Séan

@peatbogsoldier

Somewhere in Ireland, probably listening to music, walking the dog or reading something. Or despairing, or daydreaming. On the route of the 19 bus.

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Séan@peatbogsoldier· 23d

Anyone want to buy 2 x Saturday day tix for Forestfest.ie County Laois for this Sat? Hell of a lineup; James, Deacon Blue, The Coronas, Paul Brady, Kíla, Lloyd Cole, FLCriminals, Hugh Cornwell, David Kitt etc etc tixel.com/u/jonathanh178

I'm selling

2 x Forest Fest Music & Arts Festival 2026 tickets at €95

tixel.com/u/jonathanh178

Séan@peatbogsoldier· 28d

Selling something on Gumtree. Every Fucking Time.

Gumtree messages. Potential buyer "Is this still available"

Séan@peatbogsoldier· Jul 7

Argos, £70. I'm off to London on Thursday. Where do I apply for my £5m security grant?

Séan@peatbogsoldier· Jul 5

Ruble has disappeared from xe.com?

Screenshot of xe.com currency drop down. Russian ruble not showing as an option to select.

Séan@peatbogsoldier· Jul 3

Part way through this, and like I am Legend, I have to agree with Matheson. 📚 "In an interview regarding adaptations of his work, Richard Matheson stated, "I will not comment on What Dreams May Come except to say that a major producer in Hollywood said to me, 'They should have shot your book.' Amen"

The cover of Richard Matheson's What Dreams May Come. It shows a cloudy sky with a person standing in front of a doorway portal to another world.

Séan@peatbogsoldier· Jun 22

Gotta love Alan Moore

The dedication page of Alan Moore's I Hear a New World.
"For Volodymyr Zelenskyy and anti-fascists everywhere. Ils ne passeront pas."

Séan@peatbogsoldier· May 30

I picked the right scanner in the Guess-the-scanner when you scan your clubcard game! Tesco guy walking past said "First time?". Me throwing my arms in the air might have given him a clue. Small wins.

Rack of Tesco self scan handheld scanners

Séan@peatbogsoldier· May 30

Repost with your first crush

Michael Steele of The Bangles playing bass on stage. Looking hot.

Séan@peatbogsoldier· May 11

Rebecca Solnit's The Beginning Comes After the End is just the ticket for times like these. Highly recommend to give you some hope.

The Beginning Comes After the End.
Rebecca Solnit.

On the fourth anniversary of the January 6, 2021, attack on Congress and on free and fair elections by Trump's minions, Anand Giridharadas published a remarkable essay. He wrote, "I see then that this is both a very dark time and, potentially, a very bright time. It's important to hold these truths together. When I look down at the ground of the present right now, I feel depressed. If I lift my head to the horizon, I see a different picture. This is not the chaos of the beginning of something. This is the chaos of the end of something. And on matters of race and identity, the Trump era doesn't have the crackle of a launch. It has been a mourning. A mourning for white power. A mourning for a time when simply to be white and show up was enough. A mourning for an era in which simply to be a man, and not necessarily an especially capable one, could get you ahead of other people. We must understand that what we've been living through is backlash. Backlash. It's not the engine of history. It is the revolt against the engine of history."

An old world was dying. This is the time of monsters.

But Giridharadas went on: "We are living through a revolt against the future. The future will prevail." A new world is struggling, but it is also being born, or perhaps it has been born and is struggling with its first breaths, its first steps. Arundhati Roy had put it another way in her address to the World Social Forum in 2003: "Another world is not only possible, she's on her way. Maybe many of us won't be here to greet her, but on a quiet day, if I listen very carefully, I can hear her breathing."

The front cover of The Beginning Comes After the End by Rebecca Solnit.

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Séan@peatbogsoldier· Feb 10

Orange album cover.

Richard Hawley : Coles Corner.
Richard Hawley stands with a bunch of flowers at Coles Corner, the Sheffield landmark, popular meeting place for lovers.

Séan@peatbogsoldier· Jan 26

This beast is, for me, an example of all that's good in the world. She doesn't have a bad word to say anyone, even Copper the jack russell up the road who doesn't like her.

A black and white collie dog. She thinks she can be fierce but she can't.

Séan@peatbogsoldier· Jan 25

I just finished this book. I deleted FB many years ago & it just reinforced what I already knew about Zuckerberg and his acolytes. They're all cunts.

