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Brian Phillips

@brianphillips.lol
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Senior Writer at The Ringer covering the intersection of tech, politics, and media 🦉 NYT bestselling author of Impossible Owls 🦉 also, how can I put this: sports bookshop.org/p/books/impossible-owl…

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 28/09/2026
A DOINK IN DENVER
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Neil Serven @neilserven.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Otters with jobs
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 24/09/2026
I wrote about British hats
theringer.com
Eight Burning Questions About the Fight to Ban British Guard Hats
An extremely important deep dive into one of the world’s most pressing problems: the big, fuzzy hats at Buckingham Palace
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 24/09/2026
I wrote about British hats
theringer.com
Eight Burning Questions About the Fight to Ban British Guard Hats
An extremely important deep dive into one of the world’s most pressing problems: the big, fuzzy hats at Buckingham Palace
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 22/09/2026
I admire the vision but you gotta go harder than this. Schindler's List in Old English. Tron in Old English. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift in the extinct Celtic language spoken by the Picts
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Chairman Goa Tse-tung @jctenton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
i often think of the gas station in deus ex and the terrifying 2050s cyberpunk nightmare era prices on the sign
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Incredible reporting.
bloomberg.com
Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 17/09/2026
I didn't trust AI to tell me whether AI will kill us all in the next decade. So I turned to the one branch of science more reliable than LLMs: Bracketology
theringer.com
The AI Apocalypse Bracket: Just How Doomed Are We, Really?
Is AI really likely to wipe out humanity within the next decade? We used the most scientific tool in existence to get an answer.
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 18/09/2026
Horrific possibility but not an extinction threat on its own. Bubble team. Could do real damage in the NIT
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 18/09/2026
Ess Dub knows ball
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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Never smashed a follow button this quickly. Effing brilliant and hilarious.
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Bryan Toporek @btoporek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Come for the concept, stay for the repeated strays that Pat McAfee's music career catches
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Brendan Bell @bdbell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A bit of a longer read, but absolutely well worth it. The conceit is fun and engaging (if even a little goofy!), but the information presented is impeccably sourced, well-reasoned, and compelling. Undoubtedly the best article I've read on the topic.
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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is a legitimately astounding piece of work.
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 17/09/2026
I didn't trust AI to tell me whether AI will kill us all in the next decade. So I turned to the one branch of science more reliable than LLMs: Bracketology
theringer.com
The AI Apocalypse Bracket: Just How Doomed Are We, Really?
Is AI really likely to wipe out humanity within the next decade? We used the most scientific tool in existence to get an answer.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm admittedly not an early child development expert but it does seem the ideal scenario for any baby is being collectively raised by a traveling women's professional soccer team
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Straight talk time: Doomerism is BORING. It's the same fantasties rehashed over and over again, just louder each time. And with each iteration it seems that new audiences are being reached, and a new group of people needs to be talked down from unnecessary fear. >>
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 12/09/2026
Look, I love Sports Emotion as much as the next fan, but I have to admit there's something incredibly badass about Rybakina winning the U.S. Open and topping out at "pleased"
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 12/09/2026
I know it's boring to complain about sports commentators but giving a major final to Patrick and Mary Joe is like staging a Rembrandt exhibition under a 40-watt light bulb
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 12/09/2026
Sabalenka's body language getting perilously close to the deadly Me When I've Been on Hold with Customer Service for More Than Six Minutes Zone
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 12/09/2026
158 MPH SERVE???????????!?
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Howard Beck @howardbeck.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
NBA owners are, uh, having a moment. I'm not sure that's a good thing. Latest from me, at The Ringer:
theringer.com
Does the NBA Have an Owner Problem?
NBA owners are having a moment, but not necessarily a good one. “Every day or every week, it’s like: Wait a second, how can that be possible?”
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 09/09/2026
I'm a joy to text with during sports
A text reading "GODDAMN EMMA" followed by a text reading "—Miss Bates after the picnic on Box Hill"
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 09/09/2026
They literally just showed Navarro's parents in the stands and still didn't mention that they're among the richest people on earth??
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ryanphurley.bsky.social @ryanphurley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
At least soft pedal it... "US Open brought to you by Fidelity... and Navarro certainly is familiar with the asset management business" "Pegula playing the biggest sporting match in NY state... until the Bills play week 12 Monday night right here on ESPN"
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 09/09/2026
Does anyone with more sophisticated media knowledge than mine understand why ESPN will burn endless cycles talking about tennis players' backgrounds/childhoods but will not ever, ever state that Pegula and Navarro are the children of billionaires, even when they're playing each other?
