Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
12.02.2026 16:31 — 👍 8948 🔁 2731 💬 137 📌 375@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
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
12.02.2026 16:31 — 👍 8948 🔁 2731 💬 137 📌 375How much would the greyhound have to donate? Just for argument’s sake.
12.02.2026 11:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Being 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
12.02.2026 11:02 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Friends 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
10.02.2026 22:54 — 👍 27036 🔁 9613 💬 56 📌 360thank you for contacting the abyss. your scream is very important to us.
10.02.2026 22:10 — 👍 307 🔁 116 💬 6 📌 0Lads. Got the front seat at the top of the bus lads.
10.02.2026 09:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What the *fuck* happened to the Guardian in the past decade or so
09.02.2026 19:52 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0They are utter scum. And of course, there will be people who have multiple births from a single pregnancy and end up over the two-child limit they’d enforce to keep the cost of Nigel’s pints down.
07.02.2026 10:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0They’re such lovely little horses. Although I strongly suspect my girl is actually a terrier trapped in a greyhound’s body.
07.02.2026 09:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Even if you’re not fussed about sports, this thread is a joy. I love seeing people enjoy stuff.
07.02.2026 08:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Devastatingly 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
Two greyhounds lounging on vast quantities of beds, pillows and blankets. On the left is a black greyhound, particularly long of snoot. On the right is a black and white greyhound looking coquettishly at the camera.
Greyhounds are the best
07.02.2026 08:08 — 👍 101 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0It 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.
So what you’re saying is… <taps baseball bat into upturned palm>
04.02.2026 16:54 — 👍 67 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Wes 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
04.02.2026 08:15 — 👍 1726 🔁 331 💬 112 📌 71It’s depressing to see a (supposedly Labour) government that’s so obviously been bought
03.02.2026 08:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1AI truly is a solution in want of a problem
02.02.2026 14:47 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Dr manhatan from watchmen sitting on a rock
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.
The wrong Home Alone 2 actor died.
30.01.2026 18:24 — 👍 9738 🔁 2483 💬 25 📌 38Catherine o Hara in Beetlejuice, playing an artsy fartsy yuppie arsehole
Catherine O Hara in Home Alone, playing a kind of yuppie mum whose heart is in the right place and would do anything for her kids and is the heart of the movie
Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas, played by Catherine O Hara, a headstrong yet vulnerable haunted doll pining for a guy who barely acknowledges her
Catherine o Hara as Moira, the out there clown character in Schitts Creek, absolute comedy gold, in this still she has arrived at her son's wedding dressed as the pope
Fucking QUEEN, fuck this noise
30.01.2026 18:36 — 👍 215 🔁 61 💬 3 📌 8Catch Reeves convulsing at the dreadful leftiness of such thinking
29.01.2026 17:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0These are not people who have ever understood anything in their lives
29.01.2026 10:33 — 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0if 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
28.01.2026 10:19 — 👍 1538 🔁 482 💬 8 📌 24I'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.
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I think about this post a lot.
25.01.2026 22:26 — 👍 7093 🔁 2866 💬 28 📌 45Is it a rule that in order to be featured in the Telegraph, you have to rank comfortably among the very worst people currently living in Britain?
27.01.2026 19:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Genuinely has this kind of majority ever been so spectacularly, needlessly razed
25.01.2026 13:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
25.01.2026 12:28 — 👍 47565 🔁 14348 💬 524 📌 602Wanting better things for everyone is communism
24.01.2026 12:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0