Well I tried…

This has been such a good workout album, i love something that’s heavy af but also filled with earworms.

Keen for new music this year, will be curious to see how their sound evolves without Charlie and Conner.

This place is so remote, the average bloke from WA doesn’t even know it exists.

Get vaccinated ya bloody hippies

Glad it at least appears to be amicable. They’re going to be tough to replace but I’m excited the band has some more music in store, keen to see where they go next. And hopefully Charlie and Conner keep releasing some music through Tiktaalika.

It’s far too late to prevent climate change but the EXTENT of change matters just as much as wether there is a change at all. Every fraction of a degree of warming counts for so much.

We absolutely need to be investing in adaptation alongside our reduction of greenhouse gasses, but I worry the narrative of “it’s too late” sends a counterproductive message (I.e. we failed, may as well continue polluting an enjoy our lives). Even if we have 2 degrees of warming it would still be worth fighting to avoid 2.1 degrees of warming imo.

I try this so often yet I remain terrible at these haha

I find it difficult to imagine a future in which humans aren’t making fun of impaired cognition.

I think the context is what’s most important, if anyone actually directs such language (be it retarded, idiot, etc) towards people with genuine mental impairment, that constitutes a slur. But the word ‘retarded’ literally means ‘slow’, and is still regularly used (including by myself) in scientific and technical contexts (compared to racist or homophobic slurs, which are only ever really used in a ‘slur’ kind of way).

I wouldn’t really have a problem with calling people ‘slow’ in jest, and I don’t think many would. Imo if not ‘retarded’, it’ll be something else with the same meaning.

This is awesome. So nice to see some good news for once.

Well deserved, although I’m still going to soapbox that the Baudin’s Cockatoo (which unfortunately didn’t win) is under immediate threat by the proposed Alcoa mine in the southwest Jarrah forests! It’s some of the last habitat they have left, and once it’s gone, it’s gone for good.

I do love tawnies though. They’re such characters.

Enjoy the ride 🤘

This man can’t be stopped!

Really loving the heavier direction on this album, but glad he’s keeping up the crazy instrumentation.

Why restaurants?? There are perfectly good mining company offices right there!

I’ve listened twice and I think this is probably gonna be my AoTY, but at the same time it’s so musically dense and all over the place that I need at least 10 more listens to make head or tail out of it!

Genuinely I think the world would have much better scientific outcomes if a decent portion of grants were just straight-up randomly allocated (from a pool that meets a minimum standard I guess). Everyone wants to fund ‘almost complete’ research but there’s such little money for the early-stage ‘high risk high reward’ basic research, which is what basically all applied research is built upon.

Vast nation with huge areas of uninhabited space to send foreign-born criminals to tiny island nation.

10 minutes of sun per day is typically less likely to give you cancer than 0 minutes. Vitamin D (and other compounds involved in the synthesis from cholesterol that you won’t get in supplements) upregulate DNA repair polymerases that protect against carcinogens. Of course after a few minutes the costs of UV exposure outweight this benefit though.

Watching the footy with my old man. Identifying frogs on iNaturalist. Listening to some Mastodon.

We needed a negative control, dammit!