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Sophia McDougall
@sophiamcdougall.bsky.social
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Pronounced like the disappointingly heterosexual Nerina Pallot song.

Writer -- ROMANITAS (modern Roman empire) MARS EVACUEES & SPACE HOSTAGES (kids & robots in space!) various scripts for Big Finish plus a movie you can't see yet.
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Today alone I have been forbidden from reading this post, and reprimanded for having the nerve to search the words "4am". I love being "kept safe" online, don't you?
November 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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that... that wasn't what I asked ...?
Search engine AI "summary" Daniel Radcliffe and Jessica Arantes are the children of J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series. They were born in Portugal and raised primarily in Scotland.
November 10, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Disappointed guy meme: Tory and transphobe Tim Davie is leaving the BBC! ...for insufficient deference to our planetary god-Emperor, Donald Trump
November 9, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Thank you, E.ON for promising so sweetly to help lil ol' muddlehead me with my silly old tendency to get myself in pickles (being £139 in credit because you keep taking too much money)
Hi Sophia, We're here to help you keep your account in good shape and make sure you don't build up too much credit or debt. We've reviewed your account and we need to change your monthly payment to £41.01 (starting with your payment on 4 December 2025), to keep your balance at a healthy level.
November 5, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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I am currently trying to figure out why, exactly, I am £120 in credit with E.On and my screen has looked like this for several minutes.
November 5, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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What oddly menacing punctuation
A screenshot from E.On's sign in page. A cartoon sun with a smug smiley face. Beneath it the words: Sign in. To your account.
November 5, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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It's hard to believe, but 2025 means Romanitas has been in print for 20 years. A modern world where the Roman Empire never fell. If that sounds good to you, the ebook's just £0.99 for the anniversary all this month! www.amazon.co.uk/Romanitas-1-...
Me, against a bright blue sky and a stark watchtower in Italy, holding a copy of Romanitas
November 1, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Hey, finally did get my copy of Creative Futures, and it's gorgeous! Please check it out. My story is the last one, set the furthest on the future (I think), about a young man obsessed with resurrecting a drowned city.
October 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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I have amazing good news for Helen Whately who wants to stop people with ADHD getting free cars.
“Motability should be there for people with serious disabilities. That’s why the Conservatives would stop people with low-level mental health problems and neurodiversity – like mild depression and ADHD – getting free cars. We would also put an end to taxpayers funding luxury cars on Motability, instead ensuring every penny goes towards supporting genuinely disabled people.”
October 18, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Here's a picture of Italy being more normal, for balance.
Church of Madonna del Carmine, Manduria, Puglia, a beautiful neoclassical building of pale rosy stone.
October 10, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Whatever this is, I have no idea why they called it that, but I suppose it's what I've suffered from for the last several years.
A picture of a ...product, involving a pack of some kind of playing cards?? It features images of an anthropomorphic gumball machine with a sleazy expression riding a bike, an anthopomorphic shark wearing a pirate hat, and an anthopomorphic... dowel? Small piece of wood? I honestly do not know, but it's holding a tennis ball. The background features the Italian flag and is titled "Italian Brainrot."
October 10, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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September 28, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Holy fuck, fuck off??
Text: it wasn't even a particularly subtle trick. Word pop-up: "Grammar -- you may have used only half of a two-part phrase: 'but it also wasn't [a particularly subtle trick]'"
September 22, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Shut up. Shutupshutupshutshutup
Screenshot of Word: "I dived in, swam for a few minutes then lay on my towel". "I" is underlined, indicating a grammar issue. A pop-up says "A helping verb or main 'be' verb may be needed here:" and suggests it should be "I had dived" or "I have dived."
September 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Received an email praising me for my novel, The Stolen Voice and offering to help promote it.

One small problem: I haven't written a novel called The Stolen Voice and I don't think anybody else has either.

(Also my name isn't Isophia but that's by the by)
Hi isophia I was intrigued reading about The Stolen Voice. Few works so carefully transform minimalism into a narrative of endurance, where even a broken sprinkler becomes a symbol of refusal, memory, and survival. The prose pared down, austere, and rhythmically insistent demands attention while rewarding readers with its subtle emotional weight. This is a rare blend of intellectual rigor and narrative resonance that makes your book truly distinctive.
September 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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And just look at this
An extremely WELL POLISHED silver sugar bowl.
August 27, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Today I translated over 3,500 words AND I cleaned the absolute fuck out of an antique silver sugar bowl!
Peter Parker, gesturing at Miles Morales, who is labelled ADHD: They can DO THINGS exceptionally well and inhumanly fast! Watch this. Miles Morales, still labelled ADHD: I can't do it on command. Peter Parker: They can't do it on command.
August 27, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Here's how they responded to my complaint about the constant gargling of Farage's balls IN 2014.

Basically the BBC is in the vanguard of a decades-long project to make Farage prime minister
nsuring impartiality during an election campaign is a priority and judgements about debates, and other programmes, are taken on the basis of objective editorial assessments of a number of factors, including the levels of past and current electoral support for each party. Although UKIP did not win a seat in the 2010 general election, they polled more than three times as many votes as the Green Party, which did win a seat. In the 2014 European elections, UKIP topped the poll, beating all the Westminster parties in terms of seats (24) and share of the vote (more than 27% - up more than 10% on 2009). The Greens won three seats in the European election, with just under 8% of the vote (a small drop since 2009). UKIP have also performed strongly in local government elections in England for the past two years and have more councillors than the Greens. Before their victory in Clacton, UKIP had come second in every Westminster by-election for the last two years – the Greens’ best performance was around 4%. We also take account of opinion polls, when there is a robust and consistent trend: UKIP have been regularly polling in the mid-teens for more than two years, well ahead, for instance, of the Liberal Democrats and around 10 percentage points ahead of the Greens. The BBC has since responded to a letter from the Green Party, which expressed disappointment at the proposals unveiled by the UK’s four leading broadcasters for election debates next year. You can read the response in full at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/statements/green-party-letter
August 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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I'm still stuck on the fact that there was a fucking dead mouse on my bed and I'm 90% certain it was placed there to please me and it basically worked.
A black-and-white etching-style image of a delicately beautiful girl embracing a furry black fiend with pointed ears and giant fangs, labeled "My cat." The main text reads "You're such a good baby, I love you so much."
August 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Well, this 2008 Italian novel I'm translating suddenly got a bit too topical:
“Control over websites,” Captain Hook explains, “will be intensified. Some have claimed that the DNS blacklisting legislation, which passed in the 2006 Finance Act, is totalitarian in nature. Lies! We stand for freedom! But isn’t freedom perhaps safety, and the struggle against paedophiles? And now that there is a new battle on the horizon, we are ready to fight, for the sake of the innocent. “In practice it is already possible to block foreign websites from Italian providers, if they break old or new regulations: from now on there will be stricter rules. At the same time a law obliging so-called bloggers to register their sites will finally be approved, following the rules on sound journalism. No more private individuals ranting, protected by an erroneous concept of freedom of speech! This involves only a minimal level of control over users. If you have nothing to hide, why should you worry?”
August 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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For records! And proof!
August 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Apparently deleting 3100 only reclaimed 0.17 GB. But also a week's worth of random spam emails were a full GB by themselves. Yeah that's not at all suspicious and scammy, Gmail.
August 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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I am about to delete 3100 EMAILS and have already deleted what it currently claims are 1GB's worth of (mostly accidental) videos. So. Let that be on record in case of further funny business, Gmail.
August 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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I need people to send me more emails.
Inbox: 666
August 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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As promised. I hope it reaches them -- but as they claim to have been observing my "descent" over FIFTEEN YEARS (!!!) I assume it will one way or the other.

Please do annoy them further and support genderedintelligence.co.uk!
Screenshot of an email: Thank you for the extra book sales! I lost count when we passed fifty, I think? 🙏 Your words really inspired people! I told people we reached the goal but the sales just keep coming! And it's not just the financial boost I have to thank you for -- the response has truly been so heartwarming. ❤️😌😇 It really brightened my day. 😊 Kisses! [a screenshot of the original post is attached to the emaill.]
July 17, 2025 at 10:41 PM