David Wilson
@eregnans.bsky.social
Generally amazed. Writing at: https://eregnans.substack.com/. Fave tree: Eucalyptus regnans. Work in climate science. Melbourne, Australia. Finalist Tasmania Writers' Prize 2021. PhD in hydrology 2003.
"We just want things to work. Why is that too much to ask at the end of the world?" 🥰
thank you @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social. Why indeed?
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thank you @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social. Why indeed?
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Have you seen the new BoM website? Everyone is so mad about it | First Dog on the Moon
We just want things to work! Why is that too much to ask at the end of the world?
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:01 AM
"We just want things to work. Why is that too much to ask at the end of the world?" 🥰
thank you @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social. Why indeed?
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thank you @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social. Why indeed?
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A short story for you. Based on real events. What would you do?
#writing #whatthehell
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#writing #whatthehell
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Late night, small town
- arriving at a small town motel. Based on a true story.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
A short story for you. Based on real events. What would you do?
#writing #whatthehell
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#writing #whatthehell
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"A voluntary agreement to begin discussions on a roadmap to an eventual phase-out of fossil fuels."
Have you ever read such an absurd sentence?
Have you ever read such an absurd sentence?
End of fossil fuel era inches closer as Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff
Wealthy countries should triple funds for countries to tackle climate impacts, but deforestation and critical minerals blocked from final deal
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:49 PM
"A voluntary agreement to begin discussions on a roadmap to an eventual phase-out of fossil fuels."
Have you ever read such an absurd sentence?
Have you ever read such an absurd sentence?
Cat 3 severe tropical cyclone Fina within 60 km of Darwin. www.bom.gov.au/warning/trop...
November 22, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Cat 3 severe tropical cyclone Fina within 60 km of Darwin. www.bom.gov.au/warning/trop...
Cat 3 severe tropical cyclone Fina now affecting Melville Island - destructive to very destructive winds expected in Darwin Saturday evening. www.bom.gov.au/warning/trop...
November 22, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Cat 3 severe tropical cyclone Fina now affecting Melville Island - destructive to very destructive winds expected in Darwin Saturday evening. www.bom.gov.au/warning/trop...
Very destructive winds, category 3 severe tropical cyclone Fina now impacting Tiwi Islands. Darwin later Saturday. www.bom.gov.au/warning/trop...
November 22, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Very destructive winds, category 3 severe tropical cyclone Fina now impacting Tiwi Islands. Darwin later Saturday. www.bom.gov.au/warning/trop...
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Landscape with Thunderstorm, Vetheuil, 1880
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9555
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9555
November 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Landscape with Thunderstorm, Vetheuil, 1880
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9555
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9555
Tropical cyclone Fina active in the Arafura Sea. May reach the Tiwi Islands on Saturday.
www.bom.gov.au/warning/trop...
www.bom.gov.au/warning/trop...
November 19, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Tropical cyclone Fina active in the Arafura Sea. May reach the Tiwi Islands on Saturday.
www.bom.gov.au/warning/trop...
www.bom.gov.au/warning/trop...
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A government that can’t bring itself to tax fossil fuel, big tech or any wealth properly but defunds its critical institutions is not a good government, sorry
November 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
A government that can’t bring itself to tax fossil fuel, big tech or any wealth properly but defunds its critical institutions is not a good government, sorry
Lovely from Al (not Ai!) on my hidden disability post today. ❤️
November 18, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Lovely from Al (not Ai!) on my hidden disability post today. ❤️
What makes you YOU?
Here's my story on hidden disability - hoping to raise awareness. Share it around if you feel so inclined. I reckon it could help people in ways you don't know. Go well. ❤️
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Here's my story on hidden disability - hoping to raise awareness. Share it around if you feel so inclined. I reckon it could help people in ways you don't know. Go well. ❤️
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My hidden disability and what happened when I agreed to speak at a workshop “See the Unseen: Raising awareness of hidden disabilities”
A workshop at Victoria University on Friday 14 November 2025
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November 18, 2025 at 11:23 PM
What makes you YOU?
Here's my story on hidden disability - hoping to raise awareness. Share it around if you feel so inclined. I reckon it could help people in ways you don't know. Go well. ❤️
eregnans.substack.com/p/on-hidden-...
