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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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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 · 3d
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 · 3d
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 · 3d
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 · 3d
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
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thea.hutchings.gen.nz
I’m so glad to have a public health system.

Gallbladder attack on Sunday night. Ultrasound on Monday, surgery Tuesday, and since I’m mobile with no complications home on Wednesday.

Direct cost to me? Nothing.
December 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
bigshika.com
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
bigshika.com
since we've been talking about school lunches on AoNZ-sky... personally i've been thinking on and off about a school cheeseboard since i saw this
goakl.bsky.social Gareth Oakland 🇫🇷🏏🏉 @goakl.bsky.social · 7d
Our local school menu. Can I go back please?
School menu
December 3, 2025 at 3:50 AM
bigshika.com
Was at the hospital trying to be all kind and supportive while my gf was being discharged, except the waiting room had a TV and a contestant on the quiz show got a question extremely wrong just as we were leaving so instead they all saw me scoffing derisively 😞
December 3, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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metservice.com
Our very own Heather Keats captured this moment when lightning struck the Sky Tower today (Wednesday)⛈️
December 3, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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theonion.com
Manic-Depressive Friend A Blast While Manic https://theonion.com/manic-depressive-friend-a-blast-while-manic-1819566927/
Manic-Depressive Friend A Blast While Manic
December 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM
bigshika.com
There’s a person in this ward working remotely while extremely hopped up on pain meds and it seems like a very bad combination. I got my partner to Face ID lock Slack before getting general anaesthetic just in case
December 2, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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juha.bsky.social
One suspects that MAGS pupils had a hand in creating this Jujutsu Kaisen tourist attraction on Apple Maps.
One does suspect that MAGS pupils had a hand in creating this Jujutsu Kaisen tourist attraction on Apple Maps.
December 2, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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kottke.org
Adding to an “overwhelming body of evidence”, a recent study showed that “suicidality scores dropped significantly an average of two years and up to five years after [trans youth] received gender-affirming treatment”. [erininthemorning.com]
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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theregister.com
Microsoft appears to move on from its most loyal ‘customers’ – Contoso and Fabrikam
Microsoft appears to move on from its most loyal ‘customers’ – Contoso and Fabrikam
Outfit called 'Zava' selling 'intelligent athletic apparel' is now in the spotlight as Redmond's fake brand for the AI age Microsoft appears to have moved on from two of its most loyal and enthusiastic "customers".…
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December 1, 2025 at 8:39 AM
bigshika.com
Man I’d forgotten how miserable hospitals are. My partner was in the ED for gallstones and everyone in the same room was equally miserable in completely different ways. It was honestly kind of impressive how many horrible things can happen to the human body
December 1, 2025 at 9:03 AM
bigshika.com
Every now and then I check on what our nation’s Large Adult Son is doing, and I think he’s doing fine
ohnohedidnt24.bsky.social Oh No He Didn't @ohnohedidnt24.bsky.social · Sep 30
Steven Adams on KD:

"He's cool bro. Solid dude. He wasn't a dick or anything"
November 30, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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catacalypto.bsky.social
A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. "When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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rincewind.run
good news everyone the Mistaken Text From Grandma Thanksgiving buddy drama is still going strong

this story delights me every year
November 28, 2025 at 2:34 AM
bigshika.com
I also use RecipeTin Japan for Japanese food recipes. Between it and JOC i havent had to look at other recipe sites for a while japan.recipetineats.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
bigshika.com
Oh yeah, I can recommend Vie Cafe & Vietnamese Street Food on Shortland St. Delicious pho, great egg coffee, and no one tried to fight my mother
bigshika.com Sana @bigshika.com · 11d
Anyway we had dinner tonight and she only brought up the recent Japanese diplomatic incident re: China and Taiwan extremely loudly in English in a Vietnamese restaurant in the Auckland CBD once, so it was a relatively uneventful dinner
November 25, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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mattnippert.bsky.social
The most wholesome story of the true New Zealand is immigrant bakers - mostly refugees - dominating pie awards and becoming beloved regional icons.
November 25, 2025 at 7:43 AM