Never meet your heroes. Especially not in a dream where you're both in a crowded unisex public toilet. :(

Lessons in transparency and opacity for today’s #ArtSchool painting class. That’s a certain film clip that played on repeat in my head as I painted these…

I've FINALLY done something that I've been putting off for far too long* and it was a mostly painless procedure! (* changed mobile providers. 🙃)

Good to know.

feels cruel for Bluesky to have a Popular With Friends tab, if any of us were popular with friends we wouldn't be on Bluesky

WIP

Love it when the closed captions get stuck but stay true to what’s on the screen.

if you’re seeing this it was meant to find you today

I know I’ve already warned you about the grizzlies cloning capabilities but it bears repeating.

What does Dolph Lundgren and Piers Morgan have in common? Nothing. But they are both in episode 7 of They Did WHAT?! On Television? where I blind react to weird things that have happened on TV that people send to me. Watch here ⤵️ youtu.be/nGIoAQPvNY8?...

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my most unlikely and ridiculous eBay alert just pinged ebay.us/m/bZlnQI

Love hearing all the sounds of the Winter Olympics on the telly, and by "all the sounds" I mean "that god-awful screeching of the camera drones"!!

Shhh.

Anyway. Here’s a nice photo I took this morning. ☁️☁️

First day of the Diploma was great! Taking well over an hour to get home thanks to multiple accidents on the expressway and scarily erratic drivers clogging every other arterial road was not. I think it’s time to get the train into town.

TAFE (course 1 of 2) starts TOMORROW and I feel incredibly happy and oddly nervous about this.

There are a couple more things on offer on my Ko-Fi Commissions page, including pay-what-you-want commissions! If you'd like me to draw you something, not gonna lie, now would be a really REALLY good time* to order something! (* course fees, car repairs, illness - i've not had a good time, gang!)

There are a couple more things on offer on my Ko-Fi Commissions page, including pay-what-you-want commissions! If you'd like me to draw you something, not gonna lie, now would be a really REALLY good time* to order something! (* course fees, car repairs, illness - i've not had a good time, gang!)

Doing art badly is good and sacred

My best effort from last night’s life drawing class. 🔥

Look, I don't want to be that one (1) person who completes a Cert 3 in Live Production and then thinks they can look after and give advice on a grand-scale international event, but man oh man that Opening Ceremony needed some work, hey.

@alan678.bsky.social theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #birds&berries I'm using a generous definition of "berry"... 2 of 3 Lorikeets, of course #photography #birds #nature #wildlife #lorikeet #EastCoastKin

My best effort from last night’s life drawing class. 🔥

Almost positive that I have already posted this very Balearic-friendly Italian-language re-reading of Hall and Oates' "I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)" but just in case this is an AI-like hallucination here it is again (or not).

Quiz writers around the world just broke into a blind panic edition.cnn.com/2026/02/05/u...

fanfic author notes are their own genre sometimes i swear to god

What does a dancing competition and Peter Andre have in common? Nothing. But they are both in this new episode of They Did WHAT?! On Television? where I blind react to weird things that have happened on TV that people send me. Watch here ⤵️ youtu.be/Y7sA6qcxDJg?...

Outrages it took OVER a week to declare it terrorism - imagine an IED thrown at a synagogue Where’s Dawn Fraser, the Herald Scum, the ‘concerned business leaders and lawyers’, Sussan Ley, Sharri Markson etc and all their confected faux-rage Where’s the Royal Commission against Aboriginal terrorism

Ah, yes. The true hierarchy of needs:

The Micallef P(r)ogram(me) - David McGhan - The Summer of Love : 110s

Oh NO, now the new channel that WAS "coming soon" is now completely gone altogether. :(((((((

We are about to resurrect the worst characters desperate for relevance.

Started a new painting yesterday, and after the other's day's sunflower triumph I think this one is going to be a Disaster™️. Like. The only good thing I've painted so far is a wheelie bin, and even that is wonky at best.

Tonight's ear worm/gut punch right in the early/mid 00s:

Nine’s 2026 promo are full of decades old franchises and NRL. What a way to excite audiences with the shock of the new.

Millionaire Hot Seat (Gibney's Version): • First ep nerves, obvs. • Thank christ they've ditched Fastest Finger First. • The set looks nicer than the Channel 9 one ever did. • Why's it sound like they made Rebecca re-dub the questions in post? • I miss the Channel 9 MHS soundtrack. ☹️

I love how meditation is just "sit down and shut the fuck up. That's not good enough, shut your brain up too. You know what, stop wanting things, you piece of shit"

Thinking about how the coaching and feedback system for the major telco I used to work for was called “Rove” (no I’ve no fkn idea why), and how NOT ONE person I worked with ever shouted “What the…?!” whenever they got Rove’d, or “Say hi to your mum for me” whenever they sent one. 😞

Sunflowers on the Liverpool Plains. Acrylic on canvas, 2026.

On V sets: #SydneyTrains

Sunflowers on the Liverpool Plains. Acrylic on canvas, 2026.

recorded a Windows 95 full disk defrag to soothe your timeline.

In all seriousness I know I’m an Old but I feel like there was a gloriously insane chaos to the early aughts that the contemporary shit barely even scrapes

What does milk, mouths, and The Prodigy have in common? Nothing. But they are all in episode five of They Did WHAT?! On Television? where I blind react to weird things that have happened on TV that people send me. Watch here ⤵️ youtu.be/WSAcoLT_jsw?...