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Atticus (Attie)
@attie-has-tea.bsky.social
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The tragic physical manifestation of "she'll be right, mate".

I'm interested in geo/auspol, I like playing piano and drinking tea, and trying hard to make the world a better place. Recovering artist.
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Sclera is a foolish name for a foolish body part.
A screenshot of the Wikipedia page for the white of the eye, called a "Sclera". It's got a Wikipedia UI element saying it has multiple issues, then the body of text goes on to read: "The sclera,[note 1] also known as the white of the eye or, in older literature, as the tunica albuginea oculi, is the opaque, fibrous, protective outer layer of the eye containing mainly collagen and some crucial elastic fiber.[2]"
November 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Me at 9am: "I finally have some free time this Sunday to fix the sticky middle C key. Hopefully I can knock this out in a good few hours.

Me at 1am the next day: [image attached]
A digital piano with the top lid taken off, circuitry visible. A dozen or so keys on the left side have been removed and are sitting on a piano stool below, with a ring light focused on them.
November 10, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Doing some assignments with @siobhanmakes.bsky.social and she captured the exact moment during a stupid, funny goof that I had a brilliant idea for ANOTHER stupid, funny goof.
October 31, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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Another storm, another instant set of 4 happy cloud photos!
Trees and buildings poke sightly into the bottom of the frame, the composition dominated by sky filled with various hues of clouds. Most of their stippled edged forms are grey, framing a dusky, desaturated blue sky in the centre, around a red stop light centrally positioned in the composition. The bottom right clouds catch a lowering sun, turning pale oranges and pinks. A silhouette of the Brisbane City skyline in the bottom, below that, a few cars driving only just in the shot. Rolling, fluffy clouds turning golden are a backdrop to flecks of dark grey in front and all through the sky, all contrasting with the blue sky in the top left corner. Another corner of pale blue sky in the composition against a mottled mix of cream and grey. A glowing setting sun pierces through the clouds washes the clouds over the horizon golden. There's a bridge over a river with sparse apartment blocks and cranes down the bottom of frame. A low angle of a thin, four-piece street lamp rises above its concrete jungle brethren between trees, a black silhouette against a sky turning from blue to orange, with the grey clouds lit from below by the sun out of frame.
October 27, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Been a good day for clouds. It usually takes me a few weeks to get 4 I think are worth sharing, but the storm delivered today!
A wet street, little traffic, in the late afternoon with a collection of different kinds of trees between powerlines on the other side of it (palm tree, bushes, gum tree, etc). Most of the photo is devoted to a cloudy sky busy with a variety of different hues and lighting, with fluffy white and cream highlights between the foreground shadowed clouds. Bushes, powerlines, and streetlights poke up from the bottom of the composition, with the photo focusing on a bright and fluffy white and cream mass of cloud in the bottom left corner, in front of a very blue sky with darker clouds peppered in the top right corner. A rolling sea of clouds with dark masses obscuring the breaks to yellow and cream from the lowering sun. The darker foreground clouds give the appearance of a nebula. The foreground contains a darker tree and side of a brick building. A pastelly light blue grey sky with blobs of clouds almost the same colour, with a splash of orange in the bottom right corner. The photo is dominated by a lit streetlight and overhead lines with the corners of trees framing the bottom.
October 18, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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I thought long and hard about how I could succinctly explain the story of what's going on here, but I just can't.
In front of a passing bus and a rubbish bin, a short man in a pink/blue/orange plaid short-sleeved shirt and pink shorts stands next to a tree, below a street sign reading "Adeline La". He's holding up high a naively crafted but endearing stuffed giraffe made of pink fabric with white spots, and a pink/blue/white yarn mane and tail. The giraffe has a blue ribbon around it's neck, as does the man. How expression is subtly excited while he gestures with an open hand to the giraffe he's holding.
October 15, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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In New Zealand, we (@cratesmith.bsky.social and I) were competing to see who could get the most compliments on each day's outfit. I only got more one day, and definitely lost overall. 😭
The "I'm the dumbest man alive" comic blank meme, consisting of simple humanoid figures. The first panel is someone wearing a crown and royal cloak, the second is an unassuming casually posed figure with a gormless look on their face, followed by the final panel of the figure with the crown on their knees passing the crown to the person speaking in the second. The first blank field by the crown wearing figure reads "I am the best dressed", the second said by the gormless figure is a photo of Kiera, an austere looking woman with curly red and blonde hair, wearing a gorgeous burgundy coat with gold buttons and a rogue-like hood. The final panel is filled with the first figure giving away the crown with "fuckin' oath." written in.
October 5, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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The fuckin looks I got today walking though the suburbs while carrying a folding stool strapped to a guitar-hero controller looking for a wall to jump off in the least amount of clothing I've ever been outside in. #animation
In a clearing in the Australian bush, a short man wearing a black sleeveless midriff and black short shorts jumps off the edge of a concrete slab wielding a guitar-hero controller with a folding stool taped to it like a hammer, swinging it over his head, waiting for gravity to take effect. A short man standing with clenched fists raised photographed from behind with the stool-guitar slung over his back, holding a long get e bendable phone holder. He's standing in the entrance to a house, shoe and coat rack to the left, shelf of board games to the right, ready to go out a white door in a red wall. An old guitar hero controller lying on the grass, three rows of black tape binding it to a white folded up stool.
October 4, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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I've stopped being poly for cafes and settled down with one I think has good vibes, and most importantly, good coffee. If you're in Taringa, "Aunty Paul's" is a very cool spot and is now my regular!

The owner saw me unwrapping presents and gave me a card, a little gift, and a voucher, the bastard.
A homely looking cafe counter with a red-orange wall to the left covered in posters (notably one saying "nice bum" in red and pink, and Jesus saying "I saw that"), and a black behind the counter with menu items. The front counter is covered and surrounded by offbeat things to buy like sexually suggestive caps and earrings. There's an old fashioned tv below a glass cabinet of pastries. A wooden shelf showing three shelves: The upper containing two ceramic jars in teals and golds and a ceramic VW van, the bottom a few more plain jars. The focus of the photo is the middle shelf which contains a card with giraffes and a love heart between them opened to show a message reading "Happy Birthday - Love Paul + Team". A black card with rainbow writing says "Happy Birthday Atticus, love Aunty Paul + team". Between the cards is a rubber duck with a gold necklace and sunglasses, wearing a red knit beanie with golden "LOVE" on it.
September 18, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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I FOUND SOMETHING: I found a 3XL shirt at an op shop: "How big is 3XL? Can I do something there?" Realised that it's VERY LARGE and looked ridiculous. I thought, "this won't do anything, but what if I tuck it into my pants..." And behold! (I've stopped trying face expressions in these.) #altfashion
Awkward standing pose of a small moustached man with slightly bent knees and outstretched arms on a tiled balcony in front of a glass door with a sliding screen, that has a fabric print of a Japanese style whale and a black fabric square with an Eastern European style symbolic bird hanging off it. He's wearing a 3x extra large t-shirt with green, yellow, and black vertical stripes. The same location and awkward outstretched arms pose in the shirt, this time with the bottom tucked into the waist of a pair of pink shorts. A side view to show the billowing silhouette of the shirt flowing over the waistline.
September 14, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Summer is coming and I only really had completely casual hippie-and-thongs. I found these shoes at an op shop and I'm trying to figure out what I own to go with them. #altfashion
A background of a large dark wood bookcase on a wooden floor and the back of a cream leather couch. Little guy kind of leaning back looking at his feet with a weight shift to his left with the right foot extended and raised off the heel. Arms raised with slightly clasped fingers. The outfit features plain un-patterned clothing with light cream shorts, a burgundy t-shirt, and a short-sleeved black button-up unbuttoned used as a jacket. The shoes are black-with-brown-dots loafers with white soles, brown leather tips, and burgundy, black, and yellow tongues. He's also wearing a black scarf with uniform ornate pink and green diamonds, and a round dangly earring. Close up of the loafers to show the brown dots are actually star shaped with a subtle grid been them. The broken leather tips have yellow stitching, and are mirrored just under the yellow-black-burgundy stripe tongue. There's a repeating word "NICE" (reversed from the mirror photo) vertically down the tongue, and a metal loop atop it. The hairy legs are standing in cream carpet.
September 12, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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I found amazing socks and went through my wardrobe with a fine-toothed comb to find what I think might be the only clothes I have that work with them.

High-rise socks seem like a risky play, but I think I pulled it off.
