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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Underrated reasons to read to your child: a toddler running around saying "Dragons dread GO BACK TO BED!" is hilarious

Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

flashfictiononline.com/issues/septe... my story about the unscientific ways we all keep complicated tech running is now online!

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September 2026 - Flash Fiction Online

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My toddler started sobbing at daycare drop off because he wanted to fistbump and I didn't notice and left him hanging

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Things I learned taking a toddler to a convention: everyone just wants someone to put them in a backpack and carry them through the crowd

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Cover letters are both so much easier and so much harder when I actually want that specific job rather than to not starve

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I miss when ice cream came in plastic tubs. They were the perfect size for when you needed a disposable plastic bucket. Brought to you by plaster work.

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Wow Jane Austen really just goes on a two page tirade about how her heroine reads novels because novels are awesome in the middle of Northanger Abbey

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you place multiple ebook holds they WILL all become available at once

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

It would be nice if job searching required only the skills needed to be good at the job and not a second completely unrelated set of skills

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Mouthy Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

One of the frustrating things about publisher discourse is that authors get hurt in the process. If you'd like to support Emma Burnett (who has a new book out), she has a patreon page. There's also "buy a post" options if you want to do a one time financial support. www.patreon.com/cw/sadtale

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Emma Burnett — creating science fiction and fantasy stories and feeding cats

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

There are very few upsides to getting laid off, but realizing all the upcoming nonsense that is no longer your problem is pretty nice

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

The world would have been a better place without Jack Welch

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I don't know what cat needs to hear this, but if you're trying to snuggle a human while they take a nap you need to put the claws away

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

But when will we invent a TWO D printer that works

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

On the walk home my toddler said "I have pockets. Mommy have pockets?" He has no idea how loaded that question is.

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Yep feeling like an astronaut because Outlook isn't working and IT isn't helping

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Protip for people running for office: have some sort of place online so voters can read why they should pick you over the other candidates. Ideally with something specific. Note: Facebook is in fact terrible for finding this information

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

My toddler is pushing his Sulu and Spock Little People around in his doll stroller and this feels like an actual episode of Star Trek

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

My favourite thing about the Artemis II mission is that every time my Outlook misbehaves I get to feel like an astronaut

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

We keep getting snow and freezing rain but the Leafs are out so it must be spring after all

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

They need to invent a kind of REM sleep that doesn't make you groggy if you wake up in the middle of it

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

To the person who invented Daylight Savings, my very particular set of skills do not really apply here but I will nonetheless find you and put you in charge of my toddler's bedtime

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Why are the only hits when I google how to make emergency alerts RESPECT MY VOLUME SETTINGS people who want them to IGNORE their volume settings? Alternately, the Canadian government could just USE THE RIGHT ALERT LEVEL

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

My favourite thing about the Winter Olympics is listening to people be very serious while using the word "twizzle"

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

It is EXTREMELY rude of a book to end the chapter I was planning to go to bed after with a character in mortal peril

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I'm reading one of the Bridgerton books and it is the most romance novel romance novel I've ever read

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Today my toddler had a tantrum because I only had time to read ONE book to him before breakfast. At least he likes books?

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Why can my phone's keyboard learn the word Legendsectomy and yet can't figure out when I'm trying to write GAVIN? I use one of these considerably more.

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

I would like to have a little CHAT with children's book designers who think it's a good idea to put lift the flap flaps at an angle in board books....

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Have the confidence of a toddler handing every adult in the room a coffee can and insisting they join the drumline

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

My tea Advent calendar had the AUDACITY to have chamomile this morning after my sick toddler has me up for hours in the middle of the night

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

It's remarkable how often I have to clarify "He's not shy, he's just not very VERBAL yet." He wouldn't be smiling and waving if he was shy.

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Daycare pyjama Day is some real early WFH vibes. "Let's get you out of your night pyjamas and into your day pyjamas!"

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

The DMV makes a nice opportunity to read with no one climbing on me

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

I got a new phone in August and Google keyboard STILL hasn't learned my child's name. It used to be faster at this!

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

It's bad enough that my toddler was up for hours in the middle of the night, was it truly necessary for the DREAM version of him to then refuse to sleep?

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Did you know it's possible for the R squared value of a trendline to be 3x10^-5? Fortunately the point I was making was the two series AREN'T correlated but I think I made Excel cry...

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

After the last episode of Print Run I feel the need to inform @lzats.bsky.social that you can just wear hats. I do it daily. Passersby often tell me how good the hats look.

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Turns out the size difference between a skinny toddler and a chonky cat is... Well my toddler just went through the cat flap on the baby gate

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

The thing about getting a new phone is now I have to teach it to swear and all the fandom words

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

When I am forced to actually call a company to do something I would appreciate not IMMEDIATELY hearing a recording helpfully informing me I can do many things online

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

We have a new analysis tool at work and I'm just clicking through data going "Ooh, I have BUTTONS!"

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Can someone please explain why toddler hats you can't tie to said toddler exist?

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Ad transitions from @iwriteok.bsky.social are even funnier when the ad is "if you hit a moose with your vehicle, you WILL die". This is a bit of a Canadian problem.

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

"I'm sorry your easel can't phase through matter" is one of those unexpected sentences

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Picking anyone as my favourite character in Sunrise on the Reaping other than Haymitch was going to end badly but boy I managed to pick one with a particularly awful death

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I think "Not hitting moose while driving" may be the strangest thing I've gotten a podcast ad for

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

My toddler wants the world to know that Goodnight Moon has a KITTY in it. This is very important to him.

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

The name Romulus Augustulus was absolutely WASTED

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Margaret Hanson @mahanson.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

It's adorable that auto complete thinks I might mean Sandra Bullock and not Sandra Boynton. It's refreshing that it knows so little about my life

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