C W
@wilscale.bsky.social
Recovering X user from Kansas and currently in Australia for a PhD in bushfire-related meteorology. I like weather, sports (Go K-State!), history, geography…and flags. 🌻🇺🇸🇦🇺🌏🌪️🔥🏳️🌈❄️
Tough day for the “bowls don’t matter” crowd
December 31, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Tough day for the “bowls don’t matter” crowd
A good time for people in western KS to remember that a 70 mph wind with fully leafed out trees and moist soil (which they currently have) hits a lot harder than the 70 mph winds of late winter and early spring that they so often experience.
June 17, 2025 at 12:05 PM
A good time for people in western KS to remember that a 70 mph wind with fully leafed out trees and moist soil (which they currently have) hits a lot harder than the 70 mph winds of late winter and early spring that they so often experience.
It’s just sad that it took them re-electing an anti immigrant bigot who is terrorizing immigrants (just like he said he’d do) to remember that.
median voter has a smooth marble like brain, but is also more or less well intentioned and doesn’t like to see people getting hauled out of churches and schools on the news.
Economist/YouGov Poll
% of U.S. adult citizens saying that in general, immigration makes the U.S. better off | worse off, in...
Oct 19-22, 2024: 35% | 36%
Apr 19-22, 2025: 40% | 29%
today.yougov.com/politics/art...
% of U.S. adult citizens saying that in general, immigration makes the U.S. better off | worse off, in...
Oct 19-22, 2024: 35% | 36%
Apr 19-22, 2025: 40% | 29%
today.yougov.com/politics/art...
April 23, 2025 at 10:53 PM
It’s just sad that it took them re-electing an anti immigrant bigot who is terrorizing immigrants (just like he said he’d do) to remember that.
With all the anticyclonic supercells, this looks more like a radar loop I’d see here in Australia.
April 23, 2025 at 12:45 AM
With all the anticyclonic supercells, this looks more like a radar loop I’d see here in Australia.
I miss my Kansas sunsets, but every now and then (ok - frequently), Canberra throws out a really good one.
April 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I miss my Kansas sunsets, but every now and then (ok - frequently), Canberra throws out a really good one.
“You’re smarter than that answer you just gave…”
Hmm…we sure about that?
Hmm…we sure about that?
Trump trade chief says US 'running up the score' on Australia as senator slams tariff – video
Trump trade chief says US 'running up the score' on Australia as senator slams tariff – video
During a US Senate finance committee hearing, senator from Virginia Mark Warner slams Donald Trump's 10% tariff on Australian imports, referencing the free trade agreement between the two countries and the US trade surplus with Australia. Warner labels the new tariff policy 'insulting' and 'ridiculous', calling Australia 'one of our strongest allies'. Trump's trade chief Jamieson Greer replies that 'we should be running up the score against Australia'
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Australian stock market bounces back despite tariff threats after worst session in five years
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Donald Trump hits Australian exporters with 10% tariffs in ‘liberation day’ speech
Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 9, 2025 at 3:04 AM
“You’re smarter than that answer you just gave…”
Hmm…we sure about that?
Hmm…we sure about that?
Needed timeline cleanse. My dad sometimes sends me pics of my cat, Arya (right), who I took in as a stray kitten when living with my grandparents and who now lives with my parents. Here she is with her bestie, Little Gray.
She was a great Covid companion and always shows me love when I come home.
She was a great Covid companion and always shows me love when I come home.
April 8, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Needed timeline cleanse. My dad sometimes sends me pics of my cat, Arya (right), who I took in as a stray kitten when living with my grandparents and who now lives with my parents. Here she is with her bestie, Little Gray.
She was a great Covid companion and always shows me love when I come home.
She was a great Covid companion and always shows me love when I come home.
Just sick. And evil.
Tonight we learned that it was indeed Andry, the gay man sent to El Salvador because of his “mom” and “dad” tattoos, who an American journalist saw sobbing as guards slapped him repeatedly and shaved his head.
He is an innocent. And Trump sent him to a torture prison.
Bring them back!
He is an innocent. And Trump sent him to a torture prison.
Bring them back!
April 7, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Just sick. And evil.
Oops. Hell of a comeback from Houston. Watched a game earlier this year where they did that twice to KU (end of reg and in OT). They’re so gritty. So tough. So talented.
