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Silke

Silke

@silkehartung.bsky.social

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She/her, cis het, music enthusiast, door & merch lady extraordinaire, into science and technology, Green, anti-fascism, ally, crafty, somewhere on the rainbow (but like a weird corner). 🧷 https://pocomoto.co.nz/

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Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social · 19h

Actually had to water the garden! Bit dry there.

Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social · 22h

Oh no, that's horrible!

They tried us a few days ago - hit a power pole when trying to get away, bt no one gave a shit about it, neither police, nor vector, even though the pole is quite splintered up.

We really need to get people into jobs. :(

Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social · 23h

Thanks, Quentin, that's so helpful!

Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social · 1d

Yup, and she got snarky with me.

Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social · 1d

I'd assume they would have talked about the wording and agreed, so I'd rather go one step up.

Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social · 1d

My googling led to too many websites, none of them right - I don't know the correct search term for the ethic peeps - what are they called? I know universities are usually quite stringent with having them read calls for public research...

Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social · 1d

Hey academics, how can we complain to the Uni of Canterbury (NZ)'s ethics people about the wording in someone's research?

I'm over being called a "female" when I could be called a woman, a cis-woman if we need to be clear for medical reasons and want to exclude transwomen.

Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social · 1d

Let's not forget about the West Bank, either. 😔

Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social · 1d

*pillow*

*lowers head*

*screams*

Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social · 1d

The irony.

My hometown had a few AfD (neo nazis) voted into local government, and none of their names is German.
Greek, Italian, all sorts!

Also, so many losers do what we know here as well, just "asking questions" with little false side facts sprayed in. Ew.

Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social · 1d

It takes a lot out of me not to eat bread when it's hot from the oven. You should smell it, it's not cool not to eat half a hot loaf with butter, but it's the rules.

I'm pretty good at bread, I reckon. In around 2 years, I would call only one load sort of a fail, but not really. It was a bit big.

Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social · 1d

Sour dough = baked!

Linseed, sunflower seed, extra protein, whole rye and wheat.

Smells divine!

Got two loaves to give away tomorrow.

Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social · 1d

Left wing elites?

Omg, what even is that.

Elites, anyway. What are elites. People who tell you they're cool? It's all so lame to me.

Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social · 1d

To be fair, if someone would call me "Weibchen" in German, I'd shred their face, too.

Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social · 1d

A repeat: Don't call women "females" when you could use the word "women" instead.

All the ick. Always, Don't care if you're a "scientist" (psychology, ho hum, meh).

Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social · 1d

No response to my text asking to clarify. WORLD'S BIGGEST EYE ROLL.

Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social · 1d

"Your shift has been cancelled! Please check your roster"

*Roster says: Time change, not cancelled*

"Can you please confirm this has been cancelled, not just a time change?"

Clusterfuck as per usual.

Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social · 1d

Blocking is a beautiful and satisfying thing. I do it generously, and with great joy.

Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social · 1d

It would be my pleasure. You could pick them up, or provide me with addresses to send out - I've got a label printer, so it's all easy for me. (I always add goodies, too, lollies, pens etc, but I can also just pack envelopes for you, you add the address, boom!

Whatever is easiest for you.

Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social · 1d

Bags = courier bags

Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social · 1d

I sell them for $30 (worth more like $90, but I don't advertise so it's deceptive because I sell them for cheaper than I should), but am happy to send them for you as well, or give you stickered tracking courier bags envelopes to send them.

Could do 5, including bags?

Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, like, no kidding, Chrissy, politically motivated.

Is he actually a little dense?

Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks to Kylie in Laingholm, I finally got to test out bigger packages to mail out - I'm aiming to make them look cute, and this was incredibly helpful in terms of "Ah, so I do need a buffer between bag and goods!", "Ah, so the tape colour isn't quite right!" and "Ah, I do need to tweak the label!"

Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social · 2d

I could offer some really good, earplugs that i import and sell at concerts

It's not as awesome as a boat ride or Tory's cool swag she offered but if you'd like something smaller, I'd love to help out. You're basically a neighbour, and we're so grateful to you in our house.

Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social · 2d

So I hear. I heard there was one, saw photos of the standing ovations, so I googled the story. Harrowing.