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Phil B

@philbowker.bsky.social

created November 15, 2024

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Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

Astonishing illogic.

25/8/2025, 6:13:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted

If you’re wondering how ICE recruitment and training is going under Kristi Noem—South Park already nailed it.

7/8/2025, 1:51:20 PM | 23396 8035 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

Feet, legs, and tackle? Do the rest tomorrow?

5/8/2025, 7:23:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

Mincetian blinds.

31/7/2025, 9:11:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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31/7/2025, 6:19:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

Rooney’s was better. END OF MESSAGE

31/7/2025, 4:11:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

Rooney’s was better

31/7/2025, 3:56:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

Plum_Morris_Oxford

31/7/2025, 3:51:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m grateful for what Sean Dyche did for us.

31/7/2025, 3:49:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture molly taft (@mollytaft.com) reposted

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

30/7/2025, 8:38:32 PM | 3874 1917 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Wilson Voight (@radiospanishspeak.bsky.social) reposted

abort.....

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30/7/2025, 7:02:38 PM | 878 275 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

Jam first, please.

31/7/2025, 3:40:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

LOOK.AT.THE.SIZE.OF.THOSE.CHEMTRAILS

26/7/2025, 2:05:13 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stabilo (@stabiloffc.bsky.social) reposted

No news yet on the fate of the ten ton truck.

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21/7/2025, 6:46:02 PM | 20 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

Quantum of Mince, surely. #euweightsandmeasures

14/7/2025, 12:07:06 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Jay (@mikejay.link) reposted

New article! Ditch those American web browsers and discover replacement ones.

11/7/2025, 9:18:00 PM | 13 8 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

O’Reilly men.

12/7/2025, 7:32:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

As loaves go, that’s admirable.

7/7/2025, 8:18:47 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

It is.

23/6/2025, 9:51:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Yakhunt (@yakhunt.net) reposted

James Nesbitt at a Pride rally

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20/6/2025, 3:33:21 PM | 36 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

Prince Harry ?

16/6/2025, 7:22:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

Per cent is British English.

16/6/2025, 6:55:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) reposted

ICE crossed a line in LA

8/6/2025, 12:42:11 PM | 25049 12177 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

8/6/2025, 10:06:41 AM | 17 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

Spot on.

7/6/2025, 5:42:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social)

@jongard.bsky.social you’ll like this x.com/jim_keoghan/...

31/5/2025, 2:38:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

Just to be clear it’s not the bikes that are the nuisance it’s the people riding them.

30/5/2025, 5:17:41 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laura Shavin (@laurashav.bsky.social) reposted

Just read an article referring to Hooters as a "breastaurant" 👏👏👏

28/5/2025, 11:00:51 AM | 4 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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26/5/2025, 12:33:05 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

I’ll join you there.

26/5/2025, 9:17:33 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

I’d flip that round.

26/5/2025, 9:16:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social)

@jongard.bsky.social please tell aje on TPF a linguist would say ‘fewer’. The twat.

17/5/2025, 9:05:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

I.WENT.TO.SCHOOL.WITH.ANETTE.KIRTON I.AM.NOT.JOKING Apparently if you write like this it makes it true.

17/5/2025, 8:31:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social)

So apparently the new pope is called Bob.

8/5/2025, 8:08:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social)

Just one more time …

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5/5/2025, 9:15:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Galsworthy (@mikegalsworthy.bsky.social) reposted

Americans - listen up! At the Bylines Network in the UK, we've taken on a new project to amplify (non-MAGA!) American voices at a time when there's so much damage to people's lives that the US media can't or won't keep up. But we do citizen journalism - we're collecting the stories. Take a look. 👇

30/4/2025, 1:21:12 PM | 346 174 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

In cricketing terms that really is nothing special at all.

21/4/2025, 11:01:18 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

II think it’s a chances missed and aesthetic thing. But i see now you’re only talking about until the end of the season I’m inclined to agree, as the other two aren’t fit enough. It’ll probably be Beto for 60 then one or both of the other two for the final 30.

4/4/2025, 5:49:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes I would. Either of Broja or Chermiti.

3/4/2025, 2:29:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

Giving everything for the shirt isn’t enough. You or I would go that. Beto may be a lovey guy, a Blue at heart who gives everything for the shirt but he isn’t good enough.

3/4/2025, 11:09:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

Wow. I’ve never heard it. Don’t understand that point of view at all.

31/3/2025, 7:59:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

Who says we shouldn’t?

31/3/2025, 7:26:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

The capital of Greenland is called Nuuk. Coincidence?

31/3/2025, 7:25:07 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

Cornwall. Always.

28/3/2025, 6:41:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Diedrich Bader (@diedrichbader.bsky.social) reposted

My friend sent me this clip today from VIVACIOUS LADY and it’s sheer perfection

22/3/2025, 2:45:03 AM | 1620 218 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social)

Who could have guessed?

22/3/2025, 11:19:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

That’s some pate.

5/3/2025, 5:14:52 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anonymous (@youranoncentral.bsky.social) reposted

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine. (...) We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor" #3E #EndOligarchy

5/3/2025, 4:18:37 PM | 10063 3468 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Football Heritage (@footballheritage.bsky.social) reposted

#FloodlightFriday McDiarmiad Park St. Johnstone 📸 @brycecube.bsky.social

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31/1/2025, 8:26:27 AM | 26 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 (@maxbrockbank.com) reposted

@robert51edwards.bsky.social @russincheshire.bsky.social @politicaldude.bsky.social @sydesjokes.bsky.social @riotgrandma.bsky.social @michellespenc.bsky.social @newtongrunnion.bsky.social @riderbabe52.bsky.social @nowthenthee.bsky.social @mohusseini.com #FollowFriday 6/8

Tweet by KO™ (@techoglot)
31/1/2025, 10:04:55 AM | 71 16 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s salmon, Becky! But Trifle sponge fingers on a bed of chicken tikka, you say? 🤔 How very British!

29/1/2025, 9:22:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Pattie (@davidpattie.bsky.social) reposted

Mark Zuckerberg- who tragically died of exhaustion at the age of 32 in a DIY Orgasmatron incident- said in a video posted today that fact checkers weren't important.

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7/1/2025, 10:39:25 PM | 256 61 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nick Anderson - political cartoonist (@andertoon.bsky.social) reposted

TikTok

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17/1/2025, 10:16:24 PM | 5669 1223 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Otto English (@ottoenglish.bsky.social) reposted

Whoever dubbed this new US administration, the "Nerd Reich" was frankly a genius.

21/1/2025, 4:58:14 PM | 1986 471 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

No working stream again 🙄

21/1/2025, 9:45:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

So who scored the 10,000th?

14/1/2025, 5:13:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Susie Dent (@susiedent.com) reposted

Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']: Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.

10/1/2025, 7:56:27 AM | 13490 2966 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

What a beautiful word.

10/1/2025, 3:42:31 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Adam Bienkov (@adambienkov.bsky.social) reposted

Not a single Reform MP has bothered to turn up to today's House of Commons debate on tackling violence against women and girls

9/1/2025, 2:21:58 PM | 4971 2140 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

I’d say so.

9/1/2025, 11:07:33 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture B0wseytoffeetits (@b0wseytoffeetits.bsky.social) reposted

Firestick Blues 92' Don't mess with us, cause we'll plunder you.

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7/1/2025, 1:44:07 PM | 12 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Gorbachevytothelevy (@alburger87.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Remix

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8/1/2025, 6:22:57 PM | 342 74 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Galsworthy (@mikegalsworthy.bsky.social) reposted

Good grief. 😂

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6/1/2025, 1:39:42 PM | 2370 539 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Duchess Gemma 🐠🕷️🇪🇺 (@gemmagould.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Weather Warning, Southerners are urged not to travel unless absolutely necessary. Northerners you will need your big coat
6/1/2025, 1:55:46 PM | 56 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture michael ◉●○•° (@ontopunk.bsky.social) reposted

Cosmological wonder is at the root of all sacred wisdom. Maybe that’s how return home again to this world, with humility and open minds?

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31/12/2024, 4:26:42 AM | 520 84 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture McSpocky™ (@mcspocky.bsky.social) reposted

😂 Good point!

TRUMP WAS NEVER AMERICA FIRST, HE WON'T EVEN PURCHASE HIS WIVES FROM HERE. - Anonymous BTC
1/1/2025, 1:14:25 AM | 842 205 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

Ponteland? Of all places!

27/12/2024, 11:00:59 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) reposted

👇

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26/12/2024, 10:26:10 PM | 5334 1911 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Yorkshire Bylines (@yorkshirebylines.co.uk) reposted

Guess what our most-read article was this week... -EU citizens' rights in the UK? -Financial mismanagement from right-wing politicians? -Democracy and the threat of dark money? No. With almost 9k views, it was Sam Quarton's fabulous anti-festive film recommendation for The Legend of Hell House 😱

26/12/2024, 8:47:10 AM | 107 22 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anonymous (@youranoncentral.bsky.social) reposted

Two software developers became quietly known in tech circles in the 2000s and were almost the reverse image of each other. Both developed web alternatives. Both developed alternatives to the current government model. The right has read Yarvin and it shows. The left has not read Marsh and it shows.

Heather Marsh Curtis Guy Yarvin
6/12/2024, 5:58:45 AM | 5013 1285 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Helen Warlow (@hippychick.bsky.social) reposted

Good Afternoon pretty house in Belgium.

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26/12/2024, 3:49:44 PM | 124 27 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Russell (@manruss.bsky.social) reposted

For Lease Navidad.
25/12/2024, 7:28:45 PM | 2381 347 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

That’s the most parsimonious layer of whatever-goes-under-the-cheese I’ve ever seen. Wool behaviour.

23/12/2024, 8:20:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

Stop living there, Rob.

23/12/2024, 8:13:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

Coldest match ever but first time AZ had been beaten at home in European competition 💙

20/12/2024, 7:00:01 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Susie Dent (@susiedent.com) reposted

It’s the time of year for mentioning one of my favourite ‘untranslatables’. ‘Poronkusema’, in Finnish, once denoted a distance of around 7.5km, which is roughly how long a reindeer can last before needing to urinate. ‘Poronkusema’ means ‘reindeer pee’.

18/12/2024, 5:51:22 PM | 13379 1586 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

He once played football for England ⚽️

18/12/2024, 8:27:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anand Giridharadas (@anandwrites.bsky.social) reposted

He died as he lived, clicking “Forgot password,” then checking his inbox for a code, then putting in that code, then setting up two-step verification, and then waiting for the text message that doesn’t come, and then calling the 800 number, and then downloading an authenticator app, and dying.

18/12/2024, 3:59:04 PM | 9897 1571 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Glenn Moore (@thenewsatglenn.bsky.social) reposted

Hate freeloaders who join in the New Year's Eve countdown for the last 10 seconds. I've been doing this all year. Where were you back in May

14/12/2024, 1:14:52 PM | 1547 256 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social)

I’ve just come across the French surname Chuffart and it has made my day.

16/12/2024, 3:17:30 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Susie Dent (@susiedent.com) reposted

Word of the day is ‘forswunk’ (13th century): exhausted by work. I like to add ‘foreswunk’, exhausted before you even begin.

12/12/2024, 8:12:36 AM | 6294 1234 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

Good!

13/12/2024, 5:33:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

Fair enough. The original as I know it is still my preferred version.

13/12/2024, 12:12:14 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

“This is the best performance of The Sound of Silence” is your opinion and not one I share. Capitalisation in titles can follow different styles. Most important is, I think, consistency. It seems we prefer different styles. Despite these two huge setbacks in our days we can still be friends.

13/12/2024, 12:11:21 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Martin (@ianmartin.bsky.social) reposted

Written by the mighty @quantick.bsky.social.

11/12/2024, 9:41:49 PM | 170 31 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

Is this an ironic performance of The Sound Of Silence? Cos it’s about as shouty and overplayed as you can get.

13/12/2024, 11:47:50 AM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

That is actually the entrance to the new Jules Verne Tunnel that runs from Merthyr to New South Wales. It was opened recently by HRH Prince William who insisted his brother Harry be the first to test it.

10/12/2024, 9:23:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew Male (@andrewmale.bsky.social) reposted

More men need to tell us they've never been a fan of The Beatles. It shows an independence of thought but also profound intellectual insight; a refusal to run with the herd. I especially like to see it in response to someone expressing their love of the group. It's outspoken, contrary and brave.

1/12/2024, 8:48:06 PM | 6858 433 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil B (@philbowker.bsky.social) reply parent

So yes, this is definitely Blue Sky.

21/11/2024, 3:51:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view