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Sophie Lawson

@lawsonsv.bsky.social

4.6K followers 830 following 9.6K posts

Shitposter, persistent typoer, Microsoft Paint user, uncomfortably English | Former journalist once called “The Attenborough of women's football" https://ko-fi.com/lawsonsv

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Sophie Lawson @lawsonsv.bsky.social · Jul 18

Normal woso things

Evil Kermit popping up to say, “Cite Marx, Schopenhauer”

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Sophie Lawson @lawsonsv.bsky.social · 5h

*weiner

Sophie Lawson @lawsonsv.bsky.social · 5h

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Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 5d

good things still exist

hat that says: "cargo pants? uhhhh no buddy, car go beep beep, you feeling alright man?"

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Sophie Lawson @lawsonsv.bsky.social · 7h

Ah, the stern

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Sophie Lawson @lawsonsv.bsky.social · 7h

My whatever thought for the last few years is it’s a resurgence of yuppie greed mentality, people really seemed to embrace their inner prickishness over/as we came out of Covid lockdown

Sophie Lawson @lawsonsv.bsky.social · 7h

a corgi dog is walking down stairs in a room .

ALT: a corgi dog is walking down stairs in a room .

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Sophie Lawson @lawsonsv.bsky.social · 8h

My most pointless transfer opinion is I don't like when a player moves to a new team and she simply doesn't suit the kit/colours (looking at you, Carpenter) but the Angel City kit looks clean as hell on Chilufya

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Sophie Lawson @lawsonsv.bsky.social · 11h

a woman in a blue shirt is sitting on a bed with her shirt off .

ALT: a woman in a blue shirt is sitting on a bed with her shirt off .

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Sophie Lawson @lawsonsv.bsky.social · 13h

a man with a beard is drinking milk from a container .

ALT: a man with a beard is drinking milk from a container .

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Sophie Lawson @lawsonsv.bsky.social · 14h

If you've got some sour cream or neutral yoghurt in your fridge, you could always try throwing a dollop in to cool it down, or better yet, pair your dinner with a milkshake.

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 14h

If a news organisation is making -200% margin after five years, it is not a commercial operation and should be assumed to have a different purpose.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 16h

The channel lost £33 million to communicate its content to a large audience
www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/g...

GB News suffers huge loss despite doubling revenue and growing audience

The TV channel, whose well-known presenters include Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, fell to a pre-tax loss of £33.4m in the year to 31 May, 2024

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 14h

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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 1d

It’s quite a feat for Isabel Oakeshott to be the only white person in a London tube carriage given she lives in Dubai

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Sophie Lawson @lawsonsv.bsky.social · 14h

I found folk to talk to when I was awake and struggling with my mental health, rather than just having to sit or potter through the early hours, I could be, after a fashion, social. Twitter, and now Bluesky, became the extension of that.

Sophie Lawson @lawsonsv.bsky.social · 14h

So very much of my current education has come online, through following and befriending people who are a lot smarter than I am about a lot of different things.

Throw in the queer message board I started frequenting as a teen or the other boards I spent time on in my teens/early 20s & I found a home

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Sophie Lawson @lawsonsv.bsky.social · 14h

Are we including online forums as SM too...? As a perpetually online, it's hard to separate things out, Twitter was my first foray into woso which changed my entire life, I started writing again, I began to travel and learn about different countries/cultures/languages etc through the sport.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 16h

Senior British thought leader's brains cooked by 24/7 exposure to American far right social media

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 17h

'Remain campaigner now says Enoch was right'.

Morning.

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Sophie Lawson @lawsonsv.bsky.social · 19h

This is what Jack Johnson died for

Sophie Lawson @lawsonsv.bsky.social · 20h

Girls5eva S1E6 screencap, Gloria saying, "When I have shy bladder in a public bathroom," 1/2

"I channel a person named Urine X Thunder Force." 2/2

Sophie Lawson @lawsonsv.bsky.social · 21h

ooh, I think I've got it

Sophie Lawson @lawsonsv.bsky.social · 21h

en español

Sophie Lawson @lawsonsv.bsky.social · 21h

I still don’t know what to do with a Spanish tilde

Sophie Lawson @lawsonsv.bsky.social · 22h

because, of course, an umlauted a in Swedish is, to an English speaker, pronounced as an e.

Sophie Lawson @lawsonsv.bsky.social · 22h

That being said, as we all know "häcken" literally translates as "the hedge" - häck meaning hedge, with the -en suffix counting for the definite article in Swedish - it takes me back to one of my favourite shouts to hear at a German football game, "ecke in der hecke" ("corner in the hedge")

Sophie Lawson @lawsonsv.bsky.social · 22h

but, ironically, the use of "spil" for game in Danish takes you right into the Germanic overlap into Scandinavian languages far better as, of course, "spiel" is game in German (hence spielerinnen for players etc)