Matthew
@matthewrobertson.bsky.social
Nerdy pākehā. Generally well meaning.
Joyous Yuletide to all
December 24, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Joyous Yuletide to all
The Mighty Nein season finale was pretty satisfying. Good show, people should go watch it if they haven't yet.
December 22, 2025 at 9:43 AM
The Mighty Nein season finale was pretty satisfying. Good show, people should go watch it if they haven't yet.
Read the first couple of books in preparation and then watched the episodes of ‘Heated Rivalry’ that came out last night.
Somehow you can really feel the women objectifying male homosexuality edge to the ‘male gaze’ in it.
It’s a bit weird.
Somehow you can really feel the women objectifying male homosexuality edge to the ‘male gaze’ in it.
It’s a bit weird.
November 28, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Read the first couple of books in preparation and then watched the episodes of ‘Heated Rivalry’ that came out last night.
Somehow you can really feel the women objectifying male homosexuality edge to the ‘male gaze’ in it.
It’s a bit weird.
Somehow you can really feel the women objectifying male homosexuality edge to the ‘male gaze’ in it.
It’s a bit weird.
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So, Pokémon Legends Z-A actively encourages players to catch the extra large versions of the pokémon, but then uses a battle mechanic where size decreases efficiency as larger pokémon get snagged on environmental objects far more often, blocking their attacks (and sometimes trapping them entirely).
October 19, 2025 at 10:07 PM
So, Pokémon Legends Z-A actively encourages players to catch the extra large versions of the pokémon, but then uses a battle mechanic where size decreases efficiency as larger pokémon get snagged on environmental objects far more often, blocking their attacks (and sometimes trapping them entirely).
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Spotify is running ICE ads. I went to cancel on mobile and saw that this isn’t allowed on mobile. They make you cancel on desktop. You think that’s gonna stop me, Spotify? I will erase you and forget you ever existed.
THOU SHALT CANCEL SPOTIFY!!!
THOU SHALT CANCEL SPOTIFY!!!
October 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Spotify is running ICE ads. I went to cancel on mobile and saw that this isn’t allowed on mobile. They make you cancel on desktop. You think that’s gonna stop me, Spotify? I will erase you and forget you ever existed.
THOU SHALT CANCEL SPOTIFY!!!
THOU SHALT CANCEL SPOTIFY!!!
My uniform for playing the new Pokémon (which I am getting too angry at - busily managing fight between Pokémon and some other wild Pokémon shank the trainer)
October 18, 2025 at 1:32 AM
My uniform for playing the new Pokémon (which I am getting too angry at - busily managing fight between Pokémon and some other wild Pokémon shank the trainer)
My sister got knocked out of the council election one round of the transferable votes too early for my vote for her to count.
Sibling spite achieved while still technically being supportive.
Sibling spite achieved while still technically being supportive.
October 11, 2025 at 5:30 AM
My sister got knocked out of the council election one round of the transferable votes too early for my vote for her to count.
Sibling spite achieved while still technically being supportive.
Sibling spite achieved while still technically being supportive.
Listening to this while doing badly in a run of the new Stellaris DLC. Shaun has even less patience for a bad book than Michael Hobbes
September 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Listening to this while doing badly in a run of the new Stellaris DLC. Shaun has even less patience for a bad book than Michael Hobbes
Is this a common printing error in @paizo.com ‘s Pathfinder NPC Core papaerback edition? It is striking… and very hard to read.
September 23, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Is this a common printing error in @paizo.com ‘s Pathfinder NPC Core papaerback edition? It is striking… and very hard to read.
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South Park is getting canceled after this lmao.
July 24, 2025 at 3:59 AM
South Park is getting canceled after this lmao.
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I regret to inform you the Waikato Times has been taken for a ride by a supplement entrepreneur who studied the pseudo-scientific "functional medicine" and is a "clinical nutritionist" which is a meaningless term anybody can call themselves.
‘Two chicks from Waikato’ launch AI-powered blood test analysis platform
Co-founder and clinical nutritionist Vinka Wong says blood tests are about “lifting up the hood” and then coming up with an action plan.
www.stuff.co.nz
July 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I regret to inform you the Waikato Times has been taken for a ride by a supplement entrepreneur who studied the pseudo-scientific "functional medicine" and is a "clinical nutritionist" which is a meaningless term anybody can call themselves.
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The Science Media Centre has gathered several expert reactions to the "de-extinct the moa" publicity announcement. Each is withering in a different way. www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2025/07/09/m...
Moa "de-extinction" plans announced - Expert Reaction
An overseas company has announced plans to "bring back" the South Island giant moa.
