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Emma Hart

@ghet.bsky.social

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Medical transcriptionist, erstwhile writer, big on board games, gardening, craft, cricket, social justice and the general superiority of my cat. She/her. Aotearoa/NZ.

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 11h

Heh, I have a friend who has one in his back yard he refers to as "that bastard".

Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 15h

Gorgeous. Is that pink tree a Chinese toon?

Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 18h

To be fair, I thought very little of her before she misquoted one of my favourite plays.

A play I wrote on for Honours contending that it is packed full of fuckwits and has no moral centre. I got an A.

Alex @shakingstick.bsky.social · 19h

Heh.

Willis told Morning Report the phrase often cropped up in politics and dated back to the time of William Shakespeare, who referred to calling off the hounds in his play Julius Caesar.

The actual quote from Julius Caesar is: "Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war."

Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 18h

You still have to have people with money to sell whatever your slaves are making to.

Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 19h

Turns out I can make it simpler...

Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 20h

Can't make money off people who don't have money.

Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 20h

Can't make money off people who don't have money.

Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 20h

That is basically the left side of my front porch. I love this time of year.

Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 20h

Further to “my garden is fucking bonkers”, the wisteria appears to have snuck all the way through the banksia rose and is making a play for the jasmine.

A mass of white jasmine with blue wisteria flowers visible at the top.

Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 20h

It is, effectively, the same as not having a GP.

Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 20h

First available appointment with my actual GP was in DECEMBER. I am never getting to seeing him again.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know how to make this simple enough for our government.

Best way make economy go Brrrrrmmmm is give $$ to poors cause they spend it.

Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 1d

It also insisted that the surgery a patient had had for a hoarse voice and upper respiratory tract infections was "amputation", which I guess would make it stop.

Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 1d

Watching the new VR system's descent is just fascinating, and very much a group project. Yesterday it transcribed "Yours sincerely" as "six-inch screwdriver".

Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 1d

Aw, don’t make me go all the way back through my feed to find out how long ago “People who don’t want bricks thrown through their windows shouldn’t have windows” was.

Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 1d

It started raining quite steadily about 10 minutes ago. So today's game is, How long will the neighbours nevertheless persist with the chainsaw?

Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 3d

So, child support payments run until 20 now, right? I mean, otherwise this is just going to suck a whole lot more money out of the economy.

Also, there are no fucking jobs, you absolute shopping trolleys.

Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 3d

This Second Winter sucks balls. On the other hand, the diagonal rain slamming into the house is possibly cleaning the windows?

Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 4d

Min is currently really shitty with me because I wouldn't give him any glue.

Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 5d

Do you not think, if t'were possible to do this on the app, that's what I'd be doing?!

Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 5d

So. WINZ is requiring me to go see my GP again to confirm that my permanent health condition is still permanent, an enormous waste of taxpayer money and health system capacity.

I spent 20 mins on hold this morning trying to get through to my Dr's. Every 5 minutes, they suggested booking on the app

Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 7d

Boooooooooo

Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 7d

VR: Patient was noted to have a perianal fistula, for which a citron was inserted.

Me: FUCKING OW

Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 7d

Reagan. Who had dementia. Whose wife's astrologer was consulted on major govt decisions. Who decided AIDS was okay because it was killing "the right people".

Sure.

Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 7d

Jesus but it's been a "Wait, WTF?!" morning news-wise this morning. Any chance of play in the cricket tonight?