Hugh Dingwall
@objectivereality.bsky.social
He/him. Muso, soundie, general nerd. Based in Palmerston North NZ.
Podcast "Reserved Recommendations" at www.mpr.nz/show/reserved
Games I wrote at objectivereality.itch.io
Music at wolfboy.bandcamp.com
Podcast "Reserved Recommendations" at www.mpr.nz/show/reserved
Games I wrote at objectivereality.itch.io
Music at wolfboy.bandcamp.com
Local library just shut one of its floors because the temp got so high. Good thing climate change is fake or I'd worry.
February 13, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Local library just shut one of its floors because the temp got so high. Good thing climate change is fake or I'd worry.
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Boom! My latest album 'Darren Watson sings John Hiatt' just got a 4 star review in the March edition of US Jazz/Blues magazine, Downbeat.
Thanks to everyone around the world who supports what I do, buying and playing my music, and coming to shows.
I'm not done just yet!
#darrenwatson
#nzmusic
Thanks to everyone around the world who supports what I do, buying and playing my music, and coming to shows.
I'm not done just yet!
#darrenwatson
#nzmusic
February 13, 2026 at 12:29 AM
Boom! My latest album 'Darren Watson sings John Hiatt' just got a 4 star review in the March edition of US Jazz/Blues magazine, Downbeat.
Thanks to everyone around the world who supports what I do, buying and playing my music, and coming to shows.
I'm not done just yet!
#darrenwatson
#nzmusic
Thanks to everyone around the world who supports what I do, buying and playing my music, and coming to shows.
I'm not done just yet!
#darrenwatson
#nzmusic
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NZers (specifically Auckland): What are the options for a 16YO who is adamant they are running away from home?
I don't know this world at all. Youth shelters? Can they offer a same-day intake?
I'm Googling my butt off, but if you have firsthand knowledge please reply or DM me.
I don't know this world at all. Youth shelters? Can they offer a same-day intake?
I'm Googling my butt off, but if you have firsthand knowledge please reply or DM me.
February 12, 2026 at 8:59 AM
NZers (specifically Auckland): What are the options for a 16YO who is adamant they are running away from home?
I don't know this world at all. Youth shelters? Can they offer a same-day intake?
I'm Googling my butt off, but if you have firsthand knowledge please reply or DM me.
I don't know this world at all. Youth shelters? Can they offer a same-day intake?
I'm Googling my butt off, but if you have firsthand knowledge please reply or DM me.
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Green MP Teanau Tuiono said it was "the opposite of virtue signalling".
"I'm going to call it toxic signalling to their base... that's going to bring out a particular contingent of people that think that way… It's anti-Māori, it's racist and in many ways pathetic."
"I'm going to call it toxic signalling to their base... that's going to bring out a particular contingent of people that think that way… It's anti-Māori, it's racist and in many ways pathetic."
Opposition finds change to school lunch scheme's name hard to swallow
A free school lunches programme rebrand has dropped the reo Māori name Ka Ora Ka Ako, a move David Seymour says is "delivering real value".
www.rnz.co.nz
February 12, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Green MP Teanau Tuiono said it was "the opposite of virtue signalling".
"I'm going to call it toxic signalling to their base... that's going to bring out a particular contingent of people that think that way… It's anti-Māori, it's racist and in many ways pathetic."
"I'm going to call it toxic signalling to their base... that's going to bring out a particular contingent of people that think that way… It's anti-Māori, it's racist and in many ways pathetic."
When the missus took a job in a place that will remain nameless, she went to edit a Publisher file for an annual event invite. To her surprise, she couldn't edit the date for the event because the number was an *image*. 1/2
what is the most unhinged way you’ve ever seen someone misuse technology?
I worked with someone who would mark their monitor with a dry erase marker to check off todos on a document
I worked with someone who would mark their monitor with a dry erase marker to check off todos on a document
February 12, 2026 at 10:49 PM
When the missus took a job in a place that will remain nameless, she went to edit a Publisher file for an annual event invite. To her surprise, she couldn't edit the date for the event because the number was an *image*. 1/2
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Alt text: a graph showing a massive spike in anti-trans articles per 30 days.
The x axis starts in 2012, most of the spike is just in the last decade
The spike really starts to kick in around 2017 or so, corresponding almost *perfectly* with powerful sexual predators feeling threatened by MeToo.
The x axis starts in 2012, most of the spike is just in the last decade
The spike really starts to kick in around 2017 or so, corresponding almost *perfectly* with powerful sexual predators feeling threatened by MeToo.
a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500
February 12, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Alt text: a graph showing a massive spike in anti-trans articles per 30 days.
The x axis starts in 2012, most of the spike is just in the last decade
The spike really starts to kick in around 2017 or so, corresponding almost *perfectly* with powerful sexual predators feeling threatened by MeToo.
The x axis starts in 2012, most of the spike is just in the last decade
The spike really starts to kick in around 2017 or so, corresponding almost *perfectly* with powerful sexual predators feeling threatened by MeToo.
