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David C. Simon

@davidcsimon.bsky.social

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Australian artist, writer, wildlife photographer, dungeon master, and bird-nerd. Autistic and depressed, but video games help. All photos are my own unless otherwise credited. All subjects are wild and living unless otherwise noted. No AI please.

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David C. Simon @davidcsimon.bsky.social · 16h

Crimson Blur.

A blurry photograph of a Crimson Rosella taking off. The bird fills the frame (and then some). The only crisp part of the photo is part of its shoulder and back. Its head is partly in-frame, with its beak and eye discernible. The most striking element is its right wing, heavily blurred by motion, producing a smear of blue, black, and red.

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Trick Weekes @trickweekes.bsky.social · 16h

To append by way of agreement:

Someone failing to appreciate a centuries-old novel because they don't get the context and references that give the jokes and metaphors their punch is not a character failing, any more than me not getting a joke told in a language I don't speak.

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

Most "classics" are boring as fuck to a modern reader in no small part because the context of the story is not understood by them and so many of the allusions and "inside jokes" known to then-contemporary readers have been lost in time and in translation

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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David C. Simon @davidcsimon.bsky.social · 1d

Pelican Flotilla.
#birds

Photograph of.. yikes here we go... one, two, three... okay I lost count but I'm going to say at least 40 Australian Pelicans floating as a group on a choppy lake. They are being observed by three more pelicans on a fallen tree.

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David C. Simon @davidcsimon.bsky.social · 2d

On the positive side: It looks like I'm carrying a tricorder.

Photograph of a blood pressure monitor from the photographer's POV, looking down at it hanging from a shoulder strap. It's a small wedge-shaped machine in a leather case with buttons, a tube, and a LCD display.

David C. Simon @davidcsimon.bsky.social · 2d

My Doctor has strapped a 24-hour blood pressure monitor to me which inflates to check every 30 mins. I don't know how useful my results will be as they're going to show
the blood pressure of a man startled awake for 24-hours straight by a noisy machine squeezing his upper arm.

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David C. Simon @davidcsimon.bsky.social · 2d

Straw-necked Ibises!
#birds

Photograph of... wait a minute... 27 Ibises (sorry, had to count) flying overhead against a clear blue sky. All are currently soaring rather than flapping, with their wings spread. They have white bodies, long straw-coloured necks, glossy black wings, and long curved beaks.

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David C. Simon @davidcsimon.bsky.social · 4d

A pair of Crimson Rosellas. The male (right) is feeding the female (left) as part of the bonding process and as a prelude to mating/breeding.
#birds

Photograph of two small parrots in bright red with black and blue, standing on a flowering callistemon tree. They are beak-to-beak as one (the male) feeds the other (female).

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Evangeline “I’m Scared” Gallagher @egallagher.bsky.social · 4d

just in general bending my life towards spending as much of my time as possible around freaks and queers and weirdos has been the best thing ever

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David C. Simon @davidcsimon.bsky.social · 4d

A pair of Crimson Rosellas. The male (right) is feeding the female (left) as part of the bonding process and as a prelude to mating/breeding.
#birds

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David C. Simon @davidcsimon.bsky.social · 5d

I'd love to hang out with and learn from some fellow artists!
I haven't posted much art here recently but, here's some older stuff: cara.app/davidcsimon/...

David C Simon (@davidcsimon) | Cara - Artist Social & Portfolio Platform

Artist, Photographer, Writer, Dungeon Master. No AI/NFT.

cara.app

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David C. Simon @davidcsimon.bsky.social · 5d

I found a family of Welcome Swallows - two adults and two juveniles - just down to road from my home.
#birds

Photograph of a juvenile Welcome Swallow perched on a powerline. Its colouration is dull compared to an adult, with a ruddy throat and shoulders, mottled white breast, and dark head.

Photograph of four Welcome Swallows, two perched on a power line, two in flight (one of which is coming in to land). The perched birds are adults and the ones in flight are juveniles.

Photograph of two Welcome Swallows on a powerline. The left individual is juvenile, the right is mature with richer shades of orange, blue, black and white.

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David C. Simon @davidcsimon.bsky.social · 6d

Our garden exploded with Bogong Moths last night.
#insects #invertebrates

Macro photograph of a Bogong Moth peeking around the edge of a green leaf against a black background. The moth's dark eyes are reflecting the camera's flash as a large red faceted circle, and its antennae are distinctly frilly.

