Nigel Robertson
@easegill.bsky.social
Explorer - Life, learning, technology, caves. He/him/ia.
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http://ds106rad.io/listen #DS106Radio #4life
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One can still be composted, the other needs sealing in a lead lined sarcophagus & fired into the heart of Alpha Centauri
December 1, 2025 at 6:43 AM
One can still be composted, the other needs sealing in a lead lined sarcophagus & fired into the heart of Alpha Centauri
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Important news NZ peeps! Great to see PATHA challenging this terrible ban.
BREAKING: PATHA has filed an urgent injunction in the high court seeking to prevent the puberty blocker ban from coming into force, as part of an urgent judicial review we are seeking to overturn the ban entirely.
November 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Important news NZ peeps! Great to see PATHA challenging this terrible ban.
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@bodycartoon.bsky.social on the mark.
November 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
@bodycartoon.bsky.social on the mark.
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So when do folks start apologizing publically to their colleagues of color ?
Because everything those people told you about your white colleagues being happy collaborators was true
Because everything those people told you about your white colleagues being happy collaborators was true
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
So when do folks start apologizing publically to their colleagues of color ?
Because everything those people told you about your white colleagues being happy collaborators was true
Because everything those people told you about your white colleagues being happy collaborators was true
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National's Local Water Done Well will come to be recognised as a generational cock-up. Simon Watts's vague claim that rates will not increase is farcically untrue. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
Revealed: Councils expected to foot a near $48 billion bill for Local Water Done Well
Officials estimate water service infrastructure will cost $47.9 billion to 2034.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
National's Local Water Done Well will come to be recognised as a generational cock-up. Simon Watts's vague claim that rates will not increase is farcically untrue. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
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I'd love to know who told them they tried to do too much last term, as they keep telling us they got told. My endless frustration with them was the fact that they had a majority but mostly tinkered! I wanted so much more, faster!
November 30, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I'd love to know who told them they tried to do too much last term, as they keep telling us they got told. My endless frustration with them was the fact that they had a majority but mostly tinkered! I wanted so much more, faster!
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Now, I freely admit that I am probably not labours target demo, but if their answer to a single term of the fastest dismantling of progress we have ever seen in this country is; "steady now, we cant move too quickly, cant fix everything, temper your expectations"
I am not confident
I am not confident
November 30, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Now, I freely admit that I am probably not labours target demo, but if their answer to a single term of the fastest dismantling of progress we have ever seen in this country is; "steady now, we cant move too quickly, cant fix everything, temper your expectations"
I am not confident
I am not confident
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BREAKING: In its best scene yet, South Park just humiliated Pete Hegseth. This is amazing.
November 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
BREAKING: In its best scene yet, South Park just humiliated Pete Hegseth. This is amazing.
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Hard-hitting truth-telling from UCL Prof Anthony Costello….
“The Covid Public Inquiry is a devastating critique of medical advisers, civil servants and politicians who led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century. More than 230,000 deaths.”
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/230000-dea...
“The Covid Public Inquiry is a devastating critique of medical advisers, civil servants and politicians who led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century. More than 230,000 deaths.”
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/230000-dea...
230,000 Deaths and the ‘Calculated Silence’ of the Medical Establishment About the COVID Inquiry
The Covid Inquiry Report is a devastating critique of the medical establishment which led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century, argues Anthony Costello
www.bylinesupplement.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Hard-hitting truth-telling from UCL Prof Anthony Costello….
“The Covid Public Inquiry is a devastating critique of medical advisers, civil servants and politicians who led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century. More than 230,000 deaths.”
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/230000-dea...
“The Covid Public Inquiry is a devastating critique of medical advisers, civil servants and politicians who led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century. More than 230,000 deaths.”
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/230000-dea...
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I'm so old I even remember the Taxpayers Union endorsing lockdowns and wage subisides in Q1 2020.
November 30, 2025 at 5:10 AM
I'm so old I even remember the Taxpayers Union endorsing lockdowns and wage subisides in Q1 2020.
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Feeling like the government actually had my back for the first time in my life
What's a charming memory you have from the worst period of the pandemic?
November 30, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Feeling like the government actually had my back for the first time in my life
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has labour tried running against national?
November 27, 2025 at 9:20 PM
has labour tried running against national?
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So many people who are otherwise so committed to good things are on Substack, which is very nice to bad people, ideas, and lies. My own newsletter was launched on Ghost because the bad news about Substack isn't new.
