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Stuart McMillen

@stuartmcmillen.bsky.social
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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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Stuart McMillen @stuartmcmillen.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
NAVA is asking artists to clearly self-identify in the 2026 Australian Census visualarts.net.au/news-opinion...
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Making visual arts work count in the 2026 Census
NAVA leads advocacy, policy and action for an Australian contemporary arts sector that's ambitious and fair.
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Simple, but effective AusAlert
Fake image of the AusAlert message 27 July 2026
Oi. You
Yes you
Get off ya phone and get the fuck outa there
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Stuart McMillen @stuartmcmillen.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Sitting in a waiting room with a built-in TV, while thinking about how to make my comic about the problems of TVs inserting themselves into waiting rooms
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Stuart McMillen @stuartmcmillen.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Saul Griffith's plan to electrify Australia: “None of this is radical. Every item has been implemented somewhere less sunny, less windy, and less wealthy than Australia.” energyandstuff.substack.com/p/the-iran-w...
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The Iran war exposes our stupidity. Australia should stop buying oil and electrify everything.
Australia exports 94% of our crude oil and buys it back as refined fuel. We should electrify our end uses instead — it would save us $135m a day. Let's invest in R&D to wean us off the last drops.
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Stuart McMillen @stuartmcmillen.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Publishing your drawings / art online? I'd recommend this episode of Comic Lab podcast: www.webcomics.com/uncategorize... Distils their best advice for comics artists into one guide @comiclab.bsky.social
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ComicLab Ep 422 — How to Start a Webcomic in 2026
Starting a webcomic in 2026 isn’t about chasing algorithms or copying what’s popular — it’s about building something sustainable, creative, and yours. In this episode, Brad Guigar and Dave Kel…
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Decopunk 1927 @decopunk1927.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
While researching the history of bringing bikes on buses, I just discovered something: in the mid 20th century, buses in Australia and New Zealand had hooks on the front or back for mothers to hang prams off! Bus pram hooks were apparently a unique NZ+Aus phenomenon, found nowhere else in the world.
Bus in Christchurch with prams hanging off the front
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Stuart McMillen @stuartmcmillen.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Last day! 10% to 50% off all merch in my online store www.stuartmcmillen.com/shop/ Thread:
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Stuart McMillen @stuartmcmillen.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Black Friday sale now on! A minimum of 10% off all products in my store, including free postage for Australian orders. www.stuartmcmillen.com/shop/ Thread below:
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Katie Harbath @katieharbath.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.
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David M. Green @davidmgreen.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Shot this a few years ago but Steve and the video shop are still there!
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Ben Jenkins @bencjenkins.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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.
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Stuart McMillen @stuartmcmillen.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
“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...
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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.
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Stuart McMillen @stuartmcmillen.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
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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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
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
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...
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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 ...
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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
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...
a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning. Pages from a mini comicPages from a mini comicPages from a mini comic
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Stuart McMillen @stuartmcmillen.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
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.
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Stuart McMillen @stuartmcmillen.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
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...
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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
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The Comics Journal @comicsjournal.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
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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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.
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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
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...
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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...
Chart showing cumulative superannuation of someone starting on $150,000 at 18yo getting a pay rise of 3.7% and working every year till retiring at 67.
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Stuart McMillen @stuartmcmillen.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Got my democracy sausage #AustraliaVotes #AusVotes #AusPol
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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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-...
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Behind the Dumbwaiter - Stuart McMillen on 'What the Dumbwaiter Hides'
I discuss my comic What the Dumbwaiter Hides, and its themes of slavery and hidden supply chains. This essay lists my 'dumbwaiter' inspirations and sources.
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Dutton wants to work remotely if he gets the job
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 18/03/2025
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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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.
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Ebony Bennett @ebonybennett.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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...
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There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing
How regime change happens in America
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Stuart McMillen @stuartmcmillen.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Bummed by #Instagram changing their longstanding square grid into vertical rectagles. Way to show disdain for your users. Before / after screenshots.
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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Assuming we make it through the next couple of decades, this will be an incredible image for future historians/students of the Trump era
Photo of FBI hq
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Stuart McMillen @stuartmcmillen.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Barn owl at the Belconnen Owl From my #CanberraBirds artwork series #BelconnenPenisOwl #BelconnenOwl
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Shadow. My @smh @theage cartoon.
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Stuart McMillen @stuartmcmillen.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Had a great time at the Australian Cartoonists Association annual Stanley Conference in Canberra. Priceless to be among fellow creatives
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Stuart McMillen @stuartmcmillen.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
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
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Stuart McMillen @stuartmcmillen.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
The mighty Read to Me (live comics performances) came to Canberra on Friday! Bravo.
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Stuart McMillen @stuartmcmillen.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Superb fairywren at the Paperbark Treehouse, Canberra. From my #CanberraBirds artwork series #SuperbFairywren #Canberra #PaperbarkTreehouse
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Stuart McMillen @stuartmcmillen.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
This book is really worth a read. The narrative had a gripping pull to it @kateconger.bsky.social @rmac.bsky.social (PS: this is my first ever Bluesky post)
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