Hey everyone this is a rough cut of a short video about the charlie kirk shooting and the misinformation that has appeared around it. I would love feedback from early viewers as I'll be putting the final touches on today and uploading as soon as it's done! Thanks :)
2025-09-19 17:20:30 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
I realised I haven't posted an update here in a minute, so I thought I'd give one. As hopefully everyone knows because I posted the text essay, I am working today to get out a short video about Charlie Kirk's murder and the misinformation surrounding it. After that I'll be working to sort my trans organising video out, because I feel like that's the next most urgent thing.
From there, the rest of the year my primary focus will be on finishing The Mad & The Mental...
2025-09-19 05:56:24 +0000 UTC View Post
So as someone whose work is primarily concerned with epistemology - how we know things, why we believe them and so on - there is rarely a more frustrating occurrence in the news than a high profile murder. Everyone on the internet becomes Sherlock Holmes the moment that a gun goes off. It sucks complete shit. And no one is immune! People who step in to try and disprove misinformation frequently themselves fall for convenient and emotionally satisfying narratives and probably most upsettingly ...
2025-09-15 11:44:31 +0000 UTC View PostHey all! Just thought I'd give a quick update on projects since I haven't done one in a minute. I've gotten bogged down with writing several shorter videos rather than making the progress on The Mad & The Mentally Ill that I'd hoped to make, and the main reason is my own mental health. Perhaps ironically, the most common recurring hurdle for working on my essay about mad liberation is that I'm completely off my nut and keep experiencing huge mental health dips I need to traverse ...
2025-08-01 21:58:02 +0000 UTC View Post
This one isn’t really a video essay, as much as I want to push to make my visuals more interesting, to play with the relationships between spoken word and found audio and visuals and so on because that’s what I find artistically satisfying, this is just a message that I want to get across to the right people. I keep saying my work isn’t about being trans but then cis people keep making more bullshit for us to deal with.
On April 16th 2025 the UK Supreme Court made a ruling that ma...
2025-07-19 11:25:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone! the video is finally all the way done except for one more shot I need to get with my telescope some time in the next two weeks. Once I have that, and the art back from the thumbnail commission, I'll update here and then release toward the end of June.
I hope you enjoy it, this one was a lot of work and is probably my prettiest video ever.
2025-06-05 06:15:10 +0000 UTC View PostIntroduction
2025-05-25 17:13:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone! As I've discussed, the next video essay I'm going to have finished is Shikata Ga Nai: An Analysis of the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. I don't have the text version up yet because it isn't finalised, but as discussed in my previous posts about it I've been working on visuals in Kerbal Space Program and with my astrophotography on my telescope.
I've recorded parts of the essay that are already written, and in the next couple of weeks I expect to put up first the com...
2025-05-21 22:00:57 +0000 UTC View Post
and I'm posting about it here because it will feature heavily in my Mars Trilogy video, but also just because I'm excited to show you some stuff I've been working on lately :)
My disclaimer is that my camera is far from cutting edge. It shoots in 1080p which is good enough for YouTube videos so I haven't seen the need to try and upgrade. It actually took me getting into photographing the night ...
2025-03-23 21:15:13 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
For those who are unaware, the weekly show I make with some communist friends, Red Planet has been working on a documentary about the ZAD!
The ZAD (Zone t...
2025-03-23 20:22:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all
Just wanted to post a quick update to let everyone know I've filmed a short video about Trump coming back into power and I'll be editing it over the next couple of days to put out before the inauguration. It's mostly unscripted, filmed from notes and short bits I had written out earlier and intended to produce as a short scripted video, but as the inauguration got nearer I thought it was better to get something up than try and make it perfect.
It's just a small piece meant...
2025-01-17 13:05:59 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone, as promised this is an update on what's going on with Sophie From Mars (the brand not the woman). As usual it'll be a bit of a loose one because you have probably all gathered how I am with deadlines by now. Also as usual I have a few plates spinning at once.
First up I'd like to remind everyone to check out Red Planet if you haven't already, we're doing great work on there, we recently interviewe...
2024-10-29 13:26:28 +0000 UTC View PostHave you lost a loved one? Have you lost a loved one to injustice? Have you had to watch footage of your loved one dying? These aren’t my questions, these are the questions that Chris Kaba’s family asked the crowd outside the Old Bailey after the police officer who killed him, Martyn Blake, was found not guilty.
