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.
This means that the podcast post-production was pushed back again, but it also means that you’ll get three podcasts in the coming week. On a more uniformly positive note, I also settled into some restructured client work.
Please support The 9pm Spring Series 2025 crowdfunder
This season’s crowdfunding campaign, The 9pm Spring Series 2025, is under way.
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Articles
The Weekly Cybers didn’t appear this week due to the above-mentioned illness, but you’re more than welcome to subscribe for FREE so you get the next one.
You can read my previous writing at Authory, where you can also subscribe to an email compilation of any new stories each Sunday morning.
Corporate Largesse
- As a journalist I scored free attendance at the Influencing Live conference on Thursday, although I had to leave at lunchtime because I fell ill. Which is a shame, because there were some great sessions.
Podcasts, Photos, Videos, Media Appearances
None of these, although you’ll see below there’s plenty of podcasts coming up. You can subscribe to my YouTube channel to be notified when new videos appear and when livestreams are scheduled.
Some Interesting Links
- The unblinking Patrick Boyle is particularly snarky this week as he runs through a few recent investment scams.
- I stumbled across an excellent comedy duo, Real Real Japan. Linguistics nerds will particularly like it.
- Do you like birds? Here’s a bunch of live bird video streams.
- Do you like cooking? Here’s the Wikipedia entry for futurist cooking. As in the Italian Futurists. There’s quite a bit of bullshit here, in my view.
The Week Ahead
It’s a week for catching up on all the things, so wish me luck.
On Monday I’ll ease into the week with a little client database wrangling. At lunchtime I might try to catch the Lowy Institute panel discussion, Indonesia’s next chapter: Governance, leadership and reform, although I’ll probably leave it until later. This is why they’re recorded, after all.
Tuesday through Thursday sees a mix of podcast post-production and client work. There’s one episode each of The 9pm Edict and Another Untitled Music Podcast in post-production, and I’ll probably publish them in that order.
I return to the Blue Mountains on Thursday afternoon.
On Friday it’s The Weekly Cybers newsletter as usual, and then I’m recording a podcast with Scottish author and social researcher David F Porteous, who’s been on the pod many times. If you’re a supporter with a TRIGGER WORD or CONVERSATION TOPIC for this episode, please let me know by 4pm AEDT that day. The finished episode will be posted on Saturday evening.
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Further Ahead
- The 9pm Spring Series 2025 crowdfunder wrap-up, 25 September 2025, 9pm AEST.
Cabramatta Moon Festival, 28 September 2025 (TBC).Nah, I’ll be too busy.- Housesitting in Sydney, 4–20 October 2025 or part thereof. This comes at a particularly convenient time, as I’ll need to be in Sydney all three of these weekends.
- Another Untitled Music Podcast recording, 6 October 2025.
- The 9pm Edict recording with Dr Alice Gorman and Rami Mandow, 15 October 2025. If you have a space-related TRIGGER WORD or CONVERSATION TOPIC for this episode, please get it to me by 11am AEDT that day.
- Sam Campbell: Window Sucker, Sydney, 31 October 2025.
[Photo: A brown cuckoo-dove (Macropygia phasianella) and an Australian magpie (Gymnorhina tibicen) disagree over who will be sitting on the taller tree stump on 6 September 2025. The pigeon was the one who eventually backed down.]