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.
pfp from Giant Days by John Allison
pfp from Giant Days by John Allison
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
Listen, I am a dog person, how dare you write this beautiful and witty thread and make me love a large ginger cat
THREAD.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
November 28, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Listen, I am a dog person, how dare you write this beautiful and witty thread and make me love a large ginger cat
Kind of ITV to interrupt their advertising with little snippets of I’m A Celebrity occasionally.
November 27, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Kind of ITV to interrupt their advertising with little snippets of I’m A Celebrity occasionally.
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This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened
November 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened
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November 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Budget day at last.
November 26, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Budget day at last.
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Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
It would be so painfully on-brand to replace Kier Starmer with Wes Streeting, one of the few people alive who makes Starmer seem vaguely kind of human
November 25, 2025 at 1:03 PM
It would be so painfully on-brand to replace Kier Starmer with Wes Streeting, one of the few people alive who makes Starmer seem vaguely kind of human
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narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
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autistic life under capitalism in a nutshell
sorry I'm bad at Lying and Bureaucracy, I have the brain disorder that makes you a good person lol
November 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM
autistic life under capitalism in a nutshell
Chap on Antiques Roadshow says the popularity of women’s football dropped in the 1920s ‘due to changing social attitudes’… that’s one way of saying the FA banned it because those uppity women were drawing huge crowds instead of getting back into the kitchen post-war.
November 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Chap on Antiques Roadshow says the popularity of women’s football dropped in the 1920s ‘due to changing social attitudes’… that’s one way of saying the FA banned it because those uppity women were drawing huge crowds instead of getting back into the kitchen post-war.
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November 23, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Love this kind of thread
On May 11, 1950, while working on the Rawlins National Bank in Wyoming, a construction crew unearthed a whiskey barrel that contained a human skeleton with its skull cap sawed off & an odd pair of shoes. Dr. Lillian Heath, now in her 80s, was asked if she knew anything about it...🧵
November 23, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Love this kind of thread
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Your bills are up, your rents doubled, there’s shit in the rivers and the sea, your local community centre has closed down and the only shops left open are bookies and poundlands - but the government’s number one priority is assigning a genital inspector to every public toilet.
November 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Your bills are up, your rents doubled, there’s shit in the rivers and the sea, your local community centre has closed down and the only shops left open are bookies and poundlands - but the government’s number one priority is assigning a genital inspector to every public toilet.
Relating very hard to this piece, including the screaming and the pps
November 21, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Relating very hard to this piece, including the screaming and the pps
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Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:
November 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:
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To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
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I was at a conference on Weds about use of AI in public services and noticed how AI as sticky tape over broken systems is becoming the norm, designing or implementing better systems is becoming more and more of a luxury.
November 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
I was at a conference on Weds about use of AI in public services and noticed how AI as sticky tape over broken systems is becoming the norm, designing or implementing better systems is becoming more and more of a luxury.
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Just saw an extended version
November 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Just saw an extended version
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Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.
November 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.
This can’t be right, I’ve been told that I’m the problem, an irrevocable Luddite, an ignoramus, for not wanting (anyone) to use it
Not the biggest takeaway here but it’s clear that ChatGPT is basically eroding critical thinking skills for upper/middle management types
Suncoast Searchlight's four reporters told the board their editor-in-chief was inserting hallucinations into drafts. The next day, one of the reporters was fired.
by @andrewdeck.bsky.social
by @andrewdeck.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
This can’t be right, I’ve been told that I’m the problem, an irrevocable Luddite, an ignoramus, for not wanting (anyone) to use it
I never knew the connection and now I’m reflecting on how I didn’t realise I had adhd until my late 30s, the point at which I stopped taking the pill and quit smoking 🤯
I am genuinely convinced that one of the reasons it used to be thought that most people grew out of ADHD as adults was how common smoking was.
November 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I never knew the connection and now I’m reflecting on how I didn’t realise I had adhd until my late 30s, the point at which I stopped taking the pill and quit smoking 🤯
This is absolutely Fucked Up
"Trans people could be banned from single-sex spaces based on how they look. The Times has seen the equalities watchdog’s final guidance, which Whitehall figures fear Bridget Phillipson is delaying to avoid a political backlash" [Times]
www.thetimes.com/article/82ee...
www.thetimes.com/article/82ee...
Trans people could be banned from single-sex spaces based on how they look
The Times has seen the equalities watchdog’s final guidance, which Whitehall figures fear Bridget Phillipson is delaying to avoid a political backlash
www.thetimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:14 PM
This is absolutely Fucked Up