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Karlo Mila

@karlomila.bsky.social
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Angry at Facebook. Poet. PhD. Creator / Founder / Director / Facilitator of Mana Moana - an indigenous knowledge / decol leadership programme for Pacific peoples. Activist. Artist. Māmā. Former academic. Currently writing three books.

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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Good morning BlueSky a poem to break your heart and make you cry. Trigger warning: Suicide, Racism nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/05/26/p...
nzpoetryshelf.com
Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: ‘Evil Intensified’ by Karlo Mila
Trigger warning: suicide, racism This poem is offered in the spirit of fierce love, justice, historical accuracy and statistical clarity. It is offered at a time when: The latest UNICEF Innocenti R…
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Elite Brownies Fundraiser… 2mo $10 brownies, art, signed books and treats auction, April 1st, 4.30-7.30pm St Andrew’s on the Terrace church hall… Raising funds for 4 sexualised violence support services, Moana women MPs of the opposition and women harmed by racism. Come sugar-rush for good causes!
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
This is a great project!!!
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-... Super important that we can understand the discursive techniques so that we can catch them - and if in an interview with him - can challenge him when he’s talking! It takes some training but rhetoric devices can be spotted and challenged in the moment. It’s powerful.
e-tangata.co.nz
Understanding political ventriloquism | E-Tangata
“David Seymour creates a shadowy force controlling our society, when in reality being tangata Tiriti or tangata whenua is a simple recognition of historical fact — not a set of restrictions.” — Brian ...
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I’m so looking forward to this conversation 💜💜💜
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Inclusion, respect, equality. Such terribly wide awake brains consider these. Nana naps… going back to sleep, numbing, dumbing, lobotomy material. It’s the revenge of the privileged feeling like they are not good enough even without their obvious advantages…
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Gaslit!!!
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Grateful for a functioning judiciary
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Avoid
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Topped with imaginary marmite
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Sarah Pallett @sarah4ilam.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Advice for our allegedly Christian PM. When Jesus said “Suffer the little children...” he really didn’t mean “Make the little children suffer” Just saying. #nzpol
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
“All these fools, however, find other fools who will vote them in.” 😂😂😂
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
He has no idea of how much families are struggling under his watch. “Let them eat cake.” This man only knows privilege and doesn’t even know his own privilege.
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Whoa. Thank you Tory ❤️
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Palau and Marshall Islands vote with the U.S. :( This is why Tino Rangatiratanga in Moana-Nui is so important.
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
“Nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.”James Baldwin
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Lolz!
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
🇵🇸 :(
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Aargh. Whakamaa Aotearoa.
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
😂😂😂
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I hope we stand and hold.
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
None of my playlists work for these times.
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
This is how I feel about the U.S.
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
pmn.co.nz/read/politic... So proud of Tongan horse power supporting and uphold Te Tiriti 🇹🇴🇹🇴🇹🇴 Mate Ma’a Te Tiriti!!! #pacificcousins
pmn.co.nz
Tongan advocates brutally condemn Treaty Principles Bill
Tongan community leaders have strongly opposed the Treaty Principles Bill, saying it threatens Māori sovereignty and repeats colonial injustices seen across the Pacific.
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I’ll be using this word! We need the language!
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
How beautiful
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Tautoko!
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
It must be satire. No. No. No.
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
My fav thing on the internet today.
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Ahahahaha
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Everyday another dumb thing.
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I can’t watch this myself, cos #cringe 😂 but it is doing the rounds. Honoured to honour my ancestors (Tangata Tiriti) who needed this stuff said. www.facebook.com/share/r/1BY1...
facebook.com
Redirecting...
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Sign the petition: The Green Party is calling for Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to restore proper funding for the school lunches programme, to drop the cut-price corporate model and restore the nutritious, community-led lunches we had before these changes. action.greens.org.nz/save_school_...
action.greens.org.nz
Save school lunches
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I know there’s some old saying about when you give with contempt or bitterness in your heart, it’s perhaps better not to give at all. #Seymour
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
That little sick feeling in your stomach when you find out you are the speaker straight after Annette Sykes… just the most incredible, dynamic, fierce, clear, confident and on-kaupapa speaker in the country 😂😂😂👀 *sweet* *no presh*
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Conundrum. 😂
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
open.substack.com/pub/emilywri... Ahh Emily, thank goodness for unflinching, brave, funny Emily. I have written a poem called “For my friends who’ve received death threats from white supremacists” Email fightwords2025@gmail.com to read it and fabulous poetry from Moana poets.
open.substack.com
“You shouldn’t be able to have any say girl”
The toxic hell of Facebook - and David Seymour’s role in fanning the flames
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
This makes me feel happy 😂😂😂
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I’m preparing a poem for the Treaty Principles Bill Select Committee for an in-person oral submission for Mana Moana at 8.50am Weds morning. Please encourage me to try and finish it on Tuesday… timeliness is so not my superpower #lastminutepressureaddict I predict a 4am Weds a.m. rising
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Some days it feels liberating to be a Karori housewife! See you at 1pm
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Gold as per usual Tina ❤️
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Like a beautiful “found poem” (composed by M. Bradbury)
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
www.1news.co.nz/2025/02/23/w... To blame this on China for doing something perfectly within its legal rights is an ugly, racist red herring. They are not currently, aggressively threatening world peace. Our commitment to being one of five-eyes for the aggressor who is threatening world peace is 😞
1news.co.nz
'We cannot hide anymore': Collins signals 'big budget' defence investment
A Chinese naval task group has conducted two live firing exercises at short notice in the Tasman Sea which forced commercial aircraft to divert in the past days.
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
😂😂😂
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
😂😂😂
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I fact-checked this and can’t understand it. Are the elites so scathing and manipulative of the general populace that they are recruiting political support and power - tactically - via neo-Nazi Christofacism without believing in it, or living its values - AT ALL!? It’s so WOW. Incomprehensible!
wow.me
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Ahh this. Was waiting for this and I’d like to see more of it.
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
youtu.be/Uxq6u2fg8c4 jeepers!!! Ominous. And I feel for those in the U.S. who can’t escape to NZ… even though we have our own problems… but his callousness about if the US collapses that all of us go down with it… hard to know!
youtu.be
Elon Musk: Fleeing to NZ won't help as NZ govt in power is opening NZ up to be bought by the wealthy
YouTube video by Mountain Tui
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Because there is an abundance of employment in Gisborne!!! Atrocious! So so so so so so bad! Gah!!!
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
😂😂😂
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