i got a belated birthday gift from my mom! luckily she warned me ahead of time what she was sending, because whatever you’re guessing these are, you’re almost certainly wrong
Sana
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i watched Leon: The Professional immediately after watching The Great Gatsby and it’s honestly kind of impressive that it makes Jay Gatsby seem normal and not-creepy by comparison
Leonardo DiCaprio's Gatsby Toast
Alt: Leonardo DiCaprio's Gatsby Toast
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so from what i'm seeing, it's such a not-Good Day in Wellington that it's come back around and become a Good Day
Not my personal grudge, but I recently played a video game developed by a guy so mad at Ed Sheeran that he wrote 4 songs and programmed an entire game. it was actually really good too. i was impressed by the power of Spite Driven Development owlskip-games.itch.io/copy-right
Copy! Right? by Owlskip Games
A game about song-writing, copyright and thievery
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Sanjay Srivastava@sanjaysrivastava.com · 6d agoWhat is an extremely nerdy/obscure/specific thing you hate with a white-hot wrath?
i do wonder if my mom is posting somewhere on the internet about her weird daughter
Sana@bigshika.com · 5d agomessaging my mom like “my gf and i watched the movie Shoplifters this week and now i really want to eat croquettes” and her immediately agreeing to make me “a mountain of them” when i next go down to wellington 🥰
messaging my mom like “my gf and i watched the movie Shoplifters this week and now i really want to eat croquettes” and her immediately agreeing to make me “a mountain of them” when i next go down to wellington 🥰
and of course to eschew 'marketing' altogether. I know of the new Neuromancer show only because I caught a fish in the river Yarmouk that when roasted turned out contained a mysterious ring with the words 'William Gibson's Neuromancer to premier January 22'
Sam@samd.bsky.social · 2w agoit’s very cool how apple’s corporate strategy is basically to avoid the AI race entirely and instead just keep churning out high-concept, high-production value, extremely enjoyable sci fi TV
The narrator in this is a dapper humanoid wolf played by Sting and if that doesn’t make you curious enough to play it I don’t know what to tell you
Josh Scherr@joshscherr.bsky.social · 2w agoA deeply under-appreciated game: store.steampowered.com/app/447120/W...
it's a toss-up between Anger Management (a man singing "Pretty In Pink" is hilarious because it's a MAN and he's singing about being pretty!!111!) and Rubber (a movie about a psychic murdering tyre that put me to sleep)
Defector@defector.com · 3w agoWhat's the worst movie you've ever watched in a theater? defector.com/whats-the-wo...
“He was a terrific actor, one of my favorites to watch—and mm, mm, what a man he was,” said the 62-year-old woman who got a faraway look in her eyes that suggested to sources that Weaver had forgotten they were even standing in the same room.
Mom’s Remembrance Of Sam Neill Takes Lewd Turn
GAINESVILLE, FL—Alarmed and disturbed by the sudden shift in tone, living room sources confirmed Thursday that local mother Jeanine Weaver’s remembrance of Sam Neill had taken a lewd turn. “He was a t...
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wait wtf? i knew i was a Letterboxd early adopter, but i went through my emails and i hadn't realised ?!?
Sana@bigshika.com · 3w agoi went from being a film wanker with 10+ films at the nziff every year to someone who needs to catch up to the last ten years of cinema. can you be my letterboxd friend? boxd.it/1nB
me to my gf: so studio ghibli dubs tend to be high quality so i don’t mind which language the movie starts playing in. i haven’t seen it dubbed before so it might be fun howl’s moving castle: *starts playing in french* me, a person who doesn’t speak french: …okay, not that dub tho
new (old) sana's mom story! also tbh, all social media should just be this
Sana@bigshika.com · 3w agoi can’t promise my reviews will be as good as my mother’s, who had a years long thread on the yahoo japan message board where she and her internet friends would write a tanka (5 line japanese poem, like a long haiku) every time they watched a movie
let’s have lunch at the combination restaurant/gymnasium/table tennis tournament/covid vaccine centre
Random Restaurant Bot@restaurant-bot.bsky.social · 3w agoClub Universitario De Sucre; Olañeta 45, Sucre, Bolivia https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=-19.04837689999999%2C-65.261584&query_place_id=ChIJC58SHDbP-5MRkkf7knv6lNs
i went from being a film wanker with 10+ films at the nziff every year to someone who needs to catch up to the last ten years of cinema. can you be my letterboxd friend? boxd.it/1nB
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Sana uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. 467 films watched. Favorites: Millennium Actress (2001), Spirited Away (2001), 28 Days Later (2002), The Great Escape (1963).
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The movie holds up. As does this great anecdote courtesy of Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum.
I find the story of Hegelochus unreasonably funny. Imagine dying and the only trace of you millennia later is the time you accidentally said you saw a weasel in a tragic play in front of a packed audience, because people mocked you about it for centuries. (Thread for ease)
Hegelochus: The Ancient Greek Actor We Only Know About Because He Really, Really Fluffed Up His Line
Around 400 BCE, Hegelochus really messed up his line. We only know about the actor because he was mocked about it for centuries.
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Citizen Sleeper (2022) is free this week on EGS (PC)! I love this sci-fi rpg, don't miss it 🖖
Citizen Sleeper | Download and Buy Today - Epic Games Store
Download and play Citizen Sleeper at the Epic Games Store. Check for platform availability and price!
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Miffy is Dutch! they had Dutch Masters Miffy at the Rijksmuseum
Bassano@bassano.bsky.social · 2mo agoVermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer
Tonight I've published a reference document on the inspiration and history of NZ First's transphobic definitions bill. If you plan to make a submission, as I do, I hope this background can help you plan and write your submission curly.kiwi/articles/202...
The inspiration and history of NZ First's transphobic definitions bill
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i’m currently watching the show Planetes, which is about this. the episodes start w/ a little blurb about how we’re sending more things into orbit and creating space debris and it took me until ep 7 to realise that i was reflexively saying “fuck starlink” at the beginning of each episode
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4mo ago‘This feels fragile’: how a satellite-smashing chain reaction could spiral out of control
today in terrible user interface design… at least it’s in alphabetical order?
Nature’s careers team asked scientists what a good day in science looked like to them. The described how good science days come in all shapes and sizes — from finding a dreamy location for a natural experiment to setting schoolchildren’s curiosity ablaze. #Academicsky 🧪
Best. Day. Ever. What does a good day in science look like?
Struggling to remember why you picked a career in science? Here are some heart-warming tales to jog your memory.
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kind of impressed that my gf managed to interrupt my audiobook just at this point, exactly one sentence before the killer confesses
![[redacted] gave me a sad smile. 'You've
got it all right, except one thing. I didn't kill [redacted] because of any of that. I might have, eventually. But I killed him because ...' He](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cfdmspnphumtrbmez757nk5m/bafkreieuwzi7bvqmitjnbfcphor33f5tuvc5imbyovxpc4kph4pxhowe2q)
Oriini Kaipara draws on the values of kura kaupapa in saying people are people; tangata are tangata. "The architect of this Bill does not speak for me, does not speak for wahine Maori." Huh; her first kohanga reo kaiako was a mighty trans person; in 1983!