Sophie Petzal
@sonicscrewup.bsky.social
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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Sophie Petzal
@sonicscrewup.bsky.social
· Sep 23
"Gripping" Adrian Dunbar thriller that "wastes no time in ratcheting up the tension" gets new UK home
Something to tide you over until Line of Duty s7 gets announced...
www.digitalspy.com
News to me (I didn’t even go looking, google algorithmed me the story, incredible) but Blood is coming to Netflix if you never watched it and want to. www.digitalspy.com/tv/a67998771...
Incredible silent theatre in this cafe as gorgeous, shabby-chic woman with kooky sunglasses, a messy, woolly sweater and a mass of fabulous, natural curls, tries to catch the eye of a guy the table over. Tries to share a smile. He totally BLANKS her. She looks at me. I shake my head. Her face:
a man with long hair and a beard looks angry
ALT: a man with long hair and a beard looks angry
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Incredible silent theatre in this cafe as gorgeous, shabby-chic woman with kooky sunglasses, a messy, woolly sweater and a mass of fabulous, natural curls, tries to catch the eye of a guy the table over. Tries to share a smile. He totally BLANKS her. She looks at me. I shake my head. Her face:
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I guess it’s a compliment that the top story on BBC London’s TV/online output today is a direct lift of a month-old London Centric story? But once again the BBC is consistently the worst news outlet for actually remembering to credit others.
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I guess it’s a compliment that the top story on BBC London’s TV/online output today is a direct lift of a month-old London Centric story? But once again the BBC is consistently the worst news outlet for actually remembering to credit others.
Holy fucking shit Defunctland has released a 4 hour video
November 25, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Holy fucking shit Defunctland has released a 4 hour video
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Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.
NEWS: I spent the past 24 hours going through major MAGA accounts on Twitter, and a bombshell development has become clear: most of the right-wing ecosphere is being fed propaganda from foreign actors.
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
NEWS: Major MAGA Accounts on Twitter Exposed as Foreign Actors
A stunning development over the past 24 hours.
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.
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Johnson took four days off at key covid period
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Boris Johnson took four days off as NHS warned Covid could ‘overwhelm’ system
Files show then PM was walking dog, riding motorbike and hosting guests as pandemic planning stalled in ‘lost month’
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Johnson took four days off at key covid period
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Wild that we spend so much time having to confirm we’re human online when all signs point to the industry actually wanting “robots” to do all our tasks.
November 24, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Wild that we spend so much time having to confirm we’re human online when all signs point to the industry actually wanting “robots” to do all our tasks.
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The perfect NLD photo for Arsenal fans does not exis…
November 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM
The perfect NLD photo for Arsenal fans does not exis…
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apologies for the crude language but this is the most concise distillation of this phenomenon to me
November 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
apologies for the crude language but this is the most concise distillation of this phenomenon to me
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...the urge to believe "this potential employer/partner/entire society should accommodate my preferences no matter what they are". Sometimes they should! A lot of jobs or potential dates are bad! But it makes it far harder for us to spot when we're the ones who need to flex.
November 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
...the urge to believe "this potential employer/partner/entire society should accommodate my preferences no matter what they are". Sometimes they should! A lot of jobs or potential dates are bad! But it makes it far harder for us to spot when we're the ones who need to flex.
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I sometimes think there's something about the internet, and the way it helps you locate a bunch of people who'll validate any ludicrous shit you happen to think or do, that lies at the root of most of these pathologies. Like, it leads to conspiracism and naziism but also...
November 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I sometimes think there's something about the internet, and the way it helps you locate a bunch of people who'll validate any ludicrous shit you happen to think or do, that lies at the root of most of these pathologies. Like, it leads to conspiracism and naziism but also...
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It looks like Spurs are about to break another highly rated manager. Some things never change.
November 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
It looks like Spurs are about to break another highly rated manager. Some things never change.
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“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago
November 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago
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Every time Spurs get a new manager I think "Ok, this one could be the one" and then they just burn their career to the ground and I love it.
Every single time.
Every single time.
November 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Every time Spurs get a new manager I think "Ok, this one could be the one" and then they just burn their career to the ground and I love it.
