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David Wilson
@eregnans.bsky.social
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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. https://buymeacoffee.com/eregnans
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redscharlach.bsky.social
Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower
The sun rising over the London skyline this morning, only it’s a very cloudy sky and the sun is visible only as an orange streak of fire that coincidentally seems to be emanating from the spire on the top of St Paul’s dome
December 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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bernardzuel.bsky.social
In its pain and sadness and anger and thoughtfulness, this from Dr Jenna Price is one of the best things written since Bondi. Showing up so much of the empty rubbish from most media (including this publisher) & public figures.
www.smh.com.au/national/our...
Our country is gone. My family has endured bigotry for decades, but now I’m broken
A Jewish family like mine knows that Australia has antisemitism running in its blood.
www.smh.com.au
December 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
eregnans.bsky.social
Here’s Zak Crawley reduced to the figure of a rainbow trout.
#cricket #writing #TheAshes
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The Ashes – Third Test, Adelaide Day 4: The stumping
Z Crawley st AT Carey b NM Lyon 85
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December 21, 2025 at 1:59 AM
eregnans.bsky.social
I hope you enjoy this - my effort to describe Zak Crawley’s stumping. May contain traces of rainbow trout.
@geofflemon.bsky.social
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The Ashes – Third Test, Adelaide Day 4: The stumping
Z Crawley st AT Carey b NM Lyon 85
eregnans.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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cathywilcox.bsky.social
Now I can post this one.
The evidence/not evidence.
December 20, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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tizzywoman.bsky.social
🎨 marmaladebleue’s (IG) children hungered for revolution against the US President, so she found the oldest egg in her house.

#ArtAsActivism
December 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Temperatures over global land areas so far this year are still the 2nd warmest on record (after last year)... 🫥

Data from www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...
Line graph time series of global land mean surface temperature anomalies for each January-November period from 1850 through 2025. There is a long-term increasing trend and large year-to-year variability. The mean surface temperature anomaly averaged for January-November 2025 was 1.85°C for global land areas. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1901-2000 climate baseline. Data from NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0.
December 19, 2025 at 12:31 AM
eregnans.bsky.social
Warm showers fall through day’s end.

28°C at 20:45, Melbourne, Friday 19 Dec 🦘
December 19, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Ailing wannabe dictator yelling at his people and insisting that they're getting richer and safer when all the evidence demonstrates the opposite.

This is Gaddafi-levels of lunacy.
December 18, 2025 at 2:13 AM
eregnans.bsky.social
Here’s my story of day 1 in Adelaide after being nudged awake by my imaginary flying horse.
#AUSvENG #TheAshes #cricket
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The Ashes – Third Test, Adelaide Day 1: Things exist without knowledge
Australia v England: Test cricket
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December 17, 2025 at 9:48 PM
eregnans.bsky.social
Good morning. I have short fiction today. And other ephemera.
Go well.
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Changes, fiction and curiosities - "Bruce, Alfred and the no good simulation game"
My 500 word fiction for December 2025 and other bits
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December 16, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
You know, somehow it’s all gotten even stupider.
December 16, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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monet.bsky.social
Waterloo Bridge, sun effect - 1903
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110594
December 16, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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kazcooke.bsky.social
David Leser's indelible phrasing: 'anti-Semitism ... a light sleeper in the dreamscape of nations for centuries'.
www.smh.com.au/national/i-t...
I told a friend the world was trembling, then Bondi erupted
We were two Jewish men and two non-Jewish women, settling down for dinner in Bondi. Then the gunshots rang out.
www.smh.com.au
December 15, 2025 at 11:50 PM
eregnans.bsky.social
Quiet on the #96. Monday morning. Melbourne.
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Observations on the morning after
the Bondi terror attack. Scenes from the #96 tram in Melbourne, Australia.
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December 15, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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natureneon.bsky.social
Found only in the Galapagos Islands the marine iguana is the only marine lizard species in the world, they can dive as deep as 30m (98 ft) and spend up to 30 minutes at a time underwater

📹Shelton Dupreez
December 14, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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rmayemsinger.bsky.social
Rob Reiner was the consummate storyteller. Over and over, he revealed us to ourselves: what it is to be young and have friends, to fall in love, to feel misery and vengeance, to feel alive. And the laughs. So many laughs. The loss of Rob Reiner is... inconceivable.
December 15, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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axidentaliberal.bsky.social
As a director, Rob Reiner released these five movies all in a row

1986 Stand by Me
1987 The Princess Bride
1989 When Harry Met Sally…
1990 Misery
1992 A Few Good Men

All remarkable and vastly different films, showing extraordinary range and talent
December 15, 2025 at 5:25 AM
eregnans.bsky.social
An offering - observations on and around the #96 tram on Monday morning.
Go well.
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Observations on the morning after
the Bondi terror attack. Scenes from the #96 tram in Melbourne, Australia.
eregnans.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:39 AM
eregnans.bsky.social
The Merri Creek runs slow, Coburg, Merri-bek, Sunday.
December 15, 2025 at 12:36 AM
eregnans.bsky.social
From the land of 🦘, this is quite embarrassing. And a clear demonstration of Rupert Murdoch's model of using fear & prejudice to divide.
simongerman600.bsky.social Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 10d
A bit more diverse nowadays. HT @civixplorer
December 13, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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kazcooke.bsky.social
It's heartbreaking. In my opinion, what the State Library of Victoria staff have been put through in the last few years by senior management is a particularly heedless, cavalier sort of cruelty. Carolyn's article is both brave and exemplary.
December 13, 2025 at 7:35 AM
eregnans.bsky.social
Thanks for the interest in this piece. Writing it was a flow experience — the link between Test cricket and The Lord of the Rings jumped out while I was rapturously writing. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#theAshes #ausveng #cricket #writing
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The Ashes – Second Test, Brisbane Day 1: Alex Carey as Sam Gamgee
Brave, loyal, thoughtful, skilful improvisor extraordinaire etc etc
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December 11, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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cathywilcox.bsky.social
“Unprecedented invasion of privacy.”
Cool.
December 11, 2025 at 6:10 AM
eregnans.bsky.social
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The Ashes – Second Test, Brisbane Day 1: Alex Carey as Sam Gamgee
Brave, loyal, thoughtful, skilful improvisor extraordinaire etc etc
open.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM