Phil Rees
philfiftyone.bsky.social
Phil Rees
@philfiftyone.bsky.social
Two-time immigrant: Japan
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Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
February 4, 2026 at 6:43 AM
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Why Trump will fail on the economy
December 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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We lived in a pub when I was growing up and when I was 3 (50 years ago!) we had someone in to draw the pub for a business card. I sat next to him and watched him draw every line. I was transfixed and it was a huge inspiration for me. I’ve dreamt about owning that drawing for years…
November 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Every motorway service station should have a 5-a-side football pitch. The score should be continuous throughout the day with travellers swapping in and out via infinite subs.
October 4, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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As usual I am in trouble.
October 2, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Still the only clear blue sky we've seen is on these postcards.
October 1, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Here’s ‘Roads,’ from last night’s Together For Palestine gig.

Donate at donate.togetherforpalestine.org/campaigns/to...

m.youtube.com/watch?v=g2Am...
‘Roads’ 2025 – Together For Palestine
YouTube video by Portishead
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September 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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for some added context; this painting was of Picasso’s underaged muse
July 24, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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British people living in other countries should be referred to as 'migrants', not 'ex-pats'. Let's see how you like the smell of that, Brenda in Marbella who voted for Brexit.
July 15, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Remember that in classic old school sci-fi, the humans and aliens of the future have withered bodies and huge brains, these big old domes, like the Mekon.

Nobody predicted that we’d try and outsource the brain thing to machines, so we could wither our heads too.
July 4, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Thanks @robdelaney.bsky.social I just watched your @criterion.bsky.social closet so dived into youtu.be/TwXfZF7dXtE Blew me away.

Which side are you on?
Harlan County U.S.A. Eastern Kentucky Coal Miner's Strike Documentary
YouTube video by Metamax Performance
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July 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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MUMMY AND DADDY WENT FOR A MEAL LAST NIGHT, SAT NEXT TO EMPEROR ROSKO.
June 27, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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I think we should tell Gen Z that Head Cleaner's "Play Both Sides" was the 🔥 album of 1986
May 15, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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May 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey.

They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵
May 14, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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April 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Made a funny video for my brother’s birthday. Popped it in his feed. Meta demanded I take it down because it contained 10 secs of music owned by UMG. This is Meta who want to take everything I’ve done to train their LLM.

We can’t have BOTH copyright systems.
April 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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hot ones but it's me interviewing a succession of uncles from rural ireland while handing them increasingly outrageous receipts for pints of guinness i've bought in central dublin
January 30, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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We didn't ask the cost beforehand.
March 21, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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The Welsh told the Saxons this hill was called "pen" (meaning "hill"). The Saxons added their word for hill, "tor," and called it Torpen (hill hill).

Later the Norse added their world for hill. So it became Torpen Haugr (Hill Hill Hill).

Now the English call it Torpenhow Hill (Hill Hill Hill Hill)
January 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM