Thomas Arbor
@thomasarbor.bsky.social
All things music and audio. Film & TV. Nature admiration.
Sonorous Circle / Pyramid Club /Aotearoa NZ.
Sonorous Circle / Pyramid Club /Aotearoa NZ.
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I just realized it’s been five years since
the Four Seasons Total Landscaping press
conference one of the most surreal moments
in modern politics. While in Philly, I had to
visit the site. Strange place for a press
conference. Fascinating place to stand.
the Four Seasons Total Landscaping press
conference one of the most surreal moments
in modern politics. While in Philly, I had to
visit the site. Strange place for a press
conference. Fascinating place to stand.
November 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I just realized it’s been five years since
the Four Seasons Total Landscaping press
conference one of the most surreal moments
in modern politics. While in Philly, I had to
visit the site. Strange place for a press
conference. Fascinating place to stand.
the Four Seasons Total Landscaping press
conference one of the most surreal moments
in modern politics. While in Philly, I had to
visit the site. Strange place for a press
conference. Fascinating place to stand.
Pics from the Journey of Scent launch last night - these are some of the one-off perfumes made by the legend Nathan Taare / Of Body for the series (which is out on RNZ from this Monday!) 👃❤️
November 7, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Pics from the Journey of Scent launch last night - these are some of the one-off perfumes made by the legend Nathan Taare / Of Body for the series (which is out on RNZ from this Monday!) 👃❤️
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Under new head of Paramount David Ellison, the studio has drawn up a list of actors who opposed the Gaza genocide and will not allow them to appear in its films and TV shows.
Does this sound familiar?
Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."
Does this sound familiar?
Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."
Paramount Has Blacklist for Stars Deemed “Overtly Antisemitic” — World of Reel
It sure looks like the likes of Javier Bardem, Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, and Mark Ruffalo won’t be making movies for Paramount in the foreseeable future.
www.worldofreel.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Under new head of Paramount David Ellison, the studio has drawn up a list of actors who opposed the Gaza genocide and will not allow them to appear in its films and TV shows.
Does this sound familiar?
Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."
Does this sound familiar?
Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."
Another masterful work by Katie Wolfe (The Haka Party Incident) - always finding artful ways to tell the stories of this place! Profound and often hilarious with brilliant performances and design. Go see it!
November 6, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Another masterful work by Katie Wolfe (The Haka Party Incident) - always finding artful ways to tell the stories of this place! Profound and often hilarious with brilliant performances and design. Go see it!
Sup Tāmaki? Here til Monday, pls holla with your food & event tips! (Already booked Exploding Rainbow Orchestra, Tiri: Te Araroa & Kirikiriroa sidequest)
November 5, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Sup Tāmaki? Here til Monday, pls holla with your food & event tips! (Already booked Exploding Rainbow Orchestra, Tiri: Te Araroa & Kirikiriroa sidequest)
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Husband came home from his after school meeting saying the new social studies curriculum isn't a curriculum, it's just a list of subjects to be covered with no broader themes, guaranteed to make kids find the humanities pointless. "I've never felt more like my job doesn't matter"
November 3, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Husband came home from his after school meeting saying the new social studies curriculum isn't a curriculum, it's just a list of subjects to be covered with no broader themes, guaranteed to make kids find the humanities pointless. "I've never felt more like my job doesn't matter"
Excited for people to see, hear and smell this beautiful webseries I made music for recently! #journeyofscent youtu.be/qEqv8YozsSY?...
Journey of Scent | Trailer | RNZ
YouTube video by RNZ
youtu.be
November 4, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Excited for people to see, hear and smell this beautiful webseries I made music for recently! #journeyofscent youtu.be/qEqv8YozsSY?...
A big ol thread of some early colonial history of Te Whanganui a Tara. Love to see it 🤗
#nzhistory... Rewind back before the nz company...
The first big shot at colonising Aotearoa came way back in 1825. A rich British politician, John George Lambton, sent two ships to scope out the place for resources and trade opportunities.
The first big shot at colonising Aotearoa came way back in 1825. A rich British politician, John George Lambton, sent two ships to scope out the place for resources and trade opportunities.
