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Hilary

@essayer.bsky.social
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Cute but lethal, expert in excuse management, drawer, paint wrangler, reader, listener www.essayer.com.au

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Hilary @essayer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
😢 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
Breaking: Treehouse illustrator Terry Denton dies aged 76
Australian children's author and illustrator Terry Denton, best known for his work on the popular Treehouse series, has died at the age of 76, his literary agency and publisher have announced.
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Hilary @essayer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
100% 🙌
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Megan Herbert @meganjherbert.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Labor, Liberal, National, and One Nation would do well to understand this too:
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 09/09/2026
This history repeating itself thing is annoying, especially as the copy pasted repeat we're getting appears to be the Temu version.
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
More Sketchbook stuffff. A man wearing a cape is holding a paint brush in front of a blank canvas. He shouts a command to someone or possibly no one, “Remove my cape. I’m ready to paint.”
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Hilary @essayer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
❤️❤️❤️ www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
abc.net.au
The female artists who shaped botanical illustration in Australia
Female botanical illustrators have translated the science of our landscapes for centuries, today the craft is as important as ever.
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 11/08/2026
what if i do not want to be optimized. what if i want to make mistakes because that’s how you learn; what if i want to do nothing sometimes, what if i want a world that is weird and challenging and has mysteries left to reveal. what if i like taking the long way
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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
(It was probably better to make it look like an accident.)
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Hilary @essayer.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Sometimes the feed just delivers
Screen shot of my Bluesky feed showing a baby badly placed in an advertisement with a following post that makes it funny (well, funny to me) by inadvertently describing said image
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Hilary @essayer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Been a while since my last life drawing sesh, not too bad 🫣😬🫠 Thanks to Hawthorn Artist Society and the fabulous model Nemo!
20 minute drawing of a woman leaning on a stool, charcoal on toned paper3x3minute poses charcoal on cartridge paper
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Hilary @essayer.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Why gen Z is is really bad news for political parties www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
thenewdaily.com.au
Gen Z is fundamentally changing Australian politics
Gen Z is the most socially progressive generation in Australian history and will fundamentally change Australian politics.
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Hilary @essayer.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
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Homer Simpson Hides in Bush Meme
Alt: Homer Simpson Hides in Bush Meme
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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Fuck, fuck everything, fuck this, fuck me especially.
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
We need to look to the 13-year-old girls for leadership.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/06/2026
Using generative AI for imagery is **directly harmful** to artists, graphic designers, photographers etc. This isn't a vague moral argument: this is just normal, standard theft, except at a completely new scale and social acceptability. We need to reverse that. www.instagram.com/reel/DY2L2-g...
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Hilary @essayer.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Statue of Cupid going for the eyes of a woman with the text “Happy Mother’s  Day”
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Hilary @essayer.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Statue of Cupid going for the eyes of a woman with the text “Happy Mother’s  Day”
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Hilary @essayer.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
media.tenor.com
a close up of a man wearing sunglasses and saying morning .
Alt: a close up from Hot Fuzz, Simon Pegg, saying ‘morning’
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Hilary @essayer.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Put a little love in your heart 🥹
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/04/2026
At least Ahab had a clear and well defined goal
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Dr David Hamilton @drdevildave.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Happy Tasmanian Devil Average Birthday, to all those who celebrate! 🥳 Devils have an annual mating season, which goes from late Feb until late April. That means, on average, devil joeys are born on 1st April. So if you wish a devil Happy Birthday today, you’ve got a good chance of being correct!
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Hilary @essayer.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Same MurderBot, same
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
It’s almost time for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, so for the ninth year running, I have made a bingo card for it.
A bingo card titled “MICF BINGO 2026”.
The card is a five by five grid, and each box contains a different item to check off. From top to bottom, left to right, the items are:
- gratuitous musical number to showcase range
- see a cooked late night show
- crepe!
- go to three shows in one night
- fake text exchange as visual prop
- joke about dating an AI
- stand-up has a special lil outfit to perform in
- “so I’m single…”
- too many props?
- see a solo debut
- tech whoopsie
- clown nudity
- see Local Laws
- buy some merch
- joke that’s a thinly-veiled ask for coke
- “the algorithm” mentioned
- comedian clearly farming crowdwork for reels
- beef between comedian and reviewer 
- see some sketch
- full meal from 7-Eleven
- see an act you’ve never seen 
- fee the vibe turn at 3am at the artist bar
- “I’m (insert age here)” as a punchline
- this live podcast is just two comedians turning their friendship into a job
- whoops! Horny for some goofball!
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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
It could be one more weird anomaly in this unending cycle of what the fuck.
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Hilary @essayer.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
What an absolute legend 💪🏾 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
abc.net.au
First Aboriginal woman to receive PhD at Harvard remembered as 'trailblazer'
MaryAnn Bin-Sallik was the first Aboriginal nurse graduate in Darwin and the first Aboriginal person to receive a PhD at Harvard University. Following her death at age 85, the Djaru Elder is being rem...
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Hilary @essayer.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
😔
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 08/02/2026
people who say that all creative endeavor can be replaced with AI probably need to reckon with the fact that all televised sports events with human athletes could easily be replicated by high-definition computer-animated simulations….and yet we don’t do this and no one seems to want to.
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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...
youtube.com
BILLY BRAGG - CITY OF HEROES
YouTube video by Billy Bragg
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Dr Blair Williams @blairwilliams26.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
👇👇👇👇👇 "Political and media classes will always try to shape right-wing anger as legitimate, while continuing to treat pushback as radical. (Just look at how the man who apparently hurled a “device” into a peaceful Invasion Day rally is being treated in the media)." #AusPol
thenewdaily.com.au
Beware the new 'normal', it might be about to bite us
Some people just like power. Those same people enjoy sowing seeds of discord that they never have to actually solve, in order to keep it.
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Hilary @essayer.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The grass is so dried out and yellow here you just have to look at it sideways and it’ll burst into flames 🫣
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Hilary @essayer.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Post a picture you took
Clouds lit up over the ranges but the setting sun
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CharliCenter-CX @cambrianera.radical.town · 06/01/2026
This wheel is to the boy squirrel the way that the football is to Charlie Brown and it still makes me laugh every time he tries to use it only to be immediately spun.
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Hilary @essayer.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
*snore* The colour this week is Poinsettia Red @clrcollective.bsky.social #colour_collective #CCPoinsettiaRed #illustration #nopressure
Little birdie wearing a Santa hat. Having a nap, resting a half drunk coupe of champagne on their tummy, over head there is a broken paper chain.
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Hilary @essayer.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
lalalalalala The colour this week is Phthalo Green @clrcollective.bsky.social #colour_collective #CCPhthaloGreen #illustration #nopressure
16 birdies sitting on branches decorated with stars
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Hilary @essayer.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
shiny! The colour this week is Old Gold @clrcollective.bsky.social #colour_collective #CCOldGold #digital #procreate #drawing #illustration #australianillustrator #melbourneillustrator #nopressure
Three little birds decorating a relatively large star object with ribbon
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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
It had been stressful enough getting here, I didn’t want to have to go anywhere else right now.
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 05/12/2025
Simonlebonbonbonbourbonbonbon #totp
Simon le bon holding a bourbon next to butterworth
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Hilary @essayer.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
SAVE THE STATE LIBRARY!!!! www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/ha...
megaphone.org.au
Hands off our State Library!
Library workers deliver essential services to 2.8 million people in our community each year. They run information services, connect people online, hold free workshops, develop community connections an...
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Hilary @essayer.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
…wheeeeeee The colour this week is Zaffre @clrcollective.bsky.social #colour_collective #CCZaffre #digital #procreate #drawing #illustration #australianillustrator #melbourneillustrator #nopressure
three little birds swinging on a Christmas bauble
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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, you’re not in business. You’re in organized crime.
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
If a Liberal State Government was wrecking the Victorian #StateLibrary & trashing the services it exists to provide, ALP members might be protesting. As it is, pretty much crickets. If you don't save the State Library you're going to lose more seats to indies, Teals & Greens. Interested now? #vicpol
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Hilary @essayer.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Ginger Bird Biscuits! The colour this week is Burlywood @clrcollective.bsky.social #colour_collective #CCBurlywood #digital #procreate #drawing #illustration #australianillustrator #melbourneillustrator #nopressure
Plate of three biscuits shaped and iced like birds
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
this, *this*, is the greatest crossover of all time
Mr Men x Agatha Christie crossover with Mr Poirot in Mischief on the Nile

