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Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 4m

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Séjour en France de moins de 3 mois : enregistrement dans le système européen d’entrée/sortie (EES)

Dès courant octobre 2025, un ressortissant de pays tiers se rendant dans l’espace Schengen pendant moins de 3 mois sera enregistré dans le système EES.

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Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 11m

Personally I’d rather get my information from official sources instead of rumours and speculation

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Tout savoir sur le système d’entrée-sortie (EES) de l’espace Schengen

Le système d’entrée-sortie (EES) entre en service le 12 octobre 2025. Ce nouveau dispositif automatisé permet de contrôler électroniquement les entrées, sorties, refus d'entrée et durées de séjour des...

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Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 16m

None of those are “new” or anything to do with the introduction of EES

The Independent doesn’t sell itself, it needs click bait and Calder has gone from being a serious journalist to a source of clicks for that newspaper

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Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 20m

In other news leading Brexiter and tax exile calls on the EU to help him make even more money

Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 23m

The biggest whiner about 90/180 certainly did IMO

Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 29m

The Torygraph was once a serious newspaper, even if it didn’t hide its political affiliation you could at least trust the veracity of what was published

If we can’t shake off this zero sum nonsense we will never make any progress politically, socially or economically

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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 43m

1. This does not target the UK

2. This is clear evidence of being inside a customs union rather than floating alone

3. It was inevitable that Trump's actions at the head of such a large economy would result in dumping elsewhere.. Europe has to be able to take action to counter that.

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Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 40m

What are those sources telling you?

The rules for entry to the Schengen Zone haven’t changed, they have been constant for years

EES means you are dealing with a machine instead of a human

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Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 47m

A passport and a ticket are all that’s needed

The EES system just records your biometric details and then checks them on subsequent border crossings

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Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 1h

It is strange that there were so many post 1990 expansion franchises placed in the Southern states and also how successful they have been

Florida Panthers 2023 & 24
Vegas Golden Knights 2022
Tampa Bay Lightning 2004, 2020 & 21
Carolina Hurricanes 2006

A Canukian team hasn’t won since 1993 🤯

Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 12h

The Lightning have won 3 Stanley Cups I’ll have you know

That’s one more than the Buccaneers have in Super Bowl wins, and (checks notes) three more than the Rays have in World Series wins

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Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 12h

two men standing next to a woman with the words " you 're nicked " written on the bottom

ALT: two men standing next to a woman with the words " you 're nicked " written on the bottom

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Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 14h

The Bar was very profitable, we were rammed weekday lunchtimes being downtown, and we were close to the Ice Palace for hockey, plus Tampa Theatre and the Convention Centre were close by

Plus Gasparilla every year, a SuperBowl in 2000, the Final Four in 1999 and the Outback Bowl every new year

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Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 14h

Much of the main American sports were on free to air TV, but we had ESPN and Fox Sports via DishTV

I don’t think the EPL was on TV, but we had the Champions League on ESPN

On the other hand I refused the generous offer from Setanta Sports to show the 1999 RWC as $18,000 was a bit pricey

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Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 15h

A Pub/Sports Bar

Everything was going great until a property developer offered to buy us out and after I had shown him our 30 year lease (5y + 5 5y renewals) they told us it wasn’t valid and most likely a forgery

It was, and the English guy who took our ££ has long disappeared

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Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 15h

I think the saying goes “Bollocks posted by a gogshyte on twitter will have a million likes before the legal expert with the facts can get his trousers on”

Posting a rebuttal with a link to legal text means nothing to someone who probably believes Article 61 of the Magna Carta is a real thing

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Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 15h

I still wear it as a badge of honour that the cunt blocked me 2 years ago for defending my wife’s birthright when he was ranting against Irish people and how they didn’t deserve to be treated differently to Brits

All I said was “hating on the Irish won’t help” and it was an instant block 🤣

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Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 15h

Does the Sydney Morning Herald include under “what you need to know” that as usual the Poms are whining

Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 15h

Is it the one with the doors sealed with sticky tape?

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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 15h

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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 21h

Sure. Read this thread, esp. about Schengen obligations

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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · Jun 4

If there's one thing we know about Brexit, it's that issues were caused by Europe's stance.

Nothing at all to do with Britons.

Classic.

A 🧵

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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 15h

I like this one especially, which he repeats ad nauseam, and which is very damaging

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · Jun 4

This is indeed legal nonsense - you can find the 90/180 day rule in Art 4 of the EU's visa list Regulation, with no suggestion that it's a minimum standard - eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2018...

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Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 15h

Yes, from 1997 to 2002 in downtown Tampa

We left England with £600K in October 1997 and returned in November 2002 with 7 suitcases and about £11K in cash, (it became a bit more once my Ch13 & Ch7 were resolved a few months later)

That’s why/how I became a bus driver in Somerset

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Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 16h

I remember it well, because when it was shown at Tampa Theatre our bar/restaurant which was 2 blocks away was packed for 3 nights

The only other movie screening that did similar was the Blair Witch Project

NB: Tampa Theatre is a bit of a niche movie theatre

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Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 18h

Peaked with his first film (which was somewhat revolutionary at the time) and then it went downhill from there

two men standing next to each other with the words hustler a ten pounds on the bottom

ALT: two men standing next to each other with the words hustler a ten pounds on the bottom

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Debbie Eade @debbieeade.bsky.social · 19h

Never forget how useful the Mute option is on social media, people 😉
#NoTimeForTrolls

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