Sophie Duncan
@sophieduncan.bsky.social
Writer and theatre type
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Hey all,
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
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December 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Hey all,
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
I think infant formula should be heavily subsidised, very cheap, widely advertised, the subject of supermarket offers and buyable via reward / loyalty points. I think the cost is the real scandal in infant feeding today.
December 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I think infant formula should be heavily subsidised, very cheap, widely advertised, the subject of supermarket offers and buyable via reward / loyalty points. I think the cost is the real scandal in infant feeding today.
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A man has become the 7th person to be left HIV-free after receiving a stem cell transplant to treat blood cancer. He’s also the second of the 7 who received stem cells that were not actually resistant to the virus, strengthening the case that HIV-resistant cells may not be necessary for an HIV cure.
Man unexpectedly cured of HIV after stem cell transplant
A handful of people with HIV have been cured after receiving HIV-resistant stem cells – but a man who received non-resistant stem cells is also now HIV-free
www.newscientist.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:19 PM
A man has become the 7th person to be left HIV-free after receiving a stem cell transplant to treat blood cancer. He’s also the second of the 7 who received stem cells that were not actually resistant to the virus, strengthening the case that HIV-resistant cells may not be necessary for an HIV cure.
I really think Michael Baum COULD HAVE TOLD HIM
December 2, 2025 at 9:12 AM
I really think Michael Baum COULD HAVE TOLD HIM
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Last Christmas Ich gave thee myne hearte
But the verye next daye ther came a wolf,
Wyth sinews of whispers - quiet as frost -
And the wolf stole myne hearte, fled
To a tower out of tyme biyonde all the stars.
Seek now myne hearte,
Return it within a yeare and a daye:
Thys ys thy queste
But the verye next daye ther came a wolf,
Wyth sinews of whispers - quiet as frost -
And the wolf stole myne hearte, fled
To a tower out of tyme biyonde all the stars.
Seek now myne hearte,
Return it within a yeare and a daye:
Thys ys thy queste
December 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Last Christmas Ich gave thee myne hearte
But the verye next daye ther came a wolf,
Wyth sinews of whispers - quiet as frost -
And the wolf stole myne hearte, fled
To a tower out of tyme biyonde all the stars.
Seek now myne hearte,
Return it within a yeare and a daye:
Thys ys thy queste
But the verye next daye ther came a wolf,
Wyth sinews of whispers - quiet as frost -
And the wolf stole myne hearte, fled
To a tower out of tyme biyonde all the stars.
Seek now myne hearte,
Return it within a yeare and a daye:
Thys ys thy queste
My absolute smooch of a baby remains infuriated by sleeves, but is a great fan of baubles.
December 1, 2025 at 10:07 PM
My absolute smooch of a baby remains infuriated by sleeves, but is a great fan of baubles.
“But he didn’t ACTUALLY write the plays, did he?”
What’s the worst question someone can ask after you tell them your profession? For linguists, it’s definitely “how many languages do you speak?”, but I’m curious what else is happening to the rest of y’all out there?!
December 1, 2025 at 9:22 PM
“But he didn’t ACTUALLY write the plays, did he?”
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'You will be haunted,' resumed the ghost, 'by eight spirits. Eight! You're not going to be able to draw any conclusions from it about how to live. It's too much. It's just going to be a right fucking nightmare.'
November 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
'You will be haunted,' resumed the ghost, 'by eight spirits. Eight! You're not going to be able to draw any conclusions from it about how to live. It's too much. It's just going to be a right fucking nightmare.'
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Am pretty sceptical of this but it would be an epic by-election
Left-wing Labour MP offers Burnham his seat to replace Starmer on.ft.com/4801Vg4
Left-wing Labour MP offers Burnham his seat to replace Starmer
Move by Clive Lewis reflects increasing discontent with prime minister’s leadership
on.ft.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Am pretty sceptical of this but it would be an epic by-election
Happy World Prematurity Day! 1 in 10 babies arrives prematurely. Usually we don’t know why. My beautiful daughter was born at 29 weeks and 5 days in March, by category 1 c section. The JR in Oxford saved her life and mine. She’s thriving. Ask me anything and donate to Borne or Bliss to help out.
November 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Happy World Prematurity Day! 1 in 10 babies arrives prematurely. Usually we don’t know why. My beautiful daughter was born at 29 weeks and 5 days in March, by category 1 c section. The JR in Oxford saved her life and mine. She’s thriving. Ask me anything and donate to Borne or Bliss to help out.
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What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
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Hobbes must’ve felt like a fucking god telling the illustrator about this insane cover concept
November 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Hobbes must’ve felt like a fucking god telling the illustrator about this insane cover concept
Ok, how does one get a ticket to the long-ago recording of the pro numbers? Pretending the Sunday night show is live is mad; but this pro number was obviously AGES ago. #Strictly
November 9, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Ok, how does one get a ticket to the long-ago recording of the pro numbers? Pretending the Sunday night show is live is mad; but this pro number was obviously AGES ago. #Strictly
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Directing to you all to this piece from 2021 in advance of the BBC and the Times maliciously raking up and rewriting painful history this week
www.theguardian.com/books/2021/a...
www.theguardian.com/books/2021/a...
Pointing out racism in books is not an ‘attack’ – it’s a call for industry reform | Monisha Rajesh
I was called aggressive for criticising passages in Kate Clanchy’s memoir. But the real problem lies deep in the overwhelmingly white world of publishing
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Directing to you all to this piece from 2021 in advance of the BBC and the Times maliciously raking up and rewriting painful history this week
www.theguardian.com/books/2021/a...
www.theguardian.com/books/2021/a...
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Some fool tried to tell me how steel wool is made, like in a factory or something. Everybody knows you get steel wool from these sheep
November 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Some fool tried to tell me how steel wool is made, like in a factory or something. Everybody knows you get steel wool from these sheep
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I'm thrilled to say that my collection "Dirt Rich" will be published by Carcanet in January. I've been working at it for almost 30 years: love poems, elegies, lamentations, jokes... The aim is "all killer no filler". Please buy it if you can. Here's Andrew Latimer's brilliant cover:
October 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I'm thrilled to say that my collection "Dirt Rich" will be published by Carcanet in January. I've been working at it for almost 30 years: love poems, elegies, lamentations, jokes... The aim is "all killer no filler". Please buy it if you can. Here's Andrew Latimer's brilliant cover:
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1993: Stephen Lawrence is murdered by racists.
1999: The MacPherson Inquiry recommends recording of non-crime hate incidents.
2005: After the Discrimination Law Review, non-crime hate incidents begin being recorded by UK police.
2025: Mainstream transphobia ends a harm reduction policy that worked.
1999: The MacPherson Inquiry recommends recording of non-crime hate incidents.
2005: After the Discrimination Law Review, non-crime hate incidents begin being recorded by UK police.
2025: Mainstream transphobia ends a harm reduction policy that worked.
Met Police says it will no longer investigate non-crime hate incidents
The move comes as an investigation into Father Ted creator Graham Linehan is dropped, after his arrest over a post on X.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 5:19 AM
1993: Stephen Lawrence is murdered by racists.
1999: The MacPherson Inquiry recommends recording of non-crime hate incidents.
2005: After the Discrimination Law Review, non-crime hate incidents begin being recorded by UK police.
2025: Mainstream transphobia ends a harm reduction policy that worked.
1999: The MacPherson Inquiry recommends recording of non-crime hate incidents.
2005: After the Discrimination Law Review, non-crime hate incidents begin being recorded by UK police.
2025: Mainstream transphobia ends a harm reduction policy that worked.
www.oxfordstudent.com/2025/10/11/p... I found this protest horrifying. The images were grotesque; the size of shopfronts. In Baby Loss Awareness week. Kids saw them (the images I mean aren’t in the article). The anti-choice protestors are the offshoot of a US group which uses Holocaust images too.
October 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
www.oxfordstudent.com/2025/10/11/p... I found this protest horrifying. The images were grotesque; the size of shopfronts. In Baby Loss Awareness week. Kids saw them (the images I mean aren’t in the article). The anti-choice protestors are the offshoot of a US group which uses Holocaust images too.
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www.broadwayworld.com/westend/arti... Hamlet National Theatre review.
Review: HAMLET, National Theatre
“Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.” Given the National Theatre’s history with one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays, a new production of Hamlet is a natural fit in Indhu Rubasingha...
www.broadwayworld.com
October 3, 2025 at 10:25 AM
www.broadwayworld.com/westend/arti... Hamlet National Theatre review.
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A glorious new Hamlet at the National. Never seen a more heartbreaking portrayal than Hiran Abeysekera’s. With Francesca Mills’ Ophelia at least as affecting. Whole cast impeccable & beautifully staged. Absolute privilege to be there tonight.
October 2, 2025 at 9:20 PM
A glorious new Hamlet at the National. Never seen a more heartbreaking portrayal than Hiran Abeysekera’s. With Francesca Mills’ Ophelia at least as affecting. Whole cast impeccable & beautifully staged. Absolute privilege to be there tonight.
We just had the last preview of Hamlet. The best show by the best writer with the best gang in the best place. Angel of a director, gorgeous design and music. Sensational cast. If you’re wise you’ll book soon.
Hello lovely new followers. Glad you’re here. On my way home to wife and sleepy baby post preview FOUR of Hamlet. Noting the show a different vibe when amongst normal audience in row E not the team in back row.
October 1, 2025 at 10:17 PM
We just had the last preview of Hamlet. The best show by the best writer with the best gang in the best place. Angel of a director, gorgeous design and music. Sensational cast. If you’re wise you’ll book soon.
Hello lovely new followers. Glad you’re here. On my way home to wife and sleepy baby post preview FOUR of Hamlet. Noting the show a different vibe when amongst normal audience in row E not the team in back row.
September 29, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Hello lovely new followers. Glad you’re here. On my way home to wife and sleepy baby post preview FOUR of Hamlet. Noting the show a different vibe when amongst normal audience in row E not the team in back row.
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