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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Prunking baby goats are the greatest - I bottle raised 3 orphaned feral goats who lived in our house for weeks, and they are THE BEST PETS EVER!! 🐐

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Just had a wonderful week diving the clearest waters on earth in beautiful Niue 🇳🇺 The best thing (aside from the singing humpback whales, dolphins and mantas) was that the coral reef was still super healthy after being smashed by 2 cyclones this millennium 🪸 But I do worry what this El Niño will do!

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My worst fear in life has come true: my soul mate Loki, the prince of cats, who’s been my constant companion from his birth 17 years ago, has peacefully passed over the rainbow bridge. Just a month after his sister Hexe. I’m now for the first time in 31 years, cat-less, and it is deeply wrong 💔😿❤️‍🩹

Loki’s tangihanga - laid to rest on an altar of flowers (and octopuses)

Loki’s last picture lying in bed, being the best boy

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Have you read “Invisible Women” by Caroline Criado Perez? Made me want to scream with fury, but has some excellent health examples of data bias.

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I have to put my beautiful Maine Coon Hexe down today, and I know pet deaths are a big turn-offs to see on your timeline, but I’m still sad AF and always feel for the other pet lovers on here going through the same awful decision 😿 15 years she was part of our family, our one-eyed polydactyl pirate.

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Congrats, David!! You’re incredibly prolific, on top of being Bravid, the justice warrior! Looking forward to your new doc. Here’s our prunking rescue goat Mazikeen from Golden Bay to remind you of home 🐐 Stay safe and continue your great mahi!

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Nice!! Contrast that to the Southern Hemisphere Milky Way shot from my house in Aotearoa by Jason Ng 🌌

Milky Way and trailer sailer in foreground in Mohua/Golden Bay NZ

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

It’s my birthday on Tuesday too! And I’ll be celebrating it with my miniature donkey boys, thinking of Letty-Lou 😻

Benny and Shadow the miniature donkeys posing up a storm

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

We made a giant vulva crochet coral reef as part of a Kiwiburn art piece called the “Octopussy” 🤷‍♀️ 🪸 🌮

Being “born” out of a cloth vulva surrounded by a crochet coral reef

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Kia ora from Aotearoa New Zealand! (Forgot my good moon camera so an iPhone strawberry moon rise it is) 🌕

Strawberry moon rise over the Abel Tasman National Park in Mohua, Aotearoa

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

1/3 An article on Aotearoa's voice at Venice paints Fiona Pardington as a beneficiary of "corporate privilege." This image is her studio: a tray table in a spare room. Her success was built through decades of hard work, not privilege.

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

The best thing about the Winter Solstice is that the days will slowly get longer again - even though winter has only just started… Happy Solstice, world! 🔥

Fire of an effigy burned to celebrate the start of winter

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The world is going to hell in a hand basket but I got to rescue another baby #goat and give it a demon’s name - meet Mazekeen, Blade of Satan, Daughter of Lilith (joining Shub Shub and Belial or Billy Bob Hornton - poor Lilith died on Christmas Eve!) 🐐🐐🐐

Picking up our new orphaned baby goat wrapped in a blanket

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

We call it “cat immunity” in our house (the dog is too big to sit on our laps, though he does try occasionally) 😹

Giant White Swiss Shepherd Fenrir being a lap dog on my husband

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I see Dan Vlader trending and Darth Putin as my first post, and my brain immediately wonders why no one calls Putin “Darth Vlader” 🤦‍♀️

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Well, I just finished running an incredible 2-day hui (workshop) on hidden energy hardship in Aotearoa NZ with my Swedish and U.S. national experts & almost 90 amazing humans from every corner of our #energy sector: government, local govt, industry, research & the most important community sector! 🙌

Energy sector attendees at hidden hardship hui

Computer screen showing sharp rise of energy hardship in Aotearoa NZ

Dinner after Day 1 of hidden hardship hui

Amazing kai (food) by local Māori small business

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Happy #aprilfoolsday - especially to the fossil fools who are learning that solar & wind power doesn’t stop when the “Straight” shuts down!

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Epic #lunareclipse #bloodmoon last night from our little dark sky sanctuary at the bottom of the world 🌕

Total lunar eclipse from Aotearoa NZ (halfway through)

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Happy Valentines #bluesky from Medusa & Drusilla 💝

Highland cow Medusa with wonky horns and her baby Drusilla who looks like an Ewok

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Meet the latest super cute addition to our #ecofarm family - Scottish #highlandcow Medusa the Hor(n)gon and her baby calf (we might name her Drusilla, which means "magic" or the more prosaic but hilarious Moo Heifner). Their fold names are Lady Kristen of Langside the 3rd (and 4th) #farmlife 🐮

Scottish highland cow with wonky horns and her baby calf

Scottish highland cow with wonky horns and her baby calf from the side

Baby red Scottish highland heifer calf in the grass

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

I made my second successful thermophilic (though I haven’t proven microscopically that it’s biocompleteTM yet cause it’s still cooling down) #compost pile using Dr Elaine Ingham’s SoilFoodWeb recipe and techniques. Hoo boy, this 💩 heated up super fast! Secret party food ingredients? Burley & Tripe.

