Seamus Mac an t-Sagairt
@jimmact.bsky.social
Town Councillor for Bulwark, Chepstow. I probably won't do much politics on this site - I'm here for the other stuff - comics, books, films, beer, football, music. For my lukewarm takes on political issues, find me at @jimmact_politx in the shouty place.
While idly playing with Google street view, I decided to look at my old family home in earlier years. And there's my Mum hanging out washing in 2009. She passed away in 2012. I have lots of photos of her, but this was unexpected and....🥺
March 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM
While idly playing with Google street view, I decided to look at my old family home in earlier years. And there's my Mum hanging out washing in 2009. She passed away in 2012. I have lots of photos of her, but this was unexpected and....🥺
This morning's Breakfast show on BBC Radio 3 is marvelous and moving - a meditation for holocaust memorial day, from Auschwitz. Harrowing and touching stories. Beautiful music. Thanks to Petroc Trelawny and the production team.
January 27, 2025 at 9:18 AM
This morning's Breakfast show on BBC Radio 3 is marvelous and moving - a meditation for holocaust memorial day, from Auschwitz. Harrowing and touching stories. Beautiful music. Thanks to Petroc Trelawny and the production team.
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#HillfortsWednesday. The one that started it all back in 1985. And the one that still exhibits some of my reconstruction work. Castell Henllys, Pembs.
www.pembrokeshirecoast.wales/castell-henl...
www.pembrokeshirecoast.wales/castell-henl...
Castell Henllys Iron Age Village - Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
www.pembrokeshirecoast.wales
January 22, 2025 at 12:11 AM
#HillfortsWednesday. The one that started it all back in 1985. And the one that still exhibits some of my reconstruction work. Castell Henllys, Pembs.
www.pembrokeshirecoast.wales/castell-henl...
www.pembrokeshirecoast.wales/castell-henl...
They've forgotten to colour the day in again.
January 15, 2025 at 11:46 AM
They've forgotten to colour the day in again.
Had a colonoscopy on Sunday (thanks NHS!). They asked if I wanted sedation (you'll be out of action for 24 hours) or entonox (you'll be ok afterwards, but no alcohol for 24 hours). Or just grit your teeth. Reader, I gritted my teeth. 🍻
January 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Had a colonoscopy on Sunday (thanks NHS!). They asked if I wanted sedation (you'll be out of action for 24 hours) or entonox (you'll be ok afterwards, but no alcohol for 24 hours). Or just grit your teeth. Reader, I gritted my teeth. 🍻
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Wondering if anyone else has been affected by any of the issues in Kafka's The Metamorphosis? At the moment I'm just putting out feelers.
December 30, 2024 at 9:13 PM
Wondering if anyone else has been affected by any of the issues in Kafka's The Metamorphosis? At the moment I'm just putting out feelers.
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Carol and Julie two bereaved campaigning mothers who (with others) founded @killedwomennw.bsky.social have been honoured in the new year's list and I can think of few more deserving. Proud to know them.
December 30, 2024 at 10:46 PM
Carol and Julie two bereaved campaigning mothers who (with others) founded @killedwomennw.bsky.social have been honoured in the new year's list and I can think of few more deserving. Proud to know them.
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I’ve started Arcane… I understand now.
Holy wow 🔥
Holy wow 🔥
a man with red hair and a woman with blue hair are looking at each other
ALT: a man with red hair and a woman with blue hair are looking at each other
media.tenor.com
December 14, 2024 at 10:22 PM
I’ve started Arcane… I understand now.
Holy wow 🔥
Holy wow 🔥
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Evan B. Harris, Hare of the North
December 2, 2024 at 7:51 AM
Evan B. Harris, Hare of the North
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i’m an album girly
playlists are cool
but listening to an entire album in order, the way the artist intended? that’s where it’s at for me personally
playlists are cool
but listening to an entire album in order, the way the artist intended? that’s where it’s at for me personally
November 23, 2024 at 3:00 PM
i’m an album girly
playlists are cool
but listening to an entire album in order, the way the artist intended? that’s where it’s at for me personally
playlists are cool
but listening to an entire album in order, the way the artist intended? that’s where it’s at for me personally
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I'm auctioning one of my old guitars on Ebay this week with the proceeds going to The Blake Cottage Trust who are raising funds to repair the 17thC cottage in Sussex where William Blake lived when he wrote the lyric that became 'Jerusalem' www.blakecottage.org/home
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/36524786...
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/36524786...
Pardon our interruption...eBay Home
www.ebay.co.uk
November 23, 2024 at 7:04 PM
I'm auctioning one of my old guitars on Ebay this week with the proceeds going to The Blake Cottage Trust who are raising funds to repair the 17thC cottage in Sussex where William Blake lived when he wrote the lyric that became 'Jerusalem' www.blakecottage.org/home
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/36524786...
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/36524786...
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Got back from a football related trip to Scotland yesterday. Couldn't resist bringing this beauty back.
November 17, 2024 at 8:56 AM
Got back from a football related trip to Scotland yesterday. Couldn't resist bringing this beauty back.
