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Dirk Flinthart
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Writer. Reader. Gamer. Parent. Instructor. Drinker.

Ya, whatever.
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Ridiculously bad watercolour entitled 'Rainy Day'. Depicts a blue quilt on a bed, with two feet sticking out from under it. A red book lies open on the bed. On a near table is a glass of red wine. A tabby cat is curled up asleep on the floor at the foot of the bed.
November 13, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Trump and Putin shaking hands in front of flags. Caption says "Putin grabbing America by the pussy."
August 17, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Ninja Turtles! It was only a matter of time...
Picture of a turtle, with a Popular Mechanics article headline above. The headline states "Scientists Just Found 41,000 Turtles Hiding In Plain Sight."
August 15, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Image of a black van with I.C.E written on the side. Two men in black body armour and black balaclava masks get out, each carrying an automatic rifle. In the foreground is a person wearing hundreds of sheets of paper with what looks like print on it, like the pages of a book. The person is entirely covered by the paper. One of the men in black says "I don't see anything." Caption below says Clever Migrant wears the Epstein Files to Hide from Trump Administration.
August 12, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Acceptable Uses For AI
AI generated image of a brick building with concrete steps. There is a sign upper right in the Sesame Street colours and font which says: "Unexpected Guests on Sesame Street" Standing in front of the building with a sawn-off shotgun in his hand and a wary expression is the character Ash from the Evil Dead movies, played by actor Bruce Campbell. Lunging towards him are horribly twisted Evil Dead versions of the famous muppets Elmo and Grover. This cannot possibly end well...
July 30, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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I have no comments. None. At. All.
It's a poster featuring faces of Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter. They're in a production of "Waiting For Godot" together.... for fuck's sake. Samuel Beckett is spinning in his grave.
July 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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This is the most bleakly hilarious thing I have ever seen. The 'anime woman' is a Grok-generated "waifu" interface, and it is interacting with the AI "Claude" on the other telephone.

I'm crying with laughter. I have never seen such perfectly meaningless emptiness before.
July 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Quick! Somebody set up a Kickstarter! Can we get Patrick Stewart to reprise his role as Professor X? Every Muppet movie needs its Token Human...
Headline says The X-Men Sequel We All Deserve. Image shows two famous muppets, Animal and Beaker. Animal's hair is styled like Wolverine from the X-Men, and he has a costume and the iconic Wolverine claws. Beaker wears a black and yellow superhero costume, and wears the Ruby Visor that Cyclops of the X-men wears. And I would WATCH THE SHIT out of this movie. Especially if they put Patrick Steward in as the Token Human to reprise his role as Professor X
July 10, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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Winter arrived while I wasn't watching. These mountains are about 15 minutes drive from where I live...
Low mountain range with ominous clouds and snow across the peaks. Unusual because it's in Australia...
June 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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Because your car needs to smell Moe like LIZARD!!!
Lizard shaped car air freshener in sealed packet hanging on a hook in store
June 24, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Cup of half-drunk coffee held in a right hand, over a saucyer held in a left. Words 'Good Morning' above them. Text box insert below says: "Someone Australian summed it up nicely -- 'fuck I'm glad we got the convicts and they got the Puritans' ".
June 23, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Cartoon depicts Trump sitting opposite Putin over a chessboard. The game has yet to begin. Putin is playing white. Trump is fielding a mixture of children's toys and popular action figures...
March 19, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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On the electricity pole outside my house this afternoon.
A photo of a ladybird beetle -- bright, glossy, orange and black, curvy, cute, against a backdrop of grey wood marked by straight, vertical grain lines.
March 13, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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A single-panel cartoon. It depicts two large, science-fiction machines, one of which looks like a portal of swirling energies. A man stands in front of the portal, as if he has just stepped out. He is dressed for the 19th century and has a moustache. Another man in shirtsleeves addresses him with excitement, saying "Your time machine works, Nikola Tesla! And what is the future like? Is your name associated only with your groundbreaking achievements?" Nikola Tesla looks very, very sad and downcast.
March 12, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Fortunately, there are still some Australian political figures who remember what it means to be Australian.
Picture of Western Australian Premier Roger Cook on stage. During a TV show, he was asked to complete the sentence: J D Vance is a... And he finished the sentence with "Knob."
March 4, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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Picture of a MapQuest map, showing the Gulf of Mexico, but renamed "Gulf of Zelenskyy's Massive Balls". An amusing response to that fucking moron Trump and his attempt to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. In the wake of Zelenskyy's meeting with dickhead Trump, and Zelenskyy's delivery of some simple home truths to that orange blob of cheap lard substitute, it's a pretty funny image -- and entirely appropriate. Slava Ukraine!
March 2, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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I believe this quote is engraved on the walls of the US Supreme Court. Might be of interest in the light of a recent "executive order" asserting otherwise. US folks -- you need to find a lawman with the stones to arrest your fat orange fake in the White House.
An image of a quote incised on a marble tile. The words are lettered in gold leaf. The tile is on the wall of the US Supreme Court. The quote is: "It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is." It includes a legal references, as follows: Marbury v. Madison, 1803. The President doesn't get to interpret the law. Simple as that.
February 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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I love this. Whoever created the nickname -- take a bow.

Temu Trump! Share the love, people!
Image of Peter Dutton against a yellow background. The caption above says "Australians need real policies that address real issues. We don't need half-baked cosplay from a 'Temu Trump' "
February 2, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Grace Tame FTW!
Ex Australian Of The Year Grace Tame meeting the current Australian Prime Minister and a couple of minions. Grace wears a T-shirt printed with "FUCK Murdoch".
January 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Captain America explains to a reporter that punching Nazis is not mindless violence... It's violence against the mindless!
January 22, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Hydrogen, helium, male, female...
January 21, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Image of a man working on a grille set into a metal duct. Caption says "This Christmas Eve, don't forget to leave cigarettes, shoes, Twinkies, and a Beretta 92 in the ductwork for John McClane."
November 25, 2023 at 11:06 PM
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Lose weight now! Ask me how.
A hospital room. A tray holds a cube of orange jelly with a spoon in it, a paper cup of tea, and a small bottle of lemonade. A vase of forlorn white flowers stands behind. This is the hospital clear fluids diet... except you mustn't eat the flowers, no matter how hungry you get.
September 30, 2023 at 7:54 AM
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Today I heard one of my chickens squealing in pain...
Photo of an egg carton, open. In it one can see nine eggs, fresh-laid if the bits of feather are anything to judge by. In the middle, a single enormous egg towers silently over the others... brooding... judging... One of my chickens must be in pain.
September 26, 2023 at 9:53 AM
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I would watch the hell out of this. I would need SO much popcorn...
The 11-year-old came up with a TV pitch that is stone cold genius: A reality show in the vein of The Amazing Race, that follows a group of Flat Earthers trying to travel to the edge of the world.
September 24, 2023 at 1:40 PM