Wider angle of a different Bogong Moth, top-down view showing the entire animal perched on a fern front. Its distinctive wing patterns are clearly visible - a brownish bark-like texture with two dark streaks running through light splotches.

Macro photograph of yet another Bogong, close-up on its face and upper torso. The many fine hairs on its body are easily discernible, and it's clear that they are speckled in brown orange and white, despite looking uniformly brown from a distance.

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David C. Simon @davidcsimon.bsky.social · 6d

PS: This week's earworm is "I Am Gonna Claw Out Your Eyes And Drown You To Death"

David C. Simon @davidcsimon.bsky.social · 6d

I reached the ending credits on HADES II last night and the entire experience was an utter delight.
I admit, however, that I had to active God mode because I'm not as good at video games as I used to be.

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David C. Simon @davidcsimon.bsky.social · 7d

I am spending way too much time in 2025 looking for alternatives to software/services that used to be excellent but have been undermined by idiot executives.

David C. Simon @davidcsimon.bsky.social · 7d

Are there any Spotify alternatives that let you discover new music while also playing local files and syncing across devices?

Some of my favourite tracks can't be streamed anywhere :/

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David C. Simon @davidcsimon.bsky.social · 7d

Eastern Spinebill enjoying our callistemon.
#birds

Photograph of a small honeyeater perched on a thin callistemon (bottlebrush tree) branch ending in a bright red flower resembling a bottlebrush. The bird is orange, black, and white, with a long curved black beak. Its red eyes are as bright as the flower.

As before, but a tighter crop, and the bird now has its beak buried in the flower as it drinks nectar. With the light at this angle the crown of its seemingly black head shines with iridescence.

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David C. Simon @davidcsimon.bsky.social · 8d

The Gang-gang gang returned!
#birds

Photograph of a young male Gang-gang Cockatoo lit by the sun, portrait from the breast up. It is a grey cockatoo with splashes of yellow, white, and orange. Its head and crest still have only some of its mature red feathers, showing that it's a young male.

Same species, different individual. Full-body photo of the cockatoo on a powerline, legs gripping it awkwardly as it tries to balance. This one has even less red on its head, and looks a little scruffier overall. Its head is turned to the same as it looks at the viewer.

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David C. Simon @davidcsimon.bsky.social · 8d

The Gang-gang gang returned!
#birds

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David C. Simon @davidcsimon.bsky.social · 8d

I haven't been able to find the nest, but some Striated Thornbills kept tabs on me while I search the garden, so it may well be theirs.
#birds

Photograph of a Striated Thornbill - a very small passerine bird - perched on thin bare branches. The bird is shades of brown and olive with distinctive white striations on its face and breast.

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David C. Simon @davidcsimon.bsky.social · 10d

TINY EGG!!!
I found this fragment in my garden while looking for spiders last night. I'm fairly confident it's a Thornbill, but I couldn't say what species for sure (We have Brown, Yellow, and Striated Thornbills here).
#birds

Photograph of a fragment of a small egg, representing one end of the full shell. It is light brown/beige with sparse small red freckles. The egg is resting in the palm of the photographer's hand, and is narrower than his index finger.

Close up on the shell fragment, clearly showing that the red freckles are part of the egg's colouration, not specks of dirt.

The same shell fragment on lined paper next to a metal ruler showing it to be approximately 1.4cm long.

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David C. Simon @davidcsimon.bsky.social · 12d

A Laughing Kookaburra dropped by briefly.
#birds

Photograph of a Laughing Kookaburra, a large Kingfisher in white and brown with light blue patches on its wings and bright orange bands on its tail, perched on a power line. It is facing to the left of the viewer, leaning forward with its tail raised at 90 degrees to its body as it tries to balance on the wire. Its head is slightly turned to look at the viewer as if surprised to see them.

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David C. Simon @davidcsimon.bsky.social · 12d

A Laughing Kookaburra dropped by briefly.
#birds

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David C. Simon @davidcsimon.bsky.social · 12d

Ahh, but how many people-actors are happy to work for obscene quantities of electricity?

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 12d

correct. Every part of the story is a lie to pump up some shitty little start up

Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 12d

I’m not talking about the “AI “actress”” thing because it is so clearly an astroturfed non-story which only benefits from people taking it seriously, even as outrage / distaste. It does not exist. It *will* not exist, at least as executed by these people. I refuse to fall for it.

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