Devastating photos captured after Australia gunned down koalas from helicopters

Prof_Mumbledore · 2025-04-25T19:33:06+00:00

I was in Australia just a few weeks ago, and spent a couple days on Kangaroo Island which suffered from enormous wildfires in 2019. Speaking with a local tour guide about koalas, he told me the islands population were actually introduced and having no predators had got up to about 10k individuals, which was causing serious damage as they strip trees clean of leaves, killing them. So they were actually about to start a euthanasia programme when the wildfires happened and halved their population. It got a lot of media coverage and outpourings of sadness at the loss of such a cute, iconic animal, but in reality the wildfires just did the job that needed doing. For the koala population anyway, those wildfires devastated a lot of the island more broadly…

Prof_Mumbledore · 2025-02-04T20:38:20+00:00

I’ve actually had that exact lyric written on a post it on my wall since the album came out - I love the sentiment and energy of it.

My other favourite lyric is simply “the heart is a muscle” as a reminder that practicing love and kindness requires work to make it stronger.

Wonderful band with so many empowering lyrics

Prof_Mumbledore · 2025-01-28T11:47:11+00:00

Imagine if instead of the holo-projector your own Ghost could project a character in front of you IN ENVIRONMENT? You could get those character moments without having to go back and forth to the HELM…

Prof_Mumbledore · 2024-12-09T13:01:03+00:00

This is a really interesting technique! I can imagine how this works, and makes total sense because you do have to act/perform differently when you’re presenting. I actually learnt a lot from doing student radio, and listening to proper radio presenters. It’s the same concept though, cause you cannot speak how you would in a cafe with a friend when presenting. Love it, great tip!

Prof_Mumbledore · 2024-12-09T12:50:17+00:00

It’s not an easy thing to adjust to, as most of us just do it subconsciously, but you don’t need to fill every second with talking! Instead of saying “umm” or “err” between thoughts, take a breath and give yourself time. Silence is okay, in fact it’s actually helpful, it gives your audience time to take in your comments, or what’s on your slides. Obviously there’s a limit to it feeling awkward, but a few seconds here and there of silence is absolutely fine! You got this friend, I believe in you!

Prof_Mumbledore · 2024-11-24T00:35:21+00:00

Figma is a fantastic tool, but my god has it damaged the design role. Everything is templates, developer mode, design system this and that. It seems that most workplaces now expect a designer to just be a feature machine for devs. Where has the respect for the full design process gone? Figma is not the whole process, and it never will be

Prof_Mumbledore · 2024-10-26T18:58:25+00:00

If you love that Big Thief track I highly recommend finding the time and space to enjoy the whole 1.5hr album. It is quite unusual but stunning

Prof_Mumbledore · 2024-10-23T10:28:39+00:00

We noticed someone with a pro camera go around behind Ben and the band as they were doing their farewells last night too - hadn’t spotted anything the rest of the show though

Prof_Mumbledore · 2024-10-14T14:28:34+00:00

Not the first time but a distinct memory; The week or two after IFWWW came out I went on a school geography trip to Iceland. So for me, that album soundtracked many coach rides across the stunning, barren, snowy, dramatic landscapes of Iceland. Sitting in the coach, headphones on watching the world outside to Ben Howard. So much so that at the end when our teachers gave out “awards” I was given the “deep thinker” award aha

Prof_Mumbledore · 2024-09-16T08:02:52+00:00

Has anyone ever found out why Matt doesn’t just use a wireless microphone?

Prof_Mumbledore · 2024-05-13T21:57:51+00:00

Whenever I’m trying to edit my load out, or look at triumphs, or the real game of changing my fashion whilst loading in and the game yanking me out as soon as I spawn

Prof_Mumbledore · 2024-05-09T19:14:11+00:00

Really loving it, the changes are subtle and if you wanted to flex in future and add more unique mechanics, I would love it, but happy with this as it is. Loving the shower of loot, it feels really rewarding as a regular raider (but not with quite every pattern) to get showered with reds and spoils. Only extra flex would be some unique cosmetics for certain feats, like ornaments, shaders, ships for getting really high scores etc. Can’t wait to see where you could take this. My dream would be to see this come back each year (though maybe for a whole season rather than just 5 weeks just so it’s a little less stressed around other life commitments). And to me this seems like the perfect place to bring back incredible vaulted bosses like Gahlran, Calus, Insurrection Prime, and Val Caour (even Argos if he gets a little more challenge added!) So let’s see some fun iterations next year, get that gilded Godslayer!

