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Sophie Petzal

@sonicscrewup

TV writer, ‘BLOOD’, ‘HOLLINGTON DRIVE’, THE LAST KINGDOM’, ‘MEDICI’, other things you’ve not seen. They gave me a Writers Guild Award once. Mostly post about Arsenal.

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Little nugget at the end for the lawyer watchers

10.03.2026 11:47 👍 94 🔁 24 💬 2 📌 4
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An 'epidemic' of violence: The women and girls killed by men last year We tracked reports and contacted police and prosecutors for a deeper look at the situation across UK.

An 'epidemic' of violence: The women and girls killed by men last year

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

10.03.2026 11:53 👍 11 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0

None of the Arsenal podcasts went with ‘Mansfield vs Boysfield’ I see.

10.03.2026 08:22 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Iwobi Without Jake
Iwobi Without Jake YouTube video by MoreT

Shoutout @jondbarker.bsky.social for editing a version of Alex Iwobi’s High Performance interview which is entirely devoid of Jake Humphrey

youtu.be/MWVIsnOpGzM

10.03.2026 07:07 👍 74 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0

He always sounds like a D&D character riffing after failing a deception check

09.03.2026 23:13 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Even if oil prices get back to “normal,” the disruption should be a wake-up call to move faster on alternative energy sources. If blocking one sea lane is all it takes to send gas prices soaring, then we need to move away from fossil fuels — fast.

09.03.2026 21:35 👍 757 🔁 178 💬 49 📌 13

The Unbearables getting another lucky draw. You love to see it. 💅

The way it’s going we might get Grimsby in the Champions League final.

09.03.2026 22:07 👍 108 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

I'm genuinely impressed that they're still finding new levels and depths
of corruption.

09.03.2026 15:03 👍 33 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

Someone in an insta post described Chalamet as a ‘single threat’ which is the most sickening of burns I had to sit back in my chair and take a few deep breaths.

09.03.2026 18:05 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

L O L

09.03.2026 14:08 👍 30 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Oh wow lol

09.03.2026 09:49 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Malorie Blackman on Noughts & Crosses at 25: ‘It’s even more relevant today’ Her YA classic was inspired by racism in 1990s Britain. A quarter of a century later, she talks about success, death threats and getting shoutouts from Tinie Tempah and Stormzy

“People were telling me, ‘Oh, no one wants to read about racism.’ And I thought – that’s interesting. You haven’t read it. You don’t know what it is. You’re already making assumptions.”

08.03.2026 21:57 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Top mensch Jonathan Bailey dropped a rather loaded ‘I started out in BALLET 😶’ in his whatsonstage award speech last night. Yes lad. St Jonathan patron saint of theatre.

09.03.2026 07:10 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I can walk into any cinema any time of the day or night and bag a ticket to Marty Supreme and watch the thing in a near deserted cinema. Meanwhile I had to log on every morning at 9am to hunt for returns to American Psycho at the Almeida to watch it in a sold-out auditorium. Which medium is dying?

08.03.2026 11:19 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

With the enshittification of everything technological that I once loved, the appeal of all things analog and offline is getting irresistible…

07.03.2026 17:57 👍 4829 🔁 582 💬 165 📌 0

Theatre, ballet, opera, they’re the industries of the future as they cannot be automated or replaced by AI. They will survive the way physical books have. They’re not the dying arts people have stopped caring about Timmy. You’ve confused your own popularity with your medium’s success.

08.03.2026 11:00 👍 24 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 2

It IS The Braids

08.03.2026 10:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I can’t be bothered to talk about Chalamet mostly because I find him to be a movie star of the influencer generation which offends my sensibilities, but what irks me most about that silly ballet/opera comment is it’s just…wrong. Cinema IS dying. While we spend more £££ than ever on live experiences.

08.03.2026 10:59 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1

I love (loved?) Pixar films and dreamed of working there - no more. What a hideous disgusting office culture and what a tragedy that so many brilliant, talented female animation creatives would be forced to go through this.

08.03.2026 09:50 👍 24 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 2

I’ve only just seen Szoboszlai’s new haircut. Oh my God.

08.03.2026 10:48 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 5 📌 0

This is just lovely

07.03.2026 15:51 👍 137 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 0

God the whole ‘Chelsea don’t score until seconds after Wrexham do’ is a depressing meta

07.03.2026 20:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So excited about Max Dowman. His ability to beat players and glide across the ground is special. He keeps the ball so close to his feet and under control at all times - even at pace.

Strange to see a 16-year-old who looks so physically ready for the highest level but he's absolutely there.

07.03.2026 14:26 👍 252 🔁 11 💬 12 📌 0
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UK arts must not be sacrificed for speculative AI gains, peers say Ministers urged to abandon plans to let tech firms use work of novelists, artists and writers without permission

'Barbara Keeley, a Labour peer, said the UK’s creative industries faced a “clear and present danger” from AI firms using their work without credit or payment.'

Footnote: the @writersguildgb.bsky.social is doing excellent work to fight this blatant theft of people's livelihoods. Join your union!

06.03.2026 11:33 👍 19 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0

Spurs fans really thought they were more than the Kane and Son team. The epitome of Notions.

05.03.2026 21:40 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Have to give it to Tottenham. With their North London neighbours single handedly ruining football, Spurs are playing a brand of football that is really entertaining everyone.

05.03.2026 21:19 👍 613 🔁 81 💬 14 📌 3

There wouldn’t even be a player worth taking off spurs if they went down.

05.03.2026 21:20 👍 82 🔁 2 💬 33 📌 1

What’s going to happen to the toilet bowl when spurs go down? Will Beyoncé still want to perform in a championship team’s stadium??

05.03.2026 21:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"I think they (Arsenal) will be the most controversial champions of the Premier League era" says Martin Samuel, chief football reporter of the Times, who is often found writing about how amazing Man City are as a club.

05.03.2026 16:41 👍 141 🔁 11 💬 18 📌 5

Couldn’t happen to a more likeable team 😆

05.03.2026 21:19 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0