Georgina
@georgevrt.bsky.social
Researcher, keen DIYer/bodge-jobber, decrepit five-a-side footballer. AuDHD. Past lives as an academic and a journalist. Also mum to the world’s goofiest greyhounds, wife to the coolest woman on earth.
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Georgina
@georgevrt.bsky.social
· Dec 18
The primary reason I open this app is to check if Trump is dead yet
The great storm in 1987. Although technically I slept through it.
What's the first historic event that you remember?
August 26, 2026 at 8:44 AM
The great storm in 1987. Although technically I slept through it.
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We don't need a Dolly biopic
Instead, do an antiques roadshow documentary style show, except instead of people bringing in their antiques they bring in their stories of how Dolly Parton helped them
Instead, do an antiques roadshow documentary style show, except instead of people bringing in their antiques they bring in their stories of how Dolly Parton helped them
August 26, 2026 at 5:23 AM
We don't need a Dolly biopic
Instead, do an antiques roadshow documentary style show, except instead of people bringing in their antiques they bring in their stories of how Dolly Parton helped them
Instead, do an antiques roadshow documentary style show, except instead of people bringing in their antiques they bring in their stories of how Dolly Parton helped them
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Dolly Parton rose from poverty to stardom. She gave $500 to every student in her hometown who finished high school; she built hospitals & bald eagle preserves; her Imagination Library has gifted 300 million books to children. Roger Ebert met her and came away thinking she was a literal angel. RIP.
August 25, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Dolly Parton rose from poverty to stardom. She gave $500 to every student in her hometown who finished high school; she built hospitals & bald eagle preserves; her Imagination Library has gifted 300 million books to children. Roger Ebert met her and came away thinking she was a literal angel. RIP.
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Dolly Parton gave over 318 million books away to kids, to support childhood literacy.
Look at the billionaire dudebros and the choices they're making.
Look at the billionaire dudebros and the choices they're making.
August 25, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Dolly Parton gave over 318 million books away to kids, to support childhood literacy.
Look at the billionaire dudebros and the choices they're making.
Look at the billionaire dudebros and the choices they're making.
I don’t tend to condone violence but people who describe using IKEA products exactly as intended as an “IKEA hack” deserve the death penalty.
August 22, 2026 at 11:01 AM
I don’t tend to condone violence but people who describe using IKEA products exactly as intended as an “IKEA hack” deserve the death penalty.
Peak right-wing grievance culture
August 21, 2026 at 7:45 AM
Peak right-wing grievance culture
Anyway that last repost brought to you by feeling kind of wretchedly ill-equipped to deal with the world at the moment, even with medication. I don’t understand it and it doesn’t understand me.
August 20, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Anyway that last repost brought to you by feeling kind of wretchedly ill-equipped to deal with the world at the moment, even with medication. I don’t understand it and it doesn’t understand me.
This thread is brilliantly and painfully relatable for me (except the physics part. My PhD is in media and communications, and to this day I think it’s a miracle that I completed it).
I have ADHD. I'm also a physicist. I got the ADHD diagnosis about a year and a half ago, after really struggling with work for a few years. I didn't know about it when I was in school, or when I started a physics undergrad as a mature student, or through my PhD. I have thoughts:
August 20, 2026 at 9:05 AM
This thread is brilliantly and painfully relatable for me (except the physics part. My PhD is in media and communications, and to this day I think it’s a miracle that I completed it).
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Every single journalist in Britain should read this searing essay by Will Self
Jason Arday: J'Accuse the British Media
After the death of Jason Arday, Will Self asks what happens when the media machine mistakes what interests the public for the public interest.
willself1.substack.com
August 18, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Every single journalist in Britain should read this searing essay by Will Self
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Let’s talk “cancel culture” tho. *Look* at who gets truly canceled. This man is dead. Colin Kaepernick has not played pro football since 2016. Claudine Gay was forced out of the presidency of Harvard.
I don't have the words I need to discuss the loss of Jason Arday's young life. All I can say is that this internet age is especially violent, nasty, and despicable toward Black intellectuals. We are targeted more than any academic group esp if we are dark-skinned, fat, disabled, queer or trans.
August 15, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Let’s talk “cancel culture” tho. *Look* at who gets truly canceled. This man is dead. Colin Kaepernick has not played pro football since 2016. Claudine Gay was forced out of the presidency of Harvard.
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I genuinely don't know how Britain can move forward as a society with our toxic press culture dragging us down at every step, poisoning everything.
August 14, 2026 at 7:25 PM
I genuinely don't know how Britain can move forward as a society with our toxic press culture dragging us down at every step, poisoning everything.
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I think it's bad that the UK press can escalate what is essentially a workplace matter into national news ahead of the fucking country being on fire and then get away with hounding their victim until they die.
August 14, 2026 at 7:45 PM
I think it's bad that the UK press can escalate what is essentially a workplace matter into national news ahead of the fucking country being on fire and then get away with hounding their victim until they die.
