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Kaz Cooke

@kazcooke.bsky.social
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Authoress kazcooke.com.au New book, Spooky Ladies out Oct 27! Also: 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.

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What a misunderstanding of what people want from art. Like those tiktokkitygram AI romance 'stories' based on fairytales but with all the fun & weirdness sucked out, plus dire dialogue. People want to feel things & have a connection, they don't yearn to shrug 'oh that can be classified as music'.
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There's just way too much to be very cross about, today. The Australian government investing OUR MONEY in EllenMusk's stupid space project and weapons companies is next level crap. I've disagreed with governments before but I've never been this disappointed in one.
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am imagining all the hundreds of people talking to Bogong Moths this week. 'Thanks for dropping in, maybe call first next time'; 'Oh, haiii, byeee'; 'Sorry my porch light discombobulated you'; 'Please, seriously, just go'.
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Who amongsten us has not, like the US president, announced publicly that a micro-rabble of English diesel rustlers (emboldened by one's own narcisso-war causing fuel price hikes) are an international terrorist cabal? #thisagain
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Coming soon: 'AI company apologises for accidentally triggering multiple missile launches causing WW3, it was trying to find a definition for the word 'silo'.
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I love cartoons that look like they were fun to draw. (Bonus: imagine explaining this pun to a non-Australian.)
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A 17-book deal?!
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Horrible story. Student journalists doing the JOB, braver & more dedicated to truth & public interest than a lot of mainstream media proprietors. I hope every Australian school & uni is also now scared of lawsuits from students who've been harassed and attacked. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My brief time as a jnr finance reporter on a daily city newspaper right before a major stock market crash taught me so much: the experts don't know what is coming & can't say for sure what's happening now, but wow in terms of past events & trends they really can't agree on what they were or why.
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Calvinball Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
yall, ig is popping off. the girlies are doxxing every single admin they can find at cornell, plus the cornell 7 and their families. women are (correctly) going scorched earth.
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Jessica D. M. 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🪃 🟧 @jessicaperthwa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#Auspol
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ivanka Trump dressed as a Balkan embassy bay window pelmet monorail through a bird sanctuary with a valance and a substandard-housing juliet-balcony collar.
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The cartoonist is Barry Blitt.
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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Harvest Moon rising behind Chicago Harbor Lighthouse on Saturday evening in Chicago.
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Lady Haha @lensman23.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An actual cartoon from Dutch cartoonist Siegfried Woldhek.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
NYC consul general & London High C'ssioner are the coveted mate posts: remember T Abbott & J Bishop yeeted ALP appointment of ex Vic Prem Steve Bracks & installed Lib heavy Nick Minchin in NYC - now handed to Sky News Murdoch minion exec by Albanese & Wong: gaspworthy. (SA's J Weatherill got London)
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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Interviewing the inventor of napalm about his hats
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An indispensible naughty ratbag pays tribute to a brilliant, splendid idiot. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Andy Griffiths on Terry Denton’s genius: ‘He was a true clown. He could make something funny out of nothing’
The author behind the Treehouse books remembers his friend and collaborator of 35 years, who had a ‘seemingly inexhuastible flow of nonsense’
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Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games · 26/09/2026
Oh Kylie. They did you so dirty. What’s with the austerity stage? We’ve got Kylie walking up and down shitty boards that look like untreated MDF and she’s got like four dancers This is how you treat the queen? My grudge against sports will continue until 👏 lessons 👏 are 👏 learned
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Regardless of the particulars of this individual case, once again, we ask the 'justice system': how can a woman 'prove' a man held a knife at her throat/threatened to shoot her while pointing a gun/etcetcetc if he always did it with no witnesses? How do such women get justice, safety, or sanctuary?
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Jarvis Googoo @jarvisgoogoo.com · 24/09/2026
Amazing editorial cartoon by @mackinnonart.bsky.social 😃
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Christ almighty I just wanted some nasturtiums.
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#MelbourneAirport boss-bastarding, again. It's already hard to help someone who needs a #wheelchair or walker on & off flights. How can this be legal? It was only ameliorated by airline wheelchair/staff (sometimes & only to the terminal door) & volunteers. Now, it's going to be worse. #disabled
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Interesting that Quest Apartments breach included nearly 2 million individuals personal data including credit card CVV stored unlawfully and Albanese has had nothing to say about it
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Making an assumption here but I think maybe 2 gorgeous guncles are taking 3 littlies to the National Gallery on school hols; they sat them all together on the tram saying, 'look, we got a whole booth' like they're at the coolest nightclub. #Fabulous
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In oh-the-caucacity news, a white woman from an Israeli 'settler' family has been pretending to be Black & Palestinian in Philadelphia activist groups. #BigFakeTanFan www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Philadelphia teacher admits to lying about being Palestinian and Black: ‘I hid the truth’
Local advocacy groups say they have cut ties with Hannah Gann, who ‘fully lied about her identity and background’
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In Europe there are whole countries & cities running on cheaper, clean, renewable energy. The Australian Liberal & National party leaders are radical advocates for dirty & dangerous power sources from the last century (& the one before).
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A female white-winged fairywren (with food for the kids) on the farm near Quorn, South Australia. #wrensday
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@politico follow the money: JFK Jnr's ally, disgraced UK gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield, had taken out patents there on single-shot MMR jabs before his unethical & wrong 'study'. Now Trump has mandated single-shots. Who benefits, aside from anti-vaxxers - & the measles, mumps & rubella viruses?
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Our Prime Minister tagging in his selfie mate, an adjudicated rapist and felon.
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Republican Matt Gaetz has explained that you have to vote Trump or the Democrats will make your children trans. After all, Matt Gartz might just use them for statutory rape & trafficking. (per House Ethics Committee report 2024.)
Matt Gaetz on Ellenmusk's twitter, saying 'Bro we need your vote. I hate the war too. But Democrats want to trans your kids'.
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Dominic Caruso @dominiccaruso1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Filling up the birdbath with fresh water & waiting, motionless, nearby with a tiny sponge, brush, body wash dispenser, & bird shower cap at the ready
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Much as I'd enjoy to see some profiteering environmental vandals handle one blue-ringed octopus each, this seems a better way forward:
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Incredibly brave evidence this morning from women and men who have survived brutal strip searches in youth jails - a tool for social control, to humiliate and degrade - and disproportionately used against First Nations young people
THE SENATE
LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS LEGISLATION COMMITTEE
Crimes Amendment (Prohibiting the Strip Searching of Children) Bill 2026
PUBLIC HEARING
Tuesday 22 September 2026
Committee Room 2S1
Australian Parliament House, and via videoconference, Canberra
All times are in AEST
Time Witness
9.45 am Panel associated with Sisters Inside and National Network of Incarcerated and
Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls
10.55 am Panel associated with Level Up and Sisters Inside
Committee Chair: Senator Jana Stewart
Committee Secretary: Jane Thomson
PO Box 6100, Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 Tel: +61 2 6277 3560
Email: legcon.sen@aph.gov.au Internet:
www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Legal_and_Constitutional_Affairs
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Exhausting. From left to right, front row: man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man. Middle row: man, man, man, man, woman, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man. Back row: man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man.
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I love my city. #Melbourne
Block Arcade entrance mosaic of a blue capital KElizabeth St curvy ziggurat business on cream building with arched windows and wrought iron black balcony-front.Little Collins St corner could do with a light exfoliation once in a blue moon.. Late afternoon plummy bits and blues.
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Tremendous work from AI here, no sentence or conclusion makes any sense with anything else, it makes interesting things dull, and the irrelevant introduction of Napoleon in the intro is deliciously bonkity.
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The person who pretended pictures of sugar-glider fetuses were named human twins is again posting upsetting photos & impossible claims. Social media platforms must ban exploitative photos of miscarriages, whether real or AI. 'Dr' Howe (no medical qualifications) is a ghoulish PR agent for herself.
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is a great insight from a young woman in Canberra on housing and time and multiculturalism www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
The woman who feels priced out of spare time

Rosie* is in her 30s and lives in Canberra. She captured the point vividly.

"Housing gets covered as deposits, rates, supply. Living it, the real cost is time. You work the hours the housing demands, in the suburb the housing pushed you to, and what gets sacrificed is the ability to sit down with the people around you.

"Multiculturalism worked in this country when people had time to spend with people unlike themselves. Not policy time — ordinary time. Backyards, front steps, sport, the shops, someone's kitchen. That's how a stranger stops being a category and becomes a neighbour.

"We have spent 30 years pricing that time out of people's lives and now we're surprised that cohesion is fraying and asking what went wrong with our values.

"When people are exhausted and stretched and never in the same room, difference stops being interesting and starts being threatening. That's not a failure of tolerance. It's a failure of time. That's what I'd want people in power to understand."
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Baldricky cunning plans 2 & 3.
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The omnishambles bingo card is full.
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Yes, because those pretendy-diversity AI model-people are all talking about white men and their ideas (& one ancient Chinese guy), the first three of which thought women were defective and enslavable.
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Divine.
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
RFK's funder Mr de Becker is a personal-security company billionaire & strident anti-vaccine activist with a special, inexplicable hatred of the HPV vaccine which can eradicate most cervical & penile cancers.
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Wildlife @worldwildlife.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Pink Robin (Petroica rodinogaster): This is a small passerine bird native to southeastern Australia. Photo taken by Nikki Long, Tasmania, Australia. #robin #pinkrobin #australia #bird #wildlife #pink
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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Dave Matthews from the Dave Matthew's Band holds two signs during his concert reading “stop killing children” and “stop the genocide” in solidarity with Palestine
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sturt desert peas near Roxby Downs. Indigenous actor Mark Coles Smith was born in Kalgoorlie and has Sturt desert peas as his totem. He explains that they are called Malu Kuru Kuru. Kangaroo Eyes. A Western Desert name for them. The eyes of the flower see in all directions.
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Here's the real Bess Houdini, accomplished teenage magician, dancer, singer & independent firecracker, photographed in the 1890s ... & how she was portrayed by Janet Leigh in the 1950s movie. Read Bess's real story & see rare pics of her in my new book, Spooky Ladies, out soon.
An 18 year old Bess Houdini (maybe younger TBH)  with short, unruly dark curls wearing a high necked blouse & huge puffy sleeves in about 1895 when she was an equal partner at Coney Island shows with her new husband Erich Weiss as the Houdinis.  Janet Leigh in high heels, fishnets, a shiny show-girl/stripper style corset with tassels and frills and blonde hair as Bess at the same age in the 1953 film about her husband, portraying her as a timid and frightened assistant probe to hysterics.
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Ask any of the men seeking power who want abortion bans what an ectopic pregnancy is, what the treatment is, and what happens without that treatment. They don't even bother to make it their business to know what kills girls & women.
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