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I read that while watching cricket and immediately though this was about Brendan McCullum coaching Joffrey Archer.

Now I have to go find out about the real Macca's Big Arch 😂.

Credit where credit is due.

Even to the guy who reckons smokers deserve a medal for taking one for the team and dying before reaching superannuation age.

I don't think Simeon Brown quite realises that it's the job of the Director General of Health to prioritise, ummm, health. And as Minister of Health, he should too.

I only managed 4km jog, then 4km walk back. I may be walking with you :-( :-)

Couldn't agree more.

He's certainly achieved that :-)

The live video of this song is excellent as well.

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31 Free Choice

Many thanks ‪@66marck.bsky.social‬ for hosting an enjoyable and interesting challenge

A new international - Here Comes the High Life

🎶Destination border line

As ever, we took the scenic route but we finally made it to the beach - Biff

Whilst a lot of what Bill Gates wrote in his memo makes a certain amount of sense, his main point that short term emissions reduction is not the priority is based on flawed and out of date data.

I’ve scribbled on his graph below to add a very important line - reality.
#climatechange #acceleration

The Fitz - memories
1st pub as a adult
A guy wrote out Tennyson's 'The Eagle' for me

He clasps the crag with crooked hands
Close to the sun in lonely lands
Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls
He watches from his mountain walls
And like a thunderbolt he falls

And the cables are too short.

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30 Europe: City

Wanda - Bologna

🎶Wenn jemand fragt wohin du gehst
Sag nach Bologna
Uh wenn jemand fragt wofür du stehst
Sag für Amore, Amore

You're cheating ;-)

Wellington waterfront sunny day

Mōrena

Brings a smile.

Congratulations - wonderful! 🥂 I don't think many here are surprised though, your work is gorgeous.

Day 29 - United

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Brotherhood of Man - United We Stand

Frome an era of grand themes of peace, love, and togetherness.

I have no idea about how any of this stacks up, but I'm interested because it's a non-fossil fuel alternative to meeting the need for reliable green energy.

Lake Onslow? A green case against

"Talking of which, the Wind, solar, storage and back-up system designer for 100% renewable energy grids produced this table of alternative grid configurations when I plugged in some of the numbers from “Exhibit 29” and it looks like Row H is best for New Zealand."

Chris Slane’s Cartoon of the Week Chris Slane shares his perspective of the week in politics.

My #nzpol cartoon for The Listener #megastrike www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener...

Everyone is entitled to a bit of primary health care that we all pay taxes for? What's he on about? It's simply an acknowledgement of fact.

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28 Croatia
Greg Johnson - Isabelle

🎶
So tell me a story
Spell it out, I can't hear
Why you wear black in the morning?
Why there's smoke in the air?

Isabelle, well she comes from Zagreb...

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Her reforms, either having passed or before the House at present, include the following: Repealing Fair Pay Agreements that would have set minimum employment standards across low-paid industries; Setting new definitions of a contractor; Removing a requirement that a new employee’s terms and conditions reflect the terms of the collective agreement for the first 30 days; Preventing employees from lodging a personal grievance if they earn more than $180,000; Removing eligibility for reinstatement or compensation if an employee contributed to the situation that led to the personal grievance; Allowing all businesses, rather than just small ones, to have 90-day trial periods for new employees; Reinstating the ability for employers to deduct wages from workers on partial strike, which they could not previously do without suspending the worker or issuing a lock-out notice. One of her recent announcements included a proposed resolution of the Holidays Act fiasco in which employer groups, including the work regulator the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, have been miscalculating holiday pay. It seems to have been met with less resistance than many of her other reforms. But perhaps the biggest piece of contentious policy reform is yet to come. That involves foreshadowed changes to the Health and Safety Act 2015, which was passed with bipartisan support after the Pike River disaster. The CTU has been scathing about what it has seen so far, although a bill has yet to be introduced, and says plans for change are based on ideology, not evidence. Van Velden’s plan for reform of health and safety law and regulation was inked into the Act-National coalition agreement, so she was committed to change, no matter what.

Kind of the Herald to include a list of what she's fucked up (which is why we don't like her) & tell us what's next

"Van Velden’s plan for reform of health and safety law and regulation was inked into the Act-National coalition agreement, so she was committed to change, no matter what." #nzpol
1/2

cheeping, fledgling blackbird perched on the edge of a wooden deck.

Our 3, nestled in reeds against a bathroom window, left the nest yesterday. Now we watch them, like loving grandparents, following mama or papa and learning to fly 😍

3/3 I used to wonder, before I grew up, what was the difference between these 2 intertwined families. We made it through (not without issues), and our sisters in all but name didn't - prison, alcoholism, drugs and death.

But it is obvious. They were taken away by the state. Dad kept us

We knew.

2/3 (not that we didn't experience some of these in our dysfunctional homes).

We visited them, found the stories were true, and worse than we'd imagined.

Meanwhile if the social workers visited us, dad told us 'make yourself scarce' while he convinced them he was coping.

1/3 We knew in the 70s. Us and the neighbouring kids - 11 kids all up. The families broke up. One parent from each gone, kids running wild. Police were called. We'd heard the warnings of going to state care - that they do things, bad things

Also can't afford social housing, but can afford to write-off money already spent on land, planning and consents for them, and afford the negative social impacts of one of the largest percentages of unhoused people in the so-called developed world.

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