Kaz Cooke
@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.
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.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
Troubadours assemble, and gesture unmannerly at this knave with your mandolins until he hath an original idea & divines that cunning ingenious is not bestowable by infernal machinery.
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Troubadours assemble, and gesture unmannerly at this knave with your mandolins until he hath an original idea & divines that cunning ingenious is not bestowable by infernal machinery.
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A manuscript isn't ready to be shown to a potential publisher until you've done a thorough edit, double-checked your facts, abandoned your family, shunned all friendships, and offered a suitable blood sacrifice to the demon librarians that curate the Library of Forgotten Authors
November 26, 2025 at 9:22 AM
A manuscript isn't ready to be shown to a potential publisher until you've done a thorough edit, double-checked your facts, abandoned your family, shunned all friendships, and offered a suitable blood sacrifice to the demon librarians that curate the Library of Forgotten Authors
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Found AI's number one Australian fan. This is real. I'm not going to explain how I came by it. @ketanjoshi.co and @timinclimate.bsky.social will love* it.
November 27, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Found AI's number one Australian fan. This is real. I'm not going to explain how I came by it. @ketanjoshi.co and @timinclimate.bsky.social will love* it.
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Utter gobbledegook in response to whether jobs are being cut at SLV — so will there be less reference librarians or not? Or are they being ‘redeployed’? How exactly are their jobs being ‘reshaped’?
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November 27, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Utter gobbledegook in response to whether jobs are being cut at SLV — so will there be less reference librarians or not? Or are they being ‘redeployed’? How exactly are their jobs being ‘reshaped’?
@crikey.com.au @theshot.net.au @beneltham.bsky.social @kazcooke.bsky.social
@crikey.com.au @theshot.net.au @beneltham.bsky.social @kazcooke.bsky.social
Just give it straight. Vaccine skeptics don't need sarcasm. Excellent studies of millions of children over decades show no link whatsoever between vaccines & autism, asthma or other chronic health conditions. They do show an extra protective effect in general health as well as against diseases.
November 26, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Just give it straight. Vaccine skeptics don't need sarcasm. Excellent studies of millions of children over decades show no link whatsoever between vaccines & autism, asthma or other chronic health conditions. They do show an extra protective effect in general health as well as against diseases.
I'm really enjoying the Festival of Pococks Making Sense.
How ludicrous for Labor to cut $5 billion in public services during a cost of living crisis. Every six months the government pays around $5b in Fuel Tax Credits to mining corporations to burn fossil fuels. If Labor is going to cut spending, cut handouts to fossil fuel barons.
November 26, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I'm really enjoying the Festival of Pococks Making Sense.
This sets out the clear, bullet-point agreed plan that, if funded by Australian governments, would stop most ongoing family violence & make women & children way safer. Governments choose not to, while spending $60m on PNG men's rugby, $96m on crap BOMsite, millions on dicky consultants, etc.
Australia knows how to end gender-based violence. What we lack is the political will to make the fiscal decisions that match the crisis, writes Katherine Berney.
womensagenda.com.au/latest/austr...
womensagenda.com.au/latest/austr...
Australia knows how to end violence against women. What we lack is the will to pay for it.
Australia knows how to end gender-based violence. What we lack is the political will to make the fiscal decisions that match the crisis.
womensagenda.com.au
November 26, 2025 at 12:21 AM
This sets out the clear, bullet-point agreed plan that, if funded by Australian governments, would stop most ongoing family violence & make women & children way safer. Governments choose not to, while spending $60m on PNG men's rugby, $96m on crap BOMsite, millions on dicky consultants, etc.
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You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
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Alternative caption: 'Here's a video of selfish dickheads annoying a wild sea creature'.
November 25, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Alternative caption: 'Here's a video of selfish dickheads annoying a wild sea creature'.
I guess RFK Jnr is sure glad a media groupie's description of his eye-colour in Vanity Fair is getting more attention than his obsessive, unhinged dismantling of protections to keep American children alive. And #ReleaseALLtheEpsteinfiles
November 24, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I guess RFK Jnr is sure glad a media groupie's description of his eye-colour in Vanity Fair is getting more attention than his obsessive, unhinged dismantling of protections to keep American children alive. And #ReleaseALLtheEpsteinfiles
The New York Times displays not so much a grasp of the Australian constitution & culture ... as a leap in the wrong direction while pirouetting and clutching at straws. Robert Irwin is too nice to mention it, I'm sure.
November 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
The New York Times displays not so much a grasp of the Australian constitution & culture ... as a leap in the wrong direction while pirouetting and clutching at straws. Robert Irwin is too nice to mention it, I'm sure.
So ... a dangerous abuser accuses his partner or ex-partner of a violent crime (this is common) & get the cops to charge her, usual delays until it's dropped/heard and now the govt will cut off the accused's entitlements, making her - & her children - wholly dependent on her abuser? Get out of it.
