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Oliver Crane

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I made a mistake when I looked over my shoulder

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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m more powerful than i realized
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It’s gotta be some kind of sign that the Wizard of Id is talking shit about data centers and Flock cameras, right?
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Found my new fav music writer
Comment reading “The guitar riff sounds like a duck lol. Quack! Quack! Quack!
Quack!”
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
My neighbor the mayor
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
FREEDOM FOR DREAMS!
Movie still with a Czech speech bubble showing a man shouting SVOBODO SNŮM!!! - FREEDOM FOR DREAMS!
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Gotta say, one of the most evocative spam texts I’ve ever received
Text message reading “reckon who's thinking about you.”
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
America i’ve given you all and now i’m nothing
I walked a lot today, 35799 steps so far
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Y’know goodreads is not exactly my favorite app but i do love finding deranged vanity books when trying to use its terrible search function
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
This expedition really doesn’t seem worth it
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Imagine if this were happening at the correspondents dinner, better time for everyone i think
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Much to consider
Excerpt from 1960 Horizon Magazine:

If privacy is hard to find at home, it is almost extinct outside the home. Strangers in the next seat on trains and planes are seldom given to vows of silence, and certainly the airline pilot is no man to leave his passengers to their thoughts. His jovial voice crackles out of the intercom at periodic intervals
—generally just when his listeners are dozing off—to impart the latest statistics on ground speed, cruising altitude, and cabin pressure, or to point out "an unusually clear view of Keokuk out the left window." Airplanes have also been infested by canned music, leaving the captive audience aloft no means of escaping and still living to tell the tale. Back on the ground, to find a restaurant, store, railroad station, or bus terminal that doesn't burble with unceasing melody is not easy, nor is it always possible to escape by boarding a bus or taking a walk in the park. Transistor radios, carried everywhere by rock-'n'-roll addicts, have changed all that.
If there is one place where a person might expect a decent quietude, it is his doctor's office. Yet RCA is planning a radio network that will pipe canned music and pharmaceutical commercials to 25,000 doctors in eighteen big cities. This raises a whole new criterion for choosing the family physi-cian. Better to have a second-rate healer content with the sound of his stethoscope than an eminent specialist poking to the rhythms of Gershwin.
Not even nature is a sure refuge. A plan is now afoot to project advertisements on mountainsides and low-lying clouds. Then there are the roars and vapor trails left by jet
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Pretty solid prediction from 14 years ago
Lyrics to Careers in Combat by Parquet Courts:

