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locus @locuslebe.bsky.social · 10h

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locus @locuslebe.bsky.social · 10h

#MusicChallenge
#EUr0cktober
#EUrOcktober

17/10 Czech Republic 🇨🇿

The Ultimate Playlist for the End of the World... Yep ;)
Jordan Haj (Hossein)

Jordan Haj - A Perfect President (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by JORDAN X EMMA

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locus @locuslebe.bsky.social · 11h

👏 👏 Peter Linnell
"This is my first protest and I'm 76 years old."

Who wore his father's RNZAF blazer

"because he put his life on the life for democracy

Linnell felt strongly at Kaipara decision to remove its Māori ward

"They should have representation. I believe it gives us a fairer society

Kevin Veale 😷 (Toitū Te Tiriti) @krveale.bsky.social · 11h

That picture is great for highlighting that the UK isn't the only place with an infestation of angry hams in politics. #nzpol

Assiduously Julie @awaterevalley.bsky.social · 13h

When you're so desperate to not have a Māori mayor at your council table that you pull a Trump but everyone else is like 'nah, dude'.

Mayor's emergency meeting questioned by council lawyer, local electoral officer
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

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Tim @timward2014.bsky.social · 13h

What I would say to you is that a Christian fundamentalist neoliberal who believes in a US healthcare model, has no concept of workplace relations, and clearly no understanding of the links between poor health and poverty, should never be allowed anywhere near a HEALTH portfolio. #nzpol

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locus @locuslebe.bsky.social · 1d

👏 👏 great find 🎶

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locus @locuslebe.bsky.social · 1d

#MusicChallenge
#EUr0cktober

16/10 Cyprus 🇨🇾

Anna Vissi - Psihedelia

YouTube video by AnnaVissiVEVO

youtu.be

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 1d

Ferrets are an environmental catastrophe. One ferret attack wipes out half a seabird colony on Karioi. A single grey-faced petrel (oi) chick survived in its burrow so the ferret came back for that one too. A potentially record breeding season, with at least nine pairs sitting on eggs is now nothing.

The Waikato Times

www.waikatotimes.co.nz

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Mike Riversdale @mikeriversdale.co.nz · 2d

"Democracy eh!"

The select committee report on the Regulatory Standards Bill is in.
📝166,000 submissions.
❌98.7% opposed.

Yet National are going to continue supporting it.

🗣New Zealand could not have been louder, but Luxon still isn’t listening.

#NZPol #RSB #Aotearoa #NewZealand

REGULATORY STANDARDS BILL SELECT COMMITTEE REPORT:

166,000 SUBMISSIONS TOTAL

0.7 % Supported
0.6% Unclear
98.1% Opposed

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locus @locuslebe.bsky.social · 2d

Haha 👌 👏 👍
Neil Hannon looking cool 😎

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locus @locuslebe.bsky.social · 2d

🎶 Classic pop :)

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locus @locuslebe.bsky.social · 2d

I did think about this oldie
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Manfred Mann My Name Is Jack

YouTube video by willybeable

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locus @locuslebe.bsky.social · 2d

#MusicChallenge
#EUr0cktober

15/10 Sweden 🇸🇪

... definitely not one of the wayward boys from the Greta Garbo home ;)

Victor Leksell - Lys på mig | Officiell musikvideo

YouTube video by Victor Leksell

youtu.be

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locus @locuslebe.bsky.social · 3d

Great pick :) 👏 👏

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locus @locuslebe.bsky.social · 3d

#MusicChallenge
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14/10 Finland 🇫🇮
From their latest album Borderland

AMORPHIS - Dancing Shadow (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Reigning Phoenix Music

youtu.be

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locus @locuslebe.bsky.social · 4d

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locus @locuslebe.bsky.social · 4d

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13/10 Austria 🇦🇹

Mozart - Metallica (Symphony No. 40 - Enter Sandman : MOZART HEROES [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

YouTube video by MOZART HEROES [Official]

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locus @locuslebe.bsky.social · 5d

"The thing that I'd like to emphasise is that although we're definitely short of doctors who lead the team and the service absolutely needs them, addressing the [rheumatology] nursing shortages and the huge variability across the country is also an extremely high priority"

