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Jono

@jonocarpenter.bsky.social
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Archaeology, banjos, Taitokerau, preschoolers and teens, lack of executive function, second chances, mental exhaustion, well-toasted bread, banjos. Not the real-life Indiana Jones, more a dwarfish sort of Evelyn O'Connell

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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Angus sends toe licks. 22 years for me. It comes and goes still, sometimes. Telling stories helps. Wishing you peace.
Angus the bearded collie x relaxing on the carpet
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Mmmhmm. Camt even say the L word huh?
Qiulae Wong tealing hard out.
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Dbag 14 is making himself some fresh pasta and as well as making terrible straining noises rolling out his fettuccine, he keep humming Che La Luna and now I have it in my head.
14's bowl of fresh pasta
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Motherfucker WHAT???
Micro greens $135  a kilo
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Now being taunted with a wall of fungi by the missus. But 5 is sick so clinic visit, Singapore healthcare full-court press (good luck getting antibiotics like that out of our local German Dr here! Scan this qr to get kids magazines to read on your device, lad!). Then chicken congee and ice kachang
Wall of fungus
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
When the cats (fams) away, the mouse (archaeologist) does play (spends saturday arvo mapping the 20-21st century evolution of late 19th century Euro stone field walls over the top of the mid-19th century Māori land blocks).
GIS project with an aerial image beneath polygons and lines representing land parcels, stone walls and changes to them, with a historic survey plan of Maori land blocks in a separate window
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you see this, we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation.
A drawing.
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Gosh its frikken tempting. Missus away, 17 would come because he likes Vince ironically. But given three Peters sibmings mive at the venue and fhey are all my ex-neighbours its a bit of a lion's den. But seriously, hes not even a proper empty suit. Just a vacuous vest
Twatcock
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Making bad choices.
Crispy noodles in the last of a jar of chilli oil
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Heart and soul of the film, she was.
Anita Mui and Jacki Chan in Drunken Master 2
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Drunken Master 2 RIP Anita Mui
Jackie Chan all oiled up for brawling.
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I keep getting photos of 5 eating street food in Singapore and tomorrow they will be from Malaysia and I am at home eating food box and working and recovering from whatever the hell put me in hospital last week. Bah. By the by, why are food box potatoes so blergh? Hello Fresh and MFB both?
A small boy with something on a stick, in front of tropical foliage
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Get yourself a whanau like Lee's I reckon. Epic.
Party shirt for Lee' 80th in Bali
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Looks good. Menu Enfant is my new band name.
Le Pukeko menu
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Frikken everywhere those things, even Cahors! The purple swamp hen is a great traveller, albeit a violent and rapey. Reportedly taste like shit but the french probably cook it in lots of butter and cream?
A cafe in the south of France named after the Māori name for the australsian swamphen. A ground floor cafe in green with wooden tables and chairs. Second floor is cream.with wooden shutters open to 8-light windows
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@barpublishing.bsky.social Your proprietary app still sucks, I still cant read my very expensive ebook after multiple reinstalls and cache clearing. I also cant access from my pc. What gives?
Error screen grab from the British Archaeological Reports /Glassboxx e-reader app
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
No marmite for my wheatbix???
A hospital breakfast with two weetbix, two wheatmeal toast slices, a pat of butter, jam and milk
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Oops. Aortic dissection, sepsis or uti. Who can say?
Old man in ED
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Oh, its awwwn!
Plum tree cuttings budding
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I shit you not, these folks were directly under the grass in a hugely popular beachside campground. What lies beneath, indeed.
GIS-based plan of multiple burials coloured by individual, and obsidian flakes indicated by black triangles.
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Goddamn its gratifying hearing 5 read. Tonight we have pretended I am the kid and he is the dad and he read me this week's reader from school in that mode. Then he took his current favourite book off his mum and has memory-read all of it to her. Three weeks of school + 5 years of scaffolding.
The cover of  Space Dog by Mini Grey. A cartoony illustration of a rocket like a kennel with a dog astronaut against a field of coloured planets
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
First day of filming and 14 reeeeeally having to stretch to play a kid who likes to fish off the Tutukaka breakwater.
A film crew with somensafety peeps in hi-vis mill around on a harbour breakwater while a teen in red pants fishes. The water is still, the sky is blue with light cloud.
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
When you get distracted by the Aella chart/AI doom discourse.
Two slightly burned cheese on toasts on a grey plate, with added thumb
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ermagurd, bro needed some new eyes for Christmas.
A middle-aged man in a garish orange 70s shirt and walk shorts holds a toddle with fucked up eyes
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
My colleagues are off laser scanning rock shelters/art somewhere on the Utah/Colorado border and taunting me with 1100 year old surface finds, while I do the lawns and throw out meal kit recipes boxed up since we moved in ten months ago.
A douchecanoe's hand, with a chunky silver wedding ring, holds a piece of black on white pottery with three lines of downward pointing black triangles. The ground beneath is sandy, with a green sock.
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
5, watering one of the lemon trees
Late afternoon sun over a still harbour with bush covered hills. The shadowy edge of a lawn in the foreground, with the upper half of a small boy apparently pissing on some citrus
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The Hut What 5 has been building with the big kids at playtime in the school bush for the last two weeks
A hut of branches and brush, in a forest of AoNZ native trees
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
RP your awa
Ngunguru river mouth. Still waiter flanked by sandspits under a clear blue sky. We are blessed and we know how lucky we are
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This fuggin' guy
A happy bearded collie x in b and w, getting all the scritches
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Mmmmyeah, got your collie hunting instinct right here. Inside this blanket potato.
A black and white collie x naps on a blanket with toys. He's is hunting pigs ears, in his dreams
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Plum, Baby Plum, Baby Baby, Plum Plum!
A little white and yellow plum blossom on a cutting in a pot, with another leafy bud
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
See! Kawakawa living in the Future!
Kawakawa Kimchi Kar