Colossal Biosciences, working with Ngāi Tahu Research Centre and Canterbury Museum, says it expects to "resurrect" t...
www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz
July 9, 2025 at 1:24 AM
The Science Media Centre has gathered several expert reactions to the "de-extinct the moa" publicity announcement. Each is withering in a different way. www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2025/07/09/m...
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How did the pandemic start?
I have avoided publicly commenting on this for 5 years. Here's my take as someone who has no stake at all in the game.
gidmk.substack.com/p/pandemic-r...
I have avoided publicly commenting on this for 5 years. Here's my take as someone who has no stake at all in the game.
gidmk.substack.com/p/pandemic-r...
Pandemic Revisionism, Part One: COVID-19 Origins
Because people keep getting this very wrong.
gidmk.substack.com
July 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM
How did the pandemic start?
I have avoided publicly commenting on this for 5 years. Here's my take as someone who has no stake at all in the game.
gidmk.substack.com/p/pandemic-r...
I have avoided publicly commenting on this for 5 years. Here's my take as someone who has no stake at all in the game.
gidmk.substack.com/p/pandemic-r...
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Cute stranger in a kebab shop complimented (my excessive quantity of) Critical Role merch.
Closest I have come to being hit on in a while. I shall take it.
Closest I have come to being hit on in a while. I shall take it.
May 15, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Cute stranger in a kebab shop complimented (my excessive quantity of) Critical Role merch.
Closest I have come to being hit on in a while. I shall take it.
Closest I have come to being hit on in a while. I shall take it.
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Every TTRPG player:
First campaign: I am Taragorn Nightbringer, mysterious loner with a tortured past.
Second campaign: *holds up a lobster* This is my familiar, Mr. Pinchy.
All subsequent campaigns: ~I~ am Mr. Pinchy, Crustacean Gunslinger... aka THE PISTOL SHRIMP.
First campaign: I am Taragorn Nightbringer, mysterious loner with a tortured past.
Second campaign: *holds up a lobster* This is my familiar, Mr. Pinchy.
All subsequent campaigns: ~I~ am Mr. Pinchy, Crustacean Gunslinger... aka THE PISTOL SHRIMP.
May 3, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Every TTRPG player:
First campaign: I am Taragorn Nightbringer, mysterious loner with a tortured past.
Second campaign: *holds up a lobster* This is my familiar, Mr. Pinchy.
All subsequent campaigns: ~I~ am Mr. Pinchy, Crustacean Gunslinger... aka THE PISTOL SHRIMP.
First campaign: I am Taragorn Nightbringer, mysterious loner with a tortured past.
Second campaign: *holds up a lobster* This is my familiar, Mr. Pinchy.
All subsequent campaigns: ~I~ am Mr. Pinchy, Crustacean Gunslinger... aka THE PISTOL SHRIMP.
I thought my Bluesky app was glitching or my account hacked or something.
No. I had just, uncharacteristically, posted something that had attracted likes into the double figures…
Fame. It is for other people.
No. I had just, uncharacteristically, posted something that had attracted likes into the double figures…
Fame. It is for other people.
April 14, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I thought my Bluesky app was glitching or my account hacked or something.
No. I had just, uncharacteristically, posted something that had attracted likes into the double figures…
Fame. It is for other people.
No. I had just, uncharacteristically, posted something that had attracted likes into the double figures…
Fame. It is for other people.
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there’s a style of reporting that’s basically like “the left hasn’t been duped by the transparently bad faith framing of the right, but I, the reporter, very much have.”
does anyone have a cannon pointed at the sun I can borrow? need to shoot myself into the sun with a cannon
April 12, 2025 at 5:52 PM
there’s a style of reporting that’s basically like “the left hasn’t been duped by the transparently bad faith framing of the right, but I, the reporter, very much have.”
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new video
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March 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
new video
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My love for you is like a peregrine falcon. One more valentine from a past year.
February 13, 2025 at 4:12 PM
My love for you is like a peregrine falcon. One more valentine from a past year.
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ACT Party just refused to give leave for Geoffrey Palmer on behalf of 50 KCs another five minutes to answer questions on the Treaty Principles Bill 🙄
February 12, 2025 at 8:37 PM
ACT Party just refused to give leave for Geoffrey Palmer on behalf of 50 KCs another five minutes to answer questions on the Treaty Principles Bill 🙄
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NZs worst kept political secret now officially out
January 31, 2025 at 4:11 AM
NZs worst kept political secret now officially out
I am pretending these are the most southerly copies of the Dungeon Crawler Carl hardcovers as I had to order them in when no local bookstore stocked them.
January 16, 2025 at 3:22 AM
I am pretending these are the most southerly copies of the Dungeon Crawler Carl hardcovers as I had to order them in when no local bookstore stocked them.