (the border bit).
Daughter of a Weaver.
www.digitalfilmarchive.net
A piece of archive film for every occasion.
Also: https://bsky.app/profile/nornirongirl1981.bsky.social
Northern Ireland (the border bit).
Daughter of a Weaver.
www.digitalfilmarchive.net
A piece of archive film for every occasion.
Also: https://bsky.app/profile/nornirongirl1981.bsky.social
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Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸
@beebsymca.bsky.social
· Jan 4
Seeing the future through the past - News
Over 129 years of moving images from Northern Ireland, featuring amateur and professional films from 1897 to 2026, brought to you by Northern Ireland Screen.
digitalfilmarchive.net
"It’s easy to see it as a pre-time, a time before, but watching these archives, I see the cracks through which the alternative Ulster is coming."
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Kuss abandons his first race of the season.
A Visma coach leaves, citing a lack of creativity and passion
Simon Philip Yates retires, citing a lack of motivation
Vingegaard to ride Giro to rediscover his enthusiasm
Wout has been phoning it in for two seasons.
what the heck is wrong at Visma?
A Visma coach leaves, citing a lack of creativity and passion
Simon Philip Yates retires, citing a lack of motivation
Vingegaard to ride Giro to rediscover his enthusiasm
Wout has been phoning it in for two seasons.
what the heck is wrong at Visma?
February 9, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Kuss abandons his first race of the season.
A Visma coach leaves, citing a lack of creativity and passion
Simon Philip Yates retires, citing a lack of motivation
Vingegaard to ride Giro to rediscover his enthusiasm
Wout has been phoning it in for two seasons.
what the heck is wrong at Visma?
A Visma coach leaves, citing a lack of creativity and passion
Simon Philip Yates retires, citing a lack of motivation
Vingegaard to ride Giro to rediscover his enthusiasm
Wout has been phoning it in for two seasons.
what the heck is wrong at Visma?
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All the private jets leaving the super bowl. Paper straws etc
February 9, 2026 at 7:24 PM
All the private jets leaving the super bowl. Paper straws etc
I left a FB group for local artists yesterday after the Admin chose to upload one of those ChatGPT images of herself and other artists. And then tried to argue that it was:
1. Good for the profile of the page as it had over 50k views
2. A great way to show artists what could be done.
1. Good for the profile of the page as it had over 50k views
2. A great way to show artists what could be done.
February 9, 2026 at 7:40 PM
I left a FB group for local artists yesterday after the Admin chose to upload one of those ChatGPT images of herself and other artists. And then tried to argue that it was:
1. Good for the profile of the page as it had over 50k views
2. A great way to show artists what could be done.
1. Good for the profile of the page as it had over 50k views
2. A great way to show artists what could be done.
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To give you an idea of what we do, here's the showreel from our birthday party.
Digital Film Archive 25th Anniversary Showreel - View media
Over 129 years of moving images from Northern Ireland, featuring amateur and professional films from 1897 to 2026, brought to you by Northern Ireland Screen.
digitalfilmarchive.net
February 9, 2026 at 7:20 PM
To give you an idea of what we do, here's the showreel from our birthday party.
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Lisa O’Neill @ Pavilion Theatre
Dún Laoghaire. March 8th International Women’s Day.
Tickets on sale Friday Feb 6th @ 10am www.paviliontheatre.ie/events/view/...
A benefit concert for Saoirse Domestic Violence Services
sdvs.ie
@lisaoneillmusic.bsky.social
@paviliontheatre.bsky.social
Dún Laoghaire. March 8th International Women’s Day.
Tickets on sale Friday Feb 6th @ 10am www.paviliontheatre.ie/events/view/...
A benefit concert for Saoirse Domestic Violence Services
sdvs.ie
@lisaoneillmusic.bsky.social
@paviliontheatre.bsky.social
February 5, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Lisa O’Neill @ Pavilion Theatre
Dún Laoghaire. March 8th International Women’s Day.
Tickets on sale Friday Feb 6th @ 10am www.paviliontheatre.ie/events/view/...
A benefit concert for Saoirse Domestic Violence Services
sdvs.ie
@lisaoneillmusic.bsky.social
@paviliontheatre.bsky.social
Dún Laoghaire. March 8th International Women’s Day.
Tickets on sale Friday Feb 6th @ 10am www.paviliontheatre.ie/events/view/...
A benefit concert for Saoirse Domestic Violence Services
sdvs.ie
@lisaoneillmusic.bsky.social
@paviliontheatre.bsky.social
So many good tunes to go with but I'm choosing this classic, if only because Pete Sinfield claimed it was actually a subversive attack on Margaret Thatcher.
February 9, 2026 at 2:35 PM
So many good tunes to go with but I'm choosing this classic, if only because Pete Sinfield claimed it was actually a subversive attack on Margaret Thatcher.
