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.
I know everyone must have been busy but oh, would have loved to see footage.
we've got some ICE shit going down in our little town today and it took like three minutes for a convoy of wine moms to start chasing them around town. normies hate this shit and are putting in the work
January 6, 2026 at 11:07 AM
I know everyone must have been busy but oh, would have loved to see footage.
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Australian Industry Group has warned the power grid is not ready for the projected growth in power demands for data centres, and the consequences could be severe for homes and businesses www.afr.com/policy/energ...
‘We are not ready’: Business sounds alarm on data centre power use
Huge power demands by data centres could force industrial businesses to wind back their operations, warns a top business group.
www.afr.com
January 5, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Australian Industry Group has warned the power grid is not ready for the projected growth in power demands for data centres, and the consequences could be severe for homes and businesses www.afr.com/policy/energ...
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every data center you see is a nursery for robots that can kill our children
we should treat them accordingly
we should treat them accordingly
“ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’”
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
A Calif. teen trusted ChatGPT for drug advice. He died from an overdose.
"Who on earth gives that advice?"
www.sfgate.com
January 6, 2026 at 12:16 AM
every data center you see is a nursery for robots that can kill our children
we should treat them accordingly
we should treat them accordingly
Just learned salient doesn't mean relevant, but jutting, jumping out, prominent, because in WW1 that's what the bulges in the line of the Western Front were called. (Not as bad as that time a nice chap replied to my post with the word micturate in it, to say it means weeing not crying.)
January 6, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Just learned salient doesn't mean relevant, but jutting, jumping out, prominent, because in WW1 that's what the bulges in the line of the Western Front were called. (Not as bad as that time a nice chap replied to my post with the word micturate in it, to say it means weeing not crying.)
Great thread from Asher with heat tips for Melbourne here: adding this link for a list of free aircon places for kids & adults in the city. There'll be a lot of pissed people by early evenings so careful how you go & check for idiots passing stopped trams. www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/heatwaves
January 5, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Great thread from Asher with heat tips for Melbourne here: adding this link for a list of free aircon places for kids & adults in the city. There'll be a lot of pissed people by early evenings so careful how you go & check for idiots passing stopped trams. www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/heatwaves
Pregnancy clip art & AI images are mostly wildly inaccurate, and way over-simplified. Routinely, a full-term image is used in a nowhere-near-full-term context. The graphics for this article are shocking.
Improving access to safe abortion care reduces maternal mortality and morbidity, supports gender equality, and contributes to achieving sustainable development goals.
Understanding Abortion Care: WHO Guidelines, Global Health Impact, and Access Challenges
Comprehensive overview of abortion care based on WHO health guidelines. Learn about safe abortion procedures, global statistics, healthcare access barriers, and the impact on maternal health worldwide...
observervoice.com
January 5, 2026 at 2:55 AM
Pregnancy clip art & AI images are mostly wildly inaccurate, and way over-simplified. Routinely, a full-term image is used in a nowhere-near-full-term context. The graphics for this article are shocking.
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I had a Reddit post removed from an “Ask” subreddit because the mods said it could have been answered “by a search engine.”
Have any of them used a search engine lately? Search engines don’t answer shit anymore! They’re all completely enshittified. Why do you think I was on Reddit?
Have any of them used a search engine lately? Search engines don’t answer shit anymore! They’re all completely enshittified. Why do you think I was on Reddit?
January 5, 2026 at 12:02 AM
I had a Reddit post removed from an “Ask” subreddit because the mods said it could have been answered “by a search engine.”
Have any of them used a search engine lately? Search engines don’t answer shit anymore! They’re all completely enshittified. Why do you think I was on Reddit?
Have any of them used a search engine lately? Search engines don’t answer shit anymore! They’re all completely enshittified. Why do you think I was on Reddit?
Breathtaking bullshit & disrespect on socials: AI-generated drivel with tens of thousands of mostly unwitting followers - an AI-created dodgy idea of Aboriginal man, featuring stupid behaviour with snakes and spiders, with invented paint-up marks & necklace, wrong habitats, etc. #PoopTsunami
January 5, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Breathtaking bullshit & disrespect on socials: AI-generated drivel with tens of thousands of mostly unwitting followers - an AI-created dodgy idea of Aboriginal man, featuring stupid behaviour with snakes and spiders, with invented paint-up marks & necklace, wrong habitats, etc. #PoopTsunami
The other brilliant column about 'ordinary' not ordinary things is by Lorin Clarke, in the Big Issue and here. #PublicServiceAnnouncementhttps://www.lorinclarke.com/public-service-announcement/
Big Issue column — Lorin Clarke
www.lorinclarke.com
January 5, 2026 at 1:29 AM
The other brilliant column about 'ordinary' not ordinary things is by Lorin Clarke, in the Big Issue and here. #PublicServiceAnnouncementhttps://www.lorinclarke.com/public-service-announcement/
Very few people can write beautifully about 'ordinary' things that aren't really ordinary at all. Many modern media editors have yet to grasp that it's the how, not just the what, that matters. Rick Morton is the GOAT. rick-morton.ghost.io/surprise-so-...
Surprise So Nice We Did It Twice
The Morton family has never really been good at surprises.
To be surprised meant being the recipient of unscheduled bad news. To wit: a part on the car that none of us previously knew existed is brok...
rick-morton.ghost.io
January 5, 2026 at 12:21 AM
Very few people can write beautifully about 'ordinary' things that aren't really ordinary at all. Many modern media editors have yet to grasp that it's the how, not just the what, that matters. Rick Morton is the GOAT. rick-morton.ghost.io/surprise-so-...
People coming to argue with each other in my replies about the uses of AI that I wasn't referring to (which is 'creating' bad cartoons & illustrations) can untag me from the fracas, please and thank you.
