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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I love The Great British Bake-Off. “This is the most mainstream, quintessentially English thing in the world. Also, one of the contestants is a drag queen in a gay thruple.”

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is a new one. In the background of this dictation, I can hear the dictation I just finished being dictated.

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Sleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Really looking forward to a few days off. I just yelled, "You can't do that to grammar!"

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Nick Baker @nickbaker.digital · 27/09/2026

This is your school holiday assignment. Complete the school lunch quiz by matching the image to the name - a quiz based on the school lunch images sent by @ninjakitty.bsky.social this past school term. There are 15 images in total. forms.gle/et7qDL4VGBJH...

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The Aotearoa New Zealand School Lunch Quiz

The images show 15 school lunches delivered to a school in August 2026. Your task is to pick the name that was assigned to each one.

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It is freezing cold and having builders turn up at 8 am the Monday after daylight saving was probably not the best idea. OTOH, I am taking actual gardening leave later this week. Like, I took leave (for the first time in my life, at 54) and I will be spending it gardening.

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If I don't teach my kid that it is bad to punch people in the head, and then my kid punches someone in the head, my kid has not "gone rogue".

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Terrible Maps :bot: @terriblemaps.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Countries by how New Zealand they are

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Waiting times are down! Cool! That's really great! In the last two days, I've had files with 12-month waiting times for two elective surgeries and... an MRI.

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Work file this morning: Clinician: "Over the dorsum of his..." *long pause* Voice in background: "Right. I think it's right." Second voice in background: "Well, if you're sure it's right..." Clinician: "... right foot..." Yeah, I would not bank on that.

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My work queue is full of files from the clinician I have gone all Bitch Eating Crackers on. I have already used the phrase "Oh my god you self-obsessed prick" and I'm two minutes into the first one. I am going to need some brandy after this.

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So today, at our favourite cafe at which we are regulars, one of the staff came up to me and Karl and said, "I hope you don't mind me asking, but are you a couple? We can't work it out and I drew the short straw."

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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Why do people with money to burn (in this economy!) overwhelmingly back the same parties? A mystery! And, are they also the ones spooked by any hint of things so self-evidently good a child can see it (diversity, say, or equity, or hey, inclusion)… If so, goodness me, whyever could that be. #nzpol

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Briefly this morning, there were no overdue files for the whole hospital. There are now, of course, but still. It is possible.

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In this morning's Teams meeting, the other Emma and I discovered each other's massive board games collections and that was basically it for work.

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Yesterday at the supermarket I saw a woman wearing an Ed Sheeran tour shirt. I assume she was a passionate advocate for staying out of politics.

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

WHAT THE EVERLOVING FUCK

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Could not work out why British-ish-accented clinician was saying "long"; eventually worked out it was "lung". Reminded me of every night watching the sports news when I wonder what Aussies think about our calling our League team The Worriers.

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Pretty much all my life, I've been told I'm lazy. Bright schoolkid, Protestant Work Ethic, then of course chronic illness. Lots of work without direct supervision/feedback. When I started in my current job, I was typing Urology. The files were 200 hours overdue. Then they added another speciality.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Poverty kills. The level of Jobseeker kills. It is a choice governments make every year. It is a choice the RBA makes when it decides more people need to be unemployed www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

Screenshot showing deaths per 100,000 by age

Not on welfare; on Jobseeker
22-34: 17.1; 137
35-44: 30; 288.1
45-54: 83.4; 427
55-64: 201.6; 615.6

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Surely, surely, it is too nice a day for me to really be expected to work

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We had this exact book when I was a kid, along with a matching tiny one in blue binding of meanings of Māori place names. It was my only source of Te Reo, so for years I just knew the words for, like, lake and river and hill, etc

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“For too long, New Zealand politics has been trapped in zero-sum thinking,” Seymour said. “When a business succeeds, someone else must have lost." Zero-sum is to believe the way to help businesses succeed is to take money away from consumers.

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ACT pledges to freeze adult minimum wage, lower youth training rate

The party says wages can sustainably rise when workers become more productive and businesses can afford to pay more.

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Feat: A man who lived modestly (took the bus), retired early, invested long and was buried in 2024 with a Warren Buffett. His estate seeded a charitable trust with $60m that'll provide a perpetual lifeline for struggling local orgs: 25% is flagged for the local tramway society and model train club.

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

wtf kind of pets they got in there

SMOKING
BARE FOOT
PETS
PROHIBITED IN BUILDING

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Shiny new never been there before enrollment booth at Eastgate Mall, or The Electoral Commission Stikes Back You Disenfranchising Fuckwits.

Signage on a previously empty shop where people can enroll to vote in Linwood

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Things Min absolutely hates: When he's whining his fucking face off for his dinner even though he's up to an hour early, and I lean down and gently stroke him and say, "Yes, Min, I hear you. I hear what you're saying," and then fuck off.

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CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

People of All Genders Empowered to Maintain Delusion That They Have A Chance With Gillian Anderson

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

So, as it turns out, HRT may not be tolerable for me. Bit down and pondering the amount of pain I have endured since first being refused a hysterectomy *checks notes* six years ago.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10/09/2026

You know, when you find out that the art you like is made by people you've learned hold views you find wholly repugnant, I don't think you need to disavow ever having enjoyed the art. It's okay to acknowledge you liked or loved that art, but are now putting it aside. That was then, this is now.

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Louise Upston didn't like being called "heartless" for telling cancer patients to find work. In 2024, she said she'd cut job beneficiaries by 50K To date, there are 80K MORE. That's 130K from target Watching her try to blame MSD for laws SHE rushed under urgency is farcical but on brand #nzpol

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Xero Reynolds 41/100 on Patreon @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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Christchurch City Libraries Ngā Kete Wānanga o Ōtautahi @christchurchlib.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy 60th anniversary of the first ever episode of Star Trek airing in 1966! Librarian Bronwen is a longtime fan of StarTrek and Steampunk and sewing! She used a library laser cutter to create the Starfleet emblems for her belt, buttons, communicator badge, earrings and hat pin. ^MT

Librarian in a red steampunk out complete with top hat. It features the colours and emblems of a Starfleet uniform in the form of a long jacket over leggings and ribbon-laced boots.

Close up view of a gold Starfleet emblem belt on a black faux leather belt.

A handbag on a long strap constructed to look like an original series recorder complete buttons and readout screen.

Close up view of gold coloured cog buttons on the cuff of a red jacket. The buttons have small Starfleet emblems on them and the cuff has 2 gold stripes reminiscent of a naval uniform.

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I saw these exact claims in a FB post from an acquaintance in… 2022? Particularly pushing the “this was rushed through during Covid when no one was looking”. I showed her that wasn’t true - I’d submitted - she doubled down and then blocked me.

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I'm doing Paediatrics at work now, and... so, some doctors will say "Mum" instead of the mother's name, which I am pretty much okay with. But this one says "Mother" and it utterly hinks me out. Is that just me? (It's not "the mother", it's like, "but Mother says that...")

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

These people understand Starship Troopers about as well as they understand Born in the USA.

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

So it’s been a lousy, drizzly day. Perfect.

The entire TOS LEGO set in all its absurdity

Uhura and Spock in their chairs with a sneaky tribble

Around the back, the armory. On the left is a rack of phasers, on the right a couple of Vulcan lirpas and what looks like a game controller

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Have I cleaned my bathroom? Not exactly. Have I built a transporter room? Fuck yes.

The transporter room of my new Lego Enterprise. Those panels at the back spin round to make minifigs vanish and the starry panel pops off to reveal hidden tribbles

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Andrew Campbell @ozyman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If you get the chance, go to Illuminate in the botanic gardens. It’s good.

Trees uplift with coloured light, reflecting in a pond.

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

We have the Lego. I repeat, we have the Lego.

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My Lego set was delivered today! Just not to me…

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newimprovedtom.bsky.social @newimprovedtom.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

People who know Tāmaki Makaurau: what’s a nice place for cocktails and snacks that won’t be too hectic on a Friday night? CBD or Karanga-a-Hape Rd area.

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Steve @kiwistevemc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“They’re barely people” is how the Confederacy saw slaves, by amazing coincidence. What an absolute piece of work Henry clearly is. What next? A speech in front of a swastika? www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-t...

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'They're barely people': Paul Henry takes pot shot at Greens during country pub visit

Henry spoke to 60 supporters beneath Confederate flag in a pub that burned Ardern's book.

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I ran out of work yesterday so I asked for more work and apparently this isn't something you do?

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Not an outrage factory, for some reason...

Tom Daley, British Olympic diver, knitting at the Olympics and becoming an instant celebrity who publishes knitting books and not getting dragged for it for some obscure reason I can't quite put my finger on.

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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

So rude! I feel too seen!

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rolling it on again to spend fucking months doing stalks and leaves.

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

My weekday off. Planning a nice lie-in followed by some pottering in my garden*. Woke up at 6am with the theme to Black Beauty absolutely thundering in my brain, a piece of music I haven't heard for more than 40 years. *also meeting Older Son's partner for the first time

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