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
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I recommend watching the freestyle skiing and snowboarding and whatnot on the BBC. I have no idea of the technicalities but a it’s a balm to spend a couple of hours each evening listening to commentators just thoroughly enjoying themselves (and occasionally losing their minds over a jump). #Olympics
February 17, 2026 at 7:37 PM
I recommend watching the freestyle skiing and snowboarding and whatnot on the BBC. I have no idea of the technicalities but a it’s a balm to spend a couple of hours each evening listening to commentators just thoroughly enjoying themselves (and occasionally losing their minds over a jump). #Olympics
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For me the interesting question is why the language of epidemics is being used. Partly it might reflect increasing (awareness of) evidence of the physical health impacts of loneliness, but I wonder if a couple of other things might be more active in this discursive choice. 🧵
Problem about the loneliness epidemic is, it's everywhere except in representative survey data. Let's look at where the claim comes from. 1/
Case in point, @pengzell.bsky.social just sent me 5 papers proving that there’s not actually any evidence for a loneliness epidemic. My mind is highly changed
February 17, 2026 at 8:53 AM
For me the interesting question is why the language of epidemics is being used. Partly it might reflect increasing (awareness of) evidence of the physical health impacts of loneliness, but I wonder if a couple of other things might be more active in this discursive choice. 🧵
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How to make pancakes the british way:
Step 1: remember it's pancake day
Step 2: work all day because you are a cog in the capitalism nightmare machine
Step 3: Too tired to make pancakes
Step 4: no pancakes for you
Step 1: remember it's pancake day
Step 2: work all day because you are a cog in the capitalism nightmare machine
Step 3: Too tired to make pancakes
Step 4: no pancakes for you
February 17, 2026 at 8:28 AM
How to make pancakes the british way:
Step 1: remember it's pancake day
Step 2: work all day because you are a cog in the capitalism nightmare machine
Step 3: Too tired to make pancakes
Step 4: no pancakes for you
Step 1: remember it's pancake day
Step 2: work all day because you are a cog in the capitalism nightmare machine
Step 3: Too tired to make pancakes
Step 4: no pancakes for you
For me the interesting question is why the language of epidemics is being used. Partly it might reflect increasing (awareness of) evidence of the physical health impacts of loneliness, but I wonder if a couple of other things might be more active in this discursive choice. 🧵
Problem about the loneliness epidemic is, it's everywhere except in representative survey data. Let's look at where the claim comes from. 1/
Case in point, @pengzell.bsky.social just sent me 5 papers proving that there’s not actually any evidence for a loneliness epidemic. My mind is highly changed
February 17, 2026 at 8:53 AM
For me the interesting question is why the language of epidemics is being used. Partly it might reflect increasing (awareness of) evidence of the physical health impacts of loneliness, but I wonder if a couple of other things might be more active in this discursive choice. 🧵
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do u think during the industrial revolution people thought the factory was their boyfriend
February 15, 2026 at 8:18 PM
do u think during the industrial revolution people thought the factory was their boyfriend
I was worried about all the inaccuracy and planet destruction but you can’t argue with <squints at screen> a whole 1.4% over three years.
New NBER paper based on a survey of CFOs. Firms report no productivity increases due to AI adoption so far but expect a 1.4% productivity boost over the next 3 years. www.nber.org/papers/w34836
February 16, 2026 at 8:53 AM
I was worried about all the inaccuracy and planet destruction but you can’t argue with <squints at screen> a whole 1.4% over three years.
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So now Trump’s paramilitary force is undermining norms of trust & sociability to exploit vulnerability. Every social interaction becomes a potential trap. When nobody can trust one another, people become lonely & isolated. A perfect way to undermine collective action & promote tyranny.
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 8:24 AM
So now Trump’s paramilitary force is undermining norms of trust & sociability to exploit vulnerability. Every social interaction becomes a potential trap. When nobody can trust one another, people become lonely & isolated. A perfect way to undermine collective action & promote tyranny.
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lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
February 14, 2026 at 11:47 PM
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
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Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
February 12, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
Being a woman in your forties is just daily googling of your latest pain/weakness/problem with the word menopause and finding out that yes, even this is down to your plummeting levels of oestrogen like jesus christ body, give me a fighting chance here
February 12, 2026 at 11:02 AM
Being a woman in your forties is just daily googling of your latest pain/weakness/problem with the word menopause and finding out that yes, even this is down to your plummeting levels of oestrogen like jesus christ body, give me a fighting chance here
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Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
February 10, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
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thank you for contacting the abyss. your scream is very important to us.
February 10, 2026 at 10:10 PM
thank you for contacting the abyss. your scream is very important to us.
