Interesting things too

I agree @goofy, there's marsupials that have managed to cling on around equatorial islands yet to be be discovered..
(and can I add, coolest casual sentence on SN this week: "every time I’m at G-land and walking through the jungle down to the keyhole ..." : )

indo-dreaming wrote:

@AW

Yeah i shared more as a wow this one is hard to explain type thing.

But i do think your right, i didn't realise how much foxes look like them when they have mange until i saw the below image.

Plus if there really was any left there would have been many skeleton remains found.

cough cough....bullshit....cough..cough.
Got you hook line and sinker no info.

that is one impressive 'big thing'!!! Go, Dubya-ayyy
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-05/midwest-wa-town-carnamah-unveils…
(I would happily contribute $2000 I don't have, to a crowdfund to have our Kingston SE's 'Larry the Lobster' get craned across for a bit of a ride!)

I thought it interesting to tell my Northern NSW mates that NSW Rugby lead are crucifying the Storm , again .

To ensure a Panther 4Peat , they suspended Melbourne's most important and friendliest player .

Nelson had some Sharky weakling , run into him while he was waiting around , waiting to say hello .

Nelson's chest is like rock and the Shark knocked itself out .

They gave the Gentle Giant 5 games which included the Grand Final .

An AFL player would need to King Hit and spit on the unconscious player to get 4 weeks with a GF .

I told them Munster will Mash and some Jerome Magic will give Bellamy his 3rd Pennant ( two being taken off him ) .

Go Storm !

@SR

Nah sorry dude im aways super skeptical on these things.

I must say i didnt think it was a fox though with the thin tail and way it moved and the comment's under the article said the same, I really didnt know what it was I was thinking maybe a big quoll or something.

But then this morning after AW said a fox, I thought okay maybe he is right as native plant's and animals are an interest of his, so I gave it a google and found this

https://au.news.yahoo.com/mysterious-tasmanian-tiger-sightings-revealed…

And even before i read the article and just saw the pic, i was like yeah okay AW i think is right.

southernraw wrote:

@AW

Yeah i shared more as a wow this one is hard to explain type thing.

But i do think your right, i didn't realise how much foxes look like them when they have mange until i saw the below image.

Plus if there really was any left there would have been many skeleton remains found.

cough cough....bullshit....cough..cough.
Got you hook line and sinker no info.

Southernraw. Hi pal. Hope you’re studying well.

I’d loved it to be a large Spot Tailed Quoll but as soon as I saw that gait I knew it was a fox.
Another interesting observation is, which I see regularly is when a fox passes through a mob of kangaroos of all ages, they move but they don’t panic, just like in that video. It was a comp,etc beat up, again. AW

goofyfoot wrote:

Mainland Tassie tiger?

Indo Hi.

Complete tripe.

It’s a fox, I see them daily when I walk at dawn with my dog and nightly when I seek nocturnal birds and mammals .
I know that gait., when you see an animal as often as I do, you remember all of its locomotory actions. These fame seekers should spend their time trying to conserve endangered marsupials instead. AW

Reminder to all. YouTube like other platforms is unsolicited publishing. Full stop.

If the aforementioned night filming is as its portrays, why aren’t authorities and other scientific fraternities jumping up and down.

We know in the real world that no animal is immune to the normal biological rates of attrition, for example, premature death at infancy, disease , self inflicted wounds etc. We would find evidence if it was there.

People venture everywhere so barely a piece of ground these days hasn’t been explored.
Alas, it doesn’t mean we won’t discover new organisms, we do daily, Wollemi Pine etc.AW

Hey AW
so that’s a firm no from you for the Thylacine to still exist?
Not that YouTube footage specifically, just exist in general, anywhere..

I find it very hard to believe they would still be around with the amount of motion sensor cameras throughout the bush these days.

Every time I’m at G-land and walking through the jungle down to the keyhole I think how amazing it would be if the Javan tiger still existed.
You look at the size of the Alas Purwo national park on google earth and I think it could mayyyybe be possible they could be hiding out in there, but that’s wishful thinking for sure.
Just another thing humans have ruined

Goofyfoot. Hi mate, great to hear from you.

How was G-Land ?

I recently read the book Grajagan Surviving in The Tigers Lair, great read, felt like you were actually there.
Some of the animal stories, wow.

It’s a no from me regarding Thylacines, I’m so angry with society, I’ve also read the Thylacine book, what an incredible animal it was, so well adapted to its environment and its way of killing. Shot to death for no reason, it was a very shy and timid animal just minding its own business, its striped body was its downfall. Idiot early settlers just thought, stripes, must be like a tiger, bang.

Its mandible was a crushing machine with a large gape, its powerful rump/tail interface was a supreme balancing tool.
Almost brings me to tears to think of its demise, which ultimately was just a folly.

I’d love nothing more for one to step out of the Forth River Valley in SW Tassie, but I don’t think that’s happening real soon.
We need to remind ourselves, Thylacines used to be in the Kimberley also, very widespread distribution.

You mentioned it earlier, yes there are large tracts of land and wilderness zones globally that are unchanged,, where populations of rare organisms might be still hanging on due to us pushing them closer together, but was has changed is the global population just passing 8 billion. There is people in places today you’d never of heard about 50 years ago and that’s the difference. All the best. AW

I love how animals have learned humans.

Like Alan Titchmarsh points out that wrens like digging gardeners, the same way they liked wild boars in ancient English forests, for exposing grubs and worms..

As you know @AW, I treat mangey wombats with Ivermectin on my property, (long aluminum pole with a shot glass on the end) when I can get near them (my neighbour, Jim, great bloke, shoots them unfortunately, blames them for a cow's broken leg and ongoing fence maintenance).. If I creep carefully up to them (like a hunter might), they freak and run a mile, but I have literally tripped over them when walking like a bloke with an enlarged prostate, or a disinterested wallaby.

I also have a grey shrike-thrush couple, nursing three eggs, that have decided that being near the door of a large mammal's cave (that enjoys whistling to them), is better than being out in a bush or shed near foxes and crows that fear said mammal.

(the above reference is somewhere in this series):

edit: ah, yup, robin at 5:30

Hello Alfred

I note that you haven't given up all hope that a wonderful Thylacine could still be walking around in Tassy .

We have come come a long way since the Early Settlers thought a Striped body a Tiger .

If found , those Stripes will now be celebrated .

The worlds populations is increasing with people like you .

Perhaps our footprint will soften and we learn and grow ?

Miracles can happen every day .

My spelling might even improve .

edit

There is a lovely Cathren ? Wheel on the BOM radar atm .

Pop Down wrote:

Hello Alfred

I note that you haven't given up all hope that a wonderful Thylacine could still be walking around in Tassy .

We have come come a long way since the Early Settlers thought a Striped body a Tiger .

If found , those Stripes will now be celebrated .

The worlds populations is increasing with people like you .

Perhaps our footprint will soften and we learn and grow ?

Miracles can happen every day .

My spelling might even improve .

edit

There is a lovely Cathren ? Wheel on the BOM radar atm .

PopDown. Hi mate.

Oh, I have given up hope. I’m Thylacine Dreaming mate that’s about all.

Australia has the worst mammal extinction rate of any country in the last 50 years.
Nothing to be proud of. AW

AlfredWallace wrote:

@AW

Yeah i shared more as a wow this one is hard to explain type thing.

But i do think your right, i didn't realise how much foxes look like them when they have mange until i saw the below image.

Plus if there really was any left there would have been many skeleton remains found.

cough cough....bullshit....cough..cough.
Got you hook line and sinker no info.

Southernraw. Hi pal. Hope you’re studying well.

I’d loved it to be a large Spot Tailed Quoll but as soon as I saw that gait I knew it was a fox.
Another interesting observation is, which I see regularly is when a fox passes through a mob of kangaroos of all ages, they move but they don’t panic, just like in that video. It was a comp,etc beat up, again. AW

Good here thanks AW. Studies going good thanks.
Yeah there's a billion foxes around here. Exactly, the gait is a dead giveaway. Always interesting seeing how animals respond to other animals. I wonder if our upright stance and gait/walk is something that triggers an innate flee response with all other animals.
Everything runs away from us!

southernraw wrote:

@AW

Yeah i shared more as a wow this one is hard to explain type thing.

But i do think your right, i didn't realise how much foxes look like them when they have mange until i saw the below image.

Plus if there really was any left there would have been many skeleton remains found.

cough cough....bullshit....cough..cough.
Got you hook line and sinker no info.

Southernraw. Hi pal. Hope you’re studying well.

I’d loved it to be a large Spot Tailed Quoll but as soon as I saw that gait I knew it was a fox.
Another interesting observation is, which I see regularly is when a fox passes through a mob of kangaroos of all ages, they move but they don’t panic, just like in that video. It was a comp,etc beat up, again. AW

Good here thanks AW. Studies going good thanks.
Yeah there's a billion foxes around here. Exactly, the gait is a dead giveaway. Always interesting seeing how animals respond to other animals. I wonder if our upright stance and gait/walk is something that triggers an innate flee response with all other animals.
Everything runs away from us!

