Emma Haslett
@emmahaslett.bsky.social
Big city journalist in a small town. Covering business, feminism, reproductive rights and lots besides. As seen in: BBC, Observer, Prospect, New Statesman, The Persistent.
Substack: https://bigfatnegative.substack.com/
📍 Coastal Kent
Substack: https://bigfatnegative.substack.com/
📍 Coastal Kent
A PR just said 'please stop calling us PRs. PR stands for public relations'.
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November 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
A PR just said 'please stop calling us PRs. PR stands for public relations'.
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I can't stop thinking about Elon Musk and his $1 trillion. It's so... vulgar.
November 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I can't stop thinking about Elon Musk and his $1 trillion. It's so... vulgar.
Reposted by Emma Haslett
Clearly we need millions of podcasts about the womanophere and why it wants to get the fuck out
"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.
news.gallup.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Clearly we need millions of podcasts about the womanophere and why it wants to get the fuck out
Sure, it'll be bad when we all lose our jobs to AI. But at least we won't have to work with AIs, who make *insufferable* colleagues.
www.wired.com/story/all-my...
www.wired.com/story/all-my...
All of My Employees Are AI Agents, and So Are My Executives
Sam Altman says the one-person billion-dollar company is coming. Maybe I could be that person—if only I could get my colleagues to shut up and stop lying.
www.wired.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Sure, it'll be bad when we all lose our jobs to AI. But at least we won't have to work with AIs, who make *insufferable* colleagues.
www.wired.com/story/all-my...
www.wired.com/story/all-my...
Someone is building a sailing yacht with a mast the size of the Statue of Liberty.
I refuse to make jokes about overcompensating.
www.boatinternational.com/yachts/news/...
I refuse to make jokes about overcompensating.
www.boatinternational.com/yachts/news/...
Royal Huisman releases 81m sailing yacht concept with "world's tallest mast"
Dutch yard Royal Huisman has presented a new, 81-metre concept known as Sky, which also has the world's tallest mast at 93 metres.
www.boatinternational.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Someone is building a sailing yacht with a mast the size of the Statue of Liberty.
I refuse to make jokes about overcompensating.
www.boatinternational.com/yachts/news/...
I refuse to make jokes about overcompensating.
www.boatinternational.com/yachts/news/...
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The Today Programme.
November 10, 2025 at 8:06 AM
The Today Programme.
Parkrun: 'It's just a bit of fun! We just want you to have fun!'
Also Parkrun: 'You came 127th out of 128. Your age-graded score is 39%. Just a reminder that your PB was three years ago, when we also noticed you were thinner and had fewer wrinkles.'
Also Parkrun: 'You came 127th out of 128. Your age-graded score is 39%. Just a reminder that your PB was three years ago, when we also noticed you were thinner and had fewer wrinkles.'
November 10, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Parkrun: 'It's just a bit of fun! We just want you to have fun!'
Also Parkrun: 'You came 127th out of 128. Your age-graded score is 39%. Just a reminder that your PB was three years ago, when we also noticed you were thinner and had fewer wrinkles.'
Also Parkrun: 'You came 127th out of 128. Your age-graded score is 39%. Just a reminder that your PB was three years ago, when we also noticed you were thinner and had fewer wrinkles.'
The absolute fucking state of this. www.liveaction.org/news/shockin...
SHOCKING: Number of lives lost to IVF now surpasses those lost to abortion | Live Action
In 2023, 1.9M embryos created by IVF didn't survive to implantation. 1.8M were frozen, destroyed, or donated, while under 1.1M abortions took place.
www.liveaction.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 AM
The absolute fucking state of this. www.liveaction.org/news/shockin...
The very specific feeling of seeing a video of people putting up flags in your tiny little town, featuring your kids’ former nursery school teacher screaming ‘fuck off’ at the person filming.
November 8, 2025 at 6:54 AM
The very specific feeling of seeing a video of people putting up flags in your tiny little town, featuring your kids’ former nursery school teacher screaming ‘fuck off’ at the person filming.
I give you: the season's itchiest sweater. AW25's hair shirt.
www.essentiel-antwerp.com/be_en/p/grey...
www.essentiel-antwerp.com/be_en/p/grey...
Grey metallic mock-neck sweater with pussy-bow tie | Essentiel Antwerp Belgium
Woven with shimmering metallic fibres, this sweater is designed for a relaxed fit. The mock neck is finished with a pussy-bow tie that elegantly falls at the back, adding an unexpected detail. Crafted...
www.essentiel-antwerp.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I give you: the season's itchiest sweater. AW25's hair shirt.
www.essentiel-antwerp.com/be_en/p/grey...
www.essentiel-antwerp.com/be_en/p/grey...
The most brilliant thread, if you want an idea of what it's like to live in a place run by Reform. (Naturally, at one point Grok is consulted).
Kent County Council is getting underway.
Slightly odd arrangements in place where usual press seats have been closed, leaving us in the public gallery, which has 14 seats. Far more than 14 people are here, leading to several journalists and others being left outside of the room.
But we’re in.
Slightly odd arrangements in place where usual press seats have been closed, leaving us in the public gallery, which has 14 seats. Far more than 14 people are here, leading to several journalists and others being left outside of the room.
But we’re in.
November 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The most brilliant thread, if you want an idea of what it's like to live in a place run by Reform. (Naturally, at one point Grok is consulted).
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The commercial arm of Andrew Mountbatten Windsor’s entrepreneurs scheme has withdrawn almost all its remaining funds as the former prince prepares to relocate to Sandringham ⬇️
Andrew’s Pitch@Palace scheme withdraws most of its cash
The former prince’s business venture is in the ‘process of being wound up’, according to its latest accounts
www.thetimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The commercial arm of Andrew Mountbatten Windsor’s entrepreneurs scheme has withdrawn almost all its remaining funds as the former prince prepares to relocate to Sandringham ⬇️
This is a huge problem in East Kent. There aren't many viable alternatives to East Kent Hospitals, so loads of my friends have chosen higher-risk home births. I was told off (though not turned away) when I booked into Pembury, over an hour's drive away from where I live.
NEW: At least five of England’s top-rated maternity units have been forced to turn pregnant women away because of “significant and unanticipated increases in demand", despite birth rates falling across the country.
@theobserveruk.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
@theobserveruk.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Top hospitals turn away pregnant women too scared to use ...
Low care ratings at maternity wards across the country have put immense strain on a small number of units
observer.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 1:52 PM
This is a huge problem in East Kent. There aren't many viable alternatives to East Kent Hospitals, so loads of my friends have chosen higher-risk home births. I was told off (though not turned away) when I booked into Pembury, over an hour's drive away from where I live.
Characteristically excellent local reporting from @edjennings.bsky.social today. "Kent has said for years that it cannot cope alone. Geography turned the county into the UK’s de facto reception service for unaccompanied children, and capacity has repeatedly buckled."
November 3, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Characteristically excellent local reporting from @edjennings.bsky.social today. "Kent has said for years that it cannot cope alone. Geography turned the county into the UK’s de facto reception service for unaccompanied children, and capacity has repeatedly buckled."
Really love this piece pointing out the fact that no Frankenstein movie has ever had a female director, even though it was written by a woman - and that a female director might finally understand what the story is actually about (ie. not a scary monster)
www.thepersistent.com/where-is-mar...
www.thepersistent.com/where-is-mar...
Why Frankenstein Needs a Female Director
Male directors can't go Mary Shelley's tale justice
www.thepersistent.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Really love this piece pointing out the fact that no Frankenstein movie has ever had a female director, even though it was written by a woman - and that a female director might finally understand what the story is actually about (ie. not a scary monster)
www.thepersistent.com/where-is-mar...
www.thepersistent.com/where-is-mar...
Why do these things always end up being another iteration of SpinVox.
So the $20,000 humanoid robot housekeeper actually just webcams your house to a random person in a call center with an Xbox controller www.wsj.com/tech/persona... @joannastern.bsky.social
I Tried the Robot That’s Coming to Live With You. It’s Still Part Human.
1X’s Neo wants to be your housekeeper. First, it needs to be controlled by a human in your home. Cool with you?
www.wsj.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Why do these things always end up being another iteration of SpinVox.
In the wake of Trump's IVF damp squib, a nice a dose of good old-fashioned foetal personhood for you all: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/people...
Saving America, one embryo at a time
The director of the National Embryo Donation Center on getting more embryos ‘out of the freezer and into a good home’
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
In the wake of Trump's IVF damp squib, a nice a dose of good old-fashioned foetal personhood for you all: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/people...
Help I've lost my glasses
a bald man wearing a plaid shirt is making a face
ALT: a bald man wearing a plaid shirt is making a face
media.tenor.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Help I've lost my glasses
Only mentions at the very end that the trade off for paying a bit less tax is no sick pay or holiday pay or mat leave (though leaves out the constant existential angst). Also assumes SE people would just go and get a ‘more productive’ job, when that’s not possible for many www.ft.com/content/0070...
Tax advantage of UK self-employment at record high, analysis finds
Resolution Foundation calls on Rachel Reeves to level up treatment of freelancers and employees in Budget
www.ft.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Only mentions at the very end that the trade off for paying a bit less tax is no sick pay or holiday pay or mat leave (though leaves out the constant existential angst). Also assumes SE people would just go and get a ‘more productive’ job, when that’s not possible for many www.ft.com/content/0070...
How has no one in The Traitors cottoned onto the fact it’s the guy who is dressed like a literal supervillain
October 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
How has no one in The Traitors cottoned onto the fact it’s the guy who is dressed like a literal supervillain
Last week @drhelenoneill.bsky.social presented new research suggesting IVF embryo grading techniques could be unwittingly favouring male embryos. In nations where there's a lot of IVF, that could be skewing populations. It's massive! I've written about it bigfatnegative.substack.com/p/ivf-might-...
IVF might be fuelling a mini boy boom. Is there anything you can do about it?
New research shows that both traditional and AI embryo grading systems favour male embryos. Even if you don't have a gender preference, that still matters.
bigfatnegative.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Last week @drhelenoneill.bsky.social presented new research suggesting IVF embryo grading techniques could be unwittingly favouring male embryos. In nations where there's a lot of IVF, that could be skewing populations. It's massive! I've written about it bigfatnegative.substack.com/p/ivf-might-...
My phone reminds me that we are coming up to the second anniversary of me being made redundant while on maternity leave 👍
October 24, 2025 at 6:15 AM
My phone reminds me that we are coming up to the second anniversary of me being made redundant while on maternity leave 👍
‘Have you ever worked in a newsroom?’ a commuter asks his friend. ‘I think I’d be great at it,’ muses the other. ‘I could do the Guardian or the Times or maybe the BBC. I could be the next Laura Kuenssberg!’
October 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
‘Have you ever worked in a newsroom?’ a commuter asks his friend. ‘I think I’d be great at it,’ muses the other. ‘I could do the Guardian or the Times or maybe the BBC. I could be the next Laura Kuenssberg!’
Fascinating look at the feminist history Trump has erased by demolishing the East Wing of the White House. It was a place where women worked to change the world, and now it's gone.
www.thepersistent.com/white-house-...
www.thepersistent.com/white-house-...
Trump Has Demolished a History of Work by First Ladies
The East Wing was the nation's symbolic heart.
www.thepersistent.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Fascinating look at the feminist history Trump has erased by demolishing the East Wing of the White House. It was a place where women worked to change the world, and now it's gone.
www.thepersistent.com/white-house-...
www.thepersistent.com/white-house-...