so all you soccer fans will be up at 4am to watch the game Saturday, correct? and the yahoos will also turn up at Fed Square bright and early?

This is what it has come to in yet another fireworks season

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Hey Google maybe not?

After having a really good vegan chicken bahn mi, I’m seeking recommendations for fake meat restaurants in Melbourne. Any tips appreciated, inner north even better.

Doing my bit to support our national team.

Doing my bit to support our national team.

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Egypt, Queensland, has eight inhabitants. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt,_...

You, and your robot friend. Apologies TMBG. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

If the Socceroos win their next match I think Patrick Beach should get free entry to St Kilda Beach for the rest of his life.

Recruiting other people who also live a 9-hour drive from Broken Hill to listen to Matt Dillon reading On The Road as we converge for a winter full moon gathering in an abandoned mining village. Who’s in?

Maybe gunshots south Brunswick?

Saved so much time not watching that match I guess. I mean go Australia but never seen so much excitement about a scoreless draw.

petition to have no webinar ever go over 90 minutes.

Half expected the tracks to spell N-E-V…

Bronze statues being nicked all over the place apparently (including from a grave at a local cemetery, how could you go that low?). Google is helpfully identifying where the public bronzes are...

Saw a tradie ute with “Danboy” rego plates. Sadly no company logo so I was unable to ascertain whether they were a plumber.

I suspect some sort of software development in joke …,

It’s so cold I went into the dairy section at Piede’s to warm up. #fitzroynorth

For future researchers wondering about why the revolution came: a $200 cheese grater.

Almost tearing up with gratitude after encountering The Competent Person in the power company who resolved a genuinely Kafkaesque situation.

Calling for the sacking of any subeditor who fails to call the Socceroos a political football. #auspol

ABC radio interviewing local vet Enoch Bergman about bird flu. I heard Birdman of course.

There’s a duck complaining on my roof how am I supposed to work under these conditions.

Very very worried about the swans.

trying to explain a location to a council officer and I'm like "past the bit where the kangaroos cross in that avenue of gum trees, but before you get to the corner with the Exit sign, like between the hayfield and the cattle paddock" and he knew exactly where I meant.

new Substack because it's Monday. FWIW I fed it into an AI to see if I'd published it anywhere already, and was assured it was by Robert Macfarlane. (At point of writing, I had not read Macfarlane...) open.substack.com/pub/jennysin...

Dean Moriarty would have been 100 years old this year.

check your banks Australian creatives, CAL money just landed, time to buy another bottle of (*checks amount*) mid-priced domestic bubbly from the discount bin.

not to name and shame, but the email communicating info about the comms course was incorrect: "You may have received an email a few minutes ago which contains an error in the date. Please note that the date of the next communications course ..."

Maybe the US was onto something with the Heard Island tariffs? Maybe if we'd done that, we wouldn't have bird flu now?

Just got tix to boganfest, sorry, Red Hot Summer, to see Men at Work. Also Australian Crawl but whatever.

Strange to think that the Ukrainian armed forces must have a team dedicated to capturing footage of things in Russia they plan to blow up.

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Child having meltdown at 7.22 am about a drama class he’s lost the script for. A Greek play apparently. I was not my best parenting self at this point and asked: “what was it, Medea?”. Fortunately he did not get that.

Really someone should put this out of its misery if they can’t be bothered watering it.

“This house is a mess. I have so much work to do,” said Toad. Frog looked through the window. “Toad, you are right,” said Frog. “It is a mess.” Toad pulled the covers over his head.

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apropos of absolutely nothing, Clem Christensen once published his own obituary in Overland. It reads: "...was cremated at Springvale tougher with a copy of the Little Red Book, a complete set of Meanjin Quarterly bound in grained calfskin ... to the ... cavatina from Beethoven's B flat quartet 130"

Addition to my occasional series on favourite coffee shops: Osoi, Brunswick Upfield bike path, vaguely Japanese style, access to big indoor seated area, strong coffee on the slightly bitter side, open at 730 close to my gym. Only one person inside to order at a time please, sign says.

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Tell me dogs don’t dream.

there is a tab open somewhere playing jazz while I try to listen to an Estimates recording, and the slightly sexy saxophone. glissandos give a different flavour to the earnest discussion of just who exactly regulates the ANU.

Really enjoying this Ron Robertson-SwannXChristo exhibition.

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