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@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 firstdogonthemoon.com.au/shop

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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 9h
Bogong moths! Are they a sign from god? Probably. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The bogong moths are back! Perhaps they are a sign that all is not lost | First Dog on the Moon
Remember – these moths are not an inconvenience they are a blessing
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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Donald Trump unpopular? Finally! How could this have happened? We may never know. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Oh no Donald Trump is becoming increasingly unpopular! Surely it must all be over soon | First Dog on the Moon
It’s so bad some Republicans are even turning against him – bit late guys but whatever
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bronte lee @brontelee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
in great news for fat labrador belly enthusiasts we have a day off today so we can do this aaaaaallllllllllll day
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bronte lee @brontelee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
sorry boss i cant come to work today we’ve got a code black fat labrador belly that needs patting STAT
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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Prepping for the once in a thousand years El Niño? Ask a penguin! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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El Niño is supersizing! Are governments finally taking climate change seriously? No! | First Dog on the Moon
Your government will NOT come to save you – we have to do that for each other now
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
@lukelpearson.bsky.social on wheels & racist mythologies.
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Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The dominance of AI is not inevitable. We can choose to change things for the better! In other words: you're right to push back www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The dominance of AI is not inevitable. We can choose to change things for the better | Nick Evershed
Countries have come together before to make international agreements in the face of existential threats
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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Is AI as dangerous as they say or is it just a grift? Or both? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I used to think AI would kill us all, until the techbro CEOs said AI will kill us all and now I’m not so sure | First Dog on the Moon
Is AI going rogue the worst that could happen? Maybe not …
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mr On the Moon here with the truth. If they try to murder him I will stab them in the conservatory. Right in the conservatory. (Who CAN we vote for? We're going to need a lot more Pococks.)
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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If you are reading this cartoon I have been m*rdered by the Greens Political Party www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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YOU HAD ONE JOB THE GREENS POLITICAL PARTY! Climate change is destroying life and you exist to save it! | First Dog on the Moon
It’s complicated and everyone is having a lot of feelings
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bronte lee @brontelee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
if you’ve ever wondered how chaotic it is having three dogs this video might help you understand i just wanted to show how dramatic jock is when you ask to shake his paw 🙄
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bronte lee @brontelee.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Very Important!!!
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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If you really cared about the environment you would let animals take over your house! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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More and more animals are moving into our homes as theirs get chopped down and dug up | First Dog on the Moon
The echidna in the pantry, the koala in the boudoir, the skink in the sink. All true!
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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Government regulation of toxic algorithms? Impossible! Or is it? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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They came for the algorithms and I said nothing – because my brain had been destroyed by doomscrollamine | First Dog on the Moon
They’re going to do something good? Is this a joke?
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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Women! Is the manosphere their fault like everything else is? We may never know. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Teaching about respectful relationships in schools? How dare women! | First Dog on the Moon
Matt Canavan reckons feminism and woke genderism push young men toward the manosphere
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big bleat from badsville @djepelgesh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
thank you The New York Post for what may be the funniest image of all time
a picture from the NY Post titled "	today’s leftists are possessed by the spirit of France’s 18th-century guillotine-loving revolutionaries" (way too long) that shows Mamdani (the specter haunting Europe) smiling in the sky as a bunch of French people goof around
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Deeply disappointing that some in the conservation movement would argue for supporting a means to potentially allow polluters to keep polluting, further accelerating one of the greatest threats to wildlife globally — climate change — on National Threatened Species Day, no less.
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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Guardian readers! How do they want to die or do they want to live forever? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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How do you want to die?! And what to do in the meantime | First Dog on the Moon
Some suggestions for living well
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
ICYMI- My #climate cartoon for @thepointau.bsky.social
Scene is a boardroom with a table of suited (mostly) men and women.
On the wall is a sign saying "Fossil Fuel Co" and underneath the boss is saying 'I know people are losing faith in politicians these days but the ones WE own have been terrific"
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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If this is not the time to talk about climate change then when is? If this is not the time to talk about climate change then when is? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A glacier collapsed in Nepal but this is not the time to talk about climate change | First Dog on the Moon
It’s always thoughts and prayers and please don’t politicise this horrible disaster
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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Iodine tablets may save you from radiation but will they save Australia from being the USA's pathetic little fossil fuel weevil underpants? No. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Nuclear submarines in a major city? Sure why not! | First Dog on the Moon
Fortunately there is an emergency plan even though everyone insists there will be no emergency
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
1/ Given recent attacks on Camp Sovereignty & the fact that a little rich kid racist is assembling the troops agen this Sunday, it'd neat if lots of people attended this I reckon. 2–8pm Camp Sovereignty · Naarm Free concert + delicious food
Camp Sovereignty presents Rock Against Racism.
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Ages of the three opinion columnists in the Saturday Paper today: 93, 82, 79
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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
It's First Dog's handy hints on how to live your best life! (firstly try not to die) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Tips for living well! Death comes for all of us – so what’s the best way to live in the meantime? | First Dog on the Moon
Prioritise people and relationships. If you don’t you might die and nobody will know until months later. Gross!
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Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Going to wear my Brenda the Civil Disobedience Penguin t-shirt today because… well, because we don’t even have time to stop & make a list of all the reasons.
Bright yellow tee shirt with a cartoon penguin wearing a red shirt with the slogan “what would penguins do?” Below it, the letters W W P D.
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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Guns! Everyone hates guns! Except all the people who own far too many of them. What are we doing? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Australia was famous for having no guns – what happened? Do we have a gun problem now? | First Dog on the Moon
One guy in Sydney has 371 of them. Who needs 371 guns?
