Soph Warnes
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Soph Warnes
@thatsoph.bsky.social
Data & Graphics @ CNN. 📈👸

Priors: WSJ, ONS. Clearly a fan of acronyms. "Aggressive Door Opener".

Likes: Cats, maps, stats 🐱🗺️📊

Fair Warning newsletter: https://fairwarning.substack.com
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ICYMI, the most personal thing I've ever written, and it's on cnn dot com www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/h...
Can the party drug ketamine be a mental health breakthrough? It was for me | CNN
Known more for its use as party drug, ketamine can provide a lifeline for people experiencing distressing mental health symptoms.
www.cnn.com
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A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
February 4, 2026 at 2:34 PM
I am so, so sorry to everyone affected by layoffs at wapo today. ❤️

Let me know how/if I can be of help.
February 4, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
February 4, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.
February 3, 2026 at 8:46 PM
"today there has been a recurring theme, and that theme....is the police" is something I just heard on the news, who talks like that? (You get one guess)
February 3, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Had to stop my inner New Yorker coming out yesterday when I almost yelled at a car while crossing the road. The kind of thing they section you for in London but in NY people might clap or join in
February 3, 2026 at 8:44 AM
It's 11pm

I'm in bed thinking about smart motorways

We are not the same
February 2, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Did you know that burrata is basically a cream dumpling of mozzarella?

I thought it was an entirely different cheese?
February 2, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Could you imagine the ONS every year or so just shutting down the entire website due to a "lapse of funding"?
February 2, 2026 at 10:13 AM
The Panama Papers was really weird because it's all I heard journalists talk about for a while but I never heard ordinary people mention them, it was a tremendous amount of work but it didn't cut through

Probably because it wasn't really revelatory? - a cynical person would fully expect that
remember when the panama papers came out and we found out every rich person on earth was committing tax fraud and then nothing happened
February 2, 2026 at 8:41 AM
The Panama Papers was really weird because it's all I heard journalists talk about for a while but I never heard ordinary people mention them, it was a tremendous amount of work but it didn't cut through

Probably because it wasn't really revelatory? - a cynical person would fully expect that
remember when the panama papers came out and we found out every rich person on earth was committing tax fraud and then nothing happened
February 2, 2026 at 8:35 AM
If you want to know how things stick with you from childhood, every time I think of the IRS I remember this whole subplot
February 1, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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I want everyone who has spent years in therapy wondering what is wrong with them, wondering why they had so many bad relationships, why they felt so much dread, to know that it was in part because you were living in a world run by evil, evil people and you could tell that somewhere deep down
February 1, 2026 at 4:08 PM
No Other Choice was good but about 45 mins too long?
February 1, 2026 at 8:20 PM
My big task for today was to file my US taxes, can't do it because the whole thing is so unfathomably complicated.

That $150 check that NY State sent to my address in London? Taxable. Damned if I know how to declare it on my federal taxes.
February 1, 2026 at 2:36 PM
I think it would be so revelatory having a camera in my car because I literally just realised that I had actually said this out loud:
What are you doing?.... What are you ...are you going? What are you do-oh, you're going there, would've helped if you'd indicated but yeah thanks have a nice day
January 31, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Have I raved about how good keratin hair treatments are? I cannot remember BUT my hair is so soft, it dries (more or less straight) in 5 mins, is super shiny, looks great and is extremely easy to manage.

Cons are: it's expensive
January 31, 2026 at 10:35 AM
Oh my god
a woman with a #schittscreek logo on the bottom right
ALT: a woman with a #schittscreek logo on the bottom right
media.tenor.com
January 30, 2026 at 6:37 PM
In three weeks I'll be hiking in Spain 😬✌🏻
January 30, 2026 at 8:42 AM
We booked tickets months before her appearance was announced, so I had no idea she'd be in it but Mel Giedroyc is an absolute delight in HMS Pinafore
January 29, 2026 at 10:55 PM
I'm in a nice ish Italian restaurant and the woman at the door basically didn't want to let me in?

I have a jumper and a rucksack with me but I don't think I look THAT rough? SORRY I have a JOB and I need to take my LAPTOP into the OFFICE.
January 29, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Ok so I have just been reminded of the best museum (collection?) I've ever been to. It's in western Canada. In the 50s this artist decided to make cement sculptures of animals and cartoons and she bought some land where she could put them on display.

It's all very charming, except...
January 28, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Two minutes in to the new Witcher season and I hate Hemsworth 😩😭
January 28, 2026 at 7:42 PM