He can't define "white culture" for the same reason "western chauvinists" can't define "the west" - it's a fake idea that doesn't exist.
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
February 12, 2026 at 9:38 PM
He can't define "white culture" for the same reason "western chauvinists" can't define "the west" - it's a fake idea that doesn't exist.
New tunes for your ears and brain
Another shorter episode of Featured Tracks this week, but @objectivereality.bsky.social still had time for Kiwi tunes from TiGER, Emerson, and Sophia Brown as well as new music from Austin electronic act @synapticmisfire.bsky.social
Listen here: bit.ly/featured-tra...
Listen here: bit.ly/featured-tra...
Hugh's Featured Tracks 13-02-2026
A quasi-weekly podcast comprised of all Hugh's featured tracks for the past week.
This week: TiGER - Chameleon, Emerson - Again, Sophia Brown - Hate To Know Me, synaptic collapse - twinkle
player.accessmedia.nz
February 12, 2026 at 8:17 PM
New tunes for your ears and brain
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Vince Guaraldi in 1967. This is what greets you when you land on his Wikipedia page, and it's a photograph that I'm going to return to frequently, in order that I may stare at in awe.
February 12, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Vince Guaraldi in 1967. This is what greets you when you land on his Wikipedia page, and it's a photograph that I'm going to return to frequently, in order that I may stare at in awe.
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The next stretch goal is @fromthemorgue.bsky.social, who will be looking into the comics scene of Doskvol in '68. Very excited for it.
morgue is a pillar of the #kiwirpg community, an amazing game designer, AND the designer of a|state (amongst many other things) from which large parts of B68 come!
morgue is a pillar of the #kiwirpg community, an amazing game designer, AND the designer of a|state (amongst many other things) from which large parts of B68 come!
February 11, 2026 at 11:21 PM
The next stretch goal is @fromthemorgue.bsky.social, who will be looking into the comics scene of Doskvol in '68. Very excited for it.
morgue is a pillar of the #kiwirpg community, an amazing game designer, AND the designer of a|state (amongst many other things) from which large parts of B68 come!
morgue is a pillar of the #kiwirpg community, an amazing game designer, AND the designer of a|state (amongst many other things) from which large parts of B68 come!
Ran into Billy Connolly on the street in Dunedin and he asked me directions to the Octagon (which was a short block away, literally within eyesight at the time).
What is YOUR most mundane celebrity encounter?
Belle and Sebastian asked me to hold the elevator for them at a Holiday Inn in Paris, after a gig...
Belle and Sebastian asked me to hold the elevator for them at a Holiday Inn in Paris, after a gig...
February 11, 2026 at 11:25 PM
Ran into Billy Connolly on the street in Dunedin and he asked me directions to the Octagon (which was a short block away, literally within eyesight at the time).
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This LNG terminal is such a bad idea that the government literally don't want their own Bad Idea Speeding Up system to look at it www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Government wants to bypass fast-track process for proposed liquefied natural gas terminal
A proposed LNG terminal will bypass even the fast-track process in order to be built in time.
www.rnz.co.nz
February 11, 2026 at 6:26 PM
This LNG terminal is such a bad idea that the government literally don't want their own Bad Idea Speeding Up system to look at it www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
On the most recent episode of @trashfuture.bsky.social, Riley coins the term "Epsteinist" for the politics of profiting from managed decline and the promotion of that decline, and I think it should catch on.
Anti-trans hate is an industry. Not a movement, not a moral concern, not an organic uprising of worried parents — an industry, deliberately constructed, lavishly funded, & strategically deployed to protect the interests of the powerful men who finance it
culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...
culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...
The Projection Machine: Epstein's Intellectual Network and the War on Trans People
Mohan Dutta, Culture-centered approach, CARE, Massey University, Mohan Jyoti Dutta, Prof Mohan Dutta, Mohan J. Dutta, Communication for social change
culture-centered.blogspot.com
February 11, 2026 at 6:30 AM
On the most recent episode of @trashfuture.bsky.social, Riley coins the term "Epsteinist" for the politics of profiting from managed decline and the promotion of that decline, and I think it should catch on.
I *hated* Key as a PM but you absolutely have to hand it to him in terms of being good at politics-as-game. This is just reminding people of what a skilled National Party leader looks like in comparison to Luxon.
Nothing instills confidence in a National Party leader quite like John Key having to come in to shore things up.
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
'National can get home with Luxon': Sir John Key shares blueprint for PM to win tight election
The former PM urges National MPs to stick with Luxon and avoid a late leadership swap.
www.nzherald.co.nz
February 11, 2026 at 3:09 AM
I *hated* Key as a PM but you absolutely have to hand it to him in terms of being good at politics-as-game. This is just reminding people of what a skilled National Party leader looks like in comparison to Luxon.
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Messing around in boats
February 10, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Messing around in boats
This'll be really cool if you're in Palmy (or Mangaweka!)
