Good to know!

The excellent creative enterprise, Moana Fresh, runs one of their street-facing windows in Avondale, West Auckland, as a gallery and are currently showing Wellington-based Sāmoan ceramic artist, Amanda Stowers in a very sweet installation of functional and decorative ceramic works:

Get a lux up ya.

That mf hasn't done a shop since 1994.

Not helping our reputation

About to get thrown out of here for obvious reasons

It is possible to think that the Israeli apartheid must end now, and that the bombing of Gaza is a war crime, and also think that Hamas indiscriminately murdering civilians is a war crime. It's not even a paradox or a logic puzzle, it's a basic consistent moral position.

"we're like a family" coming out of a boss's mouth should always just sound like "we're lnnk m fmmmmy" because someone has swiftly pinched their lips shut. we're not a fucking family. I work. you pay. that's the deal. we even have a contract. your business does not feature on my family tree

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN DAY!

*stares in Māori* I'll pass.

Come on over, I wanna wear you like a sock puppet.

Remember Kafui?

Wtf Jan Hellriegel is a cooker? lol

A reminder that our Emerging Māori Writers Residency runs for 3 months in the first half of next year - and comes with a writing room, a mentor from the Māori arts community, and a stipend of $15,000. Get those applications in by 31 October!

More like space cadet.

👋🏽 Taeao manuia bluesky, Looking to keep adding Pasifika & Maaori newcomers who are interested, to the Tagata Moana Feed: bsky.app/profile/did:... If you are Pasifika 🌊 &/OR Maaori and want to be added please like this skeet OR re-skeet for awareness fa'amolemole lava fa'afetai!

They'll be allowed to legally hunt us next election.

Would a 20-year-old Māori unlawfully entering the home of an ‘elderly Pākehā man’ only get trespassed? #rhetorical

Jordan Bolo Peterson.

I'm here for Hayao Miyazaki blowing up factories AND cutesy movies.

My feed is a fuckin mess.

Aotearoa has the opportunity to do the funniest thing possible

DON’T NEVER DRINK AND DRIVE. DRIVE HIGH.

From the 19th century til the 1930s New Zealand sufferers of asthma and bronchitis were offered a range of herbal cigarettes containing jazz cabbage. The ad on the left appeared in the New Zealand Herald in 1882, and the one on the right in the Evening Post in 1904. Via the National Library.

jodka shots, anyone?

almost time to go to jed!

This works on so many levels.

Just touching base I'm over here touching my base I got lotion on my base rn

This king, I swear to god

Upset that my sex tape was leaked but happy that it passes the Bechdel Test.

Those geeks from Revenge of the Nerds grew up to enslave humanity.

Dave Rennie laughing his arse off somewhere.

A reminder once again that Bluesky WILL NOT promote bad actors onto people's timelines because there's no centralized algorithm. If you want to prevent bigots from spreading their hate, REPORT, BLOCK, MOVE ON. Do not reply to them. Do not quote them. Do not screenshot them. Cut off their exposure.

Whatever happens it's been a good year to be a Warriors fan mauri ora.

Blessing your timeline with New Zealand's greatest road sign

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing us we had a Spring and Summer.

your honor those are my emotional support gold bars

*wipes rheumy eye hacks up half a lung* I remember when this place was nothing but furry hog as far as the eye could see.

Rotorua āpōpō for Kupu Festival. Particularly looking forward to Prof Linda Tuhiwai Smith's keynote: From Decolonising Methodologies to Recolonising NZ Literature and Ross Calman/Paul Diamond's Writing History. uploads-ssl.webflow.com/646b380c3877...

More pole dancing, less nzpol.

Taeao manuia blue sky, o a mai?

Screamin’ Jay

Idk who I'm following now but it'll make things interesting when we figure out later on down the track that we've blocked each other on multiple platforms lol.