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Shambolikaaron

@shambolika.bsky.social

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Poetic aroreretini. Outreach librarian. Wife guy. Dad. Pākehā, Rangitāne, Ngati Kahungunu: Euronesian. Baritone ukulele is a silly name for the instrument I play, doesn't sound anything like a ukulele; I play the kitāiti, little guitar.

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Shambolikaaron @shambolika.bsky.social · Aug 16

I wish I could help all the people asking for help on here but I can barely look after myself, sorry. I know I'm privileged as fuck but that doesn't mean I have any money

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Shambolikaaron @shambolika.bsky.social · 2h

Maybe that was the joke

Shambolikaaron @shambolika.bsky.social · 7h

To be clear- this was sibling fun, not serious, hilarious

Shambolikaaron @shambolika.bsky.social · 8h

I might not have made that clear

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Shambolikaaron @shambolika.bsky.social · 8h

Not sad face! Laughing face! Sibling japes. Polly gave as good as she got

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Shambolikaaron @shambolika.bsky.social · 8h

Underrated skeet

Shambolikaaron @shambolika.bsky.social · 13h

Old rich beneficiaries of a welfare state that's long dead and unavailable to today's youth and who cry about a broken window while forcing their opponents out of politics with stochastic violence can get in the

Fucking Every Word @everyword.bsky.social · 22h

fucking bin

Shambolikaaron @shambolika.bsky.social · 9h

Forgot to tag #pukapuka so y'all can witness my name dropping

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Tjeerd Royaards @tjeerdroyaards.com · 22h

Road to peace. Cartoon for @trouw.nl.

#peace #future #Netanyahu #Trump

Cartoon showing a large peace sign in an Escher-like setting, with multiple perspectives and stairs going off into different directions. On the different stairs and floors we see Netanyahu on a golden throne, Trump looking at plans for New Gaza (with Trump towers and a golden state of himself, Hamas and hungry children. Body bags and skulls fill the nooks and crannies between the stairs. A mother and child look at a sign that says 'Road to peace' and shows a tangle of arrow all pointing in different directions.

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Shambolikaaron @shambolika.bsky.social · 12h

Years back my Mum said he could leave his shoes under her bed. Ew Mum 😆 but it's a great phrase

Shambolikaaron @shambolika.bsky.social · 13h

Fucking Every Word @everyword.bsky.social · 22h

fucking bin

Shambolikaaron @shambolika.bsky.social · 1d

Those blood harmonies eh?
Neil is the boring one but nice one, Tim is the cool AF one. Woodface is the only really good Crowded House album for this reason

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Shambolikaaron @shambolika.bsky.social · 1d

😆

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BikerChiwi @bikerchiwi.bsky.social · 1d

So the CoC, facing evidence that privatise utilities have been gouging consumers, want to privatise Chorus?

Wtf.

#nzpol

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Shambolikaaron @shambolika.bsky.social · 1d

It really is, we went there recently, the kids and us adults were enthralled. And your thing looks fascinating too

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 1d

Best poster this political season #NZPol

Colourful poster with a Moa on it saying “Make the Basin a Swamp Again”, found in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 1d

It’s really cruel. Homelessness is rising expediently, families can only afford to eat once a day and schools meals aren’t nutritious or edible, 120,000 households can’t afford power, parents are skipping meals and although we produce food for 40m NZers can’t afford meat, cheese and other basics.

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Shambolikaaron @shambolika.bsky.social · 1d

The rum and raisin ones are good

Shambolikaaron @shambolika.bsky.social · 1d

Cashing out the trust fund?

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Shambolikaaron @shambolika.bsky.social · 1d

This is the first ever hui of te Kaituhi Māori. Auspicious AF, I better be on my best behavior

Shambolikaaron @shambolika.bsky.social · 1d

Hey #kikorangi !
Te Kaituhi Māori hui/Māori writers' conference starts today in sunny Tūranganui a Kiwa! I'm on the bill of local poets who, tonight, will perform for the assembled poukaituhi (is that a word?). Fun times, welcome to the esteemed manuhiri

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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 2d

This is apparently always the pattern with a National govt. They take power, lay off a whole bunch of people, realise that they can't enact their policies without staff, then hire contractors who cost significantly more than full time staff and need training. A strategy both cruel and unproductive

Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 2d

Comment: Minister Judith Collins has relaxed constraints on consultants spend, after the public sector massively over-delivered on promised spending cuts ... and the Govt work-rate slowed accordingly.

Public spend on consultants slashed – but not to those embedded deep in govt

newsroom.co.nz

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Shambolikaaron @shambolika.bsky.social · 2d

Wait, the feel of the rows and columns and just the memory of which numeral is where.
I'm not great at it, but I can do it a bit

Shambolikaaron @shambolika.bsky.social · 2d

And I can do maths in my head, better than most people seem to be able to. Sometimes I visualise the rows and columns of numbers I'm adding and carrying but it's the feel of the numbers, not the numerals

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Shambolikaaron @shambolika.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes when I can't sleep I visualise 1, 2, 3, then 4 over and over, it takes a real effort to actually see them and they are fuuuucked up but I can feel what they look like easily. 3 is especially difficult to see, 4 practically jumps out at me

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Shambolikaaron @shambolika.bsky.social · 2d

Pleasantly caving in

Shambolikaaron @shambolika.bsky.social · 2d

"... usually the dimple where the stalk goes..."
coz I'm a perve