iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 9h

Our cells are so efficient, so why do we suck so much at it?

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Allegro 🍉 Salty Siren @alluringallegro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🙃🙃🙃 Entire communities are getting flooded and uprooted, food spoiling and clean water shortages when the energy goes out. But please! Keep worrying about your vacation.

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hawaii hit with back to back to back storms and people are worried about the poor tourists. People really don’t see locals as real. We just magically pop up in hula skirts when you show up to create an idyllic scene for you

Weather channel news report by Jonathan Erdman that says “Hawaii travel looks better this winter despite busy hurricane season. Four tropical storms and hurricanes have affected Hawaii in six weeks. But don’t cancel your winter travel plans.”

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My slide decks contain so many maps and I don't even do it consciously. I finished prepping my Environmental science lesson for this week and went to review my slides and it was: map, map, map, map, map, text, map, map, map lmfao

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The annual "kumu, you're 36?! we thought you were 25!" The "25 year old" in question:

Candid shot of me, a white mixed person with shoulder length hair being pushed back by sunglasses on my head, looking off camera, very tired with furrowed brows and bags under my eyes. We're on a field trip.

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Who do I know who works are hideaway bar? Or maybe hideout? Or was there recently? Someone told my coparent that they met one of my friends who works at this specific place and that’s so many people removed I’m at a loss lol

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Looks good as a wrap bracelet too and is less itchy lol

The same double love knot lauhala choker but now wrapped around my wrist with a bunch of other bangles

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Finally put findings on my lauhala choker

Selfie of me wearing a two stranded lauhala choker in love knot patterns

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Drs office trying to schedule me an appt and the next available is in May and they’re like, does that work for you? Like ma’am…I don’t even have a calendar for 2027 yet, how tf should I know?

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A former student (graduated) was ranting to me about how no one in their ahupuaa college course knows how to weed or do any outside work and I’m like, my poor, sweet, sheltered child, that is sadly the norm. Our school is not “normal”

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We’re learning about native and invasive species this week and I’m trying not to cry before my class just thinking about Pakele

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Even as an adult I still gotta deal with pimples on picture day

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just got out of an active shooter lockdown then had to speed over to teach at my second job. This is America.

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I gotta learn to write effective multiple choice questions, I can't grade a million short answer questions anymore.

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm doing way too much this semester, I feel like I'm drowning

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Prettyboy @prettyboybutch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is actually not even counting the part where for me and most of us in this state, a lot of the family you know who do claim to be supportive are still at church every sunday hearing god knows what

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I don’t understand the purpose if having “emotional check-ins” during a lesson if you’re just gonna go, aww you’re all sad? Moving on! Performative bullshit

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hooooly shit there’s so much drama and tea going on on FB between some big kanaka academics and things being said that I’ve always wanted to say and I’m LIVING for it

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’m working on a lauhala choker but it’s giving centipede vibes, so I’m thinking of making a centipede with some red dyed lauhala after

A two row lauhala woven love knot strand that still has the extra strand length hanging off, making it look like centipede legs. It’s naturally curving over a pareu making it look like it’s crawling across it

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

How bad must things be for a professor to get fired bc I’ve known professors who’ve sexually assaulted students and still got to keep their job or at least resign and find another professor position

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I bet this campus’s security guard to student ratio is better than the professor to student ratio

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We were doing punnet squares and had an example trait labelled with D/d alleles. I said “this parent then passed on their big D to their kid” and, of course, the students lost it. I did too lmfaooo

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I get my first paycheck after a 3.5 month hiatus bc of low summer enrollment/cancelled classes. I’m so stoked these past 6 weeks have been fucking rough

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Waiting for our gels to run in lab and the students started a giant game of cards lol. It’s honestly nice to see them hanging out as opposed to just going on their phones the whole time

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My rating of why fish don't exist: pffffffftttthhhhhhtttt. I feel duped.

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Told my students I would grade tonight so now I have to fucking grade

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Damn pigs won’t let us grow any potatoes

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We were learning about meiosis today and I had my Hs students draw out the phases. One student thought they’d be funny and draw a sperm fertilizing an egg and I just said, that’s fertilization, show me how the sperm and egg are formed 😂

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

David Attenborough is great and all, but I'm so ready for another nature documentary voice...

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I can make a slide deck that's just maps and graphs, telling a whole story over an hour long. That's my super power.

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I feel like it can’t be, but I swear I’m hearing a bat outside

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I hate saying it, but sometimes you just get a class that makes you want to quit teaching. Trying to appreciate all the wins in my other courses but I put my heart and soul into making meaningful learning experiences so it sucks when you get a group that has 0 interest in participating and learning

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craig boone. @sailorsmoons.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

you can't sign treaties with conquered people and no we weren't. stop regurgitating white lies as fact. you sound dumb.

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

One of my HS students said they like to sleep in all their classes. Except mine, but only bc I make it impossible to sleep in it, always making them do labs and think lmfao

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My lab ran late & a student from the next class came in, asking what class this was. I told them then they said, whoa, wait, are you Professor Keora? Then said they really wanted to take my class bc of my work on Keaomelemele. Like what?!? 😭Closest I’ll ever get to feeling famous I think lmao

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Google classroom actually really sucks. No bulk edit. No creation of sections within the same class. No quarter/semester options. I don't get how it became such a standard for a lot of high school teachers.

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

student, trying to explain a Filipino tradition bc they need to miss class me: it's ok, I know it, I'm Filipino, too Student: you're Filipino?! I thought you were just mixed? Me: ...with what? lmao They then proceeded to try to get me to join the Filipino club. I'm like, I'm an instructor, tho...😂

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Sometimes I don’t want to believe in evolution simply bc there were so many eugenicists involved in it

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My journey of getting into the house on the cerulean sea came to a quick and crashing halt when I learned the author was inspired by the sixties scoop. I think I’m just done with white authors. There is something wrong with them.

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“I really believe gender characteristics are biological bc my sons are so rowdy and messy and my daughters are so neat and calm and I can’t possibly imagine that it’s bc I scold my daughter when she’s dirty and impolite and giggle when my son whips his penis out in the middle of the store”

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

She got hissed at and was having none of it

A tuxedo cat sitting with her paw on top of a gray and white tabby’s head who is laying down with airplane ears

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 07/09/2026

Oh they're just spelling it out now

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I was trying to make a mo’o, do you see it?

A small woven lauhala potential earring with a black design of a lizard

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

From an audit of Anchorage police: "The consultant found that American Indian or Alaska Native people accounted for just over 45% of the people involved in use-of-force encounters while they account for just over 7% of the city’s population." Color me not surprised. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

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City releases sweeping outside audit of use of force by Anchorage police

The audit, which covered a 4 1/2-year period, found the department’s tally of use-of-force incidents was higher than Seattle, Portland or New Orleans.

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is why I love teaching at community colleges and high school. Can’t even fathom having to teach a lecture with like 200 students

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026

My pedagogical philosophy begins with the premise that I am helping students become better thinkers than they were before and that doing this effectively will best prepare them for whatever life throws at them, intellectually, economically, and otherwise.

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Literally tried to search this company with the Hawaiian word ike in it and even *after* I said no I meant ike *and* I put it in quotations, google *insisted* that I made a typo and meant bike

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