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
That worked
Tellling a bot to fuck off
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 05/09/2026
I just said "How's it going" to three people at a memorial service. You can't buy social graces like these. If you're lucky, you simply acquire them at birth
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 03/09/2026
I have plunged into the dark, icy depths of Lake America and returned with a column about MAGA's obsession with names
theringer.com
MAGA’s Big, Beautiful Quest to Rename the Entire World
The Lake America story is spectacularly dumb. It’s also spectacularly important.
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 03/09/2026
I wrote about names
theringer.com
MAGA’s Big, Beautiful Quest to Rename the Entire World
The Lake America story is spectacularly dumb. It’s also spectacularly important.
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 03/09/2026
I have plunged into the dark, icy depths of Lake America and returned with a column about MAGA's obsession with names
theringer.com
MAGA’s Big, Beautiful Quest to Rename the Entire World
The Lake America story is spectacularly dumb. It’s also spectacularly important.
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 27/08/2026
Never change, BlueSky
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 26/08/2026
I wrote about Natalie Harp
theringer.com
Why Is Natalie Harp Suddenly the Most Important Person in America? An FAQ.
There’s a new main character in Trumpworld—and the meltdown surrounding her is getting more normal all the time
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 26/08/2026
I wrote about Natalie Harp
theringer.com
Why Is Natalie Harp Suddenly the Most Important Person in America? An FAQ.
There’s a new main character in Trumpworld—and the meltdown surrounding her is getting more normal all the time
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Bill Hanstock @sundownmotel.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
oh my fucking god project 2025 is just season two of GI Joe
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."
law.berkeley.edu
Artificial Intelligence Policy
Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]
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Alex Bloom @alexpbloom.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This is very well done. And you've managed to dupe the AI (as a fun secondary outcome).
screen grab of the AI results for a search for Apis Daemonica which includes seemingly exclusively information from Brian's satirical article.
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 20/08/2026
This is the most important article you will read in 2026
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 20/08/2026
A bee plus is perfect
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 19/08/2026
I wrote about the most urgent danger now threatening the United States of America
theringer.com
Why the Most Urgent Threat to America Is Actually a Bee
The giant, coordinated movement against them is not enough. Just ask these extremely credible experts.
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 19/08/2026
I'm extremely disappointed in the responses to my new article. They've been altogether too light-hearted. It's as if people think the whole topic is some sort of joke. Many of you are not taking the Demon Bee threat seriously, and quite frankly it shows.
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 19/08/2026
I wrote about the most urgent danger now threatening the United States of America
theringer.com
Why the Most Urgent Threat to America Is Actually a Bee
The giant, coordinated movement against them is not enough. Just ask these extremely credible experts.
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 18/08/2026
$250,000 worth of collagen and a couple of Frankenstein electrodes and you're basically looking at our next Secretary of the Interior
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 18/08/2026
Haven't been doing much social media lately but I thought I'd better pop by to let you all know about the email I just got telling me that Vital Proteins is the Official Collagen Partner of the U.S. Open Mixed Doubles Championship
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Dr. Kill Everyone (Eclipse) @eclipse.gay · 15/08/2026
if you're somehow still alive, and you're seeing this, please - pokemon go to the escape pods
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 12/08/2026
Where the streets really, truly have no name
A Getty Images photo of Bono in sweet violet wraparound sunglasses, a pinstriped black suit jacket with very high peak lapels, and the sort of black silk shirt you wear to a funeral if you're the sort of person who does cocaine at funerals . He looks like he's in a very specific sort of mourning for the year 2004. Under him is a caption reading "1,520 Samuel Beckett Stock Photos, Hi-Res Pictures, and Images - Getty Images." He is not Samuel Beckett.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/08/2026
if they're drinking nounwine it's fantasy. if they're snorting a verb it's sci fi
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I love you too, Robocop
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 28/07/2026
It looks like the dog is saying this
A woman and a small black dog are lounging on a beige sofa. Under them is the headline "I had my first alcoholic drink at 16. By 26, I was given six months to live." The dog is looking directly into the camera.
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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
in order to do this, he - like the rest of his tiresome cohort - would have to admit that the arts are important, require both skill and talent, and are worthy of attention and investment. the SV philosophy cannot allow that. it’s sad.
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