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Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 21m

IMDB - Starship Troopers (1997) EASTER EGGS: if you look closely at the extras in the dropship landing scene, you can see NBC’s Brian Williams reporting live from the Battle of Klendathu

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Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 2h

ever stare into the fridge & realize that your country sold its soul to become an imperial superpower long before your were even born, but that the increasingly gruesome bill for this Faustian trade (soon to include public executions on YouTube) will be coming due every day for the rest of your life

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Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 15h

IQ tests should be replaced with Immaculate Grid. Having a photographic memory of the eight NBA teams Brad Lohaus played for or Otis Birdsong‘s career stats is not a worse operationalization of “intelligence” than visual geometric pattern recognition or whatever.

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Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 17h

this is monstrous and evil, of course, but also a sign of desperation and panic. Almost everyone had forgotten about this guy; why do they suddenly they feel the need to bring him out for a Running Man-style snuff film? I think MAGA is finally running its baleful course

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Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 19h

My wife doesn’t like AI…. You might say she’s…Miss Anthropic

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Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 21h

(As demonic hands emerge from the ground and grab me a la “Drag Me To Hell”) ”but it’s a vibecession! The economy remains dynamic and fundamentally sound! Employers added 30,000 jobs last month even though no one you know is finding work! AAAAAHHHHHhhh!!!”

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interesting dracula @partnardy.bsky.social · 23h

is Pepsi ok?

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Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 23h

Were I in MBS’s shoes, I’d be one of the world’s most beloved autocrats (I’d have left Yemen alone, but still have used oil $ to host the Riyadh Comedy Festival [with the twist that it‘s a ruse to trap famous standup comics in a translucent Punishment Sphere, inspired by Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri])

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The media: You people on the left, you need to hear opposing voices! You need to to appreciate the other side! Also the media: People on the left don't like data centers/AI because they're stupid and/or Chinese dupes. They think the economy is bad because they read it online. They're deluded idiots

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Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 07/10/2026

“ZIRP!!!” Proximate cause of the 2010s tech boom 🤝 Chuck Wendig and Lin-Manuel Miranda riffing with each other in Twitter @ replies

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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

won't be doing a halloween display name. not when my posts will directly determine the outcome of the midterm elections

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Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 06/10/2026

Gotta say, I never expected VBScript or macro viruses to be referenced in a Bake Off showstopper challenge

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Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 06/10/2026

any country that allows widening income inequality + free reign of US tech/social media giants will, on a long enough timescale, become us (deranged one-man rule; citizenry that succumbs to meme ideologies & medieval superstition, & loses capacity for politics; institutions replaced by slush funds)

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For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn. (Baby is dead.) @leharrumph.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

While doing so, you knock down a very dusty "tane" which hits your head, giving you a Grade 3 concussion.

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Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 06/10/2026

Putting the word “performative” on tall closet shelving in the same way I keep batteries out of my toddler’s reach. If I never see that word again, it’ll be too soon

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Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 05/10/2026

Robert Dahl was the greatest American political scientist of all time. Charles Merriam and Harold Lasswell won MICKEY MOUSE rings against traditional institutionalist PLUMBERS

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Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 05/10/2026

have gotten 8 SMS messages hitting me up for campaign contributions today and it’s not even noon. Going back in time to slap my younger self for giving money to Bernie Sanders

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Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 04/10/2026

was that the guy whose catchphrase was “time to interact with my hot wife“ (as if listlessly punching a time card at a factory), or am I thinking of someone else?

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freecialis @freecialis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

this classic tweet has been optioned for a $200 million 3-picture deal at Disney

@bathroom

welcome to the bathroom

9/12/07, 3:31 PM

30K retweets, 34.3K likes

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Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 04/10/2026

LeBron will need to play in 2030 to be the oldest ever NBA player. Record holder is Nat Hickey: an old timey coach who checked himself into a game at age 45, committed 4 fouls, missed every shot, and lost in a blowout. He later caused a pro franchise to fold by accidentally killing its star player

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RoBat out of Hellême @rbelleme.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

His moustache appears fuller than his beard, the first sign of a duplicitous nature.

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Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 04/10/2026

This sketchy dude sold me an unreliable 1971 Chevy Vega after touting it as the all-American compact passenger car of the future…he is *not* to be trusted!

