Kaz Cooke

Hello! The Australian War Memorial has some useful and well-maintained, succinct articles, objects & artworks online. awm.gov.au then Learn, then Schools & Teachers; or search any relevant words such as WW1, Western Front, Dunkirk, Somme, Great War Official Medical History, whatever you fancy.

Hallie Quinn Brown | c.1880s

3/10/1850 — b. Hallie Quinn Brown, American clubwoman, educator, author, activist, orator. Leader, Af-Am women’s club mvmnt; principal organizer, Colored Women’s League of Wash, DC (1893). Dramatic elocutionist; key role in Harlem Renaissance #WomensHistoryMonth #EduSky #PolSky #WriterSky #woc #BHM

O'Hagan's devastating, brilliant writing. A slow build of evidence, delivered with eloquent wit & genuine disgust. A forensic, entertaining, but ghastly truth-telling. 'Prince' Andrew & his family: damaged, dangerous, dim, ludicrous, hereditary grifter holidaying sociopaths. Poor Virginia.

I'll just say this:

This week I have had occasion to have three different young trades-chaps/repair-persons on the dessicated premises, and a thousand points to them and the people who raised them: intelligent, respectful, knowledgeable about their work and curious about the world. Bolsters the optimism.

Oh I might be misreporting there due to crossness. Crankity. Furiation.

Oooh no, will pursue. Thanks.

Prison guards discussed cover-up of Epstein’s death, inmate tells FBI One officer said: “Dudes, you killed that dude.”

Julie Brown is an absolutely stellar reporter. Brave, stubborn dedication to the truth of what happened to Epstein survivors and to report other aspects of this story. A real-deal local and investigative reporter. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

Hey @support.bsky.team bsky.app @safety.bsky.app. If you want to keep creative, funny, smart people on your app you can't let other users rip them off, legally & morally.

Headline on Channel 9 papers: 'Secret Identities Revealed, Morrison cleared of corruption in robo-debt investigation'. in dc Several people who seem to have been responsible for running an illegal, cruel, stupid government official theft-hiding racket that cost taxpayers billions have been found not to be legally corrupt by NACC, the alleged corruption watchdog (possibly a doodle).

The 2 accused unnamed till 11th par; smug Morrison quotes; the NACC forced to investigate (fiasco-adjacent Brereton still in charge) lets off people we all heard & saw at the Royal Commish. Who'll pay big $ to freelance @squigglyrick.bsky.social to do proper story (now gone from SatPaper)?

Folderol is the job description, so I'll need a comma.

Library stripped of state literary award role in fellowship fallout Queensland’s state library will no longer run major literary awards on behalf of the government after a long-awaited review. But the future of the event is unclear.

Library news: George Brandis appointed to the Queensland State Library Board; Premier takes away literary awards; talk of entrants to book prizes guaranteeing their lifetime previous behaviour wouldn't bring the award into 'disrepute', unspecified. www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/que...

SNORTAGE AKIMBO is my new pseudonym.

The image the Guardian has used to illustrate this Mr On The Moon cartoon does not convey the full hilarity, or deft use of character-based folderol which is considerable and may result in snortage.

Maybe you were briefly a mantis shrimp ... can't rule it out.

Muslims traumatised after right-wing attack on community dinner A Muslim community in Ballarat is left traumatised after a man barged into a community dinner allegedly throwing punches and yelling abuse.

"NO CHARGES WILL BE LAID" against a man who terrorised & threatened children and violently attacked people? Told to 'move on'?! No search for drugs? What the hell, @victoriapoliceau.bsky.social? Doesn't look like identifying him will be a problem.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Anna’s hummingbird profile

🪶 Anna’s Hummingbird in Oregon, showing the iridescent crown that flashes only at the perfect angle.

#hummingbird #naturephotography #birdphotography #birding #birdsofbsky

Extruded Trumps cosplaying as Uday and Qusay Hussein in matching outfits, grinning with their dental-veneer repositories beneath their cold, dead eyes, in their psychopath-prompted AI-looking faces.

This is one of my favourite facts and I really want to know what it's like to be a mantis shrimp. Sometimes I wonder how you would respond to, or describe, a new colour you have no reference for because it's not like, or a variation of, any of the colours you've ever seen and then I lie down.

Oh I'm sorry, I don't know what that is but good luck, everybody.

He IS One Nation, not a Liberal. That's a badly worded headline & blurb.

Bringing you up to speed: Cory Bernadi is a South Australian One Nation candidate driving around to sites that have bilingual signs, yapping like a neutered spaniel rolling on a dead fish, so stupid and alone in this, he couldn't be more pleased to be him despite what everyone else is thinking.

It was, you shan't be astonished to hear, nothing of the sort.

TBF I don't think he was doing that. He was making it clear that his own schoolboy attitude has been maintained amid his 'peer group' even as adults.

"Round like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning on an ever-spinning reel
Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind
[Verse 2]
Like a tunnel that you follow to a tunnel of its own
Down a hollow to a cavern where the sun has never shone..."

One of the most enduring cartoon character images of all time.

Reading a headline on a celebrity man's take on how men can be better. Last time I saw him he was 'joking' to a big corporate gig audience, rating pupils at girls' schools of Melbourne. He said one school's girls were OK to have sex with, another provided girlfriends & one had girls you married.

Standing by with heaving bosom.

I gave Kyle and Jackie O their big break. They were superb, but I know why they imploded Craig Bruce discovered the now-warring duo in 2004 and put them on the air. The rest is history.

'Radio expert' mentions the ratings-fail pre-K&J show he hired: I was a lesser part of that team & proud we refused bosses' orders to sham-fight, lie, do sexist stunts, give celebrity sperm as a prize, surprise a workmate with his phobia on air. Acid-washed souls.
www.theage.com.au/national/i-g...

Thanks Rhys, I am going down a lot of rabbit holes (oomancy, magicians, stage mind-readers and zesty mediums, but concentrating on ladypersons and steering clear of Nazi leadership, no matter their star-signs.