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makaʻāinana

@keoraborealis.bsky.social

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Kanaka educator & musician who can do “science” if forced to, they/them queer/māhū #LandBack NSFW-ish Read my thesis on the moʻolelo of Keaomelemele, western science, wai, & me 🙃: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/cb443b1d727046ef8a262b03d24462ef

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · Jan 22

Making a pinned with multiple threads as an FYI.
1. Why I'm here:

makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · Jan 19

I don’t actually want a lot of followers, like I just want a little bubble of only people who like me and are on the same page as me bc I am an outcast in almost every other space I exist in. Idc if it’s ignorant or whatever you want to call it, I just want *one* safe and social space for me

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 39m

My sister and I have been wanting to get a matching tattoo for years but our tastes are so different. We aaaaalmost aligned tonight when I said some kind of skeleton then we simultaneously went:

Her: a dinosaur fossil
Me: a skeleton dancing goofily

Her: damn. So close 😂

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 7h

Was thinking of getting my daughter a microscope for Christmas and was like, her HS science teachers will be so impressed by her microscope skills then remembered I will mostly likely be her HS science teacher lmao

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 11h

students in the mala:
ugh this is so much work, it’s so hot, can’t we just plant stuff and go back
In the classroom: can we go to the mala, it hasn’t been tended to in awhile
They want to have their cake and eat it, too lol

makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 11h

Me, jamming, pulling out weeds in the students’s garden while they stand around watching
Students: wow, the mala looks so good now, we really cleared it out
Me: what do you mean, we?

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 12h

just took 20,000 photos off my phone omg lol. now I need a good photo organizer app or something...

makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 13h

I actually would’ve really liked tung…sahur if it wasn’t attached to some gen AI shit

makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 13h

Absolutely hilarious to me that they wrote a whole article about this lol. This is by far my favorite weird fad/lingo of students. So much better than hawk tuah and tung tung tung tung sahur

The ‘6-7’ meme can be annoying. But kids are shouting it for good reason | CNN

Middle schoolers everywhere can’t stop shouting “6-7,” a meme that means nothing. But don’t worry about “brainrot,” experts say.

www.cnn.com

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 1d

nvm i tried to reschedule and they said they're all out, so I'm not risking that. gonna be a tough weekend I guess lol

makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 1d

damn, man, that tdap booster really wiped me out, but I scheduled my flu and covid vaccines for tomorrow...should I reschedule?

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 1d

Got my tdap vaccine booster yesterday and it triggered one of the worst migraines of my life I was literally writhing in pain and nausea all night

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 1d

I keep watching those realrealJapan shorts and is Japanese similar to Hawaiian in that they use a lot of hidden, double layered meanings in their writings/orations because of all the words that have multiple meanings? Or is the functionality still very different?

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BJ 🏳️‍⚧️ @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 2d

Still think it's just fear?

If you won't do it for your friends, or for your co-workers, or yourself, then please mask for children at the very least.

You don't know who has kids and who doesn't. You don't know if you're giving COVID to a parent who will pass it to their kid and fuck their life up

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 2d

“I’m battling with the school because they don’t believe anything is wrong with Dakota. They don’t believe he has long Covid. They don’t believe long Covid exists.”

Long Covid Is Real -- And It's Changing an Entire Generation

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 2d

Even then, the ”theory” is rooted in racism and colonialism

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 2d

All these social studies and civics courses and students still don’t know their rights or what to do when approached by a cop.

Education focuses so much on theory and nothing about application. Completely intentional, they want us useless.

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 2d

This island is too small, the older you get, the worse it becomes, especially as a teacher

makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 2d

She was like I was wondering if you’d recognize me in class bc I always checked you in before and omg she knows all my health info 😭😭😭

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 2d

Oh my fucking god, I’m at the drs for a check up and one of my college students was my nurse.

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 2d

When I say I like everything miniature, this is what I mean

makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 2d

You ever think about how your pets have cute, itty bitty organs inside of them? Like imagine their tiny, little heart? 😭

makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 2d

I keep thinking of how small their organs were when they were born, like omg, it still works? 😭 it’s too cute lol

makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 2d

Animals are so fascinatingly contradictory, outside we are beautiful and magnificent and inside is pure body horror gore

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 2d

Lol I get the Fear when I think too hard about the cosmos/astrophysics

makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 2d

You ever think about how your pets have cute, itty bitty organs inside of them? Like imagine their tiny, little heart? 😭

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 3d

how come the family friendly pottery painting place doesn't have bisque ashtrays for me to paint?

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makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 3d

I want to finish my DE/TP fic so bad but I have no time or energy

makaʻāinana @keoraborealis.bsky.social · 3d

You know the space between the rainbows in a double rainbow, is that technically light waves we can’t see? Like if we could, would it be a really big rainbow?

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