Every single time.
Every single time.
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Archetypal example is “capitalism ground me down so I quit my job and set up a small business so that I’m my own boss”. You didn’t dislike capitalism! You disliked authority!
November 24, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Archetypal example is “capitalism ground me down so I quit my job and set up a small business so that I’m my own boss”. You didn’t dislike capitalism! You disliked authority!
I’m clearly biased but with Amy Lawrence, James McNichols and Art de Roche we clearly have the best squad of writers at the Athletic too.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/683...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/683...
Eberechi Eze was waiting for a magic moment at Arsenal – against Spurs, he got three
On a weekend in which Manchester City lost — and Liverpool's vulnerabilities were once again made plain — Arsenal capitalised in style
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:28 AM
I’m clearly biased but with Amy Lawrence, James McNichols and Art de Roche we clearly have the best squad of writers at the Athletic too.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/683...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/683...
Don’t seek it out. Don’t curiosity-read it. I saw it by accident through an ad, unbelievably. Everyone has to get better at this. Everyone has to understand what is happening and that the only way to kill it is to ignore it into poverty.
I’m not going to share it because everything is just enragement farming but I’ve just had the misfortune of seeing that appalling, openly homophobic (and at times, racist???) hit piece on Tom Daley in the @thespectator1828.bsky.social by Michael Henderson and these cunts are getting worse, right?
November 24, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Don’t seek it out. Don’t curiosity-read it. I saw it by accident through an ad, unbelievably. Everyone has to get better at this. Everyone has to understand what is happening and that the only way to kill it is to ignore it into poverty.
I’m not going to share it because everything is just enragement farming but I’ve just had the misfortune of seeing that appalling, openly homophobic (and at times, racist???) hit piece on Tom Daley in the @thespectator1828.bsky.social by Michael Henderson and these cunts are getting worse, right?
November 24, 2025 at 8:04 AM
I’m not going to share it because everything is just enragement farming but I’ve just had the misfortune of seeing that appalling, openly homophobic (and at times, racist???) hit piece on Tom Daley in the @thespectator1828.bsky.social by Michael Henderson and these cunts are getting worse, right?
I didn’t realise until MOTD that Eze’s third goal celebration was to ‘threaten’ to take his shirt off and Rice ran over like ‘DON’T!!’ 🤣
November 24, 2025 at 7:39 AM
I didn’t realise until MOTD that Eze’s third goal celebration was to ‘threaten’ to take his shirt off and Rice ran over like ‘DON’T!!’ 🤣
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How much does that ‘free’ phone cost? blog.andrewyang.com/p/the-upgrad...
The Upgrade Cycle
Hello, I hope the fall is going well for you.
blog.andrewyang.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:08 PM
How much does that ‘free’ phone cost? blog.andrewyang.com/p/the-upgrad...
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Exactly the same as the Iraq Inquiry though: straight in the bin and never spoken of again, not least because none of it would’ve happened this way without the close, hand-in-glove cooperation of the British press. Don’t want to look to hard at that stuff.
November 23, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Exactly the same as the Iraq Inquiry though: straight in the bin and never spoken of again, not least because none of it would’ve happened this way without the close, hand-in-glove cooperation of the British press. Don’t want to look to hard at that stuff.
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Many of you have been hoodwinked or bamboozled into thinking that tax is bad or evil. It’s literally the dues we pay for living in this big clubhouse we call civilization
November 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Many of you have been hoodwinked or bamboozled into thinking that tax is bad or evil. It’s literally the dues we pay for living in this big clubhouse we call civilization
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Needs Merino but otherwise 9/10
In tifo terms, this is Forest going from the cusp of the relegation zone to UCL dreaming
November 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Needs Merino but otherwise 9/10
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Absolutely trademark case of starting a fight because you’ve offered nothing in football terms.
November 23, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Absolutely trademark case of starting a fight because you’ve offered nothing in football terms.
We’ve just had ‘pathetic German’ from a spurs fan on talksport. Incredible. #spursonality
November 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM
We’ve just had ‘pathetic German’ from a spurs fan on talksport. Incredible. #spursonality