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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

NEW ZINE DROP: Underworld Posting tomorrow for the Hallozeen swap. I also made a playlist of 'underworld-coded' songs, to follow.

A6-sized zine. The cover is a faded image of Dante's 'Inferno' overlaid with a picture of the Egyptian god Osiris. The text reads: UNDER WORLD By Adeline Teoh

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Muffin enters the chat www.bluey.tv/watch/season...

Three anthropomorphic dogs dressed as grannies. One dog sits in a mobility scooter, which bears the price tag $300.

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Worldcon is coming up and so is the Northwest Tea Festival, which reminded me to post this, which I wrote last year when I visited Seattle for Worldcon (and hit a bunch of its tea shops). www.teashirts.com.au/seattle-hear...

Shelves in a Chinese-style tea shop laden with teaware.

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Today is International Youth Day so I wrote about how Gen Z are changing the face of tea. Then my sister told me her daughter loves bubble tea but asks for it "without tea", so now that niece is dead to me. www.teashirts.com.au/generation-t...

A young girl with long dark hair scrunches up her face in a playful way while drinking a cup of bubble tea

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I went to the Tony Albert: Not A Souvenir exhibition in my Tony Albert WAH-WAH cardigan and bought a Tony Albert 1000-piece puzzle.

Asian woman with short hair and glasses, dressed in a colourful cardigan, obscured by a white box that reads 'Tony Albert'.

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Happy Bastille Day! The French are better known for their love of wine but they also have an affinity for tea. Here's the blue, white and red of French tea history... www.teashirts.com.au/liber-tea-eq...

Mariage Freres shopfront overlaid with the French flag

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

People are going to talk about Sam Neill's performance in blockbusters like 'Jurassic Park' or literary films like 'My Brilliant Career' but he'll always be Merlin to me. (And my fave movie of his remains 'Hunt for the Wilderpeople'.) RIP. You were a good 'un.

Sam Neill stands among a group of Sydney Writers' Festival volunteers after an epic autograph session.

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I put on whatever felt comfy today and seem to have dressed myself like a toddler.

Photo of a person dressed in three different patterns. Pants are very colourful with an Australian native flora theme, tshirt is mainly blue with an astronomy theme, fleecy jacket is a white and beige pattern with red floral motifs (Canadian alpine?)

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

It's the God of Tea's birthday today! (He's like, 5000 years old.) www.teashirts.com.au/the-emperor-...

A man with a strange head sits on a rock. He is consuming a leaf.

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Melbourne buses are ridic. Am staying in Fairfield at the moment and agreed to meet my friend in Kew, which is the suburb immediately south. Here is the fastest route: take the bus down the highway to Collingwood, then catch another back down the highway to Kew. Worse than Canberra.

Screenshot of a map showing two bus routes where the change of buses takes place further away than the distance between the start and the destination.

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Which UI "genius" decided not to let me input my birthdate manually and instead forced me to scroll hundreds of months back to choose my birthdate from a calendar?

Screenshot of an app asking for a birthdate while showing a monthly calendar.

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

My nephew had two Spider-man figurines, so I did what anyone else would do.

Two Spider-man figurines sitting opposite and pointing to each other. A Batman figurine is doing the splits in the background.

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Saw horses in Firehorse Lane today but they were neither on fire, nor helping firefighters get to fires.

A laneway. On the left are two white horses. On the right the street sign says 'Firehorse Ln'.

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Most of the answers I've seen suggest embedded fonts and to check by going to File > Options > Advanced Tell me, reader, do YOU see "Options" under this File menu? I'm on Microsoft 365 and there's nought to be found. Fucking thwarted by enshittification once again.

Dropdown menu for Microsoft Word > File in which the "Options" selection is conspicuous by its absence

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Usually a bowler's ball raps a batter's pads but if it's Tongue then maybe it does wrap? From ABC Sport's live Ashes coverage. (I'm usually quite annoyed about typos from professional media types but then we wouldn't get things like this.)

Screenshot of ABC's live cricket coverage:
MUTED LBW SHOUT! Tongue wraps Weatherald on the pads again, but it's not out. I reckon that might've been an inside edge that's saved him, because that looked plumb otherwise. Tongue with his head in his hands.

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

🎵 If the Blue Sky Shawarma company won't save me, who's gonna save me? 🎵

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Hot day today. This little one turned up on my mum's balcony seeking shade.