Here's my story on hidden disability - hoping to raise awareness. Share it around if you feel so inclined. I reckon it could help people in ways you don't know. Go well. ❤️
eregnans.substack.com/p/on-hidden-...
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This is obscene.
The challenges facing the nation means we should be scaling up CSIRO, not cutting it to shreds.
While we are sending billions to the US for nuclear shipyards, our science and industrial base at home is falling apart for lack of funds and direction.
The challenges facing the nation means we should be scaling up CSIRO, not cutting it to shreds.
While we are sending billions to the US for nuclear shipyards, our science and industrial base at home is falling apart for lack of funds and direction.
‘Sad day for publicly funded science’: up to 350 more jobs to go at CSIRO
Australia’s national scientific agency announces more research job losses as it looks for budgetary savings
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:00 AM
This is obscene.
The challenges facing the nation means we should be scaling up CSIRO, not cutting it to shreds.
While we are sending billions to the US for nuclear shipyards, our science and industrial base at home is falling apart for lack of funds and direction.
The challenges facing the nation means we should be scaling up CSIRO, not cutting it to shreds.
While we are sending billions to the US for nuclear shipyards, our science and industrial base at home is falling apart for lack of funds and direction.
what perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
November 18, 2025 at 4:13 AM
what perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
Excellent & thoughtful. From Carol Cadwalladr. Pulitzer-nominated investigative journalist. Exposed Facebook/Cambridge Analytica.
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broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-great-...
The Great AI Bubble
Yes, it's a bubble. And yes, it's going to burst.
broligarchy.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Excellent & thoughtful. From Carol Cadwalladr. Pulitzer-nominated investigative journalist. Exposed Facebook/Cambridge Analytica.
broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-great-...
broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-great-...
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Australia needs to get back into the business of giving loans to owner occupiers rather than property investors - and if the government won’t do it, then APRA should.
November 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Australia needs to get back into the business of giving loans to owner occupiers rather than property investors - and if the government won’t do it, then APRA should.
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POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
One great aspect of being diagnosed coeliac at age 50 is a New Wave of Recipe Discoveries. 🙌🏼
November 18, 2025 at 1:38 AM
One great aspect of being diagnosed coeliac at age 50 is a New Wave of Recipe Discoveries. 🙌🏼
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‘Net zero’ has always been beside the point, as Tim points out. The challenge of decarbonisation is bigger — and the opportunities are much larger — than the extremely impoverished political arguments we have about the term
Just here to remind you that, with “net zero”, we’re having a meaningless argument about a meaningless frame in order to distract from the single most important and meaningful issue confronting us.
This is politics today.
We should stop wasting time and energy and build a new system.
This is politics today.
We should stop wasting time and energy and build a new system.
Net zero reality and the extinction of politics-as-usual
On words without meaning, meaning without worlds
The sheer inanity, the ecocidal banality of our current political discourse was encapsulated perfectly this morning on the floor of the House of Repre...
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November 18, 2025 at 1:21 AM
‘Net zero’ has always been beside the point, as Tim points out. The challenge of decarbonisation is bigger — and the opportunities are much larger — than the extremely impoverished political arguments we have about the term
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The cost.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
November 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The cost.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
COP 30? COP?
Come on, people.
Corruption of power.
Carbon over planet.
Carry on polluting.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Come on, people.
Corruption of power.
Carbon over planet.
Carry on polluting.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Another COP already? Surely you’ve all worked this out by now? | First Dog on the Moon
Wait … I’m hearing you have worked it out you’re just not doing it
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
COP 30? COP?
Come on, people.
Corruption of power.
Carbon over planet.
Carry on polluting.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Come on, people.
Corruption of power.
Carbon over planet.
Carry on polluting.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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Incredible storm in General Villegas, Buenos Aires province earlier today.
PS I’m not turning into a weather channel, but some things are incredible.
PS I’m not turning into a weather channel, but some things are incredible.
November 16, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Incredible storm in General Villegas, Buenos Aires province earlier today.
PS I’m not turning into a weather channel, but some things are incredible.
PS I’m not turning into a weather channel, but some things are incredible.
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Wheatfield with cypress tree - 1889
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14719
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14719
November 13, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Wheatfield with cypress tree - 1889
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14719
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14719
Would be great to reframe the whole “paying tax” story as “making an investment in your community.”
November 13, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Would be great to reframe the whole “paying tax” story as “making an investment in your community.”