ziltoid101 1 week ago • 100%
Rhipidura leucophrys :)
ziltoid101 1 week ago • 100%
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!
Looking perpetually angry 😠
ziltoid101 1 week ago • 100%
Trees. Please, please, please... trees.
ziltoid101 1 week ago • 100%
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.
ziltoid101 2 weeks ago • 100%
So, the government's picking up the funding slack... right?
... right?
ziltoid101 2 weeks ago • 100%
Nothing escapes, not even light... awesome song, everything Arjen touches is gold.
ziltoid101 2 weeks ago • 100%
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?
Aka Bleating Froglets
ziltoid101 2 weeks ago • 100%
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!
Now that we've had some time to digest Flight b741, curious to see how it ranks for everyone! Of course it varies a bit day to day, but I'll have a go... honestly I really like them all, bar the bottom two! - I'm In Your Mind Fuzz - Polygondwanaland - Nonagon Infinity - Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms, and Lava - Butterfly 3000 - Omnium Gatherum - Petrodragonic Apocalypse - Changes - Fishing For Fishies - Murder of the Universe - Flying Microtonal Banana - Quarters! - Float Along ~ Fill Your Lungs - Infest The Rats' Nest - K.G. - Flight b741 - L.W. - Gumboot Soup - Sketches of Brunswick East - Laminated Denim - The Silver Cord - Paper Mache Dream Balloon - Oddments - Made In Timeland - 12 Bar Bruise - Eyes Like The Sky
This album came out yesterday! All the music is written by Arjen Lucassen so it should be of interest to Ayreon fans.
ziltoid101 1 month ago • 100%
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.
ziltoid101 1 month ago • 100%
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!
ziltoid101 1 month ago • 100%
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.
ziltoid101 2 months ago • 100%
(Nerd warning) So awesome to see strigolactones on lemmy. Any other strigolactone researchers out there? I mostly work on the receptor protein D14.
I often go for date night around Freo and we're getting sick of going to the same places over and over (Frida Mexicana, Gage Roads, Mexican Kitchen, and Spice Market). If you have any favourite places around Freo to dine, I'd love to hear them! (Especially if you can walk away from them feeling like you didn't just get ripped off - a very difficult task in 2024!)
ziltoid101 2 months ago • 100%
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.
ziltoid101 2 months ago • 96%
Can't mentally decline if you were never sound of mind in the first place!
ziltoid101 2 months ago • 100%
That's a shame, thanks for letting me know. I really want the fediverse to thrive but that's a pretty huge caveat!
ziltoid101 3 months ago • 100%
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.
(Sorry Sydney fans) What an amazing finish by Freo. I was so sure it was going to be a draw.
The Haken thread I posted a while ago generated a bit of activity so I might try it again from time to time. Let's rank Leprous' albums in anticipation for Melodies of Atonement. Feel free to include their two demos if you know them (I do not)! 1. Coal 2. The Congregation 3. Bilateral 4. Pitfalls 5. Malina 6. Aphelion 7. Tall Poppy Syndrome
ziltoid101 3 months ago • 100%
The Mountain is probably their best and it's also pretty accessible.
ziltoid101 3 months ago • 100%
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.
Holocene is a slow burn but it's really been clicking for me after seeing these guys live. This was perhaps the highlight of the whole show.
ziltoid101 3 months ago • 100%
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.
ziltoid101 3 months ago • 100%
Free them 😢
ziltoid101 3 months ago • 100%
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.
About 2cm long! Cute as hell.
ziltoid101 4 months ago • 100%
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).
ziltoid101 4 months ago • 100%
She munch on grass 😍
ziltoid101 4 months ago • 100%
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.
ziltoid101 4 months ago • 100%
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!
ziltoid101 4 months ago • 92%
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.
ziltoid101 4 months ago • 100%
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!
ziltoid101 5 months ago • 100%
One opening at Curtin Uni (WA) today as well. Curious to see how universities handle it, the demands seem pretty reasonable to me.
ziltoid101 5 months ago • 100%
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.
These guys are so pretty, they love hanging out around toilets in the outback.
ziltoid101 5 months ago • 100%
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.
ziltoid101 5 months ago • 100%
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.
ziltoid101 5 months ago • 100%
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.
ziltoid101 6 months ago • 100%
Never been so happy to have a 25+ point loss. McGovern, Yeo, and Hunt were amazing, and this Harley Reid guy goes alright too!
ziltoid101 6 months ago • 100%
long
In honour of their upcoming Australian tour (and to get some activity here lol), how would everyone rank Haken's discography? I love all their stuff, but for me... 1. Affinity 2. The Mountain 3. Aquarius 4. Vector 5. Fauna 6. Visions 7. Enter the 5th Dimension 8. Restoration 9. Virus (still a fan, just not as much as the rest)
Cool paper from my field. In every plant species there's a hormone receptor sitting there but we don't know what the hormone is yet! Finding the ligand has become a bit of a holy grail for many researchers. This study finds an endogenous ligand for a divergent homologue of this receptor, not of much consequence to most plant species but still enough to have people turning heads.
Mt Magnet, Western Australia
ziltoid101 6 months ago • 100%
Haha, he did mention that he hates musicals funnily enough
Several 2cm long frogs were found in this tiny little granite pool in the desert. Any IDs would be welcome, I suspect it could be a Litoria of some sort.
ziltoid101 6 months ago • 100%
Wonder where the disagreement has come from. Stadium maybe?
ziltoid101 6 months ago • 100%
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.
Herdsman Lake, Western Australia
ziltoid101 7 months ago • 80%
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.
ziltoid101 7 months ago • 100%
Wow, I had no idea! I wonder if they migrate or just have widespread populations.
ziltoid101 7 months ago • 100%
Freo harbour from the ferris wheel (cheeky valentines day treat)
Only one week until Charcoal Grace is released, already looking like an early AOTY to me!
Third single from Of The Last Human Being. So glad these guys are back!
Their first new music in 17 years!
Still possibly my favourite album to come out this year, and they're not even a typical prog metal band.
I've only listened to the short version so far but I was pleasantly surprised. Not completely sold on the digital drums but if you liked Butterfly 3000 I reckon you might enjoy this one!
Hilarious new music video from my favourite band in my local scene. Fans of Tool, Meshuggah, and Devin's Ziltoid albums should enjoy it!
Featuring Sean Harmanis from Make Them Suffer, and filmed at my uni campus :)
The new solo album by Leprous frontman Einar Solberg is pretty great imo. This is the heaviest track, with Ihsahn doing some harsh vocals.