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Oliver Cassidy

@olivertapenade.bsky.social

Filmmaker (Franklin), activist (Tas Conservation Trust), musician (Philomath), queer (trans/bi/poly), disabled (CFS), cat companion (Mr Kitten) 🐱

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Make fossil fuel exporters pay for the damage they are causing, not ordinary Australians Climate change is making natural disasters like fires, floods, heatwaves and drought worse, costing Australians billions every year. Make fossil fuel producers pay a climate disaster levy to help pay...

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28.08.2025 07:48 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve no doubt you are correct. For me it already adds a cognitive burden having machines suggesting how to finish my sentences, especially when they don’t recognise I’ve already used the preposition.

08.08.2025 05:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I guess that’d force me to remember people’s names if that’s the only legal way to refer to someone. Unless β€˜old mate’ counts as not a pronoun πŸ˜†

08.08.2025 05:31 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This might be the first song you’ve covered that I’ve never heard before. I thought the name Wilco was a cartoon dog. I guess not everything made it to Australia? Or maybe I was washing my hair that year πŸ€”

08.08.2025 05:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Pretty incredible that no other outlet has snapped this up for publication after The Mercury declined it (?!)…. Although that context itself is not irrelevant to how we have ended up in this dire situation.

05.08.2025 23:21 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Buy DAVE GRANEY & THE CORAL SNAKES tickets, TAS 2025 | Moshtix Buy DAVE GRANEY & THE CORAL SNAKES tickets for 2025 at Moshtix. Taking place at Longley International Hotel on November 30th, 2025, you can find more ticket and event information, lineup, artists, set times and extra show dates online.

Including Longley πŸŽ‰πŸ’ͺ🏻 m.moshtix.com.au/v2/event/dav...

05.08.2025 06:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow! That’s so wild. And even more so, that was FAT CAT!

29.07.2025 00:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I didn’t get around to voting. Oh well

28.07.2025 23:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Everyone is always hustling to find venues to do community stuff, extra library hours would be brilliant

28.07.2025 23:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What a legend

28.07.2025 23:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@harvilla.bsky.social I’m glad you didn’t delete your most egregious dad joke one final time 😁

11.07.2025 01:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It can be cringe especially if you don’t know what the connection the two people have to each other. I have used aunt and uncle but when I have a connection to them and asked their view about it. Contextually it’s giving respect. But performatively it’s taking it

21.06.2025 11:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wasn’t that the origin of the Metro app anyway?

05.06.2025 07:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Toy break up songs for the Coalition?

20.05.2025 22:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Incredible

28.04.2025 02:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You’re a genius

28.04.2025 02:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A meme in two panels of a man with a white board. Panel one the white board reads β€œguess what Peter Dutton isn’t saying about the 41 000 public servants he wants to sack?”  The next panel says β€œthey’re a replacement for the 54 000 private consultants the coalition brought in last time”. Included under that statement are the logos for PWC, EY, KPMG and Deloitte

A meme in two panels of a man with a white board. Panel one the white board reads β€œguess what Peter Dutton isn’t saying about the 41 000 public servants he wants to sack?” The next panel says β€œthey’re a replacement for the 54 000 private consultants the coalition brought in last time”. Included under that statement are the logos for PWC, EY, KPMG and Deloitte

Some of discoveries in the post Morrison era include the ridiculous reliance Australian bureaucracies have developed on corporations to do the work of the understaffed and underfunded public sector. Thankfully Albo turned some of that around. And may that trajectory continue

28.04.2025 02:34 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah. Diddums

26.04.2025 01:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
A screen shot of a spam text from a xenophobic fear mongering political group proposing to charge even more exorbitant fees for international students (like that isn’t already happening enough) so that Australians can have free university. Followed by a reply text suggesting we pay for our kids education out of our need-to-be-increased taxes.

A screen shot of a spam text from a xenophobic fear mongering political group proposing to charge even more exorbitant fees for international students (like that isn’t already happening enough) so that Australians can have free university. Followed by a reply text suggesting we pay for our kids education out of our need-to-be-increased taxes.

Pre election reminder, Australia has some of the lowest taxes in the β€˜developed’ world. It makes you wonder how long, how many decades in fact, this β€œtax cuts” election promise can continue before we need to be reclassified as β€œdeveloping”. It needs to turn around, starting with billionaires

26.04.2025 01:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Alright, trans men, it’s time to step up as candidates in these seats and watch the TERFs squeal about that 😑

26.04.2025 00:05 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

To be fair, I wouldn’t be able to do the job I have with the knowledge I had as a kid too. Presumably this is one of the reasons we don’t hire CHILDREN to do the WORK!

25.04.2025 23:59 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

🀩 wow

25.04.2025 23:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How beautiful 😍 πŸ‚

25.04.2025 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ˜‚ right?

24.04.2025 00:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And did it check out?

24.04.2025 00:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Woooaahhh

24.04.2025 00:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You can take the man out of his police uniform, but you can’t take the police uniform out of the man

23.04.2025 00:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If there is a drug and thug problem I bet I could be improved by taxing billionaires and increasing Centrelink payments for a start

23.04.2025 00:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Senator David Pocock: the ABC is a reflection of us as a country.
YouTube video by ABC Alumni Australia Senator David Pocock: the ABC is a reflection of us as a country.

Is your candidate saying things like this? If not, why not?
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m.youtube.com/shorts/m6rCu...

22.04.2025 10:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Important election update. And as always minority government is always more representational than majority

13.04.2025 07:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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