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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 · 14h
Motherfucker WHAT???
Micro greens $135  a kilo
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 17h
Not even an Empty Suit. He's jusyt the vest. All vest, no jacket.
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 17h
JFC just a complete word salad. There are many issues here that are issues for us to take issue with. Apparently Christ, he may be the least offensive of the NZF bunch though. Just naive and insouciant incompetence, but no actual malice idk.
nzherald.co.nz
Election 2026: Q&A with NZ First Whangārei candidate Vince Cocurullo
NZ First's Vince Cocurullo sits down with reporter Brodie Stone.
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 17h
He does indees look supremely hwhite. Chin up, lad. Or maybe not.
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 18h
other day i was at david lynchs grave just having a moment of thought and admiration and lookin down at all the flowers, and coffee cups, and two cookies and a coke, and wow it just hits you like a thousand suns that art is immortal. creation is too radiant to contain in a body. we trot across time
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 22h
They never want us to be like Singapore in the good ways. Link to a post about how Singapore's MRT almost didnt happen because consultants said it wasnt necessary and buses would manage. Because 5 had his fiest MRT ride to the zoo yesterday and the missus is a nerd (+ve) and sent me this.
facebook.com
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Gel Guards in Doctor Who. So scared as a seven year old I didnt get off my bus to walk the ~last 200m home. Ended up at the stop right outside my adult sister's place, two suburbs over.
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
So the AI thing is both Rapture and Retvrn. JFC it all makes sense.
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Dr. Karen Carr @quatrus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It seems to me that the fantasy of AI enthusiasts is that they will regain the slaves they lost with the end of the Civil War and the Civil Rights Act: they will have obedient servants who don't have to be paid and can't talk back. Maybe that's why they're so eager for AI agents to be conscious.
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
1:1 perfect fit. Aligment, one might be tempted to say.
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Sarah Følina | clikkiesky goes to ØH @subtlefire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
LRS: I can't believe I didn't put it together until now. we're not getting "left behind" in any professional or creative sense. we're going to miss the AI rapture and suffer the tribulation of... whatever they think people still capable of doing things themselves will suffer
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Love Harry Mowbray Shirtcliffing all over the floor. Love it.
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh man, Whaea Robyn and Ray Liotta in Black Bird. What a pair!
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I buy Dove because I like the smell of coconuts, peaches and limes idk
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Jesus the sub ed. must hate Liam Dann, making him out like a crying little bitch 'n all
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Juat fell into Roy's Clarkhole, and I can't get up. Everyone should watch The Odd Couple version od this at least once in their lives, but this one is just such a vibe. If you can manage the graphic effects-induced nausea. Christ, his fingers. His flow.
youtu.be
Roy Clark - Malaguena
YouTube video by kkiilljjooy
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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
Love to understand this as part of the Facist Project International.
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Your front passenger was not just in charge of the music and thr snacks. They were the Keeper of The Map.
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Anyway, once again I am back on my bullshit of leveraging consenting processes over minor changes to somewhat mundane heritage features to write local history which otherwise would never get written. And that is how my itch is scratched and how I find meaning in my work, day-to-day.
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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 · 03/10/2026
Not just Veep, but Parks and Rec too. The mores of the lumpen proletariat of Pawnee was supposed to be satirical, not a documentary.
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Carly Putnam 🦖 @cputnam.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
You are a national treasure, Big Kev.
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Thats rough, and scary Cath. Anyway and for what its worth this stranger is wishing you good news, and peace.
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I would take this Material Culture Studies paper.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 02/10/2026
Wait. What? www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ten...
mcsweeneys.net
Ten Objects Around Your House That Are Actually Just Tilda Swinton Getting Lost in a Role
November 5, 2021 (her b-day) 1/13/23
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Nice to be reminded that the blessings can flow down into the gene pool too, not just the traumas and abuses.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Welp. Tucker Carlson suggesting it would be good if Hitler had won World War 2 so everyone in the UK spoke a “European language” is quite the opinion. It was even a step too far for his guest, the Rather Right Wing Jacob Rees-Mogg.
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ITzzy SeaBOOscuit @ijspurcell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
honestly it’s kind of hilarious that they’ve approached a pontiff with a clear moral directive in the same fashion as like a junior senator from a dakota
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Parenting is a constant "There, but for the grace of god" headtrip. Its hard enough to do, but add in precarity, any and all of the abuses, sick family, whatever. So many cracks for a child to fall down. You really see it in a month in NICU in a poor community, as we did with 5. Some had no chance
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I mean i think our first mortgage was 7.45% fixed for three years on a 14 year term in 2006 so swings and roundabouts idk.
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just remembered in the shower how great interest rates on savings were in the early 2000s. I think the ex and I had BNZ accounts where you got bonus interest compounded monthly (went up from 4 to 7 or 8%?) if you deposited at least $20 and made no withdrawls. We were saving for a house deposit.
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everything is just so so stupid. Maybe it always was, but at least it wasnt so self evident before idk
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Awesome, Eugene.
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Eugene Alvin Villar @seav4f.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🧵 1/4: I recently saw this vintage Qantas poster with a unique “flower” map projection centered on Sydney. I like how the map almost neatly divides the four largest continents (Eurasia, North America, South America, and Africa) into the four petals.
Portrait aviation poster featuring a unique flower-like map projection centered in Sydney, Australia with the rest of the world split into four “petals”, which from the top-left going clockwise, roughly correspond to Eurasia, North America, South America, and Africa. Major cities like Peking, New York, Buenos Aires, Cape Town and oceans are labeled. A radial grid overlays the petals.

Above the map is the following text:

A New Air Map From the Australian Viewpoint
Great Circle Courses to the Four Quarters of the Earth

To the left is the text:

The radial lines passing through Sydney are true great circle courses (shortest routes from Sydney)

To the right is the text:

The concentric circles give equal distances from Sydney to all points in statute miles

Below the map is a large illustration of an old-school four-propeller sea plane, and below which are the following texts:

Qantas Empire Airways
Map plotted by W. H. Maze
Copyright Qantas Empire Airways Ltd.

To the bottom right is a logo featuring the Australian flag over a side silhouette of a plane and the motto “On His Majesty’s Service ...and Yours”.
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And its almost an hours drive from us. And we just have no worries aside from the general parental unease whenever they aren't around. This would not have worked 35 years ago.
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Was chatting with the ex and wondering why all the kids are so nice and sensible and lacking in Horn these days. 14 and half a dozen m and f friends are out camping at the back of a farm. Unchaperoned. Camp site is 10 minutes by atv and then another 20 minutes by car from the farmer parents house
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hmmm I think 5 is going to apply for asylum at Legoland Malaysia.
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Someone check Ryan Reynolds pockets
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We spent a few days puttjng a pit into a dry stacked stone fale (house) platform in American Samoa. Found a glass coke bottle at the bottom. It was so stinking hot.
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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
youve got to be kidding
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ah well the lupins and gorse and light blew out my suspension of disbelief pretty quick in Slow West.
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Frikken Joanne Black's back-pagers did for me in the end.
me.in
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
All these organs are far too comfortably smug.
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You dont read The Listro???
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Its The Listener/Metro for Gen Xers and Millenials (perjorative).
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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
I tried posting this five times but kept having image handling errors, and then neglected to review. What a wang.
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