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Kim Tairi (ia/ahau/koe/she) Nā te mea he Māori ahau

@kimtairi.bsky.social

Moko helping ♥️

October 31, 2025 at 6:54 AM Everybody can reply

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D Jukic She/her

@dejanajuk.bsky.social

Wool sales are great. First next winter knit for one of the moko. 🧶🪡🧵

Loyal tweed pink wool knitted into a vest with hat laying on a wooden table.

November 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM Everybody can reply

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🇵🇸 Dean Tāne 🇵🇸

@dean-tane.bsky.social

Every time I see a video of someone receiving their moko kauae or mataora in the presence of their whānau, my wairua really wells up 💓

October 30, 2025 at 10:12 PM Everybody can reply

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Veranoa Hetet

@whaeavee.bsky.social

I've started a new Kākahu. The first one I've woven since my dad,
Te Rangikaiamokura, died. I'm weaving it in honour of him and it will go to my mokopuna, born a few days after we buried dad. My moko carries his koros name Louis Te Rangikaiamokura 💙

November 2, 2025 at 8:04 AM Everybody can reply

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TT | Kami

@hessianlobo.bsky.social

My big hundred line wish is a moko romance route

October 31, 2025 at 6:20 PM Everybody can reply

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Cyn🏳️‍⚧️ | Goth Kitty

@cynyxal.bsky.social

Didn't get to do my Halloween photoshoot because Moko decided to misbehave.

#gposers #gposersnsfw #ffxivafterdark #miqote

November 1, 2025 at 6:31 AM Everybody can reply

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Eden L☆

@edenleicester.bsky.social

(hundred line) people who are like 'ohhh i would ship nozomoko but moko is obviously straight!' then ship gaku with 8 different men are weak and will not survive the storm

October 30, 2025 at 11:22 PM Everybody can reply

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️

@snarkysillysad.bsky.social

Moko Kauae ceremony in New Zealand. A Moko Kauae (traditional facial tattoo) represents a woman's whanau and leadership within her community. Recognising her whakapapa, status and abilities. 🔊 #AGoodPlace

Source: www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s...

October 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM Everybody can reply

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The Godyssey Podcast

@godysseypodcast.com

Ta Moko are traditional Maori tattoos. Applied with whale bone, they indicated your tribe, heritage and your experiences, telling the story of your people and your own life. Colonists tried to eliminate the practice but some things are too strong to kill. #MythologyMonday

Modern Ta Moko examples, showing a man with facial tattoos and arm tattoos dressed in traditional chieftan wear, including straw shoulder pads and cloth skirt but no shirt; he has feathers in his knotted hair. The woman on the right shows off her tattoos beneath her mouth on her chin and the expansive tattoo on from her calves to her upper thigh, a twisting motif.

A photo that reveals the extensive nature of a late 19th century/early 20th century Maori face tattoo. The man, white-faced and looking sorrowful, stares off-camera with tattoos from the tip of his hair to his neck, wrapped in traditional cloak beyond that. Photo techniques in New Zealand were developed to erase Ta Moko from photos, but here they are on full display. This is part of a series of photos showing elders, by Elizabeth Pullman, New Zealand's first well-known photographer.

October 27, 2025 at 2:08 PM Everybody can reply

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Pugowned

@pugowned.bsky.social

I attempted to create a Māori Sim, and she just didn’t feel complete without her moko kauae. I wanted to use it respectfully, and I hope I’ve done so. My first time using the create a tattoo option #TheSims4

October 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM Everybody can reply

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Frost Llamzon

@frostllamzon.bsky.social

Commission for Moko

Artwork by Illustrator Frost Llamzon depicting a Minotaur Lunging forward with its fists ready to brawl.

October 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM Everybody can reply

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Cyn🏳️‍⚧️ | Goth Kitty

@cynyxal.bsky.social

Moko and I have just chillin at The Dragon's Den talking for 6 hours while I host for @sylvanaxiv.bsky.social

New Girlfriend stuff.

#gposers | #miqote | #gposersnsfw

October 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM Everybody can reply

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モコ@うおマロ漫画更新中です！

@moco22.bsky.social

📢お知らせ

こんにちは、モコです！
いつも応援してくださり、ありがとうございます☺️

11月のカレンダーのお申し込みは本日10月31日(金)までとなっております✨
今月のテーマは【アートなうおマロ】🎨
ダイナミックな芸術の秋を楽しんでいただけたら嬉しいです！

▶︎ お申し込みはこちら：https://gekkan-letter.jp/@moko

#月刊レター

October 31, 2025 at 3:36 AM Everybody can reply

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Cyn🏳️‍⚧️ | Goth Kitty

@cynyxal.bsky.social

Out on the town with Moko, my sister and collar. (Not an OC or NPC)

#gposers | #miqote

October 26, 2025 at 11:04 PM Everybody can reply

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Scratch Bear

@scratchbear.bsky.social

Now working on the second camo color.

