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Inventor of the Iain Lees-Galloway Love Actually drinking game. Here to listen. She/Her. 🇳🇿🇯🇵🏳️‍🌈

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Sana @bigshika.com · Dec 23
Okay it’s time for my annual Iain-Lees Galloway Love Actually Drinking Game. It has one rule: drink when there’s an inappropriate workplace interaction. The hashtag for muting purposes is #DrunkActually
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TIL 19th century thirst traps were a thing
From the wikipedia article for Herbert Charles Pollitt. Pollitt also sent risqué photographs of himself to their mutual friend Oscar Wilde.
December 14, 2025 at 11:40 AM
bigshika.com
goddamn wikipedia, extremely judgemental out of nowhere (re: influence of Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier in Gothic Fiction)
Excerpt from Wikipedia article on Gothic Fiction. "Du Maurier's work inspired a substantial body of "female Gothics," concerning heroines alternately swooning over or terrified by scowling Byronic men in possession of acres of prime real estate and the appertaining droit du seigneur."
December 13, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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ardaniel.collider.mov
Black Panther *crew screening* was off the walls. The costume department came in with drummers, everyone in costume. I was VFX but ended up sitting with the Dora Milaje stunt performers and it was amazing. Michael B. Jordan ripped his shirt off and someone screamed "LORD HAVE MERCY HE IS *FINE*." A+
December 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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bigshika.com
Has anyone lost a kororā lately? This lil guy just turned up in the Falklands
December 12, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Has anyone lost a kororā lately? This lil guy just turned up in the Falklands
December 12, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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wario64.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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mikedrucker.bsky.social
i stand by this statement every year
tweet reading: GAME TRAILER: “Enter a world beyond belief...” ME: “Yes” GAME TRAILER: “An adventure like never before...” ME: “YES” GAME TRAILER: “Join your friends online” ME: “I’m out”
December 12, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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kelper60.bsky.social
So privileged to have seen the smallest penguin in the world here in the Falkland Islands.😁 #penguins #vagrant #oceanlife #blue #fairy such an adventurous wee penguin... #NewZealand #Australia #penguinworld
December 11, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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restaurant-bot.bsky.social
Airport Kebabs & Pizza; shop 7/203 Kirkbride Road, Māngere, Auckland 2022, New Zealand https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=-36.97344289999999%2C174.7882066&query_place_id=ChIJFckCE5xPDW0RrrN944jJNlE
December 11, 2025 at 12:05 PM
bigshika.com
BEEEEEEES
A member of the public alerted council at about 12.15pm to a swarm on the corner of High Street and Shortland Street. A still of Daniel Radcliffe from the film Guns Akimbo holding two guns while wearing a dressing gown and tiger slippers. The location is the corner of High Street and Shortland Street, where the bee swarm is.
December 11, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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centuryfruitcake.org
Today an experiment which will take 100 years to complete was started:

16 fruitcakes were baked and started on the process of aging. They will be opened up over the next hundred years.
December 11, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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theonion.com
Fabergé Egg Recovered After Being Swallowed By Thief
https://theonion.com/faberge-egg-recovered-after-being-swallowed-by-thief/
“Shake him around and see what else falls out.” Alan Osorio, Tea Pourer
December 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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science.org
Fibers found on an ancient ocean voyaging canoe in New Zealand’s Chatham Islands roughly align with the first archaeological traces of human settlement on Rēkohu. https://scim.ag/3MvPKAp
‘Incredible’ carved canoe dates back to first settlement of islands near New Zealand
Fibers found on waka in Chatham Islands roughly align in age with earliest known human arrival
scim.ag
December 9, 2025 at 11:30 PM
bigshika.com
I did get 52 books read this year, but not through anything resembling healthy reading habits or anything like that
Chart from StoryGraph showing books read in 2025. There are 22 in January, 18 in February, 4 books in March. In the second half of the year I read 6 books.
December 9, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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rincewind.run
very proud of the Mass Effect team for this one

