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A photo of the two ballot papers for the 2025 Australian federal election. There is a small green one with seven boxes to number from 1-7 in order of voting preference, which is for the House of Representatives (your local MP in your local electorate), and then there's a massive white one that's so wide it's curving up the sides of the voting booth. This one is for the Senate which is for the whole of Australia, and 20 columns with the various different parties. There's a thick line diving the "above the line" section where you have to number at least 1-6 (but can do more) in order of preference, or you can vote below the line (at least 1-12) for the individual senators from each of those parties.

Democracy: done. ✅

No democracy sausage since it was early voting, but for some bizarre reason when we went in Tony fucking Abbott¹ was standing there with the Liberal² people who were handing out the how-to-vote pamphlets. It was surprisingly busy, we had a minute or two's queue before getting our ballot papers. Then on the way back out, Abbott was talking to a few people outside one of the shops, with a photographer who I assume was from a newspaper. Just bizarre, I'm not sure what they were attempting to accomplish there.

(Footnotes for the non-Australians:

¹ Abbott was one of our worst and most unpopular prime ministers and ended up with his own party voting him out of leadership in 2015.

² Very confusingly, the "Liberal" party here are actually the conservatives).

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Posted on 24 April 2025, 11:15

A photo of a game of Warhammer Underworlds. There are two rectangular boards with hex tiles on them, the art on the boards looks like gnarled and corrupted roots like you're deep within a cursed forest. Closest to the camera are Domitan's Stormcoven, three warriors in armour who look like they're also mages because they all have staves and one of them looks like she's levitating. On the other side of the board are the Gorechosen of Dromm, a three-fighter warband consisting of very large meaty-looking warriors in large red armour, one of whom is clearly part daemon because he's hunched over and has MASSIVE arms and huge horns sprouting from his head.

@yayKM and I played some 1v1 Warhammer Underworlds for the first time in ages! @yayKM went with her now-standard Gorechosen of Dromm, while I played Domitan's Stormcoven who I haven't actually played at all before despite getting the Wyrdhollow box nigh on two years ago now. 😬 The Stormcoven are shamefully unpainted and we had to call it after the second round (and it ended in a 8-8 draw!), but the Stormcoven's gameplay was really interesting with the inspiration being able to be switched around after activations, I'm looking forward to playing them more!

The miniatures themselves are fantastic too (you can see them close-up when I assembled and undercoated them) and normally I find the Stormcast Eternals very uninteresting (they're much like Space Marines in that respect 😛) but Games Workshop done a really good job with these three, in particular Leona Stratosi who looks like she's actually flying.

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Posted on 21 April 2025, 22:03

A photo of my birthday presents. At the top is the box of an Arturia "MiniLab 3" MIDI keyboard, it's a small 25 key keyboard with a number of dials and sliders and buttons above the keys themselves. Under the keyboard box are four books, Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie, the Inheritance Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin, and The Killing Moon also by N.K. Jemisin.

And the actual birthday goodies! I'm really looking forward to playing around with the keyboard, the company that makes it has a big synth plugin that integrates specifically with all the dials and sliders on the keyboard itself so you can control all the various parameters of the synth without needing to take your hands off the keyboard itself.

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Posted on 20 April 2025, 10:18

A photo of a half rack of beef ribs and a bowl of hot chips sitting on a, well, wooden board.

A photo of the strawberry and cherry sundae, it's in a tall glass and has one of those crunchy hollow chocolate stick things sticking out the top. The glass has hundreds and thousands artistically attached to the rim.

My actual birthday is tomorrow which is Easter and everything is closed, so we went out to Meat & Wine Co. tonight for a birthday dinner and got the beef ribs and it was goooooood. Then I followed it up with a strawberry and cherry sundae which cleared the mouth-grease up very nicely!

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Posted on 19 April 2025, 19:57

A screenshot taken in Forza Horizon 5 of a bright red 1970 Datsun 510 sedan, it's been lowered and has cool yet tasteful black rims on it, small front and rear spoilers, and it's sitting on a rural-looking road with a bunch of quite dry-looking grass and bushes behind it. The sky is blue with fluffy clouds and you can just make out some mountains in the distance.

Right, it's time for some hooning in Forza Horizon 5 in my hotted-up 1970 Datsun 510. 😁 I put a 1.6L inline-four turbocharged rally engine into it, 224kW all up but it only weighs 807kg so it's such a responsive car to drive.

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Posted on 16 April 2025, 18:01

A photo of me, a white man with short brown hair and a very receding hairline, wearing a blue paper mask.

It's yer man, me, having just gotten both a flu jab and a COVID booster! The COVID booster is free, and work is reimbursing flu jabs, woot.

I'm fully expecting to be feeling like warmed-up rubbish tomorrow so the plan is mostly going to be sitting on the lounge playing video games. The last major Baldur's Gate 3 patch came out today and it includes a photo mode so I reckon I can spend a fair bit of time screwing around with that!

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Posted on 16 April 2025, 14:04

A selfie of me, a white man with short brown hair and a short red beard, sitting at a drum kit. On the left is my friend holding a deep red Fender bass guitar, he's an Asian man with glasses and a cap on, and on the right is my other friend, a white man with not-quite-as-short-as-mine brown hair holding a black Epiphone electric guitar. We're all grinning at the camera.

A photo of Bosko, who is a black miniature poodle with a bunch of grey on his muzzle. He's sitting in his dog bed that's on an armchair, with his head resting on the front of the bed.

Jam session was excellent fun! The drum speaker worked an absolute treat and held its own perfectly against the bass and guitar amps, and we ended up playing for probably a good five hours all up. And we had the occasional audience too, haha.

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Posted on 15 April 2025, 18:29

A photo of the back of our Kia Cerato with my drum kit in pieces but fitting quite happily into the boot (with the rear seats down, of course).

Honestly, how good are hatchbacks. I pulled apart my drum kit for the jam session tomorrow and packed it into the Cerato and it fits perfectly, along with my little Blackstar guitar amp and the significantly larger drum monitor.

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Posted on 14 April 2025, 15:58

Highland Fugue

I have written another song! This one is called "Highland Fugue" and I'm super happy with it, I also bløgued about the process too!

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Posted on 14 April 2025, 15:20

A photo of two golden brown loaves of bread covered in flour, sitting on a cooling rack.

Starting off the holidays with some delicious bread. Sadly I ran out of @[email protected]'s amazing jam a couple of months ago.

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Posted on 13 April 2025, 12:22