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Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social · 10h

There is SCABIES at my child's nursery. Scabies.

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Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social · 14h

I've written 3,000 words and my head hurts, why do we do this to ourselves.

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Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

CAN I JUST SAY that it doesn’t look like a tapestry from here. A screen print at best.

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Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Did I miss a meeting where we all agreed to refer to it as the GFC? Keep thinking people are talking about an off-brand chicken shop.

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Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

134 pages of interview transcripts, this is absolutely fine.

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yuge day for American Bluesky, as many are getting their first experience of the quaint and traditional British rural pursuits, "dogging" and "flytipping"

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Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Well this is a nice end to the day. Spent a lot of time last week reporting this, delightful to lead today's Daily. Worth a read if you're going through IVF. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

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Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Once again, I am asking Google to use search data to create an app that shows parents what viruses are doing the rounds in the local area, what the symptoms are and, crucially, how long they last.

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Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Why is everything in gmail blue now. Did I do something to make it blue? Can it sense my mood?

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The Persistent @thepersistent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A rash on @emmahaslett.bsky.social's face made her reassess her relationship with makeup. Here’s what she learned.

thepersistent.com

Do Real Feminists Wear Makeup?

My skin has started to reject makeup. Why am I so upset?

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Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Freelance journalism is an insane profession. Monday: rewrote the same sentence 15 times. Tuesday: commissions for two pieces requiring multiple sources and hard-to-find documents, both needing to be filed on Thursday. Wednesday, Thursday: full-blown panic. Friday: playgroup with my three year old.

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Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Cat has left two small leaves and a lot of mud on my bed?! Thought cats were supposed to be clean??

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Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The good news is that I'm owed a nice tax rebate; the bad news is that claiming it involves solving five riddles set by HMRC, each more devilish than the last.

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Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Why do rich people literally never pay for their own stuff? And how does it work? Like rounds at a pub, where each person takes a turn paying for someone's kid's wedding? Or more like jury duty, where the Billionaire Distribution System randomly calls on you: 'you have been selected, pay up'?

nytimes.com

Russian Businessman With Putin Ties Paid for Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Party

The payments, totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars, represented an extraordinary flouting of ethical norms for an American president’s family member.

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The Persistent @thepersistent.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A survey named British women among the angriest in Europe. It's obvious why: they've got so much to be angry about. @emmahaslett.bsky.social shares just a few reasons here.

thepersistent.com

Of Course British Women Are Angry.

There's so much to be angry about.

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Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The best thing about my daughter’s new school is that in order to collect her, I can either park illegally or spend £5 on a car park. There’s no alternative.

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Kinehora @kinehora.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I really don’t like living in every dystopian novel ever written all at once.

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

If you haven’t read the dedication of Gloria Steinem’s autobiography My Life on the Road, it is really worth taking a second today.

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Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It's a great week for batshit CEO quotes.

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The Persistent @thepersistent.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

A rash on @emmahaslett.bsky.social's face made her reassess her relationship with makeup. Here’s what she learned.

thepersistent.com

Do Real Feminists Wear Makeup?

My skin has started to reject makeup. Why am I so upset?

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The Persistent @thepersistent.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

From being asked about kids and marriage to fending off kisses, here’s what women have to deal with when trying to start a company.

thepersistent.com

'I Don't Invest in Mothers. I Expect Founders to Work'

8 Female entrepreneurs share shocking investor comments.

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Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

He remains the only person who has successfully peer pressured me into smoking.

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Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Remember when the internet was just people making this shit replay.bfi.org.uk/video/a50f8d...

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We Like The Moon | Replay

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Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The funnest thing about calling government press offices is when you've been on hold for 15-odd minutes and then the call just randomly hangs up.

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Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Devastated to discover that the silly but incredible mid-century "alpine chalet" round the corner from us has been destroyed by its new owners: windows enlarged with black aluminium frames, silly alpine-style shutters removed and generic blue plastic wood-effect cladding added.

static.klipy.com

Doctor Who: Rainy Scene

ALT: Doctor Who: Rainy Scene

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Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

RIP Dolly, a hero for the infertility community, because she provided an example of what a life without kids can look like. "When I got married and wanted to have children, I couldn't have any. But I didn't miss it. I did for a while, but I realised that I am everybody's mother." 💔

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Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

If you’re horrified by the crash on the A66, consider signing this petition set up by a friend whose 2 yr old son was killed when a young driver lost control trying to drift around a corner.

change.org

Sign the Petition

Introduce Graduated Driver Licensing with mandatory vehicle power restrictions in the UK

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The Persistent @thepersistent.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Economic shocks can act as litmus tests — they can expose the hidden assumptions on which apparently egalitarian households are built.

thepersistent.com

Even the Most Equal Parents Struggle When One Loses Their Job

During times of adversity, parents struggle to maintain equality.

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Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Any retailers* on here who'd like to comment, very quickly, on today's zero hours contract announcement? Hit me up: emmahaslettfreelance at gmail dot com. #journorequest *not employment lawyers, not retail lawyers, not consultants, not people who 'work with' retailers. Actual retailers.

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Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Ordered 10 pairs of eclipse glasses two weeks ago; today I am queen of the Whitstable mum social scene. I will never be this popular again.

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Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Listen I know two-thirds of the country is in drought and the other third is on fire, BUT I've just noticed that my legs are a tiiiny bit brown? For literally the first time in my life? Hashtag silver linings.

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Sir Basil @sirbasil.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I don't think there should be a defibrilator on Snowdon. And that's a hill I'm prepared to die on

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Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Just been to a jumble organised by the nice ladies at a local church where they recycle school uniform and give it away for free and I feel quite emotional about how well local community is working in that context. I've saved about £70 and the uniform isn't going to waste and it's just brilliant.

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Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The town I live in hasn’t seen a single raindrop in over a month and the whole place is now covered with a layer of dust that gets into your pores and makes your nails and hair brittle. All our cars look like they’ve been on a long drive through the desert.

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Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Years and years ago I wrote a big piece for Management Today about the nascent UK space sector. I drove around the country meeting mad professors creating reusable rockets (then regarded as quite nuts) and shoebox-sized satellites. We illustrated it with this great 70s sci-fi artwork.

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Æthelred the UnPreddy @ready4preddy.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Printers are finicky because they are portals between a digital world and a physical world which defies all of God's will and should never have been built should never have been built so yet require constant and consistent sacrifice to satisfy the weak bonds that tether the two planes.

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Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

This piece is big on nostalgia for lots of beats but misses the joyous bounties of business journalism in the mid-noughties. I got a BlackBerry, a Samsung tablet, a £1,000 camera, numerous jollies to F1 and boxes at the O2, etc. What even is the point any more. freeloader.beehiiv.com/p/freeloader...

freeloader.beehiiv.com

FREELOADER #6

Frida? I hardly know 'er!

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Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This is what my 7 yr old says! And we make fun of her behind her back.

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Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

It's ok to put a phone number on your website. It's ok to answer that phone. It's ok not to ask someone to put it in an email.

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Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Just your regular millennial gripe about no-one wanting to talk on the phone any more. 'Can you drop us an email?': surely the six most boring words in the English language.

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Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I find this stuff about women in midlife struggling to find jobs horrifying. One of the reasons I went freelance was because the endless writing of cover letters and completing of 'exercises' and organising of childcare to attend interviews, only to be ghosted, was too exhausting.

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