Brian Phillips
@brianphillips.bsky.social
Senior Writer at The Ringer 🦉 NYT bestselling author of Impossible Owls 🦉 occasional podcast host (22 Goals, Truthless) 🦉 whippet fancier
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pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things
January 16, 2026 at 4:55 PM
pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things
Thanks Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) for tweeting excerpts from my predictions market piece; this is in my view the second-best possible use of Twitter, just behind quitting Twitter
January 16, 2026 at 2:41 AM
Thanks Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) for tweeting excerpts from my predictions market piece; this is in my view the second-best possible use of Twitter, just behind quitting Twitter
What will you do with your one wild and precious life well Mary I will spend as much of it as possible on the phone with gambling-industry PR flaks
January 15, 2026 at 3:32 PM
What will you do with your one wild and precious life well Mary I will spend as much of it as possible on the phone with gambling-industry PR flaks
Someone from Kalshi contacted me this morning to say they'd "love to talk about your article." Do you think they'd let me create a bet about whether I'm going to take that call
I wrote about the rise of prediction markets, which have FINALLY made it possible for crypto bros to cosplay as war profiteers while getting fleeced by actual war profiteers
How Prediction Markets Turned Life Into a Dystopian Gambling Experiment
What are Polymarket and Kalshi? Why are they taking over the world? And is there anything stopping actors on these platforms from exploiting almost everything and everyone?
www.theringer.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Someone from Kalshi contacted me this morning to say they'd "love to talk about your article." Do you think they'd let me create a bet about whether I'm going to take that call
This era of online masculinity will not draw to a close until we have truly established who is the Smartest Man in Moron Town
January 14, 2026 at 3:33 PM
This era of online masculinity will not draw to a close until we have truly established who is the Smartest Man in Moron Town
I wrote about the rise of prediction markets, which have FINALLY made it possible for crypto bros to cosplay as war profiteers while getting fleeced by actual war profiteers
How Prediction Markets Turned Life Into a Dystopian Gambling Experiment
What are Polymarket and Kalshi? Why are they taking over the world? And is there anything stopping actors on these platforms from exploiting almost everything and everyone?
www.theringer.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:28 PM
I wrote about the rise of prediction markets, which have FINALLY made it possible for crypto bros to cosplay as war profiteers while getting fleeced by actual war profiteers
Why do you want to hurt me Dan
January 13, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Why do you want to hurt me Dan
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get it while it's free folks
Every day we pull three Verge stories out of the paywall for 24 hours, and today we're starting with a banger from @lopatto.bsky.social:
X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it?
www.theverge.com/policy/85990...
X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it?
www.theverge.com/policy/85990...
January 13, 2026 at 5:37 PM
get it while it's free folks
I don't know, but he'd fucking better keep her safe or so help me
January 13, 2026 at 2:03 AM
I don't know, but he'd fucking better keep her safe or so help me
OK fine, it's not that fancy
January 13, 2026 at 1:54 AM
OK fine, it's not that fancy
It's in the Walmart parking lot but it's still pretty fancy
January 13, 2026 at 1:53 AM
It's in the Walmart parking lot but it's still pretty fancy
Meanwhile I will watch the Jason Statham Temu Leon: The Professional knockoff from the front row of the fanciest theater in town
Unfortunately I am almost definitely going to watch that Chris Pratt AI judge movie on a plane. I’m not proud of this but I already know it’s true.
January 13, 2026 at 1:52 AM
Meanwhile I will watch the Jason Statham Temu Leon: The Professional knockoff from the front row of the fanciest theater in town
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please look at my neighbors, running *towards the murder squads* to protect other neighbors. we're gonna win.
The people of Minneapolis are hounding immigration agents wherever they pop up. Earlier today:
January 12, 2026 at 10:45 PM
please look at my neighbors, running *towards the murder squads* to protect other neighbors. we're gonna win.
Unfortunately our pitch to make more was turned down! Not a big enough hit the first time around, I guess
January 12, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Unfortunately our pitch to make more was turned down! Not a big enough hit the first time around, I guess
Absolutely incredible that "they've thrown the beanbag for a fumble!" is a literal thing that happens in a culturally dominant multibillion-dollar sport and not, like, an early Victorian euphemism for a footjob
January 12, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Absolutely incredible that "they've thrown the beanbag for a fumble!" is a literal thing that happens in a culturally dominant multibillion-dollar sport and not, like, an early Victorian euphemism for a footjob
My nickname would be The Fisherman of Justice
January 11, 2026 at 3:39 AM
My nickname would be The Fisherman of Justice
"And the line judge is down! Brian Phillips, the line judge, was picking up his flag after that pass interference call, and...he's dead! Repeat, folks, the line judge is dead on the field! He turned 45 and died of crouching!!"
January 11, 2026 at 3:30 AM
"And the line judge is down! Brian Phillips, the line judge, was picking up his flag after that pass interference call, and...he's dead! Repeat, folks, the line judge is dead on the field! He turned 45 and died of crouching!!"
Crouching's even worse!! I'd probably just take my flag out and wave it around and pretend it was stuck to my hand
January 11, 2026 at 3:26 AM
Crouching's even worse!! I'd probably just take my flag out and wave it around and pretend it was stuck to my hand
Have you ever tried stooping? It SUCKS
January 11, 2026 at 3:24 AM
Have you ever tried stooping? It SUCKS
Honestly think if I were a ref I'd let a lot of stuff go because I didn't want to stoop to pick my flag up
January 11, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Honestly think if I were a ref I'd let a lot of stuff go because I didn't want to stoop to pick my flag up
Al Michaels, watching the most exciting shit you've ever seen: They call Chicago the city of big shoulders...but they're going to have to carry...a big load ON their shoulders...if they're going to...carry the ball to victory...here in the third...and that pass is complete. It's first and goal.
January 11, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Al Michaels, watching the most exciting shit you've ever seen: They call Chicago the city of big shoulders...but they're going to have to carry...a big load ON their shoulders...if they're going to...carry the ball to victory...here in the third...and that pass is complete. It's first and goal.
The rule is actually very simple. If he fumbles the ball before reaching the end zone and the angle of incidence is greater than OR EQUAL TO the tangent of an isosceles triangle whose shortest side is half the distance to the goal, and his teammate recovers it in a supine BUT NOT PRONE posture, 1/12
January 11, 2026 at 2:17 AM
The rule is actually very simple. If he fumbles the ball before reaching the end zone and the angle of incidence is greater than OR EQUAL TO the tangent of an isosceles triangle whose shortest side is half the distance to the goal, and his teammate recovers it in a supine BUT NOT PRONE posture, 1/12
Not with that attitude it's not
January 11, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Not with that attitude it's not
When I can see my own breath as I bite into my kielbasa...when I leave patches of skin on every rusting parking meter I slap...when the ice crystals on my mustache clatter like glass onto my steaming bare belly...then I know the season of Amazon Prime Video has arrived
January 11, 2026 at 1:13 AM
When I can see my own breath as I bite into my kielbasa...when I leave patches of skin on every rusting parking meter I slap...when the ice crystals on my mustache clatter like glass onto my steaming bare belly...then I know the season of Amazon Prime Video has arrived
Ah yes, Amazon Prime Video, the traditional home of the hard-nosed working men of the NFC North
January 11, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Ah yes, Amazon Prime Video, the traditional home of the hard-nosed working men of the NFC North