Mark Dignam MDANT

@markdignam69.bsky.social

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Gender-neutral honorific of the No-Shows Chronically under-slept You can’t kill pain, it just comes back as the undead… (Habitual parentheses and ellipsis user…) Settling silently into the sand…

Inlay brick sign from The Hacienda with "FAC 51" replaced "NO.10"
Wildfires… sorry, a smoke bomb obscures the pitch at Shamrock Rovers v Cork City…
Ali Express ad for a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy themed pencil case… €8.77. Looks alright, actually…
Toy Iron Man mask on Etsy for €4.55
Ian Curtis, CP1919, Jocelyn Bell Burnell
A visibly younger Mitch McConnell enjoys the benefit of having drained Lindsey Graham’s life force…
The Missing Boy
A man with slightly unkempt, long dark hair and a stubbly beard wears a white shirt and trousers, black socks and white shoes. He sits languidly on a white chair holding a black ashtray and a cigarette. You might think he’s the coolest cricketer of all time but he is Peter Saville, graphic designer.
Penelope Keith as Margo Leadbetter. ❤️
Dog. Lying on floor. Under table. Sulking.
A man who looks like German footballer Jürgen Klinnsman passes the camera while Duran Duran singer Simon Le Bon looks on from behind. A woman is having a fit…
The utter shame on us all of a starving child
A lovely can of Diet Coke...
David Hockney in desert browns…
My page header was n BlueSky featuring a close up of a painting I made with black and red cracks and some gold. The profile is a painting of the back of my head… in red and black with some cracks etc.
A broken mirror panel reflecting a window
My father’s 91 year old hand.
A keen tool Or more likely a broken shell or sharp stone Caught the seam, severed it, of my bag, The big canvas one that holds everything. The wind coming ashore found the hole Among the frayed stitches And pulled it apart. I lost some things from the bag. I can’t say for sure what Since I don’t know all it carries And am seldom aware of any more than its weight.
Douglas Adams. Author. Died 25th May, 2001. Happy Towel Day
The great Ellen White as Katia in Stath Lets Flats
Cirrus clouds in a deep blue sky
Small Mark on Clogherhead Beach c.1974. All wet. Orange towelling shorts. Farmer’s tan. Not exactly “The Birth of Venus”…
A photo of Airdrie young team members in the late 70s / early 80s who may or may not have gone on to form or witness Memorial Device…
Seamus Coleman. Legend.
Jack, a Yorkshire Terrier, sulking and trying to make me feel guilty for something. I don’t.
Headline from the NBC website: (Alex) Ferguson taken to hospital as precaution before Man Utd v Liverpool
An XXL Value Pack of Domestos Bleach
Norn Iron “Tayto”. Me hole.
Ian Curtis.
Two small children, a boy of about 6 and a girl of about 3, meet a very polite Imperial Stormtrooper who is shaking hands with the little girl. I love this photo so much...
Saturated sunrise
BBC News headline page stating “Viktor Orbán concedes with Hungarian opposition on course for landslide election win”
A centaur bride, viewed from behind…
Just before sunrise , a ragged grey sky is streaked with orange and yellow at the horizon. Silhouettes of trees and scrub in the foreground.
Pre-show Gorillaz on-stage graphic. 3 Arena, Dublin. Now.
Tara Dignam, in concert, February 2026.
A BBC report heading “What can sport’s boss do to help keep Verstappen in F1?” Subheading: “F1 finds itself in something of a tangled web as it tries to refine the new rules, improve safety and ensure the drivers are happy without compromising safety”. There’s an accompanying photo of an immature “racing driver” who has been crying that if he can’t win, he’s just going to bring his ball home…
An advert for Nike's New England football kit. The title is "GUTS2GLORY" in red lettering with the first G, the 2 and the R in an "old English" font in contrast to the rest which is a heavy, condensed sans-serif. Much smaller below "RISK IT ALL. TAKE IT ALL" and a nike logo. Four England players heads and shoulders underneath, looking moody. I think one of them is John Stones but I don't know the rest. One of them holds a silver star on a silver chain. I think he plays for Chelsea. He's a bit "look, Mum..." In the middle there's a full length player pic in his full white kit. Is it Jude Bellingham? Not sure. Might be. OK, I've had a closer look and it's not him. Don't know who it is... More text in red says "NIKE FOOTBALL and ENGLAND PRESENT..." It's supposed to be like a movie poster. Ohhhh... Oh and here's the players names... It's COLE PALMER (oh yeah), MARCUS RASHFORD (at the bottom? Doesn't look like him?), PHIL FODEN (eyebrow - I should have known), JOHN STONES (at least I got ONE right) and REECE JAMES (I don't think I know him - he'll probably score the winner in the final?). Then some more logos and underneath, underneath it says: "The 2026 England Men's National Team kit isn't just about what our players wear - it's about how we show up as a nation. For years, English football carried its legacy quietly. Respectful. Reserved. Rooted in tradition. Not anymore."... Are they having a laugh?
BTS take a bow in front of a sea of phones
Portrait of an egg yolk yellow sunrise with alto-cirrus cloud in a pale blue sky, trees in silhouette and the remains of contrails crossing the sun horizontally. Another disintegrating contrail extends downward almost vertically, like a broken exclamation mark.
Isabella Blow… wearing a hat