iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I feel naive and stupid even having to ask, but I really don’t get how these companies continue to get (big!) govt contracts. Is it simply that there are only a few gigantic companies that can ‘realistically’ tender?

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Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’m not happy with my wash Ou est la plume de ma tante? Run Charlie! Run for your life!

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Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Agreed! If I stick that album on and close my eyes, I could almost be swaying along on the top deck of a bus crossing London Bridge on my way to work.

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Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ach, that was a lovely little era for that sort of thing. Can we chuck in a bit of Infadels, too? Maybe some Cold War Kids if we’re feeling that way inclined.

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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...

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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.

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Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

No one will better this, congrats

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Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The best lessons come from someone who’s absolutely seething at having to teach them, yet also firmly believes the world is better for people knowing the thing.

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Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My friends, have you heard the good news about… Adrian Chiles

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Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Yeah I mostly agree but I kind of don’t want to risk disregarding the substance of it. Twenty-odd years ago I really looked up to Marina, and now…

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Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I would be exhausted - ravaged - by the need to have opinions so constantly.

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Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Yes, horrendous choice of PM aside momentarily, she sounded like someone who’d become very bored with the gig. Think it showed in her writing too. Time was her columns were on my “must read’ list, but must be at least a decade since.

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Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It’s funny, I’m not really close with my parents these days (literally and metaphorically), but as soon as I see/speak to them, everything comes out. So I had to avoid speaking to them for a while because I was embarrassed and hoped it would be over quickly enough to keep it from them.

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Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Thank you for this. Passive ideation has become a ‘normal’ part of being stressed for me, but recently felt less passive and scared the hell out of me. Speaking to my wife is thankfully easy but it took me a couple of weeks to tell my parents. It always feels like passing on a burden.

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Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Fonda and Tomlin delivered the kind of gold I’d expect but I confess I’d not seen Dolly Parton acting before and I loved Doralee!

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Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Watched it this afternoon, incredibly relatable for a film that is aesthetically extremely 1980!

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Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is cosplay. Well paid cosplay, but still.

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Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I know someone whose extremely anxious dad actively tracks the location of every family member. She’s 49 (and she’s the youngest).

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Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Thanks again. The orientation/layout of our rooftop isn’t ideal, plus there’s the upfront cost, so plugin could be a decent interim measure for us, although I suspect I’ll hold off at least until there’s some kind of battery option.

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Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Thanks. I wfh and am getting ac so am interested in the idea; want to do it properly/correctly but feels like it’s probably wise to wait a good while before taking the leap.

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Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Is the restriction to one kit a matter of electrical safety or is it that the average house wouldn’t use the power generated by multiple kits?

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Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The great storm in 1987. Although technically I slept through it.

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🔜 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

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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.”

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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.

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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.

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Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

In 1999 my year in catered halls cost about 110% of my student loan. From next month my nibling’s year in *un*catered halls will cost 250% of their student loan. They’ll have to do a two-hour each-way commute from home to complete the second and third years of their degree.

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Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Peak right-wing grievance culture

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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.

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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).

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Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I was in a big newsroom at the point when analytics were really starting to be taken seriously and it produced such unserious notions as ‘whoever gets the most clicks is the best writer/deserves a column’. This ought to have been long enough ago to render it meaningless, and yet

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Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Love to be stigmatised for being diagnosed but now we get to be judged for whether or not we’re medicated? Hurray!

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Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Forget the climate crisis and crippling wealth inequality, the real problem is the wall stencils

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Suspect it’s similar to a number of SE coastal towns, where Reform voters are still stopping just shy of saying openly that the racism is the thing they’re voting for.

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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.

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Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I’ve spent the afternoon daydreaming about cohousing and this… isn’t the vibe I was going for but now I can’t unthink it

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Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

So good. I cried through most of the second half. Definitely going to be buying the DVD!

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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

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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

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