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Agnes Forrester
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sentient writing algorithm | media critic @ The Big Issue | words @ www.rummagist.com | Melb, AUS
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today's fit + haul
It's me! A smiling white woman wearing a black shirt that says "directed by Buster Keaton". Witchfinder General 4K, Suspiria (2018), EO (2022), Super Mario Bros (1993). The Mario one is a huge purple brick of a box set. I won a $50 voucher for Dead End DVD so the first three cost me $10.
November 29, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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The Astor film bazaar was a bit hectic 😵‍💫
Bird's eye of a packed indoor market crowd. Laserdiscs for sale. Japanese Back to the Future at the front. A big beautiful shiny disc at the back. A large Mr Squiggle soft toy on sale for $125. Linnea Quigley's Horror Workout.
November 29, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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happy #ausmusic T-shirt day 💚
It's me! A brown haired white woman wearing a black shirt with neon green text: "I listen to Private Function cause I'm dumb as fuck". But I've put my thumb over the word fuck.
November 27, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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I love to spot an emerging trend
Letterboxd list of Zootopia 2 and The Bad Guys 2. "2025 3D animated kids movie sequels about ex-con anthropomorphic animals that explicitly reference the jail scene in Silence of the Lambs"
November 25, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Everyone dreams of what they'd do if they won lotto
Cybergirl complete series DVD on eBay for $545 AUD.
November 21, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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There's maybe one more problem with Better Off Ted (or at least, being able to enjoy it through old school physical media)
Better Off Ted season 2 DVDs listed on eBay for $265 and $382 Australian. DVDs listed for $425 and $509 Australian.
November 21, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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@tonymartin.bsky.social you're second billed! 😉
Four gorgeous full-colour daybill posters. He Ran All The Way, Trent's Last Case, Destination Gobi, Here Come the Girls. The last one stars Bob Hope, Tony Martin, Arlene Dahl and Rosemary Clooney.
November 19, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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An intriguing collection of movie posters up for auction this Saturday. Perfect for the film buff in your life with a wall that's incomplete without a 50s drama, the second Alvin Purple, and Young Einstein.

www.interbid.com.au/abbeys/aucti...
Eight full-colour daybill posters. Eight film posters, mostly daybills, including Cyborg and Excalibur. Four Australian daybill posters. Ride a Wild Pony, Alvin Rides Again, Crocodile Dundee, Fatty Finn. Eight movie posters, including Young Einstein and Moving Out, "introducing Vince Colosimo as Gino".
November 19, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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mood
A purple 90s Furby on display. $25. Working, but no batteries.
November 19, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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there is only one true Steam Machine
A novelty desktop computer shaped to look like a steam train. "About 12 years old. Can take Windows 10 but not 11."
November 16, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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I don't stand around holding my phone up at shows so this is all you're getting
November 16, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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girl
"Event Paused" on the fed square screen in big fuck off scary red letters. Event cancelled because of "unexpected circumstances", but we were told over the PA it was because of overcrowding.
November 14, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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day for it
Fed Square with the sun overhead, light fluffy clouds, a crowd milling about the stage. Amyl and the Sniffers promo on screen.
November 14, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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These Abandoned Gumboots Are An Xbox
A pair of xbox themed wellies lying on a nature strip.
November 12, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Might muck around and hide up in the Astor balcony over summer
The Astor calendar for November to January. Lots of Kubrick, Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Singin' in the Rain, Trash Humpers, and Twin Peaks fire walk with me and the return. Talking Heads Stop Making Sense the day after David Byrne's Melbourne concert.
November 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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The Wicked x Grill'd burger in a colour it probably shouldn't be WISHES it was the Stellar Blade x Gami Chicken burger in a colour it probably shouldn't be
A beef burger with bright green buns. A fried chicken burger with bright blue buns.
November 3, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Can't wait to see this classic scene for myself 💜
An edited FFT screenshot. A knight with a moustache standing next to a guillotine says "What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?"
November 3, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Playing this for the first time. I've heard good things.
A Nintendo switch copy of Final Fantasy Tactics: the Ivalice Chronicles, with Akihiko Yoshida's illustration.
November 3, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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I've got Blackboard too, don't worry! btw the nose looks like that in those other pics bc I can put a sharpie in it and actually draw. I don't play on Halloween.
An A4 sketch book made to look like blackboard from Mr Squiggle.
October 31, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Happy Halloween! ✏️📺
A white woman in Mr Squiggle drag. Yellow dress, green wig, pencil nose, tits out. Full body shot so you can see my green thigh high socks and pencil shoes.
October 31, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Daisy Rock are re-releasing their cutesy guitars + basses originally aimed at tween girls. They will almost definitely be stupid expensive, with astronomical shipping costs, and probably won't have a lefty option anyway. In no way can I justify getting one. And yet...
An ad for "heartbreaker" heart-shaped guitars circa 2004. Available in black, purple, red and pink. Gig bag included!
October 29, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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all this ruckus could've been avoided if only Albo repped a good Aussie band
Albanese getting off the plane but his Joy Division shirt has been edited to a Private Function shirt that says "I listen to Private Function cause I'm dumb as fuck". I have this shirt btw. Great shirt, great band.
October 28, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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The Halloween party I'm going to is themed "Australiana" and while I'm happy with my planned costume, in the back of my mind I keep thinking... but what if I was a sexy fantale
A pile of yellow fantale lollies. They have movie and celebrity trivia on the wrappers. A woman wearing a yellow playboy bunny costume with a big fantale poorly photoshopped over her midsection.
October 26, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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I just finished these excellent books, and while I feel wiser and better informed, I'd love recommendations for anything -not- about evil tech oppression. I need to start a mindless summer fiction read a bit early.
The New Age of Sexism: how the AI revolution is reinventing misogyny, by Laura Bates. A robotic CGI white woman's face in close-up with a glowing green eye. Face with Tears of Joy, a Natural History of Emoji. By Keith Houston. A white book with four generations of laugh-crying emoji on the front.
October 26, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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The whole softball profile + soft-focus portrait thing would probably feel so nice. Like a warm bubble bath. And all it costs is $2.5m+ of ABC funding and your reputation as a trailblazing corporate girlboss because you're sick of getting emails.
Post from The Age on Facebook. Now 83 and slowed only by her declining mobility, Ita Buttrose remains as sharp and opinionated as ever as she reflects on her six decades in the media.
October 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM