Thom
@thwphipps.bsky.social
This is the official BlueSky account of beloved TV writer Thom Phipps
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Thom
@thwphipps.bsky.social
· Nov 9
Moving my extra difficult cryptic crossword thread to here. Twitter no longer deserves it
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When you start Dark Souls
December 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
When you start Dark Souls
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Newly Unsealed Batch Of Epstein Estate Photos Contains Rare Holographic Dershowitz
December 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Newly Unsealed Batch Of Epstein Estate Photos Contains Rare Holographic Dershowitz
Let’s watch a nice Christmas-adjacent Hugh Grant movie featuring a cute kid and a banging soundtrack
December 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Let’s watch a nice Christmas-adjacent Hugh Grant movie featuring a cute kid and a banging soundtrack
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behold, the platonic ideal of social media
December 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
behold, the platonic ideal of social media
Been required to book a Eurostar and a hotel room for a work trip and this is the most stressed I’ve been about anything in months
December 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Been required to book a Eurostar and a hotel room for a work trip and this is the most stressed I’ve been about anything in months
You ever read a premise for a book that sounds like a spooky good time but you just know it's gonna end up turning into a vaguely tragic exploration of male friendship over the years and the monster is barely gonna appear in the last two hundred pages
December 12, 2025 at 1:10 PM
You ever read a premise for a book that sounds like a spooky good time but you just know it's gonna end up turning into a vaguely tragic exploration of male friendship over the years and the monster is barely gonna appear in the last two hundred pages
This was so, so silly
December 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
This was so, so silly
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So many worthless features in an iPhone update, and they still won’t do “add speech bubbles to photographs,” an easy feature literally everybody would love
December 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM
So many worthless features in an iPhone update, and they still won’t do “add speech bubbles to photographs,” an easy feature literally everybody would love
I wish there was a movie I could watch tonight that's as good and weird in exactly the same way that Weapons was
December 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I wish there was a movie I could watch tonight that's as good and weird in exactly the same way that Weapons was
No it’s not
it’s bait, you’re posting bait, you’re not better than the algorithm, you ARE the algorithm
(Yes it’s that fucking video of the woman doing the birthday surprise. It’s the most obvious bait post in weeks, why are you all posting it ffs)
(Yes it’s that fucking video of the woman doing the birthday surprise. It’s the most obvious bait post in weeks, why are you all posting it ffs)
December 9, 2025 at 7:19 PM
No it’s not
AAAAHHHH
I can’t emphasize enough how much you need to watch this until the end
December 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
AAAAHHHH
It's a thumbs down from me this week Clive
Pain. Impenetrable rubric and pointlessly tortuous clues. Turns out that song titles and ANAGRAMS OF SONG TITLES (Jesus) from the Beatles’ RUBBER SOUL (ugh) were scattered (/crowbarred) within the clues, which themselves offered up hints to the two unclued silver entries (RUBBER and SOUL)
December 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
It's a thumbs down from me this week Clive
Some absolutely barmy constitutional manoeuvring at the beginning of season six. This show doesn't even have a passing resemblance to reality at this point
December 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Some absolutely barmy constitutional manoeuvring at the beginning of season six. This show doesn't even have a passing resemblance to reality at this point
@agirlintheshed.bsky.social about a quarter of the way through this one and it’s banging so far
December 7, 2025 at 1:05 AM
@agirlintheshed.bsky.social about a quarter of the way through this one and it’s banging so far
Ray banging Marnie then immediately switching over to reading A Little Life has KILLED ME
Season five of Girls. They’re getting an amount of mileage out of Jessa being bad with a baby. As though she wasn’t a fucking nanny in season one! Cmon man! Grow up!
December 7, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Ray banging Marnie then immediately switching over to reading A Little Life has KILLED ME
We were sat next to an older gentleman who kept quietly gasping and exclaiming “oh DEAR” throughout the film and that is the epitome of the theatrical experience innit
December 6, 2025 at 11:52 PM
We were sat next to an older gentleman who kept quietly gasping and exclaiming “oh DEAR” throughout the film and that is the epitome of the theatrical experience innit
Season five of Girls. They’re getting an amount of mileage out of Jessa being bad with a baby. As though she wasn’t a fucking nanny in season one! Cmon man! Grow up!
December 6, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Season five of Girls. They’re getting an amount of mileage out of Jessa being bad with a baby. As though she wasn’t a fucking nanny in season one! Cmon man! Grow up!
Fucking wonderful. I am going to single handedly brute force this into becoming a holiday classic
December 6, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Fucking wonderful. I am going to single handedly brute force this into becoming a holiday classic
nw (It’s on at the picture house)
December 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM
nw (It’s on at the picture house)
The pub’s playing Vince Guaraldi Trio. This is not a drill
December 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The pub’s playing Vince Guaraldi Trio. This is not a drill
Bloody hell www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Netflix to buy Warner Bros film and streaming businesses for $72bn
The major Hollywood deal means Netflix will takeover ownership of franchises including Harry Potter and Game of Thrones.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 5, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Bloody hell www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Aerial roots. Don’t like em
December 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Aerial roots. Don’t like em