they knew exactly how immature their audience was, because I am willing to bet they found “probing Uranus” just as funny as we did
jwhitbrook.bsky.social James Whitbrook @jwhitbrook.bsky.social · 7d
can't believe we've been having video games as art discourse again when we've had this since 2010
December 7, 2025 at 8:09 PM
bigshika.com
it's almost time for the annual Love Actually drinking game (drink for every HR violation)
December 7, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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gotta say, this is offensive on at least three different levels
Wikipedia screenshot from article for "Your Name" Live-action film On September 27, 2017, J. J. Abrams and Eric Heisserer announced that they were developing a live-action remake of Your Name to be released by Paramount Pictures and Bad Robot in cooperation with Toho, who produced the original film. The latter is to handle the film's distribution in Japan. Abrams and Heisserer were to be the film's producer and screenwriter, respectively. Heisserer stated that the Japanese right holders desired for it to be made from a Western point of view, with a transposition of the film's settings: a Native American woman living in a rural area and a young man from Chicago discovering they are magically and intermittently swapping bodies.
December 7, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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zaichishka.bsky.social
A relief for all concerned, I'm sure!

$33,000 pendant swallowed in Auckland jewellery heist 'recovered' www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
$33,000 pendant swallowed in Auckland jewellery heist 'recovered'
Police said the Fabergé egg pendant was "recovered" last night.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 4, 2025 at 10:17 PM
bigshika.com
The best looking European sushi I’ve seen on this account and somehow I’m not surprised it’s from France
December 4, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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rincewind.run
this has been a consistent belief of mine for at least the last year: not only must you conduct gambling with bookies, it must be done at a seedy underground bar and the bookies must be named something that tells you exactly what you’re getting into

