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Marie Phillips
@mariephillips.bsky.social
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Writer of Gods Behaving Badly, Warhorses of Letters and more. This American Life contributor.
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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 10d
Yesterday, three years and one day after our first date, I officially became Mrs @andrewmale.bsky.social in a day overflowing with love and joy. We could not be happier.
A woman’s hand resting on a man’s hand against a cream blanket. Both are wearing wedding rings.
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Spotted on Ke Huy Quan in a recent Zootopia 2 photocall: a Blue Peter Badge!! He was interviewed on the show in 1984 about Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. This is adorable.

www.gofugyourself.com/zootopia-2-a...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=h702...
Zootopia 2 Arrives in London - Go Fug Yourself
Where I guess it's called "Zootropolis 2."
www.gofugyourself.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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If you are having a bad day, consider our delivery driver whose van is faulty and won’t open and is currently outside in the freezing cold getting instructions on a mobile phone, trying to fix it with an allen key he borrowed from us, all his subsequent deliveries running late.
November 26, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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In case you missed this thread because you’re secretly European
nedpyle.com Ned Pyle @nedpyle.com · 1d
“Oh hi did you know our dad was gone last week & that means it’s time for rain or shine Seattle walkies?!” 🧵
Darby and Indy the super floofy golden brown and white herding mutts sit in front of thick lush green hedges. Darby grins and Indy licks her whole head
November 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Here are my top 10 dogs carrying big sticks!
November 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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WHAT
From The New Yorker: “all door-close buttons in elevators built after the early nineteen-nineties are designed not to work”
November 25, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Slept dreaming of, woke up thinking about the extraordinary What Resembles the Grave but Isn’t by Anne Boyer
what resembles the grave but isn't Always falling into a hole, then saying "ok, this is not your grave, get out of this hole," getting out of the hole which is not the grave, falling into a hole again, saying "ok, this is also not your grave, get out of this hole," getting out of that hole, falling into another one; sometimes falling into a hole within a hole, or many holes within holes, getting out of them one after the other, then falling again, saying "this is not your grave, get out of the hole"; sometimes being pushed, saying "you can not push me into this hole, it is not my grave," and getting out defiantly, then falling into a hole again without any pushing; sometimes falling into a set of holes whose structures are predictable, ideological, and long dug, often falling into this set of structural and impersonal holes; sometimes falling into holes with other people, with other people, saying "this is not our mass grave, get out of this hole," all together getting out of the hole together, hands and legs and arms and human ladders of each other to get out of the hole that is not the mass grave but that will only be gotten out of together; sometimes the willful-falling into a hole which is not the grave because it is easier than not falling into a hole really, but then once in it, realizing it is not the grave, getting out of the hole eventually; sometimes falling into a hole and languishing there for days, weeks, months, years, because while not the grave very difficult, still, to climb out of and you know after this hole there's just another and another; sometimes surveying the landscape of holes and wishing for a high quality final hole; sometimes thinking of who has fallen into holes which are not graves but might be better if they were; sometimes too ardently contemplating the final hole while trying to avoid the provisional ones; sometimes dutifully falling and getting out, with perfect fortitude, saying "look at the skill and spirit with which I rise from…
November 24, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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It’s Boris’s birthday tomorrow.
Boris Karloff
November 22, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Buy an entire building which I will divide up as follows: ground floor bookshop /café, first floor performance / workshop space for writing and storytelling classes and shows, second floor flat for visiting writers, top floor apartment for me, @andrewmale.bsky.social and pets. Budget unclear.
zachweinersmith.bsky.social Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 3d
What's your absolutely unworkable plan to drop out of your current life (or at least work life) and do something completely different?
November 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Finally watched a decent movie after a long run of disappointing choices: Toy Story 4 boxd.it/bNKkgT
A ★★★★½ review of Toy Story 4 (2019)
It’s extraordinary for a franchise on its fourth iteration to still be delivering at this level of quality. It’s funny, it’s exciting, it’s genuinely scary and at times even horrifying, and the lesson...
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November 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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It must be #Caturday
November 22, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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This year I have seen MI: The Final Reckoning, Superman, and Wicked for Good at the cinema. It is just the worst cinema year in my adult life for American films.
November 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Went to the knobology course and everyone there knew you
November 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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I promise this is not a trap
kathryntewson.bsky.social Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 4d
I would like all of you, each and every one, to go google “Miss Universe National Costume Competition 2025 Norway” right now
November 22, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Found this sentence, from a BBC News article about Poundland stores, viscerally uncomfortable to read. Please do not alternate things you put in your mouth with things you absolutely should not put in your mouth.
His Croydon store, with a colourful Christmas aisle, is bustling on a weekend visit with queues for the tills as shoppers stock up on mouthwash, washing up liquid, sweets and batteries.
November 21, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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#letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched I really need to watch some good movies soon. I only actually finished one of these! (The Devil And Miss Jones.)
Roofman **1/2 Frankenstein * You’ve Got Mail *** The Devil and Miss Jones ***
November 21, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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I have always imagined this #1920s Callot Soeurs gown as some beautiful ornament or a piece of stained glass, the jewelled colours framed in gold feel like a precious stone rather than a woven garment @drexeluniversity.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
A tubular 1920s evening dress made of velvet in tones of blue and aqua embossed with gold motifs
November 20, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Salami Advent Calendar, Czech Republic. podnikovka.cz/uzeniny_c103...
November 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Thelma Ritter in Pillow Talk, looking like they’ve scratched away the celluloid emulsion to discover another, earlier and more thrilling, film underneath.
Quick screenshot of Doris Day in Pillow Talk, wearing a Chinese style day gown, drinking tea while Thelma Ritter - in a Thelma Ritter bouse and hat - take to her. Her whole colour scheme is different from Doris Day’s pastel outfit.
November 20, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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I'm not clicking through. I don't need more of this man in my life. But a one-man show with songs in Cyprus sounds appropriately purgatorial, though not to the real-estate developers of Cyprus, to whom go out my thoughts and prayers at this difficult time.
vulture.com Vulture @vulture.com · 5d
Eight years after being accused of sexual assault, Kevin Spacey has a one-man show with songs that he’s only been able to put up in Cyprus to an audience of ‘mostly real-estate developers.’ And he’s convinced Tarantino or Scorsese will call soon.
Kevin Spacey Is Living in the Past
Eight years after being accused of sexual assault, Kevin Spacey has a one-man show with songs that he’s only been able to put up in Cyprus to an audience of ‘mostly real-estate developers.’ And he’s convinced Tarantino or Scorsese will call soon.
www.vulture.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Just submitted my tax return, opened up my computer and saw THIS. Hot damn, I forgot to claim for my eels, crane and swans! (I put my peacocks on. I'm not a complete fool.)
greenleejw.bsky.social Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 5d
In 1257 William of Stow, the sheriff of Cambridgeshire, was ordered to send King Henry III food for his Christmas feasts. Henry wanted lots of eels, 1 crane, 4 peacocks, & 4 swans.

