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

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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
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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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Yep! I used to work just around the corner at the time and I remember someone in the office saying Daniel Radcliffe was filming nearby
Screenshot of Google maps at the corner of Jean Batten Pl and Shortland St in 2018
December 11, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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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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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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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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New Zealand you are not exempt what the fuck is this
A poster at St Pierre for “sushi cake”. They appear to be rice in a donut shape with an avocado base. The “salmon sunset” has raw salmon, avocado, and flying fish roe. The “chicken decker” is topped with teriyaki chicken which is then doused in mayonnaise.
December 4, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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at this point i feel like i should clarify that i'm a japanese person WITH a girlfriend, rather than a weirdo with an anime waifu
Word cloud visualization for 2025 showing your 50 most-used words, sized by frequency. Top 10: "japanese" (32×), "girlfriend" (31×), "game" (29×), "reading" (23×), "mean" (19×), "book" (19×), "books" (18×), "fuck" (16×), "least" (15×), "auckland" (15×) (from Anisota's Annual Bluesky Harvest)
December 3, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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ok but where do i go to report that this is down?
Screenshot of the website downforeveryoneorjustme.com which is down due to a cloudflare error
November 18, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Every year during Transgender Awareness Week I follow my girlfriend around the apartment and stare uncomfortably at her from time to time. It’s been years and this joke has not yet gotten old. Anyway, be aware this week!
Overly attached girlfriend meme. A girl is staring into the camera, eyes a little too wide open.
November 14, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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I highly recommend this account labeller for bot-like behaviour: bsky.app/profile/stec...
A Bluesky account posting a US politics "call to activism!" post. The account has been labelled as "Profile changes often", "Posted same url 15+ times yesterday" and "Posts a lot: more than 100 times yesterday"
November 14, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Previously on Sana’s Mom’s gifts:
A fan T-shirt for Japanese figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu. This gift arrived during my mom’s men’s figure skating phase. I do not follow figure skating in any way. A T-shirt with a VERY zoomed in photo realistic style black labrador head on the front. We had a black labrador when i was growing up A grey shirt with lots of black cats on it. 17 on the front. I have never owned a pet cat and i like cats a normal amount A framed wanted poster of Shrek, like in the movie. I have seen the movie once, maybe twice as a child
November 7, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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More places should be like the Orangerie Museum in Paris. Mind you, this was enforced by a woman coming in every now and then yelling at everyone to shut up in French
October 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Update: the tūī came back and the rosella hadn’t been back. Tree has been pretty peaceful, although that may change as we get more flowers blooming (sorry, our windows need washing real bad)
Tūī sitting in a pōhutukawa tree. It is singing aggressively
October 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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For some weird reason the Toponomy section in the Weston-super-Mare wiki page is written in the first person voice of a stuffy old British schoolmaster. It’s rather charming, but it also takes 3 very long paragraphs to get to the 1300s en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weston-...
Screenshot from the Wikipedia page for Weston-super-Mare. It reads: So by, say, the year 1000 CE, we can perhaps imagine a large estate centred on Worle, at the eastern end of Worle Hill and with the hill itself, indeed, forming in effect, its backbone, and taking in a swathe of territory to the north and south of the hill (probably including Kewstoke), and all the way to its west tun at the coast.
September 30, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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The girl from The Ring is a classic Japanese-style ghost which dates back centuries, including the scary vengeance filled part en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onry%C5...
Still from Ringu (1998) showing the character Sadako standing in a dark room. She has waist length black hair covering her face and wears a dirty white dress. Her arms hang limp.
September 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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I’m just saying there is absolutely zero reason for this distribution of stores unless you want to expense a trip to Japan
Screenshot of Cookie Time Cookie Bar store branch list. They are in: Queenstown, Dunedin, and Harajuku
September 21, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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September 16, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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wait i just remembered i took this photo ages ago
A “Now Showing” sign for the Reading Cinemas in Wellington circa 2013. Now Showing This Is The End World War Z After Earth
September 15, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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This year for #BirdOfTheYear consider voting for the cute kea
Screenshot of a Google images search panel suggesting similar searches. The suggestions are: cheeky kea [photo of a kea standing and minding its own business] flying kea [photo of a kea majestically in flight] cute kea [photo of a kākāpō] police car kea bird destroys [photo of a police car]
September 15, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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I remember reading this Zadie Smith quote a while back and thinking it’s just a list of local civil defence emergencies. Also a reminder to check the emergency kit
(a) Are the skies you sleep under likely to open up for weeks on end? (b) Is the ground you walk on likely to tremble and split? (c) Is there a chance (and please check the box, no matter how small that chance seems) that the ominous mountain casting a midday shadow over your home might one day erupt with no rhyme or reason? Because if the answer is yes to one or all of these questions, then the life you lead is a midnight thing, always a hair's breadth from the witching hour; it is volatile, it is threadbare; it is carefree in the true sense of that term; it is light, losable like a key or a hair clip. And it is lethargy: why not sit all morning, all day, all year, under the same cypress tree drawing the figure eight in the dust? More than that, it is disaster, it is chaos: why not overthrow a government on a whim, why not blind the man you hate, why not go mad, go gibbering through the town like a loon, waving your hands, tearing your hair? There's nothing to stop you---or rather anything could stop you, any hour, any minute. That feeling. That's the real difference in a life. Zadie Smith
September 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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This is disturbingly similar to the shitty painting of the duke in Dishonored 2 dishonored.fandom.com/wiki/Regardi...
Screenshot of the video game Dishonored 2 showing a framed self-portrait of the character Duke Abele. The backstory is that the duke is supposedly a good painter, however all of the art credited to the duke is by his body double and this portrait is by the real duke.
September 9, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Post in r/SkincareAddiction Title: [Product question] | love my girlfriend very much, how do I tell her that St Ives Apricot Scrub is a bad? (I am a little tispy) I love my girlfriend very very much and I want to marry her and she uses st ives apricot scrub stuff for her beautiful face? How do I convince her to use gentler stuff without coming off as an asshole who is obsessed with skincare? Im very gay and very in love and very drunk right now. The drunk is temporary but the gay is forever. I love you all so mych (Edit: i am going to sleep!!! Thank you all very much for your answers, i appreciate it so much! The fact that you took the effort to reply to such a silly post truly proves that you are a very kind and lovely human being and I love you for it! Sleep well if it is sleeping time where you are, and if it is not sleeping time then be awake well!!!!!)
September 8, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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Stumbled into the living room late at night without my glasses and wondered when the fuck we’d gotten a dog before realising it was a blanket
Photo of my living room in low light. There’s a very dark navy blue plush blanket on the floor in front of an armchair, which is folded in a way that looks like a sleeping black Labrador
August 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM