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Cake 🍰 @8cake.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Christmas comes earlier every year. It's three days into October.

David Jones Christmas setup - a big department store display of trees and decorations

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Cake 🍰 @8cake.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Autumn festival moon cakes! 🎑

Four fresh moon cakes from the local store. They are very ornate and perfectly golden.

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Cake 🍰 @8cake.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The pelvis is the roast chicken of the body 🐔

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Cake 🍰 @8cake.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I've been hanging on to my last favourite pairs of Converse for about 15 years. I just saw the new ad and now I'll #hangconverse straight into the bin. Fuck Converse and fuck Nike #hangconverseinthebin

A pair of gold converse sneakers hanging over an open bin

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Cake 🍰 @8cake.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

My girl Nikki coming down hard after the festival

Nikki in a sparkly party dress and jewels, platinum white ponytail, a striped cone party hat and giant round sunglasses. The subtitles read "i-im okay... my headache got better after i heard that music..."

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Cake 🍰 @8cake.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Just walked past this giant, eye-level ad and burst out laughing. God, Gina Rinehart is a fucking loser.

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Cake 🍰 @8cake.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

One thing they got right in bladerunner is how everything glows red-gold in a smoky (or smoggy) sunset

Photo of a city skyline with a huge red-gold reflection off a building while the background is murky due to bushfire smoke

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Cake 🍰 @8cake.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Real life art! Physical oil pastels, even.

Still life of garden stuff in front of a draped white sheet. All rendered in bright green and blue oil pastels with hints of orange and two red poppies

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Cake 🍰 @8cake.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Recent birds 🐦 🐦‍⬛ 🪿🦜🦩🦆🦢🦤

Two shags drying off in the sun on the edge of the river. One has their wings outstretched.

A white corella amidst a sea of green leaves in a tree

A black swan by the river, neck and wings fully outstretched. The wings have white edges (flight feathers?) And the neck is very long.

A photo of a crow on a branch in the dark foreground and leaves all behind it.

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Cake 🍰 @8cake.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Nothing like fixing up an ita bag to make you realise you could never have been a surgeon

A white bag with blue trim, cat ears, and a cat face, and a big clear window at the front. Inside and hanging off it are 95% of all the blue and pink charms, badges, and omamori i own.

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Cake 🍰 @8cake.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

A friend convinced me to get into Infinity Nikki. There's SO MANY proper nouns and menus it's unhinged. The "real video game" open world is entertaining but i feel like I'm losing my mind every time look at a new submenu and discover another little widget that is accruing some kind of xp.

An in-game screenshot of my Nikki character in the starting town. She's got teal pigtails and blouse with yellow short overalls and rain boots. She's striking a pose in front of some mountains and idyllic wooden chalets

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Cake 🍰 @8cake.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Friday afternoon stretches

A black Swan with the white wing under-feathers showing as they stretch

A black Swan with the white wing under-feathers showing as they stretch their wings right out and crane their neck all the way tall

A black Swan with the white wing under-feathers showing as they stretch their wings right back and crane their neck all the way tall

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Cake 🍰 @8cake.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

This is the state of disability support and welfare in Australia currently. Calls to defund NDIS and outsourcing decisions to a broken AI/ an algorithm that humans can't override, while a failing national inquest into the last algorithm-based welfare crime/scandal fails miserably

In a country where billionaires avoid tax, fossil fuel companies avoid tax, social media companies avoid tax and media empires avoid tax, apparently the real strain on taxpayer money is disabled people who have the nerve to want to be alive.

In the world that outlets like the AFR want, disabled people would be eternally locked in their houses alone, being supported just enough to barely stay alive while they slowly die, away from where non-disabled people can see them, with maybe a dog to keep them company, but that dog also doesn’t deserve to go outside, and it’s slowly dying too. Greedy, good for nothin’ dog.

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Cake 🍰 @8cake.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

If your tiny bird don't have angy eyebrows then what are you even doing

A djiti djiti bird sitting on a red chair that was right next to me. They are also known as willy wagtails because they do wag their tails as they strut around scolding everyone bigger than them

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Cake 🍰 @8cake.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Finally cracked and made something truly unhinged for work (where i design 99% of our professional signage)

A black and white sign with the text "stapler station. Please don't take the staplers to roam around" along with a picture of a horse stable, staplers, and a bunch of horses that have staplers for heads

a bunch of horses that have staplers for heads behind a ranch fence

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Cake 🍰 @8cake.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

My9games.com I've probably forgotten something really obvious. Like Breath of the Wild. And Chocobo Racing (the original)!

A grid showing the box art for 9 console video games I've chosen as my favourites: crash bandicoot, we love katamari, final fantasy ix, hades, captain toad treasure tracker, yoshi's woolly world, animal crossing new leaf, fire emblem awakening, kingdom hearts.

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Cake 🍰 @8cake.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Watercolour sketch of my niece's OC. Her paints have some kind of built in opacity (gouache?) That made it hard to judge values, but fun to use. #adorkastock pose ref

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Cake 🍰 @8cake.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I don't have an opinion on Jim Chalmers either way, but this sick burn on the auLibs has tipped the scales in his favour #auspol

Chalmers describes Taylor as being "born with a silver foot in his mouth" and "just when we thought that they couldn't go any lower on economic credibility, [Taylor] says 'hold my chardonnay'"

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Cake 🍰 @8cake.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Wait, it's *this* why we do swans in ballet? (First time I've been close enough* to a swan to notice these gorgeous ruffles, slay) ((*without being chased) )

Black swans foraging for afternoon snacks on the grass by the river

Closeup of a black swan where you can see they have a tail of gorgeous curly ruffles

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Cake 🍰 @8cake.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

What a fun decision, for the government to hand over my biometric data to a murderous, authoritarian regime. Via @crikey.com.au

The Trump administration and agencies like the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) militia currently terrorising US cities will be quietly given direct access to Australians’ biometric information and ID documents by the Albanese government, in response to a US demand for tighter security for all countries with Visa Waiver Program arrangements.

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Cake 🍰 @8cake.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Yesterday's moon 🌙 ♡ Absolutely flips me out that the Northern hemisphere doesn't get Our Lady in the Moon because theirs is upside down.

Photo of the full moon taken with my phone. The moon is huge and yellow and you can see a woman's face in it. The sky is a murky grey purple.

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Cake 🍰 @8cake.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Despite the decimation from the pshb, the hydie is still popular with our winged buddies. Hashtag nature is healing, etc, but seriously.

Photo of a small lake with many types of birds hanging out, and a naked island in the middle where trees used to be

Photo of a small lake with a little heron

hoto of a small lake with many types of birds hanging out, and a naked island in the middle where trees used to be

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Cake 🍰 @8cake.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

This morning i found a fairy ring ✨️🧚‍♂️ I did jump in, but unfortunately I'm still here

A fairy ring of flowers in the grass - the photo has been edited to try to make the ring clearer

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Cake 🍰 @8cake.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I haven't really drawn anything for almost 2 years for no particular reason (other than focusing on writing)

Pencil sketch of Kasane Teto (synth v version) in the style of Rainbow Brite

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Cake 🍰 @8cake.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Deezer has proved itself as a superior platform over Spotify many times over, but today's victory was making me aware of the existence of Christmas Metal music