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#nzpol I wonder which Party leader rules out working with Opportunity, but excuses, and is happy to govern with a Party that is racist, sexist, invents sick lies about something they call 'full term abortion', vilifies gay people and wants transgender people 'disappeared'

Recently I checked 35 CVs & letters. Only 2 applicants had not obviously used AI. These 2 plus those who researched the company made the interview shortlist. Two thirds didn't read the JD imo, desperation for work drives applicants to use AI poorly and using AI to help shortlist is a big mistake

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#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 28: A song where the vocals are almost an instrument George Benson, famous for his instrument sounding vocal techniques, is a masterclass during the intro and especially starting at 3:26 on this wonderful Leon Russell cover. This Masquerade

#MusicChallenge #ClocktoberMusic Day 28: Lingering for a while in 1968 with The Beatles, ‘cause …I’m So Tired 🎶You know I can’t sleep, I can’t stop my brain You know it’s been three weeks I’m going insane

Best song heard today ... Just lovely 😍🎶 #AoNZmusic #NZmusic #BestSongHeardToday #MusicChallenge

#MusicChallenge #ClocktoberMusic Day 27 GB gets That Lucky Old Sun (Haven Gillespie) out of bed for the 69 Newport Jazz Festival that connected Jazz, Soul & Rock 🎶Up in the morning out on the job, work like the devil for my pay But that lucky old sun has nothin’ to do But roll round heaven all day

#Clocktobermusic Day 26. The Housemartins / Happy Hour youtu.be/KfDoPEN7n5k?...

ACT's Devoe says she's "tired of Pacific people being...portrayed as needing more help than others." Shameful that Devoe, given her background and the failure of this government, wants to cut the department that's identifying needs and inequities in health, jobs, education etc. faced by Pasifika.

Brazil’s lesson: progressives must drop the blasé pose online and share and boost everything on our side to drown out the far right’s fakes. You have no idea how hard we engaged.

Whoohoo 💥

#MusicChallenge #ClocktoberMusic Day 26: It's 1969 Neil and Buzz walk on the Sea of Tranquillity, Paul is still with the Beatles (just) and Joe nails this cover like no one else can… She Came in Through the Bathroom Window – Joe Cocker 🎶Sundays on the phone to Monday Tuesdays on the phone to me

Two ticks National No no… I mean you get two blood sucking Ticks with National. David Seymour 🪳 Winston Peters 🪳 #nzpol

Last time I looked *checks notes* gangs weren't the ones that slashed pay equity, sunk a ferry deal, failed to keep inflation in check, destroyed our international reputation as independents, shot our health system to pieces through inaction & had a 3 headed cockweasel running the asylum. #nzpol

#BreakingKindSongs [Please use the hashtag!⤴️] #MusicChallenge Day 2️⃣4️⃣ - Song released in the '90's from any genre. Laid • James

#ClocktoberMusic #MusicChallenge Day - 23 Cole Porter wrote such fantastic songs 🥰 Night and Day - Frank Sinatra Like the beat, beat, beat of the tom-tom, When the jungle shadows fall; Like the tick, tick, tock of the stately clock, As it stands against the wall, m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tppb...

#MusicChallenge #ClocktoberMusic Day 25: Back to 1972 In an NME interview Elton said “The last time I have to sing it [Crocodile Rock], I will probably throw a party” 😆 🎶I never knew me a better time and I guess I never will Oh, lordy mama those Friday nights When Suzie wore her dresses tight

Kerrin Leoni says she quit as Labour candidate to stop the controversy surrounding her association with Mongrel Mob being used as a "political weapon" to help National win NZ election "Is this really how desperate some political leaders have become to cling onto power?" www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

A key point made by Maxwell is that we must decide whether our lives are being screwed more by the actions of billionaires or by gangs. Luxon doesn't care about the people most likely to be sucked into gangs or he'd be doing a helluva lot more to tackle the reasons gangs have tripled under his govt

“Every Māori politician in this country gets asked, sooner or later, to account for a relationship no Pākehā politician is ever asked about”—a question framed by those who “have never had to explain their own cousins to a camera.” @mohanjdutt.bsky.social culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...

Give me four versions of you

Amazing photography with wonderful stories and explanations - Aotearoa NZ landscapes, wildlife and people 😍 Yes I'm a bit biased but just have a look if you want to put a smile on your face :)

The revenge response to every shooting or stone throwing incident in the West Bank since 1967 is to inflict 10 times the violence on Palestinian communities under the guise that they're all terrorists or existential threats to Israel. Homes bulldozed, land stolen, 60 years of death and desperation.

Excellent little piece from Joel Maxwell #nzpol

#MusicChallenge #ClocktoberMusic Day 24: 1974 and the dusty trail leads back to the John Wayne and Clint Eastwood cowboy era – and of course Bad Company 🎶Always on the run Destiny is the rising sun … bad company ‘til the day I die

Just when you think nothing could be worse than what you already know about trump criminality, Robert Reich shines a light on more. Look to the crop of right wing populist parties that are rising in every corner of the world and you can see the disease that this presidency has incubated.

#ClocktoberMusic #MusicChallenge 22. Big Country- Wonderland 'The fifty years of sweat and tears That never left a trace' youtu.be/hbsoJaknOmU?...

I was horrified to see in @bernardchickey.bsky.social's newsletter this morning that there are 107,000 voters missing from the #NZ electoral roll with three days left before enrolment closes 🤯 Please ask everyone you know / meet over the weekend if they've enrolled yet! #nzpol

#MusicChallenge #ClocktoberMusic Day 23: Back to 1979 and Mark Knopfler remembering Francis Chichester who sailed single-handed round the world on the clipper route completing fastest ever solo circumnavigation in 1967. His yacht Gipsy Moth is docked at Greenwich - the world prime meridian - GMT :)

The Taxpayers Union's immature anti Labour ads are really irritating and an unwanted interruption of a great cricket match. Apart from manipulated numbers, the AI generated slop is thoroughly unethical, childish, and confirms the government is relying on Dirty Work to hide its incompetence #nzpol

Shane Jones “I don’t know why I get into trouble for leading this debate. Yeah some of the language is hyperbolic but I’m a politician" So hyperbole now includes lies, divisive language, racially targeted mockery and conspiracy theories This is political madness & will seriously fuck up our future

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Dropping in today 🙏🫶 Day 22: A song that introduced you to an artist you now love I'll get by - The Lathums

#MusicChallenge #ClocktoberMusic Day 22: Back to 1980 when their first album rocked the world. This song about time is more of a warning than a question… Remember Tomorrow - Iron Maiden 🎶 Yesterday’s sorrows, Tomorrow’s white lies

#nzpol Time for the left to know its friends from its enemies Unlike Brown who has no background in Health, Verrall is an expert in pathology & molecular medicine. She critiqued Labour's pandemic response and led well as Minister for Food Safety; Research, Science & Innovation and Minister of Health

Please, please, please can we not have to listen to another 3 years of the sneery racism of Goldsmith, economic incompetence of Willis, word salad idiocy of Luxon, slimy accusations and lies of Brown... and all those other NactNZF ministers whose ideology & arrogance are poisoning AotearoaNZ #nzpol