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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 29m

Van Velden can see end of the road for cone hotline

How cool would it be if the outrage media debunked the road cone hysteria.

In wgtn, one cone was removed by council.
"a member of the public had put out traffic cones to reserve a public street, which council staff removed".

#nzpol

Van Velden can see end of the road for cone hotline

Reports halved each month with just one in five resulting in action, as the minister says councils proved to be the culprit

newsroom.co.nz

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LyricallyLiz @lyricallyliz.bsky.social · 3h

These lyrics are banger:

Look at him, he's sweating
He's sweating from the climb
Office worker, soldier, CEO
He's bleeding and he's blind
And I have never seen a creature
More pitiful than him
He drinks power like saltwater
All because he cannot swim

LyricallyLiz @lyricallyliz.bsky.social · 4h

#MusicSky

This girl... I don't know where this girl came from...

She gets it, and she knows how to spell it out.

Good Boy - Paris Paloma

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Nfy...

Paris Paloma - Good Boy [Official Music Video]

YouTube video by Paris Paloma

www.youtube.com

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 3h

This is brilliant! Thanks for posting.

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 8h

#EUr0cktober
#MusicChallenge

10. Greece

Fleet Foxes -- Mykonos

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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 12h

Govt to cut #JobSeeker benefit for 18 & 19 year olds who’s parents earn over $65,000, even if the teens have a disability or health condition. With #CostOfLiving & the job shortage they’re cranking up stress levels to 11, all to meet a target.
My #cartoon today about hard-nosed #NZpol

Cartoon. Title: “Job Seeee-e-e-e” Image shows PM Christopher Luxon at the open hatch of a small plane, high above farmland. He’s leaning out, and holding up a parachute pack, labelled “Job Seeker” He’s calling out to someone falling from the plane, “And I’ve kept your parachute because you kids from low-income homes need some motivation” Then he adds, “Don’t let that disability slow you down!”

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 1d

Yep - definitely the 'R's as well.

miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 1d

I took the 10 y.o. to my German lessons in Vienna, she told the tutor her Māori surname, tutor repeated it, and the town she came from. 10 y.o turns to me and says "how come she can say Māori words better than you can?"

tbf the vowel sounds are very close, unlike NZ English.

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 1d

One of his best ♥️

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, let's balance ethics with roi. Spoken like every autocrat and robber baron everywhere.

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome back Nicky Hager
This provides context for Judith Collins' recent military-aligned proposals
"...Global Information Dominance Experiments....“full GIDE experiment every 90 days” to develop and practice new capabilities. This is the “Need to move even faster” urgency to be ready for conflict"

D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 1d

Ingrid Hipkiss on RNZ interviewing Tourism NZ CEO on the numbers & need for Chinese tourism $$$ and how we get more of it while totally ignoring the politics bubbling in the background and its impact.

Imo it’s the RNZ MR problem in a nutshell, always on the surface no context. News lite. #nzpol

Secret defence notes pointing to sensitive China preparation left at op shop

The National-led government has been avoiding questions about whether it is joining in preparations for a US military confrontation with China. A series of Official Information Act requests on this su...

newsroom.co.nz

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 1d

Beautiful song, lovely sentiment 🎶🥰

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 1d

#EUr0cktober
#MusicChallenge

9. United Kingdom

“Britain voted by a margin of two-to-one to stay in the European Economic Community, as the EU was then known, in a 1975 referendum”

The 1975 – When we are together

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 2d

#nzpol
Newsroom is not letting go of finding out about the circumstances of Adrian Orr's exit from the Reserve Bank.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/07/o...

Confirming suspicions that the terms of his exit most resemble a non-disclosure agreement, the deal gags Orr from criticising the Quigley or Willis.

In return for payment of six months worth of salary, it bars him from disparaging the bank, its board, individual members of the board, the Treasury, the Minister of Finance or the Government generally.

‘Adrian Orr had confidential information, but more to the point, he was a party to the unsavoury proceedings before his departure. There was such a heightened level of sensitivity around the circumstances of his departure, and what prompted it, that they tried to seal it off.’

Adjunct professor Dr Chris Eichbaum, former Reserve Bank director
But there’s flexibility for it to be applied far more broadly – to stop him speaking to the media, to stop him giving speeches, to stop him publishing a memoir …

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 2d

#EUr0cktober
#MusicChallenge

8. Ireland
Siobhan Fahey (Shakespears Sister) – I Don’t Care

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 2d

I know it's not real, but Ouch! I'll enjoy this moment.
Stuff poll at the end of the article

Political poll showing Labour 49%, Greens 18% and National 3rd on 13%

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 3d

Lucky they can't publish a smell.

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 3d

Exactly what I've been thinking.

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 3d

#EUr0cktober
#MusicChallenge

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The Chemical Brothers - Denmark

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Terry Baucher @trabaq.bsky.social · 3d

Spotted this gem in a footnote on page 62 of Treasury's He Tirohanga Mokopuna

"Between 25% and 30% of everyone born in New Zealand is living overseas by age 30, and emigration rates are even higher among those with tertiary qualifications"

Radical idea here - how about stop shitting on our young?

Footnote from Treasury's 2025 He Tirohanga Mokopuna

"See Hughes, (2025a) and Hughes & Crichton (2025). Between 25% and 30% of everyone born in New Zealand is living overseas by age 30, and emigration rates are even higher among those with tertiary qualifications. Student loan holders living overseas commonly cease repayments, and these loans are sometimes written off as a result. Ministry of Education (2023)."

He Tirohanga Mokopuna is Treasury's long-term fiscal statement and it's full of woe about the funding of NZ Super. Not enough about maybe trying a LOT harder to keep people here.

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Bee @dailybee.bsky.social · 4d

the idea that jobs are what will fix poverty is morally and factually broken #nzpol

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 4d

#EUr0cktober
#MusicChallenge

6. The Netherlands- Shocking Blue - Venus

I totally love the lack of awareness of the need to put on a show for this very cool song.

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 5d

Not to mention a government obligation (given kids must go to school) to provide an education that is sufficient (but not limited) to ensuring the student is capable of doing said job - even if/especially if that requires post-school education.

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 5d

Well actually,
Parents are legally obliged by the government to send their kids to school so they can be educated enough to...

Get a job

that helps the country (productivity and all that).

Seems to me the government should be legally obliged to provide that worthwhile job.

David Cormack @davidcormack.bsky.social · 5d

god help me. this is just cruelty. these are human beings, you monsters.

'The world doesn’t owe you a living’: PM says 4300 teens will lose Jobseeker benefit next year

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 5d

#EUr0cktober
#EUrOcktober
#MusicChallege

5. Luxembourg - Chook - You Are All You Have (feat. Claudine Muno)

youtu.be/_YBD6xe7VjY?...

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 5d

A good game in the end though.

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