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Tom Phillips
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New book out now! A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE END OF THE F*CKING WORLD – https://linktr.ee/endofthefckingworld Previous books: Humans; Truth; Conspiracy. Formerly BuzzFeed & Full Fact.
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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · Jul 31
Hello, the paperback of my latest book is in stores TODAY, which is very exciting.

It's had some wonderful reviews and I'm very proud of it, please buy it and also tell everybody you know to buy it too.

Bookshop link here (other retailers are available): bit.ly/4ocy630
The paperback cover of Tom Phillips's A Brief History of The End of the F*cking World – subtitle: 3,000 Years of Getting It Wrong (So Far...) – which shows an exploding planet Earth on a white background, the mushroom cloud obscuring the "u" in "Fucking". The image is captioned "OUT NOW IN PAPERBACK", because it is now out in paperback. A quote from the Irish Independent, reading: "'Exceptionally funny from cover to cover, it is not only an entertaining read but also deeply researched and thoughtful". This appears over the paperback cover of Tom Phillips's A Brief History of The End of the F*cking World – subtitle: 3,000 Years of Getting It Wrong (So Far...) – which shows an exploding planet Earth on a white background, the mushroom cloud obscuring the "u" in "Fucking". A quote from the Daily Telegraph, reading: "Superb... entertaining... Phillips traverses this sprawling terrain with energy and charm". This appears over the paperback cover of Tom Phillips's A Brief History of The End of the F*cking World – subtitle: 3,000 Years of Getting It Wrong (So Far...) – which shows an exploding planet Earth on a white background, the mushroom cloud obscuring the "u" in "Fucking". A quote from the New Scientist, reading: "A great read... [Phillips] fills his timeline of unfilled apocalypses with wry humour". This appears over the paperback cover of Tom Phillips's A Brief History of The End of the F*cking World – subtitle: 3,000 Years of Getting It Wrong (So Far...) – which shows an exploding planet Earth on a white background, the mushroom cloud obscuring the "u" in "Fucking".
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maybe this is just Vanity Fair's new house style for byline portraits
anamariecox.bsky.social Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 7h
I regret to inform you there is more Olivia Newzzi: the print VF will feature a nude portrait by artist Isabelle Brourman that is also destined for Art Basel Miami Beach. Notably, its inclusion appears be a surprise to VF staff. VF looking worse and worse here. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
An abstracted nude in the style of Picasso; is it called "How to Disappear and is by the artist Isabelle Brourman." The painting, titled How to Disappear is by the artist Isabelle Brourman and is set to appear in the magazine’s Dec. 2 Hollywood Issue, according to industry newsletter Status, though until now, no image has circulated publicly or even widely inside Condé Nast. Sources tell ARTnews that the portrait that the image is a magazine exclusive and was not intended to run online.
November 25, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Hello! I'm hosting a new funny history podcast/radio series for children and families, and it's coming very soon on the BBC! Great writers, great performers, great producers, and me arguing with Ramesses the great... what's not to love?
scriblit.bsky.social Gabby HC's books make ideal festive presents @scriblit.bsky.social · 10h
HERE! WE! FUCKING! GO! I have been making this show for TWO YEARS, it's finally going out this Christmas, Baby's First Production Credit is gonna be on R4 over the Radio Times Double Issue Window, baybeh! www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
A press release for Dead Funny History. Reads: You’re Dead to Me: Dead Funny History New series launches Monday 15 December. Three special episodes will be broadcast on Radio 4 on 19 December, 26 December and 2 January. Artwork for Dead Funny History featuring BBC branding. Line art symbols and cartoons surround text: “You’re Dead to me Presents Dead Funny History.” Attention kids of all ages! Dead Funny History is the brand-new comedy history show for everyone aged 8 to 108, from the team behind the hit Radio 4 podcast You’re Dead to Me. What links a 70-foot colossus to the prettiest cow in Ancient Egypt? Which world-famous siblings began as terrible teachers? And what was the surprisingly dangerous Christmas game in medieval Britain? From Ramesses the Great to the Brontë sisters to the history of football, Greg Jenner serves up a smorgasbord of the funniest, messiest, and most astonishing stories from history. Expect pirates, spies, superstars, chariot races, bouncing cats, ancient toilets, radioactive notebooks, and a pig named Albert, all crammed into 14-minute episodes packed with jokes and sketches. Dead Funny History is a brilliantly bonkers historical romp for the whole family to enjoy. Starring: Richard David Caine (Horrible Histories), Mali Ann Rees (Mammoth), and John-Luke Roberts (Sound Heap), with scripts by top comedy writers Gabby Hutchinson Crouch, Jack Bernhardt, Athena Kugblenu, and You’re Dead to Me’s own Dr Emma Nagouse. Presenter: Greg Jenner Written by: Gabby Hutchinson Crouch, Jack Bernhardt, Athena Kugblenu, Dr Emma Nagouse Produced by: Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow and Greg Jenner Audio Producer: Steve Hankey Production BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.
November 25, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/
Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life
November 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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One frustration of watching MPs ask questions for an hour is that they're not very good at it. Prescott has not been asked about the fairly glaring errors in his own report – that *it misquoted Trump in exactly the same way it says Panorama did*
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Prescott himself doctored Trump quote in his anti-BBC report
A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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and yet he became a reactionary, despite people dying of adverse drug reactions
danielsohege.bsky.social Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 2d
There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.
Even the term “progressive” makes Lord Glasman shudder. His mother died of progressive supranuclear palsy. “Every word of that condition is terrible. She lost all her bodily functions, yet her brain remained intact, leaving her a mute witness to her own demise. It took six years to kill her, and to cure me of any fantasy that ‘progressive’ is desirable.”
November 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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being fed constant information about Nuzzi and Lizza, it will not stop, it feels like being psychically attacked by a tricky wordle
November 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Stayed up to see England collapse in Perth, now Forest are three up at Anfield, sport truly is a land of contrasts
November 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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people really will write anything on the internet
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d
Marjorie Taylor Greene could have led the anti-Trump resistance but the mob boss got his way
Marjorie Taylor Greene could have led the anti-Trump resistance but the mob boss got his way
The Maga star won on the Epstein files and could have founded a Republican resistance movement but is instead the latest dissenter to head for the exit It has been a head-spinning 48 hours in Washington. Liberal TV host Rachel Maddow showed up at the funeral of conservative vice-president Dick Cheney. Donald Trump embraced Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist set to be the first Muslim mayor of New York, like a brother. And then Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Trump acolyte-turned-nemesis who bested him over the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, stunned the political establishment again. In what should have been her hour of triumph, the Maga star abruptly announced that she was quitting the House of Representatives. Continue reading...
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November 22, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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AH WELL #thecricket
November 22, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Oh Zac
November 22, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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this is correct
I feel fucking mental because I’ve written about it multiple times on here and multiple times elsewhere but it’s not done anything, and yet I feel like I have to keep saying it because I’m watching those people fall further and further down the rabbit hole and I have no idea what else to do. I’m watching the fascists win not by being especially cunning or clever but by instead standing around and holding a big sign that says “jump in this hole if you’re an easy mark!” and somehow guiding around two thirds of our political elite directly into the big hole.
November 21, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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cricket's going well then
November 21, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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not the main point here but lol at Frank Lampard being on this list
November 20, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Fish have committed credit card fraud
Credit card fraud Black neon tetras committed credit card fraud during a 2023 livestream by "Mutekimaru Channel" on YouTube. The owner was using motion-tracking software to turn the fish's movements into Nintendo Switch inputs, letting them "play" video games. 8 In 2020, the fish beat Pokemon Sapphire after 3,195 hours, a feat that takes about 30 hours for a typical human. 9/ 181 On January 14, 2023, Pokémon Violet crashed at 1,144 hours, giving the fish free access to the main menu. They entered inputs that opened Nintendo eShop, added 500 yen ($3.85 USD) to their owner's account, and exposed his credit card details on the livestream. 10) 11) Mutekimaru later requested a refund of the 500 yen from Nintendo. l12) "Fish eagerly read the terms and conditions. Many of us humans don't read the terms of service, but fish are smarter than we are" - caption from Mutekimaru in a video about the incident 12) The fish also downloaded an N64 emulator, set up PayPal, used reward points to buy an avatar, and changed Mutekimaru's Nintendo account name to "ROWAWAWA*". 13, After about seven hours, their movements shut down the Switch. 14)
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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look if Allister (autocorrect hates your wrong name) Heath is taking a bold stance against the influence of state-like foreign corporations in UK politics, I say welcome to the resistance brother
rolandmcs.bsky.social Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 5d
Sunlit Uplands latest...
November 19, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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This is easily an order of magnitude larger than the number of firings in the entire years-long 'cancel culture' panic.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
600 Americans were fired in the wake of Charlie Kirk's killing
November 19, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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you know I reckon Northern Ireland could take Italy
danielhussey.bsky.social Daniel Hussey Sport @danielhussey.bsky.social · 6d
World Cup Playoff Pots CONFIRMED:

1 - Italy
1 - Denmark
1 - Turkey
1 - Ukraine

2 - Poland
2 - Wales
2 - Czechia
2 - Slovakia

3 - Ireland
3 - Albania
3 - Bosnia
3 - Kosovo

4 - Romania (NL)
4 - Sweden (NL)
4 - N. Macedonia (NL)
4 - N. Ireland (NL)

Pot 1 v Pot 4
Pot 2 v Pot 3
November 18, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Two different views on the football
November 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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just a huge amount of football, the most football
November 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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stop making me know sex things about the bad writing lady
November 18, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Labour in "good move" shocker
pickardje.bsky.social Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 8d
Exclusive:

UK ministers plan to ban the resale of tickets for live events above their original cost, in an aggressive crackdown on touts and resellers who sharply increase the price of admission to concerts and sports events.

www.ft.com/content/e76d...
UK to ban resale of tickets above face value for live events
Aggressive crackdown on touts comes after backlash over cost of watching live music and sport
www.ft.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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I think the one observation I'd make is that in a world becoming "more volatile", for the concept of "sanctuary" to be meaningful it should encompass a longer period rather than a shorter one?
She underlines this country "will always offer sanctuary to those fleeing danger". However, she adds that the world has changed and the UK's asylum system has not changed with it. She says the world is "more volatile" and "more mobile", with huge numbers of people on the move. Mahmood now summarises some of the reforms outlined by the Home Office earlier today. Refugee status will be temporary not permanent, she says, and will be reviewed every two-and-a-half years rather than every five. It will only be renewed if refugees are unable to return home.
November 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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people are reading too much into this, maybe it was simply Morgan's turn on the stopping-him-having-sex-with-his-wife rota
davidheniguk.bsky.social David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 9d
Late to this, but if the Sunday Times is correct that Morgan McSweeney spent one and a half hours last week with Lord Glasman then he isn't fit to fill any senior position in government.
November 16, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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markpopham.bsky.social
It is very funny that this Pope is just going to get jerseys from now on. Everyone decided that's what this Pope likes and that is it. It's like if your grandmother got you a puzzle for Christmas one year and you said you liked it so your entire extended family is like "oh that's the puzzle kid"
vulture.com Vulture @vulture.com · 9d
Spike Lee just blessed Pope Leo with a custom Knicks jersey during his visit to the Vatican, just one week after the Pope was gifted a custom Chicago Bulls one.
Spike Lee Blesses Pope Leo with Knicks Jersey
Spike Lee just blessed Pope Leo with a custom Knicks jersey during his visit to the Vatican, just one week after the Pope was gifted a custom Chicago Bulls one.
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November 16, 2025 at 3:07 AM