Dominus Owen Markham

They’re Not Even Bothering to Hide It Anymore

Caveman — Wed, 06 May 2026 14:29:36 +0000

There’s a certain kind of insult reserved for people who think you’re too stupid to notice. It’s the insult of being lied to slowly, methodically, and with almost breathtaking confidence. It’s the kind of insult that assumes you won’t check. That you’re busy. That the news cycle will swallow it whole before you’ve had your […]

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We Used to Perform Perfection…

Caveman — Wed, 06 May 2026 08:42:39 +0000

Now We Perform Not Performing Perfection. Somewhere between the flat-lay avocado toast and the deliberately terrible selfie, something quietly shifted. Not with a bang. Not with a manifesto. Just a slow, almost imperceptible pivot… like a ship changing course by half a degree and ending up in entirely the wrong ocean. We drifted. And the […]

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The World Runs on Poor People’s Blood

Caveman — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:40:07 +0000

And Nobody Wants to Talk About It A long-form investigation into the international plasma market, the exploitation hiding in plain sight, and why the mainstream health conversation keeps looking the other way. There’s a woman I’ll call Carolina. She works a twelve-hour overnight shift in a maquiladora in Matamoros, Mexico… one of those US-owned factories […]

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Your Neighbour’s Camera Is Watching You

Caveman — Sun, 03 May 2026 09:20:18 +0000

And It Doesn’t Work For Them You didn’t consent to being surveilled. But your HOA did, on your behalf, at a meeting you weren’t at, for a product they didn’t fully read the terms of. It doesn’t arrive in a black van or flash a government badge. It arrives as a small, unassuming box bolted […]

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We’ve Run Out of Ideas

Caveman — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:27:53 +0000

(And We’re Pouring Chocolate Over the Evidence) Let me paint you a picture. Somewhere out there, a person with a ring light and a parasocial following of 400,000 people is slowly, reverently, pornographically pouring melted chocolate into a tube of Pringles. The camera is close. The chocolate is viscous. The music is lo-fi and vaguely […]

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The World Wants More Oil

Caveman — Fri, 01 May 2026 10:24:42 +0000

The Amazon Is Paying For It. At a meeting in 2023, Petrobras told Indigenous leaders in the Amazon that their helicopters flew an average of two flights a day over their territories. The real number was closer to eight. Nobody corrected the record. So, you’re filling up your car, watching the number on the pump […]

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We Regret to Inform You That This Is Now Normal

Caveman — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:38:17 +0000

It’s strange how little ceremony there is when something quietly worsens. No announcement. No collective moment where someone steps forward and says, plainly, this is going to be harder now. Instead, it arrives in fragments… a price adjustment here, a reduced service there, a delay that used to be an exception but now feels oddly […]

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The Day Abu Dhabi Told Vienna to Sling Its Hook

Caveman — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:02:29 +0000

The UAE has just walked out of OPEC after 59 years. Here’s why it matters, why it was inevitable, and why the timing is absolutely peak 2026. Let me set the scene for you. It’s the 28th of April, 2026. The world is already on fire… in some cases, quite literally. There’s an active war […]

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Your Green Pension Is Gassing Up America

Caveman — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:47:26 +0000

How sixty British local councils managed to plant their climate flags firmly in the ground… and then quietly drill underneath them Being a “Brit” means you have a kind of British institutional confidence that deserves its own word. It’s not quite hypocrisy… it’s more refined than that. It’s the ability to declare, with full sincerity […]

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A Place To Put Your Thoughts

Caveman — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:44:33 +0000

On Writing and Quiet Clarity It rarely announces itself as something important… the act of writing. Most people don’t sit down at a desk thinking, this will be good for my mental health. It’s usually far more ordinary than that. A notebook opened out of habit. A blank document waiting on a screen. A few […]

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