Emma Hart

I see you Beans. I see you.

National MP speech never happened. A couple of people rushed the stage and that was the end of it

SOMEONE'S AT THE DOOR, the true-crime series produced by and for border collies

Who needs 3 waters... #Nzpol

A very loud emergency alert warning, which it turns out I’m not in the area for. But yeah, goodness, such a lot of this lately, what on earth etc

On her birthday, remembering Susan Oliver, who played Vina in the first Star Trek pilot, "The Cage" (which aired during the show's first season as part of "The Menagerie"). She was also a pilot, and the fourth woman to fly a single-engine aircraft solo across the Atlantic.

Hooray, we have had another wave of AI VR files getting even worse. One of the things it's doing now is just leaving transcriptions completely blank, which frankly is the most human thing it's ever done.

"Yeah, I had a look at this, turns out, can't be fucked."

Passed a "Party Vote Act" billboard.

It's February.

It is going to be a fucking long year.

Heh, my mum's first name was Hazel, which I love. She hated it and always went by her middle name, Audrey.

I suggested it would be a really good way of doing a stress test.

Work Teams today is all hilarious dragging of AI VR and how dumb it is. We are up to what happens if you combine the Leopard Clinic and the Rabbit Hospital.

(Lipid Clinic, Moorabbin Hospital)

Tbh honest, when I saw "party balloons", that was the first thing that came to mind.

My dad wanted to call me Martha, after his mother. When he told her, she forbade him to do such a terrible thing, and if I had to be named after her, I should have her middle name, Emma.

Going to have to have some kind of ceremony for the old machine, though. I _think_ we have had it for a bit over 25 years.

Yeah, and I had to reward it because I know they're partially on commission.

Bought a new washing machine. Bought it from the guy who said, "Do you need help?", we said, "Not yet", he said "Righto" and fucked off and left us alone until we were ready.

"I think what would be a really good idea, given the current international climate, is for NZers to pay extra on their power bills so that we can be energy-dependent on the USA."

And I assume the Winter Energy Payment will be going up to compensate? Pardon?

I caught a wee finch doing it a couple of days ago. I suspect it's a game for the lighter-weight birds.

'Strategic energy security asset': Govt reveals plans for $1b LNG import facility Luxon warned New Zealand is experiencing swiftly declining gas supply.

Put solar panels on state houses. You could probably do the lot for $1.5b, would reduce energy costs for those least able to afford it, increase our grid resilience and save about the same amount in energy costs overall.

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

This is why NZ and English cricket fans get on so well - fucking Australia.

A massive sunflower leaning over so much the flower is facing the ground, the back of the flower littered with cracked-open seeds.

The birds hang upside down off the sunflower head, pull out the seeds, and then use the back of the head as a table to crack open the seeds and leave the shells.

"Oh, dude fell and hit his head and when we did blood tests his CRP was over 100? That's probably fine, send him home. Oh look, he's lost the sight in one eye."

"Shit, turns out her abdominal pain was real and caused by that giant tumour and now she has stage 4 cancer, who knew?"

State of the ANZ health system at the moment: I just had two files in a row that made me yell, "WHAT THE FUCK?!"

Yes, fresh blueberries straight off the bush are delicious, but Emma, you have just brushed your teeth...

GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

The sector with 17,000 more full-time jobs 3:33 pm on 5 February 2026 Susan Edmunds Susan Edmunds, Money Correspondent susan.edmunds@rnz.co.nz Image of cooks in a restaurant kitchen. Accommodation and food services saw the largest increase in jobs over the last year, up just over 25,000, with around 17,000 more full-time and 8000 more part-time roles. Photo: 123rf Unemployment has hit its highest level in a decade, but beneath the headline numbers some sectors are faring much better than others.

This week's lies, damn lies, and green shoots award goes to Brad Olsen (via Susan Edmunds). This is a particularly disgusting use of data - like so bad that the article should be removed. Let's have a look... [🧵 1/n]

Realising the truth of "'No' is a whole sentence" is a hell of a thing.

This patient specifically hallucinates kittens, and if I have to have dementia, put me down for that.

Oh no. Even now, I think I am listening to the dying screams of my wonderful 30-year-old washing machine.