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Sophie Duncan @sophieduncan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The reasons might be medical or they might be the mother and the family’s preference and either is valid! There is definitely anti-BF prejudice in wider society but in British mum culture today, not being guilt-ridden about formula/smug about successful BFing is ANATHEMA.

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Russty Russ @russtyruss.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

From w/c 20 September 1986 : From the Will to the World to the cover of the Radio Times. #80s

The great adventure that transformed the island speech of Shakespeare into the world English of 1,000 million - thats 'The Story of English"

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Sandy Nelson @buckeejit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ed Sheeran has pulled out of his tour, triggering a by-election

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Sophie Duncan @sophieduncan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Regretting that modern editions of Paddington have updated “Bears is sixpence. Sticky bears is ninepence”. “Bears is extra. Sticky bears is twice as much” is very MEH. How is my baby to learn about florins, shillings, etc etc

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Sophie Duncan @sophieduncan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Mine is the page with the ghost photos, in case anyone’s —

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I just think that risking your life at a moment's notice to save people you've never met in exchange for no money is a better expression of patriotism than dressing up like a Poundshop paramilitary and intimidating families with kids trying to get onto a ferry.

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Sophie Duncan @sophieduncan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Going to end today having a glamorous time helping to launch the NT’s 2027 season at a party. Started today being thrown up on by baby. Only a tiny bit (teething) but MY how it travels.

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Sophie Duncan @sophieduncan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Let it be known that yesterday the baby got her first SHOES. They are dear little SHOES. She was not at all sure about SHOES. She did however like the long blonde hair and sparkly bracelet of the teenager measuring her, which helped.

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Sophie Duncan @sophieduncan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Hotel I’m in seems to be the chosen/conference hotel for a huge group of very cheerful middle-aged/elderly rockers in black band t shirts. They’re having a lovely time and seem v friendly and good fun. I am delighted by them. Hurrah subcultures.

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Sophie Duncan @sophieduncan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

My only parenting hack is to compile a zip pouch of safe items the baby believes to be contraband, and deploy it in a manner which lets the baby believe she is opening it in a feat of monumental cunning.

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Sophie Duncan @sophieduncan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Feel like I am one (1) major emotion away from purchasing myself a September pencil case.

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Alistair King @alistairking.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Struggling to work out why Jenrick would single out these three Commonwealth countries rather than, say, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, whose citizens have exactly the same rights. It’s a head-scratcher.

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Sophie Duncan @sophieduncan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Absolutely cannot fathom people saying nice things about Dolly Parton with the addition that they didn’t much care for her music. Not because it’s rude but because — JOLENE??? 9 TO 5?? HERE YOU COME AGAIN? I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU? It’s like saying you’ve never much cared for colours

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KJ Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

there will be many ways to celebrate dolly parton and the one I want to point out is that she was a friend of Miss Piggy

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Sophie Duncan @sophieduncan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The @channel4news.bsky.social obituary package on Dolly Parton called her “apolitical” which is offensive nonsense. Dolly and the gays. Dolly and child literacy. Dolly and class mobility. Dolly and vaccinations. Those are all political positions, especially in her lifetime in America.

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Sophie Duncan @sophieduncan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This was my first phone. You could send picture messages ie patterns made of pixels. About 64 pixels. To anyone else with a Philips Savvy mobile. Texts cost 10p. I was with Orange which I thought was VERY cool. I got it for my thirteenth birthday.

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I can't believe the amount of recent history revisionism in the UK. Response to Polish immigration was so severe that it successfully led to Brexit. BREXIT. And tanked British economy. This happened last decade, you can just Google it.

Post on X Remember in early 2000s thousands of Polish men immigrated over to UK cause their economy crashed but no one said fuck all cause they came to work, minded their own buisness an left our kids alone.....

Response Most Poles who emigrated to the UK in the early 2000s remember something completely different and photo of xenophobic graffiti

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Oh and how could we forget fellow Tory recycled rubbish - Nadhim Zahawi - who claimed £6000 on expenses for heating his stables or another - Lee Anderson - who claimed £220,000 in business expenses for 2020/21 - just after telling parliament he thought food bank users couldn’t budget/cook properly.

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Columnist Class hounding a Black academic for fun, over claims in his memoir that rudimentary research show to be true, doubling down because they've got a good anti "woke" narrative going now & falling over each other to defend the sweaty little white supremacist whose racist blog kicked it off

Palin in Death of Stalin, saying 'Rod Liddle would be loving this' instead of 'Stalin would be loving this'

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 19/08/2026

This stopped me in my tracks. An independent study by @qmul.bsky.social has found that after ULEZ was introduced, children’s lungs grew faster in Central London and have now caught up with children outside of the capital. Incredible.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 17/08/2026

kathleen stock: being neurodivergent should be a barrier to entering academia manchester museum: would you like to see one of our snail collections? :) our scientists have more than one :))

Plaque at Manchester Museum:

EXPLORING VARIATION
The Museum has several collections of snails put together by scientists who studied inheritance and evolution. Arthur Stelfox (1883-1972) was interested in the ways that different shell patterns and colours are inherited. He bred snails of different varieties with one another over a period of sixty years. Collections like this are still used by scientists, who are trying to answer new questions.

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Sophie Duncan @sophieduncan.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Thrilled to announce that I told my wife the toaster was definitely not working and then she turned it on and it was

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A brief note for Nadhim Zahawi.

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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I've slept terribly and I am going to log off again, but people's desire to raze the press (absolutely understandably) goes against all the guidelines on how we are meant to deal with and talk about this sort of (suspected) death before things are confirmed.

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Sophie Duncan @sophieduncan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The baby’s new trick is to say all her existing words but at a VERY LOUD VOLUME! With urgency! Escalating! Wide eyes!!

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Sophie Duncan @sophieduncan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The only AI I will ever respect is one where I describe in reasonable lay language what I want to print and then the printer does it without arguing, jamming, or sliding the words off the paper at a smudgy angle

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Sophie Duncan @sophieduncan.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

When will it rain. Like is there an official line on when the rains will return. Don’t care whether it’s Met Office or a Baba Yaga chatbot, just, can anyone tell me when the rain, &c

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I've read this list three or four times and I really can't find the thing I'm supposed to be outraged by. One cereal bowl?! Stainless steel cutlery?! Two pillows?! Where are we putting them, the Ritz?!

Everything asylum seekers in Thetford were 'given for free'

A jaw-dropping list of items are being provided to asylum seekers housed in the Norfolk town of Thetford.

1x Duvet (S)
1x 1pc 9 oz mug
2x Pillow
1x 1pc 8 oz glass tumbler
2x Face cloth
1x 1pc stainless steel dinner knife
2x Hand towel
1x 1pc stainless steel dinner fork
2x Bath towel
1x 1pc stainless steel dessert spoon
2x Duvet cover (S)
1x 1pc stainless steel tea spoon
2x Pillowcase
1x 20cm non-stick frying pan
2x Fitted sheet (S)
1x 16cm non-stick saucepan
1x 1pc 10.5" dinner plate
1x Tea towel
1x 1pc 7.5" side plate
1x Toilet roll
1x 1pc 5.25" cereal bowl

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Sophie Duncan @sophieduncan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This is a beautiful not-tweet and I say this despite trying to commute today

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Sophie Duncan @sophieduncan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I remember an older academic colleague warning me off motherhood “every child you have means a book you won’t write”. Which is not the spirit of this tweet at all but I only now recognise what an awful thing it was to say to me.

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Sophie Duncan @sophieduncan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Thought of starting an occasional thread recommending books to give to kids in LGBTQ families.

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Sophie Duncan @sophieduncan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This is so sad. Can attest to the olfactory contributions. General Foods employed so many people over generations, including my mother who benefitted from their intensive secretarial course in the late 1960s before going into theatre.

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Mitch Benn @mitchbenn.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

PLEASE SHARE THIS To the young person (longish dark hair, patterned waistcoat, chinos & DM boots) who left this scroll of papers on the Piccadilly Line train at South Kensington station at about 4.25pm today, I’ve handed it to the station staff at Hammersmith.

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Sophie Duncan @sophieduncan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I got to harvest scabious and dyer’s cosmos at work today, for use in textile dyes for NT costumes! It was ludicrously enjoyable. Essentially felt like a small child making Potions.

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Sophie Duncan @sophieduncan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I had flu for a week and then got a hideous cold the first day I ventured out again. I now can’t really remember a time before lurgy and want to weep. I also want it to RAIN.

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The Man in the High Castle destroyed every swastika prop after filming, so nothing could end up as a souvenir or extremist symbol.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 14/07/2026

Nice one Spain, the BBC's already cancelled the planned Agincourt recreation intro for Sunday night, the archers are crying, hope you're happy.

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Sophie Duncan @sophieduncan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Currently putting the holt in Northolt will I ever take a train that doesn’t arse up my day fundamentally, if I wanted to be the wrong temperature and motionless I’d be on the oxford tube, god Marylebone you had INCHED ahead in the least bad way to London stakes

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Sophie Duncan @sophieduncan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Good things: starting rehearsals for a new production today, coffee hot instead of iced. Bad things: leaving baby when baby delectable in summer PJs and said very crisp NO last night.

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Sophie Duncan @sophieduncan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Two days this week spent with two fantastic people in a room talking about one of my favourite Shakespeare plays. And occasionally doing so while holding bits of our clothing over the elderly air conditioning. In between: Tom Stoppard’s memorial celebration, watching an astonishing company.

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Sophie Duncan @sophieduncan.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

“principal adversaire” has destroyed me, God bless French, a thrill not experienced since the days of”d’un cochon mort”

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Sophie Duncan @sophieduncan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The Didcot-Reading line has such beautiful views. The villages are like rings on a tree. Yes I do have an iced coffee why do you ask

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

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Sophie Duncan @sophieduncan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

professionally feel very Christmas Eve which is an odd simile given that it’s vilely hot outside

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Sophie Duncan @sophieduncan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

the baby is very amused by the word “rhinoceros” and the phrase “good evening”.

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