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Aotearoa New Zealand Profile Pic: 'Out of Step', Donau Kanal (2016) Banner: Whāingaroa, Waikato (2026) Geographer - Specialist subject: Access to health services - rheumatoid /autoimmune arthritis (PhD & lived experience) Sorry for the typos 🧐 Flâneuse🚶♀️
When a politician's only plan is to undo decades of progress rather than support real opportunities for Māori, it shows a total lack of vision. Aotearoa deserves leaders who focus on genuine empowerment, not those who treat fundamental Treaty rights as political footballs. #nzpol
Absolutely appalling outcome of authoritarian austerity and refusing to meet the basic human rights of so many.
Kay in the End Times 🏳️🌈 💗💜💙📚@jennykaynz.bsky.social · 13h agoWatching NZ Parliament TV with Wellington MP Tamatha Paul talking of the desperate situations of rough sleepers and homeless people. Like the man found freezing and unresponsive on the street this week. He couldn't be saved. Many others need help. #NZpol www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
[🤓post] This is the pile of financial assets that RBNZ is holding for the purpose of 'liquidity management'. See the big red hump? That's Govt bonds that RBNZ bought during Cvid (aka QE). RBNZ's been selling them off for a few years. 'Green' is the low interest cash sprayed at banks (FLP) [🧵 1/n]
#CaptnCanadasMusicMonth #MusicChallenge #MusicSky 5. Sitting on the dock Alex Hopkins - Canada Docks
Canada Docks
YouTube video by Alex Hopkins - Topic
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miravox@miravox.bsky.social · 2d ago#CaptnCanadasMusicMonth #MusicChallenge #MusicSky 4. Driving around your hometown The Tragically Hip Locked in the trunk of a car Ignore the lyrics, I'm interpreting 'trunk' as a hatchback and the person in the trunk as the one-too-many friends for the number of seatbelts for passengers.
"Without adequate funding for modified vehicles, many in our community risk being stuck at home. Without grants for essential mobility aids and adaptive equipment, navigating our community safely becomes significantly harder"
Kay in the End Times 🏳️🌈 💗💜💙📚@jennykaynz.bsky.social · yesterdayNZ Lotteries Minister Brooke van Velden cut Individuals with Disabilities )Fund) Committee against expert advice that specialist expertise is essential for delivering equitable and well-informed funding decisions. Why should she care? She's OK and sorted. #NZpol thedlist.co.nz/newsfeed/min...
#CaptnCanadasMusicMonth #MusicChallenge #MusicSky 4. Driving around your hometown The Tragically Hip Locked in the trunk of a car Ignore the lyrics, I'm interpreting 'trunk' as a hatchback and the person in the trunk as the one-too-many friends for the number of seatbelts for passengers.
The Tragically Hip - Locked In The Trunk Of A Car (Live July 22 - August 20, 2016 / Audio)
YouTube video by TheTragicallyHipVEVO
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miravox@miravox.bsky.social · 3d ago#CaptnCanadasMusicMonth #MusicChallenge 3. Watching the northern lights Chose this song just because it's so dreamy and beautiful ZOON – Light Prism
Still waiting.. "Luxon said he and Peters talk “many times a day” but didn’t say if he had specifically spoken to the deputy PM about his media remarks. “We’re going to say things in different ways as different leaders, that’s acceptable.”" Ooops sorry wrong quote, that was Luxon in 2023 not 2026!
As it happened: Christopher Luxon’s first post-cabinet press conference as PM
After two days of pretending not to see or hear Winston Peters, new prime minister Christopher Luxon has just faced a lot of questions about him, and more.
thespinoff.co.nz
Danielle, Petty Hate Machine@dimsie.bsky.social · 3d ago4pm every day, he said Getting underperforming people on the blower until they sort stuff out, he said
Good decision #nzpol Labour has pulled its support for changing the census. The Government is now short of the ‘supermajority’ it needs. Labour said it was not opposed in principle to modernising the census, but was not confident the administrative data model “would be accurate or reliable enough."
Govt’s census overhaul thrown into doubt after Labour pulls support
Opposition parties warn relying on government agency data instead of a full census risks undercounting Māori and minority groups.
newsroom.co.nz
I appreciate the update notification: *This article has been updated to clarify New Zealand has had some of the worst wage growth in the developed world. __ "New Zealand's wages were 6.4 percent below 2021's in real terms"
Liz Barry@lizbnz.bsky.social · 3d agoWhat a disgrace! #nzpol NZ wage growth worst in developed world - OECD report has been shared with you from RNZ www.rnz.co.nz/news/persona...
