Sophie Gilbert

so restricting Ukraine's Starlink was Musk's idea, but after Moscow took advantage he became "alarmed about the possibility of adverse consumer reaction in Europe" to the "night of carnage" and denied responsibility I mean, it sounds like typical Elon

young men (18-29) who spend >5 hours a day on social media are more likely to agree that advancing women’s and girls’ rights has gone too far than those who don’t use social media as much. no difference detected among young women. @eurcorrespond.bsky.social

This is some Robespierre shit. "Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is therefore an emanation of virtue."

The reality show "The Swan" was brutal to its participants, but at least it was honest about the extreme measures it promoted, Sophie Gilbert writes. Now, she argues, beauty culture has become much more evasive.

Ah yes, the classic lead indicator of so many bad things: The Flydubai co-pilot historically posted misogynistic content including calling women “rotten meat” www.ft.com/content/a92b...

Watching Megyn Kelly wear Serena Joy green to berate a singer who wrote a song called Serena Joy in case anyone needs to tell the paramedics why I had a stroke

This story is from 40 years ago www.nytimes.com/1986/02/17/s...

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The Daily today about Cornell is really worth listening to and extremely well done. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/p...

the cornell case has me thinking about christine blasey ford and how she so bravely testified in 2018 about how future supreme court justice brett kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her. i'm thinking about what i wrote at the time and how nothing has changed:

Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There is a corner of the internet I had never heard of before I started reporting this story. It’s called the “burnerverse”: a network of anon burner accounts ostensibly discussing college sports. But they have another goal: destroying young girls’ lives.🧵: www.wired.com/story/burner...

So you know The Atlantic has a feature series where writers get to follow in the footsteps of their literary heroes? Well, I got to do mine and it was the most fun thing I've ever done or will ever do again. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.

They cannot do this to me

I truly don’t see how this country can go on if we don’t ban online sports betting. This story is stomach-turning.

Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.

Another impossible loss www.instagram.com/p/Dc0dotLOqUN/

Is that...is that supposed to be an argument against healthcare

Court fillings reveal that Andrew Tate's Bugatti and Aston Martin were rented

What happens to anger when it can’t be absorbed? Sophie Gilbert on the TV series “Furious” and the woman at its center, whose rage has metastasized into something darker:

Extremely clever work @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social 🫡

the concern with the Arday story isn’t the fact of the media coverage, it’s the volume. it’s perfectly reasonable that there would be some coverage of the story, and basically indefensible that there was as much as there was.

I hate, hate these pervert glasses. Listen to this guy interrupting the filming of Cunk on Cinema. What an entitled dick.

I thought we were better than this

This has come up at every event I've done over the last year and a half. Women are so eager for in-person discussion and connection, especially when it's intergenerational. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Just a few years ago, the internet was fueling the body-positivity movement. Now rhetoric has swung in the other direction. What happened? @sophiegilbert.bsky.social explains to hosts @julieebeck.bsky.social and Natalie Brennan in this episode of How to Touch Grass:

Loved podcasting with my queen @julieebeck.bsky.social on bodies, beauty, self-worth, all the good stuff. www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

Not in the mood for Ted Lasso at all although I have been binging 30 Rock for weeks; what stage of weltschmerz is this

Incredible job alert: atlanticmedia.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Career...

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.

Gotta shut down the factory that makes this kinda guy

Whew www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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...

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/...