Rhipidura leucophrys :)
Rhipidura leucophrys :)
Trees. Please, please, please… trees.
Right?? It’s so tone deaf. The only people I’ve seen in support of live exports are farmers… the one group with a vested financial interest in maintaining these exports.
So, the government’s picking up the funding slack… right?
… right?
Nothing escapes, not even light… awesome song, everything Arjen touches is gold.
I don’t know what to think about housing anymore, I’m just so tired. The new builds around my parents house look shoddy and just plain ugly, not to mention first thing developers do is remove any and all trees and put concrete over the entire block. “Nimby” has become such a buzzword and a scapegoat but like, it’s hard not to have a bit of empathy, and anecdotally lots of people would be supportive of these new developments if they weren’t all shit. These concrete jungle suburbs will be around for decades at least. But also, the housing crisis is real and developers are saying that red tape around building quality is slowing them down. I desperately want a place to live, nothing fancy but at least safe and liveable. Is it genuinely impossible to have density and build quality?
Been meaning to get into these guys. Album artwork is sick, awesome growls, and cool mastodon vibes in the music too. Will definitely listen to some more!
Concert security is getting really stringent atm. With the government raising the terrorism threat to probable, large events are increasing security measures. Given how much publicity this has gotten, how controversial it is, plus how intensely passionate people are about the palestine/israel conflict, I can see why they wouldn’t want to go ahead with this. Someone was stabbed at a world music concert at the Perth concert hall last sunday too!
(Nerd warning) So awesome to see strigolactones on lemmy. Any other strigolactone researchers out there? I mostly work on the receptor protein D14.
It does seem like whatever integrity there was in politics is quickly vanishing. I’m relieved we don’t have quite the same attitude towards religion compared to the US at least. I think Australia is a long way off being a theocracy, whereas the US could be one as soon as next year.
Can’t mentally decline if you were never sound of mind in the first place!
That’s a shame, thanks for letting me know. I really want the fediverse to thrive but that’s a pretty huge caveat!
Hype, I’m glad they release albums shortly after they announce them - feels like so many bands are like “NEW ALBUM out in 6 months” haha.
The Mountain is probably their best and it’s also pretty accessible.
So many 50/50s this week.
Pure nostalgia for me. I went on a small road trip for my high school leavers and had some Ayreon CDs playing the whole time. By the end of the trip everyone was singing along. Absolute classic.
Dutton’s so much of a spud I’m almost glad he’s in charge of the LNP instead of someone more charismatic. Hopefully he never sees any real power. Can’t believe that this is even a political issue up for debate, just delay delay delay and never so anything.
The two main reasons stopping me are lack of infrastructure (I haven’t ridden a bike in ages and there’s no way I’m going on a road with any traffic lol), and climate (Perth is often hot as hell, or rainy, neither of which is great unless you have a shower at work).
Anyone but Geelong (dear god please)