Posts by maudenificent@aus.social
(DIR) Post #AjVN2gIlyRXwwUv2bg by maudenificent@aus.social
2024-07-02T01:41:22Z
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@futurebird the question is “a boot on whose neck”?
(DIR) Post #AkPyykRQJkxMMWWIlM by maudenificent@aus.social
2024-07-29T09:10:00Z
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@APoD @Christo http://www.abc.net/au/science/articles/2009/07/27/2632463.htm
(DIR) Post #AsOHGUcrt9xoNo4kTY by maudenificent@aus.social
2025-03-24T05:39:36Z
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@kimlockhartga @caity in australia.have refused to sign up for amazon (they want personal info and my first born) and prime (associated with rupert turdmoch)but — agreement with the friend who owns the place we share is she pays for internet and i pay for streaming. otherwise i would probably eliminate the 3 US services on principle.{yes, i do have apple devices/ account, but i am not tech savvy, and we all need some kind of device/ connections.}
(DIR) Post #Aspm4bJwtwn0wU938i by maudenificent@aus.social
2025-04-07T02:09:10Z
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looking out my study window at autumn
(DIR) Post #AtTabMScKU8dofu1i4 by maudenificent@aus.social
2025-04-26T03:16:57Z
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@MsDropbear42 @MorpheusB a ripper article in the saturday paper — ty for sharing, Droppie———pauline hanson was acceptable to the liberal party from the get go. when they disendorsed her, they were simply ensuring there would be <two> candidates on the paper with the same rancid views [let’s not call them <values>]it’s the marketing principle of minimum differentiation — for years the reason lever and kitchen company had six <different> brands of laundry soap clogging up supermarket shelves. capture the market with a scattergun approach.and it’s the same principle adopted by alp since it abandoned it’s <working class> rustadons like some demographic <safe seat>. the closer to lnp, the more chance of stealing their votes (and in the process, shifting australian politics to the right of attila the hun.)it’s the same principle behind supermarket pricing — colesworths are not in collusion, per se, they are just so busy looking at the other lot they don’t stand for anything of their own.in politics, this obsession with marketing has created an ideas and leadership void, where small minded, hateful, petty individuals flog bigotry like it’s a virtue — prolly cos they are shit-scared they might one day have to front sennalink themselves#auspol #OneNation #ALP #MarketingNotDemocracy #LNP #LowestCommonDenominatorCandidates
(DIR) Post #AtTbHrigUzf4vYgZ5E by maudenificent@aus.social
2025-04-26T07:09:43Z
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@joannaholman i was living in shepparton last election. the electorate, named for Pastor Sir Douglas Nicholls, is H U G E and iirc the ONLY slightly left candidate was alp. it’s an extremely safe national seat. (link to map below)most of the advertising was designed to capitalise on anti-immigrant sentiment. pauline hanson had a huge billboard which drew an appropriate response from senator briggs 😉https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/briggs-buys-billboard-to-mock-one-nation/hq2ew69z6#auspolhttps://www.aec.gov.au/redistributions/2023/vic/final-report/files/maps-a4/2024-AEC-Victoria-A4-Nicholls-Final.pdf
(DIR) Post #AtlZpmOKdCeHP5gDZo by maudenificent@aus.social
2025-05-04T23:12:12Z
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From the ABC’s live blog<<The people have tasted true democracy and they love it'By Joshua BoscainiSimon Holmes à Court has joined ABC Radio National Breakfast and he says the result on Saturday was a ringing endorsement of the independents.Holmes à Court says last election Climate 200 had 11,000 donors, and this election the group had 33,000.He says this election about 1 million Australians voted for an independent candidate."Many thought that this was just going to be a reaction against Scott Morrison. I think that narrative is dead. The people have tasted true democracy and they love it," he says.Holmes à Court attributes the rise in popularity of independents to distrust of the two major political parties."One thing I love about this movement is it is democratising democracy."It's no longer just the domain of politically active people who hang around branches for 20 or 30 years."This movement is an accessible movement for great candidates to be selected.">>also from Joshua Boscaini<Simon Holmes à Court says about 1.5 per cent of Climate 200's funding came from him.He's told ABC Radio National Breakfast that the group is often outspent by the major parties in many seats.>>#auspolhttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-05/federal-politics-live-election-anthony-albanese-/105251174
