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Soph Warnes

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Data & Graphics @ CNN. 📈👸 Priors: WSJ, ONS. Clearly a fan of acronyms. "Aggressive Door Opener". Fair Warning newsletter: https://fairwarning.substack.com

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Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · Dec 24

You come to me, on the day of my daughter's wedding...

Tuxedo cat ominously sat on a chair at a table

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Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 15h

I'm implementing quantum into my work in such a good way that you wouldn't even be able to tell

lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 19h

i am so ready for quantum to be the next dumb buzzword the tech industry forces everyone to pretend to care about. "how are you incorporating quantum into your daily work?" i'm not but it's so refreshing you asked me a new and different stupid question

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Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 15h

Hope you get a bed quickly and you feel better soon x

Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 16h

Your daily Kaspar Bastille

Tuxedo cat lying in loaf position, paws folded neatly in front of him

Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 19h

And of course this french advert for what appears to be a vacuum cleaner

Black and white advert for Electro Lux in french. Starts out UNE SAGE PRÉCAUTION

Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 19h

I also really like these four, from a calendar

Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 19h

Jaeger through the years (adverts)

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Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 19h

Fingers crossed! 🤞🏻

Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 20h

i fear we're heading for a fun period where countries try to copy America and quickly find out it can get away with stupid shit only because it is America, and the same rules do not apply to not-America

Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 1d

"Well" again but absolutely knackered

Lolsob

Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 1d

Grits make me so sad and angry. Sandgry if you will.

Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 1d

Dedicated a fair chunk of my day to watching and saving recipes on Facebook, knowing I am likely to never look at them again

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Michael Merrifield @astromikemerri.bsky.social · 1d

Milky Way above Belvoir by iPhone. 🔭

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Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 1d

Me: minding my business eating my dinner
Kaspar, the entire time:

Tuxedo cat sitting on the floor next to where the person behind the camera is sitting, staring in the direction of the person behind the camera

Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 2d

That would be better tbh

Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 2d

The minute I see anyone mention love language I'm out 🚩

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Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 2d

Also:
"Every girl on the apps has this thing about ‘love languages’ – it’s just gibberish, but if you don’t talk about it, people are like, ‘Oh you’re a red flag.’'

Are WOMEN responsible for this, because all I see is men saying their love language is physical touch, as if it's not clear that = sex

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Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 2d

So hard 2 use brain 😫

I wonder how much electricity it took to get to "it was lovely to meet you"

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 2d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 2d

Doomscrolling was making me anxious so I was looking at the discover tab to see what was going on elsewhere and I very much enjoyed reading the Jared Leto trending topic

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nude antifa goat @goat.sex · 2d

what do you mean the movie based on a niche sci fi property staring jared leto doing a cross promotion with tesla with ads featuring mr beast just isn't landing with anyone, at all

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Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 2d

All I can hear is west country

Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 2d

I love this

Sorry

Leona Scream @editor.scot · 2d

it is deeply unserious and has shifted my entire worldview of Elizabethean timez. You cannot tell me they were all codpiecin’ around sounding like this

on.soundcloud.com/MrhPE9jfzUS4...

Sonnet 116

Listen to Sonnet 116 by British Library Board #np on #SoundCloud

soundcloud.com

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Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 2d

Yes. I think two big triggers for me are stress and dehydration, and the treatments kinda solved both in a way. A few life things happened that caused stress so they came back but not as badly/frequently as before

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 2d

RIP

diane keaton in the final frame of the godfather

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Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 2d

I don't quite know where I got it from, just that it's taken a week off of me! I was masking until quite late, I think I stopped when I moved back a year ago

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Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 3d

I don't know if you can call something underrated under a photo of a clearly extremely busy street which implies it is very popular and thus, if anything, *rated*

Photo of crowded pedestrian area above the headline: "Underrated" UK town with "prettiest high street" is perfect for a day trip

Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 3d

I thought vegan referred to the contents of the thing, not the testing of it. I would have thought that would be more ethical, not vegan. But you learn something every day

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