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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

More Disco Wizards! Here is a third version, also for free perusal and comment. Pic is for attention, and as previously comes from layering creative commons images - no AI involved! drive.google.com/file/d/1nWh_...

A kinda folk-art looking wizard levitates an assistant against an '80s disco grid backdrop

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This orange bagel is feeling very smug. His sister has been crate banished due to malfeasance so she is not out here stealing his toys and kicking him out of bed

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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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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 · 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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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Another clip from my wife's Chronic Illness Political Panel that she did as part of her podcast through @mpr.nz, with support from @lcsupportaotearoa.bsky.social - this one's talking to Todd Stephenson.

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The missus made me a present of a bunch of mystery paperbacks (wrapped in brown paper and numbered) a while ago. She doesn't know ow what they are, she was told they were scifi/fantasy and nothing more. This is #22, and it is... not sci-fi or fantasy!

The cover of John Le Carre's "The Russia House", somewhat sun-damaged at the spine.

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Swiped from Fb "memories" - a reminder of the days when people still did basic image manipulation for their shitposts

Art (presumably from a 40s "Men's magazine" showing a man fighting a tiger with his rifle butt. Superimposed on the image are speech bubbles reading "I'm telling you for the last time, I don't want any frosted flakes!" and the tiger's response "But they're grrreat!"

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Abandoned unopened #SeymoursSlop container spotted on the dog walk this morning. Dogs uninterested.

An abandoned unopened school lunch labeled "Rustic Cottage Pie" sitting in the overgrown grass of an empty section.

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Post something random or you’ll have an awful September

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

TTRPG people - is anyone keen to read/playtest a short (one-shot) game about Disco Wizards? It is both more serious and a dumber joke than that sounds like. Pic for attention, no AI - merely superimposing Creative Commons images over one another as God intended.

An avuncular wizard holding what may be a walky-talky or perhaps an old-style cellphone is superimposed on a scene of a forest festooned with disco balls.

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I've been cutting out clips from the Chronic Illness Political Panel that the missus did in association with @lcsupportaotearoa.bsky.social. Here's one where she asked Ingrid Leary about decoupling disabled people's welfare from their partners' income.

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Stolen from Fb. I understand that the person who made it is shitposting and did not think about this at all BUT in precisely what way is Bob Marley the midpoint between Bob Dylan and Bob Weir?

Text reads "Bob is a spectrum", underneath is a double pointed arrow indicating the spectrum with Bob Dylan on the right, Bob Weir on the left, and Bob Marley in the middle.

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It is, as they say, Bandcamp Friday. If you were contemplating a music purchase (for example from wolfboy.bandcamp.com) then now would be the time!

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

New podcast! In light of the sad passing of National Treasure Sam Neill, the only appropriate response is to talk about what is possibly his weirdest role in "Possession" (1981). The wonderful @liz-shrikestudio.bsky.social and @eerieseymour.bsky.social join me to discuss the horrible worm (divorce)!

A still from the 1981 movie "Possession" showing Sam Neill holding Isabelle Adjani's face in a way that is deeply uncomfortable while she cries. The text superimposed on it reads "Reserved Recommendations #93 "Possession" (1981) with Elizabeth Little and Errol Seymour"

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Phone wasn't really up to it but I wanted to capture how intensely late 90s Mellon Collie duvet cover the moon looked this morning. And then the sunrise.

A poor cellphone camera photo of the street and the moon showing how 90s duvet cover everything looked this morning. Deep dark blue sky and deep yellow moon. Mellon Colliee hours.

Meanwhile a very a e s t h e t i c sunrise from the opposite direction.

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Specifically in the context of the "missed connection" framing in Tekken 3.

Jin and Hwoarang from the Tekken series. Hwoarang is leaning on Jin's shoulder and Jin is looking at the camera like he's pissed off to be photographed.

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

New podcast! This episode I talk to the amazing Whaitiri Tua-Warbrick (@maoribytheriver on Insta) about his one of his favourite movies, 2004's 6-Hanks outing "The Polar Express" a movie which I describe as the result of attempting to describe Studio Ghibli to a space alien.

A still from "The Polar Express" (2004) showing the eponymous train from an incongruously-menacing hero angle. Superimposed on the image is the text "Reserved Recommendations #92 "The Polar Express" (2004) with Whaitiri Tua-Warbrick.

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

So the New Conservatives are attempting a comeback on a platform of "do you think Winston is being a bit too woke?" That's fun. #nzpol

A New Conservatives ad from Facebook showing a bearded long-haired person in a "my pronouns are THEY THEM" shirt, clearly intended to be a figure of horror.

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

With the sad passing of Sam Neill, anyone feel like talking to me about "Possession" for an hour or so?

A still from the movie "Possession" (1981) showing Mark (Sam Neill) attempting to talk to his wife Anna (Isabelle Adjani) who is wild-eyed and dribbling blood from the mouth.

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

One of the least comfortable-looking bridges ever committed to film in Dark Star (1974).

The crew on the incredibly cramped and grody-looking bridge in the movie Dark Star (1974)

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Once again I may have gotten a little carried away... #VCVRack #synthsky

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I dunno about *favourite* favourite but I love Victor G. Ambrus, and feel like he's kind of underappreciated. Incredible range from epic to goofy, and gorgeous colours.

