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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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Helen Moffett (Dr) @heckitty.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

You forgot the most important thing: if you follow her on the Skyline, she posts the BEST animal companion pics. You'll thank me.

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Helen Moffett (Dr) @heckitty.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

And I missed you as well, Matt! Damn, I want to simplify my life, but the connections we make are astonishingly real.

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Helen Moffett (Dr) @heckitty.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

I left the socials. Cut out everything barring Fibbie. The Skyline was starting to look like Twitter/X. I had HUGE stuff going on. And here I am, dropping back in for this guy.

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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

I enjoy following @scalzi.com, @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social, @chuckwendig.bsky.social, @garethlpowell.bsky.social, @jendiagammon.bsky.social and @cmpriest.bsky.social - and I don't even read horror/space opera. Tbh, it's often their pet/nature posts I'm here for. And: hello!

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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

Plus it was cool to wake up and discover that My People (the CCLs) were suddenly a hot THING, with T-shirts and buttons and fun memes.

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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 · 29/07/2024

Really interesting - in SA, cops are often described as armed social workers.

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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 @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

I've been checking in here less and less. Genocide justifications. Mansplaining. Casual misogyny. Wilful ignorance. Sometimes I can't even tell whether I'm on Twitter or Bluesky (no worse indictment). Bring back the invite codes!

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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

Because of this cool thread I have now looked up Matariki. In South Africa, one name for the Pleiades is "stars of rain." Also known as the planting stars.

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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

OMG, this is a new level of evil. I take it this is a US thing? Would be SO illegal in my country.

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

And here's the lad himself: no recent pics because he recently had a thyroidectomy and still has a big patch of fur regrowing on his throat and chest.

Handsome mackerel tripod tabby (missing right front leg) lying on pink crocheted blanet.

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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 · 15/06/2024

You're off to an excellent start.

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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

Please give my regards to the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny when you return.

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

Immodest Cat Is Strangely Wholesome.

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Helen Moffett (Dr) @heckitty.bsky.social · 07/06/2024

This might get me back into a movie house.

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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 · 03/06/2024

I'm in luck. It's 12 years since I stopped watching TV, but the other night I was watching Golden Girls clips on YouTube. So I'm in excellent hands.

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Helen Moffett (Dr) @heckitty.bsky.social · 03/06/2024

Tell me you've never heard, read or spoken a word of Spanish (or any major language spoken in Central and S America or half of Europe) without telling me. Jeesh, the ignorance (and arrogance) of unilingualism.

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Helen Moffett (Dr) @heckitty.bsky.social · 03/06/2024

There are only 3 Star Wars movies. This is a hill I am prepared to die on. Signed, Grizzled Curmudgeon. Also, Purist.

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Helen Moffett (Dr) @heckitty.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

At a book event, Barbara Kingsolver said the reason she cared so much about the future was because it was where her children would live.

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