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Phil Sweeps
@philsweeps.bsky.social
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Life motto: “Little people make a difference.” I clean a little real trash from the streets every day, along with my human companion @dmalinowski.bsky.social. Based in San Jose, CA, but I like to travel, too
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Have you ever noticed how the inside of leaves are so clean? Ever wondered how they got that way?

Well, now you know ✌️🧢🧹

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#lego #minifig #keepitclean #fall #littlepeoplemakeadifference #legophoto
a photo of Phil Sweeps, the LEGO street cleaner, sweeping the inside of a bright orange curled leaf sitting on the sidewalk
December 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Hey Bluesky friends, I’m back after a little break. But, you know, there’s more trash than ever in the city streets here in San José, California, and someone has to clean it!

How do things look where you are?
A picture of a crumpled receipt sitting on the sidewalk on a sunny day, with a red brick wall on the right side A picture of a LEGO trash cleaner minifigure with a broom approaching a crumpled receipt sitting on the sidewalk on a sunny day, with a red brick wall on the right side A picture of a LEGO trash cleaner minifigure holding his broom in the air, standing on the sidewalk on a sunny day, with a red brick wall on the right side A picture of a clean sidewalk on a sunny day, with a red brick wall on the right side
November 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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When times are tough, it’s hard to think about the needs of others. But, folks, we can’t just leave Canada Dry on the street.

#LEGO #LegoPhotography #KeepItClean don’t leave #CanadaDry in a #gutter 🇨🇦🧢🧹
A photo of Phil Sweeps, the LEGO street sweeper minifigure, standing resolutely beside an empty, half-crushed can of Canada Dry that had been thrown into the gutter. The photo is on a rainy day, and there is a stream of water surrounding the can. A photo of Phil Sweeps, the LEGO street sweeper minifigure, pushing an empty, half-crushed can of Canada Dry that had been thrown into the gutter. The photo is on a rainy day, and there is a stream of water surrounding the can. A close-up photo of Phil Sweeps, the LEGO street sweeper minifigure, pushing the bottom of an empty, half-crushed can of Canada Dry that had been thrown into the gutter. The photo is on a rainy day, and there is a stream of water surrounding the can.
March 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Sometimes the world just looks like a big, gross, gooey mess.

#nasty #trash #PickitUp #LEGO #minifigure #legophotography
The LEGO minifigure street cleaner Phil Sweeps stands looking over a candy wrapper with a big messy smeared piece of chocolate candy inside
February 23, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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“The view is amazing here,” he said to her, as he tossed the cigarette butt to the ground. “Don’t you think so?”

Hey. People. Don’t be that guy. #PickItUp #NoTrash #LEGO #legophotography
A LEGO minifigure with orange overalls and a blue hat is pushing a cigarette butt with a broom along a cement handrail, with a suburban vista in the background
February 15, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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Sometimes on Saturdays I go on dates with my girlfriend, Lily J. Waters. She likes to take care of plants.

Today the weather was nice, so we went for a walk in a park and climbed some mustard plants. Then I showed her one of my favorite trash cans!

#LEGO #minifigs #romance #legophotography 🧢🧹
Two LEGO minifigures are smiling and holding hands in the sunshine: Lily J. Waters, who is holding a green watering can, and Phil Sweeps, who has a broom in his other hand. Two LEGO minifigures are posed climbing the stalk of a blooming mustard plant Two LEGO minifigures are holding hands on a sunny day, standing with their backs to the camera, and looming across a walking path toward a trash can
February 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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“Oh, sure,” they said, “we’ll cover the playground with tanbark* so it won’t hurt to fall down on,” they said, “and it’ll be easy to walk on, too.” 🙄

Ever look at the world from 2 inches above the ground, city planners??? 🧢🧹 #LEGO #legophoto #keepitclean

*that’s “wood chips” in Bay Area-speak
Phil Sweeps, the trash-cleaning LEGO minifigure, tries to sweep a paper wrapper in the middle of a playground surface that is covered with tanbark (=wood chips, for all you non-Bay Area types).
February 8, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Um…has anybody seen my broom? I could have sworn I had it here somewhere…. 🧢🧹

#lego #minifig #trashcollector #legophoto #legophotography
Phil Sweeps, the trash cleaning Lego minifigure, stands inside a small cardboard box filled with Lego parts, looking for his broom.
February 7, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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One person’s trash is another person’s…fabulousness.

Phil standing in the Friday night lights at San Jose City College, with a golden streamer draped elegantly over his shoulders 🧢🧹🌟

#lego #minifigs #legophotography #legophoto
A photo of Phil Sweeps, the LEGO street sweeper minifigure, standing in the Friday night lights, on the artificial turf of the football field at San Jose City College, with a golden streamer draped elegantly over his shoulders
February 6, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Looks like someone didn’t like what they were showing on TV. I ran into this large flatscreen last night on the street near home.

Help?

