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David C. Simon
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Australian artist, writer, wildlife photographer, dungeon master, and bird-nerd. Autistic and depressed, but video games help.
All photos are my own unless otherwise credited. All subjects are wild and living unless otherwise noted.
No AI please.
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A pair of Gang-gang Cockatoos have stopped by a few times this week! The male is camera shy, but I managed to get a few shots of the female.
#birds
Photograph of a female Gang-gang Cockatoo - a grey parrot with light grey beak and orange/yellow edges on its neck and breast feathers. It appears to be nibbling on a dead branch, but was actually climbing it and using its beak as a hand (as parrots tend to do). In this light its eye looks brown. Same subject, but different lighting and pose. This is a more conventional bird portrait, with the cockatoo's back to the camera but the head turned side-on. Its soft, willowy crest is raised and its eyes appear much darker in this light. Its grey back feathers have light grey edges and thin yellow bars.
November 25, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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A pair of Gang-gang Cockatoos have stopped by a few times this week! The male is camera shy, but I managed to get a few shots of the female.
#birds
Photograph of a female Gang-gang Cockatoo - a grey parrot with light grey beak and orange/yellow edges on its neck and breast feathers. It appears to be nibbling on a dead branch, but was actually climbing it and using its beak as a hand (as parrots tend to do). In this light its eye looks brown. Same subject, but different lighting and pose. This is a more conventional bird portrait, with the cockatoo's back to the camera but the head turned side-on. Its soft, willowy crest is raised and its eyes appear much darker in this light. Its grey back feathers have light grey edges and thin yellow bars.
November 25, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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I still do art from time to time!
I'm going to be playing in an Edge of the Empire campaign (Star Wars TTRPG), and I'm excited so here's my character concept.

(we haven't even had session 0 yet, so design is *not* final final)
Handwritte title: Yanta Gol, Chiss spy/courier (sorry for my terrible handwriting) Character design sheet showing a Chiss woman (blue skin, short slicked-back black hair) in three outfits: 1. Base, with plain underwear and a moderately athletic figure. 2. Dark grey flight-suit with black boots and armoured knee pads 3. Same as 2 but with chest and shoulder armour, black gloves, a ruddy-brown half-cape, and a helmet. Note: "Covers up when off-ship to hide her Chiss heritage". There are also 5 more detailed illustrations of her head: 1. Her bare face showing one glowing red eye (right) and one yellow humanoid eye with a long scar running through it, and a handwritten note pointing to the yellow eye reading "Cybernetic eye". 2-3. Her head with helmet and black neck gaiter, front and side view. The helmet has a scratch steel surface with a satin finish, and resembles a 15th century sallet which has been Star Wars-ified (greebles on the crest and visor, and a slit down the centre of the visor to create a T shape with the eye slit). 4-5. As 2-3, but the visor has been raised showing the extent of the gaiter as it ism pulled up over her nose.
November 24, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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I still do art from time to time!
I'm going to be playing in an Edge of the Empire campaign (Star Wars TTRPG), and I'm excited so here's my character concept.

(we haven't even had session 0 yet, so design is *not* final final)
Handwritte title: Yanta Gol, Chiss spy/courier (sorry for my terrible handwriting) Character design sheet showing a Chiss woman (blue skin, short slicked-back black hair) in three outfits: 1. Base, with plain underwear and a moderately athletic figure. 2. Dark grey flight-suit with black boots and armoured knee pads 3. Same as 2 but with chest and shoulder armour, black gloves, a ruddy-brown half-cape, and a helmet. Note: "Covers up when off-ship to hide her Chiss heritage". There are also 5 more detailed illustrations of her head: 1. Her bare face showing one glowing red eye (right) and one yellow humanoid eye with a long scar running through it, and a handwritten note pointing to the yellow eye reading "Cybernetic eye". 2-3. Her head with helmet and black neck gaiter, front and side view. The helmet has a scratch steel surface with a satin finish, and resembles a 15th century sallet which has been Star Wars-ified (greebles on the crest and visor, and a slit down the centre of the visor to create a T shape with the eye slit). 4-5. As 2-3, but the visor has been raised showing the extent of the gaiter as it ism pulled up over her nose.
November 24, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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I'd never even heard of 'thrips' before until I found a Giant Thrip (Idolothrips spectrum) in my garden last night.

It was only about 1cm long, so 'Giant' is relative.
#insects #invertebrates
Photograph of a most peculiar insect in black brown and red, on a green leaf. It has a very long, narrow body, mostly consisting of an abdomen (lined with small lateral spikes) that tapers to a tube tipped with short filaments. It has a squarish thorax, and its head (mostly two big round eyes) is on the end of a short tubular neck, with long segmented antennae.
November 24, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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A Brown Cuckoo-dove and his marvellous eye.
#birds
Photograph of a male Brown Cuckoo-dove, from the neck up. It is a rich brown colour with iridescent feathers on the back of its neck (indicating that it is a mature male), a short black beak, and an eye with a bright red ring surrounding a blue centre. Highly detailed close-up of the same subject's eye. The inner blue ring grades from very light blue at the centre to dark blue to almost black on the edges, but is lightly speckled and undulating in gradation. Combined with the black pupil at its centre and the vivid red ring on the outer edge, it looks like a stellar phenomenom - a combination of an eclipse and a supernova.
November 22, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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A Brown Cuckoo-dove and his marvellous eye.
#birds
Photograph of a male Brown Cuckoo-dove, from the neck up. It is a rich brown colour with iridescent feathers on the back of its neck (indicating that it is a mature male), a short black beak, and an eye with a bright red ring surrounding a blue centre. Highly detailed close-up of the same subject's eye. The inner blue ring grades from very light blue at the centre to dark blue to almost black on the edges, but is lightly speckled and undulating in gradation. Combined with the black pupil at its centre and the vivid red ring on the outer edge, it looks like a stellar phenomenom - a combination of an eclipse and a supernova.
November 22, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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It's my birthday today! ☺️
If you could spare a repost, it would be much appreciated!
A woman with pale skin, white hair in two braids, and delicate gold tattoo on her face floats in the night sky with a full moon and starry sky behind her. She is wearing a thigh length purple dress with long sweeping sleeves. There are glowing blue lines etched on the fabric of the dress, and two ribbons of light with geometric patterns are trailing behind her. A ring of magic with glowing orbs is circling around her as she floats. Commission work done for YeetMaur A dark skinned man with dark brown hair and a beard framing his jaw, dressed in a white robe and dark brown pants crouches with one hand on the ground as he swings at demons with his katana. The enemy demons are dressed in red rusting armor that looks worn and damaged. The scene is set in a bamboo forest with a path cutting through it, red banners on either side of the road. It appears to be in the afternoon, with a rich orange glow streaming in between the bamboo. A man sits in his study, contemplating a dark, box shaped artifact, while a dark spirit looms behind him. This was a commission work done for JacenLandry
November 20, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Portrait of a Pied Currawong.
#birds
Photograph of a large black bird from the shoulders up. It has a long, robust beak with a hooked end, and striking yellow eyes. It is somewhat crow-like in appearance, despite being a passerine bird and not a corvid.
November 21, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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Portrait of a Pied Currawong.
#birds
Photograph of a large black bird from the shoulders up. It has a long, robust beak with a hooked end, and striking yellow eyes. It is somewhat crow-like in appearance, despite being a passerine bird and not a corvid.
November 21, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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Alternatively, O&O offer a free app that can make all these fixes (and many more) for you: www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
Screenshot of the app "O&O ShutUp10++" showing the Copilot tab, confirming that it has edited the registry, removed all Copilot applications, and erased all Copilot Recall data.
November 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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saturation with Tolkien spinoffs has somehow not prepared our culture for the arrival of dark lords bearing a gift that everyone becomes convinced they can wield to accomplish great things but just makes them dependent and start whispering about preciouses if you suggest just throwing it away
November 19, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Splish Splash.
#birds
Photograph of an immature male Satin Bowerbird perched on the edge of a bird bath, looking at the water with Intentions. The bird is jade, olive, brown, and yellow, with violet eyes and a creamy-coloured beak. Seconds later, the bowerbird has dived into the water and started flapping his wings. It is protecting its eyes with its nictitating membrane (inner eyelid). There are droplets of water flying in all directions. The bowerbird is back on the edge of the bath, facing away from the water, shaking off the excess droplets which are shining in all the colours of the rainbow as they catch the sunlight. From this angle it's clear that the bowerbird has some of his mature black satin feathers on his left shoulder and around his eyes.
November 19, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Splish Splash.
#birds
Photograph of an immature male Satin Bowerbird perched on the edge of a bird bath, looking at the water with Intentions. The bird is jade, olive, brown, and yellow, with violet eyes and a creamy-coloured beak. Seconds later, the bowerbird has dived into the water and started flapping his wings. It is protecting its eyes with its nictitating membrane (inner eyelid). There are droplets of water flying in all directions. The bowerbird is back on the edge of the bath, facing away from the water, shaking off the excess droplets which are shining in all the colours of the rainbow as they catch the sunlight. From this angle it's clear that the bowerbird has some of his mature black satin feathers on his left shoulder and around his eyes.
November 19, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 was a shoe-in for my GOTY, but then HADES II happened. I'd vote for both if I could :(
November 18, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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WHAT ANNOYING GUYS THINK SUN TZU'S ART OF WAR SAYS: show everyone in every single situation you're the big dog, literally bark in your bosses face to assert dominance

