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Mike from sunny Perth

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Look who popped their head out to say hello as I walked past

Small skink poking their head out of a crack in a wall

January 29, 2026 at 4:07 AM

Mike from sunny Perth

@mikethecavedweller.bsky.social

Do your brain a favour. Have a read. Have a laugh, but it's a serious read.

The American Empire’s Barbed-Wire Canoe theaimn.net/the-american...

The American Empire’s Barbed-Wire Canoe

The American Empire has finally done it. After strutting the globe like a prize bull in a china shop, for what seemed an eternity, (the blink of an eye in world history), it has tripped [...]

theaimn.net

January 19, 2026 at 2:04 AM

Mike from sunny Perth

@mikethecavedweller.bsky.social

Do your ears a favour.

Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 28d

Sometimes you see something in the guitar world that's so talented, it makes you go "nope - I'm done. Off to learn lead electric triangle" www.youtube.com/watch?v=reab...

Rosanna - Toto (Kent Nishimura)

YouTube video by Kent Nishimura

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January 14, 2026 at 11:08 AM

Mike from sunny Perth

@mikethecavedweller.bsky.social

Have a read. Makes sense.

Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 29d

The Upper Path is to stop acting like a quarry and start behaving like a sovereign industrial nation. This means building an Australia-led critical minerals ecosystem. Not just digging faster or finding new customers. #auspol #ChinaThreat #criticalminerals

Best of 2025 - China, US or us? Australia’s Upper Path in the global minerals race

The headlines are breathless: “China versus the world,” proclaimed The Australian, quoting some very important people from the sheriff's office urging allies to decouple from Beijing and unite against China's takeover of global rare earth supply chains.

johnmenadue.com

January 12, 2026 at 11:10 PM

Mike from sunny Perth

@mikethecavedweller.bsky.social

My weekends work. Turning 4 300x50 west Australian Marri boards into planks ready to be laminated for a table top.

A west Australian marri board before being machined into useable planks

West Australian marri planks after machining. It will be a table top

January 11, 2026 at 10:40 AM

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ABC News Bot (unofficial)

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Five years after feral cats were removed from inside the Western River Refuge on Kangaroo Island, populations of endangered species have boomed.

'Predator-free' fence project praised for restoring Kangaroo Island's native wildlife

Five years after feral cats were removed from inside the Western River Refuge on Kangaroo Island, populations of endangered species have boomed.

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January 10, 2026 at 8:08 PM

Mike from sunny Perth

@mikethecavedweller.bsky.social

Is substack on the naughty list for small children? Every time I click a link to substack it wants me to confirm my age. They won't be getting any info from me and the Nazi platform can go fuck itself. Good riddance.

January 10, 2026 at 9:59 AM

Mike from sunny Perth

@mikethecavedweller.bsky.social

Live music. What's not to like! Have a listen and tap along.

Ewart, Dave @davidewart.bsky.social · Jan 9

youtu.be/rdcGEBk9egA?... it would really kick 🦶 this video into the stratosphere if everyone with a passing interest in promoting live music instead of AI took a moment to like or comment on the video on you tube.

Honkfest. Bed's are burning . Outstanding hoot band performance honk Australia 🌏

YouTube video by davey ewart

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January 10, 2026 at 5:35 AM

Mike from sunny Perth

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The list will be long. Disgraceful behaviour from Adelaide festival.

Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · Jan 8

I stand with Randa and everyone standing against hate, genocide, oppression and terror. In all its forms.

Statement from the Australia Institute announcing its withdrawal of support and sponsored events from the Adelaide Writers’ Festival

Statement from Amy Remeikis withdrawing from Adelaide Writers’ Festival

January 8, 2026 at 9:36 AM

Mike from sunny Perth

@mikethecavedweller.bsky.social

This sums it all up quite nicely. Please read.

Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social · Jan 4

I wrote a follow-up to my essay on the Bondi shooting. sakr.substack.com/p/arming-the...

In my original piece, Globalise the Intifada, I wrote a little about Albanese's response to the terrorist shooting, and the media's unprecedented move - in concert with the Liberal Party - to pin him with the blame for it, echoing Netanyahu quite literally. The unanimous and unfounded claim was that he had not done enough to stop the manifestation of antisemitism anywhere. This is an absurd position, but conservatives absolutely love to create a war on sentiment, on feeling itself - from the war on terror, to now the war on antisemitism, and coincidentally, I'm sure, both require the mass murder and ethnic cleansing of millions of brown and black Muslims, both require the theft of land and territory on a massive scale, both require the rapacious extraction of resources, both require an ever-tightening set of controls and surveillance of domestic and non-domestic populations, both require the mass media to resolutely pump out an astonishing amount of hysterical propaganda, both are wars on concepts and feelings therefore they have no definitive end, though while abstract, they are tied negatively and concretely to the figure of the Arab and the figure of the Muslim. In short, the message to Albanese is: you are not showing us a sufficient level of obedience, or control of the unruly masses. Remember, the focus in the aftermath of the attack was not terrorism or the prevention thereof so much as it was the totally unrelated yet historically popular protests which Zionists insist must be forcefully ended.

January 4, 2026 at 11:40 PM

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Rick Morton

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Another way too long post about the season of surprises during my very quick trip back to Australia. I'm exhausted. Keeping secrets is hard work! rick-morton.ghost.io/surprise-so-...

Surprise So Nice We Did It Twice

The Morton family has never really been good at surprises. To be surprised meant being the recipient of unscheduled bad news. To wit: a part on the car that none of us previously knew existed is brok...

rick-morton.ghost.io

January 4, 2026 at 8:46 PM

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David Milner

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Here's me. "Weaponising the Bondi tragedy is a betrayal of all our children"

Weaponising the Bondi tragedy is a betrayal of all our children - The Shot

Breathe, slowly. It helps. Cry if you need to. All of this hurts. But please understand, before we go any...

theshot.net.au

December 19, 2025 at 1:46 AM

Mike from sunny Perth

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Things I don't miss. Number 2 child home visiting for the holidays.

An empty toilet roll on a toilet cistern

December 11, 2025 at 10:06 AM

Mike from sunny Perth

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The view from my beer chair this evening. After a disastrous day yesterday. We are finally here. Halligans bay tomorrow morning to see the receding waters of lake Eyre.