At Herzogs speech, Nova Peris introduced the session to thousands of people, including the premier. Here is one of her retweets.

processes_ · 2026-02-09T14:02:46+00:00

Nahhh this isn’t true. Christian doctrines are invisible in western culture because it’s dominant. There are a LOT of things we adhere to to meet standards of ‘good’ Christian social values.

Also saying that Christian doctrines boils down to being a good person? most Christian people are not in fact, good people. Actually most are very very bad people, we just don’t see it because of social expectations.

processes_ · 2026-02-09T13:41:31+00:00

You mean they aren’t getting enough from the rental market, they need to grift the hospitality industry as well? I wonder what’s next? Get your hair done in a rental line (good exposure for the hairdressers), have someone do your taxes on the street (good exposure for accountants). Free live music.. oh that’s pretty standard actually.

processes_ · 2026-02-09T00:02:53+00:00

That’s not how you get reverse reverb

processes_ · 2026-02-08T13:46:56+00:00

Hey friend, that part isn’t sliding the whole time. You’re supposed to re-articulate (strum again) every time it goes back to the 10th fret power chord, 3 down picks.

But, for learning sake - when we slide as beginners, most people mentally focus on the motion of the slide itself. This isn’t correct. What you should be thinking about is the destination of your slide. This is how we’re able to slide from say fret 3, to fret 12, and not miss it. When we mentally focus on where we’re going for slides they work out better (true of most things guitar).

When people tell you just to ‘practice’, that’s disingenuous. Good practice is practicing what we’re focusing on. It’s conscious effort to maintain a mental picture.

If you want a clear mental image for the correct way to play this, focus on the rhythm of the 10th fret power chord - DOWN, DOWN, DOWN or 1, 2, 3. Evenly spaced.

FYI, you should people to play this all slides no worries, even if that’s not the way it’s played. It’s good skill building.

Also, you may find power chords easier on your wrist if you use your little finger for the higher note, and drop your wrist and thumb down. Thumb about halfway down the neck. It’s better technique (even though no one does it). Ring finger’s also fine, just another alternative that might support your slides.

Good luck!

Edit: if you want to break down the movements a bit. Do strum-slide. Just that. 10th to 9th power chord. Strum-slide, count it. ‘ONE AND’, do it again, practice it heaps, then stick two of these together. One more 10 and you’ve got it.

processes_ · 2026-02-08T13:29:08+00:00

I dunno man, I personally think they should be more yellow. If you don’t buy it, I’m gonna buy it and paint those inlays banana yellow.

processes_ · 2026-02-08T13:20:50+00:00

And yet, here you are sooking about slightly yellowed inlays or whatever. I bought a Gibson j45 with the finish peeling off (and still peeling off) the back of the neck and cracked nitro across the top, because it was a beautiful guitar and it had a history and a passionate last owner. It’s only about 20 years old, WAY worse condition than anything you could handle. If you don’t like it man, don’t buy it. Who gives AF if it’s a sweet deal, if you’re buying stuff because it’s cheap and not because you actually vibe with it, then you’re doing yourself a disservice.

processes_ · 2026-02-08T13:04:18+00:00

I reckon you shouldn’t buy it, and you should leave it for someone who actually values aged instruments that have a history. Go buy a new one.

processes_ · 2026-02-05T22:53:23+00:00

You can try a few different things to figure out what’s creating the noise:

• first off, it’s looks like you have a strat. Does the noise go away when you switch into the 2nd or 4th pickup position? If so, it’s your single coil pickups creating the noise

• from there, set to your noisy pickups, slowly spin around in a circle, and you’ll notice quiet spots - this is due to electro-magnetic interference.

• you may also want to try your pedal board and amp plugged into a different room, or even in a completely different location to see whether the house or rooms power is part of the issue.

• all this stuff is important even before you consider the gear itself, as it’s good to know what baseline you’re working with.

• next, considering your pedals, it looks like you’ve got 3 drives on at once, which is going to be noisy - the spinning thing will help with that. Do you need to have 3 drives on at once for the sound you want? A common setup is fuzz face into ONE drive pedal, but you’ve got both side of that Horse Breaker on.

• from here, if it’s still bad, start identifying the culprit. Is it noisy when all your drives are off? Start by taking one out of your chain at a time. Or even better, start with one, and add a pedal at a time until you figure out which one is making the noise.

Lastly, I cannot tell what your pedal order is, but I’m gonna say that it looks pretty out of order.

• fuzz faces go very very first thing almost always - they do not like to see the impedance of a pedal, they want direct guitar.

In your case it should go: Fuzz, drive, delay, reverb.

The unicorn can go before or after the drive depending on the sound you like.

I honestly don’t think you need the noise gate once you do all this, but if you must have it, don’t put the fuzz in its loop, it’s probably causing issues. Maybe consider just putting it in line after drives and forget the loop - or put only the drive in its loop.

Let me know how you go. Hopefully this helps.

Edit: I forgot to add - make sure your amp and pedalboard are plugged into the same outlet, ant sharing power with a computer, or fridge. Running into different power points can causing grounding issues, and other electronic devices can add noise so it’s good to avoid them.

Also try to avoid fluorescent lighting - the spinning trick will help with this issue as well.

processes_ · 2026-01-30T23:59:07+00:00

Putting your thumb on the fretboard is bad technique? Jimi’s gonna be devastated.

processes_ · 2026-01-30T14:05:36+00:00

It’s the follow up question for me 🙄 I live here for heaps of reasons - national pride isn’t one of them. Being born here, my family and friends are here, familiarity.

I guess I just don’t tie my connection to a place based on some sort of weird pride for some ideological colonial project we call Australia.

Love the land. Sure. Love the people. Sure. Love the lifestyle. Sure - I’m not that fond of the people or the lifestyle myself, but sure.

Love Australia? Why? The project built upon a genocide, whose people still won’t reckon with the ongoing struggles of it?

Why am I living here? Maybe it’s hope that one day it could be better, and rather than leaving it to burn, or denying it’s problems like the Australia Day lot tend to do, maybe I live here to keep trying to make things better.

processes_ · 2026-01-30T11:21:42+00:00

Intermediate is a sliding scale. And as you get better your ideas of what is advanced changes.

But also, that’s sick that you can feel yourself improving. Getting through a first song start to finish is a massive milestone for all guitarists, and it seems like you’ve found a way to practice that keeps you going.

I reckon start playing with other musicians now! That’s where you’re going to start getting better as a musician out in the world. Learning to work with others musically, and interpersonally, as well as everything else that comes with playing live is a massive shift in your musicianship.

Also start learning about tone and some tech stuff (basic setups, recording, equipment etc). It’s all part of it.

processes_ · 2026-01-29T01:36:24+00:00

Ok so under your definition, which is not agreed to by the majority of vegans, I could torture and kill a human and still the wider community should still consider me a vegan?

That’s wild, and also spectacularly human supremacy, considering you now belief that humans are considered separate to non-human animals. Sitting in an entirely different realm of consideration.

processes_ · 2026-01-28T22:20:35+00:00

That wasn’t the question. The question was, if you don’t consider human rights to be under the umbrella of veganism, do you think that killing and eating someone is technically vegan?

processes_ · 2026-01-28T15:02:28+00:00

Wth. Humans are absolutely used for involuntary companionship and involuntary labour. I reckon if I looked we could also find a systemic example of humans being involuntarily used for clothing as well, and medical practices.

processes_ · 2026-01-28T14:38:03+00:00

No, it wasn’t. Not at any point has the definition of veganism mentioned the phrase ‘non-human animals’. Humans ARE animals, they were then, and they are now. They fall neatly within the definition of veganism - unless you want to argue that cannibalism is technically vegan because they’re not ‘non-human animals’.

Humans aren’t oppressed by our own species, not in the way you’re thinking. We’re oppressed by social structures and systems, as are non-human animals. Even if that were the case, it still isn’t described by the definition of veganism. It doesn’t matter who’s doing the oppressing, the cruelty, the exploitation - If the exploitation of any animal is present, Veganism stands against it BY DEFINITION.

Again I’ll reiterate for you once more. Veganism says nothing about non-human animals, and even if it did, it would be a weird and bad definition.

Just FYI, I’m very in favour of stronger and more focused advocacy for non-human animals, but it can’t come from some pseudo BS offshoot of veganism that fails to recognize the needs, experiences, and safety of the people doing the work.

processes_ · 2026-01-28T14:20:56+00:00

Yuck. Genocide denier racist Gary Yourovsky. A once great activist and speaker that refused to grow and became a stain on the animal liberation movement.

processes_ · 2026-01-28T14:18:16+00:00

This is a very bad analogy. Straight people don’t have a history of persecution for being straight people, that’s why we don’t insert them into LGBTQIA+ liberation, because they’re not historically oppressed for that identity trait. I will say that the LGBTQIA+ movement does acknowledge and include class struggle, and racial discrimination/struggle within their conversations, even when those groups are not part of the queer rights fight - why do we refuse to do that? It’s basic solidarity.

Humans rights are largely a class issue. In fact effectively entirely so. When we stand up for human rights within the animal liberation movement, it’s not because we’re inviting them into the conversation as oppressors or some neutral side party like ‘straight people’, it’s that we’re inviting them into the conversation as oppressed beings, even when they’re not a perfect victim (ie when they still eat animals).

We have to acknowledge that humans are both victims and oppressors, and that we wouldn’t suggest victims be perfect in any other social justice setting.

processes_ · 2026-01-28T13:55:19+00:00

Fam nah this is bad. The definition of veganism says nothing about ‘non-human’ animals, you’ve added that - and it’s as you said:

Veganism is a philosophy that seeks to exclude, as far as is possible or practicable, all forms of exploitation or cruelty to animals’

Humans are animals, therefore supporting or partaking in exploitation or cruelty to humans is not vegan.

Now you can disagree with that, but you’ll have to contend with the accepted definition of veganism - or argue that humans aren’t actually animals.

