Jane Waldock

A Kudelka for every issue.

One of my favourite words and scents.

Grab your gals for regional riotous International Women's Day fun about bonkers & brilliant advice to women ... Friday 13 (let's get witchy) March at #Kyneton Town Hall, Victoria! #Bendigo #Ballarat #Woodend #Daylesford
#Macedon shire #NorthernBooks

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Good dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social

Very good dog.

Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, 2023. It’s a dark and rainy day in Portland, Oregon, and I felt the need for some color in my life. I think this fits the bill. #Photography #Architecture #Interior #Paris #France 📷

Action of the Week 9 Feb 2026 Nannas strongly support the campaign by the Mudgee and Wollar communities to stop the expansion of the biggest operating coal mine in NSW: Moolarben OC3 coal mine expansion.

Submissions don’t need be long and submission guides are here to help. knittingnannas.org/2026/02/09/a...

Two frames. 1. Customs and Border Protection agent with suitcase open holding two pieces of paper, says to man opposite, “President Herzog, we note there’s a photo of you here signing a bomb meant for Gazans, as well as a UN accusation of incitement to genocide…” 2. Same scene but agent is handing closed suitcase to the man saying “Welcome to Australia and enjoy your stay.”

Here we are.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Single frame. Title: “[redacted]” A line of early teen? girls looking at the viewer. Behind them, silhouettes of four generic men, some with hand on shoulders of the girls, which have been through six iterations of redaction to satisfy the newspaper’s lawyers that none are identifiable.

A heavily redacted cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.

The evangelical creepshow returns. I was always taught that if you cut the head off the monster, filled its mouth with salt, and buried the carcass at a crossroads at midnight, everything would be tickety-boo.

The evangelical creepshow returns.
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Rutger Bregman on Instagram: "Today I have to share something I wish wasn’t true:  The BBC has decided to censor the opening lecture of a series they invited me to deliver.  They removed the sentenc... 362K likes, 9,027 comments - rutgerbregman on November 25, 2025: "Today I have to share something I wish wasn’t true:  The BBC has decided to censor the opening lecture of a series they invited me to...

What a gutless disgrace …

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“The normalisation of One Nation, through reality TV, breakfast TV slots and inclusion as a serious political player in Australia has been media-driven, dressed up as the people’s choice,” writes @amyremeikis.bsky.social.

Read Amy Remeikis’ full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4alz8EU

Black-and-white portrait photograph of Beatrice Muriel Hill Tinsley (1941–1981), the brilliant New Zealand-born astronomer and cosmologist who revolutionized our understanding of galaxy evolution. She is shown in a close-up headshot against a plain, softly lit gray background, smiling warmly and just past the camera with an intelligent, approachable, and joyful expression. Tinsley has short, wavy dark hair styled in soft curls that frame her face, and she wears earrings with round pearl or gem accents. Her eyes are bright and engaging, and her expression radiates quiet confidence and enthusiasm, capturing her during her groundbreaking career in the 1960s or early 1970s when she developed influential models of stellar populations and demonstrated that galaxies evolve significantly over cosmic time.

Beatrice Tinsley was born #OTD in 1941.

British-born New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist, and the first female professor of #astronomy at Yale University, whose research made fundamental contributions to the astronomical understanding of how galaxies evolve, grow, and die. #WomenInSTEM (1/2)

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

Eunice Foote, climate change, and the Matilda Effect The birth of modern science was hostile to women’s participation. The world’s major academies of science were founded in the 17th century: the Royal Society of London (1662), the Paris Académie Roy…

Margaret W. Rossiter coined the term “Matilda effect” to describe the bias against acknowledging the achievements of women scientists. Some cases illustrating the Matilda effect include Eunice Foote, Rosalind Franklin, & Jocelyn Bell Burnell
#Womeninstem
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Know your penguins.

AFP Infographic on 11 of the world's 18 species of penguin

As ever, the letter-writers bring the wisdom.
We have a crisis of leadership at so many levels, and you only need to look at theocratic and repressive states to see that harsh, arbitrary rules and punishment do not make a society safe or harmonious.

Not news really is it?

Had to look up “uxoricide”. Never heard that term before.

Why I withdrew from Adelaide Writers’ Week Authoritarianism and its brutal brother fascism are rising all around us. They thrive on controlling, squashing and censoring ideas they do not like. I refuse to participate in that.

"There is nothing bullies despise more than context and nuance – the lifeblood of writers. This chill will only intensify as people worry what effect their words may have on their next gig. It can only result in more timidity and dumbing down." @janecaro.bsky.social
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#auspol #australia

if the new White House ballroom had to adhere to minimum parking requirements

"The Australia Institute’s decision to withdraw its involvement in, and sponsorship of, Adelaide Writers’ Week was easy to make but raises difficult questions", writes Dr Richard Denniss in The Point.

Read the full piece here: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

Abortion stays legal in Wyoming as its top court strikes down laws, including first US pill ban Abortion will remain legal in Wyoming after the state Supreme Court struck down laws including the nation’s first explicit ban on abortion pills.

BREAKING: Abortion will remain legal in Wyoming after the state Supreme Court struck down laws, including the first U.S. ban on pill abortions.

I’m going through a yuzu phase.

Rick Motion is an angel really.

Have you ever noticed the beautiful patch of colour on the wings of Pacific black ducks? 💚

Please when, Australia?

Lovely work. ❤️