Brian Phillips
@brianphillips.bsky.social
Senior Writer at The Ringer 🦉 NYT bestselling author of Impossible Owls 🦉 occasional podcast host (22 Goals, Truthless) 🦉 whippet fancier
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Lane Kiffin's tenure as my life coach has ended acrimoniously
Lane Kiffin has made his choice: He's taking the job as my life coach
December 1, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Lane Kiffin's tenure as my life coach has ended acrimoniously
Lane Kiffin has made his choice: He's taking the job as my life coach
November 29, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Lane Kiffin has made his choice: He's taking the job as my life coach
Oh man, that's a rough one. On the other hand I'm glad he didn't have to see Hamnet
November 29, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Oh man, that's a rough one. On the other hand I'm glad he didn't have to see Hamnet
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Tiger
King cobra
Polar bear
Golden eagle
Lilybean
Tiger
King cobra
Polar bear
Golden eagle
Lilybean
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Tundra swan
Barn owl
Blue whale
Bufflehead
California condor
Tundra swan
Barn owl
Blue whale
Bufflehead
California condor
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Whale shark
Jelly fish
Snowy owl
Black bear
Centipede
Whale shark
Jelly fish
Snowy owl
Black bear
Centipede
November 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Tiger
King cobra
Polar bear
Golden eagle
Lilybean
Tiger
King cobra
Polar bear
Golden eagle
Lilybean
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife"
November 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife"
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Audience culture is the worst it's ever been, I swear to god. People forgot how to act. I'm at the theater, trying to enjoy my show, which I've paid GOOD MONEY for, and these two old assholes are in the balcony heckling the life out of the poor bear onstage. Not letting him finish a single joke.
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Audience culture is the worst it's ever been, I swear to god. People forgot how to act. I'm at the theater, trying to enjoy my show, which I've paid GOOD MONEY for, and these two old assholes are in the balcony heckling the life out of the poor bear onstage. Not letting him finish a single joke.
It was never going to be Mueller or Epstein or any well-laid plan crafted by the moral opposition. It was always going to be some ragingly on-tilt rando chasing a completely different objective coughing up proof the assassination attempt was staged with energy so divorced it blots out the sun
I started out a skeptic but I'm now fully sold on the idea that Ryan Lizza's revenge-porn blog will, as pure collateral damage, bring down the president of the United States
November 27, 2025 at 4:03 AM
It was never going to be Mueller or Epstein or any well-laid plan crafted by the moral opposition. It was always going to be some ragingly on-tilt rando chasing a completely different objective coughing up proof the assassination attempt was staged with energy so divorced it blots out the sun
I started out a skeptic but I'm now fully sold on the idea that Ryan Lizza's revenge-porn blog will, as pure collateral damage, bring down the president of the United States
November 27, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I started out a skeptic but I'm now fully sold on the idea that Ryan Lizza's revenge-porn blog will, as pure collateral damage, bring down the president of the United States
Sure, you can make it sound weird if you try, but who among us HASN'T sent a courtroom sketch artist into Mar-A-Lago with a concealed tape recorder in order to secretly record the president's conversations with an eye toward helping our sexting partner, the nation's dangerous anti-vax crusader and s
November 26, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Sure, you can make it sound weird if you try, but who among us HASN'T sent a courtroom sketch artist into Mar-A-Lago with a concealed tape recorder in order to secretly record the president's conversations with an eye toward helping our sexting partner, the nation's dangerous anti-vax crusader and s
Lizza, hitting publish
November 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Lizza, hitting publish
I am ON HOLIDAY thanks
November 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I am ON HOLIDAY thanks
I take it all back, let this person secretly advise the campaigns of every politician I hate
November 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I take it all back, let this person secretly advise the campaigns of every politician I hate
About to lead this locker room of young men to a 76-3 loss in the state championship
November 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
About to lead this locker room of young men to a 76-3 loss in the state championship
Put it on my tombstone
Brian Phillips is an incredible writer who just made me throw up in my mouth.
People are calling my lede here "appalling," "nightmare fuel," "actively evil," and "a desecration of the human spirit"
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Put it on my tombstone
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Can confirm this is true
November 25, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Can confirm this is true
People are calling my lede here "appalling," "nightmare fuel," "actively evil," and "a desecration of the human spirit"
The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined
Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time
www.theringer.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
People are calling my lede here "appalling," "nightmare fuel," "actively evil," and "a desecration of the human spirit"
I wrote 4000 words about Nuzzi/Lizza/RFK, please read it before it gets taken down by HR
The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined
Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time
www.theringer.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I wrote 4000 words about Nuzzi/Lizza/RFK, please read it before it gets taken down by HR
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NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
I mean, it's true that the vast majority of Americans aren't welcome on Martha's Vineyard
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I mean, it's true that the vast majority of Americans aren't welcome on Martha's Vineyard
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one thing thats crazy about the current era in the states is that it is clear across most domains that science got processed by a lot of people as "traumatic encounter with the real" and now they are just making decisions based on that trauma.
elon, peter, anti-vaxxers, all the same problem
elon, peter, anti-vaxxers, all the same problem
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
one thing thats crazy about the current era in the states is that it is clear across most domains that science got processed by a lot of people as "traumatic encounter with the real" and now they are just making decisions based on that trauma.
elon, peter, anti-vaxxers, all the same problem
elon, peter, anti-vaxxers, all the same problem
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U have died of dysentery
The artist formerly known as Prince was a beta tester for the first Oregon Trail (he was in third grade at the school near the developers)
November 23, 2025 at 11:12 PM
U have died of dysentery
They cure at the same tannery
Jerry Jones looks like off brand RFK Jr
November 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
They cure at the same tannery
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The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
Google says “we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model.”
www.theverge.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
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November 23, 2025 at 9:42 AM
I mean, it's POSSIBLE he found out about the catch-and-kill operation only after the fact, but that's a stretch on the level of "the papers just fell out of her unattended bag!" and "this bamboo explains America"
Re Lizza's "catch-and-kill" offhand accusation, either
1. It's true and BOTH of them (since he knew about it) are now not-even-that-tangentially responsible for RFK's attempts to destroy public health in America
2. It's false and both of these people should never have jobs in journalism again
1. It's true and BOTH of them (since he knew about it) are now not-even-that-tangentially responsible for RFK's attempts to destroy public health in America
2. It's false and both of these people should never have jobs in journalism again
November 22, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I mean, it's POSSIBLE he found out about the catch-and-kill operation only after the fact, but that's a stretch on the level of "the papers just fell out of her unattended bag!" and "this bamboo explains America"