I am once again telling everyone to get the fuck off Substack leavesubstack.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:35 PM
So many people who are otherwise so committed to good things are on Substack, which is very nice to bad people, ideas, and lies. My own newsletter was launched on Ghost because the bad news about Substack isn't new.
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Bishop so useless he can't even roll the most hopeless Prime Minister New Zealand has ever had.
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
Chris Bishop in failed National leadership coup - report
Former Hutt South MP and Transport, Housing, Infrastructure and RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop was behind a recent failed coup plan within the National Party, The Post has reported.
www.stuff.co.nz
November 29, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Bishop so useless he can't even roll the most hopeless Prime Minister New Zealand has ever had.
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
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Chris Bishop failing at something - I'm shocked.
While constantly saying that the leader is doing a great job, that is not aiming to roll them.
Politics is just lying for power
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
Politics is just lying for power
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
Chris Bishop in failed National leadership coup - report
Former Hutt South MP and Transport, Housing, Infrastructure and RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop was behind a recent failed coup plan within the National Party, The Post has reported.
www.stuff.co.nz
November 29, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Chris Bishop failing at something - I'm shocked.
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Getting ducks in a row, anticipating the next poll
Chris Bishop getting a puff profile in Newsroom 👀 #nzpol
November 29, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Getting ducks in a row, anticipating the next poll
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Every right-wing “grassroots”organisation in New Zealand is just Jordan Williams, David Farrar, and one randomly-selected Atlas Network apparatchik in a trenchcoat
There's a new "grassroots" website automating supportive emails to Erica Stanford / signatures on an open letter endorsing her attacks on te Tiriti and you have until the end of this skeet to guess who registered the domain name
...
Did you guess Jordan Williams' Campaign Company? Gold star
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Did you guess Jordan Williams' Campaign Company? Gold star
November 28, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Every right-wing “grassroots”organisation in New Zealand is just Jordan Williams, David Farrar, and one randomly-selected Atlas Network apparatchik in a trenchcoat
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There's a new "grassroots" website automating supportive emails to Erica Stanford / signatures on an open letter endorsing her attacks on te Tiriti and you have until the end of this skeet to guess who registered the domain name
...
Did you guess Jordan Williams' Campaign Company? Gold star
...
Did you guess Jordan Williams' Campaign Company? Gold star
November 28, 2025 at 9:30 PM
There's a new "grassroots" website automating supportive emails to Erica Stanford / signatures on an open letter endorsing her attacks on te Tiriti and you have until the end of this skeet to guess who registered the domain name
...
Did you guess Jordan Williams' Campaign Company? Gold star
...
Did you guess Jordan Williams' Campaign Company? Gold star
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Just 13k more signatures and the call for a public inquiry into Russian interference has to be debate in Parliament
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 28, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Just 13k more signatures and the call for a public inquiry into Russian interference has to be debate in Parliament
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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To be explicit, we executed a German U-Boat commander who said he had to sink lifesaving gear / “inadvertently” kill survivors because it might give away his position, thereby potentially resulting in the loss of his submarine.
We executed multiple members of that crew.
We executed multiple members of that crew.
November 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
To be explicit, we executed a German U-Boat commander who said he had to sink lifesaving gear / “inadvertently” kill survivors because it might give away his position, thereby potentially resulting in the loss of his submarine.
We executed multiple members of that crew.
We executed multiple members of that crew.
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Hey, gonna shamelessly plug my wares:
Charlie Tangaroa and the God of War is now a year old and, sadly, despite brilliant reviews, has kinda been ignored. It's a bit longer than book 1 but is very exciting
Please buy my book
bookhub.co.nz/p/charlie-ta...
Charlie Tangaroa and the God of War is now a year old and, sadly, despite brilliant reviews, has kinda been ignored. It's a bit longer than book 1 but is very exciting
Please buy my book
bookhub.co.nz/p/charlie-ta...
bookhub.co.nz
November 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Hey, gonna shamelessly plug my wares:
Charlie Tangaroa and the God of War is now a year old and, sadly, despite brilliant reviews, has kinda been ignored. It's a bit longer than book 1 but is very exciting
Please buy my book
bookhub.co.nz/p/charlie-ta...
Charlie Tangaroa and the God of War is now a year old and, sadly, despite brilliant reviews, has kinda been ignored. It's a bit longer than book 1 but is very exciting
Please buy my book
bookhub.co.nz/p/charlie-ta...
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