Naupaka Kahakai 🏝️
@naupakakahaki.bsky.social
unemployed (by choice) librarian; former teacher; living the dream on Mōkapu 🌈 until our next set of PCS orders
This traffic pole looked at me like, “You picked the wrong bus stop for your connecting bus, MFer.” #pedestrian #oahu #bus
January 3, 2025 at 2:23 AM
This traffic pole looked at me like, “You picked the wrong bus stop for your connecting bus, MFer.” #pedestrian #oahu #bus
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"Candidates should be publicly funded; voter registration should be automatic; voting stations should be plentiful; ballots should be paper; gerrymandering should be outlawed. These formulations might sound radical; in other democracies, they're commonsensical ground rules."
—Tim Snyder, On Freedom
—Tim Snyder, On Freedom
December 12, 2024 at 6:39 AM
"Candidates should be publicly funded; voter registration should be automatic; voting stations should be plentiful; ballots should be paper; gerrymandering should be outlawed. These formulations might sound radical; in other democracies, they're commonsensical ground rules."
—Tim Snyder, On Freedom
—Tim Snyder, On Freedom
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As we all watch the stunning events unfold in Syria, many are wondering about the political prisoners who were subject to the brutality of the Assad regime. My sister, Dr. R. Shareah Taleghani, who was a Fullbright Scholar in Syria published Readings in Syrian Prison Literature in 2021.
December 9, 2024 at 5:14 AM
As we all watch the stunning events unfold in Syria, many are wondering about the political prisoners who were subject to the brutality of the Assad regime. My sister, Dr. R. Shareah Taleghani, who was a Fullbright Scholar in Syria published Readings in Syrian Prison Literature in 2021.
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This was published while I was at the National Assembly so I never really got a chance to promote it, which is kind of insane? It's one of the best features that The Verge has ever published. When I first read the draft I went "what the fuck did I just read??????" www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...
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December 5, 2024 at 2:47 AM
This was published while I was at the National Assembly so I never really got a chance to promote it, which is kind of insane? It's one of the best features that The Verge has ever published. When I first read the draft I went "what the fuck did I just read??????" www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...
Now would be a good time for Congress to pass some legislation regulating profiteering health insurance companies.
December 5, 2024 at 3:47 PM
Now would be a good time for Congress to pass some legislation regulating profiteering health insurance companies.
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NEW: Formaldehyde contributes more to outdoor cancer risk than any other toxic air pollutant in the US. It comes from cars, trucks, planes and a combination of emissions cooked in the atmosphere.
For the first time, EPA modeled this risk down to the census block — and we mapped it.
For the first time, EPA modeled this risk down to the census block — and we mapped it.
Map: What's the Cancer Risk From Formaldehyde Where I Live? — ProPublica
In most of the country, formaldehyde contributes more to outdoor cancer risk than any other toxic air pollutant. Look up your address to see risks from the chemical on your block and where it comes fr...
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December 3, 2024 at 1:16 PM
NEW: Formaldehyde contributes more to outdoor cancer risk than any other toxic air pollutant in the US. It comes from cars, trucks, planes and a combination of emissions cooked in the atmosphere.
For the first time, EPA modeled this risk down to the census block — and we mapped it.
For the first time, EPA modeled this risk down to the census block — and we mapped it.
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When fascism arrives in America it won’t know how to spell it.
December 1, 2024 at 2:45 PM
When fascism arrives in America it won’t know how to spell it.
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Ukrainian French artist Sonia Delaunay's 1920s - 1930s clothing designs
November 28, 2024 at 8:49 AM
Ukrainian French artist Sonia Delaunay's 1920s - 1930s clothing designs
#chickensky One of the many wild chicken families in Hawaiʻi 😍
November 28, 2024 at 1:02 AM
#chickensky One of the many wild chicken families in Hawaiʻi 😍
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preceding post is a warning for after I become King. all your franchises are going away. you get one sequel that's it. then you have to actually come up with a new fuckin idea. no more ten trillionth batman reboot. new ideas or kick rocks
November 26, 2024 at 10:12 PM
preceding post is a warning for after I become King. all your franchises are going away. you get one sequel that's it. then you have to actually come up with a new fuckin idea. no more ten trillionth batman reboot. new ideas or kick rocks
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“Why is MAGA still so angry even after they won?”
November 25, 2024 at 10:41 PM
“Why is MAGA still so angry even after they won?”
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This needs to be said, loud, and often.
November 25, 2024 at 5:20 PM
This needs to be said, loud, and often.
