Got one of these fancy ergonomic mice over the weekend coz Officeworks mispriced it and damn I’m a convert.

The Complicated History of Pointy Hats daily.jstor.org/the-compl…

Apparently when American special forces are doing some operation in another country it’s that country’s language that is foreign 😂

Does anyone in Melbourne use Pineapple for internet? These prices and speeds seem too good to be true

Updated our Voice to Parliament poll tracker with latest Newspoll. Yes continues downward trend. Lots more inc. caveats here -> www.theguardian.com/news/data…

Orange Is the New Black Signalled the Rot Inside the Streaming Economy www.newyorker.com/culture/n…

This is a great feature on Sri Lankans that have travelled to Australia by boat. Written by Sri Lankans. watchdog.team/article/t…

The rains in India are horrific www.economist.com/graphic-d…

Apparently whenever I draw a self portrait I suddenly lose about 10kgs

Someone needs to do a long read on why kinder surprise toys are so simple/easy to assemble nowadays

Got a new work laptop and its my first post-touchbar Macbook. Honestly, forget M chips or whatever, dropping the stupid touchbar is enough of an upgrade to make it worth it.

Didn’t even go to Micro Camp but I got stickers :) thanks @jean

With how much everyone is screenshotting on bluesky there really isn’t any reason to go on Twitter anymore

So threads isn’t ActivityPub compatible at launch?

Testing Bluesky crossposting with another postcard portrait

If I was in charge of announcements in an airport I would simply make them so quiet no one could ever understand them

(Probably) the final painting of the trip. Number 28. Kuala Lumpur skyline from the hotel. Sky looking a bit ominous.

Still boggles my mind that you can buy (genuine) Lapis Lazuli based paints/pigments

Bit of a wait for the plane

If the issue is companies scraping Twitter to train LLMs wouldn’t the easiest solution be to create an official Twitter corpus and sell access?

So is Nitter still going to work for people who still need to follow some accounts 🤔

Langkawi is so beautiful and green I’m almost out of yellow watercolour paint.

Two tells that this hotel was built by Europeans:

1. no sinks in the restaurant
2. awnings don’t extend far enough for monsoonal downpours

Escaped across the bay to a new hotel

Started pouring so couldn’t quite finish it :(