Profile avatar
brianphillips.bsky.social
Senior Writer at The Ringer 🦉 NYT bestselling author of Impossible Owls 🦉 occasional podcast host (22 Goals, Truthless) 🦉 whippet fancier https://bookshop.org/p/books/impossible-owls-essays-brian-phillips/7310179?ean=9780374175337
1,080 posts 15,680 followers 435 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 26 Comments 24

This is great.

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

[Rapping] Now you understand the pain in Dan Bongino's eyes when you see him on public media all the lies. [Soft singing] Heeee knoooows. [Screaming] He knows the reason the E list won't drop [Rapping] He knows the assassination was faked the level of grift can't be stopped

submitted 2 hours ago • 6 comments

NOW YOU UNDERSTAND THE PAIN IN HIS EYES

submitted 2 hours ago • 4 comments

I already posted this once but oh my god @shamblanderson.bsky.social’s piece on the Thunder makes me want to run through a fucking wall

submitted 3 hours ago • 3 comments

submitted 4 hours ago • 183 comments

Sam Anderson returning to the Thunder beat, years after "Boom Town," is a good, good time. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/m...

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

i've absolutely loved having claire as a genius colleague + wily Dumb Slack Joke accomplice + weird-TV scholar, and i don't quite know what the ringer is without her besides "less fun." hire her ASAP and benefit from our unhappiness.

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

This is a blow. No one was better on the Jeopardy! beat. Hire Claire!

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

Apart from being endlessly funny, smart, and talented, Claire is an absolute *joy* to work with. Whoever hires her next is winning the goddamn lottery. Sorry but I hate this!!

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

[being hoisted] oh god. it’s mine, isn’t it

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

…but I was too weird for them.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Every morning, without exception, Lilybean wakes up, gets out of bed, shakes herself off, and with the fiery intensity of an elite athlete demands to be taken to another room where she can be tucked into a different bed and immediately go back to sleep. On behalf of humanity, I covet this energy

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

That bird is made up of all the most popular Starter jackets from the 90s.

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

ME: yeah could i get the impossible burger with cheese. THE VIZIER WHO'S BEEN ADVISING ME: ahh, an excellent choice sire. an imitation of the genuine article. there are some "friends" of yours to whom it bears a passing similarity ME: you want anything VIZIER: [chuckles] what i want is of no import

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

“Thousands of newly obtained documents show” that the founders of Clearview AI—which is backed by Peter Thiel—“always intended to target immigrants & the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump admin.” This is incredible reporting by @lukeobrien.bsky.social, 4/2025 1/

submitted 4 days ago • 35 comments

Also: Nathan Fielder is not allowed to play The Joker

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

can we get @shamblanderson.bsky.social and me as the Timothée and Ben Stiller

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

structural explanations of the social causes of human behavior for my real friends, moral judgments based on an assumption of absolute individual responsibility for my sham friends

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Commercials, By Sport NFL: we spent $300 billion landing a Ford F-150 on Jupiter. Here’s Bob Dylan to narrate Tennis: (tasteful montage of whales) meet our billion-dollar enterprise software, which no one watching this will ever use or need NBA: Got $2? I’m outside your house selling cookie dough

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

OpenAI is featuring a "Looksmaxxing GPT" that provides "PSL ratings" for photos. It will rate people as "subhuman", and advise men to get invasive procedures like jaw surgery to "increase their sexual market value" among women, who it describes as "hypergamous by nature".

submitted 5 days ago • 129 comments

i really, really need people to understand that they *didn't* vote for this, no matter how much you insist they did. insisting "they voted for this" elides the information environment that led them to vote the way they did in the first place, the thing that actually needs fixing.

submitted 5 days ago • 1425 comments

Oh no I clicked on a James Bond-related YouTube video and now my feed is all “The 14 Pens That Project Quiet Luxury” and “Secrets of Alpha Status: Premium Etiquette Behaviors Poor People FAIL to Comprehend”

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Wes Anderson is maybe three years away from calling a movie The Zanzibar Codex and seamlessly transitioning into a career of adapting 80s spy novels

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

RFK Jr's "MAHA" report is filled with references to studies that literally do not exist, or that completely misinterpret the studies' findings. “We did not publish a paper.. on this topic with that co-author group, or with that title,” says one cited researcher. www.notus.org/health-scien...

submitted 7 days ago • 112 comments

I have been logged out of my toothbrush.

submitted 7 days ago • 723 comments

I wrote a radical (full) guide to Wagner’s ring cycle for @vanmusicmag.bsky.social van-magazine.com/mag/wagner-r...

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments