Kaz Cooke

Oh well in that case, she can of course be portrayed and entirely degraded as a tediously clichéd sex object-target and subject to the usual scripted violence & abuse (and I shall be very surprised indeed to find that I have, as you put it, 'the dick').

He's working for BHP in America. He will have family health insurance provided with his job.

Dr Space Junk 20 Years of Blogging Feminist as Fuck Edition This beautiful artwork is by archaeologist Dr Katherine Cook  https://drkrcook.wordpress.com/  This blog is 20 years old! My first post was ...

It's International Women's Day! It's a day to be feminist as fuck, so here are a few of my favourite blog posts (written by me) on this theme. #IWD2026 #WomenInSTEM

She's in Washington, not the myriad US states killing pregnant women who need treatment, so if she has a life-threatening complication they will probably try to save her. If her husband agrees.

Gun, knife; silent, objectified woman with girlish face; exposed bosomry; French maid's servant uniform, Victorian bonnet, exposed garter belt; on her knees leaning forward; deliberate suggestion of naked backside. Fully exhausted bingo card; fully exhausted sisterhood.

I wish them the best. But such jolly stories never mention huge risk hikes after each birth, especially 5+. If fathers risked haemorrhage, death, heart disease, prolapse, exhaustion, under-studied immune system hits, higher blood pressure & post-menopause aging-acceleration, would it be mentioned?

Trial opens of ‘esoteric’ wing of alleged German coup plotters GP, celebrity chef and astrologer among defendants in third trial linked to far-right Reichsbürger

Led here after discovering the practice of Oomancy (using eggs to interpret the future) in researching my next book, 'Spooky Ladies'. Next time someone asks what I do, I shall whisper, 'I am an oomancier. The ova never lies' and enjoy some quiet time.

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Unrestricted taser use by girls & women when deemed necessary for safe protection, tasers to be supplied free of charge? Men who use tasers to be jailed for life, no parole? Or maybe implementing any & all of the recommendations on violence against women that inquiries & studies keep repeating?

Thank you for not mentioning the mad typo -'port' instead of pose. Wasn't even shickered ...

I've read the books!

Photo of a bit of a statue at Chatsworth in England, head turned away from us, with remarkable pale marble curls parted by a ribbon head-band and a port that's a sort of languid arm over the head with swinging hand gesture. In the back ground is a nudey other statue with a marble Roman military helmet and a very pensive, seated marble angel with proper wings and a gym-ish six pack, and a nudey sort of Diana-ish lysie-downsy statue and a bust of some bloke we need not concern ourselves with. It is a MIRACLE of humanity that a person once carved this out of solid marble to evoke a sense of intense ennui. Mission totes accomplished.

Mood.

This story is worse than the blurb makes it sound and I'm so sick of even READING about sex pests & high-ranked pervs & pedophiles & creeps & violent horrible men let alone having to be in the same world. When will girls & women be allowed to taze aggressors? Too dangerous an idea? COMPARED TO WHAT.

That starburst effect on the table from the candles is rather lovely. Might work as a book cover element, even ...

'No way' Iran’s women footballers can return, as calls grow to protect them in Australia The Iranian women's football team is facing an impossible situation. Return home, and possibly face punishment from the Islamic Republic regime for its silent protest, or stay in Australia and their f...

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A sketch of a nudey-rudey white lady flying up in the clouds, with a messy bun, 2 ceiling-fan shaped wings, and a languid air.

Black-on-white ink drawing of a winged cupid on a cloud, staring through a telescope at another cupid flying away. The overall effect is very much buttock-related.

Please enjoy these illustrations, some of many that drove the purse-lipped and probably even more pursed-arsed 'morals campaigner' Anthony Comstock to have books burned in New York, 1870s.

Michael Koziol's report first pars under the heading 'Don't dance on Kyle and Jackie O's grave - they were the best thing on radio'. Full disclosure: I was the least famous person on the radio show that Kyle and Jackio replaced 22 years ago, when we were jettisoned because of bad ratings. I'm not celebrating their show's end as they celebrated ours, but I'll never forget how commercial radio management celebrated cruelty, rewarded cynicism and fakery, treated women as lesser beings and openly & entirely despised the audience. I was mortified even listening to some of the ugly things they wanted us to do (which we refused). Calling that shit 'good radio' is just absurd.

More supine insights in these pars by the reporter, such as if you don't like Kyle and Jackieo you are a sneering inner-city- ABC-listening person who doesn't understand they were world class and 'grabbed attention' - because in 2017 NY radio host Howard Stern was jealous they scored an interview with 'troubled actor Charlie Sheen'. This guy is bringing his insight to US politics now. Good luck, everybody.

This guy has taken time out from being the senior SMH & Age reporter analysing US politics to explain why Kyle and Jackieo's radio show was really great. Hoping he's also a travel reporter & can insightfully review Handbasket Inc's new one-way cruise to Hell.

He's the nephew of the AG in the NT. He got home detention for killing a man with his car on purpose then bragging about it and seriously injuring another man. They were both Aboriginal and it was a hate crime.

Today we're celebrating the launch of 'Janigun at the Beach', created by Mabu Yawuru Ngan-ga and Brenton E McKenna 🏖️

This First Nations word board book helps young bubs explore the world around them, like fun seagulls, red jelly fish and shy hermit crabs 🦀

Check it out: bit.ly/4rVhOgI

A hand-coloured poster cartoon spoofing phrenology (feeling head bumps) with instructions for toe-tology, how to tell somebody's character and fortune by examining their toes & shoes, with 16 illustrations. Wellcome Collection.

Almost everything is frightful again today so here is a how-to chart on toe-tology, a way to determine someone's character by examining their shoes: a parody of phrenology charts, early 1800s, Scotland. Held by @wellcomecollection.bsky.social

America the depraved. Now a loose coalition of monstrous regimes headed by a stupid, cunning fascist, reaping the whirlwind.

Commercial radio's addiction to cynical stunts is the survivor in the Kyle & Jacqui fiasco. Way to test response to coverage, in case there's enough support to keep the show going (& then a) face-saving way to yank the jettison lever due to low ratings, ad boycotts & unyielding indifference.

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

Since the Liberal election review has been leaked to the Age, people will know Dutton was offended it called him “unattractive to women”. I wanted to let Dutton know it’s not his face or baldness that’s the issue. It’s his cold, dead heart, cruel character and mean spirit that make him unattractive.

Would get in.

I only have a study cranny.

Yesssssss. Have you tried a tightly-rolled broadsheet newspaper lightly rapped on her nose?

I stopped ignoring racists a long time ago, hearing white NT politicians say vile stuff 'off the record'. If I hear racism in my presence, I promised myself, I'll call it out. A censure movement isn't to stop behaviour, it's to say on the historical record, this is wrong. Never a waste of time.

Meanjin has been saved, but where are the opportunities for emerging writers? A recent win for a beloved literary journal is a small gain for new authors who face diminished writing pathways.

Jo Pickup let me be one of the peeps to bend her ear about needing new career paths for writers - what with all the crap media sites & A bloody I thundering at us.
(Unrelated: oh, that stock photo of a writer. Save your neck! Screen at eye level!)
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A languid beagle is led, snuffling, into Australian parliament by an encouraging handler, who says brightly: "Find them girl, come on girl, find some guts!" Beagle rolls over and places 4 rigid paws in the air, slowly acknowledging 36 people with one wink each.