james

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I'm on Blue Sky now.

Sickos guy from Ward Sutton's comic Painful Procedural. A man is staring into a window saying "Yes ... Ha Ha Ha ... YES!". His shirt says "Ishmael".
Zooming into a hole from within the graffiti-covered Brooklyn Army Bunker revealing a view of the Majestic Center in Wellington.
Ending of Hutt City Brass's performance of Music of the Spheres at the 2026 New Zealand National Brass Band Championships.
On stage at the Michael Fowler Center
Two-bar excerpt from the Solo Tenor Horn part of Philip Sparke's Music of the Spheres. Written notes are dotted-crotchet A E D♯ B, all above the stave. The notes are all slurred and the excerpt begins fortissimo with a decrescendo spanning the entirety.
Baba from Baba Is You
A tenor horn, disassembled with the pieces laid out.
A cow stands before two entranceways. Left is labelled "Hot", right is labelled "Medium", both lead to the same place: "Pretty hot".
DuckDuckGo search for "days until november 7". Atop the results is the AI generated answer "There are 46 days until November 7, 2025".
Clip from Veep season 3 episode eight "Debate". Selena Myers orating: 'I call it my "three R's"'
The New Zealand Labour Party condemns the US attack on Venezuela including kidnapping its president as a blatant violation of international law. For the US to say it is now going to run its oil, and in the same breath to repeat its desire to acquire Greenland, is a fundamental challenge to New Zealand values and our place in the world. Nicolas Maduro's human rights abuses should have been dealt with in the International Criminal Court. The US action is another step towards a world of violence and instability where might takes precedence over international law. Hon Phil Twyford, associate spokesperson on foreign affairs, NZ Labour Party
Opening frame from Don Hertzfeldt's short film "REJECTED". All caps white-on-black text reads "REJECTED".
A car with the numberplate "PAWJOB", with many furry-related bumper stickers.
My music stand in a mall with Christmas carols on it.
From left: A Studio Ghibli journal with Catbus on the cover. Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson. Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo. The Vagrant by Peter Newman. Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
An unopened box
My lock screen. Background is a scene from Lupin III The Castle Of Cagliostro: Lupin is reclining on top of his yellow Fiat 500. The bonnet is open and Jigen is tinkering inside.
LEGO model of the Orient Express lit up with LEDs
Man playing a contrabassoon
RNZ Concert schedule from 1pm today. A live recording of Peter Graham's "Dynasty" as performed by the Hutt City Brass Band will be on at approx. 1:10.
Some posters on my wall. Clockwise from top-left: Nausicaä from Hayao Miyazaki's manga Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. My own drawing of the bus stop scene from My Neighbour Totoro. A linocut print by @molly.wiki of a raccoon with the inscription "IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS". Some whales. A postcard by @dirtcupart.bsky.social depicting characters from his Chromatic Fantasy graphic novel. A drawing of a pigeon taken from an encyclopedia. A watercolour done by a friend of mine featuring characters from the video game Baba Is You. A small postcard featuring the characters from Keiichi Arawi's Nichijou manga. The second of Hokusai's 36 Views of Mt Fuji: Fine Wind, Clear Morning. In the center is my own drawing of Appa from Avatar: The Legend Of Ang.
A pigeon in a kebab shop
text in the style of the "ZOHRAN for New York city" campaign reads "ASK NOT for whom the bell tolls.
Inspector Zenigata from Lupin III holding a pistol
Promotional image for Orchestra Wellington's ENEMY OF THE STATE concert. Top left is a man holding a violin. Top right is the soprano soloist. Bottom half is a photo of the Hutt City Brass Band.
DuckDuckGo search for "don quixote". The DuckDuckGo logo is dressed as Don Quixote.
Minor chord from an orchestra with a large crescendo. Video is black.
An Orchestra rehearsal seen from the very back of the room with a deceptive wide angle lens.
"now listening" widget on my website. Album art is displayed next to the details: Track: Hell Is Round the Corner (1995 BBC radio session) Album: Maxinquaye (Reincarnated) Artist: Tricky When hovering over the album art, a rotating image of the CD is revealed. Text too wide for the widget automatically scrolls.
Advertisement for Orchestra Wellington performance "Enemy of the State". Saturday 18 October, 7.30pm Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington
an image on a Blue sky post failing to load
George Costanza from Seinfeld with the caption "I gotta focus. I'm shifting into 'Bird of the Year 2025' mode."
Profile picture of @dieworkwear.bsky.social: stylised grayscale cartoon of a well dressed man.
Commander Keen and a Vorticon
Current weather conditions: 6.4° (feels like 1°)
Clip from the anime Urusei Yatsura.
passage of sheet music with the direction "breathe as required"
Excerpt from Hutt City Brass's performance of A Tale As Yet Untold by Philip Sparke at the 2025 New Zealand National Brass Band Contest.
Text reads: "Fukuyama has also perceived Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election as the result of the Western system's ability to correct mistakes.[50] [needs update?]"
Rnz headline reads "ACT leader claims bots behind submissions on Regulatory Standards Bill"
Cover of Star Gazers by Duncan Sarkies
LEGO Kākāpō broken into several pieces.
Meadow from The Sopranos. There is a speech bubble making it appear she is saying the quoted post.
View of Wellington City from Central Park on a very wet evening.
screenshot from quoted Three-Body video. Orbital paths of three bodies (red, yellow blue lines) are shown against a starfield. The path of the red body resembles a heart shape.
Frame from the film I Saw The TV Glow. Children's chalk drawings on the road with the words "there is still time" most prominent.
tag on a rusty street light reads: "you R LoveD!!! Even if you Don't Feel it! :p -zöe ✨<3✨
"I was a volunteer on my 3rd grade son’s field trip last week, and on the bus ride to the museum, I shit you not, some of the kids were pretending to shoot at Teslas out of the window with finger guns. These were not even my kids, I swear, and when I asked them why they were shooting the cars, one even said “well the cars are ok but they’re made by Elon Musk’” and went back to “bam-bam-bam”-ing them."
Some bad errors preventing Linux from booting.
clouds. a lunar eclipse is occurring behind them.
Bilbo looking longingly at The One Ring.
Cartoon of a person digging for diamonds.
A large bubble.
Closeup of a cicada on my right index finger.
Black and white photo of a group of people pushin "N.Z.'s Last Tram" into what looks like a tomb. Caption reads "The Last Tram trundling into an obscurity at the end of its run."
Three panel meme. Panel 1: a classroom is all turning towards Bart Simpson, expectantly. Panel 2: Bart, dejectedly "A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors". Panel 3: The class erupts into cheers.
Tweet from aLec robBins (@alecrobbins): "going to bed always feels like giving up on the day. the longer you stay up the more points you are scoring"
Headline in the NZ Herald: Landlords accuse Auckland property manager of keeping $50,000 of their rental income.
kōtare (sacred kingfisher) in a tree of some kind.