#CaptnCanadasMusicMonth #MusicChallenge 3. Watching the northern lights Chose this song just because it's so dreamy and beautiful ZOON – Light Prism
ZOON - Manitou (Official Video)
YouTube video by Paper Bag Records
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miravox@miravox.bsky.social · 4d ago#CaptnCanadasMusicMonth #MusicChallenge 2. A Canadian artist everyone should know The Band – The weight
Add to this the scolding of, and removal resources for people living with disability.
Kate@knhannah.bsky.social · 4d agoIn times like these, it’s important to pay attention to the grand unifying narratives ideas are hooking on to. Like that children are there to be controlled by adults, like babies and birth are commodities to be controlled by the state, like citizenship is a state more valuable than non-citizenship.
One of the common metals in satellite construction, aluminum, can end up as aluminum‑containing particles in the stratosphere, where aluminum oxide on those particles provides surfaces for ozone‑destroying chemistry.
Burning satellites in the stratosphere: Emerging questions for climate - The Salata Institute
Since the start of the space age, humans have treated the upper atmosphere like a dump. What we know, and what we don’t, about incinerated space trash.
salatainstitute.harvard.edu
People born in the 70s, at the beginning of the neolib age have grown up with state supports being chopped down ahead of them - uni fees, student loans, job protection, training by employer, deregulation, failing health care etc, etc. Are they going to stand by and watch their super go too?
D Jukic She/her@dejanajuk.bsky.social · 4d agoSad, that despite the data and the facts this needs to be reposted regularly #nzpol
#CaptnCanadasMusicMonth #MusicChallenge 2. A Canadian artist everyone should know The Band – The weight
The Weight (Remastered 2000)
YouTube video by The Band - Topic
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miravox@miravox.bsky.social · 5d ago#CaptnCanadasMusicMonth #MusicChallenge I've never been to Canada, so this is going to be a really interesting challenge 🍁🙂 1. Canadian summer road trip song The Trews – Not ready to go
Drop everything and read this damning observation by Dr Dickson. He just psychoanalysed our CEO PM, and it ain't pretty. The *BEST* substack i've read this year. !Please share far and wide¡ open.substack.com/pub/andrewdi...
Luxon Doesn't Need This Job
A, this, and the neediness of 163,000 other people
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At Raglan, apparently tennis raquets are chew toys for dogs and its warm enough for kids to swim. #winter
#CaptnCanadasMusicMonth #MusicChallenge I've never been to Canada, so this is going to be a really interesting challenge 🍁🙂 1. Canadian summer road trip song The Trews – Not ready to go
The Trews - Not Ready To Go
YouTube video by Nick Richard
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#AZSongsAugust #MusicChallenge 1 Arctic Monkeys – there'd better be a mirrorball
Arctic Monkeys - There’d Better Be A Mirrorball (Later with Jools Holland)
YouTube video by BBC Music
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Amateurs. Greymouth Petroleum has given $100,000 each to the nats, act and NZ Fist. Act says dump Paris Accord NZ Fist has promised $1bn for oil and gas exploration. Nats are in for $200 co-i vestment plus billions for LNG.
@locuslebe.bsky.social you missed this video 😍
What Boys Do
YouTube video by A New International
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locus@locuslebe.bsky.social · 6d ago#MusicChallenge #DavidsMonthOfMusic 31. With Who, What, When or Where in the title A New International – What Boys Do @dmiddleham.bsky.social .... thank you for an enjoyable month of music!
I think I like seeing the tide out with wading birds as much as I like the estuary when the tide in.
Winston Peters’ comments to Lawrence Xu-Nan make headlines around the world
Winston Peters’ comments to Lawrence Xu-Nan make headlines around the world
‘A test of New Zealand's political culture and democratic values.'...
thespinoff.co.nz
I was thinking maybe we should give ai a break, it came close with Uganda and Malawi /s But it hasn't even got the shapes of the mis-named countries right!
Geoff Brumfiel@gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 6d agoIncredible story: With the help of AI, U.S. officials created a map that mislabeled every country in Africa. www.reuters.com/world/africa...
#MusicChalllenge #5CoverSongsTribute 5.Eddi Reader – In a Big Country A heartfelt tribute to Stuart Adamson - from one of Scotland's finest to another. Thank you @atcl.bsky.social for this quick challenge - so many great tributes.
Eddi Reader - In a Big Country (Live HQ)
YouTube video by KeeFHQVideos
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miravox@miravox.bsky.social · 7d ago#MusicChalllenge #5CoverSongsTribute 4.Belinda Carlisle - I Feel Free Composed by Jack Bruce Original recording by Cream Jack Bruce - lead and backing vocals, bass guitar, piano
