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！
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
youtube.com
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.
@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
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!
mentourpilot.com
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
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
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.
interestingengineering.com
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
newsroom.co.nz
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.
www.rnz.co.nz
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
newsroom.co.nz
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.
www.rnz.co.nz
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
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Government finances worse than expected as tax take falls
Treasury figures show a deficit about $700m higher than forecast.
www.rnz.co.nz
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
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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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
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...
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….
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Some people wanted more money.
Why butter prices might not fall as fast as they rose
Why butter prices might not fall as fast as they rose
The price of butter has been one of the big consumer issues of this year.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Some people wanted more money.
I can't even with this Eddie Munster smug little racist prep school fucker.
"We're not racist. We just *really* like doing racist-adjacent things for pretty much the sole reason that we don't like sharing our stuff with those bloody unelected mowries"
"We're not racist. We just *really* like doing racist-adjacent things for pretty much the sole reason that we don't like sharing our stuff with those bloody unelected mowries"
The Government's health reforms will remove independent monitoring of Māori health and centralise the functions of local Māori health boards.
Law change advances to strip powers from Māori health boards
newsroom.co.nz
December 3, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I can't even with this Eddie Munster smug little racist prep school fucker.
"We're not racist. We just *really* like doing racist-adjacent things for pretty much the sole reason that we don't like sharing our stuff with those bloody unelected mowries"
"We're not racist. We just *really* like doing racist-adjacent things for pretty much the sole reason that we don't like sharing our stuff with those bloody unelected mowries"
This is the American national identity now. Completely unvarnished, unapologetic-to-the-point-of-gleeful racism and bigotry.
America as a nation is hostile, bitter, contemptuous and racist. They have burned all their social licence in the global community.
America as a nation is hostile, bitter, contemptuous and racist. They have burned all their social licence in the global community.
Trump on Somalis: "We're gonna go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage."
December 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
This is the American national identity now. Completely unvarnished, unapologetic-to-the-point-of-gleeful racism and bigotry.
America as a nation is hostile, bitter, contemptuous and racist. They have burned all their social licence in the global community.
America as a nation is hostile, bitter, contemptuous and racist. They have burned all their social licence in the global community.
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For context: NZ's 2030 target was designed to be met in two parts, with a third domestic emissions savings and a larger contribution fromoffshore credits.
Great explainer by @eloisegibson.bsky.social here
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Great explainer by @eloisegibson.bsky.social here
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
December 2, 2025 at 1:16 AM
For context: NZ's 2030 target was designed to be met in two parts, with a third domestic emissions savings and a larger contribution fromoffshore credits.
Great explainer by @eloisegibson.bsky.social here
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Great explainer by @eloisegibson.bsky.social here
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
December 1, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
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one is an unpalatable festering cesspit of no value, and the other is a mouldy school lunch.
December 1, 2025 at 6:38 AM
one is an unpalatable festering cesspit of no value, and the other is a mouldy school lunch.
What are some good resources for learning Norwegian that aren't Duo-fucking-lingo?
December 1, 2025 at 8:10 AM
What are some good resources for learning Norwegian that aren't Duo-fucking-lingo?
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Pretty clear the plan here is to ensure councils can only fund sewage & rubbish with central government controlling everything else. It is a power grab.
November 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Pretty clear the plan here is to ensure councils can only fund sewage & rubbish with central government controlling everything else. It is a power grab.
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Out of all the videos I've made in the past year, I think this one is still my favorite, or at least top 3.
www.youtube.com/shorts/05o4k...
www.youtube.com/shorts/05o4k...
Icelandic Winter Sun #nordic #comedy #iceland #sunlight
YouTube video by Ólafur Waage
www.youtube.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Out of all the videos I've made in the past year, I think this one is still my favorite, or at least top 3.
www.youtube.com/shorts/05o4k...
www.youtube.com/shorts/05o4k...