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Emma Hart

@ghet.bsky.social

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Medical transcriptionist, erstwhile writer, big on board games, gardening, craft, cricket, social justice and the general superiority of my cat. She/her. Aotearoa/NZ.

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 2h

*sigh* I like the joke but I cannot leave it alone. He was many things and one of them was "Nowhere near racist enough for today's National Party."

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 2h

Say what you like about Jim Bolger

No, I'm done actually.

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 19h

This episode of The Allusionist on banned books, while it made me cranky, is great. And, @dimsie.bsky.social, special mention of Deenie.

The Allusionist @allusionistshow.bsky.social · 7d

New episode is in your podfeed, for Banned Books Week theallusionist.org/bannedbooks

Allusionist 218. Banned Books — The Allusionist

It's Banned Books Week. Honorary youth chair Iris Mogul and Sam Helmick, president of the American Library Association, talk about what it is, why it matters so much, and how you can get involved.

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 22h

Just delivered a stern lecture to a thrush on how there are lots of bugs in the garden and there is NO NEED for her to eat my worms.

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 1d

Making little seedling greenhouses out of empty tonic water bottles.

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Katzcribe @katzcribe.bsky.social · 1d

Replace the entire curriculum of English Lit with a selection of Terry Pratchett novels and you'll achieve the same education with infinitely more entertaining reads.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 2d

NOPE

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Duncan Webb MP @duncanwebbmp.bsky.social · 3d

Christchurch City Mission needs our help! They provide 1600 Christmas food parcels for families and people in need through December, but they need boxes! 📦📦📦

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 3d

Such an utter wanker.

Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 3d

Migraine here. Day two.

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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 4d

Hot off the presses! If you need a bigger size to print your stickers let me know!

The Portland frog as a founding father, surround by the words "give me ribberty or give me death"

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 4d

Stupid howling nor'wester, stupid dipshit mayor who can barely string a sentence together and wants to spend $30k removing a cycleway.

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 4d

Man, Christchurch, you are annoying me in a bunch of different ways today.

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 4d

I mean, fucking hell.

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 5d

Today has generally been shitty, but I have really enjoyed, "How dare you, that is not a 'hot priest'. He's Presbyterian. That is a hot minister."

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newimprovedtom.bsky.social @newimprovedtom.bsky.social · 5d

Shh! No-one tell Winston about this window display in Cuba St right now!

A fake cardboard brick hanging in a window, with a yellow sticky note saying “40 years of windows”.

A wider view of the window display, showing the brick hanging in a window surrounded by a wall made of matching paper bricks. A ladder leads to the window.

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 5d

I am required, REQUIRED, to use double spacing at work.

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 6d

This is how my brain functions in spring. I have high anxiety and stress. Also, I have decided the wall of the garage that faces into the garden is super boring and should have an outrageous-level floral mural all over it as soon as possible.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 6d

“The alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.”

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 7d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 6d

New VR has just transcribed "geriatrician" as "severely old paediatrician", and, I guess?

Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 7d

I did too much in the garden yesterday (my 50s CFS baseline is ridiculously low) and spent the evening for-realsies struggling to stand up.

Problem being, it is a GORGEOUS day and there are still forget-me-nots that need pulling out.

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 7d

Heh, I have a friend who has one in his back yard he refers to as "that bastard".

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 7d

Gorgeous. Is that pink tree a Chinese toon?

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 7d

To be fair, I thought very little of her before she misquoted one of my favourite plays.

A play I wrote on for Honours contending that it is packed full of fuckwits and has no moral centre. I got an A.

Alex @shakingstick.bsky.social · 7d

Heh.

Willis told Morning Report the phrase often cropped up in politics and dated back to the time of William Shakespeare, who referred to calling off the hounds in his play Julius Caesar.

The actual quote from Julius Caesar is: "Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war."

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