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Pete Burtonwood

@catlinspete.bsky.social

Strategic and critical thinker. Enthusiastic pedant. Retired career firefighter. Experienced at sorting out other people’s chaos. Salford and County Kerry. MUFC. If you are American, you will be blocked. This is year 249.

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The basics at Mt Manganui are the same basics that were present at Muriwai. A known slip hazard, and nobody factored it into risk assessments.

25.01.2026 18:57 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I managed to get sunburnt at the cricket at University Oval last Sunday. Currently we’ve had heavy rain since lunchtime yesterday. 50 mm to 9 this morning.

25.01.2026 05:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

They’ll need to go to Israel and talk to the descendants of the Mossad operatives who did if.

24.01.2026 00:02 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I seem to recall that way back in history, Eric the Red had something to do with Greenland.

21.01.2026 23:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Displaying the flag of the defeated. Dipshit!

07.01.2026 21:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Buy an EV.

07.01.2026 21:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Here are the true frontline troops, the firefighters. It’s the same in all wars.

07.01.2026 21:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Trump is just trying to round out US debt to US$40 trillion. That is the point of financial collapse.

07.01.2026 21:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Who cut the $1000 Kickstarter? National
Who reduced the minimum contribution to 3%? National
Who reduced the member tax credit from $1040 to $521? National
Who then reduced the same member tax credit from $521 to $260.72? National.

Don't believe National on Kiwisaver.
#nzpol

22.11.2025 22:35 — 👍 235    🔁 110    💬 13    📌 15

Listening from South Otago, Aotearoa New Zealand. Love the show. Thanks.

13.11.2025 07:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Rail-enabled, or not?

14.10.2025 06:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Labour, and the left in general, need to completely ditch neoliberal policies.

12.10.2025 00:30 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Time to withdraw the Haka from International rugby games.

09.10.2025 03:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I met him at a Business After 5 in Wgton mid-90s. My dog he’s a short, attention seeking runt. Thanks for your work, and all the best for the future.

09.10.2025 03:52 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Wait till you find out about 3iAtlas.

26.09.2025 08:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ah, the final days of empire. Great to watch.

22.09.2025 00:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Colour scheme of the website address is a giveaway.

03.09.2025 06:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The freight trucking lobby told Willis to cancel the contract. They don’t want to remove their trucks from the highways. Nor do they want to pay their full cost of roading.

16.08.2025 00:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Only 15% of British in AoNZ in 1840 were literate. Descendants of the early settlers in remote coastal rural areas struggle with basic English, and have largely bastardised the Te Reo names. All in the process of suppressing the Māori culture.

12.08.2025 22:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Her and her party are embarking on a mission of cultural genocide.

12.08.2025 22:20 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Looking in from afar, Farage appears to have all the characteristics of a conman. I may be wrong.

12.08.2025 22:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Well, he does represent the Zionist Atlas Network.

12.08.2025 03:11 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The US has never been respected in the rest of the world. The US has invaded more countries, since 1945, than any other country.

04.08.2025 09:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Tiwai Point is supplied from Manapouri. Stopping the flow to Methanex would do it. There is provision in the contract.

03.08.2025 23:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Reminds me of the story of Hedy Lamar’s scientific achievements.

27.07.2025 09:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Supermarket (English) butter in Manchester is £1.99 for 350 gm. I reckon that’s about NZ$8.00

27.07.2025 07:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Then there’s the puffer fish “Real Housewives of….”

24.07.2025 03:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Straight out of the GOP in the US. Disenfranchise as many left voters as possible.

24.07.2025 02:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I consider that programme to be thinking persons TV. Really enjoy it.

24.07.2025 02:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Very apt.

23.07.2025 23:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0