Show threadPeter Riley2d ago

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/jun/10/do-we-really-need-gigantic-noisy-water-guzzling-datacentres-ruining-our-communities-in-this-economy

#Ai #Art #Cartoons #DataCenters #FirstDogOnTheMoon #illustration

Do we really need gigantic, noisy, water-guzzling datacentres ruining our communities? In this economy?

Excessive heat, pollution and making climate change worse just so you can ask the computer to draw a funny dancing cabbage

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Oceans CraigMay 26

#FirstDogOnTheMoon on having people around who know about #Climate #AusPol

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/may/25/is-this-a-good-time-for-the-csiro-to-be-sacking-climate-scientists

Is this a good time for the CSIRO to be sacking climate scientists?

The next El Niño is predicted to be bigger than ever with devastating global impacts

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Show threadPeter RileyMay 12

@firstdogonthemoon

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/may/08/is-joy-off-the-table-have-we-lost-the-ancient-knowledge-of-how-to-have-a-jolly-time

#Art #cartoons #firstdogonthemoon
#illustration #joy

Is joy off the table? Have we lost the ancient knowledge of how to have a jolly time?

Some folk suggest ‘having fun’ in the face of global doom hurtling can be an act of rebellion, and while this is not actually true it can be fun

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Lats (314 ppm)Apr 24

Finally a positive for nuclear energy!

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/apr/24/nuclear-power-have-we-finally-found-a-useful-use-for-it-lets-ask-a-wolf?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other #firstdogonthemoon #nuclearpower #nuclearenergy

Nuclear power! Have we finally found a useful use for it? Let’s ask a wolf

The huge area around Chernobyl has become an enormous wildlife reserve! And many creatures are thriving

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Peter RileyApr 24

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/apr/24/nuclear-power-have-we-finally-found-a-useful-use-for-it-lets-ask-a-wolf

@firstdogonthemoon

#Art #cartoons #FirstDogOnTheMoon #illustration #nukepuke

Nuclear power! Have we finally found a useful use for it? Let’s ask a wolf

The huge area around Chernobyl has become an enormous wildlife reserve! And many creatures are thriving

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Show threadPeter RileyApr 20

Won’t somebody save these hundreds of turtles condemned to death?
(There is a whole dam full of water right there but the turtles can’t have it.)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/apr/20/wont-somebody-save-these-hundreds-of-turtles-condemned-to-death

Update 21st April
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-21/mud-turtle-rescue-at-gwydir-wetlands/106577116

#FirstNations #Kamilaroi

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/21/water-nsw-criticised-for-appalling-decision-after-hundreds-of-turtles-left-to-die-in-wetlands

#art #cartoons #CopetonDam #firstdogonthemoon #Gwidir #illustration #Moree #Turtles #WaterNSW

Won’t somebody save these hundreds of turtles condemned to death?

There is a whole dam full of water right there but the turtles can’t have it

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Solar🌄GardenApr 15
#FirstDogOnTheMoon #billionaires #climateCrisis
Peter RileyApr 13

@firstdogonthemoon

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/apr/13/can-the-25th-amendment-save-us-all-from-global-disaster

#Art #Cartoons #FirstDogOnTheMoon #trumpland

Can the 25th amendment save us all from global disaster?

We all know Trump has been doing loads of terrible things but apparently threatening to destroy Iranian civilisation is finally a bridge too far

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RaymondPierreL3Mar 25

#FIrstDogOnTheMoon. Love this one (apart from a few errors in French), I’m sure he ahd lots of fun with it.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/mar/25/lamingtons-banned-chiko-rolls-its-the-new-woke-eu-trade-deal

Lamingtons banned? Chiko rolls illegal? It’s the new woke EU trade deal!

Being depressed and eating your feelings has never been cheaper

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Solar🌄GardenMar 23
#FirstDogOnTheMoon #carBrain #polycrisis #consumerism