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Bridie Mac

@bridiemac.bsky.social

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Linguist, Pacifist, Snowflake. I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land & pay my respects to their Elders past & present. On Gadigal land. 🎻🏛️🏝️🩰📚🎓👗🚀 🚫 DMs w/out invitation. If you haven't posted anything I don't follow back.

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Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · Feb 25

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 6h

Anyone come to mind?

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Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 10h

She does look *very* hard doesn't she. But you'd have to be to share a bed, even a room, or a house with the orange buffoon. 🤮

Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 19h

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Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 19h

Oh no, surely not! Do you think so Roseanne? Surely even Trump wldn't allow that, it wld make him look completely ridiculous and a failure. After bragging that he shld get the Nobel Peace Prize bc he's ended 8 wars in 8 mths, even he wldn't want this to backfire. I really can't take any more. 💔 😭 💔

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Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 1d

meals from; nappies; toys; school requirements like pencils, coloured pencils, pencil sharpeners, rulers, textas, colouring books; schoolbags & hats; UHT milk, formula, canned foods (not pork or ham) incl fruit- anything you'd send to an Australian country town ravaged by bush fire.

#AidForGaza

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Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 1d

My heart breaks for what these poor people are going to find in Gaza City - not much I wouldn't think.

Time to start mobilising to get them things they'll need to rebuild: clothes, shoes & sox; toiletries incl hair dryers, brushes & combs; bedding; kitchen ware (pots) & utensils; crockery to eat /2

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2d

Tens of thousands of Palestinians are walking back to Gaza City as the Israeli military begins its withdrawal from the area following the ceasefire agreement.

Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum is there, watching what he described as ‘an endless tide of humans’.

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Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 1d

A protestor arrested for saying the word 'coconut'. That word has no significance for me so if I ever go to the UK again, I shall speak Italian or French, just to be safe.

Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: activist and content creator Ani Says arrested AGAIN by Met

Ani Says is banned from Westminster. So, she was protesting in Southwark - when cops nicked her AGAIN. this time over the word 'coconut'.

www.thecanary.co

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Sue Massa @smassa.bsky.social · 1d

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Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 1d

What is worse about these 2 ICE thugs - that they've pulled the woman's pants down or that they're fart-arsing around trying to cuff her? Perhaps a little more training is required?

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Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think so. It may mean nothing to mu$k that I left but it means a *lot* to me. Just like boycotting American products as far as I can means a lot to me. I am doing my part...maybe history will see this move as the start of ripples on a pond...

Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 1d

Check her out! Perfect for the role! 😱

If she has much more lifting done her eyes will end up on top of her head. It's a wonder she can see now anyway, they're so squinty.

Looks like an entirely different person than she did at 18.

Maybe she *is* a different person...? 🤷‍♀️ 😱

The 2025 Official Portrait of Melania Trump.

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Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 1d

Tough. Whilever mu$k owns it I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole. I left as soon as the US Election 'result' was known & I, like many Australians, am steadfastly trying to boycott *all* American exports until they wake up to themselves & get rid of the orange buffoon. Can't avoid all, like Bs eg.

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Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 1d

Possibly. I saw the 2025 'official portrait' of her and she looked exactly like an Evil Witch. Scary, in fact.

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Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 1d

From that photo on the bottom right I'd be asking 'how much cosmetic surgery has she had??' Largely irrelevant I know but her eyes now look nothing like they did in that photo. The shape has been altered - I wonder why?

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Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 2d

And he didn't!! YAY!! Sanity prevails!

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Venezuela’s Maria Corina Machado wins Nobel Peace Prize 2025

The opposition politician 'keeps the flame of democracy burning amidst a growing darkness', the Nobel Committee says.

www.aljazeera.com

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Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 2d

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina #Machado has been awarded the #Nobel #Peace Prize.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Breaking: Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado receives Nobel Peace Prize

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

www.abc.net.au

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Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, I know, I'm just very nervous. It won't go well if the buffoon wins. Can you imagine? He already thinks the sun shines out of his arse.

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Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, nah it's not for Gaza. He claims to have solved 7 wars in 8 months, 8 if you include Gaza, he said. Actually, if those are consecutive months it wld've been after the deadline? Gah, who knows. I just loathe him & can't wait to see the back of him.

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Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 2d

He must've been nominated cos he's been lobbying. 🤮 If he wins in any year I will lose all faith in the system - 5 Norwegian judges considering over 300 nominations for the Peace Prize alone.

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Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 2d

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Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 2d

They don't release the names of the nominees altho there's a huge table of names on Wiki! But there are over 300 nominees, mostly people but also some organisations, so you'd think there'd have to be somebody better than him wldn't you! 🙏

Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 2d

I didn't say it was a *big* vestige! Besides vestige means a trace or remnant of something that is ... *disappearing*... 😂 😵‍💫 🤪🤯 😲 😱 🥴 😵 😩 😖

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Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 2d

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Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 2d

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Did you survive? 🙏

Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 2d

Is anyone else nervous about the announcement of the winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize today? Many outlets are actually considering that it may be Trump. The last vestige of my sanity might just go up in smoke if that happens.

#Nobel
#PeacePrize

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