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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Hi to new followers. I am Jono, a 48 year old consultant archaeologist/para-historian in Taitokerau, northern Aotearoa-New Zealand. Once divorced father of three boys 17, 13, 4, partner to Dr Marine Biologist who is now retraining in MRI. Owns four banjos. Lives by the beach. Grumpy old socialist.
left school pregnant at 16, had my two sisters by 17. Divorced at 21. Married my dad at 29 and became a stepmum to five teens and young adults grieving the death of their mum. Had me. Homemaker/home missionary for 18 years while raising me, then retrained as ECE teacher in her 60s after dad died.
Love seeing my 78 year old mum's safari photos on the family chat from her third trip to Tanzania as she merrily spends me and my six siblings' inheritance.

Anyway, here are her new wildebesties.

...I am just being a whiny bizzich, shes earned her fun.
Being a professional Rememberer is the the worst position because it's just the same shit over and over and over for decades and people just forget/don't care/don't pay attention.
This is just really sad to see. My dad was the hostel manager in the mid-60s-early 70s under Hiwi Tauroa, and it was by all reports a great institution under his leadership. Both my older brothers went there and older brother has only just moved out of Paerata after a lifetime there.
Auckland school to close boarding hostels amid ‘ongoing concerns’ over student safety
The closure comes in the wake of bullying allegations at the school in recent years.
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Was just in the shower thinking about what Bartcop would think about *gestures wildly at all this nonsense*, and his love for Shirley and Garbage.
“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”
Garbage’s Shirley Manson Speaks Out Against Music Industry Economics: “This Is An Alarm Call”
Just before they kicked off their current run of dates, the ’90s alt-rock greats Garbage announced that it would be their final North American headline tour. When the band played at Denver’s Mission B...
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Holy crap the wind today is brutal cold.

I am inside, but lüften as is the custom, and it's frikken freezing.
I loooove that this is in the National Library!
tiaki.natlib.govt.nz
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
Lol mine was from the Wellsford lot north of Auckland. Nothing an 18 year old wants to hear more about than an 80 year olds visit to a kainga down the line as a young man, where he was offered the chief's teenage daughter as hospitality.
First time I saw my old truck in the wild, I stopped and gestured to the new owner to drop his window, and then proceeded to gush about it, so excited.

I was weird. It was awkward.

Just be chill that first time you see her again, Mr Fallows!
The sheep sharing starts after 9pm FYI
Oh I got one of these. $150 in 1995. Really nice roast dinner and lots of casual racism after the ceremony.
Haunted by kehua because you didn't want to have a karakia
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Are NZ’ers are aware how bad public health system now?Misdiagnoses, slow urgent xray results to patients, inexperienced, unsupervised nurses making mistakes, patients with special diets getting crap, no ability to urgently contact Drs. This is new. Over 70’s? Good luck.
Strike is about care #nzpol
If you went to church youth night in the late 70s/early 80s, you know what movie adaptation you were gonna be watching.
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
Sigh auto correct does me dirty yet again. Safe travels. Unless you need cleansing, then sage away.
No good comes from giving a child books such as these.

Fuck you Macauley, and the Schliemannish Trojan toilet seat you rode in on!