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Hamish Oliver

@hamisholiver.bsky.social

Lecturer in Screen Sound, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Composer for games/film/television/theatre, arranger, musical director, performer, music technologist. Winner of APRA Professional Development Award www.hamisholiver.com

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henry cooke@henrycooke.bsky.social · 3w ago

There are just six days left to enrol, but we are about 130k behind where final enrolment got to last time - when people could still enrol all the way through election day. It is becoming very hard to see this gap really closing in such a short time.

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MeatMechSuit@meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 3y ago

Country Calendar should be called Coloniser Pride. Every time I watch that show it’s ‘this farm has been in this family since 1870’ and I just think oh realllllllllly, whose was it for hundreds of years before then 🧐 and how did it come to be owned by this family 🧐🧐🧐

Lan Pham@lanpham.greens.org.nz · 6mo ago

That time when the most anti-environment Government in Aotearoa NZ's history decided it would be a good idea to disestablish 40 years of the Ministry for the Environment despite overwhelming rejection from submitters& no clear justification or assurance of ongoing transparency ☠️

Russel Norman@russelnorman.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The current NZ Govt parties have opposed all efforts to reduce NZ's dependence on fossil fuels. All three coalition parties have received large donations from at least one oil company. They are making the climate crisis worse and the cost of living crisis worse.

Shane Jones shut down NZ Involvement in road map away from fossil fuels
Stephanie Rodgers 🍉@bootstheory.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This is a "papers please" "English is the official language" "eat slop and be grateful" "disappear the unhoused" "women are second class" "don't learn real history" "local FBI office" government and we really cannot afford to be smug about other countries' slide to open fascism, Aotearoa

Jordan Rivers@jordanriversnz.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Quick reminder that The Dawn Raids only targeted brown people at a time when our largest group of overstayers came from England.

Russel Norman@russelnorman.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Fed Farmers: Let’s massively increase water and climate pollution. Greenpeace: No let’s cut pollution. Fed Farmers: Let’s compromise and just increase it somewhat. Greenpeace: no we must cut climate and water pollution. Right wing commentators: Greenpeace is so unreasonable.

Vincent O'Malley@vomalley.bsky.social · last yr.

The Education Minister is due to announce a 'refreshed' social studies curriculum on Tuesday with the Aotearoa NZ histories curriculum likely to be significantly watered down. Jim Bolger's advocacy for facing up to out history will be trampled on if that is the case. buttondown.com/unsettling/a...

'You cannot know who you are as a society unless you know your history' – Jim Bolger

Former Prime Minister Jim Bolger’s death last week sparked a wave of tributes from across the political spectrum, including warm words of remembrance from...

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Hamish Oliver@hamisholiver.bsky.social · last yr.

Marking #Wwise projects is feeling nice and speedy partly thanks to assigning some handy preferred key shortcuts for maximising the primary editor, closing windows etc and also having the handy "Modified" button in the Property Editor

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William Hughes@plumberduck.bsky.social · last yr.

Having a pleasant, war-ravaged morning writing news stories. Ate my war-ravaged breakfast. Wife's out of the house at the moment, spending time with her friends at the war-ravaged Friends Of The Library store she volunteers at. I take a sip of my coffee. Mmm! War-ravaged!

Jolisa Gracewood@nzdodo.bsky.social · last yr.

Had to witness this for myself – it’s real, and even worse as seen from the footpath. (Context: these narrow back-streets had a community-supported 30kmh speed limit… but in mid-2025, were forcibly reverted to 50kmh by the current govt.) Dangerous, petty, ridiculous kneejerk vice-signalling, ugh.

A photo of tiny Provost St in Herne Bay, off Jervois Road, showing the shiny new 50kmh sign planted in the footpath. The road itself is narrow, and is a single one-way lane at the entrance. It’s just one example of the ludicrous wholesale / blanket speed raises imposed on Auckland (impacting over 1400 quiet local streets) by the current government. The instrument of destruction in this instance was an unusually restrictive Speed Rule, designed and introduced by Simeon Brown over the objections of road safety experts, local authorities, emergency room physicians, schools and communities. Simeon Brown’s Speed Rule not only mandates a reversion from 30 to 50 of any safer speeds implemented “with the presence of a school as a reason”, it also effectively banned 30kmh as an option in urban contexts in future. Madness. And so mean. The Speed Rule also specifically targeted only the safe speeds installed since January 2020 (ie under the Labour govt, so petty!), resulting in many examples of inequitable and uneven rollout across the city. The actual changes were implemented under new transport minister Chris Bishop, who disappointingly declined his golden opportunity to amend the rule to mitigate the unforeseen scale of the impact, despite numerous pleas from the public.
Connor Sharp@connorsharp.bsky.social · last yr.

Wow look at this street. There must be incredible productivity gains on this crucial economic route from Simeon Browns blanket speed increases. So safe, and so fitting at 50km/h!