Jono

You seem weird and trollie

This is not a great take. My preemie youngest wouldnt have survived his first couple of weeks in NICU without formula, augmented by the ml or two of colostrum and milk my partner could make until her magnificent breasts got the message that bubs was here already.

Gotta subsidise those commercial property portfolios somehow

What a way to go though

You win dude..just shut it all down now, though. Pull the curtains, turn off the lights...Planets closed.

Teated Rivalry

TFW the excavator finds out the concrete asbestos water main is 15m inside the property boundary and not out in the road reserve per the GIS...and its only 20cm below the grass.

At least its just a slow leak idk

Not a great sign when the MD of a large regional earthmoving company rings you personally looking for work, thinking you are a planning consultancy, not a dirty archaeologist.

"'very little possibility that it is anything other than an explosion, a singular explosion,' Yeaw said at an event hosted Tuesday by the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C. 'It is quite consistent with what you would expect from a nuclear explosive test.'"

Bullshit.

Hundertwasser and a green and white flag repreplresenting an unfurling fern.

The man and the new flag he made for Aotearoa New Zealand, which we have sadly declined to use.

This is my flag anyway, an immigrant flag of land and sea. Its a koru/unfurling fern, but I also see a wave.

Three excavated coffins with red and white 1m and 0.5m scales. One juvenile coffin, two infant-sized.

Short lives before modern vaccines, antibiotics, pasteurization, and water treatment.

Two excavated infant coffin shadows and a child's coffin, Spickman-Nisbet family cemetery, Kaeo, 2019.

Thats really nice. Individuals do so much heavy lifting for their majority peers for these holidays and events.

Dont forget pasteurization and water treatment

Rheumatic fever?

The Lighthorsemen movie poster with tagline "They did what they were told...They didn't know it was impossible

Horse did not know it was impossible.

I chortled

Running the government is a lot like playing recorder – it doesn’t work if you suck.

#makeitstop by letting those in power know just how many people care about primary education in NZ. Share this film, sign our petition, or just make some noise for teachers & educators at makeitstop.co.nz

A replica of a resistance postcard in the snow in front of the Wedding town hall in Berlin. It reads “Wake up! We need to free ourselves from Hitlerism!”

The memorial of Elise and Otto Hampel, a working-class couple from Berlin-Wedding who distributed anti-Hitler postcards they had written throughout Berlin and were killed by the Nazis in 1943. Hans Fallada made them the main protagonists in his novel “Alone in Berlin”. Postcards can be resistance.

Wait wait wait, do you mean pear reviewers? Or eggsaminers?

Sam Hunt and Hone Tuwhare doing school visits was epic. Hunt got me to stand up on a bench and read some poetry, I wish I could remember what it was!

Would have been 1983ish in Auckland, at the height of his popularity I guess. Sleeping under a parental coat because the show didnt start until past my bedtime

Rolf Harris woke me up when I was sleeping on a cabaret dinner venue foyer couch when I was six.

"How are ya, tiger?"

Wow.

Fuckin n00bs

Tino Taiamai, Phllip Walsh 1898. National Library E-363-q-032

Tino Taiamai, Jono, today.

Tino Taiamai, 1898/2026

Te Tino a Taiamai wāhi tapu, Ohaeawai.

I hear they are also working on a vapour-ware wolf?

A rank sward of bracken fern and carrot weed in front of Ruapekapeka.

I recall a brief but serious conversation considering the health and safety aspects of letting bracken fern recolonise the glacis of the pā, because the spores are carcinogenic.

My first pref was that it should be planted out in potatoes and left to seed, because thats what was there in 1846!

Wasnt Oswald Mosely's secretary a trans man? Cant recall their name or exact roll in pre-war British facism but they were upper middle class or a toff iirc. Maybe even particpated in some pistol play/duelling?

Scalped and frittering 32 pounder gun platform, with some fine new pou watching as it weathers away.

What happens when you scalp the features doing a mid summer mow, people?

The frikken gun platform of friable volcanic soil blows away in the near ever present westerly.

The magazine behind is almost completely gone now.

No clue, no institutional memory.