Josh's micro blog

🎶 Leavin on a jet plane (the damn thing left before I could finish drawing)… also realised I forgot to pack my paints :(

Without migration, the population of high-income countries would shrink ourworldindata.org/data-insi…

The First Virtual Meeting Was in 1916 spectrum.ieee.org/virtual-m…

Starting to understand the weird perspective around Flinders station

Grab built its own map in Southeast Asia, and is now going after Google restofworld.org/2024/grab…

Can’t start a podcast without having to skip 2 mins of adds and throat clearing… Can’t go to a website without having to close eleventy popups… Can’t read the news without five captchas and a letter from my bank…

First time life drawing in a few months. Very rusty.

How does my podcast app always know to download episodes in an inverse order to how I want to listen to them

Branching out: the Sydney street libraries where neighbours swap plants instead of books www.theguardian.com/lifeandst…

Honestly don’t know how Australia can continue to call itself a real country as long as “Aussie Aussie Aussie” remains the main/sole sports chant. Some Pakistan fans have been yelling it ironically… It’s devastating.

What the hell kind of race was that #f1

Didn’t quite get the perspective

Another Flinders. Back to watercolour this time

Really need Apple to explain why, just because I installed Xcode after I installed Vsual Studio code, I would suddenly want to default open all python scripts in Xcode… Why is this an automatic change that I then need to go undo?

Never really understood cut flowers. But I’m really growing to like them

Some of these multiples between perception and reality…

Amazing maze-based, interactive exploration of abortion policies in the US pudding.cool/2024/10/a…

Firooza burned all of her cricket gear to hide it from the Taliban. Then Australia went into bat for her www.theage.com.au/sport/cri…

Not only is the hardcover cheaper than the ebook, it’s cheaper to get a hardcover shipped from overseas

Another Flinders scribble. Struggling with the foreground

Flinders station

Girl in a purple earring

Tackles and textbooks: inside the UK’s NFL dream factory www.theguardian.com/sport/202…

Waiting for the train home

Lovely, warm weekend away. I scribbled the old post office.