Phil Wheeler
@phil-wh.bsky.social
New Zealand based Engineering Manager and recovering web developer, trying to learn as much as possible about languages, cricket, drums and cycle adventures. Was also a music teacher (drums, percussion & orchestral) for a few years.
日本人ですか？日本語を習って助けてください！
日本人ですか？日本語を習って助けてください！
David Rimmer Seymour and racist uncle Winston have one thing in common: they know how to keep their names and brands in the public spotlight and their talking points in the media discourse. They're able to manipulate media with flashpoint statements that promote their visibility ahead of elections.
December 15, 2025 at 8:47 PM
David Rimmer Seymour and racist uncle Winston have one thing in common: they know how to keep their names and brands in the public spotlight and their talking points in the media discourse. They're able to manipulate media with flashpoint statements that promote their visibility ahead of elections.
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Offshore wind firm exits NZ as seabed mine seeks consent
The prospective offshore wind developer has announced it will shut its operations in New Zealand by the end of the year, making it the third firm to exit in the past 14 months.
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The prospective offshore wind developer has announced it will shut its operations in New Zealand by the end of the year, making it the third firm to exit in the past 14 months.
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Offshore wind firm exits NZ as seabed mine seeks consent
An offshore wind developer warned the Taranaki seabed mine would render its planned farm unviable. Now it is closing up shop in NZ.
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December 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Offshore wind firm exits NZ as seabed mine seeks consent
The prospective offshore wind developer has announced it will shut its operations in New Zealand by the end of the year, making it the third firm to exit in the past 14 months.
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The prospective offshore wind developer has announced it will shut its operations in New Zealand by the end of the year, making it the third firm to exit in the past 14 months.
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I'd hoped Hipkins would resign as leader but, now it is clear he won't, I see no point in attacking him. Within his caucus there are MPs who are on the left of the party and several more who are likely to be elected. I will be supporting the Greens to ensure they have too many MPs to ignore #nzpol
'Opportunity to stamp my own mark': Chris Hipkins promises a different Labour
The last election saw Labour's six years in government come to an end, and Hipkins returning to the opposition benches just 10 months after becoming prime minister.
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December 13, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I'd hoped Hipkins would resign as leader but, now it is clear he won't, I see no point in attacking him. Within his caucus there are MPs who are on the left of the party and several more who are likely to be elected. I will be supporting the Greens to ensure they have too many MPs to ignore #nzpol
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I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
December 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
Here's the thing about this: it's not a debate. It's a distraction cooked up by a failing prime minister whose historic unpopularity off the back of the most racist agenda in a generation is finally threatening his entitlement and privilege.
Fuck off. Between July and the very end of December we get 1 (one) public holiday. Fuck right off. We have a right tontine off in the summer. It’s tradition and cultural. Again, fuck off.
“BuT iT’s ReDuCiNg PrOdUcTiViTy!” Did you hear me motherfucker!?
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“BuT iT’s ReDuCiNg PrOdUcTiViTy!” Did you hear me motherfucker!?
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See you in March? Debate in New Zealand over extremely long summer break
The country’s ‘unofficial shutdown’ has sparked a national conversation, with arguments about whether the break is affecting productivity or a vital respite
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December 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Here's the thing about this: it's not a debate. It's a distraction cooked up by a failing prime minister whose historic unpopularity off the back of the most racist agenda in a generation is finally threatening his entitlement and privilege.
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White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross
December 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross
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Banning kids from social media doesn’t make online platforms safer. Here’s what will do that
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Banning kids from social media doesn’t make online platforms safer. Here’s what will do that
The ban may keep some children out, but it does nothing to fix the harmful architecture awaiting them when they return.
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December 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Banning kids from social media doesn’t make online platforms safer. Here’s what will do that
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Very excited to hear we kiwis made the cut.
December 7, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Very excited to hear we kiwis made the cut.
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Honorary Nordic Countries #nordic #comedy #awards #history
YouTube video by Ólafur Waage
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December 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
December 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
OMG excite! "Mentour Pilot" Petter Hōrnfeldt has produced a video reflecting on the Erebus Disaster. mentourpilot.com
I love this channel. It's informative, objective and always looks at every learning angle. This is one I've been hoping for all year.
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I love this channel. It's informative, objective and always looks at every learning angle. This is one I've been hoping for all year.
@mentourpilot.bsky.social
Home - Mentour Pilot
You're very welcome to the Mentour Pilot Website, dedicated to everyone with even the smallest interest in aviation! Have an #AbsoluetlyFantastic time!
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December 6, 2025 at 8:11 PM
OMG excite! "Mentour Pilot" Petter Hōrnfeldt has produced a video reflecting on the Erebus Disaster. mentourpilot.com
I love this channel. It's informative, objective and always looks at every learning angle. This is one I've been hoping for all year.
