Monday's cartoon for The Mercury Newspaper: Balmorally compromised

Get off Tiktok when the sale goes through and you should have been off X by now. Algorithms are conditioning tools.

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

30% Tariff on Upholstered Furniture? 10 bucks says he is just naming items in his office. Soon, 40% tariffs on Lamp.

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Returning Jesus Christ Downed By U.S. Missile Defense 30,000 Feet Before Making Landfall

My mom took Tylenol 34 years ago and now I whip out the flight tracker every time I hear a whoosh.

Interestingly enough, we’ve been force fed these distractions: 1. Podcaster funeral 2. UFC on White House Lawn 3. Disney/Hulu/Sinclair 4. H1B fiasco 5. Fake jobs numbers 6. Fed cut interest rate 7. Cause of autism It’s easy to forget THE EPSTEIN FILES AND THE EPSTEIN/MAXWELL TROVE OF EMAILS

The reason the north really converted to emancipation and the reason the UK stopped the slave trade is that the accountants realised it was more expensive to pay for the subscription model that slavery has and go to a contracting model where the worker pays for their own life support.

Back when I was a photographer a ton of my clients were LGBTQ partially because I was very nonjudgmental and made them feel comfortable. I ended up getting clients many photographers would turn down. Discrimination leaves money on the table.

gym time

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

in California, Nexstar owns KTLA and several other TV stations

Thank goodness external market forces will save us from our own asphyxiating (literally) greed

Reminder, you don’t need any of the streaming services, they need you, however. You can just download their content from other websites if you need to watch it. Torrents, Newsgroups, YouTube. Pop off besties.

Hey Diddler, get back to your campaign promise...Keep at least one!!!

I’ve done a fair amount of work writing jokes for various late night shows and whilst I’m sad for Jimmy Kimmel I’m really hoping that every member of his team from wardrobe to writers are supported by the industry and get given work immediately

Shout out to the substackers doing voluntary greenwashing work for the tech companies while the actual leaders of the companies are just running into media outlets and loudly announcing the number of species they want to wipe out archive.ph/xhZds

More here: transportist.org/2025/09/15/o...

lol she rules

Good news, everyone! Jon Kudelka (@kudelka.bsky.social or Captain Quoll)'s latest linocut of Orchny the Platypus has made its (limited) way to his shop. It is beautiful and you should buy one. I waited until my order was processed before telling you though, because, selfish.

We’re living in the One Third Reich.

posting this Classic over here in honor of the big man himself. adios bitch

There's a lot of other stuff going on but I got to talk to Lee Pace about Foundation!

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

The best way to honor Jigsaw's memory is to continue his work: engage with each other, across ideology, through spirited discourse. In a democracy, ideas are tested through words and good-faith debate — never through violence.

As the MSM remembers Charlie Kirk and speaks out against his horrific assassination, let’s recall the Minnesota Congresswoman who was assassinated on June 14th 2025 along with her husband and their dog. Do you even remember her name?!

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

Vibe coding is a disaster for the security of apps coded by AI.

RALLY TO SAVE MEANJIN Thursday 11 Sep 9am Outside the Melbourne University Publishing office, 715 Swanston St, Carlton. A number of Australian writers and editors will speak in support of this vital cultural institution

Gotta love Pete 😂

there is a certain irony around tech bros who believe that the work of writers is largely worthless, while also claiming at the same time that they desperately need to use that written work - without compensating human authors - so they can make a bazillion dollars off LLM products.

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Duckworth: "Let's make it clear -- the President of the United States essentially just declared war on a major city in his own nation. This is not normal. This is not acceptable behavior."

Next Monday 15 September at the Lowy Institute and online: “Indonesia’s next chapter: Governance, leadership and reform” events.lowyinstitute.org/indonesias-n...

BREAKING News from Jakarta: 5 minutes ago — The Indonesian government sacked finance minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Seen out and about in Chicago.

Rayner says in her resignation letter: "The challenges of government are nothing compared to the challenge of putting food on the table and getting a roof over our head when I brought up kids working as a home help." Absolutely. A shame to lose that perspective from the cabinet table.

There’s a perception that no one else in Cabinet has experience of normal life, and it’s inaccurate

I think that since the overwhelming majority of mass shooters are cisgender men, we should take their guns first.

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

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America heartbroken to discover president somehow still alive

And I share it!

Look forward to Stephen Miller's criminal trial and then life in prison for crimes against humanity