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Georgina Voss (David Cronenberg's Version)

@gsvoss.bsky.social

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Big machines // Writer, artist // Author: SYSTEMS ULTRA: MAKING SENSE OF TECHNOLOGY IN A COMPLEX WORLD (Verso '24) // Before: Co-founder & director: Supra Systems Studio & Strange Telemetry www.gsvoss.com // linktr.ee/gsvoss

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Georgina Voss (David Cronenberg's Version) @gsvoss.bsky.social · Jan 23

She’s here! SYSTEMS ULTRA: MAKING SENSE OF TECHNOLOGY IN A COMPLEX WORLD is out today, published by Verso; I am so delighted that it is finally in the world. The formal launch is at The Design Museum on Sat 27th (link in bio) with more to follow - watch this space. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

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Georgina Voss (David Cronenberg's Version) @gsvoss.bsky.social · 7d

It is very annoying to have to keep pushing back against thie targeted and weaponised hatred trans folx but on we go. Please do respond to this consultation if you can x

Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 7d

📣 Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds need your help!
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They’ve always been firmly trans-inclusive, but now this is under threat.
Please respond to their consultation to show how much public support there is for trans-inclusive arrangements.
hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...

Consultation on the future access to the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds:

Executive Summary

This consultation seeks your views on access arrangements at the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds -Highgate Men’s Pond, Kenwood Ladies’ Pond and Hampstead Mixed Pond, with a particular focus on potential changes at the Highgate Men’s Pond and the Kenwood Ladies’ Pond.

Following the recent Supreme Court decision in For Women Scotland, and in line with other service providers, the City of London Corporation is reviewing its policies, including those at the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds. Your feedback will help inform decisions about future arrangements, alongside legal obligations, equality and safeguarding duties, financial constraints, and practical considerations.

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Georgina Voss (David Cronenberg's Version) @gsvoss.bsky.social · 12d

"We have merch"

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 15d

ROSENCRANTZ: Let's play questions.
CHOTINER: How do you play?
ROS: How do you think?
CHOTINER: I don't know that's why I'm asking.
ROS: Statement, 0-1 me.
CHOTINER: What?
ROS: What don't you understand?
CHOTINER: I'm trying to conduct an interview and you -
ROS: Statement, 0-2 me.
CHOTINER: OK wait-

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Georgina Voss (David Cronenberg's Version) @gsvoss.bsky.social · 16d

Gritters in Scotland keeping it* real: www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...

*how to name machines

Gritter tracker | Traffic Scotland

Traffic Scotland gives you the real-time information you need about Scotland’s trunk road network

www.traffic.gov.scot

Georgina Voss (David Cronenberg's Version) @gsvoss.bsky.social · 17d

ME (crawling under the bed to pet the cat who is trying to nap there): I LOVE you.

CAT: [grunts]

ME: You are the PEFECT little man!!!!

CAT: [horrifying gurgling digesting noises]

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Georgina Voss (David Cronenberg's Version) @gsvoss.bsky.social · 19d

(also Terence Stamp as the [uncredited] Devil!)

The actor Terence Stamp - a handsome man in his late 50s with grey hair - wearing a suit, sitting in a carriage whilst holding a small skull

Georgina Voss (David Cronenberg's Version) @gsvoss.bsky.social · 19d

Better to reign in Hell, than collectively serve in Heaven.

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Georgina Voss (David Cronenberg's Version) @gsvoss.bsky.social · 19d

(if you would like a film with a lot of pups in it, a gentle nudge towards 'The Company of Wolves' - lots of v charismatic Belgian Shepherds with dye jobs running around, together with a few of the big guys)

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Georgina Voss (David Cronenberg's Version) @gsvoss.bsky.social · 24d

be the citation that you want to see in the world

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Journal of Design History @jodesignhistory.bsky.social · Aug 21

NEW book review! James Dyer reviews Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in
a Complex World, published by Verso.
Read now at academic.oup.com/jdh/advance-...

