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.
I never knew this was what I wanted to come home to.
November 10, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I never knew this was what I wanted to come home to.
Day four of moving and cleaning and my will to live has suffered a spontaneous rapid disassembly.
November 9, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Day four of moving and cleaning and my will to live has suffered a spontaneous rapid disassembly.
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ATTENTION: for people new to my garbage (and for some who are very familiar with said garbage), I have an ongoing document of all things dark and morbid in and around Los Angeles - approaching almost 170 spots and possibly hitting 200 - check it out if you’re into that I HAVE SPOKEN
A LOS ANGELES MORBID LOCATION THREAD:
1. first we have the Highland Gardens Hotel, which used to be the Landmark Motor Hotel; this was where Janis Joplin died of a heroin overdose in Room 105 while she recorded her final album Pearl in 1970
1. first we have the Highland Gardens Hotel, which used to be the Landmark Motor Hotel; this was where Janis Joplin died of a heroin overdose in Room 105 while she recorded her final album Pearl in 1970
November 4, 2025 at 2:45 AM
ATTENTION: for people new to my garbage (and for some who are very familiar with said garbage), I have an ongoing document of all things dark and morbid in and around Los Angeles - approaching almost 170 spots and possibly hitting 200 - check it out if you’re into that I HAVE SPOKEN
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**PRICE DROP ON BUTTER!!!**
It's $7.90/500g at Woolworths. $7.89/500g at New World.
It's $7.90/500g at Woolworths. $7.89/500g at New World.
November 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
**PRICE DROP ON BUTTER!!!**
It's $7.90/500g at Woolworths. $7.89/500g at New World.
It's $7.90/500g at Woolworths. $7.89/500g at New World.
So much slightly belated clarity but also the perfect use if "glad-hearted" for Mamdani and his campaign. Described in a nutshell and what we should all be aiming for, in endeavours both small and large.
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
So much slightly belated clarity but also the perfect use if "glad-hearted" for Mamdani and his campaign. Described in a nutshell and what we should all be aiming for, in endeavours both small and large.
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I was not expecting the Pop-it Wikipedia to be such a roller coaster.
August 21, 2023 at 8:19 PM
I was not expecting the Pop-it Wikipedia to be such a roller coaster.
Ran into Brad Olsen's dad at the shop. Good guy. Was my landlord more than a decade ago and always says hi when we bump into each other outside the shop every year or two.
Salt of the earth. Civil works guy.
Brad was always going somewhere, and never looked back.
Salt of the earth. Civil works guy.
Brad was always going somewhere, and never looked back.
November 9, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Ran into Brad Olsen's dad at the shop. Good guy. Was my landlord more than a decade ago and always says hi when we bump into each other outside the shop every year or two.
Salt of the earth. Civil works guy.
Brad was always going somewhere, and never looked back.
Salt of the earth. Civil works guy.
Brad was always going somewhere, and never looked back.
Male kiwi calling in the valley below the back deck just now.
Choice!
Choice!
November 8, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Male kiwi calling in the valley below the back deck just now.
Choice!
Choice!
New Mexico always felt very familiar to me, culturally. More so than anywhere else in the US I have visited (except Hawaii obvs).
While I’m on the topic, I was in Albuquerque a few weeks ago and their bus only lanes are in the center. They have incorporated Native American and SW art into their designs, even on the hwys. It’s beautiful.
We can do that here. Let’s imagine it then let’s do it.
We can do that here. Let’s imagine it then let’s do it.
November 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
New Mexico always felt very familiar to me, culturally. More so than anywhere else in the US I have visited (except Hawaii obvs).
Every so often I feel like maybe a need to take a break from this again.
But then the vibe becomes exquisite and the lols flow and someone shows me something I had never seen before that's super cool or says something that hits my core.
There is aroha here.
So I take my finger off the button.
But then the vibe becomes exquisite and the lols flow and someone shows me something I had never seen before that's super cool or says something that hits my core.
There is aroha here.
So I take my finger off the button.
November 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Every so often I feel like maybe a need to take a break from this again.
But then the vibe becomes exquisite and the lols flow and someone shows me something I had never seen before that's super cool or says something that hits my core.
There is aroha here.
So I take my finger off the button.
But then the vibe becomes exquisite and the lols flow and someone shows me something I had never seen before that's super cool or says something that hits my core.
There is aroha here.
So I take my finger off the button.
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Are the same that fuck horses?
November 6, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Are the same that fuck horses?
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Librarians also tend to be protectors of a set of anti-capitalist, anti-corporatist, equality-based values embedded into local government.
Every book checked out is a book or e-book not sold, for starters. But it's also the idea that gov't providing for the people, that sharing, is a good thing.
Every book checked out is a book or e-book not sold, for starters. But it's also the idea that gov't providing for the people, that sharing, is a good thing.
November 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Librarians also tend to be protectors of a set of anti-capitalist, anti-corporatist, equality-based values embedded into local government.
Every book checked out is a book or e-book not sold, for starters. But it's also the idea that gov't providing for the people, that sharing, is a good thing.
Every book checked out is a book or e-book not sold, for starters. But it's also the idea that gov't providing for the people, that sharing, is a good thing.
One for us to use next year AoNZ peeps?
And do I see these ads from the Democrats? Just 30 seconds of “Australia has so much power it’s free. We sent men to the moon. Why can’t we have that?” The dark key to every human heart is “feeling hard done by”, the GOP has known that for years, fucking turn it,
November 6, 2025 at 7:17 PM
One for us to use next year AoNZ peeps?
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Is there anything that American comedians can do to help out?
November 6, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Is there anything that American comedians can do to help out?
We are home. Powhiri and hakari done. Blessed and welcomed by the hau kāinga. Done tika.
Only leaving in a pine box.
Only leaving in a pine box.
November 6, 2025 at 4:43 AM
We are home. Powhiri and hakari done. Blessed and welcomed by the hau kāinga. Done tika.
Only leaving in a pine box.
Only leaving in a pine box.
This is the best kind of performance review and was obviously an awesome day out for everyone involved.
One of the best parts of the job.
One of the best parts of the job.
November 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This is the best kind of performance review and was obviously an awesome day out for everyone involved.
One of the best parts of the job.
One of the best parts of the job.
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Listen to Mamdani last night.
"We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about."
Fuck yes. That is the democratic socialism I believe in.
"We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about."
Fuck yes. That is the democratic socialism I believe in.
November 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Listen to Mamdani last night.
"We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about."
Fuck yes. That is the democratic socialism I believe in.
"We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about."
Fuck yes. That is the democratic socialism I believe in.
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The democratic socialist future of America will require millions of Leslie Knopes doing the thankless work of the bureaucracy required to provide services to the people. If you think people like her are "neoliberal shills," you're not really a democratic socialist, you're just a cosplayer.
November 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The democratic socialist future of America will require millions of Leslie Knopes doing the thankless work of the bureaucracy required to provide services to the people. If you think people like her are "neoliberal shills," you're not really a democratic socialist, you're just a cosplayer.
Awesome.
One of my fondest memories at DOC was a late afternoon snorkel at Tawhiti Rahi when one of these guys turned up. Epic, and by golly it was fast when it decided to bail.
Very privileged to have spent a couple of months working/camping on those special motu.
One of my fondest memories at DOC was a late afternoon snorkel at Tawhiti Rahi when one of these guys turned up. Epic, and by golly it was fast when it decided to bail.
Very privileged to have spent a couple of months working/camping on those special motu.
Turtles found foraging in Rangaunu Harbour
Drones identified 18 green turtles feeding in the northern arbour last summer.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Awesome.
One of my fondest memories at DOC was a late afternoon snorkel at Tawhiti Rahi when one of these guys turned up. Epic, and by golly it was fast when it decided to bail.
Very privileged to have spent a couple of months working/camping on those special motu.
One of my fondest memories at DOC was a late afternoon snorkel at Tawhiti Rahi when one of these guys turned up. Epic, and by golly it was fast when it decided to bail.
Very privileged to have spent a couple of months working/camping on those special motu.
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*David Bowie voice* CChinges/Fries for 3.40/CChinges
mmmm my favorite mcdonald’s food, Dore, Caprer, and a side of Cchinges
November 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
*David Bowie voice* CChinges/Fries for 3.40/CChinges
Recallining 20 years ago when a solo mother of two kids colleague working full time told me DOC paid her $27,000 for her Ranger role.
Just the existence of this phrase is a wild commentary on how poorly we pay government employees.
"... if you are an American military member who relies on SNAP or WIC ..."
"... if you are an American military member who relies on SNAP or WIC ..."
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November 5, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Recallining 20 years ago when a solo mother of two kids colleague working full time told me DOC paid her $27,000 for her Ranger role.
Aotearoa New Zealand high country pastoral leases enter the chat and say hold my beer.
Most of Ireland's uplands are commonage, ie co-owned by local farmers.
The ONLY real income from commonage is via subsidies, almost always for ecosystem-killing sheep. This is why Irish mountains are all empty wastelands, kept that way by your taxes.
Why are we STILL not paying farmers to rewild??
The ONLY real income from commonage is via subsidies, almost always for ecosystem-killing sheep. This is why Irish mountains are all empty wastelands, kept that way by your taxes.
Why are we STILL not paying farmers to rewild??
November 5, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Aotearoa New Zealand high country pastoral leases enter the chat and say hold my beer.
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One of the things that grinds my gears about the Nats is the whole "rarely say anything overtly racist, but dog whistle by purposefully mangling the pronunciation of Māori/Te Reo words"
There's no reason for Chris Bishop to be saying "Mowree" at his age other than he's a racist cunt.
#nzpol
There's no reason for Chris Bishop to be saying "Mowree" at his age other than he's a racist cunt.
#nzpol
November 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
One of the things that grinds my gears about the Nats is the whole "rarely say anything overtly racist, but dog whistle by purposefully mangling the pronunciation of Māori/Te Reo words"
There's no reason for Chris Bishop to be saying "Mowree" at his age other than he's a racist cunt.
#nzpol
There's no reason for Chris Bishop to be saying "Mowree" at his age other than he's a racist cunt.
#nzpol
Fuck me everyone is so happyfunny ATM
November 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Fuck me everyone is so happyfunny ATM