Cover of Careless People-A story of where I used to work

Shocking and darkly funny, this is the explosive inside story of a senior executive at Meta (formerly Facebook).

Séan@peatbogsoldier· Jan 18

There's no way he's getting my 25m swimming award either. I nearly drowned at 24 metres to earn this in 1980.

International STA 25 metres Distance Award. A similar cloth badge was once proudly sewn onto my swimming trunks long ago.

Séan@peatbogsoldier· Jan 8

It's his field now.

A green field with snow capped mountains in the background. There are 4 sheep on the horizon of the field, 3 of which are standing & looking at the camera.

A zoom of the same photo. 2 sheep now, 1 standing & staring straight at the camera.

A zoom of the same photo. 1 sheep now, standing & staring straight at the camera.

A zoom of the same photo. A close up of 1 sheep staring straight at the camera. Menacing.

Séan@peatbogsoldier· Jan 6

Currently reading, gift from my daughter. She knows me too well.

Front cover of How to Spot a Fascist, a collection of 3 essays by Umberto Eco.

Séan@peatbogsoldier· Dec 15

James from Biffy Clyro is bowing out of the upcoming tour to get help with his mental health and addictions. More power to him.

Instagram post from Biffy Clyro.

TO EVERYONE,

I AM HEARTBROKEN TO LET YOU KNOW THAT I WILL NOT BE JOINING THE BAND ON THE UPCOMING TOURS.

FOR SOME TIME, I HAVE BEEN LIVING WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS WHICH HAVE LED TO ADDICTION ISSUES THAT I HAVE KEPT CONCEALED FOR A LONG TIME. THIS HAS CAUSED SIGNIFICANT PROBLEMS FOR MYSELF AND EVERYONE AROUND ME THE TIME HAS COME TO PROPERLY ADDRESS MY ILLNESSES AND DEAL WITH THEM.

I AM EXTREMELY SORRY TO SIMON & BEN AND THANK THEM FOR THEIR CONTINUED LOVE, PATIENCE, SUPPORT AND UNDERSTANDING THROUGHOUT THIS TIME.

I HAVE RECENTLY STARTED TO RECEIVE THE PROFESSIONAL HELP I NEED AND WOULD LIKE TO REASSURE YOU ALL THAT THERE IS LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL.

TO ALL OUR FANS, YOUR SUPPORT MEANS SO MUCH TO ME AND IN THE MEANTIME, OUR DEAR FRIEND NAOMI MACLEOD WILL BE TAKING CARE OF BASS DUTIES, AND I CANNOT THINK OF A BETTER PERSON FOR THE JOB.

WITH LOVE, JAMES X

Séan@peatbogsoldier· Dec 9

Soooo looking forward to this! Working class folk horror. 📚 #BogPeople www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

Front cover of book;
BOG PEOPLE.
A WORKING-CLASS ANTHOLOGY OF FOLK HORROR.

'Masterful' MAXINE PEAKE.

'Astonishing' ALAN MOORE.

EDITED by HOLLIE STARLING.

The cover features a picture of a man dressed in a rumpled Victorian or Edwardian jacket and waistcoat. The man is holding a pitchfork in his left hand and the head is the skull of a ram with piercing eyes staring straight at the reader.

Séan@peatbogsoldier· Dec 9

The evil geniuses (genii?) at Tayto used mad science and dark magik to combine cheese and onion and chocolate. cheapeats.ie/tayto-chocol...

A Taylo cheese & onion crisps chocolate bar. The Frankenstein's monster of the confectionery world.

Séan@peatbogsoldier· Nov 5

Carnivalesque by Neil Jordan (yes, he of movie writer/director renown) is a wonderfully poetic & magical rollercoaster ride (no apologies for the pun) of carnies, changelings, suburbia and ancient knowledge. A real treat. 📚

Cover of Neil Jordan's novel Carnivalesque. It shows a silhouette of gold stars of a boy on a blue background.

Back cover blurb;
To Andy and his parents, it looks like any other carnival: creaking ghost train, rusty rollercoaster and circus performers.

But of course it isn't.

Drawn to the hall of mirrors, Andy enters and is hypnotised by the many selves staring back at him. Sometime later, one of those selves walks out and rejoins his parents - leaving Andy trapped inside the glass, snatched from the tensions of his suburban home and transported to a world where gravity is meaningless and time performs acrobatic tricks.