The cover of a Dracula omnibus by Victor G. Ambrus, featuring his shabby, corpulent, cartoony take on the Count.

A more realistic fairytale illustration showing a caped man standing with his hand on the head of a kneeling teenage girl.

The cover of "A Country Wedding" by Victor G. Ambrus showing an anthromorphic fox and wolf dressed in rustic clothing. The wolf has a thistle in his paw, and the fox is carrying what looks like a bottle of fizzy wine.

An illustration from the life of King Arthur, showing Merlin talking to the young Arthur by Victor G. Ambrus.

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

"Phenomena" featuring a pre-Labyrinth Jennifer Connelly.

An ethereal-looking Jennifer Connelly (probably 13 or 14) in Dario Argento's "Phenomena", a movie where she can talk to bugs.

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

New podcast tonight! I talk to the wonderful @liz-shrikestudio.bsky.social about Saul Bass's directorial debut, and only solo directorial outing, the slow, cerebral, and very odd "Phase IV" (1974). 100% YELLOW. Listen here: tinyurl.com/res-rec-91-p...

A still from the movie Phase IV (1974) showing two scientists looking at enormous columnar structures made by hyperintelligent ants. Overlaid on the image is text which reads: "Reserved Recommendations #91: Phase IV (1974) with Elizabeth Little".

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Some people tell me that I need help Some people can fuck off and go to hell God damn why they criticise me now my shit is on the rise And my family despise me Fuck 'em! And feed 'em, cause I don't need 'em I won't join 'em if I can beat 'em

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I used to do things, and I'd say things, and Jesus I was evil Fake things and break things and Jesus I was evil I never shook babies I never beat no laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaadies

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Chris Luxon thinking about a poor person enjoying themselves

A comic panel showing the Emperor Valentinian sock with envy at the glory of one of his generals.

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Let the dogs out before going on missions and this guy decided sunbeam > peeing

Monty the cavador sits in the sun on our front deck.

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

It's my wife and my birthday (ish - we generally celebrate around King's Birthday because long weekend) and youngest kid made us these. They've got badge backing to be worn as brooches and she's hand painted them in nail polish on sculpy-type clay and then finished them with clear nail polish.

Two badges in the shape of humans faces, a man and woman.

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

At the Red Cross Book Sale, I may have found the single most 90s Christian artifact

A copy of the Bible called "Extreme Faith". The word "Extreme" is in a very 90s MS Publisher type font and the cover has photos of people rollerblading, rock climbing, and skydiving while holding a copy of the Bible.

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Random robot Sonic on the pavement.

A robot Sonic minifig, missing an arm, propped on a white-painted and mossy concrete fence post

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Pick a Bond from photos you already have saved on your phone

A stark black and white image of Jerry Cornelius. Jerry has been resurrected with black skin and white hair. He is wearing a ruffled shirt, flares, a mid-calf jacket and a wide-brimmed Hendrix-type hat. He has a guitar slung over his shoulder, and is doing a kind of finger-guns/benediction with one hand while the other holds the human bone he is gnawing on.

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

New podcast ep! I talked to @ladyhorrors.bsky.social about the ur-cult classic - Russ Meyer's pervy-yet-weirdly-empowering "Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!" from 1965. Listen to us chat about (among other things) whether this movie is "garbage wuxia" or "lady kaiju" at the link: bit.ly/res_rec-90-f...

A still image from "Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!" showing Varla (Tura Satana) in the process of murdering the shit out of a guy. Superimposed over the image is text that reads "Reserved Recommendations #90 'Faster pussycat, Kill! Kill!' with Erin Harrington"

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Basic perhaps but my first love's always going to be Smaug, 'cos I got The Hobbit as a bedtime story very young. I love a dragon who talks, and I love Smaug's characterisation as cunning (but not as smart as he thinks he is) and hopelessly vain.

Smaug the Magnificent from the 50th anniversary edition of "The Hobbit" with painted illustrations by Michael Hague. Smaug is spread out on his treasure pile, and in the bottom right of the image you can make out Bilbo's shadow (he's wearing the Ring so he's invisible) on a wall.

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

You're thinking of Manos AI, Manus AI is this guy

Manus, Father of the Abyss from Dark Souls

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Someone has laid claim to the new bean bag

Monty the cavador looks up with typical labradorian guilt face from the bean bag he has claimed.

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

New World Pioneer got that Cruel Angels Gateau

A chocolate gateau in the signature green and purple Eva-01 colours for 45 nz dollars

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Assisting with Workers Memorial Day for @mpr.nz. Day for it!

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Here's a snippet of a thing I'm tinkering with for a sort of live presentation/performance dealie next month. Presented as a video largely so I could test out how VCVRack talks to OBS.

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Area sex pest rebrands as apocalypse preacher, what fun.

A Facebook ad from failed Palmerston North mayoral candidate, donut salesman, and convicted sex criminal Maruna Engu rebranding him as an End Times Consultant

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Just spotted this on Fb. I don't think voting for TOP is necessarily a good idea but they do appear to be eating Labour's lunch on this one.

An ad from The Opportunities Party with Winston Peters on the left with the legend "Let's talk about what's in people's pants" and on the right a young woman (presumably a TOP candidate?) with the legend "Let's talk about affordable, secure energy"

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