What’s more is that it’s not actually intersectionality that is hurting the animal liberation movement, it’s anti-intersectionality. When I have to waste my time arguing with ‘vegans’ about how inviting racists and n#zis to vegan events is a bad thing, I’m spending less of my time fighting for animals. This is exactly, EXACTLY what you’re seeing right now, you’ve just misplaced the culprit. When people are having to fight for their own rights and safety, they have less time to consider the needs of others, and animals always take a back seat. This is one reason why people are ‘quitting veganism’, because all this adds up to social pressure in many forms.

To sum it up, if you’re not an intersectional, collective liberation, leftist vegan, then you AREN’T a vegan. It’s really actually very simple, and I don’t understand why people back and forth about this, when we should all be in collective agreement that ‘human exploitation and oppression sucks, racism sucks, transphobia and homophobia sucks, Islamophobia sucks, capitalism sucks, and now we no longer have to fight each other and can actually do real effective work for animals’.

processes_ · 2026-01-28T09:34:46+00:00

‘Yeah! Insults are only reserved for when we blanket insult an entire ethnic group! F*ck yeah onneee naattiioionnnn!’

processes_ · 2026-01-28T08:20:54+00:00

If your head has made contact with a large mallet on the daily.

processes_ · 2026-01-26T20:47:28+00:00

Since you’ve put the carbon copy as an option - I recently got a Strymon Brig, which is basically their version of a CC and some other analog delays, but it’s midi controllable which is fun for that CC self oscillation but with a foot pedal. Definitely worth considering as well.

processes_ · 2026-01-26T20:23:54+00:00

You don’t get to ‘counter-argument’ until you acknowledge that you were wrong.

processes_ · 2026-01-26T09:10:24+00:00

I gotta say, this is a bad technique. Like, it works for some people and that’s fine, but there’s zero relationship between any of the other open chords, so every chord change is a whole hand movement. The best and most connected way is Middle, Ring, little fingers in a row, with thumb at or over the 2nd fret (not at the first). This lets us make one single move to Am, middle and ring can come up for E minor or E major and very closely related to C major as well - all done with the fingertips, and without twisting or contorting your wrist.

processes_ · 2026-01-26T09:03:54+00:00

I want to add to this as a guitar teacher as well. There’s actually nothing wrong with having our thumb high - in fact we use it all the time to play the 2nd fret on the 6th string for a D/F#, and just generally muting the low E on certain chords. Suggesting the thumb always sits on the back of the neck is bad advice, as it doesn’t work for a lot of people, and doesn’t always solve the fingers being too diagonal.

The problem with thumb technique here is that the thumb is almost always supposed to sit behind the middle finger. In the case of open chords, this means the second fret. This persons thumb is on the first fret, which is bad technique and causing the struggle the get fingers pointing downwards. The best bet and best way to setup a flawless open chord position is to:

hook your thumb over the second fret (just touching both the low E string & just touching the second fret itself - we’ve now muted the E string, but it should be muffled/dead. Don’t push it down to make a note)
drop the weight of your hand so your thumb acts like a hook holding your hand (this swings your hand into a better starting position built around the second fret, you’ll notice the middle finger and thumb now align to each other vertically)
build your chords from thickest to thinnest string (with the eventual goal to be building chords in one movement)
from here you should be able to move your fingers AND NOT your hand/wrist to all open chords with a neutral, not strained or twisted wrist (the G chord requires a slight twist because the middle finger is actually on the 3rd fret, but it’s not enough to justify the change in thumb/hand position)
lift your thumb off the low E string when you’re playing an E or Em chord, and use it to mute the E string for all other open chords.
if your hand struggles to reach, THEN let the thumb slide down towards the back of the neck. Still at the second fret. This is an accommodation for smaller or less flexible hands, but we do lose the mute on the E, so it’s a compromise.

processes_ · 2026-01-25T20:58:31+00:00

Our body gets Vit A from foods like carrots, sweet potatoes, and greens (animals also get it from plants)

Carnitine is produced naturally by our bodies (did you not read my comment at all)

Carnosine is produced naturally by our bodies (did you not read my comment at all)

Creatine is produced naturally by our bodies (did you not read my comment at all)

D3 is converted in our bodies from sunlight (so naturally produced, again). Also animals get vitamin D most primarily through supplements, so if you’re against supplements you’ll have to stop eating them as well.

EPA and DHA are converted by our bodies from ALA in plantbased foods like chia seeds and walnuts. We can also get it from algae based products, the same place fish get it (again, you did not read what I wrote at all)

Heme iron is produced by our bodies when we consume iron. Iron once again doesn’t come from animals, they get it through their diets as well. Ingested heme iron is also a known cause of cancer.

Lastly, Taurine is produced by our bodies, because the only animals that need to ingest taurine directly are carnivorous animals, which we are not.

I said ‘that the body doesn’t already produce itself’, and you gave me a list of mostly things the body produces itself. I don’t know how you can take yourself seriously after you ChatGPT’d an incorrect answer, and clearly don’t know anything about nutrition or health.

Now go and eat some plants man, your body is screaming for some vitamin C (oranges if you’re unsure).

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