oh it's worse than i thought... to think i was considering approaching these people about potentially contributing lol unserious

i was thinking of starting a page/site to make socialist politics relatable to a Pacific context but then was happy to discover there's a new Pacific socialist publication. but after some observation they're giving white stupol trots so i'm back to wanting to make my own

i've always liked the native pigeons 🕊️ and i like spiders but would sometimes kill the venomous ones if they're indoors. but even that makes me feel so bad that i would rather push thru my mild arachnophobia to just move them outside

i've been a long time hater of spotted doves because their sound pmo in a misophonia way but i've begun to think they are cute... also my baseline mild dislike/indifference to dogs has been shifting toward positive bc i love my friend's housemate's dog so much. and i'm nice to all spiders now

sydney added!

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if anyone is going to ability fest in melb next weekend i will be there playing guitar for daine :p

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This is off northern 'New Britain' 🇵🇬 where Polynesians' ancient Papuan ancestors may have came from. We always cite the Lapita people as Polynesian ancestors - which they are - but I feel like it gets overlooked that the Polynesian culture didn't emerge until Lapita & Papuan peoples mixed

mythical street view drop in

found an 1890 Tongan-French-English dictionary with a lot of impractical but cool-looking page scans. also really into the chunky font

tweet by @lonelyspeck from july 20 2022 i believe capitalism's fall will start as a popular movement spreading over the global south with the rich countries only backing down once they're cornered by everyone else. except australia which will fight to the bitter end to remain a shitty middle class landlord haven

proceeding as expected

And yet no one used that process in the past 2.5 years while our prime minister materially supported a holocaust just to keep his govt in the good books of that same unpopular ageing insane American leader. So it's kind of like it doesn't even fkn matter isn't it

sometimes i feel all this so strongly n sometimes not at all. i guess someone who isn't trans wouldn't be this deep in it in the first place. i feel like i reclaimed my femininity and repaired my relationship with masculinity and there's space for all of it inside me now. that's all i need to know

i can't claim what the dolls go thru, they're on another level. so many of my heroes. sometimes i feel like i might've been a girl and it's circumstantial that i'm not. at times i've grieved that version of me. she's somewhere. other times i enjoy the idea of just boying it up

someone name dropped me for tdov... it's special and meaningful to hear that although i'm not really sure where i am with labels these days. genderfluid has felt more fitting than others. i'm wary of denying my own feelings but equally wary of appearing to claim an experience that isn't mine

media mainly but i really think a major factor is that they don't have a david pocock type "regular aussie" personality to translate their policies into truly mainstream aus sensibilities like beer prices or whatever. pocock is basically greens lite and he's insanely popular so it's not the policies

yay!

adl + mel on sale 💜 supports announced

not expecting any traction here but is australian electronic music/hyperpop bsky a thing

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this is nice

they'll just have to accept that they're going to be replaced

all of my siblings can sing and play instruments well but only one is pursuing music. the rest just save it for karaoke 😂

australia is on course to have a 2 party system comprised of a spineless nominally progressive party that's desperate to crush the true left, and a fascist party that's riding the global economic crises of imperialism. now i dont know anything about history but i think this will probably be fine

Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee (1997)

Developed by Oddworld Inhabitants.

While 1777 then seems to be the terminus ante quem for the development *k > ' the question concerning a possible terminus post quem is much more difficult and for the moment probably impossible to answer. We do not have any written sources before 1777 which give us any data concerning Samoan and the use of oral sources and traditional material for diachronic linguistics is difficult and has obvious limitations. Let me take but one example which as far as I know is also the most relevant one for the problem we are discussing. If the Rarotongan hero Karika came from Samoa (cf. Gill 1876:25), if he is identical with the chief 'Ali'a of Manu'a, if we trust the Rarotongan genealogies (cf. Browne 1897:10) and assume that he lived in the 15th century , then it is reasonable to assume that Samoan still had the original k retained at that time since 'Ali'a most probably would have been rendered as *'Ari'a in Rarotongan. But there are a few ifs too many in this argumentation to base any conclusions on it. Even Hovdhaugen - The chronology of three Samoan sound changes (1986)

the 15th century date is tentative because the hardest evidence is this lol

it's not too many ifs for me

there's also a place in Savaiʻi, Samoa called Nuʻualofa which could well be its namesake. if that name was borrowed into Tongan before Samoan lost the /k/ (which tentatively didn't happen until after 1400 CE; certainly no earlier than 1200) it would stay as /Nukuʻalofa/ in Tongan

i kind of suspect that Tonga may not have gotten its name until relatively late since it's apparently named in reference to Samoa (means "south"), which was influential on Tonga from around 1300 CE

Nukuʻalofa is also probably a Samoanised name - the native Tongan form would be Nukuʻofa

Polynesians became Polynesians sometime near the middle of the first millenium B.C., after over 600 years of isolation in the remote archipelago of Tonga. The Polynesians, therefore, did not strictly come from anywhere: they became Polynesians and the location of their becoming was Tonga. L. M. Groube - Tonga, Lapita pottery, and Polynesian Origins. The Journal of the Polynesian Society, Vol. 80, No. 3 (September 1971), pp. 278-316

the world is frankly in a better place than i imagined like 5 years ago because i expected it to take like 10-15 excruciating years for the empire to fall this far. a world free from the US & israel feels conceivably close. which is a type of political hope i've never felt before lol

liberal zionism is still genocidal

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