The latest Do Go On is about ANNE BONNY!!! They have previously done Blackbeard and Zheng Yi Sao/Ching Shih, so they are doing great in #OFMD rep. 🥰

Such a gorgeous warm still autumn evening in Melbourne. Perfect for a little walk along the beach.

Hi have enjoyed hearing your voice on the radio. We listen to 88.3 quite a lot.

Jon English, my 1st pirate love.

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Even if it's not true, does he not know that by saying it, he is revealing himself to be a cunt?

I don’t say this very much at all however if you like #CelebrityIntervention you are very wrong.

Oh boy, it's sort of This is your Life/Celebrity Roast and just awful. I had to turn it off. I've always felt that Roasts are just a way for arseholes to bully people. Not my cup of cold stale tea.

‘Fisk really changed my life’: Aaron Chen on leaving Australia for the US and his meteoric rise The gently offbeat comedian is a beloved presence on Australian TV, but he’s now relocated to New York and made his first Hollywood film. He reflects on ‘a big time of growing up’ * Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Near the end of his Netflix special Funny Garden, Aaron Chen checks in with his New York audience. “Did any of you come to the show because you know me from Fisk?” he asks. A chorus of enthusiastic whoops answers. “It changed my life,” he says. It’s a good setup for a joke about how his audience shifted overnight from 90% men aged 25 to 34 (“This is not a good demographic. A lot of incels.”) to women aged 45-54 (“These beautiful, white angels!”). But, like much of his comedy, there’s a twist of sincerity. “It did really change my life,” Chen tells me. Fisk, ABC’s surprise-hit sitcom about a beleaguered suburban probate law firm, put Chen – who plays probate clerk-cum-self-styled “webmaster” George – on the map not only in Australia (where he won a Logie in 2025) but also the US, where the series landed on Netflix in August 2023. When Chen moved to the US that very month, he found he already had a small, but enthusiastic fanbase: “I was shocked that people in crazy places like Burlington, Vermont, would be coming to shows.” Continue reading...

‘Fisk really changed my life’: Aaron Chen on leaving Australia for the US and his meteoric rise

How this 1957 comedy predicted today's AI job crisis YouTube video by Tom D Mann

Desk Set is one of my favourite films, a funny romantic Xmas comedy about a librarian & IT nerd written by Nora Ephram's parents. As a librarian I really related to it when the internet pretty much shut the library industry down, but now, A.I. is coming for everyone. youtu.be/Fsoaa6R_0lw?...

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

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The government must invest in more services, to help the system cope with demand, and to ensure people most affected by high petrol prices in Melbourne's outer suburbs and regional Victoria have a public transport option they can use.

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Cats and dogs who are besties.

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#dog #cat #friendships

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Yes around 6 pm we watched it for about 5 to 10 mins, so it was pretty slow.

I thought meteor at first but it was moving too slowly flying across the sky, someone else said a plane with chem trail but this looked like a flame.

Does anyone know what this was heading west over Melbourne? Looked like a comet. I took these off the Westgate Bridge

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Assorted Haiku Haiku #2511   Tourists wait in line to enter Machu Picchu. Oh, look! A high queue. Haiku #564127   how dare you suggest I have a short attention spanish omelette   Limeraiku   There once was a young limerick from Kew who turned into a haiku. The Constraints of Haiku   Tied up all night with a haiku dominatrix and her three-line whip.   Shakespearean Haiku   Shall I compare thee To a summer’s day? Alright – Thou art pretty hot.   How to Write a Haiku   The last line should flow seamlessly from the first two – hippopotamus.    Brian Bilston  

It’s International Haiku Day apparently and so for today’s poetry offering, here are a few assorted haiku.

In the UK we call them lifts but in the US they call them elevators, because we’re raised differently.

My favourite thing is not having to scrabble about for my Myki / wallet. Also transport has been so awful, I'm glad I'm not paying for getting to work late everyday on crappy replacement buses this week.

The Hotdog Man - Tripod YouTube video by georgie2412

So, when's #Tripod's The Hot Dog Man going to be made?
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Don't think I've seen this on line before! It's been so long since I've heard this!! Thanks Ian.

Thank you for tonight's lullaby. She's my fave and I've not seen this clip before, so gorgeous.

An Maighdean Mhara (The Mermaid) - Moya Brennan, 1990 YouTube video by CR's Video Vaults

Moya Brennan, one of my favorite singers, has passed. An unaccompanied song in Irish is one of the most beautiful things you could ever be lucky to hear. I found this perfect song to share. May her memory be a blessing. youtu.be/0BT7ErpWNR8?...

The new BOM radar was so useless, showing barely any rain near Mebourne while I watched it TEEM down ouside, so I opened the old radar on my computer and it was all red over Melbourne. Yep that's the one.

"But @claireb76.bsky.social, it's not clutter. It's the Japanese art of tsundoku."

In Japanese, "tsundoku" (积ん読) means collecting books and letting them pile up, not from neglect,
but for the joy of knowing they're there, full of untold stories. It combines "tsumu" (to pile up) & "doku" (to read).

Sexual harassment is rife on comedy circuit and women lack protections, MPs told Women using informal warning systems to protect themselves and others, comedian tells equalities committee * UK politics live – latest updates Sexual harassment and abuse on the comedy circuit has is persistent and under-reported, with protections available to women often limited or absent, a comedian has told MPs. Performers and campaigners said many female comedians are left to rely on informal warning systems to try to keep themselves safe but added that these systems can expose women to further risks. Continue reading...

Sexual harassment is rife on comedy circuit and women lack protections, MPs told