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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 23h

The latest corporate tax data just dropped. And congrats to Santos Ltd - 11yrs in a row of no company tax.

Table of Santos ltd company tax 2014-15 to 2024-25

Year Total income Company Tax
2014-15 $3,389,399,798 $0
2015-16 $3,476,002,729 $0
2016-17 $3,715,263,715 $0
2017-18 $3,498,043,596 $0
2018-19 $4,360,612,850 $0
2019-20 $5,013,931,702 $0
2020-21 $4,070,327,153 $0
2021-22 $4,746,037,784 $0
2022-23 $6,257,384,778 $0
2023-24 $8,210,276,022 $0
2024-25 $5,117,008,013 $0
Total $51,854,288,140 $0

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 23h

News corp... tax is a thing for other people to pay (again)

News Australia Holdings PTY LTD

Total income: "$1,886,287,823
Taxable income: $310,408,656
Tax payable: $0.00

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 23h

Last month Santos CEO Kevin Gallagher told the National Press Club that Santos and the gas industry had not lost its social license

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Pete Apps @peteapps.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Breaking: the Met Police has submitted charging files to the Crown Prosecution Service resulting from its Grenfell fire investigation. The files cover 54 individuals and 20 companies and cover charges including fraud, misconduct in public office and manslaughter

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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Great to see a new post added to the #OnePlaceStudy website for #Stretton in #Cheshire! Inspired by David Olusoga’s series ‘Finding Britain’s Slave Traders’ and the launch of the Register of British Slave Traders, Clare Olver has written about Stretton, Slavery & Social Networks. #OnePlaceWednesday

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Stretton, Slavery & Social Networks

James Bradshaw by Joseph Wright of Derby If you’ve been watching Professor David Olusoga’s series ‘Finding Britain’s Slave Traders’ you will have seen the new Register of Br…

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Michelle Watson @michwatsonoz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There’s quilting history drama on Insta. Nope. Not gonna.

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Michelle Watson @michwatsonoz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s now impossible to find red and blue house paint in Newcastle. ♥️💙

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.

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Kate Bagnall @baibi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Received my author copy of this new edited collection – Mobile Lives – today! It’s beautifully produced, with great (colour) reproductions of the many images it includes. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... 🗃️

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honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One of the main reasons fraternities still exist is that membership signals to potential employers that you’re capable of keeping institutional secrets, even when it means covering up illegal behavior.

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"and I said, I said- hey, these days? what ISN'T an archive?" - cocktail party erupts into clapping and laughter

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Jake @jakekvz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yo Australians, get a completely free covid-19 booster before 1 October, when eligibility criteria will significantly reduce who can get one. Available at many chemists without an appointment even. Couldn't be easier, and you'll be protecting both yourself and others!

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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 28/09/2026

Historic England outsourced their digital image provision to a third-party company. Then the company went bust and now all their images are inaccessible. Tell me again how outsourcing to the private sector is sustainable?

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Kelly Cornwell @whoamiftr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm delighted to be speaking at another #AATP event. My session 'Navigating Online Archive Catalogues' will be part of the 'Collections and Archives' Day on Monday 12th October. Please come along and join me for a live, online, Q&A session afterwards. #Archives #HistoricalRecords #Genealogy

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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The connections being drawn between the Cornell 7 and Brock Turner bring up something crucial: The outrage at Turner’s insanely light sentence has ultimately made it impossible for him to blend back into society. Where legal redress failed, community stepped in to make sure no one would forget.

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Michelle Watson @michwatsonoz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s going to be a crazy week around here. ♥️💙

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Michelle Watson @michwatsonoz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Military “historians” really are their own worst enemies. No, I won’t “Come along to hear about legendary US Civil War General Robert E Lee's finest hour, the daring and unconventional rout of a superior Union force at Chancellorsville…”

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Deborah Lee-Talbot @colourfulhistories.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

You would think, after four years of this commercial AI-BS I could write a set of guidelines for historians without being interrupted by tech-bros confessing to something stupid. This means I then have to -research the stupid act - explain the stupid act - remind historians they have ethics.

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 24/09/2026

Pals I see you sharing links to London Daily & need you to know it's AI bullshit. The Louise Michel is real, Banksy really funded it, but that started in 2020 & the LD link people are sharing is timestamped to today but written as if it's 2020 & elides all the actual journalism about it.

Screenshot reads as follows:

Welcome to London Daily, an innovative and unique news experiment driven by advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

Our AI system conducts extensive research and fact-checking, presenting a non-biased and diverse perspective on each topic. It meticulously filters out biased or manipulated content, offering you factual summaries essential for your knowledge as an informed citizen.

Our aim is not to replace mainstream media but to provide you with succinct summaries of key headlines, encouraging you to explore these stories in greater depth through your favorite mainstream news sources.

As a privately funded, non-profit initiative, our mission is to provide a concise and comprehensive overview of current events as part of a broader project to enhance fact-checking and AI journalism for journalists and publishers worldwide.

We are building a tool that will help professional journalists and traditional mainstream news outlets enhance their news delivery, boost their readership, ease their workload, and lower their costs while increasing their productivity—all aimed at improving content reliability and readability.

