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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Once again, the joy of seeing a screaming quote-dunk/rage applied to someone you've already nuke-blocked.

Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Setting up a Rodecaster for use by teens at an expo tomorrow. Put the Roblox oof on a hot key. I may live to regret this.

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Manawatū People's Radio @mpr.nz · 24/09/2026

This week, @objectivereality.bsky.social has tunes for you from Gareth Thomas, Rebecca Black, Sylvan Esso, and This is Lorelei as well as new local music from Laluna! Listen here: tinyurl.com/featured-tra..., and get past eps at mpr.nz/show/feature...!

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eigenfacenz.bsky.social @eigenfacenz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Shout out to Hugh from @mpr.nz for featuring our new track, Twizel. Hugh says "I have been really impressed with the singles sent to me by Eigenface...this is no exception...I would thoroughly recommend that you check out the album when it drops" ❤ ❤ ❤ tinyurl.com/featured-tra...

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11-09-2026 - Mel Parsons, Reb Fountain, Jack Page, Hannah Everingham, Eigenface

A quasi-weekly podcast comprised of all Hugh's featured tracks for the past week. This week: Mel Parsons "The Rain", Reb Fountain "Water for Gasoline", Jack Page "Summertime", Hannah Everingham "Big Surprise", and Eigenface "Twizel". Produced by Manawatū People's Radio with support from NZ On Air

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nicky Hager book is unusual because its main thesis seems to be "they are just doing all this bad faith money-for-racism stuff in plain sight and the media don't seem to perceive it as bad" Media: "Hmm this Hager book has no revelations in it, we knew all this already, oh well carry on as normal"

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The media when the right smear Green MPs: anonymous sources have raised serious questions that must be addressed and they should resign The media when Nicky Hager writes a book using sources from inside the TPU: obviously these anonymous sources mean we should dismiss this immediately

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Biffo, from an age before step-brothers

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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tenderly will I use you curling grass,

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Incredible Facebook slop ad I just got

Horse pin with an illustration of a horse and the following text:
"Give a man a horse he'll eat in a day, teach a man to horse. and make him drinks water."

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today in #whattheFacebookisgoingon, this is apparently an "ad". God only knows what for. (CW for mention if not description of domestic violence)

A screenshot of a Facebook post, categorised as an "ad" (so presumably someone paid for me to see this?) Text reads:
The shower.
Reluctantly I awake, my sightless eyes stuck shut with caked on sleep.After a moment or two my eyelids manage to overcome this glue.The room is a darkened void, a capsule, set apart from the normal parameters of time, day and date.My mind is slow to thaw, in this twilight zone coherent thought does not flow.
Memory floats between day and night.Rising for a peek through the curtains and rewarded with the burning light and heat of the noon sun.An involuntary wince at the outside world.
Free at the end of another four shift block.My stiffened limbs get me into the bathroom and salvation.Not the answer to all life,s problems but a decent start.Soon hot water starts to relieve the staleness, so much I'd rather not relive.The scent of shower gel and shampoo seems almost alien set against the dim memories of last night's shift.I emerge outwardly clensed but inwardly burnt.The next stage greet my dogs and get a brew on.
The hardest part is now to follow. My two dogs snuggle up on the couch.Although part of me doesn't want to, I need to analyze, to revisit, to make sense and logic where there was little or none to be found.The usual pattern, the usual emotions, in the face of ignorance, indifference and occasionally annoyance.Arrogance and entitlement bring about a reliance on protocols and rules.Hardest of all to deal with ? the cold eyes of an assaulted woman, seriously beaten by a drunken partner - two of them to deal with.
Him a waste of skin, threatening, belligerent and full of his own shit. Her, the polar opposite, subdued, shattered and hollow eyed.Somewhat unnervingly she seems to be able to see right into my soul, to see I have nothing to give her to mend her broken situation.Another night, another ride on your emotions.Almost at the end and the hardest test, a cot death or for us a neonatal cardiac arrest.Thought and emotion suspended …

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Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Live your life in such a way that you don't lose sleep over Nicky Hager releasing a new book 😇

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Kelly Whyte @kellywhyte.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Picked up a bunch of new followers recently, in case you don't know I've got a #ttrpg on Kickstarter at the moment! Sage Council is a comedic game about being city councilors in a D&D-style fantasy town. And like in D&D, your goal is to get gold by any means. Check it out, try the quickstart!

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Sage Council

A card-based roleplaying game of local politics and city councils.

