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toscanini @catatonichic.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

SibW's idea of dressing Christmassy

toscanini @catatonichic.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

The other week, I had dinner with whānau. There were boiled potatoes. I turned to my cousin and said, "What excellent boiled potatoes. Many years since I have had such an exemplary vegetable." My cousin did not recognise the quote and said, "Ae tika!"

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toscanini @catatonichic.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I don't recommend following me. It's prob gonna be a terrible experience

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toscanini @catatonichic.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I'm a little sad that it's not enough that the principles bill is racist and harmful to Māori for ppl to object. We gotta package it up to show how it can be bad for others

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toscanini @catatonichic.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Not Marshall reinforcing his privilege

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toscanini @catatonichic.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

A referendum o.O maumau taima. Maumau moni.

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toscanini @catatonichic.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Almost that time of year when the All I want for xmas/Last Xmas covers playlist gets put on repeat. Has become one of my fav traditions @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social

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toscanini @catatonichic.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Te atua ki te rangi / Te Aupōuri ki te whenua

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Hayden Donnell @haydendonnell.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

As always I recommend supporting our beautiful dying media industry by clicking on the article but this has reminded of something John Campbell said about objectivity in the "good old days" a few years ago

John Campbell arguing that newsrooms of old gave the pretense of objectivity while excluding many voices and reflecting only one, primarily white, male, point of view

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toscanini @catatonichic.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I kī a Joel 'Ka nui te fomo'. Āe mārika

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toscanini @catatonichic.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

He haumātakataka kei roto i taku uma, ka hurihuri haere

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toscanini @catatonichic.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

bluesky giving me all the hīkoi lols today with the funny and punny signs

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Closing in fast on 200,000 signatures. The current count (194,339 right now) is the same number of people as 6.7% of voters in the 2023 general election, more than the entire NZ First vote. 250,000 would beat the entire Act Party vote. #ToitūTeTiriti

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Stop the Treaty Principles Bill - TOITŪ TE TIRITI!!

In 1835, 189 years ago, a gathering of great chiefs of Aotearoa signed He Whakaputanga with representatives of the British Crown. Five years from that date, Te Tiriti o Waitangi was signed between Māo...

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toscanini @catatonichic.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Got the livestream playing while I work. There in spirit

Hīkoi sign that reads "Pākehā stand with Māori it's way more fun!"

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kiwitoa.bsky.social @kiwitoa.bsky.social · 17/12/2023

#tereo Itensifiers - Kau (8 ) - in vain, to no avail, helplessly. Kua roa ia e āwangawanga kau ana ki te take kāore ia i rongo i te noho huānga, kātahi ka taka te kapa, nā tōna reotahitanga, tōna ahurea tahi he mātātoka ia nō tētahi ao kua hemo atu.

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toscanini @catatonichic.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

This is going to be a cunt of a term for Māori.

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toscanini @catatonichic.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

Autocorrect on my laptop changed Ngāti Porou to Ngāti Poor and like wot

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toscanini @catatonichic.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Henderson has a little mobile book shop www.instagram.com/reel/CymGJJ-...

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toscanini @catatonichic.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

activate rick astley playlist kind of day

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toscanini @catatonichic.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Boo: Can we go to town? Me: *taps tshirt*

Tshirt with picture of a black cat with the words "Ew, people"

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toscanini @catatonichic.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Once, I used the word hua to one of my siblings. My mum was appalled and mortified in equal measure. When I saw this, i nearly died of LOLs, but also I thought of mama haha

Screenshot 1 is Jordan from The Morning Shift radio show with subtitles that read "Tōfā soifua"

Screenshot 2 is Jordan from The Morning Shift radio show with subtitle that reads "you hua"

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toscanini @catatonichic.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Joel just referred to Halloween as 'te rā hamuhamu huka' and i cannot unhear it lolol

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toscanini @catatonichic.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

"Nah, stuff it, I'll still hit it" - Grace Harris is a crack- up www.instagram.com/reel/Cyr9TPt...

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toscanini @catatonichic.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

Merriam-Webster with a "helpful example of the difference between a dictionary and a thesaurus" www.instagram.com/reel/CyyKen0...

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toscanini @catatonichic.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

I read queer romances. My ereader's suggestions are always straight o.O

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toscanini @catatonichic.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

Tūwhitia te hopo, mairangatia te angitū

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toscanini @catatonichic.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

All of us: Happy birthday, dear- Boo: Poupou. Me: Daaaaaad. Boo: Oops, I mean happy birthday mum's daaaaad that I call Poupou. My niece is a little bit different 🤣

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toscanini @catatonichic.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

My goal was to digitise another kaumatua cassette tape, engari the day has gotten away from me

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toscanini @catatonichic.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

@kebabette.bsky.social @moatatamaira.bsky.social been thinking of you two a lot this week due to the kōrero around library hours/future <3

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toscanini @catatonichic.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

It is da's birthday. I would like to both crawl back into bed and set the world on fire. Ppl still tell me it is a blessing my parents died a day apart. I get what they mean, but one year later, and I'm still not ready to feel that.

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toscanini @catatonichic.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Listened to an episode of Aria Code (with Rhiannon Giddens) that discussed Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" with specific reference to the Mad Scene and whoa *explodey brain noises* woven in and around the music is someone talking about different parts of the opera and musical arrangement

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toscanini @catatonichic.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Today, a stranger told SibW there are 3 types of Māori: horis, Māoris, and Māori. The look on her face when she was telling me. Laser eyes pew pew pew.

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toscanini @catatonichic.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

After watching stuff and talking w/friends, I'm still not any clearer about what/who is meant by the term Māori elite. I suspect that in this instance, the values for being elite/successful are Pākehā.

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Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Christchurch! Please email your local councillor to let them know how much our small community libraries are valued. They are not, as our mayor describes them, “just a building with some books in it.” The council is considering closing small libraries to cut costs. Please share.

An illustration of a grandmother and a small child entering a public library with the words “just a building with some books in it”. The roof of the library is a book on its side with an explosion of colour and beauty to symbolise knowledge, curiosity and creativity.

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toscanini @catatonichic.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

all Hoot-hoot did in that kōrero was highlight/underscore/provide an exclamation point for Pākehā privilege and entitlement Sirs, I *am* dislocated in my own country and have been for all 48 years of my Indigenous life.

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toscanini @catatonichic.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

Boo (5-year old niece) and I like to watch Frog and Toad (not *that* Frog and Toad) www.instagram.com/reel/CuJ-dWV...

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toscanini @catatonichic.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

when you're the majority and wield great power, privilege, and entitlement, your cultural values are reflected/embedded everywhere and are still used as weapons to oppress Māori, but you may feel "dislocated in your own country" because the reo is slightly more visible now than before? bro.

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toscanini @catatonichic.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

Celebrity treasure island NZ is interesting and terrible. The dynamics. The tears. The guilt. The gaslighting. The backstabbing. I've never watched one before, and I never will again when/if Price goes lolol

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

Kia ora! One of the nicer things about the bad place is the weekly AudioCulture NZ music quiz. Until AudioCulture sets up here and gets a crowd (it's coming) I'll be posting it. Have a go! It can be quite hard, but it's always interesting. www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/aud...

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AudioCulture Quiz - Article | AudioCulture

Welcome to the weekly AudioCulture Quiz. Clue: answers are on the site or, for those in a hurry, at the link below. AudioCulture Quiz, October 16, 2023 Opetaia Foa’i performing in Tahiti, 2005 1. ...

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Jem Yoshioka @jemyoshioka.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

It’s my birthday! Hooray! You can help me celebrate by looking at my art and sharing it with others!

Art of my characters from Folk Remedy featuring Maple, Peach, Ember, Sky and Miko. Maple reads from a book and behind shadow figures of yokai billow out behind.

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toscanini @catatonichic.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

The other day I asked a colleague what hurō meant. He said "Joy." No wonder I didn't understand it. It's not an emotion I'm familiar with.

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GOOD BOOKS @goodbookshopnz.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

Pay It Forward is a GOOD BOOKS initiative where our customers can buy book vouchers for very deserving local schools. Visit us in store or see our website to buy a Pay It Forward voucher or find out more: shop.goodbookshop.nz/c/pay-it-for...

The two schools that benefit are Mt Cook School (up the road from the shop) and Titiro Whakamua Hutt Valley Teen Parent School.

Twice a year, we divvy up the credit equally for the schools to spend on books for their students, all thanks to the generosity and kindness of GOOD BOOKS customers!

Visit us in store or see our website to buy a Pay It Forward voucher or find out more.

ākonga from Mt Cook School at the first Pay It Forward pay-out earlier in the year

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toscanini @catatonichic.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

I feel sorry for my colleagues. Every time I see some weird shit in the building, my sentences always start with, "If I were to say to you..." And they know straightaway it's non-corporeal stuff I'm asking lolol

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