Small man in a casual outfit with a vertical red/yellow/brown t-shirt with a black rimmed collar, light cream shorts, brown and white sneakers, and high-rise light cream socks with big tattoo designs woven in. He's also got a leather wristband and clear glasses. He's looking down, leant over looking at one foot which is slightly tilted and raised. The background is a room with a wooden floor and a large stepped bookcase and a shoe rack on the right. A cream leather couch just out of shot. A closer look at the socks with a photo of the shins down. Upsidedown in the photo from the perspective of the wearer. The socks pull up to midway up the hairy shins. They're pale cream with two tattoo style artworks on each sock, both featuring a bird down the bottom, and the left an open mouthed snake, the right a red flower. The art has bold black outlines and features green, yellow, and red fills with some areas are filled black. The brown shoes have white soles and laces, with white Australian Aboriginal artwork on the sides. The legs are resting on a wooden desk with the corner of a screen running Maya on top of a riser with a black keyboard underneath. Resting on an angled part of the desk is a notebook with notes about 3D animation. There's a Power Wash Simulator desk mat.
September 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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LOOK, there's "most tasks", and then there's committing to look through literally ALL your files from 20 years of digital art and 10 of professional gamedev because you convinced yourself some hair-brained scheme isn't just a pipe dream to the point you start screaming "no more!".
Gif of the ending scene from "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" where the villain demands alien knowledge to the point it overwhelms her, her eyes light on fire, and she dies.
September 3, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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"Hey, tattoos seem really cool, has anyone done them before?"

Me. I'd done them before. (ISTG... there's living in the moment and then there's whatever I'm doing.)

I'm PREEEETTY sure we didn't do them, though. But I can't confirm anything which occurred more than 1 week before the current time.
September 3, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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OK, so, looked through some old files, and I found photos I took of a couple of years MIGW loot. I'm not sure how much value is in them, but my brain made dopamine when I took the photo and thought: "yeah, look what *I* got".
Blue table with a collection of buttons/pins, lanyards and convention badges for PAXAus, playing cards, and some pamphlets. Square wooden table with a large collection of business cards, buttons/pins (with a large collection of wooden skull pins), "We didn't Playtest This at All" board game, Zelda necklaces, a Wind Waker Gannondorf figuring, a Melbourne Unity convention Tshirt, a stuffed toy of the Crossy-Road chicken, a beachball, a poster of a game called "Breath of Light", and a signed playing card.
September 3, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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I faced an internal struggle for many years during the early 2000s that this was the best OC design of all time, but also I conveniently "couldn't find the right place" for it. #art
A completely aliased, chunky outlined neopet species "zafara" which is a bit like a kangaroo crossed with a lemur with dragon spines. It's colouring is garish: majority missing-texture-purple, pure #FFFFFF white belly and sock markings on the paws and tail, dragon spines black, with a black snout and eye markings like a ring-tailed lemur. The jewel of the design bright orange from the corner of the eyes down the body in a line, with an orange tuft of hair, and long, orange ears with "eye-catching" black spots going down them. There's an inkling of orange spots on the forehead. Classic. The Zafara is standing stiffly with the head turned back more dynamically. The same zafara, this time a bit of a more exciting pose with the creature viewed from the back, head turned to the camera, and it grasping its giant feet. The same design skinned onto essentially a griffin. ("Legally trademarked eyrie" neopet.) It's added white wings, where the black snout was is now a beak, with the addition of a bright blue collar, because things just weren't bright enough, y'know? The same design over a goat ("legally trademarked ixi" neopet) with a maturely toned down black collar, and black hooves.
September 1, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Lol I typo'd the hashtag. 🫠 #altfashion

Apologies for double post.
A dirty mirror reflecting a bedroom with the doona cover off the end and a few toiletry odds and ends on the bed. A big dark grey closed blind is in the background. The moustached man with thin black glasses taking a selfie is wearing an oversized off-white sweater with delicate plant imagery in thin black lines, organised into a neat circle in the centre. The collared shirt poking through the sweater's droopy collar is white with orange and green paisley patterns, and a black rim on the top of the collar. He's wearing dark brown pants and his phone case is purple. A background of white walls and a pale cream door. The moustached man in thin black glasses is wearing a black tee and jeans, yellow Doc Martens boots, and a white, long, open cardigan with little black fuzzy diamond motifs all over it. The sleeve ends/bottom of the cardigan have a block section of detailed diamonds with pale blue and pink splashes of triangles through it in a line. The opening of the cardigan also has a smaller diamond motif edging. He's wearing a casual yellow hemp bag, and a white-gold sun earring with a pale pink smooth gem in the centre. The moustached man with thin black glasses wearing a slim cut black button up with roses and green leaves embroidered on the chest. Between them are two pocket openings with red trims. The trims also frame the row of buttons. The outfit features white jeans, black dress shoes with beige laces, and poking between them: red socks. The background is a bookcase, a cluttered cream leather couch, and an even more cluttered coat and shoe rack. (Director's commentary: I went to a singles night and only popped the buttons at the second, non-dating event I went to.) The same background as the last photo with the bookcase, but a closer shot of the torso and up. It's a transparent-ish, billowy white blouse with the first 3 buttons undone. It's got delicate embroidery of flowers in dark red/pink and pale blue, with pale yellow and dark green leaves, symmetrical on either side of the button line. Between them, European Great Tits (lol) and hummingbirds. The sleeves and collar also feature embroidery. He's wearing an oval pin on the shirt in cream and dark red reading "I AM POLYAMOROUS", with the letters "POLY" being much bigger in the centre, and small simple flowers on either side.
August 30, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Dang I'm not gonna lie, my fashion has been on point lately. ⚜️ #altfashiom
A dirty mirror reflecting a bedroom with the doona cover off the end and a few toiletry odds and ends on the bed. A big dark grey closed blind is in the background. The moustached man with thin black glasses taking a selfie is wearing an oversized off-white sweater with delicate plant imagery in thin black lines, organised into a neat circle in the centre. The collared shirt poking through the sweater's droopy collar is white with orange and green paisley patterns, and a black rim on the top of the collar. He's wearing dark brown pants and his phone case is purple. A background of white walls and a pale cream door. The moustached man in thin black glasses is wearing a black tee and jeans, yellow Doc Martens boots, and a white, long, open cardigan with little black fuzzy diamond motifs all over it. The sleeve ends/bottom of the cardigan have a block section of detailed diamonds with pale blue and pink splashes of triangles through it in a line. The opening of the cardigan also has a smaller diamond motif edging. He's wearing a casual yellow hemp bag, and a white-gold sun earring with a pale pink smooth gem in the centre. The moustached man with thin black glasses wearing a slim cut black button up with roses and green leaves embroidered on the chest. Between them are two pocket openings with red trims. The trims also frame the row of buttons. The outfit features white jeans, black dress shoes with beige laces, and poking between them: red socks. The background is a bookcase, a cluttered cream leather couch, and an even more cluttered coat and shoe rack. (Director's commentary: I went to a singles night and only popped the buttons at the second, non-dating event I went to.) The same background as the last photo with the bookcase, but a closer shot of the torso and up. It's a transparent-ish, billowy white blouse with the first 3 buttons undone. It's got delicate embroidery of flowers in dark red/pink and pale blue, with pale yellow and dark green leaves, symmetrical on either side of the button line. Between them, European Great Tits (lol) and hummingbirds. The sleeves and collar also feature embroidery. He's wearing an oval pin on the shirt in cream and dark red reading "I AM POLYAMOROUS", with the letters "POLY" being much bigger in the centre, and small simple flowers on either side.
August 30, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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I went to a hand crafted market (I'm very tired) and 5 people complimented me on my shirt. I made the right choice.
A headshot of a very tired moustached man wearing glasses, a long leafy earring, and a silky, slightly transparent, white, long-sleeved blouse. It's got embroidered floral motifs on the front and down the sleeves in deep brown reds and grey teals, with pale yellow accents, along with blue tits and hummingbirds. The embroidery continues on the collar, sleeve cuffs, and button strip in smaller, delicate florals, mostly of the teal grey colour. There's a brown bag strap over his shoulder.
August 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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I have a rule: I only buy one thing a month (to avoid having no money), and I idly wandered into a shop from the interesting window stock, and... Holy crap it was a good little shop. Such a kind owner, and flipping fantastic clothes. If you're in the CBD, check it out! (Yes, I bought the shirt.)
A sticker label on a white paper bag labelled "The Reckless Abandon" with an anchor and rope border, and a background of thick horizontal black and white stripes. Subtext saying "design centric slow fashion • size inclusive • natural fabrics" and the website below, "http://www.recklessabandonboutique.com.au". A silky, slightly transparent, white, long-sleeved blouse. It's got embroidered floral motifs on the front and down the sleeves in deep brown reds and grey teals, with pale yellow accents, along with blue tits and hummingbirds. The embroidery continues on the collar, sleeve cuffs, and button strip in smaller, delicate florals, mostly of the teal grey colour.
August 22, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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Been meaning to do this for yonks. I've been using old fabric to cover notebooks for many years, and I had a brain-blast when it came to my laptop. 👀
The back of a laptop, lid raised, which has been covered in a blue/red/green Indian style pattern, at a diagonal angle. There's a sticker of the "autism creature" with an elongated neck. It's sitting on a grey ironing board with white words of ironing related actions. A blurred tea shelf can be seen in the background. The same laptop on the ironing board with the lid angled down more, shot from the side with the black keyboard of the laptop visible. A blurred kitchen in the background.
August 20, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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The best nail set yet. I love this place, they always meet my requirements exactly. Short nails for piano, PLUS, they worked miracles the first time I saw them when I had mere millimetre of nail on some fingers.
A hand with a close up of an acrylic nail set on curled fingers. The nails are quite short, and are purple/yellow iridescent, except for the thumbnail which is pastel pink with a frangipani on it, finished with a small diamante in the centre. There's a band-aid wrapped around the index finger, and a leather band around the wrist.
August 16, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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I don't think Indian culture has much exposure to the name "Atticus", but I always enjoy seeing the attempts.
A yellow receipt stapled to a plastic bag reading "Indian Mehfil Pty Ltd, kitchen print". The fields for details are all blank except the name which reads "APPITON" in all caps with a censored part beside it.
August 10, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Still taking photos of cool clouds I see that make me happy. Mild #arachnophobia warning for one photo!
An outside scene with the top of a grey roofed white wooden slat house mostly hidden behind trees, and further behind obscured by more foliage a terracotta orange apartment. The fluffy grey clouds in the sky are lit by the late afternoon sun, a fiery hotspot peeking over the orange apartments. An out of focus orb weaver spider is in the foreground. White flecks of clouds are dappled through a strikingly blue sky over a main road, with the sun catching the left, sending heavenly rays through it. A view through a car windscreen on a road pointed up to a cloudy sky. Light covering peppers the sky's highest points, veiling a bright sun. It's framed by heavy and grey storm clouds. A solitary lamppost cuts into the composition. A view down a shadowed street, contrasting the blue sky containing a stark straight division of light, white clouds filling the bottom half of it in a front. There's a wall featuring bold patterned artwork in oranges and blue.
July 15, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Got some display cases for my #playingcards, so I can admire my favourites. Will cycle them when the mood strikes, I guess. Photos only of my very favourite decks, I have... A lot 👀 of playing cards.
A wooden and black shelf with 4 upright plastic displays showing unique and artistic playing cards, and another display to the right of the box from a deck called "Tempo", which is jazz music themed. It's got a scribbly, liney style in blue and gold with textured energetic black lines. The king of clubs is a drummer with a high hat, twirling his stick, with the classic upsidedown artwork on the bottom. The 10 of hearts features no character but is chaotic, uneven, and overlapping hearts. The queen of diamonds is a pianist, with the curving black and white keys dividing the character between the upright and upsidedown renderings. The ace of spades is a simple treble clef. The box is deep brown with gold lines and several musicians on the front. In the background there is a stuffed Okami toy and white wooden letters obscured by the cards. 9 decks of cards, most showcasing three cards from each: an ace, a face card, and a number. The Nintendo deck shows only the case, and a rainbow style deck flares the cards to show the spectrum. The other decks are a bold orange thick lined one, an 80s Ukrainian, Battlestar Galactica hexagonal cards, the Japanese Suica penguin mascot tourist cards, PlayStation themed with the four buttons as suits, a high fantasy style death themed delicately illustrated by Wylie Beckert, and high fantasy themed cards from a local bar "Netherworld". They lie on a blue and red paisley patterned tablecloth on a circle table.
July 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM