Sophie Gilbert
@sophiegilbert.bsky.social
Staff writer at The Atlantic: TV, books, culture, women. GIRL ON GIRL is out now: https://bookshop.org/p/books/girl-on-girl-how-pop-culture-turned-a-generation-of-women-against-themselves-sophie-gilbert/21683668?ean=9780593656297
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These kinds of claims are weaponized against victims of abuse all the time, including in court. And they completely ignore how many women behave when under threat. Women are socialized from birth to preserve community ties, to protect and defend the family unit. Their survival often depends on it.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 4d agoRep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"
One sign of the rise of male supremacy and the decline in women’s status is the ubiquity of online porn lingo in casual speech.
Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2d agoIt was this one, and, yes, I do believe that was an All In first.
Gotta shut down the factory that makes this kinda guy
While we are in this Greek Mythology moment, may I remind you that Emma Thompson is adapting Pat Barker’s take on The Iliad, and she’s struggled to get it made bc the focus on what acts of war against women and survival thereafter actually look like (the core of Barker’s narrative) is too intense.
Emma Thompson adapting feminist retelling of Iliad for big screen
The actress told the Hay Festival she is writing a film version of Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls to draw attention to sexual abuse in war zones
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Christopher Nolan giving Emily Wilson a call today:
Wrote about the Masculinity Scam, or how selling reactionary ideas about what makes a man helps a small number of bad people profit and makes everyone else (including men) miserable www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
“The world's best AI training data is sitting on a shelf. Books represent curated, peer-reviewed, domain-specific human knowledge, structured in a way no web crawl can replicate. Dense, edited, authoritative." www.404media.co/ai-companies...
AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”
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The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.
So nice of the BBC to do this for me personally www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
BBC Four unveils landmark season of post-war British and Irish theatre
A landmark collection of theatre adaptations and accompanying documentaries, available in full on BBC iPlayer from 26 July and launching on BBC Four with Samuel Beckett's Not I
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I’ve cooked this once a week (without burrata) since I first made it. The rare perfect easy dinner.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 4w agoInspired by the jaunty pasta dish, spaghetti al limone, here’s a new way to make a memorable meal from humble cans of chickpeas; just add lemon, olive oil and Parmesan. nyti.ms/4y4qJj7
It’s been six months since the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Here is how the federal government has stonewalled investigations, and how Minnesota law enforcement is attempting to push for accountability anyway
The Death of Renee Good Has Yet to Be Properly Investigated
Six months after she and Alex Pretti were shot on the streets of Minneapolis, little has come of the probes into their killings.
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Taylor is going to make us buy an album to see her wedding dress, isn't she.
Brilliant writing from @skornhaber.bsky.social here about music and the shifting attention economy
How Lizzo Became One of Pop Culture’s Great Flops
The singer is experiencing a new form of downward mobility—and she’s not alone.
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The outer Harry Kane is identical to every other bad-good lower-middle-elite awkward-diffident English player who ever skied a penalty under pressure; the inner Harry Kane is a zero-at-the-bone assassin without a fuck to give; this combination is perhaps the most confounding thing in all of sports
Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · last mo."Harry Kane has scored more World Cup goals than Pelé" is something that is both true & incredibly impressive & also feels completely wrong
This is so good and I got very emotional at the end!
Spencer Kornhaber@skornhaber.bsky.social · last mo.Understanding the case for openmindedness about AI and art took me from Berlin to Venice, from a nightclub to a hypnosis booth to an "upside-down parliament." Here's my profile of Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst, the art world's most compelling anti-doomers— www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
In accordance with ancient tradition, our next Prime Minister is announced to the nation while standing between a furry and a man with a bin on his head.
Incredible work by Heidi Blake, who not only talked to victims of the Tates, but also to the Tates. This is one of those works of journalism that reminds you how little we often know about things or people, like Andrew Tate, who are always in the news. And yet, so much about them remains unreported.
The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 2mo agoHow the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
I wrote about the UFC fight at the White House. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump presides over spectacles of violence like a dysfunctional Roman emperor | Moira Donegan
The sordid UFC event represents his own efforts to symbolically fuse the federal government with his person, to insist that he is America and is the state, says Guardian US columnist Moira Donegan
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Here is a gift link to Simon Schama's appreciation of David Hockney's life and art which we ran last year. It's an amazing piece and contains, as you might imagine, some spectacular pictures including an absolute corker of Hackney with Lucian Freud as.ft.com/r/f1473f70-0...
SpaceX, the largest IPO of all time, encompasses Grok… a product that *still* generates non-consensual, explicit images and videos of women according to a new @wired.com investigation:
Grok Is Still Hosting Sexualized Deepfakes of Famous Women
A WIRED investigation found dozens of “nudified” deepfake images and videos on Grok's website, including nonconsensual depictions of celebrities and at least one prominent US politician.
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I do not think that people should be on a website owned by this man
elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 2mo agoFascists in Belfast set fire to buildings with people inside them. People of colour left work early to stay indoors. This is being actively encouraged by the world’s richest man whose openly pro-white nationalist platform X is still used by the UK government www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Between this and the Tate story I'm getting my pitchfork www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
Revealed: David Sullivan’s Sunday Sport sold sexualised images of 15-year-old girls
Sunday Sport’s ‘Countdown to 16’ used revealing photoshoots with young girls to trail topless pictures published after their 16th birthdays
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"Crusty, dusty man" is going to be in my insult lexicon for the rest of time www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
