Jon Kudelka, Walkley-winning Tasmanian cartoonist, dies from brain cancer Award-winning Tasmanian cartoonist Jon Kudelka has died after being diagnosed with brain cancer in 2024.

Just the worst fucking loss honestly 💔

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Vale Jon Kudelka

The Guitarist Behind David Bowie’s Greatest Tracks – The Earl Slick Interview YouTube video by Mary Spender

Mary Spender and me having a great chat in Scotland....castle rooftop included!
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"ABC chief election analyst Casey Briggs says this is the worst Labor party vote in Tasmania, ever." #politas #tasvotes25

Never too early for a #democracy sausage. #TasVotes #politas

All cheese. #politas

Why don’t the Tasmanian ALP & LIBs stop pretending to be an opposition to each other and just form the grand coalition they already are in substance, policy, and position? #politas

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Well formed eye showing up on the satellite and radar images of the “bomb” cyclone off the #NSW coast. Classic warm core signature tied to convection and precipitation over the very warm Tasman Sea.

Foxtrot Delta Taco 🌮

My friends, it's not just happening in a galaxy far, far away.

The "is it still spring?" predictibility barrier?

Lock it in!

You should really still be able to get a medal for seizing a confederate flag whenever you see one in the wild

I've been a doomer about DOGE data grabbing, but I'll admit it never occurred to me Musk could fire his way to stealing all copyrighted material ever

Sadly it will take the next disaster related to climate change risk to have another "Tell the Prime Minister to go and get f***ed from Nelligen." election for the Greens and climate focused independents.

"Preferences giveth, and preferences taketh away . . ."

15-year Australian federal election results trends:

Weather and climate research funds are being “chainsawed” from NOAA's budget. Last I checked, Louisiana & Florida, which are maximally susceptible to Hurricanes, voted Red in the last General Election.

Wondering if residents there knew in advance this would happen.

will they hold it in Red Square?

Woodpecker damages more than 20 vehicles in Massachusetts town “We seem to have a vandal in our neighborhood. I’m describing him as 18 to 24 inches tall, wearing black and white with a red hat,” one resident said.

By tariffing one bird order, you attack us all. Our allies will continue to respond.

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FDR wouldn't recognize Nazi control of Normandy which was very harmful to the peace negotiations with Hitler. Sad.

FDR wouldn't recognize Nazi control of Normandy which was very harmful to the peace negotiations with Hitler. Sad.

FDR wouldn't recognize Nazi control of Normandy which was very harmful to the peace negotiations with Hitler. Sad.

#politas

US Weather Agency to Preserve Research Websites in Reversal The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency will preserve access to websites tied to its research division, after previously moving to cancel a cloud web services contract that supports many of its...

BREAKING: In a reversal, all NOAA Research sites will now remain online with "no interruption in service," according to the agency. NOAA had previously moved to cancel the research division's cloud services contract.

Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):

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Loss & Damage fund for the penguins.

Heard Island and McDonald Islands have seen a dramatic warming since 1940. The penguins there have enough to deal with even without the 10% tariffs just imposed on them.

How bad was today's stock market decline?

Of the 11,406 trading days since January 1980, only 29 had larger declines.