@Opdiner

Wanderer, scribe, street photog & music obsessive. Photos: https://xitter.cf/t.co/aLzFULaKkm Founder: https://xitter.cf/t.co/Nd0DPt57Id

 Bangkok, Auckland & Aquitaine.
Joined May 2008
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The 50th anniversary release of a record we made, ahhh, 48 years ago. First time on 7 inch, from Germany's S P U Sirene Records. – at Bang Kapi, Thailand
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Michael Brown@jingajikOct 21
An important historical document from 1952, about how a multinational cultural monopoly sought to suppress local music recordings in New Zealand audioculture.co.nz/articles/…

HMV NZ, part 4: playing monopoly - Article | AudioCulture

Continued from HMV NZ, part 3: acting local This opinion piece about HMV NZ’s monopoly over the New Zealand record industry in the early 1950s – and the tactics it used to protect its dominance – was...

audioculture.co.nz
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And à bientôt Paris, see you in a couple of weeks. Bangkok beckons.
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An odd world: 800,000 French march because they want to fix their country and are abused on socials by countless Americans who can't be arsed getting off theirs to save their democracy.
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I've bought B three power banks but the inevitable 'can I borrow your power bank' question was followed by an annoyed 'mine are at home!' when I suggested she use hers.
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Francois@AlodiaOilsOct 19
These with socials, people overthink everything. But France has a long history of riots.
4️⃣00k Paris Paname 😊@ParisAMDParisOct 19
Bonjour. ☕️ 📸 Henri Cartier-Bresson. Regarder les émeutes Mai 68. Paris
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Don Winslow
@donwinslowOct 16
Watching journalists cover a BS flying Tesla car instead of the deaths of women and children in Ukraine because Starlink was slowed down is disgusting. It's absolutely disgusting.
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There were decades of inevitability leading to this.
Joe Vasile@JoeVasilePBPOct 11
According to people on reddit who were at the show, apparently Stamos told the crowd before the gig that the band urged Mike Love not to go on with the show but that he said he wanted to. Still very sad to see.
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This is how it crumbles, in baby steps. I'm not sure the Land of the free ever comes back from things like this theguardian.com/us-news/2026…

Ilhan Omar says she will not be silenced after federal agents raid her home

Trump and key allies have accused Omar of immigration fraud, and have called to expel her from the country

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I wrote a 3-parter for @audioculturenz on the early history of the company that once owned 90% of NZ's music industry and did so ruthlessly. More words about that on Substack: opdiner.substack.com/p/elect…
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B: "GRRR. How does this new bloody washing machine work?" Me: "Have you read the instructions?" B: "Who has the time?"
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This is how I cross the road in Hanoi and always worked. Would I be this brave in Bangkok? Hell no, I'd be dead.
UFO mania
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In 1984 a German correspondent in Paris explains how to cross Place de la Concorde. "Walk in a steady pace and never look at the drivers, then they'll think you need to stop for them".
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Where so much began - the very Empire-ish opening of NZ’s first pressing plant in 1949. 400 local HMV singles flowed from this. Pt. 3 of my history of HMV NZ: the 50s, intrigues and rock 'n’ roll: audioculture.co.nz/articles/…
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The second part of my HMV NZ history: early retail, the war years (where they made more radios for the military than anyone) and the postwar move into pressing and then, reluctantly, local music audioculture.co.nz/articles/…
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Part one of a three-part AudioCulture story that's taken me a looong time: an early history of His Master's Voice in NZ, when it was the only record company in the country. The only game in town. audioculture.co.nz/articles/…

HMV NZ, part 1: birth of an empire - Article | AudioCulture

For much of the 20th Century, the recorded music sold to New Zealanders was dominated by a single company in a way we can’t imagine today. For the first five decades of the century, that company had...

audioculture.co.nz
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Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwaldSep 22
It's always strange how the US uses its unparalleled military and economic power to strangle and suffocate the economies of small nations it dislikes, then points to the intended devastation as proof that those countries are bad and don't work, with no reference to the US role.
Acyn
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The Cuban delegation walks out of the speech while Trump calls their country a failed state.
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You get over confident in France: you teach yourself a phrase and cautiously use it, only to hear a French person use it and realise that you are speaking gibberish and people are just being polite.
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Our new neighbours (café/bar). No le Pen in Southwest France.
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On the 12.18 to La Rochelle. First time on a train for the hounds.
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My in-laws have never been to the City of Light before so I thought I'd take them to say hello to the little sparrow. One of the greatest Parisians of them all.
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