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Jul 10, 2023 00:59
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At one point in 2018, the only publicity Shannon Noll got was getting clocked at a gig by a punter throwing poo poo and ranting on stage.
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Jul 10, 2023 01:07
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Jul 10, 2023 19:19
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😍Hello sexy😍
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Jul 10, 2023 21:55
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literally my Tinder pic
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Jul 10, 2023 22:44
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webmeister posted:literally my Tinder pic Post your profile If there's not a bunch of kangaroo puns you're dead to me
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Jul 11, 2023 07:22
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Some more Australiana I made This was for a large scale fabrication job which didn't go ahead so I finished it off myself cos I think they're a pretty bird  Carnaby's Black Cockatoo (Zanda latirostris) native to south western WA     
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Jul 12, 2023 00:10
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EoinCannon posted:Some more Australiana I made That's some top-tier work.
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Jul 12, 2023 04:38
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EoinCannon posted:Some more Australiana I made This is incredible. How do you do this?
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Jul 12, 2023 04:43
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Blow posted:This is incredible. How do you do this? First he pours latex over the bird to get an inverse mould
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Jul 12, 2023 04:44
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Non Compos Mentis posted:First he pours latex over the bird to get an inverse mould I'm assuming you need to freeze the bird first?
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Jul 12, 2023 04:53
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No wonder Carnaby's are going extinct.
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Jul 12, 2023 04:55
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Blow posted:This is incredible. How do you do this? It's a 3D model sculpted with zbrush, rendered in Redshift for 3dsMax It was going to be 3d printed in parts to form a 7M statue for some installation, but the job didn't go ahead
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Jul 12, 2023 05:16
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Blow posted:I'm assuming you need to freeze the bird first? The rigor mortis usually works but freezing does help
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Jul 12, 2023 05:17
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Non Compos Mentis posted:The rigor mortis usually works but freezing does help It's not dead, it's just restin'
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Jul 12, 2023 06:22
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https://twitter.com/pully8/status/1678608477093236736
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Jul 12, 2023 07:51
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Its WA, they don't have much else to do
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Jul 12, 2023 08:00
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EoinCannon posted:It's a 3D model sculpted with zbrush, rendered in Redshift for 3dsMax Shame. A 7M statue would have been awesome.
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Jul 12, 2023 09:04
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EoinCannon posted:It's a 3D model sculpted with zbrush, rendered in Redshift for 3dsMax Release it in whole, or parts, on Sketchfab. Let people 3D print it and make it at small scale!
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Jul 12, 2023 09:09
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Outrail posted:Post your profile Sport: tie me down Nickname: Skip Hobbies: saving children from wells Looking for: a roo t Personality: bouncy Movies: Kangaroo Jack Favourite song: Jump Around - House of Pain
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Jul 12, 2023 09:25
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Kill the dill with the pill, fark those were the days.
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Jul 12, 2023 09:41
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I've been there, not THAT surprising, though depressing. It's a lovely part of the world. Also, 12 hours? Either there's some Great Outdoor Fight poo poo, or more likely it's the cops taking every opportunity to stop poo poo from actually settling down naturally.
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Jul 12, 2023 10:03
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Yeah 100%, Kununurra is a very depressing town in a beautiful area. Purnululu is a genuine highlight of Australia and I wish more people could see it. Though it blows my mind that it was only “discovered” by white people in the 80s. Agreed that a 12 hour brawl is some crazy poo poo, I wonder if they had lunch and tea breaks like in the cricket
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Jul 12, 2023 11:43
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webmeister posted:Yeah 100%, Kununurra is a very depressing town in a beautiful area. Purnululu is a genuine highlight of Australia and I wish more people could see it. Though it blows my mind that it was only “discovered” by white people in the 80s. A 12 hour fight would require sending in different lines as other lines rotated out for a break/rest.
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Jul 12, 2023 11:45
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like the christmas day truce of ww1, they had a smoko truce
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webmeister posted:Yeah 100%, Kununurra is a very depressing town in a beautiful area. Purnululu is a genuine highlight of Australia and I wish more people could see it. Though it blows my mind that it was only “discovered” by white people in the 80s. Holy poo poo.   Unique depositional processes and weathering have given these towers their spectacular black and orange banded appearance, formed by biological processes of cyanobacteria (single cell photosynthetic organisms) which serve to stabilise and protect the ancient sandstone formations. These outstanding examples of cone karst that have eroded over a period of 20 million years are of great beauty and exceptional geological interest.
