Anyone but Geelong (dear god please)

Rhipidura leucophrys :)

He/she came right up to me! I was having lunch by the river and the little fella just ran up to me and started singing. They eat bugs and don’t really scavenge off people so I don’t think he was even after my food. He even hopped on my foot briefly!

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!

I think we agree here in the sense that MSO are within their rights to dismiss him. But I think that the public backlash is very predictable outcome, and the public are right to feel outraged at the MSO for this. I can understand they’re in a tough position but cancelling the soloist’s performance was really the nuclear option. The cancellation is a much bigger political statement than the soloists comments (which were ultimately about the composition anyway), and if that’s the statement the MSO wants to make they’re free to do so but they need to accept they’re being perceived as not only silencing their own artists, but also defending war crimes (whether that was their intention or not). Just terrible management of the situation.

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!

Eh, they played the ukranian national anthem before concerts in 2022. I could see where you’re coming from if the soloist actually said something controversial but his statement was literally along the lines of “war crimes are bad” - cancelling his performance for that is a much more inflammatory political statement (hence the huge backlash) than what he said in the first place imo.

(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.

• Surprised to see Brisbane only just beat Melbourne, thought it’d be a thrashing.
• Bulldogs should be able to get a big win over North, but it’ll be a good test to see where North’s really at.
• Sydney are definitely favourites but Freo just have the vibe that they might cause an upset. I don’t think Freo are going to go deep in finals but I think on the right day they can stand up to the toughest teams.
• GC/Collingwood is a coin toss, GC have been pretty solid at home though.
• Crom/GWS is also kinda tricky, I think GWS will get it done but not by much.
• I don’t trust Geelong not to fuck it up against Essendon, but anything could happen.
• Neither St Kilda or Port look great at the moment, I can forsee a close but ultimately boring game playing out with Saints maybe sneaking a win, idk.
• Carlton should pants Richmond.
• Lastly, Hawks are still the favourites but I’m really hoping Eagles get up. It’s the best team we’ve fielded possibly in three years. Hawks are red hot right now but I just feel like they must be due to drop a game, they’ve just had the bye, and this is their longest travel all season. If we can grab a win I can forgive the Saints/North games. If we lose with this team, Simmo’s gonna be in hot water again.

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.