Emma Hart

It has now started signing off all letters from a particular client "kind disregards", and I don't wanna anthropomorphise but I think it has an attitude problem...

JFC stop telling me I didn't understand NCEA, apparently BECAUSE I was a parent.

This is now my standard set of authorial disclaimers: 1) No, not everything in my fiction is something I want/believe. 2) No, that sex scene isn't gratuitous, and that's not what "gratuitous" means. 3) No, I cannot stop people from blowing up the moon.

Today, Voice Recognition has invented the pretzel suppository and suggested, I shit you not, drinking your colleague's urine.

Fuck. Load up a perfectly normal file for our respiratory specialist who normally does sleep apnoea and at the rather abrupt end of the file, the patient died.

Oh excellent, I have a huge crush on George Clarke

Yeah, this seems from talking to my peers to be the consensus: exams were good for those of us (which is most of us) who were bright but incredibly fucking lazy.

FFS, we brought in internal assessment in the 19-fucking-80s because it was a better indicator of a student's abilities than external exams, and let me tell you, as someone who was good at exams, it absolutely is.

Great moment at the Civic premiere of ‘Prime Minister’ last night. During the section dealing with the aftermath of the Christchurch Mosque atrocity, a shot came up of David Seymour, the only naysaying MP to the banning of military-style semi-automatic weapons. 2400 people booed.

Right, I'm going to spend the day digging bluebells out of my garden and sending them to hell. I used to love bluebells until we moved here. Fuck those invasive bastards.

Have a US friend who used to live in Nevada, had their own freestanding home with a yard, claimed to be concerned about the environment, dried ALL their washing in the dryer. I couldn't get my head around it.

I just want to approvingly acknowledge your use of “gish gallop” here.

That's amazing, I love it!

"Coalition parties demand right to determine opposition policy."

In this case, demanding the opposition not overturn their overturning of the opposition's own policy oh no my irony meter just broke...

Some do, but only the *really* important ones.
Which I think is defined as the ones that if someone screwed with them heap, you might not even have a democracy any more.
There should absolutely be a few more added to the list: MMP itself, for example!

Yeah, I'd rather err on the side of "more" because, if not important, surely they'd just go through. Maybe I still have the capacity to be unduly optimistic...

I have a question, and it's this: Why don't amendments to the Electoral Act require a 2/3 majority?

The great thing about this one is that it allows for a progression of different swears as you go through the photos.

Chloe Swarbrick, yelling what we're all thinking.

The thing is, if the emergency alert scares my cat so badly that he runs away, I'm not really going to be leaving my house sooner, am I?

VR: There is an extensive gentleman of literature...

Me: Pls could you introduce us?

*sigh* It was German. German literature.

Age verification? One of my first purchases with my very own money was electric blue eyeshadow and a Wham! 45.

Being Gen X: I used to not want to update my software because it would break. Then there was a brief period where it was pretty much okay, but I didn't really adjust. Now, I don't want to update my software because it will be full of AI bullshit.

Trying to persuade Karl to have lunch with his right-wing aunt and see how she’s feeling about the government because I no longer have Danni’s mum to use to gauge the state of “outside my bubble”.

Oh well yes that sucks. Note also that the govt is requiring the select committee to report back in 4 months rather than the usual 6. So much for fulsome scrutiny of a rights infringing change to our fundamental democratic processes 😤

Wow, the phrase "a misadventure with his prostate" wasn't even VR, it's actually what the clinician said.

I remember a giant plastic tooth, but I couldn't swear to where it was.

Oh! I have another all-time great patient occupation to add to "falconer": trapeze artist.

Interesting, that would suggest it was being used to refer to David Cameron, when it is clearly a much better descriptor for Boris Johnson.