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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

I've updated my userscript that tweaks the interface of the National Archives of Australia's RecordSearch database. Main change is a fix to add an item link in the digitised file viewer where there's only a single page. gist.github.com/wragge/b2af9dc56f7c… #archives

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RecordSearch Show Pages Userscript

RecordSearch Show Pages Userscript. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Vibe coding replaces the interesting bit - writing code to solve a problem - and replaces it with the boring bit - reviewing someone else's code to see if they've done it right. It's a shit swap.

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Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Members of Prospect and the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) at the V&A Kensington site are to strike on Friday and Saturday in a dispute over pay and conditions. The unions are also in dispute across the V&A's other sites.

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My old boss has asked me to give his new book a social media bump, because he has wisely chosen never to set up his own account! So I’m happy to announce that ‘Britain’s Slave Traders: A Hidden History’ is available today in all good bookshops! www.penguin.co.uk/books/460026...

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tonywindsor.bsky.social @tonywindsor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Farmers who intend to vote for One Nation should know that they are accepting that “climate change” is normal.By doing so they will negate any logical argument for taxpayer assistance when “normal” weather events occur. Don’t ask for help if you deny the very thing you need help to overcome!

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

ProPublica got the literal check Collins was bribed with.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Absolutely incredible work here

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 22/09/2026

'the archive creates possibilities extending beyond Britain and the Caribbean.Migration and the forced movement of people under enslavement mean descendants can be found across the African diaspora, including in the US and Latin America.' Ancestry account required www.theguardian.com/news/2026/se...

theguardian.com

Nearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable online

Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad

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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · 21/09/2026

Worth reminding folks that abusive parents are rarely abusive in only one way.

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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My Rage Against the Machine/Les Mis mashup is complete. This is my interpretation of the quilt guild’s summer challenge “quilt with your interpretation and/or feelings towards our current ‘democracy’” all hand stitched.

Quilt hanging on a card catalog. Neutral background with navy cursive appliqué “Do you hear thr people sing?” The background is embroidered in red starting light and getting bolder the lyrics to “killing in the name” the quilting effect is a focused sunburst from the center.

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Mark Doyle @markdoyle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Was very happy to beam into QUB today to launch the Africans in Ireland website that I and a number of colleagues have been working on for years. Maps, database, & other resources documenting the African presence in Ireland from the late 16th to early 20th centuries. africansinireland.com

A right-facing silhouette of the Black preacher and seaman John Jea, Methodist preacher and seaman, from his 1816 book The Life, History, and Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea, the African Preacher

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is eugenics

Emily Hilliard, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services, confirmed on Wednesday that the department had not yet made a decision about whether to provide the shots through that program.
Vaccines for Children provides free shots to children who are uninsured, underinsured or eligible for Medicaid, as well as to American Indian and Alaska Native children.
Pediatric doses are available for children who have insurance, or whose parents can afford to pay for vaccines out of pocket.

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway

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Wikimedia Australia @wmau.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Wow! Some great Australian finds here 📜🌡️

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/09/2026

"I wrote the piece and Claude found the links relevant to my claims" is, even without the AI, such an admission of poor thinking and argumentation. your claims should emerge from the evidence!

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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

So Internet Archive, Open Street Map, and Zenodo all currently getting hammered by fucking AI bots. Core pieces of research infrastructure under threat. And those of us trying to keep resources online for the public become the unpaid servants of the mega-rich AI shysters.

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Fabian Nicieza @fabiannicieza.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Can you imagine if White House correspondents had the courage to support each other the way the opening acts on Sheeran's tour are supporting Macklemore...?

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory self-regulated.

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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Ok Labor historians, historians of sexuality, historians of medicine and public health. Also humans, queers, nurses. This is a fucking incredible book 👇

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Reasons for not being "productive" as regards scholarly publications over the last 3 years: It is difficult to write about racial violence in UKHE when a lot of racial violence is happening in UKHE.

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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If you're in the UK and don't like Palantir having its dystopian little tendrils in the whole of NHS data, I just learned you can at least opt-out of sharing your data here: www.nhs.uk/your-nhs-dat...

nhs.uk

Make your choice about sharing data from your health records

Choose if you want to share data from your health records for planning and research.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/09/2026

Look if chatbots are sentient and feeling then the people using it are enslavers and the entire concept of what we are doing is horrifying, not enlightening.

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Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New Zealand archivist and indie historian Jared Davidson @anrchivist.bsky.social joined Kate to talk about his punk ethos, writing around his day job, and how he finds evidence to write about the oppressed and overlooked in his home country, incl in his new book BLOOD & DIRT. buff.ly/k8zhJzw

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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

My side project for self-amusement at the moment is a minimal academic profile generator built with Zola and pulling all it's data from Zotero. It's primarily meant to make it easy for people to share green open access publications.

Screen capture of a website displaying my basic details including a photo, name, and brief bio. There's also a link to download a CSV. Underneath the bio details is a list of selected articles. The articles have green badges indicating that open access Author Accepted Manuscript versions are available and a blue button for more details.

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