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
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Karl Marx: "the proletariat will become fit to be the ruling class through the struggle for self-organization"
Populist Leftists: "anything working-class people do is cool and to be defended. Racism, drunk driving, stealing from their neighbours. This is how we make them like socialism!"
Populist Leftists: "anything working-class people do is cool and to be defended. Racism, drunk driving, stealing from their neighbours. This is how we make them like socialism!"
Between defending Cinnabon George Wallace for being a noble proletariat, and woke drunk driving defenders, incredible display on this site today of what actually was toxic about leftist spaces and discourse over the last decade
December 12, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Karl Marx: "the proletariat will become fit to be the ruling class through the struggle for self-organization"
Populist Leftists: "anything working-class people do is cool and to be defended. Racism, drunk driving, stealing from their neighbours. This is how we make them like socialism!"
Populist Leftists: "anything working-class people do is cool and to be defended. Racism, drunk driving, stealing from their neighbours. This is how we make them like socialism!"
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On today's pod I talk to the amazing @levin.bsky.social and @johnacecil.bsky.social about SKA! Do you dislike ska? Do you fear it? You are wrong, let us explain why. Listen here: bit.ly/res_rec-85 and find older eps via @mpr.nz at mpr.nz/show/reserved!
December 12, 2025 at 1:04 AM
On today's pod I talk to the amazing @levin.bsky.social and @johnacecil.bsky.social about SKA! Do you dislike ska? Do you fear it? You are wrong, let us explain why. Listen here: bit.ly/res_rec-85 and find older eps via @mpr.nz at mpr.nz/show/reserved!
On today's pod I talk to the amazing @levin.bsky.social and @johnacecil.bsky.social about SKA! Do you dislike ska? Do you fear it? You are wrong, let us explain why. Listen here: bit.ly/res_rec-85 and find older eps via @mpr.nz at mpr.nz/show/reserved!
December 12, 2025 at 1:04 AM
On today's pod I talk to the amazing @levin.bsky.social and @johnacecil.bsky.social about SKA! Do you dislike ska? Do you fear it? You are wrong, let us explain why. Listen here: bit.ly/res_rec-85 and find older eps via @mpr.nz at mpr.nz/show/reserved!
I move house you listen tune
This week, on the second last Featured Tracks for the year, @objectivereality.bsky.social plays new Kiwi music from Earth Tongue, The Black Seeds, Bic Runga, Pool House, and Capricore!
Listen here: bit.ly/featured_tra... or find "Hugh's Featured Tracks" wherever you get podcasts!
#accessmedianz
Listen here: bit.ly/featured_tra... or find "Hugh's Featured Tracks" wherever you get podcasts!
#accessmedianz
Hugh's Featured Tracks 12-12-2025
A quasi-weekly podcast comprised of all Hugh's featured tracks for the past week.
This week: Earth Tongue, The Black Seeds, Bic Runga, Pool House, Capricore
player.accessmedia.nz
December 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I move house you listen tune
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"...and 3 mcdoubles"
💀"WITH NO PICKLES"💀
"...with no pickles please"
💀"GRINCH SALT"💀
"yes of course your holiness"
💀"WITH NO PICKLES"💀
"...with no pickles please"
💀"GRINCH SALT"💀
"yes of course your holiness"
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
"...and 3 mcdoubles"
💀"WITH NO PICKLES"💀
"...with no pickles please"
💀"GRINCH SALT"💀
"yes of course your holiness"
💀"WITH NO PICKLES"💀
"...with no pickles please"
💀"GRINCH SALT"💀
"yes of course your holiness"
ZARDOZ MENTIONED
Julie tried to get me to go braless for this one but I have too much respect for her!
And John Boorman!
And John Boorman!
Lilly Wachowski is my guest on the new ep of How Was your Week and we discuss the motion picture ZARDOZ and it's really special howwasyourweek.com @lillywachowski.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
ZARDOZ MENTIONED
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Non-kiwis! Thanks to our right-wing govt crashing the NZ dollar, your money pisses off 1.5-2x as many transphobes as a year ago. Isn't that lovely?
#ttrpg #indierpg #silverlining #transrights
#ttrpg #indierpg #silverlining #transrights
Want to support trans rights in Aotearoa & get a bunch of cool TTRPGs? The Ban the Ban bundle is raising funds for action against the NZ govt's blocker ban.
Proceeds go to PATHA to fund their court challenge & support individuals. Get it now!
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#transrights #ttrpg #nzpol
Proceeds go to PATHA to fund their court challenge & support individuals. Get it now!
itch.io/b/3421/ban-t...
#transrights #ttrpg #nzpol
December 9, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Non-kiwis! Thanks to our right-wing govt crashing the NZ dollar, your money pisses off 1.5-2x as many transphobes as a year ago. Isn't that lovely?
#ttrpg #indierpg #silverlining #transrights
#ttrpg #indierpg #silverlining #transrights
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This is what banning under-16s from social media looks like for EVERYONE
December 9, 2025 at 3:26 AM
This is what banning under-16s from social media looks like for EVERYONE
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It's just enough people gone between Xmas and New Year, or for a week in January, to make things feel inconvenient for the terminally huffy and entitled amongst us (same folks who lost their minds that they couldn't go to their baches in lockdown)
December 9, 2025 at 12:20 AM
It's just enough people gone between Xmas and New Year, or for a week in January, to make things feel inconvenient for the terminally huffy and entitled amongst us (same folks who lost their minds that they couldn't go to their baches in lockdown)
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Oh, and this drama about summer holidays is of course stupid, but it's not about people having 12 weeks off (because no one does); it's about so many people taking a week here and a week there that it FEELS to them like everyone's disappeared, and rich people want a plumber instantly #nzpol
December 9, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Oh, and this drama about summer holidays is of course stupid, but it's not about people having 12 weeks off (because no one does); it's about so many people taking a week here and a week there that it FEELS to them like everyone's disappeared, and rich people want a plumber instantly #nzpol
I think the lockdowns *did* prove that, but I think the business bros/flag fuckers/car fuckers etc. really hated Ardern because they don't like a lady telling them what to do *especially* if she says woke words.
Pretty sure business bros hate Ardern so very much cause she genuinely threatened the “convince the population they need to slave for subsistence wages with less days off than medieval peasants” work til you die rhetoric. We stopped the economy and look after the people and the economy was fine.
December 8, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I think the lockdowns *did* prove that, but I think the business bros/flag fuckers/car fuckers etc. really hated Ardern because they don't like a lady telling them what to do *especially* if she says woke words.
Just had a great chat with @levin.bsky.social and @johnacecil.bsky.social about Ska! This was a lot of fun, and I'm looking forward to youse guys getting to hear it.
Tony Tribe - Red Red Wine
YouTube video by 1312sanktpauli
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December 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Just had a great chat with @levin.bsky.social and @johnacecil.bsky.social about Ska! This was a lot of fun, and I'm looking forward to youse guys getting to hear it.
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I think about this post constantly
December 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I think about this post constantly
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Happy birthday to us! (You need to be nice to us today, it's the rules.)
On this day in 1997, MPR (then called "Manawatū Sounz") did the first broadcast on 999AM in Manawatū.
Here's to everyone who helped us bring local stories to life over the last 28 years!
#accessmedianz
On this day in 1997, MPR (then called "Manawatū Sounz") did the first broadcast on 999AM in Manawatū.
Here's to everyone who helped us bring local stories to life over the last 28 years!
#accessmedianz
December 7, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Happy birthday to us! (You need to be nice to us today, it's the rules.)
On this day in 1997, MPR (then called "Manawatū Sounz") did the first broadcast on 999AM in Manawatū.
Here's to everyone who helped us bring local stories to life over the last 28 years!
#accessmedianz
On this day in 1997, MPR (then called "Manawatū Sounz") did the first broadcast on 999AM in Manawatū.
Here's to everyone who helped us bring local stories to life over the last 28 years!
#accessmedianz
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It's hard on a fella
When he don't know his way around
If I can't find a yeti
To eat all this spaghetti
I'm gonna have to blow this town
When he don't know his way around
If I can't find a yeti
To eat all this spaghetti
I'm gonna have to blow this town
December 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
It's hard on a fella
When he don't know his way around
If I can't find a yeti
To eat all this spaghetti
I'm gonna have to blow this town
When he don't know his way around
If I can't find a yeti
To eat all this spaghetti
I'm gonna have to blow this town
It's hard on a fella
When he don't know his way around
If I can't find a yeti
To eat all this spaghetti
I'm gonna have to blow this town
When he don't know his way around
If I can't find a yeti
To eat all this spaghetti
I'm gonna have to blow this town
December 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
It's hard on a fella
When he don't know his way around
If I can't find a yeti
To eat all this spaghetti
I'm gonna have to blow this town
When he don't know his way around
If I can't find a yeti
To eat all this spaghetti
I'm gonna have to blow this town
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You haven’t heard the last of my thoughts on Ska history —- I’m back on @objectivereality.bsky.social ‘s show on Aotearoa radio Sunday with my fellow Ska defender (& a former ska band auditioneee) @johnacecil.bsky.social. Send us your questions.
Here’s my Special 2Tone playlist
Here’s my Special 2Tone playlist
Open Qobuz
open.qobuz.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:54 AM
You haven’t heard the last of my thoughts on Ska history —- I’m back on @objectivereality.bsky.social ‘s show on Aotearoa radio Sunday with my fellow Ska defender (& a former ska band auditioneee) @johnacecil.bsky.social. Send us your questions.
Here’s my Special 2Tone playlist
Here’s my Special 2Tone playlist
"Tears in Heaven". Not for any particularly high-minded reason, I just didn't really like it and then I had to sing it at a fellow student's funeral as part of my high school choir (I didn't know her) in a really naff choral arrangement and my hatred became deep and total.
December 5, 2025 at 4:05 AM
"Tears in Heaven". Not for any particularly high-minded reason, I just didn't really like it and then I had to sing it at a fellow student's funeral as part of my high school choir (I didn't know her) in a really naff choral arrangement and my hatred became deep and total.
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This week @objectivereality.bsky.social plays Manawatūnes from Polaroids of Polarbears, Pining Radiata, and Tim Tams, as well as a new Florence and the Machine and new kiwi music from Mim Jensen.
Listen here: bit.ly/featured_tra...
Listen here: bit.ly/featured_tra...
Hugh's Featured Tracks 05-12-2025
A quasi-weekly podcast comprised of all Hugh's featured tracks for the past week.
This week: Polaroids of Polarbears - The Hing, The Hustler, and the Hyena, Florence and the Machine - Witch Dance, Pining Radiata - So Confused, Tim Tams - Black Can, Mim Jensen - Big Feelings
player.accessmedia.nz
December 5, 2025 at 3:06 AM
This week @objectivereality.bsky.social plays Manawatūnes from Polaroids of Polarbears, Pining Radiata, and Tim Tams, as well as a new Florence and the Machine and new kiwi music from Mim Jensen.
Listen here: bit.ly/featured_tra...
Listen here: bit.ly/featured_tra...
Yes, and
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December 4, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Yes, and
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SBh...
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When your country's collective ability to bullshit on the internet is extensive enough to shape AI slop.
December 4, 2025 at 12:40 AM
When your country's collective ability to bullshit on the internet is extensive enough to shape AI slop.
Got to see these guys over the weekend. Absolutely crushing it at the moment.
Pining Radiata
Palmerston North / Wellington, NZ
piningradiata.bandcamp.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Got to see these guys over the weekend. Absolutely crushing it at the moment.
See also another case of "unfortunately you gotta hand it to CS Lewis" (he makes basically this point about the social function of churches in "The Screwtape Letters")...
exhibit #81823840 in my "Terry Pratchett should be recognized as one of our foremost worldly philosophers" file
December 3, 2025 at 9:52 PM
See also another case of "unfortunately you gotta hand it to CS Lewis" (he makes basically this point about the social function of churches in "The Screwtape Letters")...
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They're coworkers.
December 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
They're coworkers.
Just started playing Sable (free game from Epic a while back). Not far in but pretty charming so far. Has the approach I like in open world games (make me a named character with a reason to be curious and explore).
December 3, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Just started playing Sable (free game from Epic a while back). Not far in but pretty charming so far. Has the approach I like in open world games (make me a named character with a reason to be curious and explore).