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Doctor of food. Writer of stories. Neurospicy. Slush reader @flashfictiononline.bsky.social. Read my science&fiction: https://emmaburnett.uk Drabble&micro markets list: https://emmaburnett.uk/drabble-micro-markets

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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 10d

'25 Peppercorns' is out now with @mythaxis.bsky.social.

This has been a particularly difficult story for me to publish, both personally and in finding a good home for it. It is deeply personal, but it's also political.

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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 12h

No, I know, it just feels like the rage is slightly off point. It’s not the terminology that’s really the problem, it’s the subsidies, the backroom agreements, the continued support for mega farms and poor animal welfare. This feels like a bait-and-switch.

emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 13h

Watching people rage bait over burgers and sausages. Like, I get it’s stupid, and driven by big ag lobbies, but surely there are bigger fishfingers to fry?

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Plant-based 'burger' label grilled in EU parliament – DW – 10/08/2025

Can a veggie schnitzel legally be called a schnitzel even if it contains no meat? Some have argued such names are confusing consumers. The European Parliament seems to agree.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 19h

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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve got a new position! It is called ‘fetal’ and I’ll be here for a while.

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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 20h

Sad thought: today isn’t Saturday.
Worse thought: tomorrow isn’t Saturday either.

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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 2d

a black and white drawing of a boy with a sad face

ALT: a black and white drawing of a boy with a sad face

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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 2d

In case future employers need to know where to find me.

emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve got a new position! It is called ‘fetal’ and I’ll be here for a while.

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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 2d

At least yours are for being a good person. I just get salty with pushy parents.

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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 2d

I have one against me. But it’s from my partner disallowing me from joining the child’s class WhatsApp group. Apparently, we want her to be allowed to remain in the school…?

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3d

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 10d

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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 3d

Non-peaceful approaches suck. They’re also often ineffective. If the government is going to ignore us anyway, which they all seem to do, then maybe don’t get in the way of peaceful forms of voicing concerns.

I point you to France 1789 for reasons not to be bad leaders.

emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 3d

Repeated protests are how we show something is really, truly important. It’s how we raise the stakes, dial up the game. It’s one of our most important forms of peaceful transition.

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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 3d

They’ll say this is about protecting people. It’s not. It does not make me a safer Jew. It does not support Palestinians. It silences us all.

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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 3d

Off the back of an attack on a synagogue, where the police killed more people than the attacker did, and after a protest that where people said something that hurt absolutely no one, we will lose even more of our right to a voice.

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