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When the war is over, I will open a 1950s-style diner in Bucha and forget about the media.
November 25, 2024 at 2:00 PM
When the war is over, I will open a 1950s-style diner in Bucha and forget about the media.
Would be nice if Екатерина Михайловна Шульман et al would have an account here.
November 25, 2024 at 5:00 AM
Would be nice if Екатерина Михайловна Шульман et al would have an account here.
Last night, I found a beautiful toad enjoying her soaking spa treatment in my new garden “water feature.” A few rocks really jazzed up the broken sprinkler. Not sure when housing will get around to fixing it.
November 25, 2024 at 2:35 AM
Last night, I found a beautiful toad enjoying her soaking spa treatment in my new garden “water feature.” A few rocks really jazzed up the broken sprinkler. Not sure when housing will get around to fixing it.
This guy comes by several times a day and screams at me to throw raisins at him.
November 24, 2024 at 5:08 PM
This guy comes by several times a day and screams at me to throw raisins at him.
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I think language learning is one of those beautiful messes I ever want to involve myself in. You absolutely won’t get out of it without ever learning something. Just like reading. #langsky
November 24, 2024 at 7:57 AM
I think language learning is one of those beautiful messes I ever want to involve myself in. You absolutely won’t get out of it without ever learning something. Just like reading. #langsky
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Students were looking up ʻŌlelo noʻeau on their different plants today and we came across this banger:
Hoʻohui ʻāina pala ka maiʻa.
Annexation [is] ripe bananas.
Hoʻohui ʻāina pala ka maiʻa.
Annexation [is] ripe bananas.
November 13, 2024 at 5:17 AM
Students were looking up ʻŌlelo noʻeau on their different plants today and we came across this banger:
Hoʻohui ʻāina pala ka maiʻa.
Annexation [is] ripe bananas.
Hoʻohui ʻāina pala ka maiʻa.
Annexation [is] ripe bananas.
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‘ŌLELO NO‘EAU
Collected & Translated by MARY KAWENA PUKUI
Not a mythology book, but I got this for my Hawaiian oracle card research! It’s 3000 phrases Pukui collected from family and friends that gives you a feel of how Hawaiians talked about each other (spoiler, we all gossip the same way)
Collected & Translated by MARY KAWENA PUKUI
Not a mythology book, but I got this for my Hawaiian oracle card research! It’s 3000 phrases Pukui collected from family and friends that gives you a feel of how Hawaiians talked about each other (spoiler, we all gossip the same way)
November 19, 2024 at 5:50 AM
‘ŌLELO NO‘EAU
Collected & Translated by MARY KAWENA PUKUI
Not a mythology book, but I got this for my Hawaiian oracle card research! It’s 3000 phrases Pukui collected from family and friends that gives you a feel of how Hawaiians talked about each other (spoiler, we all gossip the same way)
Collected & Translated by MARY KAWENA PUKUI
Not a mythology book, but I got this for my Hawaiian oracle card research! It’s 3000 phrases Pukui collected from family and friends that gives you a feel of how Hawaiians talked about each other (spoiler, we all gossip the same way)
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remember those kids who would smash all their toys within the first half hour of Christmas morning? and then they would come over to your house and smash yours, and laugh?
all those kids have grown up, and they're now members of Donald Trump's cabinet
all those kids have grown up, and they're now members of Donald Trump's cabinet
November 23, 2024 at 4:45 PM
remember those kids who would smash all their toys within the first half hour of Christmas morning? and then they would come over to your house and smash yours, and laugh?
all those kids have grown up, and they're now members of Donald Trump's cabinet
all those kids have grown up, and they're now members of Donald Trump's cabinet
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With this statement, he both did nothing and did something. Russia retaliated against a Ukrainian target (so, in this sense, did nothing, but Putin made it sound like it's all a part of an elaborate strategy aimed at retaliating against the West.
November 22, 2024 at 7:26 AM
With this statement, he both did nothing and did something. Russia retaliated against a Ukrainian target (so, in this sense, did nothing, but Putin made it sound like it's all a part of an elaborate strategy aimed at retaliating against the West.
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The real story on Capitol Hill is the desire of GOP men to have transgender women in their bathrooms
November 21, 2024 at 1:34 PM
The real story on Capitol Hill is the desire of GOP men to have transgender women in their bathrooms
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Brilliant observation by @maxkennerly.bsky.social to a whole pot-full of parboiled frogs.
November 21, 2024 at 1:37 AM
Brilliant observation by @maxkennerly.bsky.social to a whole pot-full of parboiled frogs.