And now an identical stranger inhabits Andy's life, unsettling his mother with a curious blankness, as mysterious events start unfolding in their coastal Irish town...

'One of Ireland's most talented artists' John Banville

'His cinematic sensibility yields prose of the most bewitching kind Sunday Times

'Compelling' Richard Ford

'You can never know where you are going with Neil Jordan... Extraordinary' John Burnside, Guardian

Séan@peatbogsoldier· Nov 4

Thank you @weare1of100.bsky.social ! #NoPasaran

Séan@peatbogsoldier· Nov 2

This is how I'm going to look every time someone dislikes one of my posts

Séan@peatbogsoldier· Oct 26

Drinking in Music from Big Pink this grey Sunday afternoon.

Artwork by Bob Dylan for the Band's album Music from Big Pink. It depicts 6 musicians playing guitars, piano, drums and double bass.

Séan@peatbogsoldier· Oct 24

You know, you weren't far wrong.

Manderley Castle where Enya lives. Turrets, castellated, the works. Like if you had drawn the archetypal castle.

Séan@peatbogsoldier· Oct 23

Really enjoyed @richycraven.bsky.social's. Ghosts, drinking & snogging an 86 year old in the streets of Dublin. What's not to love. 📚

The cover of Richy Craven's book Spirit Level. On the cover is a glass of whiskey. A blue (toy) car is nose down sinking into the whiskey as if it has crashed into the glass.

Séan@peatbogsoldier· Oct 19

Wiki has an artist's impression of them by Kikutake Wakasa.

An artist's depiction of the Imperial Regalia of Japan. They are a round mirror (shield like), a sword and a jewell (which looks like a shaped piece of jade)

Séan@peatbogsoldier· Oct 16

This is just *chef's kiss"

Lyris from Mar-a-Lago by the sea by The Divine Comedy.

"All the sycophants and narcs.
All the cannibals and sharks.
A secluded paradise
Of spies and cypress trees.
Mar-a-Lago by the sea.

Cheating losers on the greens.
Swapping wives for beauty queens.
Making turgid wedding speeches.
Entertaining fascist leeches"

Séan@peatbogsoldier· Sep 24

Molly (aka Snout aka Shitepaws) passed her MOT vet checkup. But, she has to lose ½kilo so no bedtime snacks allowed. Hence the forlorn look.

A black and white border collie dog with her face and nose very close to the camera. Her eyes are wide with a look like she's the worst treated dog in the world.

Séan@peatbogsoldier· Aug 18

Love this, even if it is apocryphal. From Yuval Noah Harari's book Sapiens. 📚

On 20 July 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the surface of the moon. In the months leading up to their expedition, the Apollo 11 astronauts trained in a remote moon-like desert in the western United States. The area is home to several Native American communities, and there is a story or legend - describing an encounter between the astronauts and one of the locals. -

One day as they were training, the astronauts came across an old Native American. The man asked them what they were doing there.

They replied that they were part of a research expedition that would shortly travel to explore the moon. When the old man heard that, he fell silent for a few moments, and then asked the astronauts if they could do him a favour.

'What do you want?' they asked.

'Well,' said the old man, 'the people of my tribe believe that holy spirits live on the moon. I was wondering if you could pass an important message to them from my people.'

'What's the message?' asked the astronauts.

The man uttered something in his tribal language, and then asked

the astronauts to repeat it again and again until they had memorised it correctly.

'What does it mean?' asked the astronauts.

'Oh, I cannot tell you. It's a secret that only our tribe and the moon spirits are allowed to know.'

When they returned to their base, the astronauts searched and searched until they found someone who could speak the tribal language, and asked him to translate the secret message. When they repeated what they had memorised, the translator started to laugh uproariously. When he calmed down, the astronauts asked him what it meant. The man explained that the sentence they had memorised so carefully meant 'Don't believe a single word these people are telling you. They have come to steal your lands.'

Séan@peatbogsoldier· Aug 17

The most interesting thing about King Charles the First Is that he was 5 foot 6 inches tall at the start of his reign But only 4 foot 8 inches tall at the end of it. Currently listening to. Educational, you know.

Monty Python Sings CD box. The picture is a large cartoon mouth with red lips and a green tongue.

Séan@peatbogsoldier· Aug 13

*1980s gameshow voice* Let's have a look at what you could have won.