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It's not every day you get to see one of these bad boys parked up in the harbour
February 9, 2026 at 2:31 PM
It's not every day you get to see one of these bad boys parked up in the harbour
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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
Would also work in this Ulster.
February 8, 2026 at 11:07 PM
Would also work in this Ulster.
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Some think the people want affordable housing, a decent health service, and opportunity, but what would really transform their lives is a gondola to nowhere and knowing their elected reps have a framed photo of them beside it on their wall.
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Some think the people want affordable housing, a decent health service, and opportunity, but what would really transform their lives is a gondola to nowhere and knowing their elected reps have a framed photo of them beside it on their wall.
RARE have done amazing work in tracking the lies spun by the money-grabbing Newry Mourne & Down District Council.
They are slowly pricing us out of access to the parks we have AND denying Newry the one we've been promised for over 20 years now.
They are slowly pricing us out of access to the parks we have AND denying Newry the one we've been promised for over 20 years now.
Newry, Mourne and Down District Council has collected over £1.1 million from controversial Forest Park parking charges in 20 months and now plans to install access barriers in Kilbroney Park ✋ 🛑
Full details and local reaction on our Facebook post, which has received 80k views this weekend.
Full details and local reaction on our Facebook post, which has received 80k views this weekend.
February 8, 2026 at 9:33 PM
RARE have done amazing work in tracking the lies spun by the money-grabbing Newry Mourne & Down District Council.
They are slowly pricing us out of access to the parks we have AND denying Newry the one we've been promised for over 20 years now.
They are slowly pricing us out of access to the parks we have AND denying Newry the one we've been promised for over 20 years now.
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There is simply no moral argument for allowing war criminals to compete at the Olympics.
February 8, 2026 at 1:32 PM
There is simply no moral argument for allowing war criminals to compete at the Olympics.
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The Poetry of Grief: ‘Mid-Term Break’
📅 Sat 28 Feb, 2pm: https://www.nli.ie/exhibitions-events/poetry-grief
A talk on #SeamusHeaney’s Mid-Term Break—his moving elegy for his brother—and how grief evolves across his work, from childhood loss to reflective repose decades later.
📅 Sat 28 Feb, 2pm: https://www.nli.ie/exhibitions-events/poetry-grief
A talk on #SeamusHeaney’s Mid-Term Break—his moving elegy for his brother—and how grief evolves across his work, from childhood loss to reflective repose decades later.
The Poetry of Grief
A Reflection on 'Mid-Term Break'
www.nli.ie
February 8, 2026 at 1:50 PM
The Poetry of Grief: ‘Mid-Term Break’
📅 Sat 28 Feb, 2pm: https://www.nli.ie/exhibitions-events/poetry-grief
A talk on #SeamusHeaney’s Mid-Term Break—his moving elegy for his brother—and how grief evolves across his work, from childhood loss to reflective repose decades later.
📅 Sat 28 Feb, 2pm: https://www.nli.ie/exhibitions-events/poetry-grief
A talk on #SeamusHeaney’s Mid-Term Break—his moving elegy for his brother—and how grief evolves across his work, from childhood loss to reflective repose decades later.
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no great artists have ever struggled, a famous thing about artists that we all know. everyone prior to three years ago lived lives of luxury.
![the stupid 'talent is a gatekeeping mechanism' thread that's going around, three posts reading:
tired of having these arguments so i'm gonna lay out the STARK reality of AI for some of you privileged fucks:
1. "talent" is a gatekeeping mechanism that has created a culture of professionalism that is no less of an ivory tower than academia, a moralized proxy for access to time, training, money.
2. being poor means having to make hard choices like:
[a] drawing something yourself in a way society would call "bad" (i.e. unprofessional)
[b] sacrificing resources you don't have to pay a real artist what they're worth (or learn yourself)
[c] not doing it at all, or
[d] using AI.
“just don’t use AI” is a luxury position. when people moralize choices made under scarcity, they’re pretending the menu is the same for everyone. it fucking isn’t.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dei7f7zh74xr3hoghei6ke3d/bafkreig5uei5qn5bkwhgniorhoyesfs73ovo76xwfk2yxprmtnbde4cvp4@jpeg)
February 6, 2026 at 7:23 PM
no great artists have ever struggled, a famous thing about artists that we all know. everyone prior to three years ago lived lives of luxury.
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I have told a few MPs this. I genuinely feel a lot of adults hate the existence and needs of young people. Then they act surprised/bewildered that these kids are anxious/depressed.
Kids can't hang out in parks. They can't hang out at the mall. They don't have 3rd spaces because no one wants kids around and then we are surprised when they rely on SM for connection.
If you take that away, what do they have left?
If you take that away, what do they have left?