January 4, 2026 at 2:57 AM
People coming to argue with each other in my replies about the uses of AI that I wasn't referring to (which is 'creating' bad cartoons & illustrations) can untag me from the fracas, please and thank you.
Really sorry to see the Heard Island penguin government using environmental vandal AI to extrude shithouse 'cartoons'. Unfollowing.
January 4, 2026 at 1:07 AM
Really sorry to see the Heard Island penguin government using environmental vandal AI to extrude shithouse 'cartoons'. Unfollowing.
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I do not want my country Australia to be an ally with the US, I didn’t before and more than ever I don’t now.
January 3, 2026 at 10:31 AM
I do not want my country Australia to be an ally with the US, I didn’t before and more than ever I don’t now.
Search engines. Whaddayagonnado?
January 3, 2026 at 9:53 AM
Search engines. Whaddayagonnado?
The 'new' BOM app/site draws our attention to an obscuring overlay with an exclamation mark but there are no (0) warnings. Then lists forecast temperatures BEFORE their description: the bolded 32 appears after the words 'Overnight minimum'. I mean, how basic is this stuff? Don't mention the radar.
January 2, 2026 at 7:36 AM
The 'new' BOM app/site draws our attention to an obscuring overlay with an exclamation mark but there are no (0) warnings. Then lists forecast temperatures BEFORE their description: the bolded 32 appears after the words 'Overnight minimum'. I mean, how basic is this stuff? Don't mention the radar.
Fill your boots.
Pardon me if I add the streaming link to your post
iview.abc.net.au/show/but-als...
iview.abc.net.au/show/but-als...
But Also John Clarke
John Clarke, Australia and NZ's defining satirist, is revealed through candid talks with his daughter Lorin. This tribute explores his defiance, move to Australia, and four decades of comedy, blending...
iview.abc.net.au
January 2, 2026 at 1:48 AM
Fill your boots.
There's a breed of very pompous middle-aged man reporters who get very cross when their commentary is reliably wrong and/or makes no difference to anything. They thought they'd be more powerful & influential by now & finding out they're not makes them very hormonal.
Be aware - pretty much everyone in the press gallery calling for a Royal Commission into antisemitism is doing it because they are completely annoyed the government is not "listen to meeeeeeeeee".
January 2, 2026 at 1:48 AM
There's a breed of very pompous middle-aged man reporters who get very cross when their commentary is reliably wrong and/or makes no difference to anything. They thought they'd be more powerful & influential by now & finding out they're not makes them very hormonal.
Google posts crappy, useless AI image of giant yarn 'knitting' on small metal screws. Because who cares about anything at all, right? Why not just have a pile of poo everywhere a talented human's illustration could be; at least it would use less water.
huh so Google is kicking off the new year by pissing off knitters that’s fun
January 2, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Google posts crappy, useless AI image of giant yarn 'knitting' on small metal screws. Because who cares about anything at all, right? Why not just have a pile of poo everywhere a talented human's illustration could be; at least it would use less water.
Let's break ABCTV's ratings at 7.30 tonight (or on iView). Don't miss Lorin Clarke's doco about John Clarke, which is, as he was, very clever, reflective, insightful, nuanced, surprising, funny and entirely necessary. #ClarkeFamilyProject
January 2, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Let's break ABCTV's ratings at 7.30 tonight (or on iView). Don't miss Lorin Clarke's doco about John Clarke, which is, as he was, very clever, reflective, insightful, nuanced, surprising, funny and entirely necessary. #ClarkeFamilyProject
Melbourne & Geelong facing likely water restrictions means Victorian councils should reject all new AI-fiddling & other private data centres which use vast amounts of water for no good reason. We need our trees & gardens.
January 1, 2026 at 6:41 AM
Melbourne & Geelong facing likely water restrictions means Victorian councils should reject all new AI-fiddling & other private data centres which use vast amounts of water for no good reason. We need our trees & gardens.
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Nellie Bly A pioneering journalist who went undercover to expose abuse in a mental asylum. Going as far as having a Dr. declare her insane & committed to Blackwell’s Island, exposing abuse inside it. Her reporting forced reforms & changed journalism. #WomenInHistory #MAHistory
tinyurl.com/24by4nn3
tinyurl.com/24by4nn3
December 31, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Nellie Bly A pioneering journalist who went undercover to expose abuse in a mental asylum. Going as far as having a Dr. declare her insane & committed to Blackwell’s Island, exposing abuse inside it. Her reporting forced reforms & changed journalism. #WomenInHistory #MAHistory
tinyurl.com/24by4nn3
tinyurl.com/24by4nn3
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Roses are red
It’s almost New Year
It’s almost New Year
December 30, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Roses are red
It’s almost New Year
It’s almost New Year
Well I guess generating multi-limbed white fantasy-tradwife images is why Melbourne/Victorian citizens are soon predicted to lose their gardens to severe water restrictions because of 'thirsty' data storage & generation centres including AI enshittification hubs.
"I feel much prettier and more productive and efficient now, but I have no healthcare and I can't afford my rent"
"Also I am AI-generated and I have a third hand"
"Also I am AI-generated and I have a third hand"
December 29, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Well I guess generating multi-limbed white fantasy-tradwife images is why Melbourne/Victorian citizens are soon predicted to lose their gardens to severe water restrictions because of 'thirsty' data storage & generation centres including AI enshittification hubs.
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The perfect gift…
December 28, 2025 at 5:36 AM
The perfect gift…
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December 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The world needs more science journalists, especially those with mad skills and ethics training. All that is provided for free by @theopennotebook.bsky.social, but we need your help. Join me in donating to support these amazing resources: www.theopennotebook.com/15thannivers...