Sign in

Georgina

@georgevrt.bsky.social
480 followers 1K following 1.3K posts

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. pfp from Giant Days by John Allison

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Georgina
Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tech industry is laser focused on solving the problem of humans enjoying each other’s company bsky.app/profile/down...
724354643
Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I was prepared to live and let live on this (despite Breaking Bad - yawn - being No.1), but when I spotted the shapeless carcass that was Lost on the list, I realised war had been declared.
000
Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The great storm in 1987. Although technically I slept through it.
000
Reposted by Georgina
🔜 NYCC - Drs. Smite & Evil, Inc. 🧬🦋🧪 @porgs.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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
241597
Reposted by Georgina
Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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.
“In Dallas for the premier of '9 to 5', I had an uncanny experience, and on the plane home to Chicago I confessed it to Siskel: I had been granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton, and as we spoke I was filled with a strange ethereal grace. This was not spiritual, nor was it sexual. It was healing and comforting. Gene listened and said, "Roger, I felt the exact same thing during my interview with her." We looked at each other. What did this mean? Neither one of us ever felt that feeling again. From time to time we would refer to it in wonder.”
40118033396
Reposted by Georgina
badly drawn boo! 🎃👻🧛🏼‍♀️ @soapachu.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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.
216240
Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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.
010
Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Peak right-wing grievance culture
020
Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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.
220
Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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).
040
Reposted by Georgina
Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Every single journalist in Britain should read this searing essay by Will Self
willself1.substack.com
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.
21312158
Reposted by Georgina
skELLY @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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.
7610152
Reposted by Georgina
CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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.
7552163
Reposted by Georgina
Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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.
71808568
Reposted by Georgina
Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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
583008499
Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The thing with decathlete Jeff Tesselaar is that his name sounds like something Suzy Eddie Izzard would call Elon Musk.
000
Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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
010
Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This is the first of two posts describing the class system more clearly and accurately than anything I’ve seen before
000
Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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.]
161
Reposted by Georgina
Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A post from “kavishj9611” that reads: 

“All the people who are anti-Al or want to slow Al progress, I have one question:
If Al disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through an entire workday without ChatGPT, Claude, or any other
Al tool?
Imagine Al was suddenly banned.
Would you actually be willing to give it up?”

Panel 2:
And Orange Guy and a Pink Guy are standing in a room that has two pipes in it. Both pipes are pumping raw sewage into the room. The characters are waist deep in it.
Orange Guy says smugly “Ok Mr “I don’t want to be in a room that’s filling up with raw sewage” let me ask you this”

Panel 3:
The sewage has reached their chests. Pink Guy is gagging. Orange Guy smugly continues “If all this sewage disappeared right now, could you get through the day without it?”

Panel 4:
The sewage is almost up to their eyeballs. Orange Guys says “Look at that shit floating past your face. Are you willing to give that up?”
198150004597
Reposted by Georgina
Manc Jules 🏳️‍🌈 (🏳️‍⚧️ ally) @mancjules.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
All the love to my trans & nb friends today. I support you. You are my family
static.klipy.com
Cute Ghosts Sending Extra Love
ALT: Cute Ghosts Sending Extra Love
0121
Reposted by Georgina
Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
rip 😔
2 panel comic

Panel 1: Purple Guy dressed in a black suit giving a eulogy at a funeral. We see the coffin and flowers behind him.

Purple Guy: Sometimes when a person dies, others will say “if you can’t say something nice, don’t say nothing at all”

Panel 2: Purple Guy: But that’s bullshit and this guy was a fucking cunt
4471792050
Reposted by Georgina
Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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
2538
Reposted by Georgina
Cllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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.
27332
Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
You’ll take long sentences out of my cold dead hands
000
Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Cried through what felt like the entire second half of Project Hail Mary can’t recommend it highly enough 12/10 for feeling things
130
Reposted by Georgina
Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
The Times: Net zero risks blackouts. Below a photo of French wildfires.
23247482019
Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Orcas give zero fucks
010
Reposted by Georgina
Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 22/07/2026
013828
Reposted by Georgina
mensrea @mensie.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
German broadcast. Nailed it
139149754995
Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Do they turn off the internet in the VAR room during Argentina matches?
010
Reposted by Georgina
No Score Draws ✍🏻⚽ @noscoredraws.com · 19/07/2026
Fine
A very bad drawing of, apparently, Madonna, Ronaldinho and Ronaldo in a Mad Max-esque dune buggy FOR SOME REASON
272523877
Reposted by Georgina
Tucker Jones @tuckerjones.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I'm watching in germany. The German commentators kept quiet for nearly the whole thing until suddenly the shot widened and we just hear with a German accent, "Oh, Miss Piggy"
182630556
Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Still recovering from that cheese dream of a half time
020
Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
That bloody Louis Vuitton case for the trophy. I’m sure the World Cup didn’t use to be so tacky.
000
Reposted by Georgina
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
If you pile your furniture in the middle of your living room then set it on fire, you will have the warmest house in your street, for a few hours.
Daniel Hannan *
@DanielJHannan
Reminder that Britain went from being the slowest-growing European economy in the 1970s to the fastest-growing in the 1980s.
14777121683
Reposted by Georgina
Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Well I’ve spent the whole of #NorEng drawing the three English lions on a tote bag, time well spent even if we don’t win
A tote bag depicting the three lions of the England team crest but one is Henry’s Cat and one is Bagpuss
872753549
Reposted by Georgina
Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 10/07/2026
Instagram automatically opted all public profiles into its new feature that lets users create AI images based on their photos How to opt out: 1️⃣ Go to your profile 2️⃣ Click the 3 bars in the top right 3️⃣ Scroll down to ‘Sharing and reuse’ 4️⃣ Turn off for both Posts & Reels
27926597
Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Hobbies include sweating through my clothes
000
Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Oh my god you tedious fucking idiot just SHUT UP
010
Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
For an “influencer”, Farage is oddly willing to look straight down the camera and shout “I am a crook!”
010
Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Mainland Britain now below sea level thanks to a tsunami of Farage’s self-pity
000
Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Hats off to the BBC reporters desperately trying to fill airtime on the news channel while waiting for Farage to turn up to his own news announcement.
000
Reposted by Georgina
Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
That’s what happens when you get rid of the department of defense
365126829
Reposted by Georgina
Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 07/07/2026
Power generation in the UK today: 17% Wind 13% Solar 5% Nuclear 65% Schadenfreude over USMNT
7541104
Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
At least Neymar didn’t go out looking a bellend, eh?
030
Reposted by Georgina
Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
futurism.com/future-socie... lol
As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.
178105222958
Reposted by Georgina
Janna Sophia 🏔️ @jannaphia.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Please help me finish my thesis so I can finally be free of academia 🫶✨ aidetectionsurvey.carrd.co
100474873770