@brianphillips.lol
Senior Writer at The Ringer covering the intersection of tech, politics, and media 🦉 NYT bestselling author of Impossible Owls 🦉 also, how can I put this: sports
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@pbsnews.orgReposted by @brianphillips.lolMartina Navratilova was a high-profile force on the tennis court in the 1970s and ’80s with 59 Grand Slam titles. She has remained a big presence in the tennis world, commentating and mentoring, and is using her platform to weigh in on issues off the court as well. https://to.pbs.org/4rSfaJb
@joemenn.bsky.socialReposted by @brianphillips.lolNo, bombing Yandex has not impacted automated Russian trolling operations in the U.S.
@brianphillips.lolThat Commanders-Giants OT was some absolutely top-grade Kalshiball
@brianphillips.lolPicturing an elaborate MLM where if you can get a friend to take Buck Overblast for $30k you unlock the right to buy Johnny Laser for a cool $1 million
@brianphillips.lolObviously not the easiest family to be born into but you've gotta admire the joie de vivre
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@brianphillips.lolHowever, the greatest quarterback name of all time still belongs to former Oklahoma high-school star Kokain Mothershed
@brianphillips.lolGunner Stockton is the Colt McCoy of Clint Tricketts
@synonymforwet.bsky.socialReposted by @brianphillips.lolThe Gen Z kids at work when I do something cool
Theres a plaque on the gas station near my house in Indio, CA commemorating when Swaggert met the woman he was busted with.
@brianphillips.lolReposted by @brianphillips.lolI wrote about Jim Bakker, whose parasocial style of grifter evangelism seemed freakish to mainstream society in the 80s and is now the machinery by which mainstream society operates
@paulnoth.bsky.socialReposted by @brianphillips.lolMine in today’s @newyorker.com
@brianphillips.lolOur children must begin mastering the exacting technical discipline of Simply Begging For Help At The First Hint Of Effort at a young age, or they'll never be able to unlearn all the skills they won't need to succeed in the future
@brianphillips.lolA prophet!
@brianphillips.lolIt's amazing that we turned out so well-adjusted (relatively speaking in my case)
@brianphillips.lolI wrote about Jim Bakker, whose parasocial style of grifter evangelism seemed freakish to mainstream society in the 80s and is now the machinery by which mainstream society operates
@brianphillips.lolI may be wrong about this, but I believe the DA was experiencing side effects of Tremfya
@brianphillips.lol"Source: DynaCorp" it says in tiny text under the grainy, illegible newspaper page on which numbers keep getting highlighted, while a normal-looking Republican guy's head hovers there, involved with the numbers in some way that is probably bad, but who knows
@brianphillips.lolBeen watching a lot of college football lately, so I know the stakes of the midterms: whether we're going to be ruled by communist vampires who hate God, women, and life, or by a Republican whose face is near an unreadable newspaper article in which "$125 million" is highlighted for some reason
@brianphillips.lolI don't like to see him supporting ice in any form
