Stuart McMillen
@stuartmcmillen.bsky.social
Australian comics artist. Idiosyncratic science communicator. Comics about society and the environment. Queenslander in Canberra. Working on my debut graphic novel "The Town Without Television"
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Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.
October 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.
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Shot this a few years ago but Steve and the video shop are still there!
Oh My God! Adelaide still has an actual video store! DMG had a chat to Steve Zivkovic amongst the physical media at Galactic Video/DVD. Check them out at 102 Gawler Place in the CBD #vhs
October 23, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Shot this a few years ago but Steve and the video shop are still there!
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This is fucking insane. I know we have other stuff on but I feel like this is something the UN could sort out if they put their minds to it.
October 13, 2025 at 11:29 PM
This is fucking insane. I know we have other stuff on but I feel like this is something the UN could sort out if they put their minds to it.
“AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations” - Cory Doctorow
futurism.com/future-socie...
futurism.com/future-socie...
Cory Doctorow Says the AI Industry Is About to Collapse
Famed sci-fi author and tech journalist Cory Doctorow has a spectacularly grim warning about the coming AI-fueled economic disaster.
futurism.com
October 7, 2025 at 5:42 AM
“AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations” - Cory Doctorow
futurism.com/future-socie...
futurism.com/future-socie...
Just cast my first vote in Round 1 of #BirdoftheYear @australia.theguardian.com for the mighty Bush Stone-Curlew www.theguardian.com/environment/... So many great choices
Australian bird of the year 2025: vote for your favourite #birdoftheyear in the Guardian / BirdLife Australia poll
From little penguins to (very big) cassowaries, every bird has its fans. Vote for your favourite in the 2025 Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll
www.theguardian.com
October 6, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Just cast my first vote in Round 1 of #BirdoftheYear @australia.theguardian.com for the mighty Bush Stone-Curlew www.theguardian.com/environment/... So many great choices
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This is so good from Cory Doctorow on all the tricks Amazon uses to get both consumers to pay more, and how businesses on the platform end up paying it 45-51 cents on every dollar.
Plus he rightly calls for regulatory change, not just individual consumer action
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Plus he rightly calls for regulatory change, not just individual consumer action
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?
Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...
www.theguardian.com
October 5, 2025 at 8:19 AM
This is so good from Cory Doctorow on all the tricks Amazon uses to get both consumers to pay more, and how businesses on the platform end up paying it 45-51 cents on every dollar.
Plus he rightly calls for regulatory change, not just individual consumer action
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Plus he rightly calls for regulatory change, not just individual consumer action
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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My drawn statement on Ai as standalone from my now finished minicomic as syllabus for new liberal studies class! As promised this is shareable, printable - all from my site, feel free to make use of it, cite me & let me know how it’s received. Share away all here! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...
August 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
My drawn statement on Ai as standalone from my now finished minicomic as syllabus for new liberal studies class! As promised this is shareable, printable - all from my site, feel free to make use of it, cite me & let me know how it’s received. Share away all here! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...
Really enjoyed hearing Campbell Walker ('Struthless') talking to Wil Anderson on his Wilosophy podcast. everyonerelax.co/wilosophy/wi... #Wilosophy #EveryoneRelax #Struthless
You can tell that they really enjoyed each other's company.
You can tell that they really enjoyed each other's company.
July 18, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Really enjoyed hearing Campbell Walker ('Struthless') talking to Wil Anderson on his Wilosophy podcast. everyonerelax.co/wilosophy/wi... #Wilosophy #EveryoneRelax #Struthless
You can tell that they really enjoyed each other's company.
You can tell that they really enjoyed each other's company.
Nice piece about the patronising tone that many take when talking to older people.
Let's drop the false brightness www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Let's drop the false brightness www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Why was this stranger calling me sweetheart? The benevolent ageism of ‘elderspeak’
It wasn’t the first time Marcia van Zeller had been treated as someone in need of a lap rug and a cup of hot cocoa. But well-intended words can still sting
www.theguardian.com
July 7, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Nice piece about the patronising tone that many take when talking to older people.
Let's drop the false brightness www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Let's drop the false brightness www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Happy 10th Birthday to the polarizing New Yorker cover: Chris Ware’s ‘Playdate’ and Visual Allegory by Ken Parille www.tcj.com/chris-wares-...
Chris Ware’s 'Playdate' and Visual Allegory - The Comics Journal
A New Yorker cover by Chris Ware has a lot to say about a lot of things.
www.tcj.com
July 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Happy 10th Birthday to the polarizing New Yorker cover: Chris Ware’s ‘Playdate’ and Visual Allegory by Ken Parille www.tcj.com/chris-wares-...
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INCREDIBLE !!
Here we are... 😱😱😱
After days of overloading and cracks propagating, Birch Glacier collapsed today at 3.24 pm over Blatten and the dammed Lonza river...
Devastating! 😭
www.letemps.ch/suisse/valai...
Here we are... 😱😱😱
After days of overloading and cracks propagating, Birch Glacier collapsed today at 3.24 pm over Blatten and the dammed Lonza river...
Devastating! 😭
www.letemps.ch/suisse/valai...
May 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
INCREDIBLE !!
Here we are... 😱😱😱
After days of overloading and cracks propagating, Birch Glacier collapsed today at 3.24 pm over Blatten and the dammed Lonza river...
Devastating! 😭
www.letemps.ch/suisse/valai...
Here we are... 😱😱😱
After days of overloading and cracks propagating, Birch Glacier collapsed today at 3.24 pm over Blatten and the dammed Lonza river...
Devastating! 😭
www.letemps.ch/suisse/valai...
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Think you might one day have $3m in your super & be affected by the super tax changes?
Ok, you are 18yo, you just got a job - it pays... $150k!
Give yourself a 3.7% annual pay rise.
Never take time off for study, kids or illness.
You will retire with $3,017,016
moneysmart.gov.au/how-super-wo...
Ok, you are 18yo, you just got a job - it pays... $150k!
Give yourself a 3.7% annual pay rise.
Never take time off for study, kids or illness.
You will retire with $3,017,016
moneysmart.gov.au/how-super-wo...
May 23, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Think you might one day have $3m in your super & be affected by the super tax changes?
Ok, you are 18yo, you just got a job - it pays... $150k!
Give yourself a 3.7% annual pay rise.
Never take time off for study, kids or illness.
You will retire with $3,017,016
moneysmart.gov.au/how-super-wo...
Ok, you are 18yo, you just got a job - it pays... $150k!
Give yourself a 3.7% annual pay rise.
Never take time off for study, kids or illness.
You will retire with $3,017,016
moneysmart.gov.au/how-super-wo...
May 3, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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the iPhone is usually the *iconic* example of global supply chains, so much so that it anchors this great @stuartmcmillen.bsky.social comic, which I have used recently as a teaching tool!
www.stuartmcmillen.com/blog/behind-...
www.stuartmcmillen.com/blog/behind-...
April 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
the iPhone is usually the *iconic* example of global supply chains, so much so that it anchors this great @stuartmcmillen.bsky.social comic, which I have used recently as a teaching tool!
www.stuartmcmillen.com/blog/behind-...
www.stuartmcmillen.com/blog/behind-...
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Dutton wants to work remotely if he gets the job
March 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Dutton wants to work remotely if he gets the job
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Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.
Elon Musk’s Starlink Expands Across White House Complex
Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office.
www.nytimes.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.
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Suddenly, and not accidentally, people who work for the American federal government are having the same experience as people who find themselves living under foreign occupation.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing
How regime change happens in America
www.theatlantic.com
February 19, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Suddenly, and not accidentally, people who work for the American federal government are having the same experience as people who find themselves living under foreign occupation.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Bummed by #Instagram changing their longstanding square grid into vertical rectagles. Way to show disdain for your users.
Before / after screenshots.
Before / after screenshots.
February 14, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Bummed by #Instagram changing their longstanding square grid into vertical rectagles. Way to show disdain for your users.
Before / after screenshots.
Before / after screenshots.
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Assuming we make it through the next couple of decades, this will be an incredible image for future historians/students of the Trump era
January 30, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Assuming we make it through the next couple of decades, this will be an incredible image for future historians/students of the Trump era
January 30, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Shadow.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
December 16, 2024 at 8:53 PM
Shadow.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
Had a great time at the Australian Cartoonists Association annual Stanley Conference in Canberra. Priceless to be among fellow creatives
December 1, 2024 at 10:45 AM
Had a great time at the Australian Cartoonists Association annual Stanley Conference in Canberra. Priceless to be among fellow creatives
A cartooning history tour organised by @elerimai.bsky.social as part of the Australian Cartoonists Association weekend in Canberra. An app showed relevant political cartoons to our locations
December 1, 2024 at 10:42 AM
A cartooning history tour organised by @elerimai.bsky.social as part of the Australian Cartoonists Association weekend in Canberra. An app showed relevant political cartoons to our locations
The mighty Read to Me (live comics performances) came to Canberra on Friday! Bravo.
December 1, 2024 at 10:39 AM
The mighty Read to Me (live comics performances) came to Canberra on Friday! Bravo.