🇵🇸 Dean Tāne 🇵🇸
@dean-tane
A member of the whoregeoisie fighting for a dicktatorship of the hoeletariat. Takatāpui 🌿🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 (Ngāti Tūwharetoa/Kahungunu). Kerryman ☘️ UK-based, Ireland-born, Aotearoa-descended. And with a cacophony of an accent to boot!
The Design D series is by far my favourite. Having the waveform and spectrogram of the bird’s song, their footprints, the shape of their egg within the ellipsoids, and their distribution around Europe are all genuinely compelling
Watch this, Lise. You can actually pinpoint the second when his heart rips in half
This is such a rich cultural text. It yells to a terrible vacant culture, but it yells
The way my terminally online mind read this post in exactly their voice
Only went and made another chocolate kūmara cake for my coworkers to try
Forgot to share the goods last week! This was the result of both, and they went down a storm
I like the first three of mine! It’s giving flag of the Second Spanish Republic
Sam Neill’s views on Indigenous sovereignty included his homeland of Aotearoa. He was open about his family being “both colonisers and colonised”, and was proud of his Māori grandchildren. In 2018, he was gifted a tā moko from Gordon Toi of Ngāti Whārara, a longtime friend and tohunga tā moko
Cat should be ‘ngeru’ (from ‘ngerungeru’, meaning soft, sleek - like a cat!) but what I said instead was “my fluffy taniwha friend”. Taniwha are a type of magical creature in the Māori worldview. Looking at this image specifically, I kinda see where my brain was going
My favourite story about Akihiro Miwa is how at a Tokyo gay club in the early 1960s, they read and humiliated Yukio Mishima for his lack of muscles, which inadvertently provoked Mishima’s bodybuilding obsession that quickly went fasc with his failed coup attempt
Real ones are nostalgic for the heatwave of 2022, only because of how unhinged the media responded even then, such as Sky News doing a live cam of the actual sun itself. Real “this is him, here” energy