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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
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Me, a squishy New Deal liberal, watching this shit

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NOW: NYPD officers randomly charged into the crowd and tackled a protester. Three or so cops began dogpiling him, earlier he was just standing next to me. His condition appears to be severe as he reports he can’t feel his head nor his legs. Cops may have broken his knee.

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Coco giving the ballkids the trophy to raise.

submitted 5 hours ago • 56 comments

I may regret inviting this discourse and I know tennis watch sponsorships are kind of inherently grim, but is there a tennis player with better taste in watches than Coco

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

This trophy presentation music is very stressful. Why are you trying to make me feel like Coco is trapped in a time loop in a Christopher Nolan movie

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

Centrists are arguing for only half as many tanks.

submitted 5 hours ago • 8 comments

Justine!

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"These are real people with real families" cool when they come home do they tell the kids about how they busted up an elementary school graduation that day

submitted 6 hours ago • 31 comments

Incredible comeback from Coco. Unreal poise. Congrats to Aryna for fulfilling the Complexly Self-Defeating Genius’s highest destiny

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

COCOOOOOO

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Someday I hope to love anything half as much as Sabalenka loves loving not loving how much she loves to lose

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

I am staggered by the functionally braindead questions being asked of America's most powerful people while a "nuclear" story is unfolding, live, in front of them, on tape. This is precisely why these politicians love podcasts and want to destroy journalism

submitted 6 hours ago • 14 comments

No athlete in the world has more Me Losing At Ping-Pong Against My Dad In 1994 energy than Saba

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

Let's have some fun. In this NYT story, we see a picture of an OpenAI billboard on a college campus, suggesting the following prompt: "Give me a guide for mastering this Calc 101 syllabus. In two weeks. Small steps please." What happens when we actually use ChatGPT to do this? THREAD!

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With the pre-final ceremony still underway for the women's final, there's a bit of time to look ahead to the #RolandGarros men's final. And since it's going to be Jannik Sinner vs Carlos Alcaraz, I had to discuss it with author @girinathan.bsky.social. www.benrothenberg.com/p/giri-natha...

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

Oh hell yes, they got a longtime private equity guy to review my book! He hated it! Do you want to be cool and preorder BAD COMPANY, or do you want to be like GARY??

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

STUPID TV, BE MORE FUNNY comes out on Tuesday. 1. Here's one last shameless reminder to preorder if you haven't yet. 2. Be on the lookout next week for a bunch of cool new Simpsons stuff đź‘€. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/alan-...

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Unbelievable comeback from the Pacers. OKC’s gotta sort out its offense. I must continue to carry the burden of the futility of all human love

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

brian phillips emotional wellness check

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You know soccer has destroyed my brain because I saw that steal and thought “wait, was he onside??”

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Has anyone ever died of their team being up 12 at halftime in Game 1 of the NBA Finals

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This is great.

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[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 1 day ago • 6 comments

NOW YOU UNDERSTAND THE PAIN IN HIS EYES

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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

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

submitted 2 days 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 2 days ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 2 days 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 2 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments