maniacalmanicmania
@maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone
- Comment on Thousands st Adelaide March for Palestine right now 12 hours ago:
ABC say 10,000 making it biggest Palestine march in Adelaide although dwarfed by 100,000 that marched against war in Iraq in 2003.
- Submitted 13 hours ago to australia@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Comment on Sunday August 24: Join the nationwide march for Palestine 2 days ago:
I’ll be at Adelaide rally!
- Comment on What's everyone doing tonight? 2 days ago:
Sleeping. Serious. I’m already in bed. If I didn’t need to pee I’d be asleep. God damn middle aged bladder.
- Submitted 5 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on More AZ issues 19/8/25 5 days ago:
Snappy on laptop and phone. Thanks!
- Comment on More AZ issues 19/8/25 5 days ago:
Think it’s the same AI scraping crap everyone is getting smashed by?
- Comment on The nuclear-powered submarine crisis 5 days ago:
Got it. Something about the way you phrased it the first time was confusing and I didn’t know what you were getting at.
- Comment on The nuclear-powered submarine crisis 5 days ago:
All subs or just nuclear subs?
- Comment on The nuclear-powered submarine crisis 6 days ago:
Huh?
- Submitted 6 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 12 comments
- Comment on Kate Chaney: By increasing the GST to 15%, we could make the tax system fairer for younger Australians 6 days ago:
Remember when governments took bold steps – deregulating the dollar, introducing the [GST]…
Clearly the Australian electorate agrees with Kate and that is why the Australian Democrats are the third largest parliamentary grouping behind Labor and the Coalition.
- Comment on Quiz: can you pick a Victorian from a Queenslander? How our accents change from state to state 6 days ago:
Thank you! I didn’t know what to call these since moving to Adelaide. They are everywhere!
- Comment on Quiz: can you pick a Victorian from a Queenslander? How our accents change from state to state 6 days ago:
I’m one of them, only recently moved to Adelaide.
- Quiz: can you pick a Victorian from a Queenslander? How our accents change from state to statetheconversation.com ↗Submitted 6 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 14 comments
- Comment on Have men really stopped reading? We take a deeper dive into the data 6 days ago:
A lot of Australians (and this is an Australian Lemmy instance) might not know what you mean.
- Submitted 6 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on West Head Beach, Sydney 1 week ago:
Did you go for a dip?
- Comment on Have men really stopped reading? We take a deeper dive into the data 1 week ago:
What have you read if you don’t mind telling us.
- Comment on Have men really stopped reading? We take a deeper dive into the data 1 week ago:
This is where I’ve ended up apart from the articles I read and the very very occasional ebook. The only issue I have is sometimes I can’t handle the narrators style or voice and so I can’t get into the book, even if I really want to.
Also if the book is set in Sydney, Australia maybe hire a local of the country to narrate it Amazon. FFS who wants to listen to a yank narrating an Australian character.
- Submitted 1 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 44 comments
- '60 Minutes' program propaganda for greedy Australian mining company and Trump’s Greenland takeoverwww.greenleft.org.au ↗Submitted 1 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Legendary film critic David Stratton dies peacefully aged 85 1 week ago:
Not directly no but I think it was heavily implied at the time.
- Comment on How to Train Your Own ChatGPT: A Step-by-Step Resource Guide to Custom GPTs 1 week ago:
Mark Zuckerberg, 2004:
“People just submitted it. I don’t know why. They “trust me”. Dumb f**ks.”
- Comment on Legendary film critic David Stratton dies peacefully aged 85 1 week ago:
In 2004, Stratton and Pomeranz moved to the ABC, where they hosted At the Movies with Margaret and David until 2014.
Because SBS introduced advertising! They didn’t move on a whim.
The first midnight movie screening I saw was something that was unbanned in the 90s that David recommended. I thought it was Clockwork Orange or Eraserhead but neither of those are listed as having been banned here. I can’t remember what it was if it wasn’t either of those.
- Australia’s imports of oil products refined from Russian crude twice their aid to Ukraineenergyandcleanair.org ↗Submitted 1 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on Albanese’s Palestinian statehood decision won’t please everyone – but it’s better than the horrifying status quo 1 week ago:
Labor was ultimately satisfied with commitments from the Palestinian Authority to demilitarise Gaza, reform governance, hold elections, stop payments to prisoners and provide basic services including education.
Albanese secured the assurances from Mahmoud Abbas, the 89-year-old leader of the authority, the organisation set up in the wake of peace agreements in the 1990s. Critically, Abbas recognised Israel’s right to exist.
The PA is in no position to make any such commitments. It’s all smoke and mirrors.
Labor is desperate to appear to be doing something, anything in the hope that it will fool enough people in order to head off the pressure it is under from the public and it’s own rank and file.
- Comment on Hey, that’s not yours! 1 week ago:
Borrow?
- Comment on The only kookaburra I've seen in NSW 1 week ago:
There’s a crew of burras that hang out just off Enmore Rd not far from Newtown Station in Sydney. Sometimes their morning singing is so regular you could rely on it as an alarm clock.
- Comment on Australia to recognise Palestinians' right 'to a state of their own', PM says 1 week ago:
Labor wont take us down that road unless they are forced to.
OK so my memory might be a bit hazy but even so…
In '99 I don’t think anyone knew we’d flip Howard on sending troops to East Timor to stop the massacres. The last rally (or one of the last rallies) we had in Lismore NSW before Howard changed his tune was almost a riot. I think it was Ian Causley, the Nationals member for Page who came to speak at the rally.
He repeated the same thing we’d heard for two or so weeks, something like ‘We can’t go to war with Indonesia’. Someone in the crowd yelled ‘Give me a gun, I’ll go’. Within seconds hundreds of people were chanting and yelling ‘Give us guns, give us guns, give us guns’.
He was fucking SPOOKED. Farmers, hippies, students, workers all chanting to be armed so they could liberate East Timor. I wish I had video.
Anyway, my point is, it has to come from the grass-roots or it wont happen.