#Scalemodels #WhatIf #3dprinting #jasdf #airfix #boeing #kawasaki #skyfox

Airfix Boeing/Kawasaki Type 85 Mōko 1/72 scale model

October 25, 2025 at 8:21 AM Everybody can reply

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Big Sister 🔞

@atherist.bsky.social

I’m so much funnier when I voice act the shit I write but, whatever *bows*
I hope I can cheat the unsexy death for the sexy porfle sexy… uh…. Uh………..
moko mommy make me two tea i need leave now *kiss* i love you many lovers of my sick fuck brain

October 24, 2025 at 3:13 AM Everybody can reply

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seb

@theskatefather.bsky.social

TBH i prefer the Maori Moko

October 23, 2025 at 2:20 AM Everybody can reply

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owlAurora

@owlaurora.bsky.social

second post in two days wow can you believe it? anyways remember to wear your friends in your sandals. it's critically important you do this

#macro #sizesky #paws

moko resting her paw on its heel over her sandal, not paying attention to the tiny laika tied to the bridge of her standals while they catch their breath

October 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM Everybody can reply

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Hina ⛩

@rasenkaikyo.etheirys.social

I'm sooo sleepy and trying to go to bed, and meanwhile my brain is just like "the shishu glamour gear as well as moko the restless have bird iconography because shishu is hingashi's southernmost of its main islands and that crest likely symbolizes suzaku" thanks for that

October 22, 2025 at 6:30 AM Everybody can reply

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bearded_dragonn

@beardeddragonn.bsky.social

I didn’t know what to draw for Halloween this year until Moko reminded me that “Dark Mason” exists. I think this is the first time I’m posting this beastly form of Mason on social media, but here’s a Halloween movie poster of him for the spooky season. >:]

October 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM Everybody can reply

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Rosescary Picador Calbooooooon!

@rpicado.bsky.social

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

Jean Gabin wears a jaunty fedora with a nifty scarf from the 1937 film Pepe le Moko

October 19, 2025 at 8:34 PM Everybody can reply

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JawZ

@jawz.bsky.social

was just woop all that money put it into me & my career and suddenly 4 years of hard work turned into, well awesome.

I am content, beyond content. Best is that now I am surrounded by friends with whom I can share this uwu, next year I wanna go to Europe meet Articlion, perhaps even Moko

October 19, 2025 at 10:46 PM Everybody can reply

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Te Pāti Māori

@tepaatimaori.bsky.social

Sharing @whaeadeb.bsky.social latest op-ed

“No Room for Mistakes When You’re Māori.”

#NZPol
Wording in Alt text too

Screenshot of an NZ Herald article titled “Te Pāti Māori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer failed to declare two properties under Parliament’s rules”. Below the headline is a photo of Debbie wearing a pale hat and red earrings, with her moko kauae visible. A red banner across the bottom reads, “Opinion: No Room For Mistakes When You’re Māori.”

I made a mistake. I own an empty section in Pātea. I took advice, it was wrong, and I fixed it. I’m not naïve about this. I know what it is to be scrutinised to the point of exhaustion, to have every action measured against impossible standards, to be told that strength means never showing strain. But real leadership is about honesty learning, owning, and continuing forward with integrity, even when the weight is unfairly distributed

We are trying to reset and rebuild our movement in a system where the economy, media, and message are controlled by those who benefit most from keeping Māori power contained. Every day, we operate in an environment shaped by right-wing influence billionaire-funded think tanks, media that fears Māori self-determination, and narratives that protect the status quo

For Māori leaders, we’re not allowed to stumble, to feel pressure, or to be human. When others make mistakes, it’s forgiven. When we do, it’s headline news, moral panic, and political theatre. That double standard is not accidental; it’s the machinery of control

Every Māori voice that challenges colonial comfort becomes a target. Every act of resistance is called “radical.” Every reset is painted as chaos. Yet our movement is not chaotic it is courageous. It’s Indigenous leadership refusing to fit into systems designed to erase us

We are resetting because political, economic, and media forces have converged to silence dissent & privatise democracy. The same hands that profit from inequality shape public opinion & fund the outrage machines that attack Māori for leading differently

We are not treated equally and never have been. But we will keep striving for equity fighting smarter, stronger, together. Our reset is not retreat. It’s renewal. Māori leadership will not be defined by those who fear it. We’re here to rebuild systems that serve people, not profit, reclaim media that speaks truth, & restore mana to politics that remembers its obligations under Te Tiriti o Waitangi

October 20, 2025 at 7:15 AM Everybody can reply

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Pōneke

@archivesrock.bsky.social

Ancestry, primarily, depicting whakapapa - especially with respect to moko kauae

October 18, 2025 at 11:38 PM Everybody can reply

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷

@paullecomtephoto.nz

Ode to Brian Brake

Piopiotahi Milford Sound Sunset.

Te Rua-o-te-Moko Fiordland National Park, Te Tai Poutini West Coast, Aotearoa New Zealand.

#GreatNZRoadie #Nikon

I couldn't resist. This image has been taken by hundreds of thousands of people, and by photographers way more talented than me, but I've been dying to make this iconic matt black & white image for a long time.

A dead calm fiord at low tide with a pyramid shaped mountain reflected in the water & a burst of sunlight in the dust in the atmosphere above the mountain

October 18, 2025 at 11:09 PM Everybody can reply

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