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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

If it helps, the OP you're reacting to and the expanded view with the bins are two separate photos of the same wall. One's not a crop of the other - slightly different angles and the binless one has some extra graffiti off to the left

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

the paint/shading/lettering isn't immaculate, it's just skilled. compare this from the same artist, from 2018

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

so it's obviously a joke that Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts is bundled into a single grab bag government department. and it's a fun little bonus joke that their website logo is clearly OCR'd from a physical letterhead www.infrastructure.gov.au

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

new hobby: building homebrew IoT devices, housing them in paper + cardboard structures, and then painting wooden tokens for buttons when I got into smart home stuff I was really put off by the glossy/plastic aesthetic basically everything has. so, feels rad to bring a handmade vibe

a 3D print of a plastic structure and a faceplate with three holes in it

the structure, post-assembly, now containing some electronics and with some keyswitches inserted into the faceplate

the structure is now invisible, wrapped in cardboard that's been colored with an alcohol marker and decorated with some William Morris-design borders

handpainted wooden tokens are placed over the keys - a computer, a lamp, and a wind turbine

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

ughh this lady has the unyielding-moral-compass flavor of autism and is mad at me. I know, I'll tell a transparent lie on the record. that'll smooth things over.

Excerpt of article.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has apologised if his labelling of 2021 Australian of the Year and child sexual abuse survivor Grace Tame as "difficult" was misinterpreted, saying he was referring to her "difficult life".

He made the comment when asked to give a one-word response to a rapid-fire list of people and news topics as part of a word association game at the Future Victoria conference, presented by the Herald Sun newspaper and the Victorian Chamber of Commerce.

"If there was any misinterpretation, then I certainly apologise," Mr Albanese told reporters.

"She has had a difficult life and that was what I was referring to. What Grace Tame has done is turn that difficult experience that she had into being a strong advocate for others."

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

talk to anyone who's bought off-the-plan in the past decade and they'll slam their fists on the table screaming about ohhh if only there weren't so many checks and standards. "why are waterproofing and cladding so tightly regulated" these new homeowners cry. "why are inspectors so STRICT"

Screenshot of AAP article preview.
"Red tape 'deadening' nation's ability to build houses
Governments need to review their housing construction regulations to address sluggish productivity if they want to fix housing affordability, a report says."
Thumbnail pic of construction workers building a roof.

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

ohh that's why this post isn't going viral its this

AAP headline: Red tape 'deadening' nation's ability to build houses
Abstract: Governments need to review their housing construction regulations to address sluggish productivity if they want to fix housing affordability, a report says.

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Updated the prototype with a maze generator; now things are guaranteed to be navigable. Next up I wanna get some biomes happening for a bit of variety.

Screenshot of a video game prototype. A forest maze in a top-down view with some simple pawn icons placed in it.

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I've been tinkering with this weird little zoomed-out boardgamey roguelike thing. procjam's imminent and I think I'm gonna spend it on some world/level generation stuff (currently it just has a pool of labels and slaps them down randomly)

Screenshot of a WIP video game depicting a simple landscape with scattered forests. Some points are highlighted with various labels - quest, task, item, etc.

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

projecting good vibes toward devs who make games where the pause menu is a Place that you Go. you're doing the right thing

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Richard Marles' chief of staff is taking legal action against the government, and her quote is so funny. How can you be surprised by encountering the MO your own government whips out when confronted with any tension. This government ducks and covers and colludes and delays when told "good morning".

Excerpt of article.

“Taking legal action has come at the end of a very long and traumatic road," she said. "The government has been afforded multiple opportunities to rectify the wrongs done to me, but it has done nothing except duck and cover, collude and delay.”

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

fun (maybe intentional?) glitch in my library app's author info section for Doppelganger

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

rod stewart hahah more like road steward am I right

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

Here's Gus in his circle and line configurations

A grey and white cat laying flat on a desk

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

it's census time and the ALP is still figuring out how to excuse their transphobia #auspol

"friendship ended with mudasir" meme, edited to read:
- friendship ended with "don't want to start a divisive debate by asking about gender identity"
- now "question about gender identity are too complex to include" is my best friend

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 25/08/2024

Spending this weekend on Five Plants, redrawing a bunch of UI things out of debug mode - including finally the title screen. This one is super close to ready!! pardon if I get annoying about it! #screenshotsaturday #gamedev

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 22/07/2024

also creating a nice tangible object out of it, that's neat

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 22/07/2024

before and work-in-progress after of my gardening puzzle game's hand-drawn makeover. I still have a todo list taking up a whole page of my notebook but look! look how neat

A screenshot of a mobile puzzle game. All of its graphics are emoji, flat in a vector style.

