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Patrick Herd

@patrickherd.bsky.social

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Engineering (Sometimes Electrical) Environment, Fabrication, EVs, Education. Will instablock cryptobios. Wairarapa, Aotearoa New Zealand. Same handle on mammothsite. 🏳️‍🌈+🏳️‍⚧️ ally.

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Patrick Herd @patrickherd.bsky.social · 7h

We have insanely heavy rain here

Patrick Herd @patrickherd.bsky.social · 8h

Gotta drive the gentrification wave somehow

Patrick Herd @patrickherd.bsky.social · 20h

From memory it was for personal safety reasons. May be manufactured memory but I think due to organised crime, could have been entirely a systemic racism issue too :/

Patrick Herd @patrickherd.bsky.social · 21h

A friend did a lot of voluntary radio comms work for Red Cross around the time of the earthquake. For whatever reason involvement was apparently discouraged from a pretty senior level.

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Patrick Herd @patrickherd.bsky.social · 21h

Edgar Wright is a genius

Patrick Herd @patrickherd.bsky.social · 21h

So good www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XMu...

BABY DRIVER - 6-Minute Opening Clip

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Patrick Herd @patrickherd.bsky.social · 1d

a red ford car is parked on the street

ALT: a red ford car is parked on the street

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Patrick Herd @patrickherd.bsky.social · 1d

Team van or single cab flat deck over here :-)

Patrick Herd @patrickherd.bsky.social · 1d

Vacuum cleaner time?!

Patrick Herd @patrickherd.bsky.social · 2d

Barns also work for having your own bouldering wall

Patrick Herd @patrickherd.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry for ruining the dream

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Patrick Herd @patrickherd.bsky.social · 2d

The other one is that it will likely self destruct in a Chch or Kaikoura sized quake. HMU if you want me to do a deep dive and subsequent brain dump on it

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Patrick Herd @patrickherd.bsky.social · 2d

That may be a red flag for whether it has the right paperwork. "Cooking facilities" are a threshold for a bunch of things

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Patrick Herd @patrickherd.bsky.social · 2d

We moved to an hour away from work and socials to live in a barn and it's been great. Similarly motivated partner makes a bif difference though. That church is amazing.

Patrick Herd @patrickherd.bsky.social · 2d

Notepad respect.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 5d

Hands up if you managed to maintain friendships with other men that didn’t depend on identifying an out group to hate together

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Patrick Herd @patrickherd.bsky.social · 2d

Our neighbours ended up with about 3 weeks worth of firewood from just one of the trees that blew down.

Patrick Herd @patrickherd.bsky.social · 2d

Radar even

Patrick Herd @patrickherd.bsky.social · 2d

Submillimetre wave RF radat would probably work too thinking about it

Patrick Herd @patrickherd.bsky.social · 3d

Make the whole table a detector screen, use lead ink in the card manufacture and hang a really spicy source up in the roof? Easy 🤣

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Patrick Herd @patrickherd.bsky.social · 3d

Or get an inverter that can do daytime emergency power

Patrick Herd @patrickherd.bsky.social · 3d

You can book through the online portal app.bookmyvaccine.health.nz

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Patrick Herd @patrickherd.bsky.social · 3d

Let us know if you need help, this network is big.

Patrick Herd @patrickherd.bsky.social · 3d

Elderly neighbours had a ~50 year old almond tree down and blocking their driveway. 4 hours chainsaw time cleaning up their and another neighbours' downed trees. Overall our corner of the village got off very lightly indeed.

Patrick Herd @patrickherd.bsky.social · 3d

23rd of October storm report: No noticeable damage to our place, bar some pine trees that were wind pruned. Power out for ~26 hours, powered essentials including the dishwasher with our MG4. One NZ and 2 Degrees mobile both brought in generators for their site.

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