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jim fishvvick @fimjishwick.bsky.social · 1d

do you think the nyt puzzles people saw the only connect wall about them

a new york times connections puzzle, where the top four clues are Only, Connect, Olive, Branch.

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CHOAM Nomsky (frightening) @samthielman.com · 8d

I am merely aiding the police in their inquiries, it is simply a way of passing the time for me, and the constables, they are gracious enough to accept my assistance, all unpaid, of course. If you, too, will humor me by joining the other guests in the parlor I would like to share some of my findings

Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 8d

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

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Draculaura E. Hall 🎃 @lauraehall.bsky.social · 8d

Still the greatest endorsement of all time

A sign reading "I have not read this Katamari book, and also I don't remember 100% what I told to L.E. Hall in the interviews. But I would recommend this book irresponsibly." -Keita Takahashi, creator of Katamari Damacy

The cover of Katamari Damacy by L.E. Hall, from Boss Fight Books. It shows a penguin being menaced by a giant sticky ball of tape

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jim fishvvick @fimjishwick.bsky.social · 8d

yeah, i *am* enough 🥰

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 8d

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

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innes @innes.bsky.social · 13d

Text: A computer can never be horny, therefore a computer can never make art

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jim fishvvick @fimjishwick.bsky.social · 17d

The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young.

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jim fishvvick @fimjishwick.bsky.social · 20d

Bonus: we created mix-and-match stickers of improv quotes by D&D alignment, tag urself etc x

Nine stickers, reading:
Lawful good: Make your partner look good
Neutral good: Take care of your own shit first
Chaotic good: You can't break improv
Lawful neutral: Be obvious
True neutral: I am a tree
Chaotic neutral: It's what my character would do
Lawful evil: Play to the top of your intelligence
Neutral evil: It's all about status
Chaotic evil: I have a gun.

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jim fishvvick @fimjishwick.bsky.social · 20d

Bonus: we created mix-and-match stickers of improv quotes by D&D alignment, tag urself etc x

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jim fishvvick @fimjishwick.bsky.social · 20d

And finally, to Matt Powell, my co-director, co-conspirator, and dear friend. Thank you for sharing this journey with me, for every Monday night meeting, for buoying me when I was down, for caring so much about this festival and what it represents. I can't imagine having done this with anybody else.

Jim & Matt in front of a wall of NZIF posters.

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jim fishvvick @fimjishwick.bsky.social · 20d

Thank you also the community around the festival — every year my favourite day of the festival was the first one, where people trickled into the foyer at BATS Theatre and it all went from being a series of spreadsheets and emails into a real thing that people would lift, carry, and enjoy.

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jim fishvvick @fimjishwick.bsky.social · 20d

Thank you so much to everyone who’s worked on the festival in those years, the immediate team, and all the musos, tech operators, volunteers, and the staff at BATS. Plus all the teachers, performers and directors who’ve come to share their mahi, and the Trust who’ve made it all possible.

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jim fishvvick @fimjishwick.bsky.social · 20d

This Festival was my third as artistic co-director, and also my last. This gig has been joyous, challenging, phenomenally rewarding, at times all-consuming, and a career highlight.

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jim fishvvick @fimjishwick.bsky.social · 20d

SAPPY POST INCOMING

Last Saturday we closed the 2025 NZ Improv Festival with Scene Painting, where we literally put paint on the stage at BATS (and then spent 4 hours repainting it black).

A black stage with a little bit of white paint on it.

The same stage absolutely covered in SO MUCH colourful paint.

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jim fishvvick @fimjishwick.bsky.social · Sep 21

gender is a performance.

and baby? this is improv.

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jim fishvvick @fimjishwick.bsky.social · Aug 27

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jim fishvvick @fimjishwick.bsky.social · Aug 27

Only Connect is back on BBC2 on Mondays! Here's one of mine from a recent episode – can you work out what comes fourth in this sequence?

A screenshot of an episode of only connect. The clues are:
1/2 = T
2/3 = H
3/4 = U
and a question mark in place of the fourth clue.

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Brydie Lee-Kennedy @brydielk.bsky.social · Aug 21

My first novel is now out in paperback in the UK and it has a cute fresh cover. If you like your books more compact and purple then this is the edition for you!

Bloomsbury Books UK @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social · Aug 14

🌼 Go Lightly - Brydie Lee-Kennedy

A funny and tender twenty-first century story of family, friendship, and bisexual love – and how getting it wrong is sometimes the only way to get it right.

Read more - www.bloomsbury.com/uk/go-lightl...

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Brydie Lee-Kennedy @brydielk.bsky.social · Jul 27

There were two Australian citizens on this ship, Tan Safi and Robert Martin. @senatorwong.bsky.social where are you? Where is anyone from our government? A foreign army has abducted Australians trying to deliver aid and it’s radio silence.

Zeteo @zeteo.com · Jul 26

BREAKING: Israeli Forces Intercept Gaza Aid Flotilla and Take 20 Crew Members Captive

The ‘Handala’ is the third aid flotilla ship attacked in the last year, as Israel continues to starve 2 million Palestinians. — @premthakker.bsky.social reports.

READ: zeteo.com/p/breaking-i...

BREAKING: Israeli Forces Intercept Gaza Aid Flotilla and Take 20 Crew Members Captive

The ‘Handala’ is the third aid flotilla ship attacked in the last year, as Israel continues to starve 2 million Palestinians

zeteo.com

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samᴮᴼᴼᴼ @samgavin.com · Jul 20

Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return

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em @skyuni123.bsky.social · Jul 9

absolutely hate crowdfunding but a show i'm working on is going to auckland in a month's time and our boosted closes in 5 days and we're only halfway

boosted is all or nothing too for funding so we lose it if we don't get to 100%

www.thearts.co.nz/boosted/projects/colour-me-cecily-tamaki-makaurau

Colour Me Cecily- Tamaki Makaurau

Boosted is Aotearoa New Zealand’s only arts crowdfunding platform. We’re here to bring creatives and supporters together to grow creativity. With our mentored approach to crowdfunding, we have one of ...

www.thearts.co.nz

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FDS @freyadalysad.bsky.social · Jul 8

This is hot

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jul 7

Also talked about The Onion being inefficient on purpose.

www.status.news/p/the-onion-...

What has it been like shifting from reporter to media executive, managing a staff instead of filing stories yourself? And do you write any of the jokes at The Onion? Or are you strictly managing the business?

The Onion’s process is deeply, beautifully inefficient. Every day, our writers take 150 headlines into a physical writers room in Chicago and whittle them down to maybe one or two. These people throw away the funniest sentence I will ever write in my life six times by noon every weekday.

The point of taking over this place was to preserve this process, which I learned this week is almost assuredly more rigorous than The New York Times.

That’s why I don’t touch any of it. I just try to get more people to pay attention to the output, and get our work into different mediums and new places. We brought back the paper, reinvested in the Onion News Network, bought a full page ad in The Times for something they were going to write anyway. The role is to make the world-class work they’re already doing seep into everyday American life more frequently, and that’s working.

You actually can do this, you know. You can just try to highlight the beauty of things you like and not try to vampirically extract value at every step.

If people get one thing out of this whole Q&A, I hope it’s that. You do not have to make an A.I. version of your own employees that operate at 1.5x speed but produce purely iterative garbage, especially in media and journalism. People don’t actually want that shit. Make a good, human thing and people will bend over backwards to support you. This is a valid way to run a company.

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jim fishvvick @fimjishwick.bsky.social · Jul 7

It's made very easy by having a great team!!

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jim fishvvick @fimjishwick.bsky.social · Jul 7

If you or someone you know is into improv and would like to be in Wellington for up to a week with a hundred beautiful improv nerds, please do check out the programme.

First round of registrations close Aug 3, and they're already half-booked, so get on it!

All the details are at my.improvfest.nz

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jim fishvvick @fimjishwick.bsky.social · Jul 7

Hello! This is my third and FINAL year of co-directing the New Zealand Improv Festival (alongside my dear friend @fauxparse).

We've assembled a tremendously cool and exciting lineup of improv shows and workshops, including one of the biggest show concepts in my improv career.

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