There'd be fewer complaints if The Muppets were cast. Miss Piggy as Helen. A pig playing the daughter of a god and a swan? Weird? Sure, but ok (whispers because she's blonde, and pink).

Without migrants, I wouldn't have my GP, or my specialist, or friends, colleagues, neighbours & a loved one wouldn't have had palliative care. chttps://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/15/angus-taylor-says-migrants-are-a-net-drain-on-australia-the-numbers-say-the-opposite-is-true

Witness the mesmerizing sea angel (*Clione* sp.), a real-life creature gliding beneath the ice of the White Sea. Captured by Alexander Semenov, this beauty is no illusion.

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SKY NEWS: UK Terror threat level raised to "severe" ^ All very nice. I wonder what the threat level is in Palestine today? I wonder what the threat level is in Lebanon today? ^ I mean: 150,000+ babies, children, women & men massacred vs Fired up ambulances & an unhinged assault on two men

Absolutely timeless.

And finally, for #RepostYourArt the 30th's theme is #whimsical Yeah, got this with, er, my current interest depicting whatever these are.

Getting up to date on this Comey indictment thing. Is it a new version of the shell game? Can we call it an imbeachment? Much confuse, very USA.

For #RepostYourArt the 29th theme is plant. So here are some plants.

Day 28 for #RepostYourArt is cottage No one specified that it couldn't be space cottage core, or UFO/UAP cottage.

Today's theme is #garden for #RepostYourArt Here's a sketched view of someone else's garden and the mysteries behind their fence.

The #RepostYourArt theme for the 26th is mushroom. Here's a quick sketch from a few years ago

For the 25th the theme for #RepostYourArt is #abstract these are collages, one of watercolours and the other of pen and marker

If the lesson of these wars is that empire, occupation, imperial machinery and industrialised violence against civilians are unconscionable and catastrophic - that lesson applies today just as much as 1915. Lest we forget means nothing if it only looks backwards.

The 24th theme for #RepostYourArt is fast/slow... To me art is fast and slow. I've been slow to believe I was allowed to try to make art, slow to learn, slow to take the time. Then sometimes, when I do make art time speeds up so fast it can disappear, along with the world and every worry.

For #RepostYourArt the prompt for April 23 is magic What to post but experiments with watercolour. How it mixes, flows, & blooms, & how some colours fade faster than others (called fugitive) is (al)chemical & altogether magical as a process. And yeah, I quite like some of the results too.

In further arty news my three 2026 submissions are in the first drop for the #IncognitoArtShow & will be actually physically exhibited in Sydney, Brisbane and Townsville, which has never happened before for me. www.incognitoartshow.com/collections

For #RepostYourArt theme 22 is #paint My mother's very old #Reeves watercolour tin palette I permanently borrowed/subsequently inherited. I took it to university with me, and painted the inside lid at some point. I still have it somewhere.

For #RepostYourArt the next theme is clouds. Here's a quick limited palette watercolour sketch of a made up place from a couple of months ago.

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

For #RepostYourArt the next theme is fruit which I am skipping because I haven't got any art fruit , which brings me to the next one which is critters, in this case some lil fishy critters

For #RepostYourArt the next theme is everyday life This is a quick urban sketch of the scene sitting above the fountain along St Kilda Rd looking towards the NGV side. Looking at skyscrapers behind construction equipment & statues of blokes is very much everyday life in Melbourne.

Just saying I live with two cats. Status: they're fine.

For #RepostYourArt day 17 the theme is doodle and yeah, I've been a doodler all my life. Did the "learn other types of doodling", continued to do my own, and I was doing neurographic drawing before I'd heard of it.

For #RepostYourArt the theme is colourful. Or colorful. Whatevs. So here it is.

Can I just say, as an Australian: FFS. Geelong oil refinery fire: Chris Bowen & CEO confirm fuel production impacted | The Nightly share.google/vhZ6UoWOhLLQ...

For #RepostYourArt the next theme is soft, so here is one big soft puppy from 2024. She's a lot bigger now.

For #RepostYourArt the next theme is yummy. To quote artist Denise Love these watercolours are "yummy"

For #RepostYourArt theme 13 is #artist so this is evidence of me being an artist by once upon a time sketching art by another artist at the #ngv

For #RepostYourArt theme cosy or cozy. I guess it would be cosy drinking tea in the basket of this old fashioned kinda steampunk balloon, floating above all the horrendous and ongoing problems of the world.

For #RepostYourArt 12 the theme is #sparkles hence watercolour and blue sparkly watercolour paint and pen fishies having a swim on paper.

Theme 10 for #RepostYourArt is #pencil this was a couple of years ago. The idea was to improve by attempting to depict difficult subjects. As mediaeval artists prove, cats are the most difficult subject in all art.

For #RepostYourArt theme #light Pen and watercolour.

New glasses new you. No really, new everything. So clear, so bright, so detailed.

For #RepostYourArt #autumn theme only really because I sketched & painted this quick view for an art class the other day at Abbotsford Convent. Yes it's autumn wear I am.

Rigtio #RepostYourArt for #silly Is it uap cottage core? Is it steampunk alien? Dunno. But I think it fits the theme.

The Genocide in Gaza should have been where the world drew the line. The War Criminals from the USA and Israel and their assistants in the Media should have all been put on trial. Then things would never have gotten to this.

Meanwhile in #birds & #RepostYourArt one of my three entries in last year's Incognito Art Show.

Ok if both the ex-maga gerontology nurse and the comedian now known as Gregstradamus both say the US regime leader could be out in three weeks (impeached or some other constitutional removal), then do we agree it's happening? Or as Australians say, it's on?

Things are looking bad people. Globally, things are so dire comedians are resorting to re-using the one tired helium shortage joke repeatedly, instead of searching for new sources of jokes. And we pay the price. What next.

AI uses a crapload of water, ditto for electricity, but also so much RAM new digital devices will cost about $500+ more this year (at least in Australia). Costs will be up everywhere but will vary. Plus, of the 3 makers of RAM, one now only services corporate customers. Great work tech bros.

Past results not indicative of future performance, except for Hasan always having a better lunch than Dave, however returns will diminish on increasing chances of a win.

Things make me recall Fermi's Paradox. I think the answer is the universe is huge & ancient & aliens have probably existed for longer than the earth has. If our bit of the galaxy has been noticed, it's to tag us mostly not advanced enough to be considered safe for ourselves or others. Why: things rn

Yep. But I'd argue old funding systems didn't work very well either, & obviously donations won't. So what's left: direct funding to actual artists like that program in Ireland. Instead of funnelling money through institutions representing sectors but not making stuff. search.app/TJ69D

And the final seal was broken and I beheld a dark rider cat upon a tabby cat, and its name was Cat Squared, distractor and bringer of memist escapism, as terrors prey upon the innocent

The supermarket music is awful, the lights are too bright. They only have their own brand chopped chili, which is liquid crap I refuse to buy after that one time. Meanwhile there's some dude strolling around strumming a ukulele like he's spreading joy but I say why add to the world's suffering?

Dunno, not gonna read it. But also all generational debate is hype to create more divisions than they fix. I'm more interested in how anyone addresses class, race, gender, health, wealth, educational, ability, ideological, & other divisions. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

They Helped Bring Down Epstein. The System Consumed Them Anyway. lastpagefirst.substack.com/p/they-helpe...

The president of the United States killed children to distract from raping children.