Rheumatology patients suffer significant pain without enough staff - professor

A survey has found two of 16 public hospital rheumatology services don't have any nurses employed.

www.rnz.co.nz

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locus @locuslebe.bsky.social · 5d

#MusicChallenge
#EUr0cktober

12/10 Spain 🇪🇸

Nebulossa, Monica Naranjo - Venenosa (Official)

YouTube video by NebulossaVEVO

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locus @locuslebe.bsky.social · 5d

Well written and referenced article thanks

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locus @locuslebe.bsky.social · 6d

Pretty sure he can't remember Maria Machado's name or be bothered to learn it...

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locus @locuslebe.bsky.social · 6d

Unsolicited Rick pic

Rikki Morris. Best known for 1988 hit single "Nobody Else" which he wrote and performed with his older brother Ian Morris/Tex Pistol and which reached number one in Aotearoa New Zealand and remained on the charts for sixteen weeks.... ref. Wikipedia

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locus @locuslebe.bsky.social · 6d

"New Zealand’s $12 billion defence capability plan commits to uplifting defence science and tech towards space, cyber, and autonomous weapons capabilities"

Why spend 'defence' $ on machines that kill, why not on autonomous mine clearance, drone interception or on even better ROI...antiwar diplomacy

miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 6d

I loved that we were once a nominally independent nation, with its own foreign policy *sigh*
#nzpol
"In connecting to the network empire, we must ask on whose terms we fight"

An internet of military things - kill-webs – including drones, radars, and satellites, processed by AI-assisted “deciders".

Network empire: how advanced military tech is reshaping Five Eyes

NZ links to Five Eyes military technology could become tripwires if conflict breaks out, undermining our sovereignty

newsroom.co.nz

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locus @locuslebe.bsky.social · 6d

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locus @locuslebe.bsky.social · 6d

#nzpol
As ever, Anne Salmond is on point

"When Act mounted its despicable Victim of the Day campaign, delivered by Act’s parliamentary staffers at the taxpayers’ expense and attacking individual scholars as ‘deranged,’ that was another attack on institutional autonomy and academic freedom."

Anne Salmond: Academic freedom and its enemies

In NZ there are chilling moves towards illiberal democracy. While they are being strongly resisted so far, political leaders and others must wake up.

newsroom.co.nz

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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 9d

Robert Jenrick's comments about Handsworth represent more of his abhorrent racism. There's no way he can look at the colour of someone's face and tell how "integrated" they are. Also, he went to Handsworth during a bin strike to make a video about litter to smear that community. #ToryRacism

Robert Jenrick

Robert Jenrick complained of 'not seeing another white face' in Birmingham neighbourhood

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit

Rowena Mason Whitehall editor

Tue 7 Oct 2025 06.57 BST

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Robert Jenrick complained about visiting an area of Birmingham where he "didn't see another white face" and said it was not the kind of country he wanted to live in.

After highlighting the lack of white people, the shadow justice secretary said it was not about "the colour of your skin or your faith" and he wanted people to live alongside each other.

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He told the dinner: “I went to Handsworth in Birmingham the other day to do a video on litter and it was absolutely appalling. It's as close as I've come to a slum in this country.

But the other thing I noticed there was that it was one of the worst integrated places I've ever been to. In fact, in the hour and a half I was filming news there I didn't see another white face.

"That's not the kind of country I want to live in. I want to live in a country where people are properly integrated. It's not about the colour of your skin or your faith, of course it isn't. But I want people to be living alongside each other, not parallel lives. That's not the right way we want to live as a country."

The area's independent MP Ayoub Khan said: "The claims made by the shadow justice secretary are not only wildly false but also incredibly irresponsible. He has misrepresented a storied and diverse community, awkwardly distorting the product of an all-out bin strike to fit his culture-warrior narrative filled with far-right cliches.

According to Birmingham city council, the ethnicity of Handsworth is 25% Pakistani, 23% Indian, 10% Bangladeshi, 16% Black African or Black Caribbean, 10% mixed or other ethnic group and 9% white.

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