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#MusicChallenge #IsmuasMonthOfMusic Day 15: A song that deserves a rock interpretation. Donna Summer – I feel love Although that would be altering perfection It would have to have and Ian Gillan-type voice (or or maybe Muse, give what they did with “feeling good” h/t @ita99.bsky.social)

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Donna Summer - I Feel Love (Original 4K Video)

YouTube video by MusicClub80s

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 16h

Thanks 😊🎶🎷🫶

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 23h

I prefer to call it the Siphon economy.

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 23h

🫶🎶 who would have thought that song could be interpreted this way.

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Pretty sure it's straight out of the HNZ Health Targets data release. There's heaps or resources there to compare and make charts. I use it my work for FSA/Electives. And no,, it doesn't take into account the reasons for change e.g. tightening referrals criteria to meet targets.

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Health targets performance resources: 2025/26

Our health target performance results and resources for the 2025/26 year.

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Practised impromptu on one of those talk shows :-)

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I'm trying to imagine it, and can't - but he's a very clever person, so who knows? :-) 🤷‍♀️

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

#MusicChallenge #IsmuasMonthOfMusic Day 14: A song that deserves a jazz interpretation Paul Weller uses jazz in The Style Council, so I wonder what he could do with - The Jam - Down In The Tube Station At Midnight

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The Jam - Down In The Tube Station At Midnight

YouTube video by TheJamVEVO

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

#MusicChallenge #ClocktoberMusic 14 Balu Brigada – Bedhead 🎶It's a dogfight beneath a strobe light And I'll be awake until the morning The band from Mairangi Bay singing about "trading sleep for a dream".

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Balu Brigada - BedHead (Official Video)

YouTube video by Balu Brigada

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Looks like it's the ED one here? static.info.content.health.nz/docs/publica...

static.info.content.health.nz

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

And none of the commenters even noted it. I had forgotten how representation in this way is actually quite important to me. Back in the day, that was the reason to vote Labour - they understood the people they represented, because they were them. No party is now.

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

#nzpol #leadersdebate None of the leaders of the minor parties have not been able to find a job and have had to rely on the state I assume it's the same for leaders of the major parties No wonder I don't ever feel politicians these days speak for me (or others who grew up in the world I did)

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

oh, that set my blood pressure rising

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I don't know who I'd want to miss out more - Goldsmith or Seymour, what a choice 🤮

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

If no-one printed it, but wrote, e.g. 'and used a misogynistic descriptions', all the better. We do need to know how people like Henry continue to operate.

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Maggie Thatcher's birthday? Song for the day The Style Council - The Lodgers (she was only a shopkeeper's daughter) 🎶There's only room for those the same Those who play the leeches game Don't get settled in this place The lodger's terms are in disgra

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The Style Council - The Lodgers

YouTube video by TheStyleCouncilVEVO

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Interesting, #nzpol No cup of tea with Seymour this election? "On the campaign trail in Auckland's Newmarket today Luxon urged voters in Auckland's Epsom electorate to "party vote National" and said "no strategic voting" was needed there."

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Election blog Tues 13 Oct

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Nice one, Len #nzpol “I can’t believe that we’ve got political parties that don’t think we should change the tax system in the slightest.” ... “I may not be around for the next couple, but they’re the sort of things that, to me, make this election really very, very crucial.”

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For a former govt statistician, this election counts more than ever

Len Cook has been a vocal critic of coalition plans to overhaul the census, but says a $20k donation to Labour has more basic motivations

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

My sister just wrote them an email saying, ever so nicely, that Sinead is not doing what she said she would. We're looking forward to the response.

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

So Stuff: - has an editor who'd like to clean-up content - journalists at the receiving end of sex-based slurs (memorably, including the author of this article) And yet, word for word, details Henry's misogynist thoughts. Get in the bin, Stuff - pity I can't cancel my account in protest again.

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Controversial at the time for sure, but it's a great song.

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

#MusicChallenge #ClocktoberMusic 13 Weyes Blood – Wild Time 🎶It’s a wild time To be alive Turn around it’s time for you To slowly let these Changes make you

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Weyes Blood - Wild Time (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Weyes Blood

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

#MusicChallenge #IsmuasMonthOfMusic Day 13: A song with a memorable spoken-word section. Falco – Jeanny “Wo ist dein Schuh” and you know it’s all shudderingly awful for her from there on.

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Falco - Jeanny (Video)

YouTube video by FalcoVEVO

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Hayden Donnell @haydendonnell.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"I'd really like to be recognised for my journalism outside of New Zealand" *monkey's paw curls*

John Oliver quoting me on Kiwibank's sexy green-haired sheep Buck

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

So the person who said "Smokers are fiscal heroes – if you want to save your country’s balance sheet, light up," also doesn't understand other health impacts - on people and on health costs. Who would have guessed

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EXC: New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister Says Starmer's Rolling Smoking Ban is 'Evil'

At the Adam Smith Institute's 'Enlightenment Evening' event last night New Zealand's deputy prime minister attacked the UK government's generational

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Says one of the men who has been in charge for the last 3 years.

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Sorry, I'll explain. We currently react to inflation by reducing the disposable income of spenders so that demand falls and unemployment goes up. We use a bufferstock of unemployed people to keep workers desperate, so wages are suppressed and we don't get a feedback loop (wage 🔄 prices) [🧵 1/n]

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locus @locuslebe.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A report by RS Te Apārangi (AoNZ science & technology experts) shows international evidence that R&D investment is vital for productivity. Countries with high investment in R&D as a % of GDP have higher and faster productivity growth. NZ is reducing its investment which is now a third less than OECD

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 12: A song with a melody that emphasizes chord tones The Shins - Phantom Limb 'The vocal melody frequently outlines these chord tones like like A, D, Bm, G, E, and F#m, rather than relying heavily on non-chord tones or passing notes.'

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The Shins - Phantom Limb [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

YouTube video by Sub Pop

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

#MusicChallenge #ClocktoberMusic 12 The Milk Carton Kids - All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn’t Do 🎶It's four in the morning I'm telling this story …

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The Milk Carton Kids - "All The Things..." (Full Album Stream)

YouTube video by ANTI- Records

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I'm pleased a questioner studied to the very end :-) as you say, there is so much more than classical economic theory. E.g. we had a lecturer who, when asked about Pinochet/Chile, said his job was teaching economic theory, not the morality of it.

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

So much this. For me, an adult student from the poorer side of town, it was obvious to me that the world didn't work like that. The younger ones in the class who did econ at school, told me they learned the exact same thing there, so I guess in was more entrenched for them.

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This, and the 'rational man' assumption, is exactly what put me off continuing with ECON201. Hate that its still being taught that way.

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Why would anyone now believe his growth promises this time? Because a 'better economy' is just around the corner, they tell us (look how well the super rich, CEOs and consultants are doing), and no-one asking when the 'trickle down' is gonna magically appear.

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

True - even if it's worse than useless for solving the problem they're creating - they have to send a message, as they call damaging punishment.

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