Thinking of Jon Kudelka and those who are in Tasmania today (awful place, never go there) attending his farewell. So very sad that we will never see another new, brilliant toon from him. Love to his family and friends. 🤍

Chemical engineer Paula Hammond creates super-thin nanoparticles (1,000X smaller than the width of a human hair) by stacking layers of materials--layers that can be programmed to deliver cancer drugs, improve energy storage in batteries & more. Dean, School of Engineering at MIT #WomenInSTEM #BHM

In the #Rationale magazine, cartoonist Matt Bissett-Johnson gives his take on what’s happening in current affairs. Check out his other recent cartoons here: rationalemagazine.com/index.php/au... @mbjcartoonist.bsky.social #auspol

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control.

Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

Australia bowled out. Didn’t see that coming. #AUSvIND #T20

Posted publicly today by an official government account. Is it too much to ask for the government to just stop being so freaking weird?

The GOP's Big Beautiful Bill gave Trump tens of billions of dollars to create a domestic militia and prison system that he was all but certain to employ to assault our democracy, as I said last July. Now that Republicans are poised to suffer a catastrophic electoral loss, that assault beginning.....

Even if you don’t have an extra 20 minutes or so, make the time to stop doom scrolling & listen to always interesting & engaging mysteries by Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social Echoes of the Unknown. Available where ever you get podcasts. Perfect for a short trip or quick walk. Puppy approved. 🐶

A 🧵 of some of the energetically brutal, violent ways NSW Premier, Chris Minns, & NSW Police stopped peace protestors from terrorising the Albanese Labor government's war criminal guests

UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper: “Sudan is the worst humanitarian crisis of the 21st century. “I spoke to an aid worker who has worked in conflict zones for 20 years. She said she had never seen sexual violence on this scale. “

The fanatical Zionist lobby has exercised its destructive power for decades. #Australia #ChrisMinns #Israel #USA #zionistlobby #IsaacHerzog #Palestine #Gaza #OccupiedWestBank #genocide #crimesagainsthumanity #globalisetheintifada #freepalestine #fromtherivertothesea johnmenadue.com/post/2026/02...

Minns, a Law’n’order NSW Premier, all huff no fairness; “latest report by NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics & Research (BOCSAR) found 4,452 Aboriginal adults detained in prisons across the state make up 34% of total prison population - highest-recorded rate of Indigenous incarceration in NSW history”

🇵🇱 Sikorski: “It is a complete falsehood to claim that mass migration was a left-wing project. For decades, it was supported by Republican businessmen who wanted cheap labor from Latin America in the United States.”

Chronic fatigue syndrome 83-year-old pensioner shares story. www.ludlowadvertiser.co.uk/news/2584823...

everyone’s saying “people are NIMBYs about concentration camps” and yeah, I don’t want a concentration camp in my neighborhood, or anywhere you know who I don’t mind in my neighborhood? free immigrants, undocumented or otherwise

This little child is just ten years old. He’s done absolutely nothing wrong and yet was running for his life because of ICE. They’re traumatizing an entire generation.

'Cause it's haunted www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/s...

Nuclear physicist Fay Ajzenberg-Selove was born #OTD in 1926. She authored decades of authoritative compilations on light nuclei energy levels (researchers' "nuclear bible"). Recipient, National Medal of Science (US 2007) for advancing nuclear #physics. Advocate for #WomenInScience. #WomenInSTEM

WHERE'S YOUR BLANKY, DOG KILLER?

We were promised greatness.

404 Media has obtained a cache of internal police emails showing at least two agencies have bought access to GeoSpy, an AI tool that analyzes architecture, soil, and other features to near instantly geolocate photos.

Republican fascists will tell you that the people in parkas and bathrobes are domestic terrorists who threaten our way of life and the armed paramilitary thugs who are terrorizing them with kidnapping and gassing and beatings and murder are legal officers who ensure our peace and safety.

What types of jobs will automation bring the labor market? Here's one: DoorDash delivery drivers being paid to close Waymo's doors left open by previous customers. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/waymo-is-get...

Nice. Not guilt of stealing $80 million of taxpayer funds. But why though did he have an account in the Cayman Islands? #auspol

Eeeeek!! #auspol

The coalition/throupolition would need to win 20 seats at the next election to be competitive, 28 to take government. Why is anyone pretending this leadership change will change anything?

Map that shows Trump lying, as usual, once again. www.newsweek.com/map-shows-co...

How disgusting that "integrity" is cited as one of the core values of Goldman Sachs when it is one of the most active enablers of Israel's genocide and ethnic cleansing campaign in Palestine. www.banktrack.org/news/seven_u...

dow’s under 50,000 so can we talk about epstein again or

Every single day, Aaron Rupar watches broadcasts of these horrible, stupid people just so we can have clips of them and I think Aaron legit deserves some kind of award for not pouring acid into his eyes by now.

12th February 1987. The Sun Times, Ontario, Canada. #myalgicencephalomyelitis #myalgice #mecfs

If Russian propagandists are fantasising about joining forces with America to fight Europe there is something fundamentally wrong with America.

Tim Dunlop on the responses of politicians to the NSW police violence against protesters against Herzog's visit, from Albanese's deflecting "more in sorrow than anger" reaction, to the Trumpesque comments of Joyce and Abbott. tdunlop.substack.com/p/we-will-de...

“If political protests should only be allowed or prohibited by politicians, then whether or not the public is allowed to criticise politicians is in the hands of the very people they are seeking to criticise.” – Alice Grundy Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4bGYqi9

"Social cohesion is a scam, a strategy employed by the powerful to delegitimise and suppress the voices of the less powerful... If you are othered by powerful groups, you become the victim of cohesion, not the beneficiary; what you get from social cohesion is a punch from an armed official."

'Turn the temperature down' says Albanese as he hosts #Herzog, the President of Israel, who presides over the 3,500 degee incineration of thousands of Palestinians. www.aljazeera.com/features/202... #AusVotes2028 #auspol

My column on new data that shows how the 5% deposit guarantee raised house prices just like we all said it would. www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

Ring is first and foremost a scheme to charge Amazon customers to deter crime that costs Amazon (not the customers themselves) billions annually in refunds, returns, double shipping, and customer service overhead.

NEW! Balint: "one [document] was related to whether or not Trump, you now, had ever kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago, as he claimed. That is not true. It's a lie."

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

I am not sure you could come up with a worse put down of the Liberal front bench than James Paterson saying "Angus is the smartest policy brain in the shadow cabinet” live.thepoint.com.au

Macron: Elon Musk is first a an over subsidised guy

I spent a *lot* of time thinking seriously about this and researching it for my book. It's just not true. We don't need to spend more time giving air to AI doom cultists or AI hype hucksters. They have captured enough of the public imagination already. Here's something shorter I wrote on this:

Contempt of Congress, under 2 U.S.C. § 192, is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to \(\$100,000\) and imprisonment for one to 12 months. The penalty applies to anyone who willfully defaults on a subpoena or refuses to answer questions regarding a Congressional investigation.

Ghislaine Maxwell got into jail for engaging in pedophilia and sex trafficking. Ghislaine Maxwell hopes to get out of jail by engaging in extortion. I'm beginning to get the impression that Ghislaine Maxwell enjoys criming.

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

Why the fuck would we “socially cohere” for monsters?  theshot.net.au/uncategorize...