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Aaron Hawkins

@ahawkins.bsky.social

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Co-Founder of Escarpment Domes. Director of Inspiring Communities. Leader of the Otago Housing Alliance. Sundays 12-2pm on Radio One 91FM.

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Aaron Hawkins @ahawkins.bsky.social · 18h

Kick ons at the farmers market

Aaron Hawkins @ahawkins.bsky.social · 18h

At the breakfast rave hitting up strangers for ibuprofen.

Aaron Hawkins @ahawkins.bsky.social · 1d

This is pretty fun too though btw (okay I'll stop)

The Human Language 'Goat' Tape, by Goat

8 track album

goat.bandcamp.com

Aaron Hawkins @ahawkins.bsky.social · 1d

Or this perhaps, for the later evening

The Wyrding Way, by Eusebeia

8 track album

eusebeia.bandcamp.com

Aaron Hawkins @ahawkins.bsky.social · 1d

Bandwagonning aside, it's been a great tournament. A legible format! 70-80 point games!

Aaron Hawkins @ahawkins.bsky.social · 1d

CAM MILLAR THE MAN THAT YOU ARE!

Aaron Hawkins @ahawkins.bsky.social · 1d

Dylan Pledger the man that you are

Aaron Hawkins @ahawkins.bsky.social · 1d

Big day today.

Have successfully inflicted upon my child the history of the Amen Break.

uk apache & shy-fx - original nuttah

YouTube video by rogomujaji

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Aaron Hawkins @ahawkins.bsky.social · 1d

TGIF

A Rhythm Protects One, by Call Super

13 track album

callsuper.bandcamp.com

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Aaron Hawkins @ahawkins.bsky.social · 1d

Now we just need Keanu to record an audiobook version of Ulysses

Aaron Hawkins @ahawkins.bsky.social · 2d

Gottem

Aaron Hawkins @ahawkins.bsky.social · 2d

Do the murders take equally as long?

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 2d

habeas corpus is the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa

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Aaron Hawkins @ahawkins.bsky.social · 2d

Never anything less than two hours of your life well spent.

God's Waiting Room w/ David Holmes 29th September 2025

Playing Electronica, New Wave, Psychedelic Rock, Psychedelic Soul, Dub. God's Waiting Room: a round-about selection of the cinematic, library music, rock 'n' roll, psych, experimental, unclassifiable ...

www.nts.live

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Aaron Hawkins @ahawkins.bsky.social · 2d

One year I went to the movies with my wife to try and kill time / relax (so little you can meaningfully do at this point) but we chose THE JOKER

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Aaron Hawkins @ahawkins.bsky.social · 2d

It’s not about driving to the voting booth as a trip generator. It’s about giving people the chance to drop their papers off en route to doing other things in their life.

Aaron Hawkins @ahawkins.bsky.social · 2d

He’s not an analyst either. He’s somehow managed to forge a career out of being an aggregator of other people’s reckons

Aaron Hawkins @ahawkins.bsky.social · 2d

What is the end game here? Making people feel bad about taking up an opportunity to vote in a dangerously low turnout election?

Honestly the urbanists need to pick their battles

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Aaron Hawkins @ahawkins.bsky.social · 2d

Somehow this was less controversial at my catholic high school than the time we put up Patty Hearst SLA posters

Aaron Hawkins @ahawkins.bsky.social · 2d

For Bursary history we had to write an essay on the accuracy of an historical film.

Others chose Braveheart or Schindlers List.

Me? The People vs Larry Flynt

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Aaron Hawkins @ahawkins.bsky.social · 2d

This is the value of judicious editing

Aaron Hawkins @ahawkins.bsky.social · 2d

Five pies? Two pies?

cc @brannavan.bsky.social

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Aaron Hawkins @ahawkins.bsky.social · 2d

This is the kind of content I am here for.

Underrated, impossible and physically exhausting job, that of the speaker.

Aaron Hawkins @ahawkins.bsky.social · 2d

I had a theatre lecturer who insisted on calling him Bertie B in a soothing baritone and try as I might it’s lodged in there for good

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morgan godfery @morgangodfery.bsky.social · 2d

imagine being the MP for southern māori and thinking the party of eruera tirikatene doesn’t have the right to stand in it. idiot

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