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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What does it mean, if the national equality body aggressively pursues discrimination; if the energy regulator rubber-stamps huge price hikes; if the water authority does nothing about shit in the rivers and the press regulator occasionally ticks off a newspaper? What is the purpose of “regulation”.
I was concerned that Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson might try and be smarter about transphobia than her predecessors and leave trans people in a shit place than was harder to rectify because it wasn’t so obvious.
Today dispelled those worries.
Labour have appointed a second raving bigot to run the EHRC.
Today dispelled those worries.
Labour have appointed a second raving bigot to run the EHRC.
December 14, 2025 at 10:40 AM
What does it mean, if the national equality body aggressively pursues discrimination; if the energy regulator rubber-stamps huge price hikes; if the water authority does nothing about shit in the rivers and the press regulator occasionally ticks off a newspaper? What is the purpose of “regulation”.
I’m not even sure what I’d hate RTD for more: killing Kate Stewart off or making her straight. #TheWarBetween #DoctorWho
December 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I’m not even sure what I’d hate RTD for more: killing Kate Stewart off or making her straight. #TheWarBetween #DoctorWho
Watching The 1% Club and devastated to come on here and find no one’s posted about the brilliant Crazy Dachshund Lady.
December 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Watching The 1% Club and devastated to come on here and find no one’s posted about the brilliant Crazy Dachshund Lady.
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Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918
December 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918
“Reshape the global economy”
December 12, 2025 at 8:35 AM
“Reshape the global economy”
Yes I’m a middle aged woman who hasn’t finished Christmas shopping yet but took a little moment to buy herself this Polly Pocket Stranger Things set WHAT OF IT
December 10, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Yes I’m a middle aged woman who hasn’t finished Christmas shopping yet but took a little moment to buy herself this Polly Pocket Stranger Things set WHAT OF IT
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"Either stop giving me directions or you do the driving, Thomas. Oh right. You CAN'T. Because your arm is in Naples. So SHUT THE FUCK UP."
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
"Either stop giving me directions or you do the driving, Thomas. Oh right. You CAN'T. Because your arm is in Naples. So SHUT THE FUCK UP."
Bring back the death penalty for people who post screenshots without alt text. Just kidding… unless
December 7, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Bring back the death penalty for people who post screenshots without alt text. Just kidding… unless
I rarely feel so ‘at home’ anywhere as in a university, and I often miss being based in one. But I’m incredibly - deliriously, almost - relieved not to be battling AI from within academia.
I finally got around to reading this. You should read it too.
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 6, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I rarely feel so ‘at home’ anywhere as in a university, and I often miss being based in one. But I’m incredibly - deliriously, almost - relieved not to be battling AI from within academia.
Impossible to say how this could be happening here on Hellhole Island
December 4, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Impossible to say how this could be happening here on Hellhole Island
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Sorry to anyone who thought Wokeness was annoying but as we now know it's the price we pay for a civilized society
December 2, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Sorry to anyone who thought Wokeness was annoying but as we now know it's the price we pay for a civilized society
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This correct, and almost none of it is organically arising from the public. The relentless fear and hate of the last decade was deliberately imposed by opportunist politicians, toxic media outlets, crackpot activists and malignant squillionaires, working hand in hand towards similar goals.
There is absolutely nothing left to the UK but bigotry and spite. A hateful place, you can almost taste it in the air, makes it hard to breathe.
December 3, 2025 at 11:28 AM
This correct, and almost none of it is organically arising from the public. The relentless fear and hate of the last decade was deliberately imposed by opportunist politicians, toxic media outlets, crackpot activists and malignant squillionaires, working hand in hand towards similar goals.
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i'd go even further and say there is a reason even nixon kept this kind of stuff to himself. you would have to go back quite a bit to find a point at which is acceptable for a president to say anything like this *in public*, to say nothing of in the oval office.
I don’t want to be pollyannish about the past, but it was basically inconceivable twenty years ago that a president would say this publicly
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 3, 2025 at 11:04 PM
i'd go even further and say there is a reason even nixon kept this kind of stuff to himself. you would have to go back quite a bit to find a point at which is acceptable for a president to say anything like this *in public*, to say nothing of in the oval office.
