Louis Patterson

@theboatend.bsky.social

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All-purpose nerd and "competitive" sailor. Australian, Melburnian, Footscrayite, Him.

White birds in a dead tree in front of a 50s australian house at sunset
A pipa.
a door that the fire brigade smashed open.
a pile of fabric in bolts on a couch
A train runs through a level crossing at night.
the indian-pacific
railway departure board indicating the next train from this platform departs six minutes from now, the one after that departs one minute from now, and the train after *that* departs six minutes from now.
two older white people, a man and a woman, sitting next to each other on the tram.
A bunch of small boats mostly with teal sails sit on tied to a wharf with highrise buildings behind them.
A small leather bag worn by a person, open showing tram tickets.
A small jar of toxic red dust, maybe a quarter full, that they wanted north of a hundred for.
a bunch of small cloth triangles in various colours are in neat piles on a table
young blue-haired anime girl covered with cats
A holy water fount with a distinctively-shaped grey bowl doing the holy water holding
Some sort of vaishnite hindu blessing? in ?gujerati attached to a guilotine.
image of a table setting out the text above.
A drawing of a boy in a japanese gakuran uniform and a girl with short brown hair dressed in a 70s space miniskirt + leggings.
near 80 aud of fruit and veggies.
bowl of frozen soup
a dark totoiseshell sits with her nose buried under her tail on a garden couch
A photo of the bread in question, sliced and turned back to show the open crumb.
A drawing of two boats on lines that cross, showing the relative angle between the boats remains constant
a flattened cardboard box turned into a chessboard balanced between two people's knees on a train
A dawn sky, with a fingernail-paring moon.
A mangy-looking cat puppet: Modigliana from The Ferals.
screenshot of article, relevantly saying "This may also have reflected the poor impression resulting from the political action of the parlements – courts of justice under the ancien régime monarchy: these courts often had chosen to block legislation in order to further the privileges of a small caste in the nation."
bluebird railcar blueprint
night scene, a brightly-lit street at the end of a dark alleyway, where a person, a car, and a half-moon
A red electric locomotive with a little deck on the front
A picture of the aforesaid Cancer Kafka, a tall woman with a blonde afro dressed like a he-man figure.
the keihan railway keishin line in otsu: two fairly large trains run up the middle of a street.
a chocolate hot cross bun
A harry potter banner in a starbucks
A cartoon dwarf taste-tests the food he is cooking.
An assortment of former australian prime ministers. Left to right: Bob Hawke, Gough Whitlam, Malcolm Fraser and Kevin Rudd.
A large tinny [open aluminium boat] tied to a small pier on a large waveless lake, with brightly coloured flags in the stern.
What used to be a victorian-looking foundation/dedication stone that has had where the dedication would go chiselled out fairly recently [a few years ago?] to the depth of 12mm.
A photo from space showing the moon in front of earth. The moon is a mid grey colour, notably darker than the earth.
A train all shiny and chrome. A vline vlocity DMU at flinders st station.
A nest of narrow tree branches, three touching so the bark has worn off.
A bus sign reading "sunshine station" against a cloudy sky.
relevant webpage "occupied with other projects [...] with the trial for his murder of the lover of his wife"
Eh, it's text, just OCR it.
A page from a manga: relevantly, a mascot costume of a hello-kitty-esque creature with a worm coming out of her eye socket: a girl says, "the bug is Guilty-chan. [...] [the cat's] just her nameless host".
A photo of a page of a novel, relevantly saying "using a loom helps [...] but I prefer to weave by hand".
list of readings for "paddy field" kanji, the ta in tanaka etc.
Two galahs pick through close-mowed grass.
Some form of wattle/mimosa flowering kinda way out of season.
A track plan of adelaide station, a terminal with eight tracks leading to it.
A woman in a red long-sleeved kimono tunes a shamisen on an open-air stage
A small boat sits on a very large funicular railcar
dog meme: pls fix no punish only fix
A sunrise sky. Dark foreground, scattered broken clouds copper-coloured at bottom grey on top. A mobile phone tower in silluette.
Two old-looking green trams -- melbourne W8 class 957 and 981 -- at a modern platform tram stop
A page of fiction text, relevantly a description of a hamburger from the perspective of someone who's unfamiliar with them: I highlighted the words "the red vegetable cut into round slices".