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Fiona Katauskas

@fionakatauskas.bsky.social
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Freelance cartoonist , political junkie, best-selling author of The Amazing True Story of How Babies Are Made. Sweary. Gadigal Country. Australia

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Maj @lif3asmaj.blacksky.app · 7h
I just saw someone refer to Kid Rock as Jesus of Methlehem.
Tom Holland looking at his phone with his fist to his mouth in a oooof motion.
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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 7h
Following my reporting in August the privacy commissioner is launching an investigation into the app maker behind the Kmart glasses. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Privacy regulator launches probe into China-based company behind Kmart ‘pervert glasses’ app
Commissioner said Shenzhen Qingcheng, the app maker behind the HeyCyan app in the smartglasses, failed to respond to her inquiries
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 18h
https://www.instagram.com/goattoself?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&stkn=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 7h
Truly can not understand anyone getting excited about a new phone release anymore. Who is paying up to $4,000 for a phone that does the same thing as your current phone? Who’s paying that much for more AI to track you and make everything (including yourself) a bit more useless?
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 8h
*Lloyd Cole voice* She looks like Eva Marie Saint / in On The Waterfront
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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 8h
Turns out that Liam Hogan Thought on meritocracy was revealing
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Dee Madigan @deemadigan.bsky.social · 20h
One Nation says AI is coming for Australian jobs then used AI to make their campaign video.
They didn’t hire an Aussie videographer or Aussie editor or Aussie actors.
Turns out it’s only ‘Australian jobs first’ when One Nation doesn’t have to pay.
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Dave Whamond @davewhamond.bsky.social · 9h
Where we are now:
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 23h
"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 21h
Watching #70Up 😭😭😭
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Glengyron @glengyron.bsky.social · 23h
Yup, everyone read Elle's book. It's basically a look under the hood of what drives MAGA style populism around the world.
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: on the set of the Jerry Springer show, a man sits in a chair. Jerry signals off-stage and says, “we have with us: your ancestor who crawled out of the ocean 375 million years ago!” Panel 2: the live studio audience is booing. Panel 3: security attempts to break up a fight between the man on stage, and his ancestor, a tiktaalik.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I hate gay Halloween, what do you mean you’re a corporate teletubbie recording and storing all the personal details of my life on behalf of an AI-smitten friend www.wired.com/story/muse-c...
wired.com
Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Found the perfect screengrab to use the next time someone tries to tell me I’m missing out on important discourse by not using Elon Musk’s mircoblog site
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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 05/10/2026
There is a bleak sort of pleasure in telling people who bring up AI in casual conversation, “Actually, I’m one of the authors AI stole from. Not an exaggeration. The judge ordered them to send me a check.” It hits them different when it’s a real person saying it.
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Anita All Along @itsanita.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Educational institutions will do literally anything to solve the teaching shortage crisis except for protect teachers: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
abc.net.au
'It's relentless': The AI robot preparing teachers for school conflict
La Trobe University is preparing student teachers with an AI-trained robot called Fletch that has learned common gripes from parents.
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rowecartoon.bsky.social @rowecartoon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
coalition cuts..
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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This post won't necessarily make me popular, but I wrote it anyway. in-between-days.ghost.io/zionism-is-a...
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Zionism is ... a shibboleth
And, once again, material politics melts into air... Argh. I'm so unsurprised. But I'm still so disappointed. Left populism, if not directed with great care and passion towards material campaigning...
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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“Australia is one of the world’s top fossil fuel exporters, selling about 89% of black coal and 74% of gas extracted here. It is a net exporter of climate disruption.” #FossilFuel induced #ClimateChange #Auspol
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Welton B. Marsland @wbmarsland.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Robin Ince linked to a fabulous piece of writing from 2001 earlier: bsky.app/profile/robi...
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Jo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Isn't that sweet? One Rinehart subsidiary purchases a building for the use of another Rinehart subsidary.
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Australia’s education system is utterly inequitable with poor schools punished rather than given the extra help they need. It’s bizarre how widely this is accepted by society and politicians
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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I can contribute to this discourse…
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Megan Herbert @meganjherbert.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just wrote an actual physical letter to the ATO **via snail mail** after literal weeks trying to reach them by phone, being kept on hold for hours, then summarily hung up on. TAKE THAT AI, I guess
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sitting in a hospital (I’m all good), but wondering which 2/3 of the staff here, that are almost all from overseas wouldn’t be let into the country under the opposition’s immigration cuts.
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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 06/10/2026
Property prices are up 78% since 2020, so the decline to date has erased only one year of gains. And it’s made the market more affordable for first-home buyers.
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This chart tells you everything you need to know about the downturn in property prices
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
@claybennett.bsky.social
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Daniel Hurst @danielhurst.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
No www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman
Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver
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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Forget the spin from Australia's body politic and Labor in particular about the climate catastrophe Listen to those in the Pacific who can see Australia's hypocrisy Vote with the understanding that we are also victims of the same ideology and deceit Unbelievable thepoint.com.au/opinions/261...
thepoint.com.au
Saving the islands and world climate urgency: Less COPs, actions now, stop fossil fuels
Climate integrity is a topic that seems to have been buried by other inhumane priorities, yet is so fundamental to our human existence. Indeed, climate integrity seems to be in very short supply. It i...
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Pen, watercolor, black & white charcoal pencil.