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Lads. Got the front seat at the top of the bus lads.
February 10, 2026 at 9:15 AM
Lads. Got the front seat at the top of the bus lads.
Even if you’re not fussed about sports, this thread is a joy. I love seeing people enjoy stuff.
i cannot tell you how excited i am for the opening ceremony lol. Two Minutes
buds i am so excited for the olympics. whatever people mean when they say "lib out" i'm gonna do that. for the olympics
February 7, 2026 at 8:58 AM
Even if you’re not fussed about sports, this thread is a joy. I love seeing people enjoy stuff.
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Devastatingly sad.
Every Labour MP should be forced to read this. In fact, every MP, who rushed back to Parliament to vote to save one steel mill, whilst hastening the collapse of dozens of universities - and harming the students, staff, communities and economies universities sustain and support
Every Labour MP should be forced to read this. In fact, every MP, who rushed back to Parliament to vote to save one steel mill, whilst hastening the collapse of dozens of universities - and harming the students, staff, communities and economies universities sustain and support
'When it opened, the campus housed a GP surgery and a new dental clinic offering free treatment to local people. This was followed later by the forum – a library and art gallery shared by the university and local people.' 1/2
‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university?
When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degr...
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2026 at 8:06 AM
Devastatingly sad.
Every Labour MP should be forced to read this. In fact, every MP, who rushed back to Parliament to vote to save one steel mill, whilst hastening the collapse of dozens of universities - and harming the students, staff, communities and economies universities sustain and support
Every Labour MP should be forced to read this. In fact, every MP, who rushed back to Parliament to vote to save one steel mill, whilst hastening the collapse of dozens of universities - and harming the students, staff, communities and economies universities sustain and support
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It should not require an act as morally repulsive & treacherous as leaking govt intel to an overseas pedophile sex trafficker who may also be a Russian spy to permanently end a political career.
Permanently banish anyone who deliberately or recklessly engages in ethical wrongdoing from public life.
Permanently banish anyone who deliberately or recklessly engages in ethical wrongdoing from public life.
February 4, 2026 at 1:55 PM
It should not require an act as morally repulsive & treacherous as leaking govt intel to an overseas pedophile sex trafficker who may also be a Russian spy to permanently end a political career.
Permanently banish anyone who deliberately or recklessly engages in ethical wrongdoing from public life.
Permanently banish anyone who deliberately or recklessly engages in ethical wrongdoing from public life.
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Wes Streeting saying on Today that Mandelson is ‘not the man we thought he was’ but the trouble is, he is exactly the man we thought, just on a much worse scale than almost anyone thought. And there is an alternative world where none of this is this govt’s problem, because they never gave him a job
February 4, 2026 at 8:16 AM
Wes Streeting saying on Today that Mandelson is ‘not the man we thought he was’ but the trouble is, he is exactly the man we thought, just on a much worse scale than almost anyone thought. And there is an alternative world where none of this is this govt’s problem, because they never gave him a job
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It's 1998. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
It's 2001. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
It's 2025. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
It's 2026. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
It's 2001. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
It's 2025. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
It's 2026. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
February 2, 2026 at 7:06 AM
It's 1998. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
It's 2001. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
It's 2025. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
It's 2026. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
It's 2001. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
It's 2025. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
It's 2026. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
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Fucking QUEEN, fuck this noise
January 30, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Fucking QUEEN, fuck this noise
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if they can offer free AI training they could offer free media literacy training too. i know which of those would do more for the public good
January 28, 2026 at 10:19 AM
if they can offer free AI training they could offer free media literacy training too. i know which of those would do more for the public good
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I'm German. I've been schooled in my country's history & crimes all my life.
I'm also a political scientist, educated in Germany, the UK, & US.
As the comparisons betw the situation in the US & Nazi Germany are increasing to frequent, allow me to comment.
A 🧵
I'm also a political scientist, educated in Germany, the UK, & US.
As the comparisons betw the situation in the US & Nazi Germany are increasing to frequent, allow me to comment.
A 🧵
January 28, 2026 at 5:53 AM
I'm German. I've been schooled in my country's history & crimes all my life.
I'm also a political scientist, educated in Germany, the UK, & US.
As the comparisons betw the situation in the US & Nazi Germany are increasing to frequent, allow me to comment.
A 🧵
I'm also a political scientist, educated in Germany, the UK, & US.
As the comparisons betw the situation in the US & Nazi Germany are increasing to frequent, allow me to comment.
A 🧵
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I think about this post a lot.
January 25, 2026 at 10:26 PM
I think about this post a lot.