@mentourpilot.bsky.social
I love this channel. It's informative, objective and always looks at every learning angle. This is one I've been hoping for all year.
@mentourpilot.bsky.social
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One of the obvious impacts of Govt not investing into a downturn is tanking taxes (= higher deficits). Countless examples across the world, but sadly most of our reckonomics commentariat are small island caveman monetarists, so, prices going up? Ug. Throw kiwis on the dole, ug, crash economy. [🧵1/n]
December 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
One of the obvious impacts of Govt not investing into a downturn is tanking taxes (= higher deficits). Countless examples across the world, but sadly most of our reckonomics commentariat are small island caveman monetarists, so, prices going up? Ug. Throw kiwis on the dole, ug, crash economy. [🧵1/n]
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If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
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Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
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New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries
Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.
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December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
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A Kiwi mechatronics engineer joins Formula 1 team Red Bull's next big thing, after winning a rare global opportunity
Eloise powers into Red Bull's future
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December 4, 2025 at 6:36 PM
A Kiwi mechatronics engineer joins Formula 1 team Red Bull's next big thing, after winning a rare global opportunity
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The school board pushbacks confirm my theory that the so-called liberal MPs’ job experience - often limited to working for the Party, and placed in Party-friendly companies - has left them uniquely ignorant of how much the rest of our society has moved on. It’s not 2005 anymore, and Brash still lost
Ministers were warned against removing schools' Treaty obligations
Ministers were warned against removing schools' Treaty obligations
The Education Ministry advice preceded the decision to delete a clause in the Education and Training Act that required schools to give effect to the Treaty of Waitangi.
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December 4, 2025 at 1:01 AM
The school board pushbacks confirm my theory that the so-called liberal MPs’ job experience - often limited to working for the Party, and placed in Party-friendly companies - has left them uniquely ignorant of how much the rest of our society has moved on. It’s not 2005 anymore, and Brash still lost
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Perhaps he is queuing to get a new cabinet?
Oh great. He's gonna take credit for this too. Fuck Öff! #nzpol
December 4, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Perhaps he is queuing to get a new cabinet?
Disgusting. There are easily better, more supported options than Winston. It's such on-brand intellectual laziness I can't even be angry at them. It's just so spectacularly disappointing.
Peter Dunne: Despite official denials from both parties, some form of contact seems to have been resumed between the two former partners. - Newsroom Pro - $ -
NZ First re-enters Labour’s 2026 calculations
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December 4, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Disgusting. There are easily better, more supported options than Winston. It's such on-brand intellectual laziness I can't even be angry at them. It's just so spectacularly disappointing.
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The NZ Govt is doing everything it can to obstruct climate action domestically and globally. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Government rejects all of Climate Change Commission's emissions target recommendations
It comes despite a Climate Change Commission warning that New Zealand is being hit sooner and more severely than expected.
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December 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The NZ Govt is doing everything it can to obstruct climate action domestically and globally. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
It's actually pathetically sad. To see a country being run by such an incurably, mind-bogglingly insecure, hollow, mendacious little man and watching such hilariously petty and infantile performative acts to appease that ego.
December 4, 2025 at 2:13 AM
It's actually pathetically sad. To see a country being run by such an incurably, mind-bogglingly insecure, hollow, mendacious little man and watching such hilariously petty and infantile performative acts to appease that ego.
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It's always been bullshit, and this current incarnation has really highlighted this. And two years in, voters need to stop buying their "It's Labours mess" lies. #nzpol
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Government finances worse than expected as tax take falls
Treasury figures show a deficit about $700m higher than forecast.
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December 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
It's always been bullshit, and this current incarnation has really highlighted this. And two years in, voters need to stop buying their "It's Labours mess" lies. #nzpol
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So here is a thing
You fire tens of thousands of people
Cancel infra spend
Crash the economy
Force your valuable experienced workers off shore
Do nothing to fix any of this
This shit happens, because you are incompetent
#nzpol
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You fire tens of thousands of people
Cancel infra spend
Crash the economy
Force your valuable experienced workers off shore
Do nothing to fix any of this
This shit happens, because you are incompetent
#nzpol
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Government finances worse than expected as tax take falls
Treasury figures show a bigger deficit than forecast.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 3, 2025 at 10:57 PM
So here is a thing
You fire tens of thousands of people
Cancel infra spend
Crash the economy
Force your valuable experienced workers off shore
Do nothing to fix any of this
This shit happens, because you are incompetent
#nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
You fire tens of thousands of people
Cancel infra spend
Crash the economy
Force your valuable experienced workers off shore
Do nothing to fix any of this
This shit happens, because you are incompetent
#nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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December 3, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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You’ve heard of Elf on the Shelf how about….
December 3, 2025 at 8:19 AM
You’ve heard of Elf on the Shelf how about….