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15 hours ago
Single panel editorial cartoon. PM Albanese is smiling as he feeds an apple to two of the horsemen of the apocalypse, Trump as war, Netanyahu as death. The other two are in the background looking interested, one may be Putin’s.

Just a zoophilist #auspol @AlboMP

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18 hours ago
Electric locomotive hauled train, with a sign on it: First electric passenger train between Melbourne and Traralgon March 14th 1956. Source: Public Record Office Victoria. VPRS 12800/P0001 https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/63FCDE06-F7DD-11E9-AE98-6D39FED49D19/content?image=1

The spike in fuel prices reminds us that Victoria once had electric regional trains, Melbourne to Traralgon 1956-1987.
Planning and funding electrification for V/Line, starting with the busiest lines, would help protect against future cost spikes, help cut emissions, and improve air quality.🚆⚡

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1 day ago
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Health Speculations Swirl After Trump Screams, ‘Fuck! I’m Dying!’ WASHINGTON—Further fueling speculation that the commander-in-chief might have undisclosed medical conditions, rumors regarding President Trump’s health swirled Friday after he screamed, “Fuck! I’m dyi...

“Fuck! I’m dying!” during a press conference. “Fuck! I’m fucking dying! Oh God, it hurts! Ahhhhhhh!” Trump said in response to a question about the ongoing war in Iran

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1 day ago

The OG Final Fantasy 7 does some absolute work, but only if you're into insanely long JRPGs.

Gran Turismo was a favourite; used to leave the 24 hour races paused between work shifts.

Time Crisis and Point Blank were excellent ports from the arcades at the time.

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1 day ago

Is this where we fill all of her replies with snake emojis?

🐍🐍🐍

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1 day ago

I really do encourage everyone to read this if they can. It’s worse than I thought it would be. The decision, not my piece. Although come to think of it everything I write is worse than I thought it would be.

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Week 3 of the US-led war against Iran

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2 days ago

Feels this way in Australia.

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2 days ago
Single frame. Title: “Meanwhile, in a Syrian refugee camp”. Scene is refugee camp in washed out colour with tents, adult and child carrying babs in background. Foreground: woman in robe and hijab holding a soccer ball speaks to three young children saying, “Pay attention kids. This could be our only hope.”

Game of hope.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

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2 days ago

#auspol

Complete and total silence from my local MP (Josh Burns, Macnamara) on this.

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2 days ago
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What's My JND? Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see?

I don't know anything about this, but it sure would be great for QA folks to practise with!

What's My JND? 0.0033
Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

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3 days ago
A political cartoon by Megan Herbert in which a journalist asks Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, " Have you just committed us to a war?" And the PM responds, " No, I've committed us to a (preemptive retaliatory de-escalation action to protect and defend Australians and other citizens in response to a request by our new strategic partner by sending defensive missiles & surveillance equipment to protect the airspace and assist the region with its collective self-defence against reprisal attacks that come as a result of the ongoing operation launched as an anticipatory response to perceived threats by historical allies acting against the established international rule of law who are too powerful for us to in any meaningful way challenge.) There's a very big difference." The words in brackets are arranged in such a way that they completely fill the word WAR written in a huge, hulking, bold khaki font.

A war by any other name.
My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social

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3 days ago
Four frames. Title: “The rules”. Albo and Penny Wong at a lectern. 1. Albo: “Some of you have asked if rules still apply, so we’d like to clear things up.” Wong: “Obviously we shouldn’t kill!” 2. Albo: “However, if you hurt or kill someone and enough people agree they were bad, then the rules aren’t up to us.” Wong: “It’s a ‘matter for them’” 3. Albo : “Also, if you get someone else to do the killing for you and someone accuses you of it, that’s ‘a conspiracy’” Wong: “Against the rules!” 4. Plus, if thousands of innocent people get killed when you kill the bad person, you must focus on the six people you saved.” Wong: “That’s the rule!”

The rules.
My @smh cartoon.

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4 days ago

Read Mean Streak. The detail is all in there.

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3 days ago

"Quietly alarmed" is total bullshit.

If they're so alarmed, why aren't they outing themselves and having daily pressers demanding we cease providing aid to the aggressors?

Access journalism at its worst.

Name names or GTFO.

#auspol

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3 days ago
A cartoon by Ron Cobb (1975), showing a shadow of US B-52 bomber above cratered landscape. Two people who look like Vietnamese peasants look up; one says “they’re having problems with their economy again.”

This is from 1975.

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3 days ago
Single panel editorial cartoon. The NACC building padlocked with dollar signs flying out of the roof. The sign across the top is an acrostic that reads -kNACCered, which spells out Knavish - National - Apathetic - Corruption - Commission (of) - Egregious - Rogues - Evading - Discovery

Nothing to see #auspol #NACC

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3 days ago

Central casting has officially run out of characters for the clown show.

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3 days ago

I'm so happy to see something like this going ahead!

I also cannot believe the literally unfathomably low price being asked.

(And while I was going through the details, I remembered that I still have all the centrefolds from NMS at my parents'!)

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3 days ago

I'm so glad to see news like this!

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4 days ago
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CONTINUE: A Defiant, New Videogames Magazine Bringing together journalists, devs and artists, CONTINUE celebrates and interrogates videogame culture, creativity and community

I want to introduce you all to something myself and @jacksonwryan.com have been working on.

A PRINT MAGAZINE about video games and video game culture.

We know things have been bad for games writing recently. We're asking, "do you want to Continue?"

www.kickstarter.com/projects/con...

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4 days ago

Sounds about white.

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I read about the US-Israeli bombing of oil depots causing horrific polluted rain across Iran. Iranians have reportedly been experiencing breathing difficulties and headaches.
If you work in environmental or social justice, we must stand against war and for peace. No war! #nowar

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5 days ago
Single panel editorial cartoon. FM Wong is facing a press conference struggling to gather and hold on to everything she is carrying and she says, “Look, for the last time, we’re not involved . . . just considering our options”. There is luggage labelled with travel stickers for Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, an inflatable baby trump, a suitcase full of money, papers that say, defence, trade, protection, secret, weapons industry, Darwin, RAAF Amberley (with a golden key), a bag labelled pine gap, a submarine under the arm labelled AUKUS, five eyes on stick and a surveillance dish.

Options #auspol #Iran

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5 days ago

Guys, they toppled an elected government in 1975 to protect the military-industrial grip on Australia's territory and control of its foreign policy.

So good luck ejecting Palantir now with opinion pieces.

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6 days ago
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MARCH FOR AUSTRALIA 3: A POISONED WELL [video]
watch: youtu.be/6QpWCCQP3vc

You'd think Marching for Australia would be very popular on the National Day of Racism, 26 January. But it was not. Here, I have taken the time to consider why.

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6 days ago

Hewy @albomp.bsky.social - see this?

It's called leadership. #auspol

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F1 Grand Prix: extracting private profit from a public park in Melbourne The Melbourne F1 Grand Prix has already delivered another bill for Victorian taxpayers. The discovery of asbestos contamination during works in Albert Park has left taxpayers on the hook for a costly ...

The Melbourne Grand Prix is a massive net negative for Melbourne and Victoria!

"The race loses around $100 million dollars each year and Victorian taxpayers pick up the tab. That’s almost double what the Victorian Government spends on community sport."

thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft ... This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

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