Sophie Irwin @sophielouirwin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Saw this last night. SO good. And learnt a new expression from Jarvis in the Q&A afterwards: 'collective effervescence' - when performers + audience are in a state of kind of communal bliss during a show. Beautiful. 010
Reposted by Sophie Irwinebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Love the Irish🇮🇪 468266325730
Sophie Irwin @sophielouirwin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Oh god, there's too much news. Our little human brains aren't designed to absorb this constant onslaught of awfulness. Can we have a No News Day, where absolutely nothing happens? Except maybe a puppy rescue. And a certain loathsome orange person having a freak and fatal accident. That'd do nicely. 000
Reposted by Sophie IrwinMichelle @michellesea.bsky.social · 09/09/2026We defeated fascists once before, we will do it again even if that fascism is coming from the GOP headed by the elected President of the United States. 431647669
Sophie Irwin @sophielouirwin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Everything's terrible. So here's one of my favourite Private Eye cartoons. You're welcome. 064
Sophie Irwin @sophielouirwin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Yes, absolutely brilliant. Light lunch of half a dozen oysters and Guinness with champagne top up... total Man of the People, that Nigel. 000
Reposted by Sophie IrwinPharaoh Hatshepsut @netjeretkhau.bsky.social · 29/08/2026#SoSickOf the good ones leaving us 20382571133
Sophie Irwin @sophielouirwin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026The Unbearable Sadness of Being Some days just feel like a twist on a Kundera novel I wonder what tomorrow will bring? 010
Sophie Irwin @sophielouirwin.bsky.social · 08/08/2026They all know the climate crisis is real: deniers, fossil fuel lobbyists, Telegraph journalists (hello Allister "Hey, let's embrace the lovely Mediterranean lifestyle!" Heath), even Trump. The doublethink of those in positions of influence is leading us all to our doom. Unless there's a shift PDQ... 000
Sophie Irwin @sophielouirwin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Well-informed piece of climate optimism. Well worth a watch. 010
Sophie Irwin @sophielouirwin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026In the pub earlier. The guy in front ordered a pint of Guinness. Barmaid asked if he'd like to personalise it. Guy scanned the wotsit and when the pint arrived, by some kind of wizardry, the froth on top had formed itself into a photo of the guy. Mind actually blown. 000
Sophie Irwin @sophielouirwin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Amy Winehouse: she died 15 years ago today 😢. Oh, the great things she would have gone on to do, given the chance. Mural in Camden Town 010
Reposted by Sophie IrwinI did NOT vote for the rapist @sarahgies.bsky.social · 19/07/2026 700123572593
Sophie Irwin @sophielouirwin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026A propos previous post, Timothy Snyder's book is excellent. Concise, informative, practical. 000
Sophie Irwin @sophielouirwin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Happy Bastille Day Quite nice to pause and reflect that tyrannical regimes cannot and do not last forever. Just sayin' 000
Sophie Irwin @sophielouirwin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Honestly, some things just make you so proud to be British. Supreme. youtu.be/aGOmzQbRT_E?...youtu.beCount Binface: I'll take on Farage in by-election | BBC Radio 4 TodayYouTube video by BBC Politics 010
Sophie Irwin @sophielouirwin.bsky.social · 06/07/2026We've had climate warnings for decades, which have largely fallen on deaf ears as too theoretical. Humans are clever and resourceful when we choose to be, but only truly learn from lived experience. Well, we're living it now. Systemic change is needed now. Hello, people in power? Hello? 010
Sophie Irwin @sophielouirwin.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Been wondering what Major Jason Watson was arrested for, since nothing he said seemed to infringe on his First Amendment right to free speech. Turns out he was arrested for "Crowding, Obstructing and Incommoding". Ah, now it makes sense....lots of crowding, obstructing and incommoding going on there 020
Reposted by Sophie IrwinEcon Analytica @econanalytica.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Cartoon by @emilyscartoons.bsky.social 413829740
Sophie Irwin @sophielouirwin.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Today's Guardian: Dave Eggers punchily points out the glaring hole in the middle of AI to the kids in his creative writing workshops, "You're one of one. You're unprecedented in the entire line of human history. Only you can think of what you can think of. Why would you cede that to a machine?" 031
Sophie Irwin @sophielouirwin.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Yeah, thanks Nige, Boris, Dominic et al for putting a massive spanner in the works and screwing everything up for the rest of us. 010
Sophie Irwin @sophielouirwin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026The supermarket that sounds like Disco has a clever new ruse: keep the staffed checkouts but get rid of the staff! Cuts down on those pesky employee costs. And, by a happy coincidence, the CEO can award himself a jolly little pay rise. SO hard trying to scrape by on a mere £10 million a year. FFS 020
Reposted by Sophie IrwinJournal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Forget all the annoying stuff in the world for a few moments and enjoy the natural beauty of Brazil’s Seven-coloured Tanager (Tangara fastuosa) Photo: Luiz Cavalcanti Damasceno 289108091628
Sophie Irwin @sophielouirwin.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Aargh, might've overdone the coffee this morning... (This is a spider web after the spider has ingested caffeine. Apparently NASA scientists did this experiment... were they just really bored that day?) 021
Sophie Irwin @sophielouirwin.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Jeez, a bit traumatised by recent trip to well-known supermarket. What the hell is that? Isn't the world tough enough already without being confronted by some kind of Monster from the Deep when you're just popping in for some fennel and a nice packet of Hula Hoops? 020
Sophie Irwin @sophielouirwin.bsky.social · 13/05/2026So, the UK needs a new leader... Can we have a Mamdani please? Genuinely decent human being. Dynamic, with radical ideas for improving people's lives and not afraid to rock the boat to make things happen. Just the ticket! 000
Sophie Irwin @sophielouirwin.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Happy 100th birthday David Attenborough! Extraordinarily wonderful human being, obviously. And actual, proper influencer ❤️ 020
Sophie Irwin @sophielouirwin.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Yes! This has been needling me for ages. He doesn't quite get that government and business are Not The Same Thing. 081
Sophie Irwin @sophielouirwin.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Love how Mamdani refused to go to the Met Gala and focuses on things that actually matter to people instead. Actual star. 000
Reposted by Sophie Irwinderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Pierre Bourdieu once argued that the question of whether something is art isn't answered by the artist's intention or even the object itself. Instead, the quality of being "art" is conferred by a community — curators, dealers, auction houses, audiences, etc. 🧵 18079661723
Sophie Irwin @sophielouirwin.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Marina Hyde excels herself in yesterday's Guardian (from an already very high bar). 185
Sophie Irwin @sophielouirwin.bsky.social · 10/04/2026The madder the world gets, the more I turn to the wonder of birds. It somehow helps. The Tailorbird actually stitches its own home. Not sure if they knit themselves little jumpers in cold weather though. 021
Reposted by Sophie IrwinAdam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 07/04/2026The 25th Amendment exists for a reason. 51056171345
Sophie Irwin @sophielouirwin.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Hooray - it's puffins season again! This is what we all need. The world's coolest bird. (Opinions may vary, but I am in fact unquestionably correct on this.) 110
Sophie Irwin @sophielouirwin.bsky.social · 03/04/2026All very impressive and everything, but there are 1 or 2 problems on our one and only home planet that all that ingenuity and all those resources could usefully be applied to. 😠 000
Sophie Irwin @sophielouirwin.bsky.social · 28/03/2026We're on our way to London for this! May the far right crumble to dust in the face of reason, resistance and love. Screw them. 000