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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 17h

Ching-Ching-ching motherfuckers! The official link for checking how much Anthropic owes you for stealing your books.

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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 2d

I wanted to live in the Tron movie when I was a kid

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Paul Lawton @pauldlawton.bsky.social · 2d

So read these & tell me why the Nobel Committee ignored @birmo.bsky.social for yet another year

Dave Hooper @davehooper.com · 2d

Recently finished reading this from @birmo.bsky.social and I enjoyed it. I was going to say that it’s not his usual style, but what is? He has such a diverse range of material it’s impossible to pigeon hole it. Anyway, go read it! www.amazon.com.au/Girl-Came-Co...

The Girl Who Came In From The Cold (Licensed to Love: The Agency Files)

The Girl Who Came In From The Cold (Licensed to Love: The Agency Files) eBook : Birmingham, J.P.: Amazon.com.au: Books

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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 2d

It’s not like they have to keep sucking up to Vargas Llosa

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Dave Hooper @davehooper.com · 2d

Recently finished reading this from @birmo.bsky.social and I enjoyed it. I was going to say that it’s not his usual style, but what is? He has such a diverse range of material it’s impossible to pigeon hole it. Anyway, go read it! www.amazon.com.au/Girl-Came-Co...

The Girl Who Came In From The Cold (Licensed to Love: The Agency Files)

The Girl Who Came In From The Cold (Licensed to Love: The Agency Files) eBook : Birmingham, J.P.: Amazon.com.au: Books

www.amazon.com.au

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Simon on stuff @simonthomsen.bsky.social · 2d

Every bit of this by @birmo.bsky.social, because I keep wondering how the Bible and its engagement levels would have turned out if the storytelling model used by the Apostles et al for their LLM (Large Lord Morality) was based on the TikTok of Gilgamesh.
aliensideboob.substack.com/p/end-of-story

End of Story?

Sorry. Had to get thinky this week.

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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 2d

I read the phrase “plot-based media” for the first time this week, and I died a little inside. The context was the unleashening of Sora, OpenAI’s new hybrid video extruder and anti-social network...

End of Story?

Sorry. Had to get thinky this week.

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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 6d

This is gonna be one of those weeks when I get the day wrong every day isn’t it

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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 8d

I’m an old man and I don’t understand things. Has Tay Tay entered the discourse again?

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Walt Galloway @waltgalloway.bsky.social · 9d

Brilliant piece by @birmo.bsky.social on corporations not paying tax and how the people in charge want you to blame baristas, foreigners and single mums for the fact your hospitals are busted.

He's talking about Australia, but it's true for everyone, everywhere.

open.substack.com/pub/aliensid...

Grand Theft Accounting

I am shocked—shocked, I tell you—to discover in this year’s corporate tax report that Optus paid no tax on $8.2 billion of income.

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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 9d

Just filled in a BAS form so I'm feeling it

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Dr Linda McIver @lindamciver.adsei.org · 9d

if anyone needs a distraction, this is very well written and quite infuriating
piece from
@birmo.bsky.social

aliensideboob.substack.com/p/grand-thef...

Grand Theft Accounting

I am shocked—shocked, I tell you—to discover in this year’s corporate tax report that Optus paid no tax on $8.2 billion of income.

aliensideboob.substack.com

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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 9d

Lord Rupert’s various shit sheets & Russian propaganda channels did not, it seems, earn enough to bother the scorers at the Tax Office. Which is to say that, unlike you, they earned $1.8 billion last year, but the ATO didn’t even rattle the tin at the Murdoch family, because what would be the point?

Grand Theft Accounting

I am shocked—shocked, I tell you—to discover in this year’s corporate tax report that Optus paid no tax on $8.2 billion of income.

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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 10d

The way lawyers work in this business I can virtually guarantee you that won’t be happening

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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 11d

Noice

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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 11d

Just re-upped the option contract today.

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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 11d

Actually, she’s usually beside me but that’s okay cos I got a really good sleep mask.

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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 11d

Wrote some kickarse chapters today, and ironically, no arses were kicked in the writing of the chapters.

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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 13d

Jeffries at high school, head being held deep down in the toilet: “We hope and expect that the bullies will soon cease flushing.”

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 13d

HAKEEM JEFFRIES: "We hope and expect that Republicans will do the right thing"

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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 13d

It’s pronounced nugget

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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 13d

Fark. Had to stop reading again and now I’m sitting in my reading chair having a really serious conversation with two of the characters in this book who have done something really really bad. And I’m sitting here like a crazy man telling them off. Ferrante has caused me to lose my mind.

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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 13d

Reading Elena Ferrante’s The Story of a New Name and I have to keep stopping because OMFG she makes you feel it, and ‘it’ is not always good.

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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 15d

Sad

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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 15d

Sigh. Is he dead yet?

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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 16d

Your airborne toxic event has been scheduled... "Unless they’re bringing a big sack full o’ Bitcoin stencilled with the word ‘Loot’ in 300pt Comic Sans, most world leaders will tell you that a meeting with Trump isn’t something you approach with ‘hope’."

Your airborne toxic event has been scheduled.

Journalism, according to Dr Hunter S.

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