Another featured piece from the Spooky Pants book.

A man in a sweater stands with his hands on his hips looking out of a large window with the curtains open. Things aren’t looking good outside, reader. A massive winged demon is emerging from the clouds as dozens of little ghosts and bone demons rip through the sky. On the ground below we see townsfolk running through the grass. Our man in the window is in no mood for this. He lets us know, “Oh, I am in no mood for this.” His dog looks out the window as well, wagging its tail. 

Fantasia (1940) inspired drawing. I think I could’ve gone a little heavier with the chaos outside but we’ll try again with fresh drawings this October. I like how the clouds turned out. Trying to balance my sloppy lines with more detail can be tricky but I think we achieved a good result.
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Love this SO MUCH
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Bongo” Ballpoint pen, pencil, watercolor, acrylic paint, and a little colored pencil.

Our man is in trouble this time, reader. Art supplies are scattered around a painting of an abstract cityscape. On the canvas we see a man in a telephone booth making a frantic call to his cat, Bongo. In the foreground, an answering machine is taking his voicemail, [Leave a message at the beep] --- “Bongo, Daddy got stuck in the painting. Go get help, Bongo.” Bongo stands at the base of the easel looking at the phone. Her tail in the air and ears perked up. Whether she’ll be able to help is open to interpretation.

Artist’s note: One of my favorites from the Spooky Pants book. I was playing around with the idea of a painting coming to life (like that guy in Ghostbusters 2) and kind of fumbled my way into this version. I really draw a lot of corded phones. I won’t stop.
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Nerd Reich- My new cartoon for @thepointau.bsky.social
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Megan Herbert @meganjherbert.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Costs the Earth. My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social
A political cartoon by Megan Herbert showing three vignette drawings with captions below each one. First is a drawing of ceramic piggy bank labelled "Cost of attending COP talks." Second is a large sack full of money labelled "Cost of doing what COP recommends". Third is the Earth labelled, "The cost of doing neither."
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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In spite of being of the correct generation to have grown up while "Peanuts" was still in active publication, it's always a little surreal to be reminded that the most popular comic strip in the English-speaking world for fifty solid years was about an eight-year-old with clinical depression.
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Danielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A common theme that drives me absolutely wild with elections/polling these days: 1. Right wing wrecks everything 2. Left of centre figure elected 3. Left of centre can’t fix all the damage in 5 seconds so the right wing, who have got 10x worse in the meantime, lead polls again/win next election
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Rees-Mogg endorsed the AfD at a crucial point of their ascent, so he doesn’t get to shimmy away from this.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 05/10/2026
There are so many climate policy conversations in so many places around the world on "pragmatism", "realism", "compromise" etc How many of them include this end of the equation?
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
For the latest episode of @thefirethesetimes.com, I spoke with @hebagowayed.bsky.social about what it’s been like to raise our respective kids - both around 3 years old - as diasporic (US and UK) Arab parents since the Gaza genocide started. Wherever you get your podcasts: pod.link/1503094935/e...
Arab Parenthood and Genocide with our respective portraits
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Aloysius Freeman @aloysiusfreeman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Send me your address so I can visit you and explain my passions” is going to be a hard sentence to top in the book of life.
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Emily Rowe @emilyrowe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Dismantling literature one masterpiece at a time in an attempt to destroy the cultivation of empathy. 😞
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Anthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Firmus actual experience is slight. The first site they had any sort of approval in Tasmania they immediately appealed to try and get all restrictions on diesel power generation lifted, and last week started construction before that was signed off.
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Tony Martin @tonymartin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What better base from which to tackle corruption!
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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
Is Anthony Albanese destined to be the most disappointing prime minister ever? | First Dog on the Moon
How could this happen?
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Megan Herbert @meganjherbert.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I don't think any world leaders follow me here, but if anyone who has their ear does, please tell them to listen to the Your Undivided Attention podcast so they can properly understand that the AI problem isn't just about stolen IP and data centres www.humanetech.com/podcast
humanetech.com
Your Undivided Attention
We're a nonprofit exposing the negative effects of persuasive technology and social media and empowering people to take action. Discover The Social Dilemma, our podcast, course, and more.
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Floyd, of the K floyds @floydthek.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Your occasional reminder that Australia's beloved security partner and values-sharer the United States of America has kidnapped a foreign head of state www.telesurenglish.net/global-manif...
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Global Manifesto Demands Immediate Freedom for President Maduro and Cilia Flores
Social organizations, political parties, trade unions and intellectuals from around the world have united behind a global manifesto demanding the immediate release of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, calling for their safe return to the country and an end to the legal proceedings against them in United States.
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I don’t think I’m ever going to get the appeal of pivoting to video for podcasts. I’ve been listening to podcasts for 20 years, and never once have I thought, my God, I need to SEE these people! I’m on a walk or doing the dishes, I don’t need video. 
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#TRUTH
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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Some experts"? No, every expert who's not being paid one way or another to support the folly. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Hegseth calls US-built nuclear submarines the ‘apex predator’ of the seas. But are they right for Australia?
Some experts argue Virginia-class submarines government is buying second hand are good for fighting American wars, but not for defending Australia
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌
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