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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
CRIMEWAVE! Apparently people are doing more shoplifting than ever but it is completely unrelated to anything the supermarkets are doing those poor dears. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Shoplifting crime wave?! Putting facial recognition technology everywhere will fix it | First Dog on the Moon
Supermarkets Coles and Woolworths promise not to abuse this technology even though facial recognition algorithms have known biases
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This is all run by 'I am the eldest boy' Lachlan Murdoch from Sydney so his own family doesn't have to drown in the festering poison soup cauldron he helped create and pays people to keep stirring.
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bronte lee @brontelee.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
everyone say happy gotcha day maple! 2 years since she busted out of the puppy mill and began her new life of crime and chaos with us 💕
a scruffy brown labradoodle is sitting with her paw on a person’s hand a scruffy brown labradoodle sitting on the grass with her tongue hanging outa scruffy brown labradoodle is fast asleep on top of a person wearing a black and white tshirt a scruffy brown labradoodle laying down in a park with her tongue out. her blue foam ring is on the grass next to her
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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Fiona's last delightful cartoon for guardo as a regular freelancer. Obviously I can't comment on this situation but I will say it is an unfortunate decision which I strongly disagree with. I love Fiona and if you run a media something you should hire her.
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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Life is hard and everything makes you sad. But help is available! (Seabirds only) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Bird flu is a huge disaster and it’s normal to find it distressing and sad. How can we deal with this grief? | First Dog on the Moon
Firstly you can just grieve – it’s not your fault because you used a plastic straw that one time
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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
lovely book from a clever scientist who works with border collies to find various creatures! order yours today!
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Slop. My @smh @theage cartoon.
Single frame. Title - instruction: “[place cartoon here - ed]”. Appearance of yellow torn out lined note paper held in place by sticky tape. Text: “The Herald-Sun has this week published an AI cartoon, where previously they might have commissioned one of their (dwindling) stable of artists. And it makes sense. (Not the cartoon.) After all, what is a cartoon, but a picture with a caption and maybe some helpful labels to make a point? In this case, a point the editor who prompted it wanted to make.
I mean, how hard can cartooning be? We would all be doing them if it weren’t for our lack of drawing skill (and some cartoonists aren’t very skilled, let’s face it), and AI means nobody has to pay the outrageous fees that “artists” charge, while they can “borrow” their existing work to train AI. It’s literally a no-brainer!” (Small picture of a brain crossed out) “We can only hope they can keep up the quality, once the AI can only be trained using other AI cartoons.”
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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
ahaha give this the walkley
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The (income) generation gap- my second last cartoon 😢 for @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Boomers v millennials: how have different generations reacted to falling house prices? | Fiona Katauskas
Some people are more invested than others
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newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Not sure I appreciate being lectured on water privatisation by Australians considering it was Australian venture capital firm Macquarie that loaded Thames Water with unsustainable debt for ten years to pay inflated dividends.
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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Climate change has ruined everything! We can't even make fun of the English anymore. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Making fun of the English is an Australian national pastime but the drought in Britain isn’t funny at all | First Dog on the Moon
38C is hot by anyone’s standards
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
It's my final week as a Guardian cartoonist ☹️ and here's my third last cartoon. It's a gamblin' one www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Will the government get it right on gambling reform? | Fiona Katauskas
Anthony Albanese is weighing up the options
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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
One Nation under Facebook! I'm quite pleased with that line I came up with it myself. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Meme factories are churning out hard right AI slop on Facebook | First Dog on the Moon
What does it even mean? You don’t want to know – stop reading now! I’m serious
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Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This will form a significant part of Jacinta Allan’s legacy. She must be proud.
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
All A no I- My Saturday cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com @https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/aug/08/is-the-promise-of-ai-living-up-to-the-hype?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Is the promise of AI living up to the hype? | Fiona Katauskas
It’s certainly increasing its output
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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Sex and drugs and dice to roll? It's gambling in the lucky country. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Welcome to Australia, the world’s casino. A nation state captured by global betting companies | First Dog on the Moon
This really is the place to be a rapacious amoral gambling company!
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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Climate disaster and record fossil fuel profits because of a war? How did that happen! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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War! What is it good for? Absolutely humongous oil company profits | First Dog on the Moon
Mission accomplished
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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Do you like well-reasoned arguments and pithy retorts? Well bad luck because it's time for the great climate debate hosted by disgraced breakfast flake Karl Whatsisface! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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It’s the debate of the century! Two climate ‘denialists’ battle it out to see who agrees the most denialistly | First Dog on the Moon
What a vibrant marketplace of ideas
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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
We were all fine with AI destroying the planet but now it's come for our books!? This is too much! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Isn’t AI terrible enough already? Now they want to eat the world’s books?! | First Dog on the Moon
Leave books alone!
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 31/07/2026
Isn’t AI terrible enough already? Now they want to eat the world’s books?! | First Dog on the Moon
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Isn’t AI terrible enough already? Now they want to eat the world’s books?! | First Dog on the Moon
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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Cheating? Scandal? Hilarious shenanigans? It must be LOCAL CRICKET! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Award-winning cricketer First Dog on the Moon on the latest local cricket brouhaha | First Dog on the Moon
Let me explain
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Churlish oafs disrespecting Guardian readers?! I won't have it! Here is a list... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Being rude to Guardian readers? Those uncivil brutes how dare they! | First Dog on the Moon
Our recent analysis of modern rudeness elicited a torrent of miffed, piqued and vexed responses
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