Ha, my partner's immediate response.... "what's new" 😇 haha

🧵Spotted at the Beach on New Year's Day in Aotearoa New Zealand: An entire huge family rushes en masse into a choppy sea. Shrieking, laughing, splashing, roaring. Half of them running straight back out again. Grins and goose bumps as they head for a big pile of towels and toys on the sand. (1)

#MusicChallenge #IsmuasMonthOfMusic Day 2: A song that aged beautifully Dock of the Bay

Is David Seymour still a fascist in 2026 you ask? Yes, an even more unashamedly embolden one. 🙄🤦‍♀️ #nzpol #OneTermGovernment

#MusicChallenge #IsmuasMonthOfMusic Day 1: A song that instantly puts you in a good mood

Now it's a transparent goal of the Israeli government to remove from Gaza any non-Palestinians who might witness the reality of the IDF's devastation of a nation and killing of civilians. Israeli justification is that everyone in Gaza is Hamas or has sympathy for them

2025 my #SongOfTheYear The haunting lyrics of Aua Atu Rā reflect on the connection all Māori have to their sacred home of Aotearoa and the sense of loneliness felt at not knowing their language 'Ko te reo Māori he matapihi ki Te Ao Māori' ... 'The Māori language is a window to the Māori world'

2025 - my #SongOfTheYear Controversial, but a huge song in style and its message - to men - 'that they have more in common with everyday women, than with men in power pushing capitalist patriarchy, upholding a system that isolates and betrays them, cutting them off from community and love.'

Time to ask the AoNZ public if they'd be willing to pay 1% more tax (or whatever is needed) to keep all our regional hospitals open, well equipped and adequately staffed...

#MusicChallenge #MusicThroughYears 31. 24-25 Wolf Alice - The Sofa (2025) Thank you for a very enjoyable challenge @euatbs.bsky.social So many great songs from everyone that I've added to my playlists 😀

#MusicChallenge #SoundtrackThis 30 Protest Harry Chapin - Last of the Protest Singers

#MusicChallenge #MusicThroughYears 30. 22-23 Suzi Quatro & KT Tunstall - Truth as my weapon (2023) 🎶 Truth is my weapon, it's the only one I've got Don't need no bullets, this is the gun without a shot

#MusicChallenge #MusicThroughYears 29. 20-21 Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Can't let go (2021)

Well said Stacy Gregg

#MusicChallenge #MusicThroughYears 28. 18-19 Black Pumas - Colors (2019)

Suck on that Minister Casey Costello #nzpol

Brave, principled and honest leadership 👏 🙌

3 years since going to our last gig. Excited 💕

#MusicChallenge #MusicThroughYears 27. 16-17 Andrew Bird - Roma Fade (2016)

Happy Holidays Bsky!

Excellent thread on a serious topic. Simply put, it's making the case for insulting people for what they do, not who they are - no matter where you stand in your emotional response to events.

Vision for Wellington members are OBSESSED with holding the city back and only investing when it suits their individual needs like saving minutes to the Koru lounge. Leaders must think about the needs of their community. More cycling, more waking and less congestion on the roads. #nzpol

#nzpol It's good to know that there is at least one constructive view on protecting Antarctica in this anti environment coalition... Excerpts from Bayly's speech below (Not that this changes any view of Bayly's behaviour in Marlborough last year) www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

#MusicChallenge #MusicThroughYears 26. 14-15 Conchita Wurst - Rise Like a Phoenix (2014)

#nzpol “Government has failed to get to grips with providing necessary funding & resourcing for our health system. In fact there seems to be a complete lack of any plan or vision for the health system in this country unless it’s seen as a move to try & move the whole system to private -Paul Goulter

A positive Christmas message from AotearoaNZ ❤️

Pohutukawa - New Zealand's xmas tree

#MusicChallenge #MusicThroughYears 25. 12-13 Note to children... Wake me up (Avicii- 2013) ... no earlier than 6am to open the presents 🎅 🎁 Christmas greetings to everyone on #MusicChallenge 💝🎉☺️

I’m not certain if there’s a big #nzpol community on here, but if there is: Last night I finally launched my web tool to track when this Parliament has gone into urgency, and which bills were affected by it. Takeaways: Urgency sessions: 19 Bills: 104 See the stats: nzpt.cjs.nz

#MusicChallenge #MusicThroughYears 24 .10-11 Gotye feat. Kimbra 🇳🇿 ... Somebody That I Used to Know (2011)

USA's descent into a centrally controlled state at the whim of an autocratic leader, with a sycophantic political party controlling media, military, judiciary & economy, is far more like my memories of the Soviet Union than the goto contrast with 1930s Germany, but I guess all demagogues are similar

How much would it have cost BP to pretend they're in AoNZ when they send out an email? The email itself is decorated with snowflakes - should have at least been pouring rain for today 🌧️

#MusicThroughYears #MusicChallenge 23. 2008-2009 Lily Allen – The Fear (2009)

#MusicChallenge #MusicThroughYears 23. 08-09 Chris Rea (2009)

RIP Chris Rea

Beautiful words by Justine and Nadia here, highly recommend reading it. thespinoff.co.nz/society/22-1...

#MusicChallenge #MusicThroughYears 22. 06-07 Rufus Wainwright- Slideshow (2007) My partner has a Playlist called Songs we both agree on. Of course this one is on it 😄🎶 😍

#MusicChallenge #MusicThroughYears 21. 04-05 Franz Ferdinand - The dark of the matinée (2004) 🎶 You take your white finger Slide the nail under the top and bottom buttons of my blazer Relax the fraying wool, slacken ties and I'm Not to look at you

And so it continues...

#MusicChallenge #MusicThroughYears 20. 02-03 Goodshirt - Sophie (2002) 🇳🇿 Gareth Thomas wrote this when 17 and was too shy to play it to her 🎶 She'll tug on my imagination I wait for an indication Systematic smiles with it She's just so sweet so fine So polite too Sophie I'd like to be for you

Is it too late to stop overseas owners and corporatisation of primary healthcare and transferring taxpayers' money to private equity firms rather than local GPs? How hard would it be for a Labour-led govt to nationalise such primary care practices without compensation? From NZDoctor Rata Aotearoa

Some, for reasons not discussed, are a lot more expensive ... #nzpol

#MusicChallenge #MusicThroughYears 19. 00-01 Cold Play - Yellow (2000) First heard this song sitting on the grass with 40 others at a side stage at V2000 ... CP before they were famous 😉 Also... could have posted any song off Ryan Adams - Gold album 😀

OceanaGold Mining gets #FastTrackNZ OK to mine conservation land behind Waihi for gold and silver. Rock powder’s mixed with water and cyanide, put in tanks and residual toxic sludge piped to a tailings pond. Locals have protested the mine’s envt impacts. #NZpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Larissa, Jaide ++ You elves rock... 😊 thank you for running #SecretSantaAoNZ matching us all up, prompting, coaxing and for always being there to cheer gifts sent, arrived and opened

Had me at the 1st quote "... main impediment to change is our system of capital accumulation with its commitment to material growth of economies... the evidence so obviously shows, creates both an escalating problem to solve and a whole set of interests continuously working to slow down solutions."

#MusicChallenge #MusicThroughYears 18. 98-99 Big Country - Fragile thing (1999) Me and partner (lifelong BC fan) driving on Isle of Skye when we hear Stuart Adamson being interviewed on Radio Skye just as this was released 😍 🎶