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The impacts of locking under 16 yos from their social media networks are now beginning to bite for those young people who relied on them for social connection
The impacts of locking under 16 yos from their social media networks are now beginning to bite for those young people who relied on them for social connection
February 8, 2026 at 9:37 AM
I have told a few MPs this. I genuinely feel a lot of adults hate the existence and needs of young people. Then they act surprised/bewildered that these kids are anxious/depressed.
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i’m not on nextdoor but my wife has shown me anxious posts of adults worrying about the “youths loitering at the end of the road”
at the end of the road there is: a playground
they’re complaining about kids going to a playground
at the end of the road there is: a playground
they’re complaining about kids going to a playground
Kids can't hang out in parks. They can't hang out at the mall. They don't have 3rd spaces because no one wants kids around and then we are surprised when they rely on SM for connection.
If you take that away, what do they have left?
If you take that away, what do they have left?
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The impacts of locking under 16 yos from their social media networks are now beginning to bite for those young people who relied on them for social connection
The impacts of locking under 16 yos from their social media networks are now beginning to bite for those young people who relied on them for social connection
February 8, 2026 at 9:47 AM
i’m not on nextdoor but my wife has shown me anxious posts of adults worrying about the “youths loitering at the end of the road”
at the end of the road there is: a playground
they’re complaining about kids going to a playground
at the end of the road there is: a playground
they’re complaining about kids going to a playground
Ah, the "life was simpler" trope: Kids today are all soft because everything is handed to them. This neglects to address the systematic abuse of anyone who wasn't "normal".
Many adults refuse to accept that times have changed for the better for many people and not everything "modern" is horrible.
Many adults refuse to accept that times have changed for the better for many people and not everything "modern" is horrible.
Kids can't hang out in parks. They can't hang out at the mall. They don't have 3rd spaces because no one wants kids around and then we are surprised when they rely on SM for connection.
If you take that away, what do they have left?
If you take that away, what do they have left?
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The impacts of locking under 16 yos from their social media networks are now beginning to bite for those young people who relied on them for social connection
The impacts of locking under 16 yos from their social media networks are now beginning to bite for those young people who relied on them for social connection
February 8, 2026 at 9:54 AM
Ah, the "life was simpler" trope: Kids today are all soft because everything is handed to them. This neglects to address the systematic abuse of anyone who wasn't "normal".
Many adults refuse to accept that times have changed for the better for many people and not everything "modern" is horrible.
Many adults refuse to accept that times have changed for the better for many people and not everything "modern" is horrible.
Welcome to the world of public engagement where the danger of a lovely person turning out to be a complete loon is ever present.
Finally found a barber I like. Minimal chatting, good job, quick work and good price. Yesterday he said my recent cold was because of my Covid jabs and waffled on for 25 minutes about it. Lunacy. I can never return and have to find a new barber.
February 8, 2026 at 9:44 AM
Welcome to the world of public engagement where the danger of a lovely person turning out to be a complete loon is ever present.
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We're working with Rathmullan Film Festival again this year.
It's a wonderful little festival in Donegal that brings together local events and films with international cinema.
It's a wonderful little festival in Donegal that brings together local events and films with international cinema.
Rathmmulan | Film Fest
A Film Festival with a difference - festival programmed by the local community in Rathmullan, Co. Donegal, Ireland.
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February 8, 2026 at 9:41 AM
We're working with Rathmullan Film Festival again this year.
It's a wonderful little festival in Donegal that brings together local events and films with international cinema.
It's a wonderful little festival in Donegal that brings together local events and films with international cinema.
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If you wanted to design an organisation to kill journalism, you would create something very much like Reach.
Pushed by Reach newspapers on social media feeds: the death of Michael Sundin. Which happened in 1989. As if it’s a news story. So that you click.
February 8, 2026 at 7:55 AM
If you wanted to design an organisation to kill journalism, you would create something very much like Reach.
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Got a photo of a fox on my way home. Accidentally also got a photo of a man with one leg fighting a woman for trying to steal his wheelchair.
Redcar.
Redcar.
December 7, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Got a photo of a fox on my way home. Accidentally also got a photo of a man with one leg fighting a woman for trying to steal his wheelchair.
Redcar.
Redcar.
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ICYMI: A universe where Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush's Don't Give Up is a cover of a Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash song. And Dire Straits' Brothers In Arms was originally by The Pogues. And Queen's Somebody To Love was actually a Proclaimers' song. Let me explain. www.patreon.com/posts/18-goo...
18 Good-To-Brilliant Cover Versions of Quite Possibly Even Better But Sadly Nonexistent Originals by Other Artists | Pete Paphides
Get more from Pete Paphides on Patreon
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February 8, 2026 at 8:33 AM
ICYMI: A universe where Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush's Don't Give Up is a cover of a Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash song. And Dire Straits' Brothers In Arms was originally by The Pogues. And Queen's Somebody To Love was actually a Proclaimers' song. Let me explain. www.patreon.com/posts/18-goo...
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