Posts by Emma Hart
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Y'all probably saw this already, but just in case.
It's extraordinarily generous for The Guardian to use the word 'apologises' to describe that. It's the Amazon form letter I link to in the column. Here it is in its entirety. Choccy fish for anyone who spots anything in it that looks like 'sorry'.
This is an embarrassing and hamfisted cataloguing error for a company that prides itself on offering complete selection. It has been misreported that the issue was limited to gay and lesbian themed titles.
"In fact, it impacted 57,310 books in a number of broad categories such as health, mind and body, reproductive and sexual medicine, and erotica. This problem impacted books not just in the United States but globally. It affected not just sales rank but also had the effect of removing the books from Amazon's main product search.
"Many books have now been fixed and we're in the process of fixing the remainder as quickly as possible, and we intend to implement new measures to make this kind of accident less likely to occur in the future.
You'll notice that the 'broad range of categories' is all sexuality-related stuff. It's not cooking and geography and astronomy. So they haven't even admiited that the vast majority of affected works were LGBT titles, and those that weren't dealt with things like disabled sex.
Since this, Amazon haven't so much as issued a press release, let alone actually apologised - a gesture that would cost them nothing at all.
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Just how big a [insert your pet abusive term here] IS Michael Lawhs? Grant Robertson's tweet this morning:
took life into hands and rang Michael Laws.he is on about UN conference on racism, but early decided to have a go about my civil union, sigh
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I wish you had kept that to yourself.
I promise you, Paul, this won't be the last time you think that.
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Dear Kyle. Took me til the first pronoun to realise Christie was a girl, and it was a shock.
I can actually picture Michael Lhaws sitting at his desk after a hard day, writing turgid soft-core.
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Something I missed while the whole amazonfail thing was going on (I still haven't recovered from having to get up for a breakfast radio spot yesterday).
Judith, who ran the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom since 1967, was a life-long censorship foe who conceived the now internationally famous “Banned Books Week.” She raised awareness of book censorship in America and devised strategies to combat it.
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Emma, you were fantastic company by proxy. You and I had a number of drinks and quite a few ciggies together. You were also impeccably behaved, and I think you may have enchanted a few people. Sofie did you proud.
Excellent. Obviously I should not-go to things more often. My behaviour is normally fairly peccable.
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Have fun, you lot. I can't come, because I am pathetically writing a Dumb Library School assignment, due tomorrow. Which I haven't started. Naturally.
Time management skills: I do not haz them.
Fff, Danielle, you didn't make the boat, either. I'm starting to think you don't really exist.
Have fun, you lot. I'll be the one who looks like Sofie.
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Yes, but is it floral and does it expose my upper arm flab?
No, and yes. I was going for sleeveless on account of that pencil.
If I say I will, do I get 2 drinks? :)
Yes if you wear two nametags? Not really up to me, I guess.
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Okay, two hours to go, I'm demanding a proxy for the PA Social. Who's going to go to the Quadrant and have a drink and a fag for me?
Pretending to BE me is optional.
For Wellington I nominate Giovanni. I have a dress he can wear and everything.
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The Dr Who episode that haunts me the most is "The Empty Child". My chest tightens a little just thinking of it. Lovely stuff.
Also Stephen Moffat. And what's he working on now? Tintin.
"Snowy? Snowy? Where'd you go, boy..."