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BOOKSHOPMr Men x Agatha Christie crossover with Little Kiss Marple in Muddle at the Vicarage 

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BOOKSHOP
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Nichole @tnwhiskeywoman.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I do not want to create an account for a one-time purchase. Yes, I want a bag. Yes, I want a receipt, printed out, not emailed or texted. No, I will not download your app for future weak discounts. Please just let me be a customer like it’s 1987
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Hilary @essayer.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Woohoo! The colour this week is Peacock @clrcollective.bsky.social #colour_collective #CCPeacock #digital #procreate #drawing #illustration #australianillustrator #melbourneillustrator #nopressure
12 big yellow flowers with a joyous little bird above
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Hilary @essayer.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
hi!… The colour this week is Oyster @clrcollective.bsky.social #colour_collective #CCOyster #digital #procreate #drawing #illustration #australianillustrator #melbourneillustrator #nopressure
Little bird balancing on a log says ‘hi!’ to a much larger flamingo
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Hilary @essayer.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
whoops… The colour this week is Dark Charcoal @clrcollective.bsky.social #colour_collective #CCDarkCharcoal #digital #procreate #drawing #illustration #autralianillustrator #melbourneillustrator #nopressure
Two penguins working as waiters, wearing floppy bow ties, carrying tea towels over one wing and balancing a glass on a tray on the other
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 29/10/2025
“We live in one of the richest countries in the world, that can afford to drop a lazy $360 billion on a bad idea... yet, when it comes to health, education, aged care, apparently, so many of these things are unaffordable.” - @richarddenniss.bsky.social at the #RevenueSummit25 #auspol
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Hilary @essayer.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
spoOooky The colour this week is Persimmon @clrcollective.bsky.social #colour_collective #CCPersimmon #digital #procreate #drawing #illustration #autralianillustrator #melbourneillustrator #nopressure
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