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Zak

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The Lodge (2020) trakt.tv/movies/the-lodge-2020

When a father is forced to abruptly depart for work, he leaves his children, Aidan and Mia, at their holiday home in the care of his new girlfriend, Grace. Isolated and alone, a blizzard traps them in...

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December 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM

Zak

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Gate II (1990)
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Shitty horror movie is a Christmas tradition 🤗

Gate II

It's been five years since Terry's friend Glen discovered The Gate to hell in his backyard. Glen has now moved away and Terry begins practicing rituals in Glen's old house and eventually bringing back...

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December 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM

Zak

@zaktinoid.bsky.social

No idea what was delivered in this box to the bar I'm sitting in, but apparently they ordered the Lawson variety.

I wonder if you can check more than one option. 🤔

Side of a cardboard box showing available varieties, including Salt and Pepper, Sesame, Lawson and Naked.

December 23, 2025 at 9:42 AM

Zak

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Lockout (2012) 🔒trakt.tv/movies/lockout-2012

Lockout

Set in the near future, Lockout follows a falsely convicted ex-government agent , whose one chance at obtaining freedom lies in the dangerous mission of rescuing the President's daughter from rioting ...

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December 22, 2025 at 10:22 AM

Zak

@zaktinoid.bsky.social

Fly a drone near an airport and you'll be fast-tracked to a prison cell.

Blow up a rocket and threaten the lives of 450 people and the US government will give you $million contracts and a pass to ignore pesky regulations.

The muppet's games are killing people.

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The explosion of a SpaceX rocket earlier this year put multiple passenger planes in danger, with one pilot declaring “Mayday” before being forced to fly through the debris.

The experimental rocket ship belonging to Elon Musk’s company disintegrated minutes after lift-off in January, scattering fiery debris across the Caribbean region and causing widespread disruptions to air traffic.

Pilots of three planes, carrying a total of 450 people, were forced to decide whether to fly through a field of rocket debris or risk running low on fuel over water, according to Federal Aviation Administration documents.

The files, which The Wall Street Journal reviewed, revealed that the January 16 explosion posed a greater danger to planes in the air than was publicly known.

The explosion rained a meteor-like shower of debris across parts of the Caribbean for about 50 minutes and could have put lives at risk, the FAA said.

Fiery trails shooting through the sky were visible from the cockpits and cabins of commercial aircraft and private jets. If a piece of debris had struck an aircraft in flight, it could have caused severe damage to the plane and possible passenger fatalities.

As well as the extreme safety risk, the FAA recorded that SpaceX failed to call an emergency hotline immediately after the explosion. Controllers in Miami first heard of the explosion from pilots seeing the debris, not from Musk’s company.

December 22, 2025 at 7:50 AM

Zak

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Persona (2000)
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Persona

Into the bully-infested home room class struts a fearless, ceramic-masked student. Squarely confronting a gang of ruffians, it is soon discovered that behind the mask is none other than Danta, an othe...

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December 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM

Zak

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Blood and Black Lace (1964) trakt.tv/movies/blood-and-black-lace-1964

Blood and Black Lace

Isabella, a young model, is murdered by a mysterious masked figure at a fashion house in Rome. When her diary, which details the house employees' many vices, disappears, the masked killer begins killi...

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December 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM

Zak

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Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl (1999) 🦈🍑
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On the Silver Globe

A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry the end of their own dream. They die one by one, w...

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December 17, 2025 at 10:11 AM

Zak

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@microsoft.com

Where is the "Not ever" button?

How about you fix Word's numbering system which has been broken for more than 20 years instead of spending billions of dollars on this useless rubbish?

Screenshot of an obnoxious dialog box in Word, begging me to "Chat with Copilot in Word" but not providing any way for me to tell it to fuck off all the way to the sun.

December 16, 2025 at 11:48 PM

Zak

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Lady Reporter (1989) trakt.tv/movies/lady-reporter-1989

Lady Reporter

Cindy, an American FBI agent, travels to Hong Kong to investigate a newspaper editor, Ronny Dak, who is suspected of printing counterfeit money using the newspaper’s presses. The American teams up wit...

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December 16, 2025 at 10:37 AM

Zak

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The Princess Bride (1987)
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#RIPRobReiner 😢

The Princess Bride

In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley must overcome staggering odds to find happiness amid six-fingered swordsmen, murderous princes, Sicili...

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December 15, 2025 at 9:29 AM

Zak

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It's incredible how many governments, agencies, politicians and other spokespeople from around the world are commenting on the #Bondi tragedy *on Twitter*, the platform that has been brazenly and deliberately promoting terrorism, antisemitism, racism and general hatred and violence for *years*.

December 14, 2025 at 11:41 AM

Zak

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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) trakt.tv/movies/wake-up-dead-man-a-knives-out-mystery-2025

Take two. Hopefully the cinema has updated their media server since last week.

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

When young priest Jud Duplenticy is sent to assist charismatic firebrand Monsignor Jefferson Wicks, it’s clear that all is not well in the pews. After a sudden and seemingly impossible murder rocks th...

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December 13, 2025 at 3:37 AM

Zak

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Sex Beyond the Grave (1984) 🪦
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Sex Beyond the Grave

In order to pay off a massive debt, a gambling addict sells his ancestral home to a young couple, who soon discover that the building is haunted by the vengeful spirits of a murdered family.

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December 11, 2025 at 10:45 AM

Zak

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Calibri is woke, apparently. These are the most pathetic people who have ever lived.

Font of ‘wasteful’ diversity: Trump’s state department orders return to Times New Roman www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/10/trump-times-new-roman-font-return-state-department

Font of ‘wasteful’ diversity: Trump’s state department orders return to Times New Roman

Memo from Marco Rubio reportedly said cutting Calibri from official communication would ‘abolish yet another wasteful DEIA program’

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December 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM

Zak

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Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (1995) 🐢
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Gamera: Guardian of the Universe

A ship runs aground on a mysterious atoll leading to an investigation by insurance representative Kusanagi, who discovers an ancient bead that he gives to his daughter Asagi. Meanwhile, ornithologist ...

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December 9, 2025 at 10:24 AM

Zak

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"These [DVDs] are generations old..."

Generations? Sounds like he found them in a tomb under an inch-thick layer of dust. ☺️

But his collection already has some classics, so he's off to a good start.