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Phil @cincyphil.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

I am so happy he’s a Red right now, and I’ll be crushed when the Dodgers steal him for $1B to help them win another World Series when it comes to it.

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Phil @cincyphil.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Photographed NYC-based artist Shahzia Sikander's fantastic exhibit at the Cincinnati Art Museum, was privileged to meet her (she's wonderful), and was lucky enough to go to Cleveland to photograph her exhibit there for her, too. Seeing those images on Hyperallergic this morning is so satisfying.

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Shahzia Sikander’s Transgressive Femininity

In the artist's works, a woman is at once a social subject pushing back against marginalization and a disruptive energy, a flow that transcends barriers.

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Phil @cincyphil.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Yeah, ending a relationship sucks, but have you ever made the difficult decision to unsubscribe from a podcast you used to love?

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Phil @cincyphil.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Stand up is one of my favorite things to listen to/watch, but I’ve never watched or listened to Kill Tony before. I decided to give the Netflix special a go, and I made it 12 mins before turning it off. I know this isn’t the benchmark for modern stand up, but I didn’t expect it to be this unfunny.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

If you’re opposed to fascism and you still use X, then no you aren’t.

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Phil @cincyphil.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I've been using the same 2018 12-inch iPad Pro since it launched for drawing and light tasks. A $2K foldable iPhone without a stylus and a smaller screen doesn't appeal to me at this time. Considering how Apple missed the mark with Vision Pro, I doubt iPad is doomed. 9to5mac.com/2025/03/31/s...

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Steve Jobs’ famous ‘third device’ may not have much time left - 9to5Mac

Steve Jobs called iPad “a third category of device,” but what happens when foldable iPhones can operate as both smartphone and tablet?

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Phil @cincyphil.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Happy Opening Day, Cincinnati! It’s the best day of the year. ⚾️🏟️

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Phil @cincyphil.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Pour one out for Tim. He died like a pig.

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Phil @cincyphil.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Finally decided to watch Andor after three years of not watching Andor. (It came out when I was too into Trek to care about Wars). The fact they named one of the main characters “Tim” instead something like Slurd or Togwarth or Yanz immediately puts it at the top of my list.

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5chw4r7z @5chw4r7z.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Currently on E 4th St

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Phil @cincyphil.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

As a fan of I Think You Should Leave and as a bigger fan of Star Trek, I was wholly unprepared for the Sam Richardson reveal in this Section 31 movie (yes, finally getting around to watching it).

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Phil @cincyphil.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

The sweet spot for game shows is when they’re 15 years past their prime, on their third host, and the contestants are playing for a top prize of $5000.

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Phil @cincyphil.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Thankful everyday that I’m not a person who takes a vacation to the same beach in Florida every year because I lack the imagination to go literally anywhere else.

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Phil @cincyphil.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Been doing this shit professionally for 10 years and I still have crippling imposter syndrome.

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Phil @cincyphil.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Every time I read the news, I just think about how mad Pennywise (band) probably is.

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Phil @cincyphil.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I can’t get over how the navigation hamburger—the term used for an icon that expands into a drop down menu for navigation—is a hot dog on Vienna Beef’s website.

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Phil @cincyphil.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Keep thinking about how the brand with famously bad self-driving cars is now the darling of the dumbest, worst people in America, and how this new problem is likely going to result in killing people who never wanted any of this.

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Phil @cincyphil.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

The best part of joining a new social network is blocking all the dudes you couldn’t stand from Twitter 10 years ago.

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Phil @cincyphil.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Never paid much attention to ‘Multiple Exposure’ mode on the nikonzf. Today, though, I played around with it, and I think it might be a nice tool to catalyze creativity when inspiration fails. 🧵(1 of 5)

Screenshot of a camera setting screen. Reads as follows:

Multiple Exposure Mode: OFF, ON, ON REPEAT
Number of Shots: 2
Overlay Mode: ADD, AVG, LIGHT, DARK

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Phil @cincyphil.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Spring rules. Heard all four of these birds from my office. Can’t wait to get out and hike this season.

A screenshot of the Merlin app showing the following birds: Carolina Wren, Downy Woodpecker, Brown-Headed Cowbird, and a European Starling.

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Phil @cincyphil.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Back at the hotel for the evening, but had a nice time walking around #Cleveland this evening.

A statue in the foreground bathed in golden light with two skyscrapers in the distance. This scene is on Hope Memorial Bridge in Cleveland, OH

A train bounding around a slight curve with a ray of golden sunset light splitting in in the middle of the two cars. Beneath the rails is a low wall with graffiti painted on it surrounded by wispy dead grasses. In the distance is an urban scene with brick buildings and a small bell tower.

An evening scene of an empty corner of Little Italy in Cleveland. On the right is a corner pizzeria shop with plate glass windows that look into a cozy atmosphere. To the left is a car at an intersection with an ornate brick building behind it. This is the corner of Murray Hill and Cornell in Cleveland, OH.

The Cleveland Museum of Art seen in the far distance with a pristine lake between the viewer and the museum. Geese are scattered across the grass in the foreground, and two rows of concrete steps cascade outward from the viewer toward the left and right sides of the frame in the foreground. The whole scene is during sunset, so everything looks warm and serene.

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Phil @cincyphil.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

I’m in Cleveland for work. Second time ever here, and finally made it over to the Guardians of Traffic on Hope Memorial. They’re every bit as gorgeous as I thought they’d be.

