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Phil B

@flipb.bsky.social
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Sheffield, Philadelphia, Plymouth, and other cool places. He/him. Tired and emotional. Better things are possible. A bit too obsessed with vintage jackets

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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 11h
Yep, same. I stopped watching after one episode. And now the people who think being good at law is all about memory, are probably the ones saying that AI can do it for us.
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 11h
I was looking at one of his books yesterday. Still hard to believe he’s gone.
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
A *local* University for *local* people.
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Spend years trying to understand how the world works, then I see a story like this and realise I have no idea what’s going on.
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It’s a crime to accurately state the law now? Awkward.
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Good luck! I somehow managed the 5 and a half hour Napoléon silent movie (a great movie). Still not quite sure how.
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“Super crazy” is the new term for “Artificial crazy”?
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Finally, a policy I can get behind.
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think my students would be disappointed if the first five minutes of every class weren’t me swearing quietly to myself.
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And you’ll need your phone to do 2-factor-authentication three times before it won’t let you do what you used to be able to do.
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Like a doll’s eyes.”
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Custodes have the hardest hats and the highest-vis gold outfits
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
youtu.be/FaOSCASqLsE?...
youtu.be
Star Wars Undercover Boss: Starkiller Base - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I remember a parody, where Kylo Ren from Star Wars sequels goes undercover, but all the Storm Troopers know it’s him (and he’s obviously evil).
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Questions like ”where did you get so many lovely books?“, and “are more lovely books coming soon?”, I can only assume.
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Another one for Resyk.
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Broadsword calling Danny Boy”
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Miliband Bowler cut. Carney going for the full Mountie.
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Beatrix Kiddo, from Kill Bill, with some blood on her. Not her blood.
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Women may have only committed 10% of crimes, but a suspiciously high number were committed by Beatrix.
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Irresponsible parenting is bound to lead to reduced visitation
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“They can’t both be right, can they?”
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How is Ann?
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Well on the way to the neoliberal University’s final form. No academics, only student experience managers.
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Runners with a drinking problem, or drinkers with a running problem. But vicinity to White House might add a whole extra layer of problems.
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Totally. I reckon a small number of students in every class will use what they’ve learned in some direct way, but there’s no way of knowing which ones (for me, or for them). But everyone else in the room is also getting something worthwhile, even if they don’t know what it will be.
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nobody could have predicted The Mule.
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Horror! (sarcasm)
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh, I completely agree. I like a good song, and I might enjoy it, but it’s silly that it’s become a talking point for who knows what larger point. Will probably just stick with my 80s mix.
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I hope the cat finds your help useful.
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Marty, we‘ve got to bring back Back to the Future. Something’s got to be done about your kids!”
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Thank you. I am currently torn between giving it a try, to see what all the fuss was about, or pigheadedly refusing to respond to whatever it was that was getting people worked up about it. 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I have (genuinely) never heard it, but I thought that meant I was the target of the current scorn?
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I feel like there was a whole run of 80s movies about this, and yet a lot of people didn’t get the message (or don’t watch those movies anymore).
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And to portray the UK to a US audience as a terrifyingly dangerous place, with a completely indifferent out-of-touch legal system.
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It’s one of those movies I enjoyed at the time, but remember very little, and have never felt any wish to revisit.
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Weeb! (complimentary)
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Someone told me that shaving it all off is a good look if you have a nicely shaped skull. But you only find that out when you shave it all off. The tufty look seems to work for him.
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
True. Impressively the same actor, Ralph Ineson, is also most accurate Puritan farmer.
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Traditional Russian folk song youtu.be/fx7arcGqnEE?...
youtu.be
Black Widow - Bye, bye Miss American Pie
YouTube video by LoveMovieQuotes
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
And exactly half of them are wearing glasses.
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
HMG is/are pleased to grant this request of its/their loyal subject.
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Keeping it shipshape and Bristol fashion
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Even amongst uncool lawyers, the Chancery division are the ones we point at and shout “nerd!” But yeah, we need to diversify our top nerds.
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Anna Keay in the UK?
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
And the episode just ends, without any sense that a reprieve might ever be possible.
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Genuinely traumatising.
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’ve seen 1-9, and they’re all great. I haven’t seen any of your 10s. So that must be my objectively correct cut-off point.
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"probably the best physics in the world”
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Phil B @flipb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We’re trying to put on a brave face for the new students, and then breaking down in tears amongst ourselves. Unfair to everyone.
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