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.
Officer D, the one good police apple in a barrell full of shitworms.
November 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Officer D, the one good police apple in a barrell full of shitworms.
Reminded every time I am in Dargaville what an amazing little time capsule of AoNZ architecture it is. Streets and streets of simple four room cottages, bay and double bay villas, Cali bungalows and art deco houses, and some nice commercial buildings too.
November 11, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Reminded every time I am in Dargaville what an amazing little time capsule of AoNZ architecture it is. Streets and streets of simple four room cottages, bay and double bay villas, Cali bungalows and art deco houses, and some nice commercial buildings too.
Matt and Kim being just the best soundtrack for cleaning.
November 11, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Matt and Kim being just the best soundtrack for cleaning.
Knock knock?
Hu's there?
But seriously. When doing the last of your moving and cleaning at night in Taitokerau, dont leave your truck door open with the engine on because your phone is flat...You get a lot of hop-ons.
Hu's there?
But seriously. When doing the last of your moving and cleaning at night in Taitokerau, dont leave your truck door open with the engine on because your phone is flat...You get a lot of hop-ons.
November 11, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Knock knock?
Hu's there?
But seriously. When doing the last of your moving and cleaning at night in Taitokerau, dont leave your truck door open with the engine on because your phone is flat...You get a lot of hop-ons.
Hu's there?
But seriously. When doing the last of your moving and cleaning at night in Taitokerau, dont leave your truck door open with the engine on because your phone is flat...You get a lot of hop-ons.
9 books.
1 Flashman
2 About Face
3 Quartered Safe Out Here
4 Taua
5 Anahulu
6 The House of Strife
7 Foucault's Pendulum
8 The Commercialisation of New Zealand
9 Death and the American Civil War
1 Flashman
2 About Face
3 Quartered Safe Out Here
4 Taua
5 Anahulu
6 The House of Strife
7 Foucault's Pendulum
8 The Commercialisation of New Zealand
9 Death and the American Civil War
My nine books (no order, but books I think about a lot):
1 - The English Patient
2 - Sula
3 - Use of Weapons
4 - Wolf Hall* (cheating as it's three books)
5 - Hamnet
6 - The Shipping News
7 - Ray Bradbury's Short stories* (also cheating as it's hundreds)
8 - The Truth
9 - Wuthering Heights
1 - The English Patient
2 - Sula
3 - Use of Weapons
4 - Wolf Hall* (cheating as it's three books)
5 - Hamnet
6 - The Shipping News
7 - Ray Bradbury's Short stories* (also cheating as it's hundreds)
8 - The Truth
9 - Wuthering Heights
I’m not as well read as you guys but my 9 books are:
1- Pride and Prejudice
2- Pachinko
3- The Lowland
4- Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
5-The Inheritance of Loss
6- Invisible Man
7- One Hundred Years of Solitude
8- Anna Karenina
9- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
1- Pride and Prejudice
2- Pachinko
3- The Lowland
4- Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
5-The Inheritance of Loss
6- Invisible Man
7- One Hundred Years of Solitude
8- Anna Karenina
9- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
November 11, 2025 at 12:02 AM
9 books.
1 Flashman
2 About Face
3 Quartered Safe Out Here
4 Taua
5 Anahulu
6 The House of Strife
7 Foucault's Pendulum
8 The Commercialisation of New Zealand
9 Death and the American Civil War
1 Flashman
2 About Face
3 Quartered Safe Out Here
4 Taua
5 Anahulu
6 The House of Strife
7 Foucault's Pendulum
8 The Commercialisation of New Zealand
9 Death and the American Civil War
By God, we will save the Lions of Taitokerau but let the kids live in cars.
November 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
By God, we will save the Lions of Taitokerau but let the kids live in cars.
Just absolutely squandering that new mortgage lending cashback.
...Don't tell Cook, Holm, or Venuto.
...Don't tell Cook, Holm, or Venuto.
November 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Just absolutely squandering that new mortgage lending cashback.
...Don't tell Cook, Holm, or Venuto.
...Don't tell Cook, Holm, or Venuto.
In Mitre10 and delighted by I Make Hamburgers playing on the PA.
Awesome. Always up for The Whitlams.
Awesome. Always up for The Whitlams.
November 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
In Mitre10 and delighted by I Make Hamburgers playing on the PA.
Awesome. Always up for The Whitlams.
Awesome. Always up for The Whitlams.
So. Tuam.
Full acknowledgment of Ireland's ongoing historical-political-religious trauma reckoning, but is it likely there are anywhere near 800 missing mothers and babies in a septic tank?
Have read news reports, the recent progress updates, skimmed the main ODAIT reports but seems a bit murky
Full acknowledgment of Ireland's ongoing historical-political-religious trauma reckoning, but is it likely there are anywhere near 800 missing mothers and babies in a septic tank?
Have read news reports, the recent progress updates, skimmed the main ODAIT reports but seems a bit murky
November 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
So. Tuam.
Full acknowledgment of Ireland's ongoing historical-political-religious trauma reckoning, but is it likely there are anywhere near 800 missing mothers and babies in a septic tank?
Have read news reports, the recent progress updates, skimmed the main ODAIT reports but seems a bit murky
Full acknowledgment of Ireland's ongoing historical-political-religious trauma reckoning, but is it likely there are anywhere near 800 missing mothers and babies in a septic tank?
Have read news reports, the recent progress updates, skimmed the main ODAIT reports but seems a bit murky
Love it here
November 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Love it here
New band name just dropped
Dork Psyche
Dork Psyche
it’s important to understand that Nate Silver’s entire consciousness is filtered through the lens of being a gross nerd his entire life. the opportunity to feel like he’s one of the cool kids is something he can’t pass up, it’s load-bearing for his dork psyche.
the hipsters, they’re ordering double frufru mocha soy frappuccino. doesn’t anybody order a black coffee anymore
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
New band name just dropped
Dork Psyche
Dork Psyche
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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?