Reposted by Nick PhillipsJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 5habsolutely nails why i am a Londoner first, and everything else second. The city is a place we all get to be part of, whatever else we were - or were told we were - elsewhere. 1858
Reposted by Nick PhillipsRobin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 5hJeffrey Archer has died - here is the obituary of Monica Coghlan www.heraldscotland.com/news/1216989...heraldscotland.comMisogyny killed Monica many years before she diedWhen poor Monica Coghlan died in a car crash last week, it was a result both pitiful and inevitable. The rightful order had been restored. Justice had been done. Her sad, brief life was over: she had ... 815590
Nick Phillips @nwp.bsky.social · 20hIt's fantastic, honestly. Have had a record "3 Songs from Dougal and the Blue Cat" since it came out (apparently the other half of one of mum's colleagues worked on the sound, and I got a freebie), always loved it. Never saw the movie until university - was not disappointed :) 110
Nick Phillips @nwp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026noisy? I have no idea what I was actually typing there 000
Nick Phillips @nwp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026@garius.bsky.social @drachinifel.bsky.social @dreadships.bsky.social Not sure which of you this is noisy appropriate for, but a challenge - apparently/allegedly a friend's great grandfather was the first British injury of WWI. James Dale, and it's naval-related. Any of you know the story already? 110
Reposted by Nick PhillipsFeena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"gadgetreview.comTrump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than StonehengeArizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026. 8319471199
Reposted by Nick PhillipsSteph Phi @freestylesteph.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Nz is mid attack by atlas affiliated coalition of chaos - vote like it’s your last chance to. 0124
Reposted by Nick Phillips🚄Rob✅✅🚆 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Surprise, LNG no longer has a purpose 0238
Reposted by Nick PhillipsGrant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 03/10/2026😀 Great for some light relief – 175
Nick Phillips @nwp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Wouldn't have to save many road deaths to be worth it even from a narrow financial perspective. 020
Nick Phillips @nwp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Nah. He'd push into the lifeboat first and then only allow others who were both women and children to join him. 020
Nick Phillips @nwp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Look, what I want to say to you is, he's not a details man. He's big picture, leveraging synergies and hiring consultants... 010
Reposted by Nick Phillips🚄Rob✅✅🚆 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026When 'How has the current government actually affected your life personally?' backfires #nzpol www.reddit.com/r/newzealand...reddit.comFrom the newzealand community on RedditExplore this post and more from the newzealand community 5225
Nick Phillips @nwp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It's Labour who've shifted though - and it's so frustrating. They clearly have a bunch of really good people as candidates and MPs, but something about the organisation is holding them back. 030
Nick Phillips @nwp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Buying them for cheap, too. Why would we trust them to manage the economy when they're clearly shit at getting appropriately paid for selling out? 010
Nick Phillips @nwp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026You decided it was time for it to be your tern? (sorry!) 120
Nick Phillips @nwp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Not a great medium, but Sprinkle Brigade made a go of it, so best of luck... web.archive.org/web/20220401...web.archive.org: : : SPRINKLE BRIGADE : : : 001
Nick Phillips @nwp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026All I can say is... m.youtube.com/watch?v=7dZ8...m.youtube.comI Like Repetitive MusicYouTube video by Regurgitator - Topic 010
Reposted by Nick PhillipsAndrew Dickson @andrewdickson13.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I got myself a batch of OIA documents from the Ministry of Education about school attendance. One of them presents David Seymour with a rather awkward problem. It begins on 11 February 2025. Intrigued? #nzpol 18540
Reposted by Nick PhillipsAlistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026No she’s not. 21720120
Reposted by Nick PhillipsTerry Baucher @trabaq.bsky.social · 27/09/2026When @graemeedgeler.bsky.social says you're "the worst Speaker I can recall" you know it's bad. Gerry Brownlee, Parliament's ineffectual policeman, wraps up chaotic term newsroom.co.nz/2026/09/24/g... 27522
Reposted by Nick PhillipsJon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I picked up a copy of the collected letters of JRR Tolkien for reasons, and this is the most bullshit table of contents I've ever seen. I'm actively angry that it exists 2261751062
Reposted by Nick PhillipsBen Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Remember the Herald was founded in 1863 to support the Waikato invasion that kicked off the Land Wars. Not much has changed honestly since then given the Paul Henry article below 2279
Nick Phillips @nwp.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Last time I looked at NIWA rainfall data (a long time ago), Dunedin had something like 30% less annual rainfall than one of Auckland and Wellington (can't remember which one I was comparing to). 110
Nick Phillips @nwp.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The rush quarter hour is terrible, terrible I tell you... 030
Reposted by Nick PhillipsSpacePrez @spaceprez.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The polls are super bad for Trump so he's definitely going to try to cheat www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...nytimes.comWhistle-Blower Says USPS Is Secretly Proceeding on Trump’s Mail Voting Plan Before MidtermsA report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections. 23684155
Nick Phillips @nwp.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Set it up owned by community trusts, with a very long contract and massive break clauses. Fuck National, play them at their own shitty game. 000
Nick Phillips @nwp.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Be sure to watch them right through and click, just in case either of those cost them more. 000
Nick Phillips @nwp.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Is that graphic at the top yours? And if so, are you ok with it being printed out and spread around? 100
Nick Phillips @nwp.bsky.social · 31/08/2026The whole "user pays" idea has poisoned NZ politics for years. Was genius on the part of whoever brought it in - a way to sell inequity to the country as if it were a natural and good thing. 062
Nick Phillips @nwp.bsky.social · 31/08/2026You'd have said that about Trump a little over 10 years ago. 140
Nick Phillips @nwp.bsky.social · 31/08/2026That epithet really tells you all you need to know about whether it's a good idea, it seems to me. 000
Reposted by Nick PhillipsWorkers First Union @workersfirstunion.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Have you received an orange man letter in the mail yet, confirming your enrolment details? If you didn't, you may not be correctly enrolled to vote! Check and update your details NOW at: vote.nz #nzpol 24548
Nick Phillips @nwp.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Joni Mitchell? Carole King? Taylor Swift? Joan Baez? James Taylor? 010
Nick Phillips @nwp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026They don't want local government to actually be effective government - they want it to be an administrative rubber stamp. 100
