It was, you shan't be astonished to hear, nothing of the sort.
09.03.2026 10:29 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@kazcooke.bsky.social
Author & cartoonist kazcooke.com.au Books: Up The Duff; Girl Stuffs 8-12 & 13+; Ada; You’re Doing It Wrong: a History of Bad & Bonkers Advice to Women; ‘It’s The Menopause’. Further palaver as it comes to hand.
It was, you shan't be astonished to hear, nothing of the sort.
09.03.2026 10:29 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0TBF I don't think he was doing that. He was making it clear that his own schoolboy attitude has been maintained amid his 'peer group' even as adults.
09.03.2026 10:27 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Round like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning on an ever-spinning reel
Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind
[Verse 2]
Like a tunnel that you follow to a tunnel of its own
Down a hollow to a cavern where the sun has never shone..."
One of the most enduring cartoon character images of all time.
09.03.2026 02:49 — 👍 24 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Reading a headline on a celebrity man's take on how men can be better. Last time I saw him he was 'joking' to a big corporate gig audience, rating pupils at girls' schools of Melbourne. He said one school's girls were OK to have sex with, another provided girlfriends & one had girls you married.
09.03.2026 02:46 — 👍 49 🔁 8 💬 6 📌 1Standing by with heaving bosom.
08.03.2026 13:28 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
'Radio expert' mentions the ratings-fail pre-K&J show he hired: I was a lesser part of that team & proud we refused bosses' orders to sham-fight, lie, do sexist stunts, give celebrity sperm as a prize, surprise a workmate with his phobia on air. Acid-washed souls.
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Thanks Rhys, I am going down a lot of rabbit holes (oomancy, magicians, stage mind-readers and zesty mediums, but concentrating on ladypersons and steering clear of Nazi leadership, no matter their star-signs.
08.03.2026 08:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Alyssa Healy signs off for the final time in international cricket ✨
08.03.2026 06:56 — 👍 48 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 2I get what you're saying but that's what I hate about these (millions of) clichéd creations - the creators say 'she's got a gun so it's okay to portray her as a child-like sex servant fantasy, it's actually empowering!' I don't buy it for a femto of a second.
08.03.2026 07:47 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Maybe it would be better not to use that term to describe a woman.
08.03.2026 07:43 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oh 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').
08.03.2026 07:11 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0He's working for BHP in America. He will have family health insurance provided with his job.
08.03.2026 07:05 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It'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
07.03.2026 22:41 — 👍 39 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 1She'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.
08.03.2026 07:01 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Gun, 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.
08.03.2026 06:58 — 👍 20 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0I 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?
08.03.2026 06:47 — 👍 103 🔁 8 💬 15 📌 0
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?
08.03.2026 06:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thank you for not mentioning the mad typo -'port' instead of pose. Wasn't even shickered ...
08.03.2026 05:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I've read the books!
08.03.2026 05:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Photo 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.
07.03.2026 12:01 — 👍 50 🔁 4 💬 5 📌 0This 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.
07.03.2026 11:53 — 👍 37 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0That starburst effect on the table from the candles is rather lovely. Might work as a book cover element, even ...
07.03.2026 11:46 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A 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.
06.03.2026 12:28 — 👍 17 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0Michael 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.
06.03.2026 12:19 — 👍 34 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 0He'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.
06.03.2026 03:46 — 👍 152 🔁 83 💬 11 📌 1
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
04.03.2026 01:55 — 👍 26 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0