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Fiona Katauskas
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Cartoonist for the Guardian (amongst others) , political junkie, best-selling author of The Amazing True Story of How Babies Are Made. Sweary.

Gadigal Country. Australia
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okwonga.bsky.social
Last week I checked in on a friend, someone who I thought would be one of the very last immigrants (who have any other options) to leave Germany, only to find that they and their family are already in the process of leaving. Their explicit reason: the rise of fascism. Very, very disturbing times.
The thing is: “remigration” is already happening. Far from the comments sections underneath pieces of writing like these, where people exchange anguished or angry words about the future of Germany and the country’s soul, people are already leaving. Foreigners out, cry the protesters, and in some sense they are getting their wish. Every few weeks, I go to check in on a friend or acquaintance and find that they are either in the process of packing their bags or they are gone, gone, gone. In general the white ones are staying in Europe and the non-white ones are putting an entire ocean between themselves and here. Germany’s problem isn’t the loud migrants like me. It’s the ones who right now are leaving silently, never to return.
December 1, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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mooseallain.bsky.social
Here's something childish to start your week.

If you'd like one of these to hand in the loo, I can draw one for you.
www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...
Cartoon of the sea bed, with two buttock like mounds with bubbles emanating from between them, while a fish looks on. Caption: The bottom of the ocean
December 1, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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omarsakr.bsky.social
It did just pick up 2 reviews in Aus lit mags, several months after release. Two award-winning artists with a book on a subject that is in the news every single day and I can’t help but wonder if it’s being ignored because we are explicitly donating all author royalties to Palestinian charities.
December 1, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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omarsakr.bsky.social
Fun fact: The Nightmare Sequence was mentioned in The Conversation’s Best Books Of 2025, thanks to Jen Webb. Another fun fact: this is my first book released in Aus, UK, and the US in the same year and so far it’s gotten zero reviews in mainstream papers and outlets.
Photo of book cover: Omar Sakr & Safdar Ahmed NIGHTMARE SEQUENCE Introduction by George Abraham My pick is Omar Sakr and Safdar Ahmed's The Nightmare Sequence (UQP). In a year marked by global levels of violence, both discursive and physical, Sakr and Ahmed use poetry and graphic art to express anger, truth-telling and tenderness. They remind readers that we humans are all in this together - and though "History is an angel with seven faces / All of them are turned away from us", we can turn towards each other. Jen Webb is distinguished professor emerita of creative practice, University of Canberra.
December 1, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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kazcooke.bsky.social
Help! Sign & share the petition to save the State Library of Victoria from rolling crises, gallery closures, harassment/jettisoning of staff & new cuts to destroy services for children & adults. c.org/Hj9G9WSg2f. (Or change.org, search Save The State Library of Victoria.) #StateLibrary #librarians
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
Save the State Library of Victoria!
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December 1, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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rantlaw.bsky.social
Finally! A benefit to AI
November 30, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Convincing evidence Israel backed aid convoy looters in Gaza, historian says
Convincing evidence Israel backed aid convoy looters in Gaza, historian says
Account of visit to Gaza by French professor describes Israeli military attacks on security personnel protecting convoys A historian who spent more than a month in Gaza at the turn of the year says he saw “utterly convincing” evidence that Israel supported looters who attacked aid convoys during the conflict. Jean-Pierre Filiu, a professor of Middle East studies at France’s prestigious Sciences Po university, entered Gaza in December where he was hosted by an international humanitarian organisation in the southern coastal zone of al-Mawasi. Continue reading...
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November 29, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
don't really think drugs, as a concept, will ever be able to recover from the reputational hit they're about to take
November 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.
karoline.bsky.social Karoline @karoline.bsky.social · 1d
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
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November 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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mrrexpatrick.bsky.social
@albomp.bsky.social’s #FOI Amendment Bill, the most significant attack on government transparency ever, will likely die quiety in the first sitting week of 2026. His hypocrisy on open government will live on. #auspol
'Gone nowhere': Government criticised as progress fizzles on 'dangerous' reforms
Labor has quietly parked its transparency overhaul as parliament breaks for Christmas.
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November 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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karoline.bsky.social
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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robdelaney.bsky.social
What we’ve wrought in Palestine: www.bbc.com/news/article...
Israel Gaza war: Why I spend hours painstakingly repairing banknotes
Fixing cash is a thriving new business in Gaza after Israel stopped transfers of banknotes and banks were destroyed and looted.
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November 30, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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abbis.bsky.social
"Astonishingly, the textbook companies had invested the equivalent of $567 million in the project, to meet the government’s commitment of $850 million."

At what point are actual monetary costs too high, these days?

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South Korea's Experiment in AI Textbooks Ends in Disaster
The South Korean government's billion-dollar AI textbook initiative has been a complete failure from start to finish.
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November 30, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social
THIS JUST IN: YOU HAVE TO PUT EFFORT IN TO UNDERSTAND A COMPLEX SUBJECT. MORE AT 9
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

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Learning With AI Falls Short Compared to Old-Fashioned Web Search
In virtually all the ways that matter, getting summarized information from AI models was less educational than doing the work of search.
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November 30, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

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Learning With AI Falls Short Compared to Old-Fashioned Web Search
In virtually all the ways that matter, getting summarized information from AI models was less educational than doing the work of search.
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November 30, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
I remember Dawning Realization Month for the NFT people too. Think this is going to take much longer because of how wrapped up the whole economy is in this, but it really feels like it's happening.
roryblank.bsky.social Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 1d
Anecdotally on twitter seeing a big shift the last few days from every AI slop account saying every other creative field is “over” and they’re in control now to now posting about how nobody likes them and it’s not fair and they’ll persevere and real artists respect and uplift eachother
November 30, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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astrokatie.com
The Doctor is right and correct
November 29, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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robdelaney.bsky.social
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
Bong Joon Ho took a characteristically radical approach when questioned on his thoughts around the rise of Al technology at the jury press conference of the Marrakech Film Festival on Saturday. The Korean director, who is president of the jury, gave two responses, one measured, the other deeply personal. "My official answer is, Al is good because it's the very beginning of the human race finally seriously thinking about what only humans can do. But my personal answer is, I'm going to organize a military squad, and their mission is to destroy AI," he said.
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments.

🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
WSJ Gentry Beach, a college friend of Donald Trump Jr. and campaign donor to his father, has been in talks to acquire a stake in a Russian Arctic gas project if it is released from sanctions. Another Trump donor, Stephen P. Lynch, paid $600,000 this year to a lobbyist close to Trump Jr. who is helping him seek a Treasury Department license to buy the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from a Russian state-owned company. One sign that he may be serious is that some of his most-trusted friends, sanctioned billionaires from his St. Petersburg hometown-Gennady Timchenko, Yuri Kovalchuk and the Rotenberg brothers, Boris and Arkady-have sent representatives to quietly meet American companies to explore rare-earth mining and energy deals, according to people familiar with the meetings and European security officials. That includes reviving the giant Nord Stream pipeline, sabotaged by Ukrainian tactical divers, and under European Union sanctions. Earlier this year, Exxon Mobil met with Russia's biggest state energy company, Rosneft, to discuss returning to the massive Sakhalin gas project if Moscow and Washington gave the green light.
November 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Fearless in fine detail: Australia’s best political cartoons 2025 – in pictures
2025 was a year of uncertainty. Fortunately, Australia’s political cartoonists can always be relied upon to distil the messy topics into clear panels. Russ Radcliff curates the finest political cartoo...
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November 29, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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leena.reuben.games
Celebrating a war crime to gloat that you can get away with it while people against the genocide experience further crackdowns on peaceful protest is so ghoulish.

“Social cohesion” my ass.
November 28, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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digthatdata.bsky.social
Taiwan recognized the threat of disinformation from china around 2000-ish and engaged in a society-wide cognitive inoculation strategy that focuses on prebunking and media literacy education.

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Beyond Censorship: Taiwan’s Model for Combating Disinformation — FOREIGN AFFAIRS REVIEW
In today's digital and globalised world, disinformation is a greater threat than ever. In 2024, when major democracies held elections, fears of its impact were especially strong. According to the Co...
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November 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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dennycarter.bsky.social
The markets are staying afloat right now on the hope that AI will destroy American workers. What a bleak thing.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
“A big part of the high stock prices is not a reflection of high future growth,” he said. Rather, it is a sign that A.I. is expected to boost productivity and shrink employment. “The firms all think they’re going to shed a lot of labor, and that’s why the profits will be high,” he said. And while the construction of data centers to power artificial intelligence is fueling economic growth now, these centers, once built, employ skeleton staffs.
November 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
fionakatauskas.bsky.social
True colours- my rampant consumerism cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How does Black Friday show your true colours? | Fiona Katauskas
You’ll probably end up in the red
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November 28, 2025 at 10:51 PM
fionakatauskas.bsky.social
Love this. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Informative, beautiful and deeply human: it’s time to cheer the underrated art of illustration | Oliver Jeffers
We do judge books by their covers. Illustrations spark young imaginations, solve problems, present information - and shape our world, says the children’s author on National Illustration Day
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November 28, 2025 at 6:56 AM