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makaʻāinana

@keoraborealis

Kanaka educator & musician who can do “science” if forced to, they/them queer/māhū #LandBack NSFW-ish Read my thesis on the moʻolelo of Keaomelemele, western science, wai, & me 🙃:

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makaʻāinana@keoraborealis· Jun 20

Then she made me make her bed for her

makaʻāinana@keoraborealis· Jun 20

She was upset that her sister stole her bed

makaʻāinana@keoraborealis· Jun 3

makaʻāinana@keoraborealis· May 29

Loving having a new relationship with long hair as I transition

Selfie of me, a mixed white person with below shoulder length dark brown hair half up half down

makaʻāinana@keoraborealis· May 28

Finished the pizza oven on the last day of school lol. It’s not pretty, but it hopefully works (gotta let it cure first

The front of a large pizza oven with a concrete base and brick and stucco oven on top. Underneath, within the base, is room for firewood storage

Side view of the same oven

makaʻāinana@keoraborealis· May 21

Pizza oven finally starting to feel real

A large brick pizza oven that’s got firebrick mortared over a dome mold

makaʻāinana@keoraborealis· May 20

We’re actually putting the dome on tomorrow omg

Pizza oven base earlier this morning, with a brick layer along the edges

Pizza oven base later today, with the firebrick placed inside between the edge bricks as the floor of the oven. It is in a herringbone pattern

makaʻāinana@keoraborealis· May 13

Dr. office doggy named oyster

A close up of a tan/cream long haired dachshund laying on their back with their head resting on my black shoes

Long boi angle of the same dog laying down on their side

makaʻāinana@keoraborealis· May 10

Check out my kalo

My small garden patch with some very large kalo in it

makaʻāinana@keoraborealis· May 8

School science fair was a success 🙌 I’m so grateful to all the donors who got supplies for my haumana. Next step is the district science fair! I can’t share pics of my students or their projects so here’s proud me post science fair lmao

Selfie of me, a mixed white person with semi-long shaggy dark brown hair, in a navy blue shirt holding up a shaka and smiling. I’m wearing a puakenikeni lei

makaʻāinana@keoraborealis· May 4

Pizza oven update: messy, but pretty sturdy I think (hope lol). Not bad for high schoolers 😅

The base of a an outdoor, wood fired pizza oven. It’s made with concrete blocks and a concrete slab on top, which is what the pizza oven will be built on

makaʻāinana@keoraborealis· Apr 30

post a picture of yourself from the past that puts you in a light people on here wouldn't expect probably the most fem you'll ever get from me besides high school prom lol

Me, cosplaying as Lana from Archer

makaʻāinana@keoraborealis· Apr 29

There was also a itty bitty frog inside so I put them in one of my pots. I guess my apartment is now some kind of vivarium lol

A small, succulent pot with a tiny, little frog in the middle. There’s also a psyduck and ufo decoration in it

makaʻāinana@keoraborealis· Apr 29

Double rainbow

A double rainbow pano shot over a neighborhood in a valley

makaʻāinana@keoraborealis· Apr 24

This is so fucking funny. Good thing I found it now before it started rotting

My hand holding an egg

makaʻāinana@keoraborealis· Apr 24

OMFG they laid a fucking EGG in my car lmfao

An egg on the rubber mat of my car floor next to some gloves and other junk

makaʻāinana@keoraborealis· Apr 10

Oahu's just consistently been in the little gap of this storm, it's so weird. They've been saying it'll rain any second now for the past 24 hours lmfao

Weather map of the Hawaiian islands that shows heavy rain, thunder, and flooding on almost all the islands except Oahu.

makaʻāinana@keoraborealis· Apr 8

I am a microcosmos evangelist. It is imperative that I show every class I ever teach this film lol

US version of the microcosmos film poster that has a praying mantis wearing shades with the sun behind them

makaʻāinana@keoraborealis· Apr 8

This hot, still mugginess before the storm might kill me but at least I got this view (my phone cameras broken tho lol)

A view from across a fishpond of koolaupoko mountain range with clouds and mist on the top

makaʻāinana@keoraborealis· Apr 6

check this out

Concrete pad in a hole in the ground with four rebar sticking out at each corner

E Ola koa carved in a corner of the concrete

makaʻāinana@keoraborealis· Apr 5

Like my little car museum of random finds lol

A mushroom coral skeleton, a bird skull missing a beak, and a butterfly wing on a little nook where my car screen is

makaʻāinana@keoraborealis· Mar 31

Maybe a little too wet but I’m feeling like I can build anything now lmao Students seem to also feel the same lol theyre like, school should be learning more skills like this

3 slabs of concrete in rectangle frames

makaʻāinana@keoraborealis· Mar 25

Before and after (we didn’t have enough time to finish)

A hale frame, no thatching

A hale that is about 2/3 thatched with loulu leaves

makaʻāinana@keoraborealis· Mar 25

Hooo who did this lashing, so paʻa (it was me 😏)

Holopaa lashing attaching an vertical beam to a hale

makaʻāinana@keoraborealis· Mar 23

😭

makaʻāinana@keoraborealis· Mar 12

Playing the “who am I“ game but with invertebrate classification and invert snack prizes lol

Index cards, two of them are up and say class bivalvia and class holothuroidea. The prizes include shrimp chips and sour gummy worms

makaʻāinana@keoraborealis· Mar 8

I asked my sister if I could borrow a sweater and she cuts all the necklines off her shirts/sweaters so now i feel really silly, but warm

Selfie of me wearing a red sweater it the neck cut off to make it off the shoulder. You can see my shirt underneath it

makaʻāinana@keoraborealis· Mar 8

I think I look the best in car selfies

Selfie of me in a car with shades on. My dark brown hair is semi long and shaggy and I’m wearing a grey muscle tank

makaʻāinana@keoraborealis· Mar 5

Pizza oven update: there’s now a big hole in the ground

A big rectangle hole about 8 inches deep in the ground. We will be adding a frame and pouring concrete

makaʻāinana@keoraborealis· Mar 2

Students built a stress test machine for their project (with a ton of help from the math kumu lol)

A wood machine that has a scale on it, a piece of wood to help distribute the weight, then a car jack that then puts pressure on a piece of bamboo pushing up against a wood structure