November 2, 2025 at 12:58 AM
A big ol thread of some early colonial history of Te Whanganui a Tara. Love to see it 🤗
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Sudan Archives: ‘My favourite fact? I’m 100% that bitch’
Sudan Archives: ‘My favourite fact? I’m 100% that bitch’
The violin-playing sonic experimentalist on gadgets, guilty pleasures, and her most controversial pop culture opinion
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Sudan Archives: ‘My favourite fact? I’m 100% that bitch’
Tonight at Pyramid! Ft. screen composers Stephen Gallagher (LoTR) & David Long (The Luminaries) fresh from their recent nominations for World Soundtrack Awards and Silver Scrolls 🌟
November 1, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Tonight at Pyramid! Ft. screen composers Stephen Gallagher (LoTR) & David Long (The Luminaries) fresh from their recent nominations for World Soundtrack Awards and Silver Scrolls 🌟
ICYMI, this is a great book! With Xmas coming up, poss a good prez for the politically inclined folks in your life !
I released The Life and Opinions of Kartik Popat this time last year. I’m super proud of the book & genuinely think it has captured the zeitgeist. The circumstances of the book have become more and more relevant as the viciousness of this era reveals itself. Anyway, here’s a review that nailed it
Love this review of a book I love. The Life and Opinions of Kartik Popat by Brannavan Gnanalingam: An 'Asian horror story' and an 'instantly iconic' political satire. By Tze Ming Mok
October 28, 2025 at 7:46 AM
ICYMI, this is a great book! With Xmas coming up, poss a good prez for the politically inclined folks in your life !
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“A message built on fairness, community and national purpose resonated with voters, and a comfortable majority voted for it.
That matters not just for us in Wales, but for progressives everywhere. The populist right can be beaten when people are offered hope and a vision of a fairer future.” #nzpol
That matters not just for us in Wales, but for progressives everywhere. The populist right can be beaten when people are offered hope and a vision of a fairer future.” #nzpol
How did we beat Nigel Farage and Reform in Caerphilly? We stood by our convictions | Rhun ap Iorwerth
Welsh voters have rejected Labour and Starmerite managerialism. By offering hope and not division we showed the populist right can be beaten, says Rhun ap Iorwerth, leader of Plaid Cymru
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:07 AM
“A message built on fairness, community and national purpose resonated with voters, and a comfortable majority voted for it.
That matters not just for us in Wales, but for progressives everywhere. The populist right can be beaten when people are offered hope and a vision of a fairer future.” #nzpol
That matters not just for us in Wales, but for progressives everywhere. The populist right can be beaten when people are offered hope and a vision of a fairer future.” #nzpol
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This is a thousand years worth of Creative NZ government funding
our govt wants to spend 327 times more on a single road ($18b) than they are currently spending yearly on all of basic science in new zealand ($55m) #nzpol
The Northern Expressway we were told would cost $10 billion is now priced at $18 billion, or six times the Cook Strait crossing we were told was unaffordable. This is fantasy stuff. www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-adv...
October 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
This is a thousand years worth of Creative NZ government funding
Some legendary musicians playing Pyramid Club tonight! Shayne Carter, Riki Pirihi and Jeff Henderson = Art Ensemble of Otago. Bar open, byo cheese rolls
October 24, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Some legendary musicians playing Pyramid Club tonight! Shayne Carter, Riki Pirihi and Jeff Henderson = Art Ensemble of Otago. Bar open, byo cheese rolls
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You know, there’s this pervasive view that people don’t care about climate change / are bored of it / find it overwhelming but I wrote this story this week and social media went crazy over it. People care!!!! They really care are they need a way to channel it www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
New Zealand guts climate policy it bragged about on the world stage
The law was once held up internationally as a model of transparency. The government just weakened it.
www.rnz.co.nz
October 23, 2025 at 7:01 AM
You know, there’s this pervasive view that people don’t care about climate change / are bored of it / find it overwhelming but I wrote this story this week and social media went crazy over it. People care!!!! They really care are they need a way to channel it www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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new zealand’s economy was built on the theft and purchase of māori land, its conversion to property, and then pushing its carrying capacity as far as possible to maintain profitability. māori land claims, environmental limits, and a lack of innovation is going to threaten that profit
October 23, 2025 at 7:11 AM
new zealand’s economy was built on the theft and purchase of māori land, its conversion to property, and then pushing its carrying capacity as far as possible to maintain profitability. māori land claims, environmental limits, and a lack of innovation is going to threaten that profit
Pottery exhibition opening tonight at Pyramid Club! 6-8pm. Nicole Gaston presents work created from her Driving Creek residency - and is selling some limited edition Pyramid Club mugs! www.pyramidclub.org.nz/exhibition-o...
