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mr dog
@firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social
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guardian cartoonist - anarcho-marsupialist - lovely fellow - i have written a number of very important books you can buy some of them (also cartoons) here

https://firstdogonthemoon.com.au/shop/
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hope 2026 is not as 2025 as 2025 was
December 31, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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maybe it was the same person who moved a whole hive of gigantic feral bees into the garden
brontelee.bsky.social bronte lee @brontelee.bsky.social · 5d
gee i wonder how this chicken knows to come into the house and beg for food and jump up at you when you get the bag of cheese from the fridge @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social any ideas? 👀
December 29, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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BEES!
brontelee.bsky.social bronte lee @brontelee.bsky.social · 6d
this is a particularly funny joke if you know me irl you know i am already a hermit
December 28, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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The best of: Fiona Katauskas cartoons 2025 | Fiona Katauskas
The best of: Fiona Katauskas cartoons 2025 | Fiona Katauskas
From Trump hype to the new Four Horseman of the Apocalypse, revisit five of the best cartoons from Australian political cartoonist Fiona Katauskas * See more of Fiona Katauskas’s cartoons here Continue reading...
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December 27, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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ooh look everyone i got one of these! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The best of: First Dog on the Moon cartoons 2025 | First Dog on the Moon
From Moo Deng’s birthday to how to leave Spotify, revisit five of the best strips by the Guardian Australia cartoonist
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December 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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merry seasonal whatevers to you
December 25, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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Santa’s making a list but who’s checking it twice? | Fiona Katauskas
Santa’s making a list but who’s checking it twice? | Fiona Katauskas
Not everyone understands the spirit of Christmas * See more of Fiona Katauskas’s cartoons here Continue reading...
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December 23, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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brontelee.bsky.social
finished trimming maple’s face fur (for now) and when she left this guy came and sat down in her spot like “my turn at the spa please!”
December 21, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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Mince pies! Everyone loves mince pies and also Christmas.
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A Christmas message from the First Dog on the Moon Institute | First Dog on the Moon
Yes things are certainly grim all over but let us take a moment
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December 19, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Sport! It's bad don't do it. A cautionary tale. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I got smashed in the face by a cricket ball – a true story about physics and hardened leather (and a cartoonist) | First Dog on the Moon
It was suggested (as a joke?) that I join the local cricket team – what?! Never! But then …
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December 17, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Take a look at @nickfeik.bsky.social 's writings, including and especially this one (pictured).
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There’s a meta version of “stories of powerlessness that are apparently too difficult or niche for a national audience”. It’s called Tasmania. I’ve lost count of the number of stories I’ve encountered in the island state that should have scandalised the nation, but have been met with a shrug by the mainland media. For example, did you know that the Tasmanian government recently paid $75 million in a class action settlement to 129 victims of child sexual abuse at the hands of dozens of government employees in its only youth detention centre? Probably not. Amid the lack of national attention, the Ashley Youth Detention Centre is still open, and this year almost 50% of its detainees reported they’d been victims of abuse. There is now a second class action in train for the many further Ashley victims who missed the first one. The impoverished state has estimated its total liability for child sexual abuse claims at over $600 million. Six. Hundred. Million. Dollars. You cannot tell me that this didn’t deserve national attention, or that they wouldn’t have been leading national bulletins for weeks if they broke in Melbourne or Sydney. Did you know that Tasmania has a functional adult literacy rate of 50%? I’ve written about these and so many other scandals. Local Tasmanian reporters have also written about the horrific environmental impact of the salmon industry; about the clusterfuck of the biggest infrastructure project in the state’s history, the new Spirit of Tasmania vessels; about the dire state of the health system; about the cost of housing and the madness of building an unaffordable AFL stadium, and the ballooning government debt. In terms of ongoing national coverage, though, all of these stories have been outweighed by the annual nude swim that happens in Hobart’s River Derwent during Dark Mofo.
December 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Teen social media ban! Ban teens! Ban social media! Ban bans! All of it now! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Australia’s kids are saved! The social media ban is here and all the teens are outside touching grass | First Dog on the Moon
(Vaping, shoplifting Labubus and getting bullied in person)
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December 10, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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Has the Albo government gone too far this time? Or not far enough? Dan Murphy opening hours www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Algorithms! Robots! Hubris! Is robodebt-style cruelty coming to the NDIS? | First Dog on the Moon
Of course the NDIS ‘costs’ the government a lot of money – but that is what money and governments are for! Spend my taxes on someone who needs it
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December 8, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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brontelee.bsky.social
kiln finally cool enough to unpack and omg i want to keep all these to myself. so many favourites!!

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#pottersaurus #firstdogonthemoon #heysaurus #pottery #ceramics
December 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Cassandra the Information Technology Wobbegong is here to help... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Datacentres – why are they so thirsty? Let’s ask a shark! | First Dog on the Moon
Do we even want or need all these datacentres? That is apparently none of your business
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December 5, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Datacentres – why are they so thirsty? Let’s ask a shark! | First Dog on the Moon
Datacentres – why are they so thirsty? Let’s ask a shark! | First Dog on the Moon
Do we even want or need all these datacentres? That is apparently none of your business * Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published * Get all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints Continue reading...
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December 5, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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Ces emplois sont-ils réservés aux garçons? Dans le contexte économique actuel? Mon Dieu! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Jobs for the boys!? Everyone hates jobs for the boys (except the boys) | First Dog on the Moon
A mystery for the ages
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December 3, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Above board? My cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How does anyone get on a government board these days? | Fiona Katauskas
It helps to have friends in high places
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December 1, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Your brain is supposed to help! And yet... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Who would be a young person? A new terrible study | First Dog on the Moon
We must not let things be this way! Yet while we should do everything to change these things we do not
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December 1, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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Welcome to all the foolish carryings on at the end of the year - here is a cartoon about [insert unpleasant spectacle here] www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What to buy (and not buy) your ungrateful little darlings this festive season | First Dog on the Moon
Black Friday Christmas sale specials holiday vacation savings savings!
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November 28, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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I wasn't going to do a cartoon about this at all but then i found it cost 100 million dollars!!!! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Have you seen the new BoM website? Everyone is so mad about it | First Dog on the Moon
We just want things to work! Why is that too much to ask at the end of the world?
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November 26, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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Do you like knowing what day it is? I certainly do and that's why I own a First Dog on the Moon 2026 Calendar - now every day is full of laughs, poignancy, time is a flat circle - get your 2026 Calendar today! firstdogonthemoon.com.au/shop/preorde...
2026 calendar cover featuring cartoon rocket full of billionaires flying from earth to the sun
November 26, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Drop crocs? Everyone loves First Dog on the Moon's Spoken Cartoons about drop crocs! At least they should anyway it is very jolly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ5x...
Drop crocs!
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November 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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brontelee.bsky.social
the girls were playing chasey without too much murder 🥹 that’s progress!!

#adventuredoodle
November 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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PLATES!!
brontelee.bsky.social bronte lee @brontelee.bsky.social · Nov 21
it’s all happening in the studio tonight!! i’ve got plates in a glaze firing, plates waiting to be bisqued, plates just slipped/waxed and curing before they’re decorated and i’m just about to throw another set of you guessed it PLATES

#pottersaurus #pottery #ceramics #firstdogonthemoon #heysaurus
a small kiln full of plates and gaze tests stacked on kiln shelves 12 decorate plates on 3 shelves waiting to be bisque fired 9 white clay plates sitting on a table with black slip and wax resist applied a pottery wheel with lumps of white clay and accoutrements waiting to make some fresh plates
November 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM