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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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Sunshine Coast News ~ Australia @sunshinecoastnews.bsky.social · 7h

Tax Dodgers?
Hold my beer...

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Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 5h

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#auspol
#taxation

Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 7h

It's good that the govt is rolling out a robotax scheme to get old debts from individuals, that should fix things....

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Tables showing from 2013-14 to 2023-24 Santos Ltd had $46.7bn in revenue and paid $0 tax

Year Total income ($m) Taxable income ($m) Tax payable ($m)
2014-15 $3,389.4 $0.0 $0.0
2015-16 $3,476.0 $0.0 $0.0
2016-17 $3,715.3 $0.0 $0.0
2017-18 $3,498.0 $0.0 $0.0
2018-19 $4,360.6 $8.3 $0.0
2019-20 $5,013.9 $29.0 $0.0
2020-21 $4,070.3 $68.8 $0.0
2021-22 $4,746.0 $74.1 $0.0
2022-23 $6,257.4 $19.8 $0.0
2023-24 $8,210.3 $21.2 $0.0
Total $46,737.3 $221.2 $0.0

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onewickedwonka.bsky.social @onewickedwonka.bsky.social · 4d

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Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah, nah.

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Jim Pembroke @jimpembroke.bsky.social · 8h

Victorians should be loud and proud about their indigenous treaty.
#auspol

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Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 21h

That's why I had no words.🤷‍♀️

Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, OK, I haven't seen that - I've been arguing at cross-purposes in that case, my apologies. 🙏

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Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry, I don't think I'm fully informed on what you're talking about: what 'attack on the govt'? By whom?

Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 1d

Hard irrelevance. They are citizens of this country, they need support, real tangible support. We ordinary people can't do anything but @senatorwong.bsky.social can. They were on a humanitarian mission, they were attacked by armed military of what is essentially a rogue state, then locked up. #Gaza

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Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly. If our governments won't stop the slaughter, then every human being on the planet has a responsibility to act, in whatever capacity they can. How can we stand idly by watching children die of starvation??

HOW CAN WE??!! 💔😭💔😭

#StopTheGenocide
#GazaGenocide
#Gaza
#FuckIsrael
#FuckZionists

Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 1d

Technically, they couldn't have known they'd be 'detained by a foreign govt' bc they were in international waters, meaning that Israel broke international law - again.

Your opinion is *very* unpopular with me: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

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Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 1d

🙄 No words.

Crikey @crikey.com.au · 1d

Independent Senator David Pocock and Labor's Penny Wong clashed in Senate estimates yesterday over whether the Parliamentary Sports Club could be considered a lobby group, as reported in Crikey last week. The club is registered as such, and lists Responsible Wagering Australia as one of its clients.

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Lisa the Antifascist “Leftist”🇦🇺 @lisatellstruth.bsky.social · 1d

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Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 1d

I don't understand how AI video is done but plse don't
spoil my fun!

Straight from the lips of JFK!!

www.facebook.com/share/r/1EFy...

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Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 1d

I found 7-letter words much easier to come up with than 5, but now have *no* memory of what my words were, nor even what the answer was! So I'll have to see if I can get back there to remember them.

Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry, but I have to laugh! 🤣

Otherwise I'd bang my head against a brick wall. 🤬

Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 1d

Here's new one for me. Ugh! Down to the wire!

Septle 1572 - 🔥 1 day streak - septle.com

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Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 1d

Wow! I'd never seen that one before! More frustrating than Wordle! But thanks for putting me on to it - down to the wire!

Septle 1572 - 🔥 1 day streak - septle.com

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Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, we Australians find the concept of non-mandatory voting very odd. Here you get fined if you don't vote. Our elections are held on a Saturday. And as they are often held in school grounds we get the additional pleasure of having a Democracy Sausage which is sausage onions & sauce on bread. 😋

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Andrew Wilkie MP @andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social · 2d

Gambling regulation in Aus is a national disgrace. The govt has ignored the Murphy Report & repeatedly blocked my bill to hold gambling giants accountable. If they won’t listen to evidence, experts or the crossbench, they should at least listen to the community. #auspol #politas

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Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 2d

Those are very cool! And, yes, probs worth another visit.

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Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 2d

#Wordle 1,571 3/6

🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ EEK! Not helpful.
⬜🟨🟨⬜🟩 Nevertheless, a word did come quickly to mind... 😊
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 presenting me with about 4 or 5 possibilities. Which is a lot better than 8 or 9 words I guess.

Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 2d

I don't care what anybody says, Greta has illuminated 'protesting', for want of a better word, & thereby, the different sides of the landscape that the haves & the have nots of this world inhabit. Most of the ppl in the Flotilla were regular Joes trying to do a good deed.
#FuckIsrael
#FuckNetanyahu

StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 2d

Greta Thunberg speaks to the press after being released from illegal detainment in Israel: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.”

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Jerry at JMGVines @jjtb4v.bsky.social · 3d

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, will make violent revolution inevitable."
President John F Kennedy

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Bridie Mac @bridiemac.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine how it feels on the other side of the world - we too are forced to think about that deranged orange psychopath almost every waking hour. Bc we *see* that the US is on the path to Fascism & we don't trust that there is anyone willing to take him on & get rid of him.

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