Think of the catalogue of social cruelty and indignities that have been visited upon an 80-year-old trans woman in her lifetime, now she’s being forced out of her one safe space. Those rancid cigar-smoking bigots should’ve been deemed vexatious litigants, instead they’re calling the shots. Heartsick
December 3, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Think of the catalogue of social cruelty and indignities that have been visited upon an 80-year-old trans woman in her lifetime, now she’s being forced out of her one safe space. Those rancid cigar-smoking bigots should’ve been deemed vexatious litigants, instead they’re calling the shots. Heartsick
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You want there to be a legal challenge to this? Support the one that's already in progress that, if successful, will remove the risk of legal action against Guides and WI, or other organisations, for being trans inclusive goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
Help us challenge the Supreme Court’s judgment on trans rights | Good Law Project
goodlawproject.org
December 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
You want there to be a legal challenge to this? Support the one that's already in progress that, if successful, will remove the risk of legal action against Guides and WI, or other organisations, for being trans inclusive goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
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It's worth noting that the Government has a massive majority and could fix this in an instant with a one-line piece of legislation. It doesn't want to.
December 3, 2025 at 11:18 AM
It's worth noting that the Government has a massive majority and could fix this in an instant with a one-line piece of legislation. It doesn't want to.
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The truth is that there are many good people in good institutions regretfully making the choice to sacrifice trans people because they fear for their own survival and their institution's survival...
...and it is incumbent on us to show them that their choice is not without consequence.
...and it is incumbent on us to show them that their choice is not without consequence.
December 3, 2025 at 11:04 AM
The truth is that there are many good people in good institutions regretfully making the choice to sacrifice trans people because they fear for their own survival and their institution's survival...
...and it is incumbent on us to show them that their choice is not without consequence.
...and it is incumbent on us to show them that their choice is not without consequence.
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Every organisation in the country running scared of being sued by well funded terfs.
It's not the supreme court ruling that's bothering the WI or the Girl Guides it's having to pay to defend an interpretation of it that allows trans girls and women to continue their participation.
It's not the supreme court ruling that's bothering the WI or the Girl Guides it's having to pay to defend an interpretation of it that allows trans girls and women to continue their participation.
December 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Every organisation in the country running scared of being sued by well funded terfs.
It's not the supreme court ruling that's bothering the WI or the Girl Guides it's having to pay to defend an interpretation of it that allows trans girls and women to continue their participation.
It's not the supreme court ruling that's bothering the WI or the Girl Guides it's having to pay to defend an interpretation of it that allows trans girls and women to continue their participation.
Please, my shareholders, they are sick
December 3, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Please, my shareholders, they are sick
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The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
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"The new “mansion tax” announced by Rachel Reeves in last week’s budget is estimated to affect around 165,000 property owners, and on current trends the British media is forecast to have interviewed every single one of them by the end of the year."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Won’t somebody please think of Britain’s poor £2m homeowners? Oh, wait – everyone already is | Jonathan Liew
Contrast the furious reaction to Rachel Reeves’s ‘mansion tax’ to the response offered to those living with real housing injustice: indifference, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"The new “mansion tax” announced by Rachel Reeves in last week’s budget is estimated to affect around 165,000 property owners, and on current trends the British media is forecast to have interviewed every single one of them by the end of the year."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Do you notice how this is worse than what’s happening in Trump’s America? Because we are in some ways much further down the extremist radicalisation spiral, because Britain is dominated by the English-speaking world’s most toxic and hateful media outlets, and by fuck those people get what they want.
December 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Do you notice how this is worse than what’s happening in Trump’s America? Because we are in some ways much further down the extremist radicalisation spiral, because Britain is dominated by the English-speaking world’s most toxic and hateful media outlets, and by fuck those people get what they want.
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Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
December 3, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
Saw this bumper sticker on my journey today and laughed out loud
BABY ON BOARD
(it’s me, I’m crying)
BABY ON BOARD
(it’s me, I’m crying)
December 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Saw this bumper sticker on my journey today and laughed out loud
BABY ON BOARD
(it’s me, I’m crying)
BABY ON BOARD
(it’s me, I’m crying)
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“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to