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Hamish Oliver

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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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Woohoo, nice one Cerebral Fix! Great to have more about this project out in the open (I would have loved to have heard this talk).

12.03.2026 02:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A handicap blue and white painted sign on the asphalt of a parking space. The symbols are meant to be a pregnant women and a baby stroller, but it doesn't look like that. It looks like pac man being killed with scissors next to a dancer

A handicap blue and white painted sign on the asphalt of a parking space. The symbols are meant to be a pregnant women and a baby stroller, but it doesn't look like that. It looks like pac man being killed with scissors next to a dancer

Twerkers at the barbeque get priority parking 🫑

08.03.2026 20:25 πŸ‘ 5690 πŸ” 1060 πŸ’¬ 62 πŸ“Œ 51

I like that the only punctuation in that post is a comma

07.03.2026 15:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Confidence restored

07.03.2026 02:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wow. Interesting generational stuff happening

07.03.2026 00:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Have always loved this. As well as all the classic Bert and Ernie.

06.03.2026 09:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

❀️

04.03.2026 11:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Enjoy!

02.03.2026 17:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Amazing album

28.02.2026 15:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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

25.02.2026 04:51 πŸ‘ 196 πŸ” 76 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 1

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.

25.02.2026 19:38 πŸ‘ 53 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes; 100% deflating.

25.02.2026 20:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Damian Kastbranching

10.02.2026 19:09 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes not the most optimistic vote…

26.01.2026 23:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Too hard to see and he’s gone now. I agree but my first thought was the man from one of my old favourite clips I show to classes - youtu.be/pnsizkVjGm8?...

20.01.2026 07:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ah yes. We’re visiting from New Zealand and was starting to think we must be quite conditioned to cold - the thinner of the two duvets places on the bed in this hotel is almost cool enough for me to get a decent sleep. Latitude - San Diego 32, Christchurch 43

20.01.2026 06:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Visible (just): my son playing Switch.
Also visible: man who my son said β€˜looks like John Williams’ 😊

20.01.2026 06:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve been in t-shirt/shorts in our room here in snowy Shiga Kogen but yes, enjoying the inside warmth today. Snowing all day outside.

20.01.2026 06:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Sung to the tune of The Bangles’ classic (that immediately started playing in my head)

18.11.2025 18:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Always a sign of a good time, a melodica.

29.10.2025 11:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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'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...

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.
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26.10.2025 04:39 πŸ‘ 51 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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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

25.10.2025 22:51 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of current RNZ homepage.

Breaking news banner in red reads
New Zealand guts climate policy it bragged about on the world stage.

A photo of a road with debris from trees next to it is underneath.

LIVE: Fires may get worse as winds up to 150km/h forecast
38 mins ago

Wind warnings have now reached "red" level, while power crews battle to slow a series of blazes, and thousands look set to remain without power for another day.

Screenshot of current RNZ homepage. Breaking news banner in red reads New Zealand guts climate policy it bragged about on the world stage. A photo of a road with debris from trees next to it is underneath. LIVE: Fires may get worse as winds up to 150km/h forecast 38 mins ago Wind warnings have now reached "red" level, while power crews battle to slow a series of blazes, and thousands look set to remain without power for another day.

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#ClimateCrisis #NZPol #FossilFools

22.10.2025 00:11 πŸ‘ 61 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3

Will listen.

17.10.2025 11:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s beautiful stuff indeed. Hmmm have you come across The Church? (apart from theirs very well-known late 80s song). Another luscious band that’s been around for a lifetime it seems.

17.10.2025 11:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve been so into Slowdive over the last year or so (thanks to my son reminding me about them), and it was VERY pleasing to suddenly hear some coming from my car stereo yesterday - from a RADIO station. Very impressive and unexpected.

17.10.2025 11:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

(oh, shame - climate police sounded potentially useful)

12.10.2025 08:59 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Digital Product Design - University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha

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28.09.2025 05:25 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

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!

27.09.2025 18:59 πŸ‘ 161 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 0

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.

27.09.2025 22:31 πŸ‘ 87 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 3