Alice M. Phillips
@alicemphillips.bsky.social
Prone to falling down rabbit holes.
Humor writer with work in Reductress, McSweeney's, Points in Case, Weekly Humorist, The Belladonna, Slackjaw, and elsewhere.
https://www.alicemphillips.com
Prev.: Davidson, NYU Law, POTUS44, and public defense in SC.
Humor writer with work in Reductress, McSweeney's, Points in Case, Weekly Humorist, The Belladonna, Slackjaw, and elsewhere.
https://www.alicemphillips.com
Prev.: Davidson, NYU Law, POTUS44, and public defense in SC.
We are at a local production of the Nutcracker where I would estimate 1 in every 10 people is sick with an upper respiratory infection and exactly 2 people in this whole auditorium are masked (my mom and myself).
November 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM
We are at a local production of the Nutcracker where I would estimate 1 in every 10 people is sick with an upper respiratory infection and exactly 2 people in this whole auditorium are masked (my mom and myself).
We only have one more episode of this volume of Stranger Things and that makes me so sad! It’s so good!!!
November 30, 2025 at 2:29 AM
We only have one more episode of this volume of Stranger Things and that makes me so sad! It’s so good!!!
Filled out my pre-registration stuff for baby’s upcoming birth and one of the forms I had to sign was a generic hospital handout about how I have a right to a living will/healthcare POA. LOL…no I don’t! SC law revokes pregnant people’s advance directives bc we can’t possibly make our own decisions!
November 29, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Filled out my pre-registration stuff for baby’s upcoming birth and one of the forms I had to sign was a generic hospital handout about how I have a right to a living will/healthcare POA. LOL…no I don’t! SC law revokes pregnant people’s advance directives bc we can’t possibly make our own decisions!
New friend! My 5 year old and I found this baby DeKay’s Brown snek inside our rotting pumpkin!
November 28, 2025 at 11:42 PM
New friend! My 5 year old and I found this baby DeKay’s Brown snek inside our rotting pumpkin!
November 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Where my brain goes every time someone asks me—a week away from having our third boy—if we’re going to “try for a girl.”
November 27, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Where my brain goes every time someone asks me—a week away from having our third boy—if we’re going to “try for a girl.”
Some satire about our upside down reality to get pumped for Stranger Things 5 tonight! Co-written with Kate Chrisman and published tonight in @weeklyhumorist.bsky.social!
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How Bad Do Things Have to Get Before the People of Hawkins Join Me and My Ragtag Group of Friends in Fighting the Upside Down? – Weekly Humorist
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November 26, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Some satire about our upside down reality to get pumped for Stranger Things 5 tonight! Co-written with Kate Chrisman and published tonight in @weeklyhumorist.bsky.social!
weeklyhumorist.com/how-bad-do-t...
weeklyhumorist.com/how-bad-do-t...
Reposted by Alice M. Phillips
SCOOP: The Trump administration has instructed employees and grantees not to use U.S. funds to commemorate World AIDS Day — because the observance was started by the World Health Organization.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Trump Administration Cancels U.S. Observance of World AIDS Day
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
SCOOP: The Trump administration has instructed employees and grantees not to use U.S. funds to commemorate World AIDS Day — because the observance was started by the World Health Organization.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Hallelujah, they charged him!!!!! Truly not sure what took so long, but I'm so glad that they charged him. Assault and Battery of a High and Aggravated Nature (0-20) and a weapons enhancement (mandatory 5 year sentence if convicted on this and predicate offense).
www.wistv.com/2025/11/25/m...
www.wistv.com/2025/11/25/m...
Man charged in shooting outside Columbia Planned Parenthood
A man has been charged in connection with a shooting that happened outside Columbia’s Planned Parenthood clinic.
www.wistv.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Hallelujah, they charged him!!!!! Truly not sure what took so long, but I'm so glad that they charged him. Assault and Battery of a High and Aggravated Nature (0-20) and a weapons enhancement (mandatory 5 year sentence if convicted on this and predicate offense).
www.wistv.com/2025/11/25/m...
www.wistv.com/2025/11/25/m...
I love it when LinkedIn is like, "You might know this therapist from your undergrad who got you through some real shit."
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I love it when LinkedIn is like, "You might know this therapist from your undergrad who got you through some real shit."
The parade of horribles continues—nothing like being a week and a half away from giving birth and getting an email that my kindergartener’s class has a suspected case of pertussis.
November 24, 2025 at 2:44 AM
The parade of horribles continues—nothing like being a week and a half away from giving birth and getting an email that my kindergartener’s class has a suspected case of pertussis.
Learn from my mistake: a Halloween haunted car wash is not age appropriate for a 3-year-old. If you go anyway, plan on at least half of your conversations for the next 4+ weeks to be about how the blood wasn’t real, there’s no grim reaper, etc. Expect some of these chats at 10 PM when he’s scared 😩
November 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Learn from my mistake: a Halloween haunted car wash is not age appropriate for a 3-year-old. If you go anyway, plan on at least half of your conversations for the next 4+ weeks to be about how the blood wasn’t real, there’s no grim reaper, etc. Expect some of these chats at 10 PM when he’s scared 😩
Okay, bud, you have about 26 hours left to be a Scorpio...last call! In 2 hours we've reached term!!! 😍
November 20, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Okay, bud, you have about 26 hours left to be a Scorpio...last call! In 2 hours we've reached term!!! 😍
S.323 is dead!!!!!!!!! Good work y’all. Organizing and activism and showing up can make all the difference!
November 19, 2025 at 2:36 AM
S.323 is dead!!!!!!!!! Good work y’all. Organizing and activism and showing up can make all the difference!
If you want an honest opinion on your singing, get a cat. When I start singing, one cat runs away in horror and hides and the other flies across the house to bite my legs until I stop.
November 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
If you want an honest opinion on your singing, get a cat. When I start singing, one cat runs away in horror and hides and the other flies across the house to bite my legs until I stop.
Have officially arrived at the same gestational day on which my firstborn came, a few days preterm. I’m hopeful this guy is going to hang in there another 2 weeks and change till his induction date, but it does suddenly feel very real!
November 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Have officially arrived at the same gestational day on which my firstborn came, a few days preterm. I’m hopeful this guy is going to hang in there another 2 weeks and change till his induction date, but it does suddenly feel very real!
This is what 50501 SC is reporting.
#50501SC Statement on the shooting at the #ColumbiaSC #PlannedParenthood this morning
Mark Baumgartner, head of forced-birth nonprofit A Moment of Hope, can be seen in video standing over the unarmed passerby who he pepper sprayed and shot outside of the Columbia Planned Parenthood on 11/14. #scpol
Mark Baumgartner, head of forced-birth nonprofit A Moment of Hope, can be seen in video standing over the unarmed passerby who he pepper sprayed and shot outside of the Columbia Planned Parenthood on 11/14. #scpol
November 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This is what 50501 SC is reporting.
I've been refreshing the public court records and inmate list for this guy and he has not popped up as of yet, as having been booked or charged.
Reports so far->male shooter, one male shot (stable, at hospital). All PP staff, patients, volunteers okay. Occurred in adjacent parking lot. CPD investigating; FBI notified. Local rag (news blog) reporting shooter was founder of pro-life mission that stands on sidewalk by PP entrance on Tues/Fri.
Wtf! Shooting at the Planned Parenthood across from my neighborhood!
November 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I've been refreshing the public court records and inmate list for this guy and he has not popped up as of yet, as having been booked or charged.
Reports so far->male shooter, one male shot (stable, at hospital). All PP staff, patients, volunteers okay. Occurred in adjacent parking lot. CPD investigating; FBI notified. Local rag (news blog) reporting shooter was founder of pro-life mission that stands on sidewalk by PP entrance on Tues/Fri.
Wtf! Shooting at the Planned Parenthood across from my neighborhood!
November 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Reports so far->male shooter, one male shot (stable, at hospital). All PP staff, patients, volunteers okay. Occurred in adjacent parking lot. CPD investigating; FBI notified. Local rag (news blog) reporting shooter was founder of pro-life mission that stands on sidewalk by PP entrance on Tues/Fri.
Wtf! Shooting at the Planned Parenthood across from my neighborhood!
November 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Wtf! Shooting at the Planned Parenthood across from my neighborhood!
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welcome back. if you're just joining us, nazis are defending pedophiles
November 13, 2025 at 11:59 PM
welcome back. if you're just joining us, nazis are defending pedophiles
Voted early in our muni run-off! Columbia, early vote continues today/tomorrow at 2020 Hampton, and Election Day is Tues, 11/18 at precincts! (Confirm at SCvotes.gov) Voted for Sam Johnson & Julie Lumpkin who I believe will be more compassionate toward ALL Cola folk, including our unhoused citizens.
November 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Voted early in our muni run-off! Columbia, early vote continues today/tomorrow at 2020 Hampton, and Election Day is Tues, 11/18 at precincts! (Confirm at SCvotes.gov) Voted for Sam Johnson & Julie Lumpkin who I believe will be more compassionate toward ALL Cola folk, including our unhoused citizens.
Tomorrow, my state, SC, will execute a 44-year-old man named Stephen Bryant by firing squad. Gov. McMaster has never granted relief of any sort, so I’m sure it will go forward. I’m still calling him to plead. The last firing squad execution was botched, with Mr. Mahdi taking several minutes to die.
November 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Tomorrow, my state, SC, will execute a 44-year-old man named Stephen Bryant by firing squad. Gov. McMaster has never granted relief of any sort, so I’m sure it will go forward. I’m still calling him to plead. The last firing squad execution was botched, with Mr. Mahdi taking several minutes to die.