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Weekly Wrap 800: Podcasts finally emerge and that goddam kookaburra is back

A laughing kookaburra — yeah one of those chonky kingfishers — sits on top of a branch and glares at you.

In my week of Monday 22 to Sunday 28 September 2025 I moved beyond the stresses of earlier in the month and posted two podcasts, planned a bunch of stuff and wrapped up my 28th crowdfunding campaign. Welcome to spring. And yeah I took another photo of a kookaburra. That kookaburra.

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The 9pm Conspiracy Nation with Ariel Bogle and Cam Wilson

Black and white photos of two white people, a woman with her hair tied back neatly, and a man with short hair and a half-arsed beard. Between them is the cover of their book, CONSPIRACY NATION.
Journalists Erin Cook and Cam Wilson with the cover of their book “Conspiracy Nation”. (Photos: Supplied; Digital composition by Stilgherrian.)

As you all know, I am a lizard, and through the power of 5G and the implants which have been secretly inserted into you via chemtrails and the covid vaccine, or possibly by a UFOnaut which was probing you, I can control your mind.

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Weekly Wrap 798: A third week disrupted by illness, but a different one, plus squabbling birds

A bright sunny day. On a tree stump on the left, a brown cuckoo-dove with lighter brown undersides and pink feet raises its wings to look big and fierce. On the right, on a slightly lower tree stump, is an Australian magpie, head hunched down, wings extended. It's a stand-off! And on the far right, a red plastic water bowl.

My week of Monday 8 to Sunday 14 September 2025 started well but slipped into illness at the end — again! — although things then improved on the weekend. I had to bail from a conference on Thursday, and spend Friday very close to a bathroom at all time. We shall speak of this no more.

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