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Thinking about how you never see those "90s Smile stickers with that weird looking sun/flower thing on them" (my initial search query) these days, and after a few unsuccessful searches I've only just found out here in 2025 that they were/are a Hare Krishna thing and not just a random hippie artefact
A hot pink square sticker with a white circle bordered by thick black towards the centre-top. Inside the circle is a smiling representation of the Hindu deity Jagannath. Jagannath's head is surrounded by what appear to be petals, in yellow and the same hot pink as the rest of the sticker. This hot pink also outlines Jagannath's eyes and mouth. The word "SMILE" is underneath the white circle, in yellow and outlined in black.
November 30, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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Put your “Cooking When You’re Broke” fried rice with a quarter of a bottle of soy sauce out.
A recipe for fried rice from the ca. 1980s cookbook “Cooking When You’re Broke” by Toni Lamond. FRIED RICE (serves four) 1lb. rice 1 egg ¼ bottle soy sauce 1 onion (chopped very finely) bacon or ¼ lb. salami (or leftover ham) Method: Boil rice until tender, drain in colander, run cold water over until all the starch is washed out. Place in fridge for at least 1 hour (overnight is better). Beat egg and fry in a little oil until you have an omelette. Cool and chop into small pieces. Fry onions until transparent, add rice, fry until slightly brown, add egg and soy sauce. Now I have given ¼ bottle as a guide. It's mainly your taste here. Fry for 5 minutes and serve.
November 29, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Here's my favourite actual life drawing from tonight, with additions to avoid getting slapped with a filter.
A pencil drawing of a young woman sitting on a fabric-covered box with a hand on one knee, and the other hand behind her back. She's looking off into the distance. I've covered the bits that would otherwise earn me an auto-moderation with "TOO RUDE FOR BLUESKY".
November 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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After having to abandon the previous class due to illness, I was worried about how tonight’s class was going to go.

Barring the mess I made of the first fifteen-minute exercise and this somewhat less worrisome mushroom lady I drew after giving up on the second one, I think I did pretty well. 🙂
A pencil drawing of a big curly haired lady looking pensively to the left. A single spotty mushroom appears to be growing from the part in her hair.
November 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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What if “The Music Of Hans Zimmer And Others”, but with K-Pop and AI slop?
A screencap of a Facebook post advertising “K-Pop Icons”. I’ve chosen not to name the venue. “Get ready for explosive hits, iconic choreos, and an Al-powered concert experience like no other. Featuring chart-toppers from BLACKPINK, BTS, TWICE, K/DA, KATSEYE, ROSÉ, plus SAJA BOYS & HUNTR/X from K-POP Demon Hunters! Tickets on sale 28 Nov, 10:00 AM”
November 25, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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When you share a piece of art you’ve worked on with your friends on your phone and you’re filled to burst with rejection sensitive dysphoria:
A screenshot from If You Are The One. A male contestant is walking out from the lift onto the stage and is asking the audience, “Please give me some applause.”
November 23, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Without downloading any new pics, what is it like dating you?
A screencap from If You Are The One. Le Jia, looking at the floor, says "I feel too sad to say anything."
November 23, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Cozzie livs savings you’ll LOVE!!

(acrylic and paint marker on recycled paper shopping bag, 2025)
A painted brown paper shopping bag sitting up on a table because I don’t have a plinth. It’s painted to look like the front page of a catalogue of “Great Value!” specials, promising “cozzie livs savings you’ll love!!” On offer this week is a soccer ball with ham ($15.99), assorted chunks (3 for $9.00), one grape ($7.99 each), pre-loved toothpaste ($11.99), a companion animal ($6.99 a kilo), and cheese 100’s & 1000’s ($1.50 or nearest offer). Specials available 23/11/25 until store liquidation. Part of the Qoifoog group of stores.
November 23, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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November 21, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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😌
A screenshot from the TAFE NSW Digital Campus website, showing that with 11/11 units complete and two weeks to spare, I have completed the Certificate 3 in Live Production And (Technical) Services.
November 20, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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Tired.
A digital drawing of myself, sans mouth, looking tired.
November 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Part of something I've been working on over the last few days.
A painting of a small tin of "Assorted Chunks". 3 for $9.00!
November 16, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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I spent far too long on this. #SamPangTonight
A digital drawing of Sam Pang and the Network 10 Lawyer. Sam is about to read the advice from legal counsel regarding the segment "Slur Or Not A Slur" while the network lawyer watches on. In the background, Contagious George is carrying a dejected Shaun Micallef off the set.
November 10, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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I got the 10 app to work, loaded up the live stream, it IMMEDIATELY goes to this and then to that wide shot of the garden, where it's been ever since.

