The Author is Undead A Blue Fury comic

In which the Blue Fury makes its first and last appearance.

Baby takahē is looking fully formed.

Takahē About a work in progress

I'm a takahē fan.

Doodles at monthly comics meet up. @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social

Dani Yourukova's brilliant review of Helen Rickerby's My Bourgeois Apocalypse: "trying to uncover its secrets is a bit like cracking open a disco ball: enormously pleasing, unlikely to work, and not entirely the point" www.takahe.org.nz/my-bourgeois...

Classic This comic was written before ChatGPT lol

About halfway through reposting these.

Is modernism boring? taracomics.substack.com/p/self-raisi...

Uh oh. Running out of plant.

Love that @pipadam.bsky.social is on here. If you can nominate for the Hugos, you should! Also the Le Guin prize!

Dino at dawn.

Argh, mind worms. open.substack.com/pub/taracomi...

Another lucky takahē encounter on the fence line.

Three panel comic. Panel 1: the set of that modern internet dating show with the balloons (not sure what it’s called but I’m seeing clips constantly). The host stands in front of a lineup of woman holding red balloons. She says to the eligible bachelor out of frame, “tell these ladies about yourself.” Panel 2: the eligible bachelor is a moose. He says, “so basically I’m a moose.” Panel 3: all but one woman pops their balloon, signaling their disinterest.

Poetic filing.

taracomics.substack.com/p/inspiratio...

I spent a year inside the content moderation workforce in Nairobi and Manila — the human cost of making AI 'safe' is a class story nobody wants to tell - Silicon Canals The people who teach AI the boundary between acceptable and unacceptable content earn $230 a month in Nairobi and Manila. The companies whose products depend on that labor are worth trillions. This is...

“the story of making AI ‘safe’ is fundamentally a story about class, about which humans absorb the costs so that other humans never have to think about them.”
siliconcanals.com/sc-d-i-spent...

Everything but the actual issues.

Jump scare Take a deep breath

Wait for it.

So a Government that is restricting spending on health, housing, investment etc is handing over $650m a year to four banks that make nearly $10b profit per year…kewl kewl…

Cartoon. Title: “Super Mad” Image shows Winston Peters in a Superman outfit, braced for action, and saying, “STAND BACK! I must protect these older white folk from Wokesters, Indians, Chinese, and a pesky Rarotongan who dares to call our fine country ‘Aotearoa’”

Winston Peters is SuperMad.
My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol

They are so elusive.

Lucky chance encounter with new Zealandia chick

Useful graph for the debt scare folks. Govt debt-servicing costs are super low these days. So much headroom to invest in the many, many things we need for the long-term, yet still we beg for eye-wateringly expensive private finance.

The economy is apparently expanding/recovering... we just can't see it in the actual data because of the weather / stats must be wrong / dog ate my homework etc.

Come on guys, wait until the 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓻𝓭 one-in-a-hundred year storm to hit in a couple of weeks, 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝓷 you can bring up climate change ❤️❤️❤️

‘Forget Wuthering Heights – this is the masterpiece gothic film you should be checking out this week.’ - Claire Mabey

Uh huh A Blue Fury comic strip

Ghosts be haunting.

Drawings from a comics meet-up.

Hourly Comic Day 2026 Drawings from every hour I was awake on 8 Feb 2026

And, of course, I never got the hashtag right. I spelled it wrong, used the wrong year. Ah well. It is all here: taracomics.substack.com/p/hourly-com... #hourlycomicsday #hourlycomicsday2026

Cartoon. Title: “Short and Curlies” Picture shows PM Christopher Luxon, in his bathroom, trying to look at a growth on his back (the architect of the Treaty Principles Bill, David Seymour). He is saying, “I thought it’d just fester and fade, but I don’t know, it’s looking kind of … smug”

PM Christopher Luxon, and his self-inflicted affliction, the architect of the Treaty Principles Bill, David Seymour.
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