Mike M
@mikem76.bsky.social
Family, writing, reading, poetry, education, Tolkien, medieval history, jazz, Hendrix, empathy, cat.
Australian and proud to live on Whadjuk Noongar Country. #TreatyNow.
To find more of my writing:
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Australian and proud to live on Whadjuk Noongar Country. #TreatyNow.
To find more of my writing:
https://xwaxinglyricalx.wixsite.com/website
This is probably my musical highlight of 2025. I love the confounding of expectations, the obliteration of stereotypes. And FWIW, I really do like death metal; I've just never heard it emanate from someone who looks like Ignacia Fernández.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwbZ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwbZ...
Ignacia Fernández sorprende en Miss Mundo Chile 2025 con voz gutural de death metal
YouTube video by Agencia Periodismo Investigativo
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:35 AM
This is probably my musical highlight of 2025. I love the confounding of expectations, the obliteration of stereotypes. And FWIW, I really do like death metal; I've just never heard it emanate from someone who looks like Ignacia Fernández.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwbZ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwbZ...
England appoint OJ Simpson Lawyer as new coach, who pledges to focus on Chewbacca Defence. #Fuzzball #Ashes #CricketSky
December 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
England appoint OJ Simpson Lawyer as new coach, who pledges to focus on Chewbacca Defence. #Fuzzball #Ashes #CricketSky
I was telling my son this morning (who’s not much of a footy fan) about the ‘Don’t Argue’ and the 'Falcon'. He quite liked the DA as an expression, but reckons that the falcon should be called the magpie. I think he’s completely correct. #AFLSky
December 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I was telling my son this morning (who’s not much of a footy fan) about the ‘Don’t Argue’ and the 'Falcon'. He quite liked the DA as an expression, but reckons that the falcon should be called the magpie. I think he’s completely correct. #AFLSky
Just to be clear, I'm completely ok with this.
I was never going to go there anyway. Dictatorial cults aren't really my vibe.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I was never going to go there anyway. Dictatorial cults aren't really my vibe.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Tourists to US would have to reveal five years of social media activity under new Trump plan
Plan would apply to countries not currently required to get visas to the US, including Britain and France
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Just to be clear, I'm completely ok with this.
I was never going to go there anyway. Dictatorial cults aren't really my vibe.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I was never going to go there anyway. Dictatorial cults aren't really my vibe.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This a terrific piece about why Test Cricket is the summit. You either get it or you don’t.
www.espncricinfo.com/story/west-i...
www.espncricinfo.com/story/west-i...
West Indies showcase aesthetic of defence in a Bazball world
Greaves and Roach stayed put for 68.1 overs to deny New Zealand and eke out a miraculous draw
www.espncricinfo.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:14 AM
This a terrific piece about why Test Cricket is the summit. You either get it or you don’t.
www.espncricinfo.com/story/west-i...
www.espncricinfo.com/story/west-i...
Absolutely. Social media is toxic for kids. It’s bad enough for adults.
So proud of my home country of Australia for banning social media for anyone under 16. I don’t give a shit about some kids finding sneaky ways to get around the ban or government ID’s or any of that crap. I’m just appreciating the same common sense that implemented a near total ban on guns in 1996.
December 7, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Absolutely. Social media is toxic for kids. It’s bad enough for adults.
Trump is evil's bitch.
Trump does whatever Putin wants because he idolizes what Putin has been able to achieve, turning Russia into an oligarchy; Trump is trying to do the same thing here. And, the former KGB operative has something on him.
December 6, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Trump is evil's bitch.
Dead right.
December 6, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Dead right.
The world is being run by craven cowards and bullying scum. Some days, it's hard to see the fucking point.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Trump awarded inaugural Fifa peace prize at World Cup draw in Washington
US president receives new Fifa honour as scrutiny grows over Infantino’s political alliances and Trump’s disputed record on global conflicts
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:02 AM
The world is being run by craven cowards and bullying scum. Some days, it's hard to see the fucking point.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
I’d love to hear #Metallica cover White Man by #Queen. I reckon they’d smash it. Deep, dark, angry beast of a song.
December 4, 2025 at 6:40 AM
I’d love to hear #Metallica cover White Man by #Queen. I reckon they’d smash it. Deep, dark, angry beast of a song.
We breed because life is worth living here.
Trump on policy proposals he's looking at to raise the birthrate: "There's a certain Australian plan that people are liking and they're talking about. You know what I mean? There's a plan where, not for children necessarily, but it's for people. Working people. And we are looking at other things."
December 3, 2025 at 10:46 AM
We breed because life is worth living here.
