Matthew Dekneef

writer, editor

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I'm I'll buy a $20 bottle of wine years old now.

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Wrote about some beautiful Hawaiians for @them.

[TransgenderLawCenter @TransLawCenter]

“To be māhū is a blessing,” reminds Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu. “To be māhū is greater than the gender binary—male, female, those are the ordinary people. I can see the world from two different sides.”

More at @them: https://t.co/E3h47EPY6o

📸 Mahina Choy-Ellis.

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Scarfing down a hamburger over the hood of my idling car between jobs while Dion plays on the radio

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Solving Wordle in da club.

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Naming themselves “developers” is an astounding PR strategy.

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My first order of business as a gay Polynesian uncle is to not let my niece grow up thinking “Landslide” is an original song by Josh Tatofi. This island girl will know Stevie Nicks!!!

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I’d rather tip housekeepers at hotels $75 then pay a cleaning fee to an airbnb host.

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If I text you “🥭” it means my heart doing the tango

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Hit a noseride on a long left just as a catamaran was passing by everyone aboard started cheering and I felt so embarrassingly cool 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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@adamjk happy pride! 🏳️‍🌈

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Summer so far; Patterns of abundance.

[CAPE—Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment @CAPEUSA]

The 2022 Class of the CAPE New Writers Fellowship as follows (L-R | T-B) . . .
⭐Kiran Alamelu Subramaniam (@subrawoman)
⭐Kat Jiang (@KatJiang)
⭐Liz Fields (@lianzifields)
⭐Matthew DeKneef (@mattdknf)
⭐Kirk Damato (@kirksays)
⭐Sowmya Ashokkumar
⭐Sandra Hamada (@sandyhamada)

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@adamjk she read your book 😂

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Hawaiʻi stay evergreen

[Corinne@AthensNews @CorinneColbert]

Local journalism thrives when the people in charge of it are personally invested in the community — and when those people understand that good journalism speaks truth to power regardless of who holds it. 7/

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@KevinDayton808 Journal of David Samwell, the voyage's Welsh naval surgeon: "The chief who first struck Captain Cook with the club, was called Karimano-craha (Kalaimanokahoowaha*), but I did not know him by his name." *Was Kana‘ina's full inoa, as identified by Fornander.

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Kana‘ina, the Hawaiian chief who struck the first blow to Capt. Cook on February 14, 1779. A ship’s journal recounts: “Kaneena [sic] especially, whose portrait Mr. Webber has drawn, was one of the finest men I ever saw.” Happy Valentine’s Day to this man.