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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 5d

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 · 6d

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.

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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 · 6d

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

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Dr Linda McIver @lindamciver.adsei.org · 6d

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 · 6d

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.

open.substack.com

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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 8d

Noice

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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 8d

Just re-upped the option contract today.

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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 10d

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 · 10d

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

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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 10d

It’s pronounced nugget

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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 10d

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 · 10d

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 · 12d

Sad

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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 12d

Sigh. Is he dead yet?

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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 13d

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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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 15d

Ah fuck. I forgot to rapture.

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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 15d

This is why Orin is my favorite

Orin Thomas @orinthomas.com · 16d

@birmo.bsky.social Another Book for the BirmoShelf

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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 15d

Jeebus! That was quick!

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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 19d

Haha. Yes I did.

John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 19d

Wrote a good chapter today. Saturday chapters are the best.

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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 20d

Buffy, Star Trek and World War 3.2. How I came to Zettelkasten:
"That kind of chaos is part of the fun of writing a novel, but it doesn’t scale to a nine-book arc w/ dozens of narrators spread across multiple continents & decades. And keeping a single note on my phone wasn’t working anymore."

A reading from the Book of where did I put that Keith Richards joke?

I made a mistake yesterday, so now you’re gonna pay for it.

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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 22d

The books been written for nearly TWO YEARS now! The last time I spoke to them they assured me it would be out next year!