A screenshot of a mobile puzzle game. All the art is hand-drawn in pen and marker.

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 04/07/2024

made a gardening puzzle game last year out of emojis; have taken on a fun little project of redoing everything with hand-drawn graphics. what do u reckon? is it nicer?

Screenshot of a gardening puzzle game. The graphics are all emojis.

Screenshot of a gardening puzzle game. The graphics are all hand drawn (a couple of emojis still remain)

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 03/07/2024

this part of the thread was the bit that stuck out to me. like what on earth. hey JK, maybe this guy you know... didn't have any involvement with those books? maybe reading about something is different to being suddenly grilled on the topic by a acquaintance? she's... just so unwell, my goodness

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 04/06/2024

imagine fucking up so bad that Angus Taylor starts making sense. imagine being the minister for social services during a cost of living crisis and your public written response to profligate salaries for your own personal staff is literally "good luck linking me to that". 100% joke country.

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 29/05/2024

I wonder if ged will do a mailout about this one

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 05/05/2024

Education minister Jason Clare, on reindexing hecs/help debt to a lower rate: "This will wipe out what happened last year and make sure it never happens again." As though last year was some unavoidable accident, rather than something he did fully intentionally & defended at the time. June 2023:

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

there's more character in a single "<sigh> bapa nada" than in a hundred million lines of AI-generated dialogue

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

a thing they don't talk about with strength training that if you're out in a park and you sit like this, your traps make a little soft cushion for your head to rest on. I think it's not macho to acknowledge this. I got strong recently and I found it out yesterday and it's a real unexpected benefit

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

then I imagine if it was a nuclear bomb or airborne nerve agent. millions at risk. terrifying to consider. maybe this woman should be prosecuted at the Hague. but then I imagine if it was instead a healing potion or a superevolution serum. could have given the minister a level up. perhaps not so bad

screengrab of a tweet of Patricia Karvelas reporting on an NT minister getting smooshed in the face with a pie. a blue check reply reads "Assault. Imagine not food but a weapon. Intent was to scare, harm. Should be prosecuted"

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 09/09/2023

Spent some hobby time this week putting together this little minimal stealth game, it's called Do Crimes Don't Get Caught mcccclean.com/posts/do-cri...

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

ahah wait I have this pic. there's me by the lamp, receiving mp3s

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 29/08/2023

trying to reverse engineer the prompt Unity used to advertise their AI art asset generator. so far I've got "computer please show me the most generic looking video game [pickaxe/shovel/bomb] I've ever seen. poor quality. generic materials. ambiguous materials. inconsistent lighting direction"

screengrab from an email from Unity showing off some terrible AI-generated inventory icons

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 02/08/2023

saw another claim that fahrenheit is a human-centric measurement system. no!! anything below 30F is just "rug up as much as you can". 0C is a way more sensible human-centric 0 than 0F. 0F is way too cold for a human centric scale. also F is way too granular, you don't need 100 gradations, come on

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 11/07/2023

this is the most wildly hype backstory for an album I have ever heard

Screenshot of article (link to full text in the next reply)

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 10/07/2023

I love 🙂↕️ and 🙂↔️!! I'm going to start using them just as a combo even without the ZWJ character!!

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

some time ago I was messing around with getting it to draw increasingly wrong hands with a thought of like, a fantasy world where casting spells had a side effect of mutating your hands, but your mutated hands were better at spellcasting gestures, you could spot a wizard by lookin at their hands etc

AI generated image. An old wizard is casting a spell; his hands have way too many fingers, all with odd proportions.

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McLean @mcccclean.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

every now and then I like to log on to midjourney and get it to draw me a guide to the forbidden mudras

AI-generated picture. Drawings of hands arranged in a grid. The hands all have messed up proportions, incorrect finger counts, etc.

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