Brownish grey possum clinging onto a money plant.

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

It's not the day's heat I'm worried about so much as the fact it'll still be 27C at midnight.

Screenshot of Bureau of Meteorology app showing predicted temperature will be 30C at 9pm and 27C at midnight.

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

What kind of passive-aggressive bullshit is this? After 24 hours of exhaustive Bondi coverage, I play a bit of Spelling Bee to escape and this guy has a go at me for not being sad enough about it in the comments?! Fuck off, I'm not bringing the news to the Spelling Bee forum.

Screenshot of the NYT Spelling Bee forum.

Main comment:
Addy T (me)
Sydney, Australia

I did pretty well; got to Genius before using the grid and everything but two and the pangram before peeking here. Ended up brute-forcing WI-6 and WI-10 (related words) based on vibes because the hints didn't help (as I've never heard these words before) but I'll take the Queen Bee anyway.

Would've liked to have seen wain, fain and fanging included.

Reply:
Benedictland

@Addy T

I would have expressed my sympathies for the mass murders in Sydney this past weekend.

You mentioned words you’d like to see in Spelling Bee, so perhaps the other matter is not as important today as I think it is. Different perspectives.

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I had to point out that the video didn't cite any sources (and it came from the dubiously named 'Centrelink News' channel) and that road rules are issued by state, not nationally.

Screenshot of a Youtube video that reads:
November NEW RULES
$550 FINES
New Australian
Traffic Laws 2025

There is a picture of Anthony Albanese on the right with smaller images of a cop car, some undefined badge or seal and the Australian flag.

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Folks, I just bought this off Tess and it is ELITE. My Simpsons-loving friend (who is not on BSky, hence the photo) is going to go bananas.

Asian woman with short grey hair and glasses and a replica dishwashing detergent box of the Japanese Homer Simpson-esque mascot Mr Sparkle. She is grinning like the mascot.

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

As none of you told me, I'm assuming none of you know that you can turn off the AI answers in Google and trigger it to use web-only search. You'll still get slop at the top because that's just SEO in the Age of Enshittification, but do this to remove the overconfident arsewipe of a first answer.

Open Chrome and put chrome://settings/searchEngines in the search box.

A new tab will open, go to Search Engine > Manage Search Engines and Site Search.

Click on the Add button by the Site Search update. A new box will open.

Fill in the form with the following:
Name: AI Free Web
Shortcut: @web
{google:baseURL}search?q=%s&udm=14

You’ll now see AI Free Web in the list.

Click on the three stacked dots on the right side of this new option.

Select Make Default.

Going forward, if you use the search box to trigger Google, you won’t get any of the Google AI overview results. Technically, these just bypass the main search results and filter out everything as opposed to truly disabling Google AI overviews. The result is about the same, however.

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Sweet teas are made of these: It’s fair to say putting sugar in tea is a colonial invention, and has been debated since. www.teashirts.com.au/sweet-teas-a...

A cup of tea and a bowl of sugar on a black and white background

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Happy World Maritime Day! Have a story about a little teapot, short and stout. www.teashirts.com.au/tea-at-sea-a...

A white cube-shaped teapot with a green decorative band around it. One corner of the cube has a small hole as a spout, the opposite side has an elongated cutout for a handle.

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Debuting this at the Parramatta Zine Fair on 20 September. '(thinking about her) The Moon' or what I think about when I think about the moon. I forgot how cute (and finicky) A8 is.

Cover of a small zine depicting a tarot card of The Moon. A yellow moon is in the sky above some mountains. A stream splits the vertical centre under the mountains. A dog and a wolf sit on either side of the stream howling at the moon. A red lobster sits at the bottom of the image, where the stream widens.

The title, superimposed on the moon, reads (thinking of her) and at the bottom of the card it is labelled The Moon.

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Honestly a much better pic than I thought my dinky little Sony could take without a tripod #lunareclipse

Partial lunar eclipse showing a bright left edge (20%) and a reddish right segment

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Here, have a shitty phone pic of the moon in the process of an eclipse, you deserve it.

Very bright photo of the moon partially eclipsed

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

My accommodation today comes with a resident cat.

A ginger cat with tiger markings puts a paw through stair balustrades.

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

The TV, on the other hand, is gigantic. About a metre wide, no joke.

