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Nicola Schofield

@nicschofie.bsky.social
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I try. Writer for theatre and TV. Producer at Unity House Productions. Teaching at Manchester Uni. Salfordian. Mum. City fan - since the 80s!

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Pet Shop Boys @handle.invalid · 10/10/2026
Thanks to all who came to the listening and in-conversation event at the Imperial War Museum Manchester on Thursday, and to everyone listening to the brand new album, “A man from the future”. 🎥 Lizzie Wood #amanfromthefuture
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Nicola Schofield @nicschofie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Photo of the character Frank Sidebottom in front of Man City’s old ground Maine Road, holding little Frank and leaning on a large inflatable banana.
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VictoriaQOTD @victoriaqotd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Babs. You look pensive." "No I'm not. I was just thinking."
Miss Babs looking pensive.
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Nicola Schofield @nicschofie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Fortunate to be at this this evening at IWM North, really beautiful piece of collaboration. Felt like it could become a ballet, takes you on a journey through spoken word, music, song and resonates with the times we are living through.
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Nicola Schofield @nicschofie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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‘Those memories are ours and no verdict changes that’: Manchester City fans’ views
While most supporters seem to want to get behind the club regardless, some fear the actions of the owners will divide the fanbase
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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VictoriaQOTD @victoriaqotd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Reincarnation! The producer set me off on it. She had one of those sessions where you lie back and turn into Florence Nightingale.
Kitty is sat on a nice sofa in her overcoat and slacks.
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Simon Hattenstone @shattenstone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is my piece on City.I told a friend it's like going through the stages of grief in reverse. For me, first it was acceptance (when I wrote this) and now it's anger with the club. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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We Manchester City fans fear relegation and losing trophies … but club are bang to rights
Despite the club’s shocking attempts to legally filibuster the charges out of existence for the past three years, we’ve rightfully failed
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Nicola Schofield @nicschofie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Neville shouldn’t commentate on United, Carragher shouldn’t Liverpool and so on. It’s rubbish for whoever they’re playing and neutrals.
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VictoriaQOTD @victoriaqotd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Sometimes that's God's way of telling you to think on and look sharp.
Mrs Overall smiles as she delivers a cup of coffee to Miss Babs on a tray.
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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️
Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.
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Nicola Schofield @nicschofie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
What music, what a legacy, what a way to live your life. I remember my friend’s mum renting us Straight Talk on video, loving the film little knowing everything else there was to discover. RIP Dolly Parton.
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Dolly Parton: Get Down Off The Cross, Honey
Alt: Dolly Parton: Get Down Off The Cross, Honey
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right
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VictoriaQOTD @victoriaqotd.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"I lost every hair on my head the day they bombed Eccles." "Blast?" "That's what I said."
Victoria Wood dressed as an old lady with a big woolly hat on her head.
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is hands down the best opinion piece you will read on the Arday case. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The takedown of Jason Arday has overjoyed the right, and must be a wake-up call for the left | Jason Okundaye
The Cambridge academic has rightly now resigned. But that won’t end the targeting of senior black figures or the lazy way institutions promote faux equality, says Guardian columnist Jason Okundaye
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Nicola Schofield @nicschofie.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
We’re minding a school pet tortoise over summer to help a friend. In the 7 days he’s been with us he has favoured red peppers, dandelions, exploring the garden, being so still I’ve feared the worst and having a good sleep. Meet Reg.
Reg eating a flower.Reg in his tank next to a model of the Dr Who tardis.
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Beverly @grammylovesyou.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 01/08/2026
wanted this to be a spoof so so bad, hate that it's real, hideously depressing
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VictoriaQOTD @victoriaqotd.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
"Has anyone ever proposed Pam?" "Oh yes, lots of people. A lot of widowers. A deckchair attendant. An anaesthetist . Someone who made lampshades out of thermal underwear."
Anne Reid doing some washing up.
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Will Harris @sandwichpick.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The perfect parody doesn't exis-
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Nicola Schofield @nicschofie.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
My first thought on hearing Eddie Howe is leaving Newcastle was 'What about Jason?'
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Howe Tindall
Alt: Eddie Howe and Jason Tindall in the dugout.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Someone in DC set up a “little free blockbuster” with DVDs inside instead of books lol
A picture of a box styled like a little free library but with blockbuster movies
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Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I wrote something about why AI is a big old wrong un a while ago - if you’re looking for the real thing, I am that thing. Here’s a link to that piece www.mathew-owen.co.uk/post/ai-ai-no
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AI, AI, NO.
Unaccustomed as I am to writing blog pieces about the fact AI is a wretched pain in the arse, here I am writing one.The subject of AI in the shape of ChatGTP or whatever tool people use is unfortunate...
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VictoriaQOTD @victoriaqotd.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
If I was Prime Minister - and thank goodness I'm not, because I've been the length and breadth of Downing Street and never spotted a decent wool shop.
Kitty getting hammered on sweet sherries.
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Nicola Schofield @nicschofie.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Really sad news at the loss of Kevin Keegan, for my generation it was that iconic heartfelt Newcastle rant that I so wish had come true. Lucky enough to have him as City Manager for a time & clearly a legend as a player.
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Kevin Keegan's Passionate 'Beat Them' Rant
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Nicola Schofield @nicschofie.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
My youngest said Robbie Williams looked like a Despicable Me villain.
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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
You're going to get left behind if you don't use Al." Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long- form, and books without needing Al summaries.
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Nicola Schofield @nicschofie.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Had a great time at this last night. Such good fun, smart and knowing without being smug or cynical. Brilliant cast and staging! #SomethingRotten
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Morning! Time for a deliciously waspish 1926 attack on the way writers are treated, by A A Milne. It's a broadside at the nascent BBC, but it's even more timely now it's "all just content". "Hush hush Whispers be stayed Alan A Milne Is throwing some shade." open.substack.com/pub/joelmorr...
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A.A. Milne on The Writer's Lot
An article by the creator of Winnie-The-Pooh, about working for free.
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Nicola Schofield @nicschofie.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
No thank you. Stop letting former politicians reinvent themselves on TV. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Sturgeon and Gove to team up for reality TV 'wargame'
The former first minister is to serve as deputy prime minister in a simulation of a Russian attack on the UK.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 17/06/2026
Does it change our perception of our society to know that a fair chunk of extremist behaviour is in fact a Russian sabotage campaign? www.ft.com/content/8fa3...
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Russian saboteurs hired third operative for UK attacks
Footage points to the role of an unidentified man spraying anti-Muslim graffiti in London
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
A) This a properly brilliant piece of investigative journalism by BBC & @hopenot.bsky.social Huge kudos to all involved for doing the job the UK police & CPS failed to do: naming the alleged spymaster & clearly showing Kremlin’s role. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Russia was behind arson attacks targeting PM, BBC reveals
Evidence shows Russians directing the plot and stoking tensions with fake far-right and Muslim groups.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 13/06/2026
Heidi Blake investigates Andrew Tate, drawing on thousands of private messages, sealed prosecutorial files, and court records—as well as scores of interviews with the Tates, their associates, and more than a dozen alleged victims. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/0__Nfi
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Andrew Tate’s Empire of Abuse
How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women.
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Genel Jumalon 🍉 @geneljumalon.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
People like Kane and many many others that do care about human art and the creative process have been a beacon of hope while trying to navigate making art in this current climate.
CBS MORNINGS ON YOUTUBE (JUNE 4, 2026)

Interviewer: I read that you do not want to embrace Al.

Kane: Absolutely not.

For me the whole point of doing what I'm doing-art is a way of processing life. I don't see the value in outsourcing any element of that.

When I'm looking at someone else's project, if I see an element of the environment [where] they use generative fill or whatever to change something about the scene, it just shuts off the part of my brain that wants to know more about that world. Because I would assume if they're willing to make an arbitrary choice there, they could make an arbitrary choice with literally anything.
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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
i genuinely find it disgusting that families are forced to take a moment off their infinite grief to ask that their tragedies don't get exploited. just unimaginable. cant think of it without getting angry
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Regulation of social media is increasingly a public safety issue.
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 02/06/2026
Henry Nowak’s father’s words outside court, who is probably the person we most need to hear from today.
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Jonathan Shipley @shipleywriter.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
“Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.” ― L. Frank Baum On this day, in 1900, one of America's great novels was first published. #BookSky
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Sophie Petzal @sonicscrewup.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I'm so fatigued by all of this. None of it feels good. None of it feels useful. Our politics has been completely subsumed by the post-Zuckerberg digital disinfo-commentariat sphere that it's tantamount to a spectator sport, designed for maximum clicks, not governance.
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Nicola Schofield @nicschofie.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
In a cost of living crisis I never know why people feign surprise at empty seats at any club. inews.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Man City’s empty seats are a wake-up call for English football
No true football fan should ever ridicule others for not attending matches
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Andromeda @ulveheksa.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Mysteries, Yes ~ Mary Oliver
Mysteries, Yes
By Mary Oliver

Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood.

How grass can be nourishing in the mouths of the lambs.
How rivers and stones are forever in allegiance with gravity
while we ourselves dream of rising.
How two hands touch and the bonds will never be broken.
How people come, from delight or the scars of damage,
to the comfort of a poem.
Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers.
Let me keep company always with those who say
"Look!" and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 12/04/2026
walking from my election party to the Tisza rally and we heard crowds cheering in the distance as Orban officially conceded 🥰
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12/04/2026
BREAKING: Hungary just saw a stunning political shakeup. Opposition leader Péter Magyar says Prime Minister Viktor Orbán personally called to congratulate him on his victory, marking the imminent end to Orbán’s long grip on power.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’ Director: “This is about how you lose your country — through small acts of complicity: when a government murders people on the streets, when oligarchs take over the media… we all face a moral choice. But even a nobody is more powerful than you think."
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
You know the best way to kill AI? Don't use it. Don't buy it. Don't share it. Don't give the people who use it your labour or your money.
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