Don Sinnamon (he/him)

@donsinnamon.bsky.social

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Writer/editor from Brisbane. 20+ years in progressive politics. Former music journo, campaigner for refugees, public broadcasting & environment. FOD Tripped over a robot apocalypse and started writing historical fiction that's looking for a home

The clear and obvious inspiration for Krypto, Billy the Wonder Dog, who is a short ginger and white Maltese-Shitzu cross, infused by the rays of our yellow sun with the power to break hearts and steal food
Billy, a ginger and white Maltese-Shitzu is galloping happily ahead of a large playful Dalmatian in a muddy park
A ginger and white terrier wearing a cool as hell winter coat with skulls on it, states remorselessly into the camera, vowing to sin again
It’s a 1600-day streak token from Duolingo, featuring a flaming cartoon owl wearing sunglasses that conveys linguistic prowess, somehow.
Black and white photograph of author, playwright and poet David Malouf, probably taken on the grounds of the University of Queensland in the 1970s or 80s. David is looking out of frame with a slight smile, wearing black-rimmed glasses, a striped collared shirt with the sleeves rolled up.
Navy personnel outside the Integrity capsule stand on the orange inflatable platform called 'the front porch', attached to the stability platform around the circumference of the capsule. The hatch is open but the crew are not yet visible. The capsule looks like a giant cupcake with its red bouyancy balloons mimicking strawberries, no doubt to appeal to the elderly Millennial demographic
A young brush-tailed possum hangs upside down from chains that suspend a birdfeeder. She is magnificent and balletic
The same ginger and white terrier, Billy, now beaming as he stands on a rock by a picnic table, artfully dappled by different sunlight about 1 kilometre away from the last picture. His coat has dried and he’s sparkling
A small, scruffy white and ginger terrier with spikily fluffed out hair is staring reproachfully back at the photographer from a wooden deck, dappled by sunlight
Several cockatoos lining the railing of a suburban deck with one extremely dinosaur-looking scrub turkey moving within pecking distance of an outstretched toe.
A young brush tailed possum and her kid still mostly riding on her back, eating scraps from a birdfeeder on my balcony. The mother looks mildly stunned by the light but the kid is full on eyeballing me
Two images of the Australia movie star Rod Taylor showing an axeblade chin, slightly hawkish nose and eyebrows, at least in the second black and white shot, that Sam the Eagle from the Muppet Show would be proud of. One is a cropped still from The Birds, another a close up black and white headshot. They are contrasted with two photos of Kumail Nanjiani in similar poses, one at a Knives Out premiere and another a black and white portrait. Not included - a still of Rod Taylor at the controls of 1964's The Time Machine because I couldn't be bothered. But guess what? He looks like Kumail in that, too.
A white weasel in dapper 19th century attire is holding up a lantern and carrying a banner over his shoulder that reads ‘Unclench Your Jaw’. Unfortunately I don’t know the artist
Billy, a ginger and white Maltese-Shitzu Augment Nightmare is calmly swearing to have his vengeance on me, the one who bathed him moments earlier. He is damp and bedraggled and utterly free from compassion. He has no time for arguments about the blistering 37°C heat I’m saving him from, nor place for mercy in his fiery heart.
Billy, a ginger and white terrier is looking wet and bedraggled in a laundry tub, mid bath. He’s staring off to the left, calculating escape routes and later, vengeance
Alternate universe T'Pol from Star Trek: Lower Decks, turning from her console to say "And 'big Starfleet nerd' is an accurate description."
Billy, a ginger and white Maltese-Shitzu cross is playing to the camera in the foreground while Lucky, a 19 year old Kelpie-Blue Heeler cross is panting happily on a couch behind him
Lucky, a 19 year old black and tan kelpie-Blue Heeler cross with an almost entirely white face is happily sniffing a tree that has a lower branch snapped off. She’s grinning like she tore it off herself
A 19 year old black and tan Kelpie-Blue Heeler cross, Lucky, is panting on a blanket with her tongue lolling out. Her face is almost completely white now and her legs are splayed wide
An impressionist painting of the Brisbane rally against the war in Iraq on February 16th, 2003. A sea of colourful people are gathered beneath banners at the start of the rally at Emma Miller Place by Roma Street Station. From a painting by Leisa Millar
The hair from a Lego minifig. It doesn't quite match Lt Ortegas' Space Age Rockabilly cut but there's a limit to how much time I was willing to waste on this stupidity
The bay opposite me in the Emergency Department. The bed’s been moved so the occupant could have her wound treated
George Street, Brisbane filled with protesters carrying flags and banners
Five sulphur-crested cockatoos line a roof peering down at some thumb-wielding lackey who better make with the seed, real quick. It’s now late afternoon and they are still entitled little jerks
About fourteen sulphur-crested cockatoos jostling onto various surfaces on my verandah and deck as the sun rises behind them. They are raucous and unruly, and definitely motivated by love and respect for me, not the various quantities of seed that coincidentally line many of those surfaces.
Professor Charles 'Definitely On A Number Of Watchlists And Not Just Because Of The Mutant Thing' Xavier is thinking '"Don't worry." As if i could help worrying about the one I love. But I can never tell her. I have no right...' The next panel is his face with the repeated thought 'The one I love. The one I love. The one I love.' And the final panel is Jean Grey's eye, wide with shock as she realises from reading his mind, that he means her. The big ol' creep.
A corpse-pale hand clutching John Scalzi’s Starter Villain as cockatoos look on disapprovingly
Three pink and grey galahs are perched on a hanging bird-feeder, one still with wings spread. Two more are perched on the verandah railing below and a cockatoo watches on from nearby