the Vito Four Fingers Theory of Gambling
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10d
I have come to the conclusion that all gambling should be made illegal again; or at the very least, must all be conducted in person at bookies.
moreperfectunion.bsky.social More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 11d
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 4, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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billbennett.bsky.social
Perhaps he is queuing to get a new cabinet?
delphijunkie.bsky.social David Clegg @delphijunkie.bsky.social · 11d
Oh great. He's gonna take credit for this too. Fuck Öff! #nzpol
Watch live: Christopher Luxon speaks at IKEA opening
December 4, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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asterionhex.monster
Posted this in response to a Reddit screenshot unable to comprehend stunts without AI. May this story inspire you as it has me
asterionhex.monster The Abominable Dr. Vibes @asterionhex.monster · 10d
Was thinking about this Don Coscarelli story and realized the book was right next to me
PROLOGUE: So You Want to Be an Indie Filmmaker? t was my first car chase. I'd grown up watching some great ones. The Mustang vs. the Charger in Bullitt. The Pontiac vs. the New York subway I train in The French Connection. For me, it would be a 1971 Plymouth Cuda vs. a "driverless" 1968 Cadillac hearse. We had no stunt drivers, just some eager student filmmakers willing to drive from our crew. We had no city permits, but we did have a dead-end road out in the hills of Thousand Oaks, California, which we figured would be empty during our late-night shoot. Did I mention we would be blowing off a shotgun from the Cuda and crashing the hearse into a tree at the end of the chase? How the hell did I ever think I'd be able to pull this scene off with no stunt team and no budger? This is how we made Phantasm. Welcome to indie filmmaking! The traditional image idolizes the indie filmmaker as edgy, hip, and cool. Certainly once Quentin Tarantino burst onto the film scene in the carly nineties, this image drew a huge flock of wannabes to the indie world. He made it look so damn easy. But all those wannabes quickly found out it's not. Indie filmmaking is damn hard. Making a no-budget indie film is like going to war. But you're not General MacArthur storming the beaches with a force of a hundred thousand soldiers. Instead, you're more like a small squad of Vietcong guerillas behind enemy lines, trying to complete an impossible mission using guile and your wits, the odds stacked against you. It's risky, difficult, and dangerous. I can swear to it. I've been there. In addition to writing and directing Phantasm, I also did the cinema-cography. I had no choice. We couldn't afford a thousand dollars a week for a low-budget director of photography. We could barely afford meals for our dedicated crew. My mom handled that. We sweet-talked camera purveyor Panavision into providing us a state-of-the-art Panaflex film camera package for peanuts. Let's make a movie! To shoot that car chase required some serious risk taking, myself in-cluded. Most of the stunt driving was handled by our go-to camera grip on the show, George W. Singer Jr. He had no previous film experience but came on board my first film as a background extra, and never left. George was a surfer-fearless, compact, and hard-core. We shot that Plymouth muscle car from every angle. Sometimes we'd put the $75,000 Panaflex camera right on the centerline of the asphalt and George would race the 'Cuda straight at it, aiming for it, then swerve away at the last instant. It made for, as George would say, "One bitchin' shot!" We also hung that camera off the side of the speeding Plymouth for the actor close-ups. We had no camera mount, so we stole a food tray from a carhop drive-in restaurant. One of us would hang on to it during shots, hoping that flimsy little tray wouldn't break loose on the hairpin turns. The challenge was filming that shotgun. When one of the actors pops up through the sunroof of the speeding 'Cuda and fires his twelve-gauge pump shorgun into that hearse, there was only one way to get the shot. I had to get in the car's trunk with that forty-pound Panaflex rig strapped to my shoulder while we raced along and actor Bill Thornbury fired the weapon point blank at me. Of course we were using blank cartridges. What we didn't know then, but what a well-known TV actor found out later and paid for with his life, was that those blank cartridges blow a lot of dangerous wadding and flaming debris out of the gun barrel at a high muzzle velocity. You certainly wouldn't want to be closer to a blank-loaded gun than about ten fect if it were aimed at you. Crammed in the trunk of our feature car, I was less than two feet away. Ignorance is bliss. Common sense told me I needed some kind of protection. One of my loyal crew members, Roberto Quezada, would be crouched in the trunk beside me, with two jobs—to read the light meter and to keep one hand on that Panaflex camera. There was no room in the trunk for a piece of transparent Plexiglas protection like they would have on a real movie. Wrapping me in a furniture pad wouldn't cut it: racing at high speed the wind would blow it right off. "We got any aluminum foil?" My producer pal Paul Pepperman wrapped my head in aluminum foil as I put on my thick parka and zipped it up to my neck. Our camera as-sistant, Marc Schwartz, offered up his small camera pad and gaffer taped it over the left side of my face. The right side would be left bare: I had to look into the eyepiece and figured the Panaflex camera would protect my face. Marc slid a glass blank in over the lens to protect it from getting fried. At least the lens would be safe. We were ready to roll. Bill was given the loaded pump shotgun. We only had four blank shells. We had just the one take to get the shot. George revved the engine, threw it in gear, and the muscle car took off. I yelled, "Go!" and, like an action star, Thornbury hurled off that sunroof, and as the wind whipped the thing by me, I was almost decapitated. Bill popped up, aimed the shotgun at camera and fired. BLAM, BLAM, BLAM, BLAM! I have to admit I winced from the sound of the discharge, but witnessed several fiery blasts blow right by camera. We got the shot and I screamed, "Cut, cut, cut!" George skidded the 'Cuda to a stop by our truck and Marc ran up and yanked the Panaflex away from me to safety. George leaped out of the driver's seat to help me and stopped dead in his tracks. "Dude, your face is on fire."
December 4, 2025 at 3:38 AM
bigshika.com
i don't really care too much about the furniture at IKEA, I just want to know what a lingonberry tastes like
December 4, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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akwomenscentre.bsky.social
Not sure what to do if you or someone you know is being stalked or harassed? Our new stalking-response guide may help! It includes info on: what stalking can look like; ways to stay safer online and offline; and legal pathways, including reporting to police. awc.org.nz/stalking-response-guide/
December 4, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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thoughtfulnz.bsky.social
When your country's collective ability to bullshit on the internet is extensive enough to shape AI slop.
December 4, 2025 at 12:40 AM