(DIR) Post #Atu3G97FDVApLYI8wa by maudenificent@aus.social
2025-05-09T01:50:37Z
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#auspol #LibSpillnever thought of michelle grattan as one for understatement 😂-_ the headline probably says it all<<Despite all the disincentives, Sussan Ley, 63, and Angus Taylor, 58, both want this thankless post that’s up for grabs at Tuesday’s party meeting>>but also… some stuff about the greens<<On the projected results, the Greens are set to be the sole negotiators with the government in the Senate on legislation opposed by the Coalition.>>https://citynews.com.au/2025/bitter-liberal-struggle-for-a-poisoned-chalice/
(DIR) Post #Au4aIThKu67BpPUZrU by maudenificent@aus.social
2025-05-14T03:17:31Z
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it’s been a long time since i left faceache, but thank heavens for an overpriced cloud storage agreement, a poor memory, and a spare hour to look back thru old stuff for something (completely unrelated) i knew was in my photo album <somewhere>
(DIR) Post #AuVFoxVdt7YCWy33ke by maudenificent@aus.social
2025-05-27T00:53:37Z
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@futurebird i would only go if i could be invisible.there are some places i would not go at all, not even in 2025
(DIR) Post #AukQTtlq4XCThzMxGq by maudenificent@aus.social
2025-06-03T08:08:06Z
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@MsDropbear42 @MorpheusB LOL <firms intent on cross-subsidising American prices might discover demand elasticity was less in other markets than in the USA>aka we will see what’s happening and say <yeah, nah, 🤬 that>(birkenstocks LOL) (jewellery LOL) half the people stuck in the USA can’t afford that shit…
(DIR) Post #AuoP50Teg26NwoGpP6 by maudenificent@aus.social
2025-06-05T06:36:11Z
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@bartholin @Mitsu LOL 🐶i want one of these bags!
(DIR) Post #AurkdlMvWTx7jiPwZ6 by maudenificent@aus.social
2025-06-06T20:48:17Z
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#USPol #MumpTruskSpat #RealityTVIsReallyWhack #ICEArrestsMayorJeremy Schulman writes for (in mother jones)<<As the two billionaires traded insults and allegations, it was the president who took the fight to a lawless new level. He seemingly threatened to retaliate against his former ally by canceling the government contracts held by Musk’s companies.Jeremy continues, writing that "in a democracy, politicians simply cannot be allowed to punish dissent by threatening to destroy the businesses of people who cross them—whether those businesses are media companies, law firms, or a defense contractor run by the world’s richest man.">>—-okay, *now* it’s about punishing dissent, but a few days ago it was about a president acting as the promotions manager for businesses that support him. is there a line this bloke has not yet crossed?——-from democracy now:<<This week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement reported — since President Trump took office in January, CBS News reports new data it obtained shows ICE agents have arrested more than 100,000 people. Conditions at the ICE-run Krome Detention Center in Miami are so crowded that on Thursday news helicopters filmed about a hundred people held there as they formed the letters ”SOS” and the Spanish word for “free,” ”libre.”This comes as Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Ras Baraka on Tuesday sued President Trump’s acting U.S. attorney for the state of New Jersey after ICE agents arrested him last month outside the newly opened ICE jail run by GEO Group called Delaney Hall in Newark. Mayor Baraka was there with three Democratic members of Congress from New Jersey for an oversight tour — their responsibility. The complaint also names a special agent with the Department of Homeland Security’s investigations unit as a co-defendant, Ricky Patel>>
(DIR) Post #Aurkdt3Mx53tZNKRBw by maudenificent@aus.social
2025-06-06T21:02:25Z
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#FossilFuels #Climate #LaborGovernment #NorthWestShelf<<…the Australian government continues to push fossil fuels with the zeal of a drug lord. They brush aside resistance at the supply end, weaken resolve at the demand end, and keep state and territory governments hooked on the money.Woodside’s motives are clear: keep their shareholders happy. But what’s the government’s excuse? More than 80 per cent of Australia’s gas is exported, most of it royalty-free. Japan, our largest buyer, sells more gas to other countries than it imports from Australia.The biggest domestic user of Australian gas is the gas industry itself, powering facilities that exist only to serve offshore markets. This isn’t just wasteful – it’s unfair. Australians don’t see the benefits but we bear the climate costs. Despite employing relatively few people and paying little tax, the gas industry holds an unhealthy level of control over government decision-making. It’s undemocratic. Policy is being written for the benefit of gas gougers, not Australians… >>https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/20889/2OXoHGFc
(DIR) Post #Auuj9gYbKb5He5qsJU by maudenificent@aus.social
2025-06-08T07:38:20Z
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#USPol #ICE #NationalGuard<<Protests against immigration raids across Los Angeles have spilled to a second day in what the White House has labelled an anti-US "insurrection".>>https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-08/protesters-clash-with-ice-agents-in-la-after-immigration-raids/105390922
(DIR) Post #Av2oGMYTXtpSUaCSjA by maudenificent@aus.social
2025-06-12T03:41:36Z
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<Solar waste problem looms following rooftop panel boom, with batteries to add to the pile>#Auspol #Climate #Solar #PowerTransmissionCostshttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-12/solar-waste-problem-looms-after-rooftop-panel-boom/105402628?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web
(DIR) Post #Av6xlTM7zEmAmWAnnk by maudenificent@aus.social
2025-06-14T05:10:32Z
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#Auspol #AUKUS #DefenceSpending Saturday Paper June 14 2025Hugh WhiteCan Albanese fix Australia’s defence?(Hugh White is emeritus professor of strategic studies at the Australian National University. He is a former deputy secretary of the Department of Defence and wrote Australia’s 2000 Defence White Paper.)<<The news that Washington is reviewing the AUKUS submarine deal puts a bombshell under Australia’s defence policy and sharpens the debate of recent weeks about defence spending. In that debate, suddenly 3 per cent is the new 2 per cent. For 30 years, 2 per cent of gross domestic product has been widely accepted as the benchmark for responsible defence spending. Recently, the number has drifted up towards 2.5 per cent. Now, under pressure from United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, people, including the Coalition, are seriously considering 3 per cent.This is real money. Each per cent of GDP means about $28 billion, every year. Defence is important, but it is a big mistake to spend more on it than necessary, because every dollar taken from other priorities for defence makes us a less educated, less healthy and less productive society.We will never discover how much we need to spend on defence by bandying GDP percentages. In this debate they are close to meaningless, as Anthony Albanese has, to his credit, made clear. The only sensible way to set the defence budget is to build the case step by step. What broad strategic objectives do we want our armed forces to be able to achieve? What operations do they therefore need to be able to perform? What capabilities would perform those operations most cost-effectively? How much do those capabilities cost?>>——<<We will have to spend [our defence budget] much more wisely, by rigorously applying the logic of defence policy – defining strategic objectives, setting operational priorities, selecting the most cost-effective capabilities, and delivering them as cheaply and efficiently as possible. It is a long time since our defence policy was subjected to this kind of ruthless analysis.>>sharing a “gift” link to the article here. if you are interested and it is still behind a pay wall, please let me know.https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/20932/2O7NSBG1
(DIR) Post #AvJiJSltapyubStIx6 by maudenificent@aus.social
2025-06-20T07:53:47Z
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#Auspol #Insulation #EnergyBills #Climate #housinghttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-04/retrofitting-australian-homes-for-winter-to-cut-costs-emissions/104044086
(DIR) Post #B1eyk9bOuJYQQu5WWe by maudenificent@aus.social
2025-12-27T02:34:06Z
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@futurebird 1. a hit from 1959, but widely loved just the same —Broken Hearted Melody by Sarah Vaughan3. i have had to delete so many songs from playlists …but i can’t delete my fave buffy ste marie tracks because… she is right about so much stuff. 🎶 No No Keshagesh 20082. Love Comes and Goes by Xavier Rudd 2010https://youtu.be/YmHdO3DjaM8?
(DIR) Post #B2lP6t3KWzdXQgL7Ue by maudenificent@aus.social
2026-01-29T02:49:55Z
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@futurebird oh, i once had a mouthful of tea made from hot water that had ants in it. it was foul, (formic acid) and the young cubscout who made it had to try again before he was awarded his tea-making badge.but, the Indigenous people of now-called-australia traditionally eat several types of ants… which would answer your question about how he knows the flavour.