There are no more summer lifeguard jobs.
There are no more art museums to guard.
The lab is out of white lab coats,
Cause there are no more slides and microscopes.
But there are still careers in combat, my son.
There are still careers in combat, my son.
There are no more roles on TV shows,
There are no road-cone dispensing jobs.
There are no spots left for park ranger
Cause there are no bears left to save you from, But there are still careers in combat, my son.
There are still careers in combat, my son.
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Have been flipping through These Fists Break Bricks and every few pages there’s a poster that goes hard in a way i didn’t even realize was possible
Poster for the film Death Promise with the tagline:
A WARNING TO THE RICH.
GET OFF OUR BACKS.
IF YOU'RE A FAT,
FILTHY RICH LANDLORD YOU'LL BURN IN HELL AND, I AM GOING TO SEND YOU THERE.
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Not even…
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
gotta hand it to him, he’s written the perfect book
Among Trueman's books are John Owen:
Reformed Catholic, Renaissance Man, The Creedal Imperative, Fools Rush in Where Monkeys Fear to Tread: Taking Aim at Everyone, and Republocrat: Confessions of a Liberal Conservative.
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Hmmmm
Headline:
Kamala Harris
campaign told how to win by UK Labour strategist
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Having a conversation about AI and thinking about this Orwell essay for no reason in particular
Orwell essay beginning: Reading Mr Malcolm Muggeridge's brilliant and depressing book, The Thirties, I thought of a rather cruel trick I once played on a wasp. He was sucking jam on my plate, and I cut him in half. He paid no attention, merely went on with his meal, while a tiny stream of jam trickled out of his severed sophagus. Only when he tried to fly away did he grasp the dreadful thing that had happened to him. It is the same with modern man. The thing that has been cut away is his soul, and there was a period - twenty years, perhaps - during which he did not notice it.
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Hell yeah, thanks Jerome
Spam email: This is Jerome Powell the CEO of Federal Reserve Bank, America.
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
The ALCS
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
This is a deranged and wildly offensive thing to say that trivializes a historical horror, and i cannot believe that it is something that any significant portion of New York’s Jews feel, even if they dislike his positions or associations.
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
It sucks that nearly everything seems to be getting progressively dumber, but it does mean that if a cool and smart and good person shows up the attempts at taking him down look like this
Whitney Tilson’s tweet about his AI-produced “Incompetent - The Zohran Mamdani Musical”
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Actually it’s cool that this is official government policy
Debbie Harry saying “don’t be afraid to let your body die”
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Library of alexandria
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
I think it’s nice that someone can be one of the most legendarily not chill dudes alive for 60 years or so but now that he’s in his 80s…
Instagram post from John Cale, gleefully slicing his “Choco Bday cake!!”
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I’m sorry we gotta bring back gatekeeping in the art world
Art piece that is literally just a neon sign that says “gargle my balls”
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Learning about the Tamil-language remake of A History of Violence. Apart from the child sacrifice method of business optimization i have some questions about datura being your drug of choice to smuggle, possibly the drug with the least chance of repeat customers.
Plot description: In 1999, Antony established a tobacco factory called Das & Co. Harold returned to India from Canada and started
manufacturing and smuggling a drug named datura, using the factory as a front as their tobacco products did not take off. Antony's twin children, Leo and Elisa, did the dirty work for them to run the business smoothly.
Being a strong believer in the occult, Antony tried to sacrifice Elisa based on his astrologer's advice, as this would have allowed their tobacco products to take off.
Enraged, Leo set fire to all of Harold's drugs, but Harold managed to kill Elisa and Antony shot Leo, who was since presumed dead.
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Hell yeah
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
This kind of counts! Also called The Ballad of Tam Lin - it can’t quite figure out if it wants to be a horror film but Pentangle did the soundtrack.
Poster for 1970 film The Merry Widow or The Ballad of Tam Lin
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Yeah I shouldn’t have even posted about him tbh, the one time I engaged with with him was maddening and I later saw this, he literally believes he’s doing praxis by drawing leftists into interminable arguments
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
No actually Biden was really good on that issue and we’re just being unfair to him
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Ok Tidal’s “discovery” playlist is just trolling me at this point
Discovery playlist featuring a series of hair metal hits and “How Soon is Now?”
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I’ve worked hard to be a local man and it’s finally paying off
Email subject: I would smile if a man like you that is in my area would join me on the website and wish to
date me.

Body:

I'll be happier than I was with a man like you in my life. I adore local men and would like a relationship with a lady like me that is in the area.
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
lol
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I’m not listening to any complaints about letterboxd
Review by tydull:

Alien Sex Files: Alien Ecstasy

Watched Feb 25, 2024
Watched this with my friends in John's living room when we were 12 John got a boner it was awesome
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Just fyi, this guy’s entire thing is to drag leftists into neverending arguments, he genuinely believes being annoying is praxis

Micah @rincewind.run : this is one of the most frustrating things as a "please for fuck's sake don't let Trump back in the white house under any circumstances" guy
stop yelling at people in very counterproductive ways! it isn't helping!


Michael Paulauski:

I argue that it is not counterproductive.
If we can burn these people out on their own rage *early*, then we have time to nurse them back to health and help them realize how toxic their information environment was before the election.
Write your reply
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I usually don’t promote myself like this but this is one of the best dumb jokes I’m ever going to make
Quote: When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
- Mike Tyson —
Me: I guess he's not down for the Count
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
the star also appears in this, I love a good quest
The Quest of the Sex: A Holly Hole
齐天大性/I大破盘丝洞
2003 • DIRECTED BY
Peony Ma Siu-Ling
大陂
盤藤洞
88 mins
West, Suen & Chu Keep tracking on their "Quest of the Sex". Since Goblin Bone wants to suck west's water, she seduces West. It is not successful. Bone request her friend, Goblin Spider, to help. Nine Eyes Devil, Spider's elder sister, uses her magical eyes to subdue Suen.They kidnap West to the Holly Hole. Suen tries to save West. In respect to obtain the mystical Pin, Suen bears to be insulted by Lo Mo. The Pin is extremely powerful. Suen goes to save West.....
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Let’s do another election real soon
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
Oh god oh fuck I’m so sorry please don’t tell anyone
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
Checked out (via Scarecrow) surreal Slovak film Miraculous Virgin, in which a woman serves as a semi-supernatural muse to a group of male artists who don’t particularly interest her. Big fan of the scene of all the dudes hanging out shirtless together admiring art.
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
I think this candidate’s youth lasted 200 years
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
hell of an opening
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Oliver Crane @recordofthetime.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
Really sad I lost this poster in a move
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