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YouTube video by Nero Schwarz Music Black - Water on Snow

Really must hear this

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YouTube video by Coldplay Coldplay - Clocks (Official Video)

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Day 17: A song that feels claustrophobic

🎶 Confusion never stops
Closing walls and ticking clocks 🧱 🕒 ⏰️ 🙀

Appeal taken against High Court’s freshwater pollution decision The Environmental Law Initiative is challenging a judgment on Canterbury water pollution that landed three days before Christmas

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💯 cop out by farmers and Ecan who argue it's going to cost them $ and not benefit the environment.

They are responsible for causing and/or enabling this

Christchurch used to have clean safe drinking water. Now you have to treat the water as if you're visiting a poor 3rd world nation

Watching with foreboding from AotearoaNZ where we have a right wing proTrump coalition in power. They have done massive damage to our society, public health system, economy, race relations, democracy & reputation as a clean, green, egalitarian nation in the space of 2 years

Don't do it 🇬🇧 🙏

🇺🇦 💔

:) I'm still working at it 🎶

YouTube video by Sparky Love Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly

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Day 16: A song you disliked at first

Roberta Flack - Killing me softly

Nope we need a LNG terminal and storge facility while our power grid cant handle these yearly weather events.

We have the most stupid government in history.
Take a bow Mr. Luxon.
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A fire danger chart with a new level thats reads "this is what we've been warning you about for 4 decades yiu fucking idiots"

Truer now than when I downloaded it in 2023.

Sorry, i don't know who to credit, but they deserve lots of it.

💯 respect for Tā Kim (Sir Robert). He deserves to hang up his hat at 85... though I imagine his advice will continue to be sought

Kim Workman: My life in the criminal justice system | E-Tangata “My first response to going inside Kohitere was one of anger and disbelief… Anger that no one understood that the offenders of today were almost always the victims of yesterday.” — Tā Kim Workman refl...

In depth and measured article by Kim Workman KNZM QSO, drawn from more than 30 years of his leadership and involvement in criminal justice reform

Our prisons cause more harm | E-Tangata "Lots of people in our society are happy to have vast amounts spent on the mass imprisonment of our Indigenous population. It's an industry. And the industry relies on society thinking that this is th...

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"For the prime minister to say it’s a “good thing” that our prison population is now headed toward 11,000 is.. extremely uninformed. If he reads government reports [from] the last 4 decades they show.. prisons cause harm and don’t make communities safer"

Prison costs $400,000 pp/pa

Lighter paperwork, or better care? | E-Tangata “The trouble is, medicines sit inside real lives. And for many whānau, those lives include multiple conditions, inconsistent access to care, and long gaps between clinical reviews.” — Brandi Hudson.

“Equity in healthcare doesn’t mean treating everyone the same. It means recognising when people are carrying more medical, social, and economic burdens, and responding with more care, not less.” #nzpol e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...

There's been this hit job on the Green Party by ACT's NZCPR, claiming money was "stolen" from water infrastructure for cycleways.

In fact, their Council invested significantly, more than others over decades.

They put $2.7 billion to 3W in 2021 and 1.8% of that on cycleways #nzpol

Sending rays of sunshine and love on Valentines Day. Photo taken from Glastonbury Tor this morning at sunrise. #ValentinesDay #ValentinesDay2026

YouTube video by Father John Misty Father John Misty - Goodbye Mr Blue (Live from Seattle)

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Day 15: A song that makes you cry

Father John Misty - Goodbye Mr Blue

@Luxon
Please read this entire article for a basic understanding of Te Tiriti

"The rights protected by Article 2 are hardly limited to “making a contribution” to protecting the natural environment but instead provide real decision-making authority in all areas of public policy that affect Māori"

"Being" scammed by oil industry...?

Past tense more like.

And this:
"Resources Minister Shane Jones is undoing offshore oil and gas clean-up liability reforms implemented after the Tui oil field disaster in an effort to spark more investment in the sector."
newsroom.co.nz/2025/07/30/g...

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👏 🙌 😍 🎶

YouTube video by Stuart Adamson - In A Big Country: Tribute Channel Big Country - Fragile Thing (feat. Eddi Reader)

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Day 14: A song about missing someone 💕

Love is a small and fragile thing
I spend a lot of cold nights missing you
Keep it in your hands or let it take wing
I spend a lot of cold nights missing you

I could walk a thousand miles tonight
And never find my place

What's the shriveled little appendage holding the miniature vote poster?

Peter Thiel makes his biggest donation in years to help defeat California’s billionaire wealth tax | Fortune Peter Thiel and Gavin Newsom are united in opposition to the billionaire tax.

"Peter Thiel makes his biggest donation in years to help defeat California’s billionaire wealth tax"
fortune.com/2026/01/14/p...

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YouTube video by The Smiths The Smiths - How Soon Is Now? (Official Music Video)

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Day 13: A song with complex production

The Smiths - How soon is now

"Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters says the government is still waiting for advice from officials"...

This delay means AoNZ will have no input to shape the foundational rules being debated at the April UN meeting
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See quoted thread.
1. Repeal the Clean Car Discount scheme by December 31, 2023
3. Introduce legislation to remove the Auckland Fuel Tax.
4. Repeal Fair Pay Agreement legislation.
5. Stop "blanket speed limit reductions"
6. Stop central government work on the Auckland Light Rail project.
1/n
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"By capitalism we do not mean markets trade & entrepreneurship which have been around for thousands of years.By capitalism we mean..an economic system that's a dictatorship run by the tiny minority who control capital - the big banks, major corporations & 1% who own the majority of investible assets

YouTube video by AbbaVEVO ABBA - Knowing Me, Knowing You (Official Music Video)

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𝐀 𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐬
𝙆𝙣𝙤𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙈𝙚, 𝙆𝙣𝙤𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙔𝙤𝙪 : 𝐀𝐁𝐁𝐀
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