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c3rmen @c3rmen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Losing my mind while doing some research for my creature design lecture that the closest relative to the maned wolf is the bush dog. Like there has gotta be a fable where the maned wolf took all the leggie from its cousin

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

my favourite minor NZ historical figure is Jimmy the Needle. He's just a random boatman who keeps showing up in South Island historical accounts like a cryptid. He's very tall and slim and everybody seems to know and like him. I have read multiple accounts of him assisting births.

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Love the date on this one.

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Second Impact was in the year 2000 and the whole orange goo situation happened in 2015...

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Fun fact, the horrible bear in this movie has a name! It was animated by the same people who were doing the CGI for Paddington, and since Paddington is named after a nice train station they named the horrible bear "Homerton" after a bad one.

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Natalie Portman as Lena Enters The Shimmer

ALT: Natalie Portman as Lena Enters The Shimmer

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.

Screenshot for a Defector podcast episode with the headline "Consider the Emotional Lives of Scallops" only the accompanying photo is a white gormless stubbled red-headed UK singer of recent notoriety giving a flat smile to the camera while wearing a washed out peach top as beige as he is against a flat background. So, actually, probably a scallop anyway.

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Nicole Kidman in the first Paddington. Paddington does not need a lethal villain (if he needs a villain at all!) Peter Capaldi as Mr Curry should have been sufficient.

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Manawatū People's Radio @mpr.nz · 16/09/2026

Tonight a big part of our content creator community came together to discuss new ideas and chat at the MPR Content Creators Hui. Tea was sipped, tips and tricks shared, schemes were revealed!

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Turns out by having good policy you can make things happen, by setting the political agenda.

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Manawatū People's Radio @mpr.nz · 15/09/2026

This morning on the Morning Show, @objectivereality.bsky.social caught up with Mike Moroney from Skin & Bone, who are coming to the Globe Theatre on the 2nd of October! Listen here: tinyurl.com/morning-show..., and get more from the Morning Show at mpr.nz/show/morning...

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026

The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I genuinely feel like you could frame almost any moment from "A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night" and stick it on your wall.

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hey, NZ people who have teens, can you help me do a little anthropology? We're doing a thing at work where we want a wall of hot takes that will spur debate among teens (the pitch is "come do a 10 minute podcast where you argue the case with your friends"). What are the live debates among the teens?

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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Back of the A3 butter paper estimate means the CRL on Day 1 was already matching the maximum capacity the motorway network can offer in people per hour into the City Centre. And the CRL patronage will only grow. The motorway network will not

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

At the playground for the first time since it's been remodeled (kids are teens, less appetite for it). They've put in these giant xylophone things for kids to play and I thought I should inform @andrewhickey.500songs.com that they're all tuned to "Shortnin' Bread".

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

And damn me, Ahab, but thou actest right; live in the game, and die in it!

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

New podcast! Solo minisode where I attempt to work out why the hell my Facebook feed is inundated with enough low-stakes beef between micro-influencers that ones of them just ended up in court. tinyurl.com/res-rec-94

Some bullshit with a robot brain and a bottle of poison that I put together on Canva by layering images. On top is text which reads "Reserved Recommendations #94: What the @#$@ is happening on Facebook?"

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Te wookie o te tāngata @chewienz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

what a wonderful night to get arrested. Paul henry is in fact, not up to a debate. Dunedin police on a hair trigger, and very keen to escalate over next to nothing

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Harry Holland was the 2nd leader of the Labour Party in New Zealand, and died unexpectedly while attending the funeral of the Maori King Te Rata Mahuta in 1933. His monument in Wellington Cemetery reads "He devoted his life to free the world from unhappiness, tyranny and oppression" 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

A cemetery monument depicting a nude figure stood, looking up, with smaller figures below them looking up at them

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 10/09/2026

This is something that Jacques Lacan noticed, and unlike a lot of Lacan, it's actually politically useful: he called it the "hysteric's discourse", and it is precisely how the sect-Left relate to mass politics. You make demands for the sake of making demands. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-mass-par...

"Topping from the bottom" thus refers to a situation in which one party, despite being in a nominally subordinate position, insists on dictating the exact course of the encounter. It becomes dysfunctional when they nevertheless refuse to take responsibility for the power they have in fact demanded. They wish to both lead and be led and in exchange achieve neither.

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Just went and checked and there are too many good movies from 1998, so let me remind you of something that also happened that year: the shot-for-shot "Psycho" remake...

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