Scruffy middle age man at a marina restaurant

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Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 03/10/2026

“Shut up, Wesley!” Captain Picard 🤝 18th century Anglicans encountering Methodist teachings for the first time

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Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 03/10/2026

Google removed one of my reviews (“Bruno Bauer claimed that Jesus was invented, but Eddie Bauer’s line of low quality Bristol flannel shirts is proof that God himself doesn’t exist”). So much for ”don’t be evil…”

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Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 03/10/2026

Finally curated my Reddit timeline so it’s just stuff I want to see (mainly commenters in r/oz posting images of fictional characters like Bugs Bunny captioned “how would he do in Oswald State Correctional Facility?”)

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Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 02/10/2026

I would never use the word “idempotence.” That sounds like something Daffy Duck would say

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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

sometimes i delete a post because i've grown as a person in those 45 seconds

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Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 02/10/2026

I don’t follow the NBA that closely anymore but find his game interesting. He’s like a natural experiment of taking a 1990s starting center and seeing how he does in the 2020s era of “positionless basketball“

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Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 02/10/2026

he/his agent played this saga perfectly. Also: I’m getting old and out of touch. I thought “$40 million/year after having almost no impact in the playoffs is a lot,” but see that this makes him barely one of the top 10 highest paid centers in the league. So on reflection: not an unreasonable deal

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Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 02/10/2026

Big deal, I was the baby from the 1974 Paul Anka single “(You’re) Having My Baby.” Not sure how many of you know this

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

after the guy who wrote the Alphabet Song died they were cleaning out his place and found more than ten thousand handwritten pages of an unfinished Numbers Song

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thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

thinking about this again and smiling

“james hennessy: it's sad reading like 14th century Christian theologians who spent an inordinate amount of time writing "OK there are exactly 3,892 demons and these are their names and these are their powers"... man, you would have loved Dragonball Z
Sep 27, 2023 at 9:32 pm”

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Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 01/10/2026

The biggest disease of AI writing is its reliance on “Mic. DROP” and ”*record scratch*” sentences, not infrequently written as a one-line paragraph for some dramatic staccatissimo effect (“And then this happened.”). It’s the sort of thing that college professors used to root out of sophomore essays

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A forgotten media moment from earlier this year was that Olivia Reingold embedded with ICE agents in Minnesota and never wrote about what it was like because doing so would turn Free Press readers into No Kings marchers.

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Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 01/10/2026

had a bizarre dream last night that I was David Zaslav, & green-lit a show called Hoarders: Round Robin. Premise: A&E’s Hoaders, w/ the twist that the cleanups are conducted by other item-ransacking hoarders on the show. (Problem solved!) I gotta look up what‘s in the prescription cough syrup I’m on

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RoBat out of Hellême @rbelleme.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Mustards

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have no idea if this is true but the collage kills me

A black lemur in a leafy tree with its mouth open as if singing, beside an inset photo of Pavarotti striking a similar pose. Text reads: “New research shows lemurs use operatic techniques when they sing, to reach high notes.” Classic FM.

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Nicolas Dream, PhD @afraidofwasps.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Work Bully: How coms't thou hither? A worm? (New girl blushes and turns away) Bully's Henchman: You pebble! You stone! (Cronies laugh) Me: (bravely standing) Let her alone.

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Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 29/09/2026

wish I had planned my career better. I missed out on being a Boston Seaport Patagonia sweater vest guy who makes $500k/year as an Agile workflow expert, liberally says “that’s how I roll,” calls breakfast sandwiches “breakie sams,” completely content: the perfect life. Studying philosophy ruined me

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you have 10 seconds to authenticate your account you have 5 seconds to authenticate your account has been impounded your account has been crushed into a cube you have 10 seconds to authenticate your cube

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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"The community action program that serves Aroostook, Washington and Hancock Counties said it is getting up to 200 voicemails a day from residents who are anxious about how they will pay their fuel bills this winter...Heating oil prices in Maine have now topped six dollars a gallon." #MEpolitics

mainepublic.org

Northern Mainers fear they can't afford heating bills this winter

AVEC Community Action, which serves Aroostook, Washington and Hancock Counties, says residents are already calling for emergency fuel assistance.

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joe @shariauncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

increasingly feels like my Perfectly Fine liberal arts education was an artifact grabbed fleeing a burning temple

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Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 29/09/2026

I’m glad the Videodrome conspiracy guys landed okay after their plot to cull the population via TV broadcasts failed (got acquired by Symantec in 1999 and pivoted to cybersecurity/anti-malware software: “Don’t Be Afraid to Let Your BonziBuddy Die”)

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Horatio Pornviewer @stuntbirdarmy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s very depressing that virtually no one in America will ever discover or create anything significant ever again. Only the children of billionaires will be able to pursue the arts and non-applied sciences. I can’t see why they’d bother.

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