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Dan Waterfield

@danwaterfield.bsky.social
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SWE building decision intelligence for gov + health + social care / PhD 18c History / Social Democrat / gam zu l'tovah. ✡️ 🇬🇧 in 🇳🇿 (Waimauku)

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 10h
Public sector workers are on strike today, including nurses, teachers and prison officers. "If you want us to keep these monsters off the streets then you need to provide us with a living wage" the teachers have said in a statement.
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 10h
new genders just dropped
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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 17h
You can’t always be in the room with your kid, so it’s nice to have a spouse who keeps you updated.
You missed her losing Rock, Paper, Scissors to inanimate objects
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 16h
Dear Lord
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 19h
“Lord Mansfield expressed his anger that the majesty of the law should be engaged in such a frivolous matter [whether the chevalier d’eon was a man or woman] but was forced to rule the wager legal.”
A notorious case of this kind arose from the activities of the bizarre Chevalier D'Eon. D'Eon was a French diplomat who had come to England at the end of the Seven Years War and got himself into all kinds of scrapes in the course of a short but tempestuous career. Constant bickering with his colleagues and a taste for appearing in women's dress made him the object of public interest as well as a source of embarrassment to his compatriots.
There were many wagers, masquerading as insurances', on the vexed question of his sex. One of these came before the Court of King's Bench, in the case of Hayes v. Jacques, in 1777, when it was reported that reputable medical authority in France had settled the matter in favour of womanhood. Hayes had ventured fifteen guineas te fifteen hundred that such proof would be forthcoming, but Jacques declined to accept the report as sufficient evidence.
D'Eon, denying complicity in this and any other bet, wisely returned to his native land to await the outcome. Lord Mansfield expressed his anger that the majesty of the law should be engaged in such a frivolous matter but was forced to rule the wager legal.
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 19h
…no
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 20h
Oh yeah Bristol hospital is a global centre for repairing the damage it does to your bladder.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Theresa May with a speech bubble emerging from her as if she uttered the quoted post
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Shaved a minute off my 5k pace. Which is still hilariously slow
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
...why is she wearing a jumper to bed
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
surprisingly few marmot related factors in the marmot indicators
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Hayden Donnell @haydendonnell.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"I'd really like to be recognised for my journalism outside of New Zealand" *monkey's paw curls*
John Oliver quoting me on Kiwibank's sexy green-haired sheep Buck
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
…no
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Fragrant
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
:(
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I ran past five dead possums last week. Five.
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Oh god
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
plausible there was knowledge of some sort of landmass in our direction from current + wave patterns, right?
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
@showerabsolute.bsky.social
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
S e e d s
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Oh yes! He claimed slavery was fine at one point iirc. Now he’s claiming to be ‘the Hebrew moshiach’
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Ah Romania
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
*daintily
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I also have the unfortunate tendency to double down
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Woke Bane.
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It’s spring here and I’m STILL unused to seeing advent calendars alongside stuff for summer
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
:(
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Can’t believe I had to stop joking about callipers because people thought I Actually Believed it
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I used to live in rural Somerset, so you can imagine my shock when I ran into wings over Scotland who ALSO lived in my somerset village.
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I was very much into science fiction (Clarke, Baxter, Stross, Bear, etc) as a boy / teenager, so my disappointment with Who was pronounced
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Yes
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Fond* memories of getting called homophobic for once saying this *ish
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Absolutely bodied
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
> let people enjoy things No
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
*Doctor Who in general is bad
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Sulfurous Trans-Face @oxmounter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ruin a book by adding a word. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Thatcher
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Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 11/10/2026
The Monolith and the Apes from 2001: A Space Odyssey
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Mid life crisis stage: bought some lovely running shoes.
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Antisemitism is specific to Jew hatred.
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Growth of the turnpike networks in England, 1740 - 1750 - 1770
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Well it doesn’t sound like he was in heaven, in any sense of the term.
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Whatipu beach.
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yes. Unless you’re directly asked.
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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ahab’s Irish granda checking in with him at Sunday dinner:
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Myles na gCup O'Lean. @executivesteve.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We once convinced an American friend to go into Paddy Power to pay the electricity bill in cash.
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Probably another few 5ks and then start slowly adding miles with the aim of reaching 10km
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ran 5km 3x this week.
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