Husband helping to mix ingredients for biocomplete compost

Excel sheet of first 4 days of temperature and moisture readings of thermophilic compost pile

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Yeah, cows are great! I didn’t realise how sophisticated their social system was until we started regeneratively farming them (v small-scale, only 50 yearlings at a time). These are our 2 pet cows Ginger & Schnitzel - and I just got us 2 Highland calves for Christmas! That article on lactation is 🤯

Jersey-Herefordshire cross cows Ginger and Schnitzel

Jersey-Herefordshire cross cows Ginger and Schnitzel on a farm

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Late Spring has blessed us with the most stunning & intoxicating roses 🌹 #bloomscrolling

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

I think we could all do with some #babyduckling palate cleanser today!? #farmlife 🦆🐥🐣

10 day old baby Muscovy ducklings swimming in their water trough

Muscovy duck momma and her 11 baby ducklings

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

#Supermoon November 2025 🌕 Rising as big as a planet over Onetahua / Farewell Spit, it turned into a hazy egg / skull for bit!

Hazy closeup of Supermoon as it rises through clouds

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Nothing cuter than fluffy ducklings and chickadees 🐥

Muscovy duck mum with her 12 baby ducklings

Plymouth Barred Rock hen and her 3 chicks

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

And on Day 2, they’re already out and about, following mommy Quackamollie 🦆

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Spring has truly sprung and that means ALL THE BABIES on our little farm 🐣🐥🐤 #farmsky #farmlife #babyanimals #babyducks #babychicks

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Supporting the #NoKings protest from the other end of the planet by finishing planting the last of 1300 native trees 🌳 Where MAGA wants to see giant polluting coal holes in the ground, we are rewilding the old coal mine on our land. Grow the good green, oppose the orange oppressor Also: baby chicks!

Some of the 1300 native trees we used in riparian planting to protect and regenerate a wetland

4 Plymouth Rock baby chicks and their protective mother hen

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

The news are all ridiculous, mind-bendingly stupid or outright apocalyptic RN, but I got to report on three amazing #sustainableenergy conferences in the last week: Ara Ake’s Energy Affordability & Resilience conference, He Ahi Kā E Ao Hou Māori community hui & the Māori Future Energy Summit. Hope 🙌

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

I’m beyond embarrassed to be a New Zealander today - and being “represented” by this grifting cooker clown 🤮🤮🤮

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

What do see in this picture? I see a hideous, sociopathic predator. Imagine ANY other President having that look whilst “comforting” a grieving widow at a televised memorial for his “good friend” 🤮🤮🤮

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

I hope our 40-resident settlement of Pūponga will become the smallest Dark Sky Sanctuary in Aotearoa 🌌 Check out the Milky Way from my land (Photo: Jason Ng): www.stuff.co.nz/travel/36083...

Milky Way with small boat in the foreground

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Happy #SpringEquinox from Down Under! Our fruit trees are blossoming, despite the terrible Spring winds, and we planted over half of our 1000 native trees already 🌳 🌺 🌱

Native trees in protective covers to protect from runoff and create a wetland

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Awww was she a Blue Orpington? They are the best! My Hennifer Lopes unfortunately died, but her sister Christina Egguilera lives on. RIP Bluebell 🐓

2 chickens and a rooster pecking at food

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

RFK Jr is shaping up to become a mass-murdering monster. So much that Bluesky is trending him twice!

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Using the dog bed to its fullest extent #dogsky

White Swiss Shepherd touching his giant dog bed with only his nose

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

What perfect album came out when you were 16? The MOST perfect #fugazi

Album cover for Fugazi’s 1991 album Steady Diet For Nothing

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Take that racists in my government! Managed to get both mine and hubbie’s passports renewed for 10 years with the Māori name first. First people = first language 🤷‍♀️ #Aotearoa

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

When one chart says everything that’s wrong with a country #Reaganism

Chart depicting life expectancy vs health expenditure per capita, showing America becoming a huge outlier to the rest of the world as soon as Reagan got elected and dismantled the social net

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Soooo, if Elon Musk and JD Vance are <6.2 (1.88m) tall, how can Trump be 6.3 (1.90m) tall? 🤨

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Stoked that I just handed in my chapter on "Hidden #Energy Users - Who they are, where they are, why they are hidden & who knows them" for Prof Mari Maiskanen's Handbook on #EnergyEquity. If we are truly interested in achieving a "just & fair energy transition", these groups need to be our priority.

Figure 10.1. from the chapter on Hidden Energy Users, showing the main typologies and how they become more hidden and fall into greater hardship the more compounding and intersecting vulnerabilities they have

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Heyyyyy back from the other side of the planet! 🌕

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Photo of the Milky Way a cabin guest took from our land this week. What do you think? 🌌

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Omg one of our cabin guests took the most amazing #milkyway #nightphotography from our land! We’re trying to turn Onetahua / Farewell Spit into a #darkskysanctuary - I think this may show it’s not such a bad idea? #flashes 🌌 Photo by Jason Ng

Great shot of the Milky Way with a lit up boat in the foreground

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

It’s so funny… my miniature donkeys don’t care at all for bananas, but the goats love the peel 🍌

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

My awesome photographer friend Sean just showed me how to take EPIC #iphotography shots of the #milkyway above my Dark Sky Sanctuary 🌌 #flashes #nightphotography

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

We live in paradise! (Aka the Windows screen saver of Aotearoa New Zealand) 🤩 #flashes #iphotography #beachphotography

Two people posing in front of the Archway Islands, Wharariki Beach

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

3rd major flooding event in 2 weeks in Nelson Tasman! First one, our road got washed out. Second one, no phone or internet in all of Mohua / Golden Bay. Third one, no power in most of the Top of the South. 6 months of rainfall in 12 days! 💦 This is the beginning of #ClimateCollapse

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

This is how you turn turning 50 into the proper occasion: have a croning ritual with your chosen family, build a giant Krakenship to burn, then play D&D all night #cronezone #hagitude #birthday 🧙‍♀️🦑🔥🐙💝🚒🐲

Croning ritual altar and people dressed in black standing around the crone turning 50

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