@objectivereality.bsky.social caught up with Flynn's Celtic Strings (Dave Flynn, Em Griffiths, and Lee Corbett Barton) about their gig at the Globe Theatre on the 12th of February, as well as Celtic tunes, songs, and tune-playing in general.
Listen here: bit.ly/morning_show...
#accessmedianz
Listen here: bit.ly/morning_show...
#accessmedianz
February 10, 2026 at 12:58 AM
This'll be really cool if you're in Palmy (or Mangaweka!)
February 9, 2026 at 9:04 PM
I've heard "the conspiracy theorists were right/we should apologise to the conspiracy theorists" a few times in a few places now as regards the Epstein stuff. I think this is a shit take.
February 9, 2026 at 8:57 PM
I've heard "the conspiracy theorists were right/we should apologise to the conspiracy theorists" a few times in a few places now as regards the Epstein stuff. I think this is a shit take.
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This is just to say
I have dumped into
the south cost
the poo
that was untreated
and which
you were probably
reserving
for the marine creatures
Forgive me
I hate 3 waters
It was pro māori
So I was told
I have dumped into
the south cost
the poo
that was untreated
and which
you were probably
reserving
for the marine creatures
Forgive me
I hate 3 waters
It was pro māori
So I was told
February 9, 2026 at 8:40 PM
This is just to say
I have dumped into
the south cost
the poo
that was untreated
and which
you were probably
reserving
for the marine creatures
Forgive me
I hate 3 waters
It was pro māori
So I was told
I have dumped into
the south cost
the poo
that was untreated
and which
you were probably
reserving
for the marine creatures
Forgive me
I hate 3 waters
It was pro māori
So I was told
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In these troubled times, let me offer you this recording of me reading the various services on offer at a "Spiritual Fair" we got sent a community notice about. The video is what came up when I put "spiritual" into work's Canva....
February 9, 2026 at 4:55 AM
In these troubled times, let me offer you this recording of me reading the various services on offer at a "Spiritual Fair" we got sent a community notice about. The video is what came up when I put "spiritual" into work's Canva....
In these troubled times, let me offer you this recording of me reading the various services on offer at a "Spiritual Fair" we got sent a community notice about. The video is what came up when I put "spiritual" into work's Canva....
February 9, 2026 at 4:55 AM
In these troubled times, let me offer you this recording of me reading the various services on offer at a "Spiritual Fair" we got sent a community notice about. The video is what came up when I put "spiritual" into work's Canva....
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YOU - “Promiscuity -- you mean the *cock carousel*.” (Twirl your hand around in the air.)
MEASUREHEAD - YOU USE VULGAR HUMOUR TO DISTRACT YOURSELF FROM THE PAIN THAT WOMEN HAVE CAUSED YOU. IMPOTENT RAGE AT THEIR PROMISCUITY WILL NOT HEAL YOU. AND IT *REPELS* WOMEN.
MEASUREHEAD - YOU USE VULGAR HUMOUR TO DISTRACT YOURSELF FROM THE PAIN THAT WOMEN HAVE CAUSED YOU. IMPOTENT RAGE AT THEIR PROMISCUITY WILL NOT HEAL YOU. AND IT *REPELS* WOMEN.
February 9, 2026 at 4:02 AM
YOU - “Promiscuity -- you mean the *cock carousel*.” (Twirl your hand around in the air.)
MEASUREHEAD - YOU USE VULGAR HUMOUR TO DISTRACT YOURSELF FROM THE PAIN THAT WOMEN HAVE CAUSED YOU. IMPOTENT RAGE AT THEIR PROMISCUITY WILL NOT HEAL YOU. AND IT *REPELS* WOMEN.
MEASUREHEAD - YOU USE VULGAR HUMOUR TO DISTRACT YOURSELF FROM THE PAIN THAT WOMEN HAVE CAUSED YOU. IMPOTENT RAGE AT THEIR PROMISCUITY WILL NOT HEAL YOU. AND IT *REPELS* WOMEN.
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February 8, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Oh hey! This is either the one, or the class of one that got in touch with me! So the scam is trying to sell shitty AI tattoo art to people maybe?
You know when by the standards of script kiddies these little incel shitstains are so boring
This one has a hot net of low effort racist transphobic generally shitty fake generated 「 art 」 and even from the perspective of a weird bug it’s just sad
You have the whole internet. Find a point of view
This one has a hot net of low effort racist transphobic generally shitty fake generated 「 art 」 and even from the perspective of a weird bug it’s just sad
You have the whole internet. Find a point of view
February 9, 2026 at 12:53 AM
Oh hey! This is either the one, or the class of one that got in touch with me! So the scam is trying to sell shitty AI tattoo art to people maybe?
I don't know who Joe Montana is but the universe wants me to think about him
February 8, 2026 at 11:45 PM
I don't know who Joe Montana is but the universe wants me to think about him