#toobigforme #lego #keepitclean #trash #minifigsmakeadifference
A Lego trash collector minifigure stares at a flat screen TV that’s been dumped on the street in San Jose, California
February 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Do you love to see trash disappear? I do! Just swipe left to say buh-bye to this Snickers wrapper 👋🧢🧹
a Snickers wrapper lies on the ground outside a grocery store a LEGO trash collector minifigure approaches a Snickers wrapper lying on the ground outside a grocery store a LEGO trash collector minifigure walks away from the spot where a Snickers wrapper was lying on the ground outside a grocery store A view of the clean ground outside a grocery store, where there had once been a Snickers wrapper
January 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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What do you do when the challenge in front of you seems entirely beyond your powers?
A photo of Phil Sweeps, the trash-cleaning LEGO minifigure, standing in front of a styrofoam food container that is lying on the sidewalk. The photo is taken at a low level from behind Phil, illustrating the difference in size between the LEGO man and the human takeout container, and suggesting the impossibility of him cleaning it up.
January 22, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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In appreciation of all the people—big and small, seen and unseen—who make our environments just a little bit brighter 💙🧡

—at Terminal 2, #Heathrow #Airport #London #Lego #minifigs #keepitclean #legophotography 🧹🧢
A Lego minifigure trash sweeper pushes a broom along the smooth, shiny floor of a terminal building at Heathrow Airport.
January 19, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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They say sweeping trash is a simple job, but it could go catastrophically wrong at any moment.

#cleaning #trash at #Highgate #London #Tube #subway on the #stairs Let’s go #LEGO #legophotography #keepitclean folks 🧢🧹
A photo of Phil Sweeps, the LEGO trash-cleaner, sweeping a candy wrapper at the top of the long staircase inside the Highgate Tube station in London A photo of the long staircase inside the Highgate Tube station in London A close-up photo of Phil Sweeps, the LEGO trash-cleaner, sweeping a candy wrapper at the top of the long staircase inside the Highgate Tube station in London
January 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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@spacetron.bsky.social nice to meet you! I’ll keep an eye out for your spaceship overhead 🚀
January 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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The trash you find can tell you a lot about where you are

#keepitclean #camdentown #london #lego #minifigs #legophotography #bottoecap #streetphoto 🧹🧢
A Lego street cleaner minifigure stands on the sidewalk in Camden Town, London. He is holding a broom and pushing a Camden Town Brewery bottle cap in the foreground.
January 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Things are looking pretty good here from the electric outlet…how bout from your side of the room? 🧹🧢
A Lego trash collector minifigure stands atop a brown electric cord plugged into an off-white electrical outlet, broom in hand, and looks off in the distance
January 17, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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When cool people are done with the cigarette and flick the butt high into the sky, do they think it will never land?

Guess what? It does.

🧹🧢 #butts #trash #keepitclean #paris #2earrondissement
A Lego trash-collector minifig pushes a cigarette butt with a broom on the wet pavement. At an intersection in the 9th Arrondissement of Paris at night, with a restaurant with red neon on the awning in the background
January 16, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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How do you think landmarks like the Eiffel Tower get to looking so good for everyone’s selfies and postcards? Yep, that’s right—somebody’s got to pick up the trash 🧹🧢

#KeepItClean #Paris #EiffelTower #LEGO #minifigsmakeadifference
A nighttime photo of a Lego minifigure in orange overalls and a blue hat pushing a broom, cleaning trash off the ground, with the Eiffel Tower of Paris in the background
January 14, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Sometimes, all it takes is a little focused cleaning to find the beauty in the ordinary

#keepitclean #lego #smallisbeautiful
A Lego minifigure sweeps a bottle cap along an evening riverside
January 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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I’ve done some cleaning up around the U.S. Capitol building, and I hope everyone does their best in the next 4 years to keep it beautiful. Don’t forget the little people! 🧢🧹

photo from November, 2017 #Lego #keepitclean
Photo of Phil Sweeps, the LEGO street sweeping minifig, raising his broom and his free hand with the U.S. Capitol building in the background
January 8, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Never thought anyone would see that half-eaten rotten apple they dropped out of the car window. Still has the sticker too! 🍎🧢🧹
A nighttime close-up photo of a Lego minifigure cleaner guy with broom approaching a rotten apple sitting on the street
January 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Where were you, and how did you say goodbye to 2024?

Let’s make it a #Lego #NewYear 🧢🧹
Lego minifigure sitting on top of an empty plastic bottle and waving to the setting sun
January 7, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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I know a lot of humans who are real stressed out. One thing they say they like about my pictures is that seeing little things up close helps to put the big things in perspective.

That may be true, but if they were the ones lifting this crayon or sack of sugar, they might not romanticize it as much
Lego street sweeper minifigure lifting up one side of a yellow and green sponge Lego street sweeper minifigure carrying a Dunkin Donuts sugar packet Lego street sweeper minifigure holding up a green crayon
January 7, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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I got my start several years ago in New Haven, Connecticut, where my human companion was working. Sure, I liked having seasons, but they don’t prepare you for how tall the grass is, or how deep the snow, when you’re a LEGO minifig 🧢🧹
Lego street sweeper minifigure cleaning up a KitKat wrapper in the tall grass Lego street sweeper minifigure sweeping a curled up, dry red leaf Lego street sweeper minifigure waving from the snow—its whole lower body is submerged Lego street sweeper minifigure shoveling snow, with a long trail behind him
January 7, 2025 at 2:18 AM