A flock of sulphur-crested cockatoos eating seed from several bird feeders off a suburban verandah, backlit by a rising sun
A non-villainous hand holds out a copy of John Scalzi’s Starter Villain while non-brainwashed cockatoos look on serenely with no thoughts of world domination or skeletonising world leaders. At all.
Billy, a ginger and white terrier-thing is yawning mightily while wrapped in a blue blanket. He looks at least 7% more like Krypto than the nepo puppy they cast instead
A cockatoo is peering curiously at a copy of George Takei’s book They Called Us Enemy which I’m not going to let it get closer to because they are little razor-billed, dino-clawed vandals, while perched on a birdfeeder on my verandah
Still from the Jack London miniseries ’The Sea Wolf’ where the AI subtitles have mistranslated the end of a scruffy mutineer’s line ‘Lock the captain in his cabin, and the mate with him’ to ‘And I mate with him’
Spock from Star Trek: The Animated Series saying ‘That is an outstandingly stupid idea’
Four pictures of a tabby cat in a cardboard box. In the first he's sitting on the right side, oblivious. In the second, he seems to notice writing along the back of the box In the third, he's sitting in front of the writing which reads 'Reserved Seating Assholes Only' In the fourth, the camera has zoomed in and it seems as if he's reconciled himself with the description.
A baseball card for Buck 'Buckaroo' Bokai, Shortstop for the London Kings according to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Bokai is a round-faced Asian man in a blue uniform with 'Kings' across the front and a little red crown over the heart.
A long-haired Asian man with a dusting of facial hair and a sweet staff is looking contentedly at the world with the caption ‘Yes I finally killed my ego now I’m better than everyone else’
Scene from Star Trek: Enterprise on the Mayweathers’ cargo freighter in quarters made up for Travis Mayweather’s visit including all his childhood things. A blonde woman in a red shirt is holding what looks like a stuffed Moopsie doll. Which explains why Travis was anxious to leave and join Starfleet
The sun setting behind a suburban building
Prepolling station at Enoggera for the 2025 Australian Federal election. There are signs for various parties and in the foreground ones for sitting member, Stephen Bates MP for Brisbane and Queensland Greens Senator Larissa Waters face the road. The skies are grey and it’s raining.
A rugged, dynamically muscular thumb sneaking into frame holding up the hardcover book Una McCormack’s Picard: The Last Best Hope on a deck with battling sulphur-crested cockatoos fighting over seed in the background.
Billy, a ginger and white terrier mix is being walked on a leash and beaming at the chance to piss on things other than my writing for a change
Billy, a white and ginger terrier - allegedly shitzu-Maltese, sitting on a faded wooden side table next to my chair on the deck. He is looking at me with a mixture of disappointment over my current work
Four corellas, a subspecies of cockatoo with mostly white feathers including their crests but with blue circles about their eyes, trying to make moves on each other between a tree and the nearby beams of a wooden deck. One flies down from the tree to join one on the beam and begins a courtship dance, displaying its tail-feathers and shaking itself, then it and the nearest bird seem to lock beaks and wave their heads violently back and forth. All while screeching
A sulphur-crested cockatoo is picking at a rainbow kite hanging from a rail of a wooden deck with first its beak then both its beak and claws
Two sulphur-crested cockatoos on a branch. One is muscling up to the other and unleashing an unholy cacophony of of screeching right into the other’s face. But you know, romantically
A mechanical crane reskinned to have spots and so its lifting arm looks like a giraffe’s neck and head. No, I don’t know what they were thinking either, I just saw it on Facebook
Promotional art for the TV series The Littlest Hobo showing the star, a German Shepard dog, sitting in front of a mountain range with pine trees behind him and the name of the show above
The famous 3-breasted mutant woman from Total Recall (played by the same actor as Sonya Gomez from Star Trek: TNG) She has 80s hair, a black and purple top and three boobs
Two sulphur-crested cockatoos eating from a suspended bird-feeder. One is singing to the other like Morrissey with a toothache. His victim does not seem impressed
A still from Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 20 ‘Horizon’. Travis Mayweather is being led into his quarters aboard his family’s freighter by his mother. It’s been redecorated with his childhood belongings, including a stuffed, white quadruped toy on a table.
Billy, a scruffy ginger and white terrier mutt is backlit by the Fingers of God as he stands above me on the deck
Picture by Alison Friend of a dumpy-looking terrier sitting up with an open burger container on his lap. He is looking happily at the viewer and about to dig in.
A still from Star Trek: Prodigy where the crew meets a species that has inherited a skewed knowledge of Starfleet and created a cargo cult around it
A semi-humanoid frog, dressed in wizards or cleric’s robes has its hands raised over its head and is saying ‘I’m about to cause a kerfuffle’
7 sulphur-created cockatoos eating seed off a railing and the deck of a verandah. It’s raining and they’re all a bit bedraggled and wet
Billy, a scruffy white and ginger Maltese-Shitzu cross looking morose from his perch woven into my legs on the couch
Four cockatoos and a corella perched about a deck - that has had its shade cloth roof removed - staring disapprovingly at the local Thumbed Creature for putting out seed differently from the usual procedure. A crow is overseeing things from higher up in a nearby tree
Billy, a ginger and white Maltese-Shitzu cross is looking perplexed at having his photo taken so soon after saving my life on a snack run, while lying on a red leather couch. A water bowl is visible behind him
Two rainbow lorikeets and a cockatoo reluctantly participating in my very select front yard book club. The ‘keets agree with me that John Scalzi’s Redshirts is great but the cockatoo likes his scifi a bit harder. And is, generally speaking, widely acknowledged to be a bit of a dickhead