Fraser

me in ~2006: "I'm a computer science major, why do I have to take a class on ethics?"

me in 2026: "ah"

Two scientists walk through a cluttered old-fashioned science laboratory. The female scientist says “Analogue instruments! Paper records! Chalk boards! I thought you'd agreed to modernise the laboratory?” The male scientist replies “That's what i'm so excited about: we have moved to cloud-based storage for our data!” They step out onto a balcony. She says: “Please tell me you haven't built a library zeppelin” This is exactly what he has done. It floats across the sky and he adds “It's got a fax machine!”

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

Alleged sighting

Guardian headline: “Bob Carr, ‘a masterpiece’ and a hornet queer fantasy”

And this, kids, is why we need Oxford commas…

Angus Taylor holds cost-of-living press conference in Canberra’s wealthiest suburb.
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

In May '25, a beloved Australian games website was sold off. It went dark then, a month later, rose from the dead but stuffed full of gambling links and AI authors.

It wasn't the first time, or the last time, this exact thing had happened. And it's still happening.

My months-long investigation 👇

Wasn’t it banned by the BBC because it was about the Falklands War? Old memory.

Aussies claim many NZ bands as their own.

THIS.

Cthulhu in foamed milk floating on a coffee cup

Having a writers coffee sesh and our coffee artist is knocking it out of the ball park (this was a request for Cthulhu):

Extreme rhetoric in right-wing political circles deserves more attention The rhetoric in Australia's right-wing political circles is getting more extreme and the media should be paying more attention.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

A contentious review into the Liberal Party’s disastrous election will be suppressed after Opposition Leader Angus Taylor met with top party figures and agreed to shelve the document, sparing the party from further humiliation

Bot Outing. A new game for all the family 😆

That sound you hear is every other intelligence service in the democratic world backing away

I was quite impressed by the camera work that managed to show nothing.

Today’s Sunday Age cartoon.

Title: A Valentine’s Day experiment In an effort to test the efficacy of cupids arrows of desire. A placebo group is shot with regular arrows. Their injuries range from moderate to sever. Unexpectedly, romances struck up in hospital and lawyers’ waiting rooms create a "romance ratio" similar to that of magic arrows. However, once the cost of compensation claims is factored in, it is decided to discontinue.

A Valentine’s Day cartoon for @newscientist.com

If Moderna is no longer bringing vaccine trials for Epstein-Barr virus (good evidence that EB causes Multiple Sclerosis), herpes, and shingles because of Trump appointees, I want prison time for those appointees.

This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

When the Liberals finally settle upon a new leader, they can get back to doing what they do best. Selecting the next one.
Jennifer Quigley, Balwyn
The Age, letters

Triggering a spill.

He’s not wrong.

Not for a while. I have completely removed myself from the bad site now.

Coalition reunification

Alex Sobel @alexsobel.co.uk calls on government to introduce three reforms to protect UK from foreign interference: a cap on political donations, ban on cryptocurrency contributions and full independence for the Electoral Commission.

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

The spirit of healing and social cohesion

Oh so much.

I live in Brunswick and can work in Docklands (about 5 km) or Wantirna South (35 km).

Docklands is a slower trip in BOTH directions!

Hmm. Competition for which party gets my last vote is heating up.

Friendly reminder that data coming from The White House is either the result of incompetence or deliberately misleading. Either way, best data practice is to always include longitudinal data to provide your audience with context.

GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