But no worries...it was tax deductible. William got to write off his expenses of £15 15s 10d.
Meme. Photograph of a woman (probably) with her head down on a pile of US government tax forms. Her brown hair spreads out around her head in limp resignation, like it is floating on a pool of red ink. She is not wearing any jewelry, and she has no sleeves. You can't see the rest of her body, so she might actually be doing her taxes naked, like a Pict assaulting the Romans. But it is more likely that she is wearing something like a sun dress. Perhaps she hoped to finish quickly, and go on a picnic. Sweet summer child. In her left hand she is holding a pencil like a dagger, as if she had tried to stab the forms into submission. In her right hand is a cheap but reliable calculator. Her sword and shield, if you will. But they seem to have failed her, because she has clearly succumbed to the implacable might of bureaucracy. In the end, it's what will probably get us all. At least she went out fighting. Meme text reads: "Wait...the 1099E form isn't for eels?"
November 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Gloria Grahame by Otto Ludwig Bettmann (1940s)
November 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Photographer Martine Franck, Children's Library, Clamart, France, 1965 #WomensArt
Monochrome photograph looking up at a spiral staircase with children peeping over the solid white bannister
November 20, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Brian Simpson.
dieworkwear.bsky.social derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6d
I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke.

IG bscomedian
November 20, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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The problem with PLURIBUS is that it only has two characters. One is a hivemind with a selection of bodies and the other only has one emotion. Three episodes in and after the initial shock, the story is merely a selection of scenarios with emotionally identical structure and outcomes. It’s so dull.
November 19, 2025 at 9:22 PM