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No, that is not the alternative
The alternative was treating like a normal news story, and not a trial by media - one that was so clearly turbocharged by Arday’s ethnic and social background and the growing resentment in the establishment in the UK of having more black people in high places
The alternative was treating like a normal news story, and not a trial by media - one that was so clearly turbocharged by Arday’s ethnic and social background and the growing resentment in the establishment in the UK of having more black people in high places
The alternative to this is people lying with impunity, with the media knowingly covering it up. It's an awful story. And the media will get a lot of the blame. But those who perpetuated the lies and shielded Arday from facing up to them deserve more of it.
I don’t think there’s ever been a clearer example of the British media bullying someone, who was so clearly vulnerable, to death so shamelessly in my lifetime for engagement and clicks
And now we’ll have to watch the people that did it claim they’re shocked, and horrified
Revolting
And now we’ll have to watch the people that did it claim they’re shocked, and horrified
Revolting
August 14, 2026 at 7:40 PM
No, that is not the alternative
The alternative was treating like a normal news story, and not a trial by media - one that was so clearly turbocharged by Arday’s ethnic and social background and the growing resentment in the establishment in the UK of having more black people in high places
The alternative was treating like a normal news story, and not a trial by media - one that was so clearly turbocharged by Arday’s ethnic and social background and the growing resentment in the establishment in the UK of having more black people in high places
The thing with decathlete Jeff Tesselaar is that his name sounds like something Suzy Eddie Izzard would call Elon Musk.
August 13, 2026 at 8:13 PM
The thing with decathlete Jeff Tesselaar is that his name sounds like something Suzy Eddie Izzard would call Elon Musk.
BBC keep talking about the sparse crowds at the Europeans but not heard them talk about ticket prices - which are the same all week. We decided to stump up for Saturday night but can’t blame people for not wanting to spend a couple of hundred to see early events/on week nights
August 11, 2026 at 6:18 PM
BBC keep talking about the sparse crowds at the Europeans but not heard them talk about ticket prices - which are the same all week. We decided to stump up for Saturday night but can’t blame people for not wanting to spend a couple of hundred to see early events/on week nights
This is the first of two posts describing the class system more clearly and accurately than anything I’ve seen before
trying to explain the intricacies of british class politics to an outsider not spawned in the seething swamps of england and boiling it down to: you are born a blood magic vampire or a disgusting mud troll, you can be a rich troll or a poor vampire but you can never switch groups
August 10, 2026 at 9:22 AM
This is the first of two posts describing the class system more clearly and accurately than anything I’ve seen before
Early 00s a GP told me if I’d never had any intimate contact with men then I wouldn’t need a smear test. [When I complained to the practice about her being ill-informed, she denied ever having said it.]
A question from Reddit that I'll answer here:
"What's the most unhinged thing a doctor has said to you with a straight face?"
"What's the most unhinged thing a doctor has said to you with a straight face?"
August 6, 2026 at 7:53 AM
Early 00s a GP told me if I’d never had any intimate contact with men then I wouldn’t need a smear test. [When I complained to the practice about her being ill-informed, she denied ever having said it.]
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All the love to my trans & nb friends today. I support you. You are my family
Cute Ghosts Sending Extra Love
ALT: Cute Ghosts Sending Extra Love
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August 5, 2026 at 7:20 AM
All the love to my trans & nb friends today. I support you. You are my family
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it's like the chattering classes just get bored periodically - like with the utterly WhatsApp group-brained covid bollocks over the weekend - and decide they need to target some new defenceless group who've done nothing to deserve it beyond trying to find a way to exist more easily in the world
August 3, 2026 at 9:16 AM
it's like the chattering classes just get bored periodically - like with the utterly WhatsApp group-brained covid bollocks over the weekend - and decide they need to target some new defenceless group who've done nothing to deserve it beyond trying to find a way to exist more easily in the world
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The UK is rushing towards food shortages. July had 8% expected rainfall. Our social care system is in pieces and hospitals are on their knees. What is Andy Burnham choosing to talk about today you might ask? Ahh, yes, he is choosing to continue the obsessive and deranged fixation on small boats.
August 3, 2026 at 9:17 AM
The UK is rushing towards food shortages. July had 8% expected rainfall. Our social care system is in pieces and hospitals are on their knees. What is Andy Burnham choosing to talk about today you might ask? Ahh, yes, he is choosing to continue the obsessive and deranged fixation on small boats.
You’ll take long sentences out of my cold dead hands
one impact of LLMs is that everyone's sentences are organically shorter now. even mine! while in my case that's unreservedly a good thing as I tend towards run-ons, for most people it...isn't
July 27, 2026 at 5:34 PM
You’ll take long sentences out of my cold dead hands
Cried through what felt like the entire second half of Project Hail Mary can’t recommend it highly enough 12/10 for feeling things
July 25, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Cried through what felt like the entire second half of Project Hail Mary can’t recommend it highly enough 12/10 for feeling things