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Ocean Lani 🇲🇵🇬🇺
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She/her ginen Marianas, caretaker of coral reefs & communities | Loud #Chamorro, proud #Micronesian | Connect, protect, respect #Pasifik people 🌊🇲🇵🇬🇺🌴 don't follow if you're not for decolonization skeets, English = not my language so idc about typos
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Seeing Pasifika people's projects get taken further and further along to wider audiences (or the right audience(s) it was meant for) makes me tear up inside (in a good way) 🥺☺️
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Oooooh, really enjoyed this episode of All my Relations about eroticism in Indigenous stories.

www.allmyrelationspodcast.com/podcast/epis...
An Eco-Erotic Worldview, Part 2 — All My Relations
This week, we’re getting a little wild — in the best, most relational way. Temryss and Matika sit down with scholar and environmental educator Hailey Maria Salazar, (Yoeme) for a playful, grounded, an...
www.allmyrelationspodcast.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Time to stock up on KN95s
November 22, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I was singing along to 30 Seconds to Mars in the grocery store and my little sister was like HUH??? 🤨

😂😂 c'mon, I was a product of the emo days and was a nerdy islander who hung out with all the skaters and radicals and took ap classes what do you think
November 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Blessed to know the unconditional love of a dog 🥰
November 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Meet our new family member.

Rescuers found him living behind a liquor store near Livernois & 6 Mile.

They thought he was a girl because he was protecting and raising 3 sick kittens despite being only 6 months old himself. He’s not the mom or the dad, he’s the dad who stepped up 😭

Now he is home!
November 22, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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#WestPapua barely gets mentioned — shocking, right? Indonesia colonizes it, Australia cheers from the sidelines, and the Dutch suddenly develop selective mutism whenever their colonial skeletons start rattling.

But sure, let’s all pretend it’s “complicated.”
#Netherlands #AusPol
November 22, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Everything the world has ever accused Israel of doing to Palestinians, Indonesia has really done to West Papuans, no one cares. Since Suharto dictatorship of Indonesia annexed West Papua in a 1969 land grab – an estimated 500,000 West Papuans have been killed It’s been an actual genocide
#WestPapua
November 22, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.

www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
If You Use Gmail, You're Going To Want To Turn Off This 1 Automatic Setting ASAP
Plus: a quick guide to the two-step process for opting out.
www.huffpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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I went and saw a truly moving exhibition at Papakura Art Gallery featuring three artists, Alexander, Lealofitaute Vaai and Selu-Kian Lealiifano-Faletoese. Ele'ele A Resonant Call Home. It explores the experiences of Samoan women navigating cancer.

It's movingly beautiful 💙🙏🏽
November 22, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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It’s been a shit few days here at #COP30 so when I got the pānui that my iwi are taking the Crown to Court to protect our taiao and future generations it was pretty special.

A real demonstration of everything we’re preaching here - Indigenous Peoples are holding the line where states are failing!
November 22, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Sometimes there really are weeks when decades happen
November 22, 2025 at 6:13 AM
The thing about manåmjo (elderly) Chamorro men is they LOVE their threadbare and hole-filled shirts!!
November 22, 2025 at 6:25 AM
When ppl are like "I just want a stress free beautiful life 😇" then in the next sentence describe that its their dream to one day open a small cafe or coffee shop I am FLABBERGASTED.

F&B is the farthest thing from stress free and beautiful 😂
November 22, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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I’m gonna implore everyone here to take the W if only to experience the feeling again.
November 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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guy looked like a make a wish kid meeting Mamdani
November 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Chadwick forever a gift to the world. 🙏🏽🤍💫
November 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Important content.
He said "Amen" straight into the drop

Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 22, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Just a bit on the $$$ folks who are causing havoc in the islands.
November 21, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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November 21, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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“No, I’m just saying that, just, IN GENERAL, there used to be a lot less of these folks with weird stuff going on with them, you know what I mean? Like where *I* grew up in rural Alabama, we didn’t *HAVE* all this stuff like autism and ADHD and whatever. We should just go back to that, y’know?”
November 21, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Next year is going to be a massive year for me!
a little girl wearing a vest and tie is cheering with her fist in the air
ALT: a little girl wearing a vest and tie is cheering with her fist in the air
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November 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Its the chance to finally lead an Indigenous stewardship nonprofit for my islands 😭😭
Offered an opportunity recently that I feel I cannot refuse because I *have complained* about the lack of it here 😭
November 20, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Offered an opportunity recently that I feel I cannot refuse because I *have complained* about the lack of it here 😭
November 20, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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I don’t want to be that guy but I am boycotting Israel at the moment and mindfully choose and boycott products based on this stance. #SecretSantaAoNZ
Today's #SecretSantaAoNZ question is a pretty important one.
Make sure you add the hashtag to your replies so it's easily searchable for your Santa. We wouldn't want them to miss it.
November 20, 2025 at 8:17 AM