Southernraw. I think you are very correct with that comment.

There’s no doubt animals that observed us animals would’ve recognised recurring traits.
From early primates lifting their knuckles up off the ground, to a body half bent and then to upright posture, all those changes would not have been lost in a mixed animal environment.
As early homonids evolved and began to use manufactured weaponry and hunting skills and tools , animal’s perceptions and memories would’ve evolved also.
Fortunately there are still places on earth where birds and other animals dont fear humans, obviously a result of being isolated or in an environment hospitable to homonids at the time., thus less killing. AW

Spot on AW. Would also explain why crows sit and squawk at us. Theyre representatives of all animals and telling us to go get faaaaaarked. ;)
Cheers.

sorry to post meself, @AW, this was at 6pm, just referred to in our convo:

basesix wrote:

I love how animals have learned humans.

Like Alan Titchmarsh points out that wrens like digging gardeners, the same way they liked wild boars in ancient English forests, for exposing grubs and worms..

As you know @AW, I treat mangey wombats with Ivermectin on my property, (long aluminum pole with a shot glass on the end) when I can get near them (my neighbour, Jim, great bloke, shoots them unfortunately, blames them for a cow's broken leg and ongoing fence maintenance).. If I creep carefully up to them (like a hunter might), they freak and run a mile, but I have literally tripped over them when walking like a bloke with an enlarged prostate, or a disinterested wallaby.

I also have a grey shrike-thrush couple, nursing three eggs, that have decided that being near the door of a large mammal's cave (that enjoys whistling to them), is better than being out in a bush or shed near foxes and crows that fear said mammal.

(the above reference is somewhere in this series):

edit: ah, yup, robin at 5:30

brutal when you double or triple post, and have 9mins to try to think of something useful to supplant. so, this again. fricking cool looking giant tractor!! staring at the rain gauge!! yeh!!

https://www.facebook.com/7NEWSRegionalWA/videos/worlds-biggest-tractor/…
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-05/midwest-wa-town-carnamah-unveils…

ummm, and buy some art from chris stirk!! https://www.facebook.com/chrisstirkart/

basesix wrote:

brutal when you double or triple post, and have 9mins to try to think of something useful to supplant. so, this again. fricking cool looking giant tractor!! staring at the rain gauge!! yeh!!

https://www.facebook.com/7NEWSRegionalWA/videos/worlds-biggest-tractor/…

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-05/midwest-wa-town-carnamah-unveils…

ummm, and buy some art from chris stirk!! https://www.facebook.com/chrisstirkart/

Basesix. Hi.

Single, double or triple posting is like being at your favourite coastal ice cream parlour in a very indecisive mood.
The shop owner will definitely give you more than 9 minutes to choose the add ons, nuts, freckles, choc dipped, waffle cone etc. Delish. AW

southernraw wrote:

Spot on AW. Would also explain why crows sit and squawk at us. Theyre representatives of all animals and telling us to go get faaaaaarked. ;)

Cheers.

Southernraw. Good stuff.

Corvids (Crows, Ravens, Rooks and Blue Jays) most intelligent birds on earth only just a whisker in front of SAfricas Grey Headed Parrot.

Corvids are so smart they come close and watch us for the possibility of food .
They have excellent memories, they’ll remember where another bird of the same species hides food and go and raid it later on.
But they also pretend to bury food so as to put their mate off finding the actual food.
They can remember tens of different locations with a food cache.
Simply, they are opportunistic. AW

basesix wrote:

brutal when you double or triple post, and have 9mins to try to think of something useful to supplant. so, this again. fricking cool looking giant tractor!! staring at the rain gauge!! yeh!!….

Haha, you are usually quick at that, Nice tractor.
As the music thread has gone a bit skewed, I thought I would post this here.
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="

title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>

blackers wrote:

brutal when you double or triple post, and have 9mins to try to think of something useful to supplant. so, this again. fricking cool looking giant tractor!! staring at the rain gauge!! yeh!!….

Haha, you are usually quick at that, Nice tractor.
As the music thread has gone a bit skewed, I thought I would post this here.
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="

title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Blackers. Oops sorry, I know you love your music. I will try to straighten it out . AW

AlfredWallace wrote:

[quote=blackers]

brutal when you double or triple post, and have 9mins to try to think of something useful to supplant. so, this again. fricking cool looking giant tractor!! staring at the rain gauge!! yeh!!….

Blackers. Oops sorry, I know you love your music. I will try to straighten it out . AW

All good Alfred, just riffing on an idea. Loved the thylacine vs vulpis discussion above.

I hope this can happen one day

The Australian scientist who's bringing back the Tasmanian Tiger from extinction...

AlfredWallace wrote:

brutal when you double or triple post, and have 9mins to try to think of something useful to supplant. so, this again. fricking cool looking giant tractor!! staring at the rain gauge!! yeh!!….

Haha, you are usually quick at that, Nice tractor.
As the music thread has gone a bit skewed, I thought I would post this here.
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="

title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Blackers. Oops sorry, I know you love your music. I will try to straighten it out . AW

Hi I’ve never been a big fan of short , fast loud,
Or whatever they call that genre
But I can see how it would be really good live
Wall of sound sort of thing .

They Dont Come Much Cheaper
$670
https://www.stretchboardsaustralia.com/sale-on-available-stock

https://www.facebook.com/reel/476482658519537/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

Could have just gone into local Tyre joint and got some Stick on Wheel Balancing Weights

hey where did those yt vids - any random vid - threads that Jelly had up go?

Simon with his second ever Thruster:

^ his and col’s morning star boards were something else
… reminiscent of MR’s masterpieces ;)

- this will be interesting

… & the training ground ;)

stunet wrote:

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That's amazing Stu, our early Energy thruster has a rear fin 1/2" thick and sides 3/8" thick... Personally I love the grip it gives, you'll make every single drop! Edged rails too which is stupendously interesting...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-04/grazier-using-wild-donkeys-to-re…

udo wrote:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-04/grazier-using-wild-donkeys-to-re…

Udo. Hi mate . Thanks for this post.

Sorry, that’s tripe. Get the donkeys and or other ferals off.

Land heading into a period of desertification is a natural process.
Intervening with European farming ideologies is and was fraught with danger.

When will people look to natural processes and cease this attempt to always alter, conquer or save the land.
Just because you have a pipe dream to green a place, doesn’t mean it’s going to be successful.
That part of Oz is tough, ask anyone who lives in that region.

It’s a very hot and dry place for most of the year.

It’s not meant to be tamed or greened in the first place. AW

Tonights Australian Story ABC.

udo wrote:

Tonights Australian Story ABC.

Thanks mate.

Eeeeewwwwwwwww!

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/nov/09/nsw-regulator-ch…

Kids movie merchandise boxing sends buyers to pr0n

https://people.com/mattel-accidentally-lists-adult-film-website-on-wick…

Beau's a cool dude:

Real Talk:

https://theconversation.com/a-man-scouring-google-earth-found-a-mysteri…

Holy Faark Doctor . . .

;)

Here's a very good piece of work from Jon Haidt that discusses just why the last decade has been so insane, the differences in political opinion diverging between young men and young women, the great rise of depression in young people:

https://www.afterbabel.com/p/mental-health-liberal-girls

Cheers to those recommending "The Anxious Generation", found it from there. It's pertinent to all the observations being shared in these forums, too.

Here is a presentation from the founder of patreon who is also a musician of note. He is talking about the shifts in the internet from it's inception, and what they mean to creative people. Ben might be interested in this.

To end, I'd just like to say a massive thank you to Ben, Stu and team for keeping the Swellnet forums a 'Web 1.0' experience in today's world. Yes, we can link stuff, but the main fuel of the forums is written posts, rare and an undercurrent today. When I think about it, I don't want a 'like' or 'follow' button here.

The ship that broke the internet

"Hey, stop, our internet went down when you went over the cable."
"Wasn't me."
"Then how come your anchor looks all munted?"
"It's just rusty."

velocityjohnno wrote:

Here is a presentation from the founder of patreon who is also a musician of note. He is talking about the shifts in the internet from it's inception, and what they mean to creative people. Ben might be interested in this.

To end, I'd just like to say a massive thank you to Ben, Stu and team for keeping the Swellnet forums a 'Web 1.0' experience in today's world. Yes, we can link stuff, but the main fuel of the forums is written posts, rare and an undercurrent today. When I think about it, I don't want a 'like' or 'follow' button here.

Great video VJ, he nailed it.

Thanks for the nice words re: Web 1.0. It's been a challenge over the last decade to steer away from the gravitational pull of the Big Tech strategies but I strongly believe it will only benefit Swellnet in the long run.

https://www.sorell.tas.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/7.2024.9.1-Sub…
Live Nation doing what they do best.
Falls Festival site up for sale.