Jono
@jonocarpenter.bsky.social
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
· Sep 18
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.
Just because I watched the NZ Music Hall of Fame induction vid and they played the french horn break from A Thing Well Made which, along with Sufjian Steven's trumpet in Casimir Pulaski Day, are my favourite little bits of brass ina song.
The Mutton Birds - A Thing Well Made (Live)
YouTube video by muttonbirdsandbeyond
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December 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Just because I watched the NZ Music Hall of Fame induction vid and they played the french horn break from A Thing Well Made which, along with Sufjian Steven's trumpet in Casimir Pulaski Day, are my favourite little bits of brass ina song.
Picture of the staff who operate this bluesky account
December 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Picture of the staff who operate this bluesky account
This may be the best thing you read all week, maybe all year. Take a break from the nonsense and noise and sit with this a bit. Low key my eyes got wet.
Jerry/Gary Gergich is a Stoic sage and this is the most positive model of masculinity I can think of
December 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
This may be the best thing you read all week, maybe all year. Take a break from the nonsense and noise and sit with this a bit. Low key my eyes got wet.
And finally this just reminds me of crusing around K Rd and upper Queen St when I went into town to do errands with dad in the early-mid 80s.
Baptist Tab, Beresford St loos, out to Epsom to Eves Pantry to pick up pavs and brandy snaps, veges from Ah Que's, back to St Cuths.
Baptist Tab, Beresford St loos, out to Epsom to Eves Pantry to pick up pavs and brandy snaps, veges from Ah Que's, back to St Cuths.
The Front Lawn - Walkshort
YouTube video by muttonbirdsandbeyond
youtu.be
December 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
And finally this just reminds me of crusing around K Rd and upper Queen St when I went into town to do errands with dad in the early-mid 80s.
Baptist Tab, Beresford St loos, out to Epsom to Eves Pantry to pick up pavs and brandy snaps, veges from Ah Que's, back to St Cuths.
Baptist Tab, Beresford St loos, out to Epsom to Eves Pantry to pick up pavs and brandy snaps, veges from Ah Que's, back to St Cuths.
Love how these three amazing writer/performers are so awkwardly New Zild when you make them sit down for a minute.
The Front Lawn (1989)
YouTube video by nh6central
youtu.be
December 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Love how these three amazing writer/performers are so awkwardly New Zild when you make them sit down for a minute.
Since Casablanca is trending, and even though I only reposted it a week or so ago, heres Claude Raines by The Front Lawn, because you can never hear it enough.
The Front Lawn - Claude Rains
YouTube video by Scott Anderson
youtu.be
December 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Since Casablanca is trending, and even though I only reposted it a week or so ago, heres Claude Raines by The Front Lawn, because you can never hear it enough.
Reposted by Jono
In S17 of #Taskmaster, Nick Mohammed dressed as a vampire for his tasks. The production scrubbed all his reflections when he's dressed like this, but the only way I knew is because someone told me about it. It's subtle and very cool.
December 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
In S17 of #Taskmaster, Nick Mohammed dressed as a vampire for his tasks. The production scrubbed all his reflections when he's dressed like this, but the only way I knew is because someone told me about it. It's subtle and very cool.
41 Minutes.
There is no legitimate reason not to release the complete Sep. 2 video.
They released video of the first strike. What national security justification could there be for releasing video of the first part of the action but not the second? They wanted to cover up what happened after the first strike.
They released video of the first strike. What national security justification could there be for releasing video of the first part of the action but not the second? They wanted to cover up what happened after the first strike.
December 5, 2025 at 11:55 PM
41 Minutes.
Reposted by Jono
Normalize the dismantling of intrusive, nonconsensual surveillance technologies
December 5, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Normalize the dismantling of intrusive, nonconsensual surveillance technologies
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What I find most striking about this moment is how many people's whose identity revolve around the principles and aesthetics of resistance (from academic freedom to "don't tread on me") offer up a big bag of nothing when push came to shove...
Most of our institutions are led by amoral climbers who believe in nothing besides their own advancement, which means they’re not willing to suffer or sacrifice for anything besides that. This is one reason universities are the way they are.
December 5, 2025 at 11:37 PM
What I find most striking about this moment is how many people's whose identity revolve around the principles and aesthetics of resistance (from academic freedom to "don't tread on me") offer up a big bag of nothing when push came to shove...
This was too much for 7am, particularly after a 1.5hr drive.
December 5, 2025 at 5:05 AM
This was too much for 7am, particularly after a 1.5hr drive.
I feel like 17 hours of Dinosaur Jr is not enough.
December 4, 2025 at 7:57 AM
I feel like 17 hours of Dinosaur Jr is not enough.
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When your country's collective ability to bullshit on the internet is extensive enough to shape AI slop.
December 4, 2025 at 12:40 AM
When your country's collective ability to bullshit on the internet is extensive enough to shape AI slop.
Bougie private school Principal of a school founded by a Canary Wharf wideboy developer issues a rebuke to Minister for using the NZI to go shopping for innapropriate solutions in the USA.
Lots of talk about equity.
Not exactly a full-throated denunciation, but still surprising and a start.
Lots of talk about equity.
Not exactly a full-throated denunciation, but still surprising and a start.
December 3, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Bougie private school Principal of a school founded by a Canary Wharf wideboy developer issues a rebuke to Minister for using the NZI to go shopping for innapropriate solutions in the USA.
Lots of talk about equity.
Not exactly a full-throated denunciation, but still surprising and a start.
Lots of talk about equity.
Not exactly a full-throated denunciation, but still surprising and a start.
Oh shit.
At 17s Founders Prizegiving for HS.
Its 30 years since my own senior prizegiving.
Jaysus.
At 17s Founders Prizegiving for HS.
Its 30 years since my own senior prizegiving.
Jaysus.
a man is standing in front of a fire and says game over man game over
Alt: a space marine is standing in front of a fire and says game over man game over. Aliens game over meme
media.tenor.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Oh shit.
At 17s Founders Prizegiving for HS.
Its 30 years since my own senior prizegiving.
Jaysus.
At 17s Founders Prizegiving for HS.
Its 30 years since my own senior prizegiving.
Jaysus.
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We need a wealth tax, not just to be able to fund infrastructure and public services, but also because very rich people are a threat to democracy. And I don't just mean billionaires, who should not exist at all.
December 2, 2025 at 9:09 PM
We need a wealth tax, not just to be able to fund infrastructure and public services, but also because very rich people are a threat to democracy. And I don't just mean billionaires, who should not exist at all.
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"A full bottle is silent, a half bottle rattles" 整瓶不搖半瓶搖
December 2, 2025 at 9:11 PM
"A full bottle is silent, a half bottle rattles" 整瓶不搖半瓶搖
Reposted by Jono
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Reposted by Jono
It's further evidence of an electoral strategy that doesn't seek to inspire or energise people, but to tamp down the short-sighted financial concerns of 'middle NZ' swing voters. It's a bad strategy, within National's framing, and I'm really worried that it won't be enough at the next election.
December 2, 2025 at 2:45 AM
It's further evidence of an electoral strategy that doesn't seek to inspire or energise people, but to tamp down the short-sighted financial concerns of 'middle NZ' swing voters. It's a bad strategy, within National's framing, and I'm really worried that it won't be enough at the next election.
Omg 4 is home aick and we have just discovered Kiri ans Lou.
Harry, Don, Rima, Jaquie and Mark! OMGeeeeeee (ok, and the other guys too).
Trying to explain the depth of feeling I have for the first three in particular to the missus is not working.
Harry, Don, Rima, Jaquie and Mark! OMGeeeeeee (ok, and the other guys too).
Trying to explain the depth of feeling I have for the first three in particular to the missus is not working.
December 2, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Omg 4 is home aick and we have just discovered Kiri ans Lou.
Harry, Don, Rima, Jaquie and Mark! OMGeeeeeee (ok, and the other guys too).
Trying to explain the depth of feeling I have for the first three in particular to the missus is not working.
Harry, Don, Rima, Jaquie and Mark! OMGeeeeeee (ok, and the other guys too).
Trying to explain the depth of feeling I have for the first three in particular to the missus is not working.
Listening to Electric Love by BØRNS and I hear the refeain and all i see is
a man in a black tank top is holding a glowing object and the word blip is above him
Alt: a man in a black tank top is holding a glowing object and the word blip is above him. Jordan Peele has caught lightning in a bottle.
media.tenor.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Listening to Electric Love by BØRNS and I hear the refeain and all i see is
Reversion to the mean. Stock-trampled 99% cockle (Austrovenus sturchburyi) shell midden with a little but of floating fire-cracked rick and charcoal. Pataua.
Summer fieldwork so obviously 4 came down with a cold overnight and Dr Marine is missing work to look after him.
Sounds about right.
Summer fieldwork so obviously 4 came down with a cold overnight and Dr Marine is missing work to look after him.
Sounds about right.
December 1, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Reversion to the mean. Stock-trampled 99% cockle (Austrovenus sturchburyi) shell midden with a little but of floating fire-cracked rick and charcoal. Pataua.
Summer fieldwork so obviously 4 came down with a cold overnight and Dr Marine is missing work to look after him.
Sounds about right.
Summer fieldwork so obviously 4 came down with a cold overnight and Dr Marine is missing work to look after him.
Sounds about right.
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Kindness over cruelty. Donated and sharing,,, cuz sharing is caring,!!
www.youthfocus.org/future-of-ms...
www.youthfocus.org/future-of-ms...
November 30, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Kindness over cruelty. Donated and sharing,,, cuz sharing is caring,!!
www.youthfocus.org/future-of-ms...
www.youthfocus.org/future-of-ms...
Ran over to return a football to my kids game. Old, fat but supportive, feeling like a badass.
Grabbed ball, bending from the waist like a spry 35 year old, feeling like a sportstar.
Sunglasses fell off before coming up, reached out, overbalanced, fell over int the mud, feeling like myself again.
Grabbed ball, bending from the waist like a spry 35 year old, feeling like a sportstar.
Sunglasses fell off before coming up, reached out, overbalanced, fell over int the mud, feeling like myself again.
Picked up two lengths of PVC pipe at Home Depot and weighed them like swords, feeling like a badass.
Picked out fittings and mentally engineered the prop I was going to make with it all, feeling like a genius.
Watched every individual part fall to the ground at checkout, feeling like myself again.
Picked out fittings and mentally engineered the prop I was going to make with it all, feeling like a genius.
Watched every individual part fall to the ground at checkout, feeling like myself again.
November 30, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Ran over to return a football to my kids game. Old, fat but supportive, feeling like a badass.
Grabbed ball, bending from the waist like a spry 35 year old, feeling like a sportstar.
Sunglasses fell off before coming up, reached out, overbalanced, fell over int the mud, feeling like myself again.
Grabbed ball, bending from the waist like a spry 35 year old, feeling like a sportstar.
Sunglasses fell off before coming up, reached out, overbalanced, fell over int the mud, feeling like myself again.