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Brian Phillips
@brianphillips.bsky.social
Senior Writer at The Ringer 🦉 NYT bestselling author of Impossible Owls 🦉 occasional podcast host (22 Goals, Truthless) 🦉 whippet fancier

https://bookshop.org/p/books/impossible-owls-essays-brian-phillips/7310179?ean=9780374175337
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife"
November 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Lizza, hitting publish
November 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I take it all back, let this person secretly advise the campaigns of every politician I hate
November 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
About to lead this locker room of young men to a 76-3 loss in the state championship
November 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I may never come all the way back from where I've been
November 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Weird, I wonder what infinitely profitable civilization-transforming sentient culture-inhaling immortality machine could have underperformed to necessitate this
November 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
November 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
"Whoa whoa whoa...the name of that sled seems familiar to me for some reason"
November 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
"Palpatine survived? Makes no fucking sense. I don't recall a character named Palpatine"
November 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
"HANG ON...Luke is whose father now?"
November 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
It's astounding how consistent this is:

Every photo of Pat McAfee makes him look like the only guy in the movie theater who doesn't understand the big plot twist
November 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM
November 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
November 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
This was the same shareholder meeting where he said this, by the way
November 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Look at this poor creature...can't even find a blanket that keeps all of her warm at once...
November 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Do you really think I'm not ready to break down The Age of Innocence like an NBA roster. Do you think I won't do that at the drop of a hat. Do you think I don't sit around all day longing for someone to ask me the question
November 5, 2025 at 10:25 PM
This is the hottest character cinema ever produced. They couldn't go any hotter than this because the film stock would literally catch fire
November 4, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Still one of the weirdest credits in film history
November 4, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Do you think John Le Carré's whippets were this helpful while he was writing
November 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
"A critic, whippets! Critic!"
November 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
John Le Carré author photo from The Russia House. One of history's all-time great Whippet Guys. A titan of the whippet community
November 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
So you think this is unnecessary
October 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
October 25, 2025 at 3:14 AM
This is the most BlueSky sign I've ever seen in the wild
October 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
In Carlisle, PA, we are sincerely doing our best!!
October 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM