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Phoebe @phoeberoi.bsky.social · 32m

bloody hell, that was quick. I no longer feel bad for his partially set gut

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Phoebe @phoeberoi.bsky.social · 1h

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... i understood this interview i did was to be off the record

Barnsley man in hospital after three-day cola bottles binge

Nathan Rimmington ate his way through 3kg of sweets - and doctors were shocked he survived.

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Phoebe @phoeberoi.bsky.social · 1d

If they ever do a reunion & i’m not first in line for that writers’ room-

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Phoebe @phoeberoi.bsky.social · 1d

jenna: jack, i’m going - me and that prince have unfinished business, back from when i was a yacht girl
jack: aren’t you too old to be a yacht girl?
jenna: that’s what the lawyer they gave me said!

Suss-- 🥌 @suss2hyphens.bsky.social · 1d

which 30 rock character was most likely to headline the riyadh comedy festival, tracy or jenna

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Masters of Our Domain @mastersofpod.bsky.social · 1d

We watched, with escalating puzzlement, 1966’s A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
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Phoebe @phoeberoi.bsky.social · 1d

‘New flat new start’ is what people say after one of them has cheated, not to try and get rid of a really really normal bit of household gear, especially since she tries to make a laundry basket sound like a sort of deviant aberration

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Phoebe @phoeberoi.bsky.social · 1d

the most ‘the problem is you should break up’ one of these i’ve read for a while

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Phoebe @phoeberoi.bsky.social · 2d

what does mr beast think, has anyone asked

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Phoebe @phoeberoi.bsky.social · 2d

I posted that comic of the guy lying under a giant goldfish (caption ‘’glub glub’ he said’) and claimed it was a promotional image for Shape of Water

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Phoebe @phoeberoi.bsky.social · 2d

Its expression 😭

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Phoebe @phoeberoi.bsky.social · 2d

my job, some of my closest friends, my husband and therefore my son, a literary prize etc etc but all that pales in comparison when you consider that i once had my twitter account frozen for bullying Guillermo del Toro

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 3d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 8d

Today's the big day, friends - my new book, Lost Worlds: The Rise and Fall of Human Societies from the Ice Age to the Bronze Age, is available for preorder! Smash that link and purchase from your retailer of choice, if that's the kind of thing you're into. www.harpercollins.com/products/los...

Lost Worlds

The creator of the hit podcast Tides of History offers a new look at humanity’s deep past, showing us how our world was built not by inevitability, but by t...

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 16d

NEW SEASON of Tides of History starting soon, so stoked!
Oct 9: The Ancient Economy from Assyria to Augustus
Oct 16: Living and Working in Imperial Babylon
Oct 23: Interview with @peterbrannen.bsky.social on his new book
Oct 30: The Ancient Egyptian Economy
Nov 6: Interview with Eric Cline

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Phoebe @phoeberoi.bsky.social · 25d

i’ve actually seen a leaked internal memo that said ‘so we sticking with this design are we mark. Happy with the aesthetic, the whole look of it’ & the reply ‘yes why what’s wrong with it’

CNN @cnn.com · 26d

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has told analysts that people without smart glasses may one day be at a "significant cognitive disadvantage" compared to those who do use the tech: https://cnn.it/47L2Y5a

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Masters of Our Domain @mastersofpod.bsky.social · Sep 5

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A six year old’s guide to Roman Britain, ft. The usual gang @patrickwyman.bsky.social @miloedwards.bsky.social @phoeberoi.bsky.social

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · Sep 4

Got genuinely emotional yesterday talking with @phoeberoi.bsky.social and @miloedwards.bsky.social on Masters of Our Domain about the true depth and beauty of male friendship in “Master and Commander,” not beating any dad-related charges here

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Phoebe @phoeberoi.bsky.social · Aug 30

we make exactly this point in the episode, right down to the Troy comparison!

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Masters of Our Domain @mastersofpod.bsky.social · Aug 29

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This week, we watched and puzzled over 2004’s King Arthur, a movie considerably less than the sum of its cast
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · Aug 28

May 5th, 2026: HarperCollins will release my new book, "Lost Worlds: The Rise and Fall of Human Societies from the Ice Age to the Bronze Age." I'm so, so excited - it's taken more than five years to get this book researched and written, and I can't wait for it to be out in the world!

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Phoebe @phoeberoi.bsky.social · Aug 22

i LIVE for stoat segments

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Masters of Our Domain @mastersofpod.bsky.social · Aug 22

A new regular section of the show, @miloedwards.bsky.social & @phoeberoi.bsky.social ask @patrickwyman.bsky.social questions about a historical topic and goddammit he answers

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Masters of Our Domain @mastersofpod.bsky.social · Aug 15

new episode - after this no more blood and really not a lot of sand
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Phoebe @phoeberoi.bsky.social · Jul 30

That was my next move, as soon as i’ve worked out a way of persuading my child to stop eating grass

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Phoebe @phoeberoi.bsky.social · Jul 30

i don’t know what information i expected to find on looking this up but i feel like ‘play games & bring snacks’ is something i could have arrived at myself

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · Jul 29

My great friend @raxkingisdead.bsky.social wrote a funny and smart and heartbreaking and heartwarming book! It’s out TODAY, I hope my all-time favorite blurb convinces you to buy it! Do that here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/751421...

Cover of Sloppy by Rax King which features an illustration of a pinup girl in short shorts with big liquor jugs covering her chest.

“It is frankly rude to take a book full of such poignant insights and sharp jokes and call it Sloppy, but that’s what Rax King did with her tender and charming new essay collection. I hope this book sells one million copies, because the writing deserves it, and also because then Rax can pay back the money she borrowed from me when she was doing all those drugs.”
—Josh Gondelman, comedian and author of Nice Try

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