April 6, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Oops. Hell of a comeback from Houston. Watched a game earlier this year where they did that twice to KU (end of reg and in OT). They’re so gritty. So tough. So talented.
“Were finna bum the youth is in Lemon”
- Pete Hegseth, probably
- Pete Hegseth, probably
Whoa.
"Now the debate among national security professionals is over whether the secretary was just incompetent or whether he was drunk. That’s how low this has gone.
- Seth Moulton, not pulling any punches
"Now the debate among national security professionals is over whether the secretary was just incompetent or whether he was drunk. That’s how low this has gone.
- Seth Moulton, not pulling any punches
March 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
“Were finna bum the youth is in Lemon”
- Pete Hegseth, probably
- Pete Hegseth, probably
When you remember that their goal is to make things so unbearable that about half the state leaves, so they can run the state as a money laundering business, a lot of this 💩 begins to make a lot more sense.
Opinion editor @claywires.bsky.social writes: Kansas House throws weight behind mutated child care bill with loosened vaccine rules #ksleg
Kansas House throws weight behind mutated child care bill with loosened vaccine rules • Kansas Reflector
From the good folks at Kansas Action for Children, a warning about a child care bill that passed the House on Thursday.
kansasreflector.com
March 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
When you remember that their goal is to make things so unbearable that about half the state leaves, so they can run the state as a money laundering business, a lot of this 💩 begins to make a lot more sense.
On a personal note and in some rare good news, last week I finally finished and submitted my doctoral thesis: “Meteorological drivers of pyrocumulonimbus in southeast Australia”. It’s been a trying journey, at times, but I’m proud of the work I put into it and happy to finish. Now the long wait…
March 18, 2025 at 1:14 AM
On a personal note and in some rare good news, last week I finally finished and submitted my doctoral thesis: “Meteorological drivers of pyrocumulonimbus in southeast Australia”. It’s been a trying journey, at times, but I’m proud of the work I put into it and happy to finish. Now the long wait…
Gross
Fox News anchor, Jesse Watters finds it “personally offensive” that Canadians refuse to be annexed by the US: “That’s what everyone in the world wants—American citizenship.”
American Imperialism is on full show.
American Imperialism is on full show.
March 17, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Gross
How is it always the people you’d most suspect?
JUST IN: Texas megachurch pastor and former Trump spiritual advisor Robert Morris has been indicted for molesting a 12-year-old girl.
March 13, 2025 at 5:39 AM
How is it always the people you’d most suspect?
At least the transgender mice didn’t blow up
Nearly two months after an explosion sent flaming debris raining down on the Turks and Caicos, SpaceX launched another mammoth Starship rocket but lost contact minutes into the test flight.
SpaceX loses contact with spacecraft during Starship mega rocket test flight
Nearly two months after an explosion sent flaming debris raining down on the Turks and Caicos, SpaceX launched another mammoth Starship rocket but lost contact minutes into the test flight.
www.npr.org
March 7, 2025 at 12:57 AM
At least the transgender mice didn’t blow up
“But if we just sit here and do nothing and let him speak uninterrupted, maybe people will finally hear how crazy he sounds!”
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Trump: I’m going to kill your loved ones.
Democrats: [wave placard]
Trump: Especially the black ones. And the gay ones
Democrats: [strenuously wave placards]
Democrats: [wave placard]
Trump: Especially the black ones. And the gay ones
Democrats: [strenuously wave placards]
March 5, 2025 at 5:55 AM
“But if we just sit here and do nothing and let him speak uninterrupted, maybe people will finally hear how crazy he sounds!”
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One thing that I find really distressing about the constant stream of 💩 news coming out of the United States of Orange Russia is that I don’t even get a chance to process or morn - to really let things sink in before they just come out and do another terrible thing. It’s messing me up inside.
March 1, 2025 at 4:36 AM
One thing that I find really distressing about the constant stream of 💩 news coming out of the United States of Orange Russia is that I don’t even get a chance to process or morn - to really let things sink in before they just come out and do another terrible thing. It’s messing me up inside.
It’s sounds like she is quite certain it won’t be
February 14, 2025 at 2:33 AM
It’s sounds like she is quite certain it won’t be
Two peas in a shit pod
All right, we deserve to lose this
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February 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Two peas in a shit pod