"Once a people has been defined out of the legal order, nearly anything can be done to them, and nearly anything can be said about them."
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Tied to the Fence - Bakchos

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Freelance cartoonist , political junkie, best-selling author of The Amazing True Story of How Babies Are Made. Sweary. Gadigal Country. Australia
Ruin a book by adding a word Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret Thatcher
Sad news for cinephiles: Tilly Norwood has been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike.
Excellent book! Can I recommend Lech Blaine's Australian Gospel? Absolutely cracking read that's non fiction but reads like a page turner novel. One of my favourite books in years
Love to you. Hope you're okay
That's a panel from a very old cartoon of mine
Garry Trudeau
"Once a people has been defined out of the legal order, nearly anything can be done to them, and nearly anything can be said about them."
BLAK AND BLACK
Tied to the Fence - Bakchos
This is a great take and something I would add is that narrowly bedding down in a 'just build more tech' / electrification tunnel-vision state is so much of that effort just ends up sucked into the maw of data centre growth instead of serving the needs of actual humans + eliminating fossil fuels
A cartoon I made in 2025 Feb went viral again. its sad and pathetic to see its still relevant today. Ukraine deserve all the support it needs! Trump Putin and Xi are enemy of peace and humanity.
Elon: i’m going to send a data center to space! Zelenskyy, packing a repurposed Cessna full of composition 4: me too
oh wow lucky them :/ "The information sheet provided yesterday also said residents who moved to the new Batchelor facility would pay $10 less per day for accommodation than they did at YiSSA, as lunch and dinner would not be provided."
Another 'history of Australia' with no references to migration historians, whole slabs of text unreferenced 🙃 #invisible
It’s really weird right now following lots of left wing politically active people from metro areas, while living in a rural community. The Canberra bubble just doesn’t care about the harm, despair and destructive anger happening in the bush atm www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
From recent experience I can highly recommend dancing to live music in a packed and sweaty bar with a bunch of strangers as a way of making the world seem a little less fukt
Ben have you heard about this new thing called "AI"? You can create amazing things super quickly without any skills at all!
“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.
Ruin a book by adding a word: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Malfunction
The plan here seems to be to generate passive income by building a warehouse full of GPUs that are powered, in part, by 276 diesel generators. What do we know about GPUs? They have finite lifespans. What do we know about diesel? The price is rising. How is it funded? Venture capital.