Rory Hyde

Just how spot on was Jon Kudelka.

Pure and simple genius. #auspol

Dr Jeremy Walker details the “enormous war chest” of Advance & lists funders inc Gina Rinehart, James Packer, IPA board, Woodside’s Charles Goode & “the priv foundation of Jillian Segal” - who pay Advance to “flood social media with aggressive Far Right disinformation”🔥 #auspol

"social cohesion" is the "climate wars are over" of the late 2020s.

Labor doesn't want peace, or cohesion or actual societal improvement. It wants everyone to stop yelling at them.

It worked for the climate movement but it won't work for the anti-genocide movement.

Shared with us from Sydney happening now. He had his hands up.

You know, it’s just possible to feel really bad about the violent deaths of Israeli Jews, the genocide in Palestine and the deaths of Australian Jews all while being neither anti-Semitic or Islamophobic.

Somehow that has become impossible for the political class.

Jon Kudelka, much-loved Australian political cartoonist, dies aged 53 Award-winning Tasmanian artist’s work was published by the Australian, the Saturday Paper and the Hobart Mercury

What an enormous loss this is. The world is an inexplicably awful place some days. Vale lovely, wry, immensely talented man.

Someone walking in the desert past Uluru and a big sign saying "Here is an No-Effort Zero-Risk Opportunity to be on the Right side of History" person says "no"

Here's a threat of Kudelka Gold

Auspol. Please stop talking about the stupid parties. The slightly less stupid party that is governing needs much more scrutiny….

a rounded building end. windows that cover one half and a balcony on the top

'Housing Block (1925-26) at Grethenweg in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, by Ernst Balser. Photo by Max Göllner.'

ABC Indigenous doesn’t mince words

Boned up

"Back in DC, one museum director told me they were feeling calm – readier, than in the spring, for assaults by the administration. They knew what they would do...They had scenarios mapped out, “like a crime board”.

‘Learn to code’, they said

Can’t wait for these headlines to be about AI in 5 years time

B&W photo of Sophie Taeuber-Arp (most likely) dancing in an absurdist costume & mask

B&W photo of Dada artist Hugo Ball in an elaborate costume, with striped headdress and heavy "cloak," standing in front of a music stand

For what it's worth, at least our present moment is helping me understand the Dada artists & their motivations a whole lot better

I cannot be party to silencing writers, which is why I am resigning as director of Adelaide Writers’ Week | Louise Adler Cancelling the Australian Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah weakens freedom of speech and is the harbinger of a less free nation

"I cannot be party to silencing writers, which is why I am resigning as director of Adelaide writers’ week" Louise Adler ✊

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All the power and love to @cathywilcox.bsky.social

Grass roots.
My @smh cartoon.

If I had an upstairs window I would throw 2025 out of it tonight. As it stands I will simply place 2025 on the kerb for collection, and quietly change the sheets for 2026.

Family, colleagues in 'disbelief' after leading scientist dies aged 52 University of Melbourne vice-chancellor Emma Johnston has died from complications associated with cancer, aged 52.

Incredibly sad to see we have lost Professor Emma Johnston. She loved, and fought for, the marine environment, women in STEM, climate action and social purpose at universities. I knew her from her work at Sydney University where all of this was on display. Too soon. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

such a great bloke. top shelf dude. gave real shits about climate change!!

We had Jewish Australians murdered in Bondi just for being Jewish including a Holocaust survivor due to anti - semitism, bigotry & hate. We need to show love, unity, solidarity & support to our Jewish brothers & sisters to reclaim their right to live free from fear in their home.

NSW to effectively ban protests for up to three months as premier links Gaza rallies to Bondi terror attack Chris Minns says state ‘can’t risk another mass demonstration on that scale in NSW [because] the implications can be seen, in my view, on Sunday’

Linking the march across the bridge to the massacre is disgusting and everyone doing so should be deeply ashamed of their giving tacit support for genocide

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Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook captures some kissing up at the Kennedy Center Honors.
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Wasn’t it awful! As if quoting Kennett and Howard wasn’t bad enough

“Most people do not give a shit about Ned Kelly’s rotating three-dimensional helmet, [they] come into the library to use a computer, to use wifi, to look something up, to ask a librarian for help.”

It doesn't get more egregious than this:
#auspol

“Andy McDonald, 61, says he ‘fell on to’ the shark and ‘was like, punching it’ before friend helped him paddle to shore” 😳

man smoking a cigarette and after work you try to become yourself again