Patrick Herd
@patrickherd.bsky.social
Engineering (Sometimes Electrical) Environment, Fabrication, EVs, Education. Will instablock cryptobios. Wairarapa, Aotearoa New Zealand. Same handle on mammothsite. 🏳️🌈+🏳️⚧️ ally.
You know it's a big lathe when you need two Franna cranes to lift it www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS1y...
Installing The Largest Lathe We've Ever Bought.
YouTube video by HAL Heavy Duty Machining Australia
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:28 PM
You know it's a big lathe when you need two Franna cranes to lift it www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS1y...
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do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge
#Finland will begin to #Russia - proof its rail network, integrate with EU train infrastructure.
The Finnish government has announced the conversion of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to European standard (1,435 mm).
www.trenvista.net/en/news/flas...
The Finnish government has announced the conversion of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to European standard (1,435 mm).
www.trenvista.net/en/news/flas...
November 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge
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OK team of 5m, we've got 15 days to add $27k to Siouxsie's fundraiser to top $200k.
If you can, please contribute to pay back some of the awesome mahi she did for us. If you can't, just encourage others to.
She doesn't deserve to be out of pocket over the legal battles she has had to fight.
If you can, please contribute to pay back some of the awesome mahi she did for us. If you can't, just encourage others to.
She doesn't deserve to be out of pocket over the legal battles she has had to fight.
Support Dr Siouxsie After She Supported Us! | PledgeMe
Support Dr Siouxsie to recover some of the money she spent fighting her legal case to protect employees experiencing online abuse
www.pledgeme.co.nz
November 15, 2025 at 3:39 AM
OK team of 5m, we've got 15 days to add $27k to Siouxsie's fundraiser to top $200k.
If you can, please contribute to pay back some of the awesome mahi she did for us. If you can't, just encourage others to.
She doesn't deserve to be out of pocket over the legal battles she has had to fight.
If you can, please contribute to pay back some of the awesome mahi she did for us. If you can't, just encourage others to.
She doesn't deserve to be out of pocket over the legal battles she has had to fight.
New drill bit for the current greenhouse project at home. Size 12 foot for scale.
November 7, 2025 at 1:43 AM
New drill bit for the current greenhouse project at home. Size 12 foot for scale.
I'm with Eva on this one.
If you are shocked that I'm happy that a man responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people is dead, I have terrible news for you about all of my other opinions.
November 4, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I'm with Eva on this one.
I do hope Siouxsie's campaign hits $400k+
Exciting day today. Not only is it Halloween, but my crowdfunding campaign is also live! Please support me by making a pledge and/or sharing on all your socials and with your friends, family, and colleagues. Thanks to everyone offering rewards. You rock! www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...
Support Dr Siouxsie After She Supported Us! | PledgeMe
Support Dr Siouxsie to recover some of the money she spent fighting her legal case to protect employees experiencing online abuse
www.pledgeme.co.nz
November 4, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I do hope Siouxsie's campaign hits $400k+
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Exciting day today. Not only is it Halloween, but my crowdfunding campaign is also live! Please support me by making a pledge and/or sharing on all your socials and with your friends, family, and colleagues. Thanks to everyone offering rewards. You rock! www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...
Support Dr Siouxsie After She Supported Us! | PledgeMe
Support Dr Siouxsie to recover some of the money she spent fighting her legal case to protect employees experiencing online abuse
www.pledgeme.co.nz
October 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Exciting day today. Not only is it Halloween, but my crowdfunding campaign is also live! Please support me by making a pledge and/or sharing on all your socials and with your friends, family, and colleagues. Thanks to everyone offering rewards. You rock! www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...
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Hands up if you managed to maintain friendships with other men that didn’t depend on identifying an out group to hate together
October 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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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Honestly chuckling at the number of people asking which petrol stations were operating during the power cut this morning knowing that many EVs can do this
October 23, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Honestly chuckling at the number of people asking which petrol stations were operating during the power cut this morning knowing that many EVs can do this
Power outage rave
October 22, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Power outage rave
Climate change has entered the chat www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
Dramatic photos emerge showing the sheer scale of destruction in this week’s floods
‘Screw it, I’m getting a horse,’ one local said.
www.stuff.co.nz
October 17, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Climate change has entered the chat www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
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Tell us the DOE site you cowards
www.404media.co/man-stores-a...
www.404media.co/man-stores-a...
Man Stores AI-Generated ‘Robot Porn' on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets
A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network.
www.404media.co
October 14, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Tell us the DOE site you cowards
www.404media.co/man-stores-a...
www.404media.co/man-stores-a...
"Clean" to the level required by laser optics does not exist in a farmer's world.
Laser weeding is one of those “no wa-well actually no that makes perfect sense doesn’t it” things.
September 26, 2025 at 2:45 AM
"Clean" to the level required by laser optics does not exist in a farmer's world.
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Luxon himself handed me the Prime Minister's science prize last year. Let me say this in plain English: he's an idiot for running a govt who budgeted more for AI than for the Marsden fund. any journo reading this can quote me on it #nzpol
September 18, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Luxon himself handed me the Prime Minister's science prize last year. Let me say this in plain English: he's an idiot for running a govt who budgeted more for AI than for the Marsden fund. any journo reading this can quote me on it #nzpol
Become Ungovernable. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Defiant nuns flee Austrian care home for their abandoned convent in the Alps
Sisters Bernadette, Regina and Rita needed a locksmith to get back into their convent, defying Church leaders.
www.bbc.com
September 14, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Become Ungovernable. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Hoping for similar energy to the recent InternetNZ AGM voting
If you're sick of this government and this absolute race baiting bullshit and attacks on Māori across the board - vote in your local election and vote to keep Māori wards.
Your council is ONLY having a referendum because this government is forcing them to.
How embarrassing if they all get kept.
Your council is ONLY having a referendum because this government is forcing them to.
How embarrassing if they all get kept.
September 12, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Hoping for similar energy to the recent InternetNZ AGM voting
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Taylor Swift Spoils Travis Kelce For Anniversary By Cracking Egg Over His Kibble
September 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Taylor Swift Spoils Travis Kelce For Anniversary By Cracking Egg Over His Kibble
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September 3, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Four Korimako hanging out in the orchard making a racket this morning. Pest destruction really does good things.
August 30, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Four Korimako hanging out in the orchard making a racket this morning. Pest destruction really does good things.
Feeling for @funranium.bsky.social today, as the Cs-137 shrimp story has been both Tom Scott'd and XKCD'd.
August 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Feeling for @funranium.bsky.social today, as the Cs-137 shrimp story has been both Tom Scott'd and XKCD'd.
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Gather round for a story about this gas well site near us, along the road on our bottom boundary in fact. It is Mangahewa E site. Never brought into production. 4 wells drilled. Mothballed, as we say.
August 23, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Gather round for a story about this gas well site near us, along the road on our bottom boundary in fact. It is Mangahewa E site. Never brought into production. 4 wells drilled. Mothballed, as we say.
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And some wonder why there's a trust deficit...
lol
@stuff.co.nz using ChatGPT for writing their articles but forgetting to remove the "?utm_source=chatgpt.com" from the generated links 🙄
@stuff.co.nz using ChatGPT for writing their articles but forgetting to remove the "?utm_source=chatgpt.com" from the generated links 🙄
August 18, 2025 at 5:17 AM
And some wonder why there's a trust deficit...
I am tempted to send DPF an invoice for the hours of my life I will not get back due to all his proposed InternetNZ motions.
July 31, 2025 at 8:49 AM
I am tempted to send DPF an invoice for the hours of my life I will not get back due to all his proposed InternetNZ motions.