A silver minivan selling kimchi in the carpark by the railway line
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
He's got a ticket to ride (and eat)
A hand with a green stamp showing the Bay of Islands Vintage Railway/Keteriki, with a green train carriage named Tui behind. A blurry boy in the mid-ground wears an engineers cap
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Bday and Fday swag. All clothes, by request.
Brown leather casual shoes and blue, yellow and red, standing on concrete
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Facinating to do this as a kiwi...answered all but the critter-specific ones and I am a northeastern speaking sortofa pakeha.
Heat map of Jono's awesome english.
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I would like a tax cut actually, in order to continue to feed my teens.
Three hot dog buns, six vegetarian sausages, onion, half a cabbage with grated cheese, tomato sauce, mustard and sesame dressing
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
@toastchanges.com TOAST BUDS! I got buds on two of the awesome Black Dorisish cuttings, and two on a nice Louisa. So far. Fingers crossed.
A budding plum cutting in a pot with other cuttings  on a deck with outdoor furniture
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Bok choy and tat soi and broccolini out of the garden tonight. The broccoli we had the other night was twice the size of 5's scone. A small human friend had already chomped on it before it was harvested lol.
Small boy holding a
 big brassica in front if his face on a deck
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Lol jumped in the shower with 5 and the clay was so fine and I hit so hard it went through two layers and I was orange from tit to toe, and round the bend. Had to get 5 to help me scrub because I couldnt nend/twist to reach. Very fetching orange.
Half an idiot covered in orange clay, sitting in the drivers seat.
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The only Omak we stan
Omak Meats shopfront, in Te Kamo (gettit?). A paved footpath, black painted sliding door, and a red and gold sign saying Omak Meats
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Slightly late #WarshipWednesday post A dilapidated twin QF4 inch MkXVI gun currently sited at the Packard (car) Museum in Maungatapere. Generally cited as being from HMS/HMNZS Achilles, it was supplied for a refit late in WWII but not installed, but served in a coastal defence battery on Motuihe Is
Gun turret from the front right quarter, carpark on one side and fence to the road on the other. Gun turret from the right rear quarter, looking towards a road and petrol station.
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A little island pā for #hillfortwednesday Well, it was a pā until the farmers started abstracting water from the lake. Recorded by (now Prof.) Peter Adds in 1985 as part of Prof. Geoff Irwin's settlement pattern archaeology project, that turned into the Land, Pā and Polity monograph. 1/2
A small, bush-covered hill with a lake in the back and a seasonal wetland in the front. Foreground is covered in pine slash from tree felling.A line drawing from a plane table and alidade survey of a small pā with a summit platform, lower terrace, and defensive ditch. The drawing is taken from Irwin's (1985) Land, Pa and Polity NZAA  monographLand, Pa and Polity monograph cover. Yellow-tinted black and white oblique aerial photo of Tāwhiri Pā, southern Pouto peninsula
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Be the kind of archaeologist that sees the half a dozen fingernail-sized cockle fragments in the batter of the haul road, ten metres below the possible occupation terrace you found in the rain five months ago.
A pile of forest slash above a sandy haul road, with a 1 metre red and white scaleA few framentary cockle shell midden remnants in old dunes a good 3kms from the harbour
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
No cheating. Share the last picture of sky from your camera roll.
A school sportsfield in a valley in the shade, rimmed by native forest, with one side of the valley lit by morning sun, under a blue sky.
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Frikken neighbour kid always over here.
Two black and white collie x miscreants romping on green grass
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The big kids are all doing their morning run out on the little sand spit and up the coast. Bare feet in the sand and over the rocks, shoes (if any) strewn on the netball courts, as is the local custom. Cross country on thursday in the same location. Daffodil day Friday. These are the rhythms.
The Ngunguru River mouth, flat water but outgoing tide. A bush-clad hill on the left with the little Kauakarangi spit,  harbour mouth in the centre and Pi Manu spit on the right, with a pohutakawa
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Just gonna dwell with these here feelings for a bit.
A five year old with a new Buzz Light Air Bag(as he calls it) schoolbag holds his mum's hand and walks along the footpath by a tidal inlet in bright morning sun. There are pohutakawa, and green grass
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Cursed FB feed. Just terrible boofhead vibe. MAAAAAATE!
Lloyd Budd for Whangarei campaign FB, lots of blue, lots of fishing clubs and rugby, bad selfies.
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I'm over here in the 90s with a database of features and my buddy is in 2026 vibe-coding a workflow for kumara gardens and gourd frame models, for a pā reconstruction.
3D modelling nonsense
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Looks lovely outside though.
View from a downstairs window, with cabbage tree, manuka and ferns, and the underside of a timber ramp. Inside, a shel holds a desk lamp, files, and the butt of a Lee Enfield rifle
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