A large flatscreen tv on top of a vintage wooden dresser. To the left is a chair and a landline telephone. Vaguely visible, reflected by the screen, is an Asian woman with short hair and glasses waving one hand and holding a mobile phone with the other.

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

The 1970s called and wants its room back.

Large vintage wooden bed with leaf pattern coverlet

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I'm in Port Alberni, on Vancouver Island, and the closest food place to the motel is Granny's Chicken so I walked there for dinner. I got the two-piece with chips and coleslaw and this is what arrived.

Cardboard food box featuring a tiny tub of coleslaw in front of a giant mound of chips and a can of root beer.

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

If you can't make it to the teahouse in Wallingford, @fridaytea.com has a stall in the dealers room at #seattleworldcon

A tea stall decked out in green and white. There is a Friday Afternoon Tea banner and some small shelves displaying tea. Two customers are browsing. One stallholder is serving them.

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Not sure if I can love Becky Chambers more than I currently do... what a reading, what a Q&A. #seattleworldcon

White woman with shaved head wearing glasses, a white top, tangerine coloured cardigan and black pants holds a sheaf of paper and stands in front of a crowd seated on the floor.

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Worldcon friends, a highly recommended arvo tea combo: orange blossom piroshky and an americano #seattleworldcon

Cafe tabletop on which sits an orange blossom piroshky with a bite taken out of it in a yellow wrapper that reads Piroshky Piroshky and to its right a coffee cup with the name Monorail Espresso.

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Successful border crossing. I'm in the USA! Onward to Seattle.

Photo of a coastline. A grass verge and shrub sit next to a body of water. Railroad tracks are visible in the foreground. The sky is clear and blue.

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Can someone explain to me why, when I said Aimee Lou Wood was NOT in 'Cats' (2019), Real Bird Fake Bird said I was wrong? I didn't actually know who Aimee Lou Wood was so I looked her up after to see which character she was and IMDB told me she wasn't in 'Cats' ie I was right. Robbed of a 7/7!

Screenshot of the game Real Bird Fake Bird in which players have to guess whether an actor was in the movie Cats (2019) or not. The entry for Aimee Lou Wood indicates that the player said 'fake' (ie not in the film) but that the game considered this wrong.

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Candy Crushed, or why I stopped playing Candy Crush Saga at level 19,618. adelineteoh.com/candy-crushed/

Screenshot of a Candy Crush Saga progress journey. A player icon, a panda, is stopped at level 19,618.

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

In which I try to figure out why most of tea fiction falls into roughly three genres: historical fiction, speculative fiction and cosy mystery. www.teashirts.com.au/reading-the-...

Cover of the book 'Tea with the Black Dragon' by RA MacAvoy.

There is a black burnished dragon sitting on its haunches holding a teacup in its forepaws reading a book, which is held up by its tail. There is a small teapot visible behind it.

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

People think I jest but this is literally a typical photo of me as a baby.

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Finally finished this bloody book. (It was really good.) www.teashirts.com.au/review-a-thi...

Book cover: A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World by Erika Rappaport

The image is a 1941 sepia photograph of Indian soldiers drinking tea provided by a van in Surrey, UK. The soldiers all wear turbans. There are two white women behind them also drinking tea.

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

On tea pets and boys pissing into things. www.teashirts.com.au/pee-before-t...

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Was clearing up a whole bunch of old postcards last night (I used to do Postcrossing) and found this.

Postcard coloured light green in the background. The text, which dominates the card, reads: TRY TO HAVE AS GOOD A LIFE AS YOU CAN UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES

It is decorated with a black patterned border. There are some figures of people doing various things like sitting, a handstand and stretching up but they aren't very prominent.

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Content warning for flickering lights, I guess.

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

On the day after a live cable fell onto a train I took three buses to get to an event in the city. I forgot that at one bus stop I logged this complaint.

Customer's Description

Abbott Tway stop, city and Parramatta bound, thumping sound coming from electricity supply for bus stop corresponding with flickering lights. Thumping not rhythmic. I have video with sound if you need more info/evidence. Not related to access directly but your form is [profanity] and I had to select something above. Not related to bus or driver either.

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Looked up a slang term and the Cambridge gave me this example of its use. (THAT ESCALATED QUICKLY) dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/e...

Bupkis (also bubkes, bupkus)
nothing, or only a very small amount:

*Most biochemical weapons soak in through your skin, so a gas mask would do bubkes.

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