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Karavan Press @karavanpress.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Last night at Salon Hecate | Noordhoek Art Point – a celebration of Short Story Day Africa, its fabulous founder, Rachel Zadok, and our latest SSDA anthology, CAPTIVE: New Short Fiction from Africa, and @heckitty.bsky.social's Beatles birthday.

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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

When medicine is reduced to data, protocols, apps, diagnostics or treatments something vital is lost The art of medicine is understanding the humanity, the whole person & that people are all different Respect for humanity can be restored by those who understand the art involved

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Helen Moffett (Dr) @heckitty.bsky.social · 11/08/2024

The bankers are going to be the end of us all.

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Helen Moffett (Dr) @heckitty.bsky.social · 29/07/2024

After a long period of abstaining from consuming news of US politics aka soap opera-shit show (because mental health), I cannot tell you how nice it is to be giggling at reports from over the pond again.

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Helen Moffett (Dr) @heckitty.bsky.social · 28/07/2024

Non-US citizen here, reflecting more-or-less the response of the world outside North America: WTAF???? Is this a joke? Photoshop?

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Helen Moffett (Dr) @heckitty.bsky.social · 28/07/2024

In the interests of morale-boosting.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 26/07/2024

Extremely symbolic seeing the Refugee Olympic Team enter the Games in a boat

Refugee Olympic Team waving flags in a boat at the Paris Olympic Games Opening Ceremony

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LA Guettler is not feeling very clever @laguettler.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

Libraries are awesome.

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 02/11/2023

My toxic trait is I want every human to be sheltered, fed, clothed and provided healthcare at no direct cost to themselves. I DO NOT CARE if some people then do nothing for the rest of their lives. Mazletov, god bless. I don't care if a few people figure out ways to game the system. People need help

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 22/07/2024

whenever these big gop oppo lists come out it always looks like this, like god please give us the scary candidate you made up

a fox news graphic with two bullet point lists:

ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ'S PLATFORM

■ MEDICARE FOR ALL
■ HOUSING AS A HUMAN RIGHT
■ A FEDERAL JOBS GUARANTEE
■ GUN CONTROL / ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN
■CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM, END PRIVATE PRISONS
■ IMMIGRATION JUSTICE / ABOLISH ICE
■ SOLIDARITY WITH PUERTO RICO

■ MOBILIZING AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
■ CLEAN CAMPAIGN FINANCE
■ HIGHER EDUCATION FOR ALL
■ WOMEN'S RIGHTS
■ SUPPORT LGBTQIA+
■ SUPPORT SENIORS
■ CURB WALL STREET GAMBLING: RESTORE GLASS STEAGALL

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Helen Moffett (Dr) @heckitty.bsky.social · 15/07/2024

This cat has the correct response to *waves hands around*

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Helen Moffett (Dr) @heckitty.bsky.social · 07/07/2024

In all the ongoing devastation around us, this piece is its own quiet statement of devastation.

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Helen Moffett (Dr) @heckitty.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

IT ME. My lovely late gynae used to call my file "the phone book".

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ONeillJones @oneilljones.com · 02/07/2024

A job I was looking forward to just fell through because I requested a very basic “please don’t feed my work into the AI garbage chute pls” clause in the contract That was apparently against company policy and non-negotiable If anyone needs a book cover I have an opening in my schedule

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Helen Moffett (Dr) @heckitty.bsky.social · 29/06/2024

Fantasy is not my regular jam, but I've read some superb fantasy (grew up on The Once and Future King, Terry Pratchett is a touchstone) and few things get up my nose more than readers who are snobby about it. Here's the incomparable Ursula Le Guin.

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Robin Marwick @electricland.bsky.social · 28/06/2024

One of my favourite throwaway bits from Daddy-Long-Legs:

Saturday morning.
I've just been reading this letter over and it sounds pretty un-cheerful. But can't you guess that I have a special topic due Monday morning and a review in geometry and a very sneezy cold?
Sunday.
I forgot to mail this yesterday so I will add an indignant postscript. We had a bishop this morning, and what do you think he said?
"The most beneficent promise made us in the Bible is this,
'The poor ye have always with you.' They were put here in order to keep us charitable."
The poor, please observe, being a sort of useful domestic animal. If I hadn't grown into such a perfect lady, I should have gone up after service and told him what I thought.

(Excerpt from Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster)

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Helen Moffett (Dr) @heckitty.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

My second favourite tripod cat in the universe. (My fave is lying pressed up against me, purring.)

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Helen Moffett (Dr) @heckitty.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

And another Strangely Wholesome Cat repost.

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Helen Moffett (Dr) @heckitty.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

Reposting as a public service. You're welcome.

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Helen Moffett (Dr) @heckitty.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

Immodest Cat Is Strangely Wholesome.

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 03/06/2024

ai has entered its roast era. large scale mockery signals the beginning of the end. good. 🙂

Large ad/mural on the side of a construction site. It reads: hey chat get, finish this building... Your skills are irreplaceable. Impact

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Helen Moffett (Dr) @heckitty.bsky.social · 28/05/2024

Think you have heard ALL of the evil kitties can do? This thread recounts a tale of FRESH wickedness.

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Helen Moffett (Dr) @heckitty.bsky.social · 26/05/2024

Here in Cape Town, not only the skies but the seas are blue: for lovers of surfing and words, we're having a Salon Hecate event with an incredible line-up. All the deets here: noordhoekartpoint.co.za/2024/05/24/c...

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Catching the Wave | Surf Literature Line-Up

Following the enormous success of last year's "Surf's Up" reading by local surfer-authors-poets, Salon Hecate is returning with another fabulous surf literature line-up, happening the first Tuesday ev...

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Helen Moffett (Dr) @heckitty.bsky.social · 23/05/2024

And on 27 May (6pm SA time - eve of the election!), I'm running this online workshop because the publishing industry is changing faster than the icecaps are melting, and we're all at sea. Everything I've learned so far in this brave and scary new world! summerschool.uct.ac.za/events/publi...

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Publishing in the 21st century: shape-shifting at speed | University of Cape Town

All the seminars below are stand-alone offerings that have grown out of workshops on the art and craft of editing book manuscripts. Their purpose is to provide more detailed accounts of how to handle specific kinds of manuscripts.

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Helen Moffett (Dr) @heckitty.bsky.social · 23/05/2024

I have some online editing/publishing webinars coming up in the next few days: this one (Saturday 10am SA time) is hosted by the ever-reliable All About Writing: allaboutwritingcourses.com/product/edit...

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Helen Moffett (Dr) @heckitty.bsky.social · 14/05/2024

Oooooh. Would love to see what my space-opera and sci-fi writing pals might make of this!

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Helen Moffett (Dr) @heckitty.bsky.social · 13/05/2024

I just want to forget I ever saw that awful ad. But this thread is HEXCELLENT.

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Helen Moffett (Dr) @heckitty.bsky.social · 10/05/2024

Ooh, look at the pics in this short and wondrous thread.

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Helen Moffett (Dr) @heckitty.bsky.social · 10/05/2024

This!! Top tip: choose an executor younger (and healthier) than you. Esp if they're going to be dealing with yr intellectual property -- yr copyright will outlive you by decades.

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Helen Moffett (Dr) @heckitty.bsky.social · 09/05/2024

I say it often: we are going to be the most loathed and despised generation in history. Those who survive us will be unable to comprehend how we could have been this lethally selfish.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/05/2024

Apple ads, 1984: “we will save the world from dystopian conformity” Apple ads, 2024: “we will crush all of human creativity into a small rectangle” marketing is marketing, but it’s very instructive to see the image they think they’re selling us and how much bleaker it is

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Helen Moffett (Dr) @heckitty.bsky.social · 08/05/2024

And further, re my last repost. That black hole is VERY deep and very dark.

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Helen Moffett (Dr) @heckitty.bsky.social · 08/05/2024

This. Plus, whenever I sit down and think hard about Y, I seriously want to open my wrists. Not a joke or exaggeration. Yes, I feel like Kate pushing Leo off the raft. There is no way to keep feeding mouths and paying bills if in a heap of absolutely valid grief and horror.

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Helen Moffett (Dr) @heckitty.bsky.social · 08/05/2024

These look like fun! And lovely details/background.

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Helen Moffett (Dr) @heckitty.bsky.social · 07/05/2024

*tings glass* Thrilled to announce this great anthology of stories by young African writers. After four blank bleak years of #LongCovid, I didn't think I'd see a book with my name on the cover again. Wonderful to work with this team - learnt so much from you. www.catalystpress.org/adult-books/...

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Captive: New Short Fiction from Africa | CatalystPress

ISBN 9781946395948 | paperback | $19.99 | publication date 2024 Introducing Captive, the newest collaboration between Catalyst Press and Short Story Day Africa, the publishing team behind Disruption…

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Helen Moffett (Dr) @heckitty.bsky.social · 07/05/2024

Weird and delightful. None of my cats have ever done this. Yet.

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Helen Moffett (Dr) @heckitty.bsky.social · 05/05/2024

Here's a short happy/funny thread for youse.

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Helen Moffett (Dr) @heckitty.bsky.social · 04/05/2024

Once upon a time I taught Chaucer and Shakespeare at the University of Cape Town, and what a very happy time it was. Meanwhile I love that we even think about conversing with the Bard. It's a lovely You Tube rabbithole to fall into.

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Autobot Proudfellow 💍 @jobot935.bsky.social · 04/05/2024

There was a brilliant quote I saw about this: “There are two types of men: those who understand why women pick the bear, and those who are the reason why women choose the bear”. And it is very true.

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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 02/05/2024

Of all the jobs it seems AI could easily replace, college administrator seems quite high.

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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

Reminder: Sure, the student protestors turned out to be right about Vietnam, and gay rights, and apartheid, and the Latin American dirty wars, and the invasion of Iraq -- but *this time* they are cluelessly naive and only protesting to look cool to their friends.

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