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Philip Michaels

@philipmichaels.bsky.social

I am the mild-mannered managing editor for mobile at Tom's Guide. I mostly just talk about sports and movies and whatever's grinding my gears at the moment.

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"More and more, influential voices in the MAGA movement and the far-right Republican party are calling to strip women of the [right to vote]."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Those who dismiss this would do well to remember that until 2022, women had the right to healthcare in this country.

04.12.2025 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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bugs bunny is flexing his muscles in this cartoon ALT: bugs bunny is flexing his muscles in this cartoon

Quite the opposite

04.12.2025 18:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Got the cast off and got to see my left arm for the first time in a month. David Cronenberg took one look at the surgical scar and was like "Ew, gross, no thank you."

04.12.2025 18:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Occasionally, a Pinto would explode, a magical time.

04.12.2025 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My abiding memory of cars in the 1970s was sitting in the back seat of our station wagon while my mom waited in line to fill up on odd-numbered days.

04.12.2025 15:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

_thank you_

04.12.2025 00:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A net gain for California

03.12.2025 23:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"How did I, a person with agency, wind up participating in racist, misogynistic, antisemitic group chats?" Yeah, that's a real mystery you got there, I hope our nation's brightest detectives can crack the case.

03.12.2025 20:52 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Tune in for a rousing game of Whose Eyes Are Deader?

03.12.2025 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My favorite part of getting x-rays is when everyone scurries for cover before the x-ray is taken, leaving you to absorb all the radiation yourself.

03.12.2025 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

53-Year-Old Man Dresses Self for First Time in a Month; Local Officials Conspicuously Silent on Parade Plans

03.12.2025 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

this isn't play acting and tough guy beat poetry and instagram workout vids anymore. you're fucking killing people. by the dozens. and at bottom you're just an alcoholic TV host with a double digit IQ and a track record of abject failure. high up on that wire, killing people by the dozens

03.12.2025 03:37 β€” πŸ‘ 962    πŸ” 89    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 2

This is a 4-8 coach of a middling Big 12 school lecturing beat writers on the intricacies of the Tampa 2 defense levels of stupidity.

03.12.2025 03:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is by far the least of our worries right now, what with the racism and the lawlessness, but it simply grinds my gears that this man β€” inarguably, a dunce β€” feels like he can beat his chest and say dumb shit without fear of someone saying "Buddy, shut up, you're clearly a dolt."

03.12.2025 03:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That's the Paul Anka guarantee!

03.12.2025 03:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Mark Kotsay!

Mark Kotsay!

β€œLet’s not peel back this onion too much, Aaron”

03.12.2025 02:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also "sandwich" made the cut, a proud moment for this once and future deli worker.

03.12.2025 02:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
bluesky word cloud oh so many words

bluesky word cloud oh so many words

Congratulations to @thatbootlegguy.bsky.social for joining Donald Trump and Gavin Newsom as names in my frequently used Bluesky word cloud β€” three peas in a pod!

03.12.2025 02:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Seems a good reason to no longer pay federal taxes!

02.12.2025 22:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"That teenager I used to date when I was a grown-ass adult sure wrote a bad book!"

02.12.2025 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jenkins lashes out at McGwire in letter | CBC Sports Hall of Fame pitcher Ferguson Jenkins of Chatham, Ont., lashed out at steroid-using slugger Mark McGwire in an open letter to The Associated Press on Thursday

Here's the Fergie Jenkins thing I barely recalled: www.cbc.ca/sports/baseb...

02.12.2025 17:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

On the bright side, it will be hilarious when Trump stooge Arte Moreno manages to strong-arm the committee into inducting sex pest/friend of the sex pest-in-chief Roger Clemens.

02.12.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I recall Ferguson Jenkins writing a hysterical op-ed (as in "won't someone think of the children?") about PEDs at the height of that moral panic, so one guess as to how the Bonds vote will go.

02.12.2025 17:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

"Save those unscripted breaches of etiquette for the jazz museum next door, friendo."

02.12.2025 17:14 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The awkwardness of Bob Kendrick relating a charming story about Ruth as security frog-marches you into an alleyway.

02.12.2025 17:14 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Not seeing a lot of Sondheim here, must be a glitch, I'm sure a correction is forthcoming

02.12.2025 16:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Waking up to a lot of people reposting that still shot of John Slattery hurling on Mad Men, and as an emetophobe, I can’t say I like this, no, not one bit.

02.12.2025 15:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

On December 1, 2018, my family inadvertently launched a Christmas tradition.

01.12.2025 17:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I call my fists Shields and Yarnell because they move silently and peaked in popularity by the early '80s.

01.12.2025 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Did this interview take place on the airstrip where George Smiley threatened to deport Toby Esterhase?

01.12.2025 04:44 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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