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Mark Dignam MDANT

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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…

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Mark Dignam MDANT @markdignam69.bsky.social · Nov 16

Decided to change my profile pic from “the other place”.
This time, I’ve gone for a self-portrait of the back of my head… Oh, and it’s years old…

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Mark Dignam MDANT @markdignam69.bsky.social · 1m

“It was alright” 😂😂😂
NOTHING worse. You tear your fucking soul out through your fingertips and you get “not bad”…

You’re right though, overthinking is a killer. There’s more to it, I think (🙄), though. There’s an attempt to visualise rage, trauma, any emotion really as viscerally as possible.

Mark Dignam MDANT @markdignam69.bsky.social · 26m

I genuinely try not to get better, Stu. I want to stay as unthinking and empty-headed as possible (not even vaguely possible, I know!). Now, I realise that this is an aspiration that most artists wouldn’t recognise but it’s how I’ve always approached painting. Alter, mutate but always barbaric.

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Mark Dignam MDANT @markdignam69.bsky.social · 49m

So do I

Mark Dignam MDANT @markdignam69.bsky.social · 52m

No, I’m not

Mark Dignam MDANT @markdignam69.bsky.social · 54m

Yeah, you don’t have to work yourself to death but you do have to do… well… something! You have to keep going… Here’s a good trick for you, Stu. Practice regularly and often. Work when you can. Yet maintain your sense of searching and a deep connection to your naive spirit. Try not to “improve”.

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Mark Dignam MDANT @markdignam69.bsky.social · 1h

Have you nothing better to do? I know I have.

Mark Dignam MDANT @markdignam69.bsky.social · 1h

Was it expensive? The sense of humour bypass? I see you’ve fully recovered…

Mark Dignam MDANT @markdignam69.bsky.social · 2h

I need a drink! I’m 56 and a few of my mates have grandkids. Just not ready yet!

Mark Dignam MDANT @markdignam69.bsky.social · 2h

Just out of curiosity, Pete, what’s the maximum number of kids a teacher could use this method with? My wife’s a teacher, regularly does field trips. Not a hope in hell you could do something like this with 80 13-year-olds. Even if they have 6 teachers with them…

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Mark Dignam MDANT @markdignam69.bsky.social · 2h

Alright, lads, calm down. Just a silly joke! No sense of humour round here! 😂

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Mark Dignam MDANT @markdignam69.bsky.social · 2h

“Decades”?! How old are the kids?! 😳😂

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Mark Dignam MDANT @markdignam69.bsky.social · 3h

I guessed that! It’s a long time for everyone waiting for him to disappear for good…

Mark Dignam MDANT @markdignam69.bsky.social · 3h

Sick bastard.

รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 6h

graham linehan’s latest escalation is hiring ppl to dox and harass trans women. 🤷‍♀️

jus imagine for a second that a cis man was doing this to cis women.

society says not only is it okay to do it to trans women but it’s fine to publicly crowdfund to pay for it. 😕

Let's hire a private detective!
Here's where we are: for wears, Ive been reporting a group of men to the police. They ve harassed dozens of people.
the harassment and death threats they send my way, nothing happens. When others report them, nothing happens.
But here's what does happen: the police investigate us for talking about them.
Ine grotesque nature or this colacerason would be laservano trom a oritance. Unortunatty, fi not as a ostance, and it's been going on for years.
So I've decided to do something that feets wonderfully ridiculous and also completely necessary, hire a proper private detective. Someone who actually investigates things. Novel concept, I know.
I'm deughted to say that our prece on Melody Uawion has resuited in members of his tamity ottung m touch. And that s what we can do without a private detective. Think what will happen if we get professionals on the case.
Picture it: a licensed imestigater with a proper case file, following leads from Sussex to Capetown, gathering evidence the authorities keco oretendina doesn't exist. Well comale everything, oresent & to indroundent abservers and every maic)
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Mark Dignam MDANT @markdignam69.bsky.social · 4h

Fair play to you, you’re a really decent human. I can’t say I’ve ever felt anything approaching sympathy for him. Despicable.

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IndiaWilloughby @indiawilloughby.bsky.social · 5h

This is Graham Linehan, who UKLabour, WesStreeting and every columnist in the country rushed to defend when he was arrested by police, after inciting online violence and smashed a trans girl’s phone. They are even changing the law specifically to protect him. “Just a joke” @mrjamesob.bsky.social

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glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 4h

A lovely tinge of lavender in the sky this morning before sunrise. Photo taken about an hour before sunrise in Glastonbury.

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Mark Dignam MDANT @markdignam69.bsky.social · 12h

I know why you’re saying that - I feel the same way about lots of things but like most other creative endeavours, as you well know, the vast majority of it comes down to work and commitment. In truth, I’m a bit lacking in both departments. Life? 🙄

Mark Dignam MDANT @markdignam69.bsky.social · 12h

My profile pic, Stu…
To go back to the original point, not easy, is it?! 😂

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Mark Dignam MDANT @markdignam69.bsky.social · 13h

Hurry up, then…

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 13h

You want to know why people don't love the United States? Because the US that people say they love isn't a country. It's a segregated country club built on a graveyard.

And it's not enough for some people to have exclusive entry to and privileges in the country club.

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Mark Dignam MDANT @markdignam69.bsky.social · 13h

Paint-worthy. There are quite a few paintings of me round the place (not on display, you understand) but only because I painted them myself. 😂 Was thinking I’m due some new ones…

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Mark Dignam MDANT @markdignam69.bsky.social · 13h

And I know this isn’t what was intended by “events” so:

1. The kidnapping of Tiede Herrema

2. The assassination of Anwar Sadat

3. The Space Shuttle

4. Thatcher becoming PM across the water

5. The death of Gilles Villeneuve

Mark Dignam MDANT @markdignam69.bsky.social · 13h

What 5 events defined your childhood:

1. Weather. Always the weather

2. The death of my grandfather. A right bastard. Had my first drink, aged 8, at his wake

3. ESB power-cuts. Watching my mother cook with kerosene

4. Rarely seeing my father who worked away almost all the time

5. Loneliness

__________ @jenbren.bsky.social · 14h

What 5 events defined your childhood:

1. Italia 90
2. Live Aid
3. Charlie Haughey telling us all to tighten our belts while buying his mistress couture in Paris
4. The Troubles
5. 35-40 classrooms in school & teacher strikes

Justin @ediparolev.bsky.social · 15h

What 5 events defined your childhood:

1. Power cuts
2. Star Wars
3. Space Shuttle
4. The Royal Wedding
5. Falklands War

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Mark Dignam MDANT @markdignam69.bsky.social · 14h

You may refer me ad lib, my friend. Some people’s recommendations are more to be recommended than others. 😉

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 15h

May i refer you to @robinince.bsky.social, who wrote a brilliant poem on this earlier in the year.

normallyweirdassociates.bandcamp.com/track/dark-a...

Dark Angels, by Robin Ince and Rachel Taylor-Beales

from the album Weirdly Normal

normallyweirdassociates.bandcamp.com

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