Imagine giving a fuck about this. I can't even bring myself to try.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Ellen DeGeneres left Trump's America. Will the British weather force her to return? | Arwa Mahdawi
She’s far from the only celebrity to have declared her intention to live outside the US. As with many others though, it looks like a reverse ferret could be in the works, writes Arwa Mahdawi
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Imagine giving a fuck about this. I can't even bring myself to try.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
He's mentally decomposing in real time. Imagine have an elected government that lacks the balls, brains or conscience to do something about it. Forget the swamp; these people are the mould that's growing in Reactor Number Four. #trump #uspol
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump’s night of 160 posts on Truth Social fuels debate about US president’s stamina
The 79-year-old president’s social media blitz included conspiracies, attacks on political foes and self-praise
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:44 AM
He's mentally decomposing in real time. Imagine have an elected government that lacks the balls, brains or conscience to do something about it. Forget the swamp; these people are the mould that's growing in Reactor Number Four. #trump #uspol
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Amazing how many kids are worried about the social media ban, fearing they won't be able to communicate with their friends. Remarkable. They're going to have to learn what a phone actually is.
December 3, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Amazing how many kids are worried about the social media ban, fearing they won't be able to communicate with their friends. Remarkable. They're going to have to learn what a phone actually is.
Some people seem to think that left-leaning people are worried that there will be #Democrats in the #Epstein Files.
Bullshit.
Frankly, if fucking Obama is in the Epstein Files, I hope he gets walloped with the full force of the law. In no sane country is paedophilia a partisan issue. #uspol
Bullshit.
Frankly, if fucking Obama is in the Epstein Files, I hope he gets walloped with the full force of the law. In no sane country is paedophilia a partisan issue. #uspol
December 3, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Some people seem to think that left-leaning people are worried that there will be #Democrats in the #Epstein Files.
Bullshit.
Frankly, if fucking Obama is in the Epstein Files, I hope he gets walloped with the full force of the law. In no sane country is paedophilia a partisan issue. #uspol
Bullshit.
Frankly, if fucking Obama is in the Epstein Files, I hope he gets walloped with the full force of the law. In no sane country is paedophilia a partisan issue. #uspol
Hard to know what was dumber: voting for Trump or voting for Brexit.
On balance, it's got to be Trump, simply because the US was insane enough to do it twice. Mind you, if the UK had a second vote, they're still just racist and stupid enough to vote for it again.
On balance, it's got to be Trump, simply because the US was insane enough to do it twice. Mind you, if the UK had a second vote, they're still just racist and stupid enough to vote for it again.
December 2, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Hard to know what was dumber: voting for Trump or voting for Brexit.
On balance, it's got to be Trump, simply because the US was insane enough to do it twice. Mind you, if the UK had a second vote, they're still just racist and stupid enough to vote for it again.
On balance, it's got to be Trump, simply because the US was insane enough to do it twice. Mind you, if the UK had a second vote, they're still just racist and stupid enough to vote for it again.
Is #MarkKelly the next US President?
December 1, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Is #MarkKelly the next US President?
An American 'centrist' is still a right-wing extremist in the eyes of the majority of the functioning Western World. The USA is up shit creek without a paddle but thinks it's in the Bahamas.
As a centrist, I think Donald Trump is bad, but the political and economic conditions that enabled him to become president twice are good
December 1, 2025 at 5:46 AM
An American 'centrist' is still a right-wing extremist in the eyes of the majority of the functioning Western World. The USA is up shit creek without a paddle but thinks it's in the Bahamas.
What utter nonsense. Some people just don't get it. Being a 'centrist' isn't ideal when the ship of state is nearly vertical more than half under water.
As a centrist, I think Donald Trump is bad, but the political and economic conditions that enabled him to become president twice are good
December 1, 2025 at 5:45 AM
What utter nonsense. Some people just don't get it. Being a 'centrist' isn't ideal when the ship of state is nearly vertical more than half under water.
I've had some strange dreams in my time, but finding myself in a pairs competitive lego assemblage competition partnered with Sir Elton John is right up there.
December 1, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I've had some strange dreams in my time, but finding myself in a pairs competitive lego assemblage competition partnered with Sir Elton John is right up there.
I think I've found my spirit animal.
November 28, 2025 at 4:02 AM
I think I've found my spirit animal.
Makes sense. I gather he was left-handed, too, which is surely a bugger for me, should I ever muster the insanity required to consider going to the US. Also, is this a picture of #Trump or a recently deceased Galapagos Tortoise?
#uspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
#uspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
US stops processing immigration requests from Afghan nationals
The decision comes hours after US President Donald Trump said he was confident the suspect behind the shooting of two National Guard soldiers in Washington was from Afghanistan.
www.abc.net.au
November 27, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Makes sense. I gather he was left-handed, too, which is surely a bugger for me, should I ever muster the insanity required to consider going to the US. Also, is this a picture of #Trump or a recently deceased Galapagos Tortoise?
#uspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
#uspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Treason is the new standard in Trump's America. #uspol #russia #ukraine #witkoff #traitor
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump defends Witkoff after leak appears to show envoy coaching Russias
The US president said he had not heard the audio, but that it sounded like "standard" negotiations.
www.bbc.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:29 AM