October 9, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Pottery exhibition opening tonight at Pyramid Club! 6-8pm. Nicole Gaston presents work created from her Driving Creek residency - and is selling some limited edition Pyramid Club mugs! www.pyramidclub.org.nz/exhibition-o...
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Boards of Canada "Olson" on a 1959 PDP-1 Computer
YouTube video by Joe Lynch
www.youtube.com
October 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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#nzpol Sometimes a policy is so stupid it makes you question the very fabric of reality. Decisions so fabulously, almost wantonly dumb, you wonder if we actually live in a simulation. Welcome to the world of removing Jobseeker Support for 18 & 19-year-olds. craigrenney.substack.com/p/a-small-wr...
A small wrinkle in the Jobseeker policy
The government’s recent changes to benefits feel like this: the house is on fire, and this policy is them turning off the smoke alarm and saying it’s fixed
craigrenney.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 7:58 PM
#nzpol Sometimes a policy is so stupid it makes you question the very fabric of reality. Decisions so fabulously, almost wantonly dumb, you wonder if we actually live in a simulation. Welcome to the world of removing Jobseeker Support for 18 & 19-year-olds. craigrenney.substack.com/p/a-small-wr...
Douchbags will vote, so you should too! These numbers are v low... do iiiiiiiiit!!! Pls? 🙏🥰
October 6, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Douchbags will vote, so you should too! These numbers are v low... do iiiiiiiiit!!! Pls? 🙏🥰
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A 3,500 year-old Egyptian glass cosmetic jar with two little duck heads!
Glass was a relatively new material at that time, so this jar would have been a precious possession.
From Merit’s beauty case, found inside Theban tomb (TT8) of Merit and her husband Kha in 1906. 📷 Museo Egizio
#Archaeology
Glass was a relatively new material at that time, so this jar would have been a precious possession.
From Merit’s beauty case, found inside Theban tomb (TT8) of Merit and her husband Kha in 1906. 📷 Museo Egizio
#Archaeology
October 5, 2025 at 10:23 AM
A 3,500 year-old Egyptian glass cosmetic jar with two little duck heads!
Glass was a relatively new material at that time, so this jar would have been a precious possession.
From Merit’s beauty case, found inside Theban tomb (TT8) of Merit and her husband Kha in 1906. 📷 Museo Egizio
#Archaeology
Glass was a relatively new material at that time, so this jar would have been a precious possession.
From Merit’s beauty case, found inside Theban tomb (TT8) of Merit and her husband Kha in 1906. 📷 Museo Egizio
#Archaeology
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Any New Zealander who doesn’t see a problem with this requires a in-depth cultural literacy education. Pākehā domination is not acceptable anymore. The voices of diversity in this country are no longer something Pākehā systems can suppress. To see the face of Pākehā domination in 2025 is chilling.
October 4, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Any New Zealander who doesn’t see a problem with this requires a in-depth cultural literacy education. Pākehā domination is not acceptable anymore. The voices of diversity in this country are no longer something Pākehā systems can suppress. To see the face of Pākehā domination in 2025 is chilling.
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Soundcheck in Strasbourg 🇫🇷 ⛪️
October 4, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Soundcheck in Strasbourg 🇫🇷 ⛪️
There'll be saxophones, guitar, fx, drums and a bicycle wheel played at Pyramid Club tomorrow! www.pyramidclub.org.nz/filtersphere...
October 3, 2025 at 3:14 AM
There'll be saxophones, guitar, fx, drums and a bicycle wheel played at Pyramid Club tomorrow! www.pyramidclub.org.nz/filtersphere...
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Nothing surprises me about the US any more.
They sat stone-faced and silent as the president called for them to use US cities as training grounds and to fight “the enemy within,” and the secretary of defense told them to ignore “stupid rules of engagement “ and “woke garbage.”
Then they were threatened with dismissal if they didn't obey.
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Then they were threatened with dismissal if they didn't obey.
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September 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Nothing surprises me about the US any more.