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Soph Warnes

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Data & Graphics @ CNN. 📈👸 Priors: WSJ, ONS. Clearly a fan of acronyms. "Aggressive Door Opener". Fair Warning newsletter: https://fairwarning.substack.com

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Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · Dec 24

You come to me, on the day of my daughter's wedding...

Tuxedo cat ominously sat on a chair at a table

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Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 7h

Grits make me so sad and angry. Sandgry if you will.

Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 7h

Dedicated a fair chunk of my day to watching and saving recipes on Facebook, knowing I am likely to never look at them again

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Michael Merrifield @astromikemerri.bsky.social · 10h

Milky Way above Belvoir by iPhone. 🔭

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Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 11h

Me: minding my business eating my dinner
Kaspar, the entire time:

Tuxedo cat sitting on the floor next to where the person behind the camera is sitting, staring in the direction of the person behind the camera

Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 21h

That would be better tbh

Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 21h

The minute I see anyone mention love language I'm out 🚩

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Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 21h

Also:
"Every girl on the apps has this thing about ‘love languages’ – it’s just gibberish, but if you don’t talk about it, people are like, ‘Oh you’re a red flag.’'

Are WOMEN responsible for this, because all I see is men saying their love language is physical touch, as if it's not clear that = sex

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Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 21h

So hard 2 use brain 😫

I wonder how much electricity it took to get to "it was lovely to meet you"

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 22h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 1d

Doomscrolling was making me anxious so I was looking at the discover tab to see what was going on elsewhere and I very much enjoyed reading the Jared Leto trending topic

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nude antifa goat @goat.sex · 1d

what do you mean the movie based on a niche sci fi property staring jared leto doing a cross promotion with tesla with ads featuring mr beast just isn't landing with anyone, at all

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Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 1d

All I can hear is west country

Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 1d

I love this

Sorry

Leona Scream @editor.scot · 1d

it is deeply unserious and has shifted my entire worldview of Elizabethean timez. You cannot tell me they were all codpiecin’ around sounding like this

on.soundcloud.com/MrhPE9jfzUS4...

Sonnet 116

Listen to Sonnet 116 by British Library Board #np on #SoundCloud

soundcloud.com

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Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. I think two big triggers for me are stress and dehydration, and the treatments kinda solved both in a way. A few life things happened that caused stress so they came back but not as badly/frequently as before

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 1d

RIP

diane keaton in the final frame of the godfather

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Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 1d

I don't quite know where I got it from, just that it's taken a week off of me! I was masking until quite late, I think I stopped when I moved back a year ago

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Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know if you can call something underrated under a photo of a clearly extremely busy street which implies it is very popular and thus, if anything, *rated*

Photo of crowded pedestrian area above the headline: "Underrated" UK town with "prettiest high street" is perfect for a day trip

Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 1d

I thought vegan referred to the contents of the thing, not the testing of it. I would have thought that would be more ethical, not vegan. But you learn something every day

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Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 1d

I googled and apparently some tampons are tested on animals, hence not vegan

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Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 1d

I have heard good things about microdosing but it's not legal in many places so understandably difficult to access. I wouldn't know where to start!

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Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 1d

The Body Keeps the Score is genuinely phenomenal and eye-opening, and I kinda feel like everyone should read it at least once in their life

Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 1d

Ha!! You know what, I hate myself for that 😆

Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 1d

Last year was a bit of a journey. I spent months obsessively watching documentaries, reading studies and books about trauma, psychedelics and ketamine before I contacted anyone about treatment. Here's a list of the books I read:

The Body Keeps the Score - Bessel van der Kolk
The Ketamine Papers - Phil Wolfson & Glenn Hartelius
Psychedelic Psychotherapy - R. Coleman
How To Change Your Mind - Michael Pollan
This Is Your Mind On Plants - Michael Pollan
The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide - James Fadiman
A Really Good Day - Ayelet Waldman

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Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 1d

If I had any influence or hope at all for progress in this area it would be that we legalise drugs that we *have already studied* and *already know* can help people. So many studies and breakthroughs happened *decades ago* but they were stopped, hidden and written off as part of the war on drugs.

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Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 1d

I realise some of you may have seen me post this multiple times but I do think from the responses I've had (mostly "wow I had no idea ketamine could be used for this!") that it's worth repromoting. Because I think people who are suffering need to know that there are other options and there is hope ❤️

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Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI, the most personal thing I've ever written, and it's on cnn dot com www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/h...

Can the party drug ketamine be a mental health breakthrough? It was for me | CNN

Known more for its use as party drug, ketamine can provide a lifeline for people experiencing distressing mental health symptoms.

www.cnn.com

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