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If you need apotheosis level cheering up w emotional connection * 1000 & outrageously gorgeous color music pure joy (& sadness & longing) in a 100% invented reality watch Umbrellas of Cherbourg & Young Girls of Rochefort
November 10, 2024 at 7:45 PM
If you need apotheosis level cheering up w emotional connection * 1000 & outrageously gorgeous color music pure joy (& sadness & longing) in a 100% invented reality watch Umbrellas of Cherbourg & Young Girls of Rochefort
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#Books
💙📚
Day 1:
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#Books
💙📚
Day 1:
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
November 9, 2024 at 10:37 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#Books
💙📚
Day 1:
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#Books
💙📚
Day 1:
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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So very sad to hear about @janeygodley.bsky.social. She was a brilliant comedian and writer and such a wonderful person to be around. I worked with her a few times and she was always fantastic. A great loss to comedy and the world. RIP Janey.
November 2, 2024 at 10:16 AM
So very sad to hear about @janeygodley.bsky.social. She was a brilliant comedian and writer and such a wonderful person to be around. I worked with her a few times and she was always fantastic. A great loss to comedy and the world. RIP Janey.
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Sometimes think we don't credit the amount of time and admin it takes to be a victim of crime. Hours and hours of statements and time in court and chasing and explaining and organising measures. I have to do it a lot for relatively minor crimes but the effort even then is huge and time consuming.
October 24, 2024 at 10:03 PM
Sometimes think we don't credit the amount of time and admin it takes to be a victim of crime. Hours and hours of statements and time in court and chasing and explaining and organising measures. I have to do it a lot for relatively minor crimes but the effort even then is huge and time consuming.
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I’ve been talking lately about reading a run of Tomb of Dracula.
I purchased a Spanish edition of the Gene Colan ToD AE, now only available in the States if you wanna pay big bucks. Some sites said it’s hardcover, some soft. At any rate, $70 out the door.
In 2 weeks, we’ll check it out together!
I purchased a Spanish edition of the Gene Colan ToD AE, now only available in the States if you wanna pay big bucks. Some sites said it’s hardcover, some soft. At any rate, $70 out the door.
In 2 weeks, we’ll check it out together!
October 10, 2024 at 1:04 AM
I’ve been talking lately about reading a run of Tomb of Dracula.
I purchased a Spanish edition of the Gene Colan ToD AE, now only available in the States if you wanna pay big bucks. Some sites said it’s hardcover, some soft. At any rate, $70 out the door.
In 2 weeks, we’ll check it out together!
I purchased a Spanish edition of the Gene Colan ToD AE, now only available in the States if you wanna pay big bucks. Some sites said it’s hardcover, some soft. At any rate, $70 out the door.
In 2 weeks, we’ll check it out together!
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I’ve had a lot of experience with the NHS recently & one of the biggest problems is hopeless data & communications. It can make dealing with multiple departments a massive amount of work & often disaster management for patients & carers. I’m fully in favour of a joined up digital database.
Everyone saying “no we can’t let the NHS use a proper joined up digital patient database, it’s all part of a plot to privatise British healthcare and sell your data” should be forced to read the dozens (hundreds?) of case studies like these www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-...
October 21, 2024 at 10:06 AM
I’ve had a lot of experience with the NHS recently & one of the biggest problems is hopeless data & communications. It can make dealing with multiple departments a massive amount of work & often disaster management for patients & carers. I’m fully in favour of a joined up digital database.
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On this day in 1966, a coal slag heap collapsed in the Welsh mining village of Aberfan, killing more than 100 children. Today, it's a powerful reminder of how the establishment fails working class communities.
tribunemag.co.uk/2021/10/the-...
tribunemag.co.uk/2021/10/the-...
Remembering the Aberfan Disaster
On this day in 1966, a coal slag heap collapsed in the Welsh mining village of Aberfan, killing more than 100 children. Today, it's a powerful reminder of how the establishment fails working class com...
tribunemag.co.uk
October 21, 2024 at 9:22 AM
On this day in 1966, a coal slag heap collapsed in the Welsh mining village of Aberfan, killing more than 100 children. Today, it's a powerful reminder of how the establishment fails working class communities.
tribunemag.co.uk/2021/10/the-...
tribunemag.co.uk/2021/10/the-...
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Your periodic reminder that SCAVENGERS REIGN is quite literally one of the most beautiful television series of the past decade and if you haven’t seen it, you ought.
September 21, 2024 at 12:09 AM
Your periodic reminder that SCAVENGERS REIGN is quite literally one of the most beautiful television series of the past decade and if you haven’t seen it, you ought.
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Friends! It's the feast day of St. Hildegard of Bingen, an abbess, polymath, mystic, & eel truth-teller.
Medieval thinkers agreed that eels reproduce asexually. But Hildegard suggested that eels mate at sea, where we can't watch.
No one listened to her. But she was right! 1/2
🗃️🧪
Medieval thinkers agreed that eels reproduce asexually. But Hildegard suggested that eels mate at sea, where we can't watch.
No one listened to her. But she was right! 1/2
🗃️🧪
September 17, 2024 at 2:18 PM
Friends! It's the feast day of St. Hildegard of Bingen, an abbess, polymath, mystic, & eel truth-teller.
Medieval thinkers agreed that eels reproduce asexually. But Hildegard suggested that eels mate at sea, where we can't watch.
No one listened to her. But she was right! 1/2
🗃️🧪
Medieval thinkers agreed that eels reproduce asexually. But Hildegard suggested that eels mate at sea, where we can't watch.
No one listened to her. But she was right! 1/2
🗃️🧪
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The funniest thing about getting older is remembering how tired and over-worked *you thought your were* aged 28.
September 16, 2024 at 6:59 AM
The funniest thing about getting older is remembering how tired and over-worked *you thought your were* aged 28.