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Jul 12, 2023 12:12
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Bill Bryson's book described that as being to microbiologists like finding a grazing herd of live stegosaurus.
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Jul 13, 2023 05:29
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Microbiologists are always using that type of language. The only thing that's like finding live dinosaurs is finding live dinosaurs imho.
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Jul 13, 2023 05:35
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Bill Bryson's book described that as being to microbiologists like finding a grazing herd of live stegosaurus. Wasn’t that comment about the living stromatolite colonies in Shark Bay?
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Jul 13, 2023 05:48
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webmeister posted:Wasn’t that comment about the living stromatolite colonies in Shark Bay? Or possibly that, yeah.
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Jul 13, 2023 06:01
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 Me and my microbiodork mate upon seeing an algae apartment building.
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Jul 13, 2023 06:10
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webmeister posted:Wasn’t that comment about the living stromatolite colonies in Shark Bay? Yeah. I think it's all about the geology. Wikipedia posted:The Bungle Bungle Range is one of the most extensive and impressive occurrences of sandstone tower (or cone) karst terrain in the world. The Bungle Bungles were a plateau of Devonian sandstone, carved into a mass of beehive-shaped towers with regularly alternating, dark gray bands of cyanobacterial crust (single cell photosynthetic organisms). The plateau is dissected by 100–200-metre (330–660 ft) deep, sheer-sided gorges and slot canyons. The cone-towers are steep-sided, with an abrupt break of slope at the base and have domed summits.  It's a fair distance. 
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Jul 13, 2023 06:23
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Yeah it’s insanely remote tbh. The main highway between WA and the Territory runs “nearby”, and it’s still a couple of hours drive from there in what’s already a lonely stretch between Hall’s Creek and Kununurra. Some insanely beautiful country up that way though
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Jul 13, 2023 09:25
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I visited Uluru in 2008 and the drive there from Alice Springs was surreal. A very scary "LAST SERVICES" sign, then many miles of desert and dingoes and dead camels and nothing. There was nothing on the FM radio dial, just static.
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Jul 13, 2023 09:32
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They put those signs up because tourists legit die out there from wildly underestimating the distances between everything. Was the right idea to bring a whole buncha CDs for the road trip out there.
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Jul 13, 2023 12:44
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It's kinda funny how Alice and Uluru go together in the popular imagination, like they're just near each other or something. Kinda blows people's minds when they find out it's nearly 500km drive! I know it's a whole cliched "thing" about the distances and the emptiness and so on, but it's crazily true. We did an entire campervan lap of the country during Covid (roughly Sydney -> Geelong -> Adelaide -> Perth -> Broome -> Darwin -> Cooktown -> Sydney), and ended up covering over 25,000 kilometres. That's the distance from Berlin to Beijing. And back. Despite the reputation, I didn't think the Nullarbor felt that remote, to be honest. Yeah it's a loving long drive, but there's a roadhouse every hour or so and there's always a steady stream of vehicles. Not a lot, but if you broke down you wouldn't have to wait long to wave for help. I actually think the most desolate stretch we did was probably the Barkley Highway from Tennant Creek across to Townsville. 1500 kilometres of basically nothing except Mt Isa, and then a small handful of towns like Julia Creek and Hughenden. We did that in essentially three days (plus a stop in Mt Isa) and gently caress I was glad when it was over.
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Jul 13, 2023 13:14
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webmeister posted:(roughly Sydney -> Geelong -> Adelaide -> Perth -> Broome -> Darwin -> Cooktown -> Sydney)  No-one goes through the bit in the middle 
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Jul 13, 2023 14:46
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Blow posted:
I mean, there is really only one sealed road in that middle bit, the Stuart highway, which can occasionally (very rarely) close for a couple of hours when Woomera is doing missile tests overhead and MPs make you sit in your car until it opens. 
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Blow posted:
My wife had driven the Adelaide to Darwin route twice (once as a kid and once as an adult), and I’d been to Uluṟu just before covid, so we decided not to cut through. And yeah that’s roughly the route we took, except we went down the Eyre peninsula, then turned south at Norseman to Albany/Esperance etc. We also took the coast road through WA via Shark Bay and Exmouth. And of course the Bruce and Pacific Highways down through QLD.
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