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Georgina Voss (David Cronenberg's Version) @gsvoss.bsky.social · 27d

also astonishing love for Samuel Blenkin's work as Boy Kavalier! Never-ending delight for performers who put their whole body to work (also the pyjamas obv, really happy to see the move away from gilets into craft).

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Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social · Sep 5

There is a lot for disabled people to be enraged about. I partnered with artist Finnegan Shannon on #DisabledRage public art. All graphics are downloadable & feel free to share and wheatpaste all over your community

disabilityvisibilityproject.com/disabled-rage/

Graphic by Finnegan Shannon with a white background and black text. Below is a QR code and hashtag #DisabledRage. Text reads, RAGE WITH US

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Georgina Voss (David Cronenberg's Version) @gsvoss.bsky.social · Sep 2

Steph, it is time for you to become a father of both a goblin child *and* a tiny revolutionary library.

Georgina Voss (David Cronenberg's Version) @gsvoss.bsky.social · Aug 28

This piece reminds me so much of Ruth Reichl's review or La Cirque for the NYT, as both 'Dinner as the Unknown Diner' and 'Dinner as a Most Favoured Patron' www.nytimes.com/1993/10/29/a...

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Georgina Voss (David Cronenberg's Version) @gsvoss.bsky.social · Aug 27

'[America By Design] proposes that one man alone can define “design” for the country...digital design intended for the privileged few, actively excluding people who don’t conform to a specific, discriminatory definition of “eligible.”' +++, from @ethanmarcotte.com ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/a-noti...

A notional design studio. — ethanmarcotte.com

A design language, if you can keep it.

ethanmarcotte.com

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · Aug 26

what other utilities do you know that would host a zine reading in the bowels of a treatment plant

woman in a dimly lit industrial tunnel setting wears an orange NEORSD hard hat and safety goggles. she stands behind a microphone stand, adjusting her goggles with her left hand as she reads from a booklet in her right hand.

a crowd of writers in orange hard hats seated in an industrial tunnel under LED lights, two people stand in front of the group speaking behind a mic stand.

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Georgina Voss (David Cronenberg's Version) @gsvoss.bsky.social · Aug 24

A Venn diagram with this, and testing whether she's a witch by whether she floats

Georgina Voss (David Cronenberg's Version) @gsvoss.bsky.social · Aug 14

Very much enjoying the Timothy Olyphant -> Malcolm McDowell pipeline, since you ask.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · Aug 13

[extremely on-mushrooms voice] hear me out. what if we destroy capitalism by feminizing having money

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Georgina Voss (David Cronenberg's Version) @gsvoss.bsky.social · Aug 13

12% under nemesis NDA

Georgina Voss (David Cronenberg's Version) @gsvoss.bsky.social · Aug 12

Together: small vine tomatoes, nectarine, green olives (Perello gordal picante), red pepper, a little finely chopped red onion, burrata, balsamic vinegar + good olive oil + salt + pepper. (You may also accompany with bbq'd chicken thigh with crispy skin).

Georgina Voss (David Cronenberg's Version) @gsvoss.bsky.social · Aug 12

Georgina Voss (David Cronenberg's Version) @gsvoss.bsky.social · Aug 9

Thinking a lot about Winnie Soon's Unerasable Character Series, on the horrors of erasure and the scale of unheard voices within the contexts of digital authoritarianism and the 'blank paper' protests in China
(calls.ars.electronica.art/2023/prix/wi... / transmediale.de/en/event/the...)

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Aug 9

NEW: Parliament Square, London right now.

Thousands in a silent, peaceful protest against both the genocide in Gaza and the UK Government prescribing protest group Palestine Action as a terrorist group.

Police now making arrests.

(📸 Saul Staniforth)

Thousands seen sitting with placards that all read “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine action.” Big Ben is seen in the background

Georgina Voss (David Cronenberg's Version) @gsvoss.bsky.social · Aug 8

Apologies!

Georgina Voss (David Cronenberg's Version) @gsvoss.bsky.social · Aug 8

Slightly sideways, but perhaps @kellyclancy.bsky.social 's book, Playing With Reality? www.penguin.co.uk/books/446802...

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