10/10 no notes.
A screencap from the 10 iOS app. Channel 10 is on an ad break, and will be right back.
November 9, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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🙃
A screencap of the 10 iOS app, showing that something went wrong! Oops!
November 9, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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And the time-lapse, for those interested.

Note the struggle with the arms.
November 9, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Thinking about her.

#GhostsAustralia
A digital drawing/painting of Lindy Darwin-Paul from Ghosts (Australia).
November 8, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Or up the Rialto.
November 7, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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More time for some Consumer Power... Tips, I hope.
November 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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If the people who call Telstra are still anything like they were when I worked the phones (i.e. absolutely feral at best, spitting out threats of physical and sexual assault at worst), most of their customer base are gonna be suspended by January.

(about bloody time telstra's done this, btw.)
A screencap from an email from Telstra outlining changes to their customer terms that will take effect from 11 December 2025. "Unacceptable Customer Behaviour We may cancel, suspend, or restrict a service if we reasonably believe you or your authorised representative have: a. communicated or behaved in an inappropriate, aggressive or unacceptable manner towards our staff, partners, contractors, or their staff and premises. b. behaved in a manner that places excessive or unreasonable demand on our employees, partners, or contractors. We will take into consideration a customer's circumstances before taking any action in these scenarios."
November 5, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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My stupid perfectionistic brain looks at the paintings I've done this year and think they're something a child could do, and then I look at these a ones I did when I was an actual child in year 8 art class when I wasn't reading through the cache of TV Week magazines and...
A terrible acrylic on canvas painting of mine from 2003 titled "Lost In Thought". Against a poorly blended dark and baby-shit green background is a red-haired girl (made up of an arch on a circle, on a triangle) staring blankly to the audience. She's thinking about a bunch of things including, a frowny face, the number seventeen, a map of Australia, and a pig. amongst other things. Another terrible acrylic on canvas painting from ca.2003 (I've a feeling this one MAY have been done later?) of another young girl standing in an alarmingly green (and again poorly blended) body of water, fully clothed, pig-tailed, and holding a fishing rod. A ghastly purple (with green stripes?) fake frame is around the perimeter of the painting.
November 5, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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About time someone paid tribute to the classics.

#SamPangTonight
A screencap from s2e04 of Sam Pang Tonight. Sam Pang is sitting at his desk looking to camera. He's holding a large-ish card bearing the logo of the 2011 Channel 9 one-series wonder that should've got more love that was "The Joy Of Sets."
November 3, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Relating too hard to this taxidermy echidna right now.
A screencap from the ABC News article “Poor taxidermy making ‘fattypuses’ and ‘platysausages’ out of Australian animals” (5 January 2023). On display is a very poorly taxidermied echidna at the Horniman Museum Abs Gardens. It’s like a massive spiny coconut with seal fins and a beak. As the image description says, the poor echidna looks like it’s been through a lot.
November 2, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Flying, if this Gym-sona I drew back in 2018 is anything to go by!

(I think I would offer the Aviator Badge, iirc. Geddit, aviator sunnies, Aviator Badge...?)
If you were a Gym Leader in the Pokémon world, what type would you use? (Bonus: What Pokémon would be on your team? Fee free to add any other details or lore if you have any.) A fineliner and coloured pencil drawing dated May 5 2018 of myself as a Pokémon Gym Leader. Around me are, clockwise from top left: Drifloon (holding a sign saying "YEAH!"), Wingull, Noctowl (wearing aviator sunnies), and Farfetch'd (also wearing aviator sunnies).
October 30, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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And a very happy "The Palm Tree Went Up The Pole Today" day to all who celebrate.
A screencap from the Illawarra Mercury's Facebook page. The picture shows Wollongong's Crown Street Mall with a then-newly erected palm tree up a pole, and another strapped down to a concrete block on the ground. It links to an article on the Mercury website (paywalled, ofc) titled "The Mercury on October 28, 2017: Palm tree up a pole puzzles lunchtime mall shoppers." In 2025, I'm pleased to say that it continues to puzzle lunchtime mall shoppers.
October 28, 2025 at 7:00 AM