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locus @locuslebe.bsky.social · 17h

👏 👏 great find 🎶

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locus @locuslebe.bsky.social · 17h

#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 · 1d

"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 · 1d

Haha 👌 👏 👍
Neil Hannon looking cool 😎

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locus @locuslebe.bsky.social · 1d

🎶 Classic pop :)

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locus @locuslebe.bsky.social · 1d

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

YouTube video by willybeable

youtu.be

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locus @locuslebe.bsky.social · 1d

#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 · 2d

Great pick :) 👏 👏

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locus @locuslebe.bsky.social · 2d

#MusicChallenge
#EUr0cktober

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 · 3d

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locus @locuslebe.bsky.social · 3d

#MusicChallenge
#EUr0cktober

13/10 Austria 🇦🇹

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

YouTube video by MOZART HEROES [Official]

youtu.be

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locus @locuslebe.bsky.social · 4d

"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 · 4d

#MusicChallenge
#EUr0cktober

12/10 Spain 🇪🇸

Nebulossa, Monica Naranjo - Venenosa (Official)

YouTube video by NebulossaVEVO

youtu.be

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locus @locuslebe.bsky.social · 4d

Well written and referenced article thanks

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locus @locuslebe.bsky.social · 5d

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

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locus @locuslebe.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 5d

"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 · 5d

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 · 5d

😄 👏 👏

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locus @locuslebe.bsky.social · 5d

#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