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.

Free them 😢

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).

She munch on grass 😍

Oh sorry, only just noticed the "June-July", when you said summer i thought you meant Perth summer, whoops! Yes, probably not swimming weather I'm afraid.

For breweries, I'm a fan of Rocky Ridge in Busselton, and Gage Roads in Fremantle is right on the river mouth so worth a visit at sunset. Most breweries are very family friendly!

Giants Cave and Calgardup cave are the best imo. For nature stuff closer to the city, check out Kings Park, Herdsman Lake, and Bold Park.

No trams here but the train system is pretty great i reckon.

Would recommend staying a week down south around Busselton or Margaret River if possible. It will be less hot, but still hot enough to enjoy the beaches, and there's so much to see down there: breweries/wineries, forests, caves, and heaps of beautiful coastline.

Also check out the Perth beaches, Perth hills, spend some time around Fremantle. If you're staying for a month and you're near a train line you might want to get a SmartRider. Lmk if u have any other questions!

Shame, i thought Furiosa was awesome, although there were only about 5 people in the cinema. The critics seem to be giving pretty favourable reviews too, would definitely recommend going and checking it out. Hope this isnt the nail in the coffin of Mad Max.

Lovely fellas! I've been seeing a few red wing fairy wrens this week I'm WA, bloody tricky to get a pic of them though - well done!

One opening at Curtin Uni (WA) today as well. Curious to see how universities handle it, the demands seem pretty reasonable to me.

It's their first proper year with Clarko, not gonna judge too much until the end of the year. They've really suffered from (A) being a minnow club that doesn't naturally attract talented players with experience, and (B) terrible luck at the draft until the last two or three years. Their midfield appears decent and Larkey is elite but they've been hurt by being denied access to players like JUH and Jed Walter.

It feels like Freo and most suburbs are stuck between a rock and a hard place. We desperately need more places to live in, and NIMBYs are usually blamed for opposing this. But when you look at the absolute shite that developers are building for people to live in, I find it hard not to empathise with them somewhat. Once heritage is destroyed and replaced by a concrete jungle, that cannot be undone.

I don't hate him but I wish people would watch his videos with a bit more critical thinking. I've talked to a few left-wing people that were swayed into voting Labor (or in one instance, Bob Katter) because he did a video before the last federal election that ridiculed preferential voting. I watched this video and it was filled with straight-up misinformation (I've worked as a vote issuer/counter many times before). In my experience he's not actually made Australia more progressive, I don't know any of his viewers that have switched from LNP to Labor, but a few that have gone from Greens to Labor. I don't know if they still do it but he used to have a brigading group on Facebook, which always spread his videos around and filled them with positive comments on Reddit and the like. I know he's popular outside of that but it's hard to determine exactly how organic his reach is.

I feel like the B series only arrived on the Freo line a few years ago, might have to go out of my way to check these new ones out.

Never been so happy to have a 25+ point loss. McGovern, Yeo, and Hunt were amazing, and this Harley Reid guy goes alright too!

long

Haha, he did mention that he hates musicals funnily enough

Wonder where the disagreement has come from. Stadium maybe?

We've had so long to future-proof our state, to invest in an economy of intellectual-based exports, or even some novel manufacturing... but no, the best we can still muster is digging up rocks and gas. And letting other people profit from it.

I can only hope we see some more disruptive protests at some point, because it's hard to see Labor doing anything about the climate crisis. You'd think that their overwhelming majority at the state level would've shifted the overton window left but this feels like a pretty conservative Labor government.

I get that it makes sense to have laws to protect people against racially aggravated harassment, but this feels like a stretch and a huge waste of time and resources. That said, Sam Kerr is a role model and this kinda behaviour shouldn't be seen as 'based' or anything imo.

Wow, I had no idea! I wonder if they migrate or just have widespread populations.

Freo harbour from the ferris wheel (cheeky valentines day treat)