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The family was advised not to show their emotions as they watched the footage, in the hopes that it would help with the case. They had to stay visibly calm and ...
2024-10-22 14:10:54 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone. If you don't know, the police officer who killed Chris Kaba was found not guilty yesterday. I went to the emergency protest outside the Old Bailey, and there Kaba's family asked people to use social media to raise awareness and get more people down to the UFFC protest on Saturday, so I'm putting other stuff on hold today to put out a video about it. I'll put the text up here next an...
2024-10-22 14:10:09 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone, it's my first video in a while and I wanted to get over the fear of returning to publishing videos by making something that I feel is just very "me", so here's The Endings Machine. I hope you like it :) I'll be uploading new videos and writing over the next few months at hopefully a fairly regular pace.
Sophie
2024-09-17 09:18:51 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone, I've been working for the last few months on a pretty big essay called The Mad & The Mentally Ill: Against The Diagnostic Model. It's getting really close to being fully written now and as I realised I hadn't posted anything on patreon in ages I thought I should drop the parts that are done and update as I finish the others. It's been taking forever in part because I've spent the last 6-9 months teaching myself psychology in order to articulate my points properly. 2024-08-12 15:21:07 +0000 UTC View Post
“You are not obligated to finish the work, nor are you free to abandon it” - The Talmud
A quick note on my language here. It is unclear to me in what way Senior Airman Bushnell would have liked to be referred, and my inclination with someone who went by “Lilly” online, who said to online friends that they would like to transition and live as a woman if they could but who was not out in the physical world is to use the neutral pronoun they. I will be saying “Bush...
2024-05-02 22:34:58 +0000 UTC View PostOriginally I wrote this on my tumblr in response to the publishing of the Cass Review, but as I feel this advice is important I realised the limited visibility and shareability of that post was running counter to my intentions. I’m putting it up as a public post on my patreon because I don’t yet have another writing blog or outlet but as soon as I figure out what I want to do there I’ll put it there too. The assembly structures I am describing here are based primarily on the reports of ...
2024-04-20 14:44:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe Tower of Babel, from the first book of the bible, tells the story of a united human race coming together to build a “city and a tower with its top in the heavens”, and being struck down for their hubris. The almighty, whose reasoning is not elaborated in the story, responded with the collective punishment of different languages to confuse and divide everyone making such collaboration impossible in future. God did a war crime on us because tower too big.
When I s...
2024-04-08 08:22:33 +0000 UTC View PostOne of my girlfriends gave me a really bad cold so I'm very sick. I've also been unable to write anything because all I can think about when I sit down to write is Gaza. So I've taken the time while I'm stuck in bed to write this, and when I'm well enough to be on camera I'll be recording this and getting it out on my channel immediately
We are in a moment where it is important to act and I am aware that one of the most significant ways that I act on the largest part of the wor...
2023-11-19 17:45:39 +0000 UTC View PostHi my name is Sophie and it's time for a silly little video about a silly little man whose name is Ross Andersen but who I think of as The Foomscroller. So, I've developed a bit of a fascination with the perpetually flawed, messy and constantly ideological articles in mainstream liberal publications such as The New Statesman, The Economist and The Atlantic. Even when they aren’t defending Israel’s genocide of Palestinians or trying to take medicine away...
2023-10-24 16:07:39 +0000 UTC View PostHeya, just a quick update. I wanna talk about the projects I'm planning for the rest of the year and leading into early 2024.
Big Projects (Like Conspiracy on the Left, The World Is Not Ending)
1. I am still working on the next big essay, Apocalypse Preachers and I'd say my writing partner (Tyr) and I are making great progress on it. There isn't a deadline yet but early ...
2023-10-22 14:27:59 +0000 UTC View PostFor Jo Winter
“We typically reach for science fiction stories when thinking about A.I. I’ve come to believe the apt metaphors lurk in fantasy novels and occult texts. [...] this is an act of summoning. The coders casting these spells have no idea what will stumble through the portal. What is oddest, in my conversations with them, is that they speak of this freely. These are not naifs who believe their call can be heard only by angels. They believ...
2023-08-26 22:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone, as part of the AI video I'm currently working on I had a quick chat with Alice from Trash Future/KJB/WTYP about the idea of "frontiers of credibility" that I'll be using part of in the vid, and I figured I'd upload the full chat for anyone interested
2023-08-20 18:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
