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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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Whenever I watch Bridgerton I think ‘if they gave these guys swords and some kind of apocalyptic war this would be an amazing Fire Emblem show’ 🤣

01.03.2026 19:17 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Yeah tbh I meant this glibly 🤣 but thought if I wrote ‘lol’ it would seem insensitive so I erred on the side of giving the guy way too much credit. But I’d absolutely be anticipating that!

01.03.2026 18:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I wonder if Trump’s meta game here is to invite endless mass shootings and terror attacks at the World Cup. I would definitely not be buying a ticket.

01.03.2026 18:51 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

Do you like set-pieces? Because the Premier League has them.

01.03.2026 18:09 — 👍 79    🔁 7    💬 8    📌 0

liam rosenior is going to be “even more angry” when someone tells him the offside rules #thefootball

01.03.2026 18:28 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Need the same enthusiasm to talk about Raya’s height today, when his agility from being a little smaller saved us multiple times.

01.03.2026 18:34 — 👍 74    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

If Arsenal do win the Premier League this season, they'll need to have the parade in the Cardiac Care unit because that's where everyone will be.

01.03.2026 18:28 — 👍 972    🔁 141    💬 62    📌 18

Arsenal want me to die. I wish we could just put those games to bed nice and early.

01.03.2026 18:32 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Own goal set piece. As usual, Arsenal beat themselves.

01.03.2026 17:17 — 👍 54    🔁 7    💬 6    📌 0

That corner was 100% going on. 46th minute? Arsenal classic.

01.03.2026 17:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think thats probably what Im most annoyed about, them getting that goal stabilizes them mentally JUST as they were teetering into ”so mad that they gift you a goal” terrority.

01.03.2026 17:21 — 👍 95    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 0

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

28.02.2026 12:42 — 👍 15848    🔁 4905    💬 124    📌 100

I get that it wasn't everyone at Elland Road but the round of boo's and singing "what the fucking hell was that" to a break in play to allow muslim players to break their fast was fucking embarrassing, guys.

28.02.2026 17:45 — 👍 398    🔁 26    💬 1    📌 5
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Labour must stop channelling Reform and unite with progressives. That’s the lesson from Gorton and Denton | Sadiq Khan The threat to the party in some parts of our country is now existential. But we can progress, as we have in London, by being bold and strong in our core beliefs, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

A strong intervention from Sadiq Khan. He doesn’t call for the ousting of the PM; instead for a change of course. But Starmer has gone so far down the rabbit hole now that it’s impossible to imagine him speaking simple truths like these on Trump, Brexit or Gaza. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

01.03.2026 07:53 — 👍 233    🔁 51    💬 12    📌 0

every one of those sequels have top-tier actors, FX artists, production designers, etc., etc. but the screenplays are always bleah. how does that happen?

01.03.2026 05:33 — 👍 41    🔁 2    💬 10    📌 1

imagine a Jurassic Park/World sequel that has a really good screenplay. imagine it!

01.03.2026 05:31 — 👍 128    🔁 11    💬 18    📌 1

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

01.03.2026 03:58 — 👍 16456    🔁 3092    💬 358    📌 159
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How US tech giants supplied Israel with AI models, raising questions about tech's role in warfare U.S. tech giants have quietly empowered Israel to track and kill many more alleged militants more quickly in Gaza and Lebanon through a sharp spike in artificial intelligence and computing services.

I would like to remind people that AI has already been used to kill people

OpenAI and Microsoft supplied Israel with AI models to track and kill people in Gaza which led to increased civilian deaths

apnews.com/article/isra...

28.02.2026 14:26 — 👍 1334    🔁 645    💬 22    📌 19

Berlin taking in a war criminal I see

01.03.2026 07:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Chuck Schumer: ‘The American People Deserve A President Who Can More Credibly Justify War With Iran’ WASHINGTON—In a pointed critique of President Trump’s foreign policy leadership, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer stated to members of the press Thursday that “the American people deserve a presid...

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28.02.2026 17:21 — 👍 6623    🔁 1494    💬 60    📌 77

Know who really needs regime change?

The United States.

That’s who.

28.02.2026 17:12 — 👍 3384    🔁 592    💬 79    📌 24

I know I keep pointing this out but: if you want immigrants to contribute to British society, integrate across community lines, become engaged civic actors, you actually *want* them to get citizenship, and as soon as possible in fact!

28.02.2026 15:40 — 👍 461    🔁 112    💬 9    📌 7

But now they want me to believe the scientist is weeping and everyone is ‘whooping’ at how magical these things are after the text of the movie has spent the first hour framing them as horrifying monsters looool

28.02.2026 21:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Then the ridiculous setup we have to buy that people are ‘bored of dinosaurs.’

Also trying to get us to feel ‘wonder’ when they bring the JP music in except unlike in the real JP this lot have been running & firing rockets at dinosaurs who are more like Godzilla monsters! Not ‘majestic beasts!’

28.02.2026 21:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Except with an inexplicably enormous cast. You’ve got the three leads, then all these pointless red shirts obviously there to just die, then an entire Swiss family Robinson so they can get the ‘kids’. Why not just have a kid on a canoe!? It’s two movies!

28.02.2026 21:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

28.02.2026 15:50 — 👍 13435    🔁 3251    💬 111    📌 68

Thoughts and prayers with the cast of Love Island and Salt Bae

28.02.2026 19:06 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Aston Villa... Welcome to the Being Shit at Wolves Party

27.02.2026 22:04 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

America needs regime change.

28.02.2026 11:47 — 👍 3832    🔁 629    💬 122    📌 34

Imagine taking a selfie with salt bae then getting bombed by Iran what a world

28.02.2026 17:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0