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5chw4r7z @5chw4r7z.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

An awesome photo from my super talented photography friend Phil Armstrong.

a photo of a man (me) holding an antique tobacco sign, smoking a
cigar and drinking a locally brewed pilsner (”its piss water” some would say, but not me, I don’t say that) on Main St in Cincinnati’s OTR neighborhood.

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Phil @cincyphil.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Pulled the plug, coincidentally enough days before the renewal. Might be tough to get certain things, but I’d rather have to hunt for it.

A screenshot of an Amazon Prime subscription membership cancellation.

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Phil @cincyphil.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

not an influencer, but thinking about it now that i've been offered the Susan collab

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Phil @cincyphil.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

The Starway Drive-In sign. Opened in 1946 with spots for 433 cars, the Starway Drive-In was one of the first of its kind in KY. As the fate of Americana drive-ins took hold over the following decades, it sold in 1991, and a small amusement park opened there in 1994. Today, it's no longer in use.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Cincinnati Times-Star deliverers line up with their bicycles, ready for the “base ball extra” edition in the 1910s #BlackHistoryMonth

A dozen or so men with bicycles waiting in front of a building. The bicycles all have signs affixed their frames with "Times Star Baseball Extra" written on them.

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Phil @cincyphil.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

When I’m tired of hearing the same songs on local Top 40 stations, I sometimes switch over to WGRR for oldies, and they were just talking about which restaurants had good bathroom sinks.

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Phil @cincyphil.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Watching ‘Museum Alive’ with Sir David Attenborough, and I can’t get over the way the museum is lit on this show. It’s like an old episode of Unsolved Mysteries mixed with Jim Henson’s The Storyteller. It’s dramatic and soothing, with a color palette that reminds me of childhood. #NaturePBS

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Phil @cincyphil.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Years ago, there was a guy in town who co-authored a children’s book about a certain rocket company owner. I remember seeing him publicize it proudly on Instagram, long before the world knew how insane the rocket company owner would end up being. (1/2)

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Phil @cincyphil.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Influencers hyping these one-off restaurants with respected chefs all the time, but all I want is a Portillo’s that isn’t 100 miles from my house.

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Chris @chrislockefun.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

WHITE HOUSE: We’ve cut all the funding that makes the future like Star Trek

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Phil @cincyphil.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

It's weird how much I miss Pizza Tower's Fields Ertel location (now demolished). I think I went there for the last time in the late 2000s while on a date. I don't remember it being especially good, but the aesthetic was oddly special.

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Phil @cincyphil.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Really can't stand people who endlessly bitch about the cold/snow, but yesterday I saw a photo of my backyard all green and full of flowers from June of last year, and I've been unable to think of much else. Very eager to resume digging in the soil and tending to a garden again.

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Phil @cincyphil.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Resisting the midlife urge to ditch all of my hobbies and focus on creating a miniature workshop where I build small miniature houses and street scenes in my basement.

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Phil @cincyphil.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Last time I checked, Spotify and Apple Music didn't put Screwdriver—a nazi punk band—on their streaming services. Time to remove Kanye—a nazi musician—from those services, too.

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Phil @cincyphil.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

We can finally start talking about baseball again.

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Phil @cincyphil.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

That’s enough reddit for one evening.

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Travis @taestell.com · 09/02/2025

Jack is concerned.

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bear 🧉🚲 @uarctos.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

huh. wonder if there's a more direct way to describe a "group displaying swastika flags" 🧐

enquirer headline: "'hate will never prevail' local residents confront group displaying swastika flags on I-75 overpass" 2/7/25

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Phil @cincyphil.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Lighting test for an upcoming studio portrait shoot I’m doing later this month. My first time renting a studio work. Pumped.

A high contrast, silhouette of a man in a ball cap with a camera and hand in shadow. A purple and yellow background are eliminated behind him.

Behind the scenes shot of the equipment used to make the shot and the man giving a thumb thumbs up to camera

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Phil @cincyphil.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Doom scroll break: If you have $5, you can get an original, small piece of artwork if you email ArtWorks and ask to use the Art-O-Mat vending machine (a repurposed cigarette machine) in the lobby of their headquarters.

A blue vending machine with the words Art-O-Mat emblazoned on the front. On the face of the vending machine is a stylized figure with three arms reaching for three pieces of small artwork that each have a pair of angel wings attached to them. Below that are a series of brass plungers with the names of artists to choose from.

A close up of one of the brass plungers with the name of the artist: Never 2 Bold Art Judy Isaksen

A photo of several brass plungers with the names of artists above them. The user chooses an artist after placing a token into the machine and chooses which plunger to pull for their piece of art.

A small, green block with a floral design drawn on the face of it on a high contrast bright yellow background.

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Phil @cincyphil.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Needing several coveted office days in row to catch up while understanding nothing is worse for my mental health than sitting at a computer all day is truly something.

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Phil @cincyphil.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I’m off sugar. I can’t have it anymore. Enjoy a baked good or a bowl of ice cream or a delicious latte in my honor.

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Phil @cincyphil.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Was at the rock show watching Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader (Lifeguard Week, 2010) last night.

A colorful room where a band plays on a small stage and TV behind a bar on the right side of the photo plays reruns of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader.

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Phil @cincyphil.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Thinking about whether the Gary Lord print at the top of the Carew Tower will make it through the renovation or if it’ll be lost to a fresh coat of boring white paint.

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