New: 100+ legal experts, welfare groups & academics demand the Minister bin an amendment, allowing police to cancel welfare payments for people who have not been found guilty of any crime
@tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social is trying to ram this amendment through today
Read more: archive.is/UHu9J
@tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social is trying to ram this amendment through today
Read more: archive.is/UHu9J
November 24, 2025 at 7:28 AM
So ... a dangerous abuser accuses his partner or ex-partner of a violent crime (this is common) & get the cops to charge her, usual delays until it's dropped/heard and now the govt will cut off the accused's entitlements, making her - & her children - wholly dependent on her abuser? Get out of it.
Please read this & help save the State Library of Victoria, entering its 'now fully trashed' era. I didn't go to uni - for me the Library was higher education in later life, research for my job, a revelation about what ordinary people could have access to. It changed my life. Not just a building.
The State Library of Victoria’s ‘major’ proposed cuts include slashing the number of reference librarians and free computers for public access. Some staff are shocked.
Proposed cuts at State Library of Victoria go against its mission – and will hurt the disadvantaged
theconversation.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Please read this & help save the State Library of Victoria, entering its 'now fully trashed' era. I didn't go to uni - for me the Library was higher education in later life, research for my job, a revelation about what ordinary people could have access to. It changed my life. Not just a building.
'Some staff are shocked?' ALL recently forced out staff, & the few experts left, everyone who isn't in the questionable senior management tier knows that the State Library in Melbourne is teetering on the brink of irreparable disaster & the end of this iconic Library as we know it. Inquiry now.
The State Library of Victoria’s ‘major’ proposed cuts include slashing the number of reference librarians and free computers for public access. Some staff are shocked.
Proposed cuts at State Library of Victoria go against its mission – and will hurt the disadvantaged
theconversation.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:31 AM
'Some staff are shocked?' ALL recently forced out staff, & the few experts left, everyone who isn't in the questionable senior management tier knows that the State Library in Melbourne is teetering on the brink of irreparable disaster & the end of this iconic Library as we know it. Inquiry now.
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It’s been too long since I’ve been on Noongar boodjar! I’m here as a guest speaker at a special event to honour Aunty Prof Marion Kickett, Noongar Elder and author of the Meanjin Paper in the current edition: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/professor-...
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 AM
It’s been too long since I’ve been on Noongar boodjar! I’m here as a guest speaker at a special event to honour Aunty Prof Marion Kickett, Noongar Elder and author of the Meanjin Paper in the current edition: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/professor-...
Another AI fool advocating on neo-Nazi platform (formerly Twitter) for psychosis, the end of informed democracy & miserable worldwide social chaos, for billionaire laffs. I say unto him, take your Nano Banana Pro and shove it sideways up your hideous digital jacksie.
November 24, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Another AI fool advocating on neo-Nazi platform (formerly Twitter) for psychosis, the end of informed democracy & miserable worldwide social chaos, for billionaire laffs. I say unto him, take your Nano Banana Pro and shove it sideways up your hideous digital jacksie.
I've mortifyingly misspelled the Vic Premier's name in some emailed info to people on how to email her about the crisis at the State Library. It should be [email protected]. So cross at self. Not cut out for activism. I'm now going to hide in the linen cupboard.
November 24, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I've mortifyingly misspelled the Vic Premier's name in some emailed info to people on how to email her about the crisis at the State Library. It should be [email protected]. So cross at self. Not cut out for activism. I'm now going to hide in the linen cupboard.
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I was crossing the road today at a pedestrian crossing. The lights were red & a sports car with the roof down stopped. As I was crossing he kept revving his car & so when I was level with him I looked him in the eye & said 'You cunt!'. The look on his face 😂 I'm 5'2", white haired & 65 years old😂
November 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I was crossing the road today at a pedestrian crossing. The lights were red & a sports car with the roof down stopped. As I was crossing he kept revving his car & so when I was level with him I looked him in the eye & said 'You cunt!'. The look on his face 😂 I'm 5'2", white haired & 65 years old😂
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If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
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Twitter implemented a new feature last night that displayed the country an account is in. So many of the ‘America First’ accounts were from foreign countries that they had to disable the feature within hours. 🙄
November 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Twitter implemented a new feature last night that displayed the country an account is in. So many of the ‘America First’ accounts were from foreign countries that they had to disable the feature within hours. 🙄
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Reading this as a historian of a period when women regularly wrote farewell letters to their families before giving birth because they knew how dangerous it was, and knowing how grateful they would have been for reliable medical care and medicine, makes me want to scream in frustration
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
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November 23, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Reading this as a historian of a period when women regularly wrote farewell letters to their families before giving birth because they knew how dangerous it was, and knowing how grateful they would have been for reliable medical care and medicine, makes me want to scream in frustration
I'm posting this for the men who don't think this happens ALL the TIME to women who don't behave like their unpaid life facilitators for unrecognised genie-arses or against-all-odds enthusiasm-programmed sex robot accosted by a stranger.
Rejected a short story submission and the guy wrote me back, "Suck me off, bitches." It is a glamorous life, I tell you.
November 23, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I'm posting this for the men who don't think this happens ALL the TIME to women who don't behave like their unpaid life facilitators for unrecognised genie-arses or against-all-odds enthusiasm-programmed sex robot accosted by a stranger.