ACTUAL SUN TZU: no but seriously you do have to feed your army
November 18, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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i see this shit, the game goes in the bin, doesn't matter how much I'd enjoyed it or what my plans to write about it had been
aftermath.site Aftermath @aftermath.site · 8d
[This is where Luke's Anno 117 impressions were going to go]

aftermath.site/this-is-where-...
November 17, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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If they are being honest? I cannot emphasize enough what a terrible idea it is to use "the machine that tricks people" to generate "placeholder material" you intend to replace. You are just making everyone else's job harder by effectively hiding what needs to be replaced
eurogamer.bsky.social Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 9d
Ubisoft admits AI-generated loading screen "slipped through" into final build of Anno 117: Pax Romana
www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-admi...
A red circle highlights a background figure with missing limbs and a disfigured face, suggesting it's been generated by AI
November 17, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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This weird little alien is neither a mantis nor a mantisfly - it's actually a type of bug! Specifically Stenolemus fraterculus, an Assassin Bug that preys on spiders.
#insects #invertebrates
Photograph of an insect on the underside of a green leaf. The insect loosely resembles a preying mantis - with elongated body, absurdly thin thorax, and predatory forelimbs. It is mottled in light brown and cream. Close-up photo of the same subject focused on its fore-section. Here it can be seen that the eyes are those of a bug rather than a fly or mantid, and its long stabbing proboscis can be seen curled up under its thorax. It's also possible to discern many small hairs along its body and limbs.
November 17, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Yellow-shouldered Stout Hover Fly (Simosyrphus grandicornis)
#insects #invertebrates
Macro photograph of a yellow and black fly standing on the bright yellow anther of a flower, collecting pollen. The fly has a large head with big red eyes, a broad black thorax with yellow 'shoulders', and a long thin abdomen with black and yellow markings resembling a wasp.
November 16, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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Yellow-shouldered Stout Hover Fly (Simosyrphus grandicornis)
#insects #invertebrates
Macro photograph of a yellow and black fly standing on the bright yellow anther of a flower, collecting pollen. The fly has a large head with big red eyes, a broad black thorax with yellow 'shoulders', and a long thin abdomen with black and yellow markings resembling a wasp.
November 16, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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Red Wattlebird.
#birds
Photograph of a large honeyeater, portrait from the shoulders up. It is striated in dark brown and white, with a red wattle dangling from its cheek, bright red eyes, and orange pollen caked on its black beak.
November 15, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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November 15, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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Red Wattlebird.
#birds
Photograph of a large honeyeater, portrait from the shoulders up. It is striated in dark brown and white, with a red wattle dangling from its cheek, bright red eyes, and orange pollen caked on its black beak.
November 15, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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White-browed Scrubwren.
#birds
Photograph of a small passerine bird standing on reddish rock with grass. The bird is brown, grey, white, and black, with distinctive white lines running back from its beak over its brows.
November 14, 2025 at 2:51 AM