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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 01/10/2026

This is the least annoying text from a Democratic politician that I've received in at least eight years

A text reading:

Fitzpatrick is paying a turtle trafficker to lie about me. Seriously.
Read more: bh4pa.org/turtle?
t=ayP4wG
-Bob Harvie
Text STOP to quit

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 17/09/2026

Fill out your bracket now.....before it's too late

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 11/09/2026

when I catch myself drafting a Bluesky response to someone in my mentions with 2.3k followers and 57.8k posts

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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 · 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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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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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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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 21/07/2026

What are you doing, you absolute lunatic

A small rabbit rests in the grass, waiting to be assassinated

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 21/07/2026

When your sister is a ferocious predator and you are also very fearsome indeed

A brindle whippet lying on top of the back sofa cushion, which is molded to his shape like a hammock

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 17/07/2026

I try not to rage-post every little MAGA-enabling media obfuscation I come across—there are simply too many of them—but this might literally be the most irresponsible headline I've ever seen

Reuters headline reading: "Trump puts election security at center of Republicans' midterm fight"

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 16/07/2026

Ferocious predator relaxing after the kill

My whippet Lilybean looking cozy and getting scritches

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 06/07/2026

Jude Bellingham scoring is the excuse I need to post the most Minor Victorian Novel live match report screenshot I've ever taken

Jude Bellingham (England) Dispossessed at 90'

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 30/06/2026

More highlights from this month's new additions list

A partial snippet of the new OED entry for Incel

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 30/06/2026

"Enshittification" is now in the OED

dystopia, n.!
eight-track, adj. & n.
elbows up, phr.
electronic dance music, n.
enshittification, n.
fearmonger, n.
fearmongering, n.
fictionalizing, adj.
fictionalizing, n.
oed.com

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 22/06/2026

Incredible to think that Britain's political destiny rests in the hands of one of these two utterly different people

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 17/06/2026

I cannot describe the psychic wounds I now carry after writing dozens—hundreds?—of Grok sentences. I am begging you to validate my sacrifice

Brian: Yeah, I couldn't help noticing that this phrase-
"extend the light of consciousness to the stars"-appeared eight times in the S-1 filing, including twice on one page. The document also contained multiple mentions of saving humanity from "the same fate as dinosaurs."

Grok: No shit, Shylock. You want to go down like a T. rex on D-Day, choking on clouds of asteroid dust? Or would you rather frolic in the skies over your own private duck pond on Jupiter, spamming loop de loops in the badass star cruiser you copped with your SpaceX divvies? That's short for dividends, chieftain. It's called smarts. Get some.

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 14/06/2026

POV it's a lovely Sunday morning and you're a sports psychologist

A Zillow screenshot showing homes for sale in San Antonio, TX

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 11/06/2026

I will never forgive the universe for working this hard to make me pro-Zoop

As Al Takes Over Social Media, ZOOP
Is Giving Users an Off Switch
Hi Brian,
In the era of an Al boom, with Al-generated visuals now making up roughly 71% of images in social content, Al is becoming increasingly unavoidable across social platforms. ZOOP is taking a different approach: giving users the power to turn it off. The newly launched social platform, founded by former OnlyFans executive RJ Phillips, features an Al "kill switch" that allows viewers to disable Al-generated content at their discretion, offering a more intentional and authentic browsing experience.

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 11/06/2026

World Cup's here. I wrote down some thoughts.

For my part, I've always believed that the good of the World Cup is enough to justify watching, as hard as FIFA works to convince me I'm mistaken.
Maybe it's more accurate to say I've always wanted to believe that we soccer fans can have our own World Cup, one that has nothing to do with FIFA and that only superficially overlaps with the tournament FIFA is selling. That is, FIFA may be shoving bland, cynical spectacles of sportswashing down our throats; FIFA may see the World Cup as a service industry whose service is overlaying Trump's decaying head atop the globe's ultimate circus. But the moments of joy that soccer generates can still, and mostly do, come from an entirely different place, and the astonishing feeling of connection that comes from sharing the same peak experience with so many people at once is a force neither the authoritarians nor their lackeys can control.

A billion people are watching the same terrified 22-year-old step up to take a penalty kick. A billion people are going to lose their minds at the same time regardless of what happens. Being part of that experience changes your consciousness. It can't happen otherwise. As corny as this sounds, it really does bring people together. It gives us something shared, something that feels magical and that simply doesn't care very much about borders or tariffs or empires or sources of xenophobic distrust. It reminds us of precisely the thing the authoritarians want us to forget, I tell myself. It's working against their agendas the whole time they're trying to harness it.

I still feel this way, but God, it's harder than it used to be. The human cost is so high, and getting higher all the time. If I don't believe the World Cup should ever have been awarded to Russia, Qatar, or Trump's United States-and I don't!-then when I justify my decision to watch it anyway, am I doing anything but taking complicity's scenic route? I hope so. I think so. But I can't be sure.

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 11/06/2026

Come through, bring your schooner www.instagram.com/p/DZarvlHn3E...

CHANNEL 6 PRESENTS:
Shipwrecks, Ranked
WITH SPENCER HALL AND BRIAN PHILLIPS
SAT | JUNE 27 | 6PM
DOWNTOWN LIBRARY

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 06/06/2026

Art historians remain divided on whether John Singer Sargent was right to paint out the pink chicken before exhibiting what would become his most celebrated portrait