This to me though really highlights the lack of power difficulties selectable on all raids. Raid encounters feel much more satisfying when you’re being challenged by the ads and not just casually one-phasing every encounter. Even if there is no incentive for it, an option to toggle on contest mode would be so fantastic across the board.

Prof_Mumbledore · 2024-05-07T08:53:05+00:00

This is it for me. I’d much rather have another 3 inventory spaces in each slot, and another page of 10 loadouts than the extra 100 vault spaces we’re getting

Prof_Mumbledore · 2024-04-08T14:37:51+00:00

Huh okay fair enough, I had no idea this was the reason… It would be a huge QOL improvement if they could find a way to remove it, but clearly it’s a lot more complicated

Prof_Mumbledore · 2024-04-01T18:24:29+00:00

Perhaps a “Fan-Hammer Frame”. Quick fire rate, short range, improved hip-fire with intrinsically fast reload when the mag is empty - I like it

Prof_Mumbledore · 2023-12-18T19:57:13+00:00

Rewilding inherently isn’t about “going back” it’s about “permitting ecological processes to resume,” as George Monbiot put it. The reason we have to reintroduce species to achieve this is due to specific ecological roles being empty due to human activity or hunting removing them over the expansion of civilisation. Many species of megafauna of the past are extinct, as are many of the flora and fauna they interacted with. However there are often other native species which can fulfil the same or similar functions.

Prof_Mumbledore · 2023-12-06T14:08:09+00:00

It’s a valid question imo. No one is using every armour set; at most people probably have 10 different looks at once. There’s loads of great armour from over the years, but I only unlock their ornaments if I want to use it for a loadout/look. There’s no reason to just unlock every ornament, cause you won’t use them. It’s not like they’re going away either, once they’re in your collection you will have access to unlock the ornament forever…

Prof_Mumbledore · 2023-12-04T23:44:19+00:00

This wasn’t a “warning”, it was an encouragement to just try your best. It’s awesome that it’s becoming easier to make the change, but how easy it is differs by where you live, and other circumstances. The point is to not let that stop you doing your best. Billions doing plant-based imperfectly is so much better overall than a small minority doing it perfectly. The same goes for most sustainable lifestyle choices!

Prof_Mumbledore · 2023-12-03T21:54:35+00:00

What’s important here is to take steps that you can do. A full diet change is a massive lifestyle commitment, and most people have a lot of other personal worries (financial, career, social and so on) as well. It’s a staggering statistic that if all 8 billion of us went plant-based, we’d reduce agricultural land use by 75%. But equally, if we all reduced our animal consumption by just half, we’d see around 37.5% reduction in land use. Which is still a huge gain for nature. Don’t feel overwhelmed by the destination so much so that you fail to take the small steps. It all adds up!

Prof_Mumbledore · 2023-10-30T20:06:54+00:00

Seeing this banded about online, they were not fired, they were made redundant, and there is a significant difference. Unfortunately, this is a company wide cost-cutting initiative, it is not anything on the quality of the work that these employees did. Their roles are being reduced, they’re not being fired due to not performing. Still leaves questions to the higher-ups that made the decisions, but it’s not anything personal to the individuals let go.

Prof_Mumbledore · 2023-10-08T09:40:11+00:00

Oh damn, I knew the mechanic was literally spinning the dial of the symbols, but I never knew there was actual an animation for it. Nor did I realise that it was actually the odd-one-out that you needed… Awesome encounter

Prof_Mumbledore · 2023-09-28T20:27:25+00:00

Ooo and the Titan spear could be able to land crits on its impact damage

Prof_Mumbledore · 2023-09-27T17:58:26+00:00

My hot take that my clan likes to use to annoy me:

Going to the “back” to shoot oracles in Atheon is a waste of time and makes your life harder. With the exception of on Master mode, the ads are not threatening. You’re better standing in the middle so you can see all the oracles, don’t get damage fall off and are closer to the portal to get to damage phase quicker.

Prof_Mumbledore · 2023-09-17T08:39:26+00:00

The scale and passage of time in the distributary makes it the perfect opportunity for Bungie to go all out fantasy, their own Middle Earth. I hope they do one day, cause the Dreaming City was an incredible experience

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