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Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 15h

sorry, can’t hang out this weekend. Yeah, I used Sliders technology and got stuck in a parallel Earth again. It’s the one where Wilhelmine Germany absorbed America. The main difference is that, instead of Planet Fitness, there’s a Herr Doktor Phil’s Beach Body Gymnasium Sporthalle at most malls…

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 18h

He really put a "but I'm different" in his eulogy. What a mind.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 1d

rewatched Bio-Dome (1996). About what you’d expect, but I did enjoy (spoiler) the ending implying that the preceding was a Unabomber origin story (an encounter with Pauly Shore and a lesser Baldwin brother convinces a respected academic to become an eco-terroristic enemy of industrial civilization)

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Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 1d

dozed off on the couch and dreamed I was imprisoned at the “Regis Francis Xavier Philbin Minimum Security Penitentiary“

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Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 1d

I have a bizarre surname that people innocently misspell 80% of the time. That said, I think the “Mandani” typo in this headline is deliberate on either a conscious or subconscious level (as a way to dismiss him on account of his views, ethnicity, and religion; “why is *he* entitled to a name?”)

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 2d

CBS News would never put a thinly sourced 'story' by a rookie blogger like this on it's air. Until now. The Free Press isn't a journalism outlet, it's bloggers aren't reporters. This piece is more NYPost than Tiffany Network but I guess that's the goal.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming the NYC mayor, The Free Press reports

The Free Press spoke to several New York City Police Department officers who are worried about Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor. Olivia Reingold joins CBS News with more.

www.cbsnews.com

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2d

The Bari Weiss-led CBS News has had this up for 3 days and misspelled his name in the hed.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 2d

CBS News would never put a thinly sourced 'story' by a rookie blogger like this on it's air. Until now. The Free Press isn't a journalism outlet, it's bloggers aren't reporters. This piece is more NYPost than Tiffany Network but I guess that's the goal.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming the NYC mayor, The Free Press reports

The Free Press spoke to several New York City Police Department officers who are worried about Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor. Olivia Reingold joins CBS News with more.

www.cbsnews.com

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Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 2d

a massive development in the US is how a plurality (roughly) of Americans reached the same conclusion as the UN/etc. that Israel’s committing genocide, despite the censorship/rationalization of these statements in mainstream discourse. Something changed; the aftermath of the change is anyone‘s guess

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 2d

The cure to the male loneliness epidemic is 1980s PC-compatible business software. Less Andrew Tate, more Ashton-Tate…

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Eric Weinberger @ericweinberger.bsky.social · 2d

ICE sent a Massachusetts 7th grader 500 miles away without his parents or even telling them

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 2d

It would rule to be a dour, late 19th century New England prohibitionist who—every day—got massively lit on opium-based cold remedies and original recipe Moxie. Talk about playing both sides and always coming out on top…

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 3d

the whole tron setting doesn't really make sense. why is the computer run by a fascist dictator? (sees my laptop updates weren't installed because some background software refused to quit) kill that program. kill it now. kill that program immediately

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 3d

Merchant DESTROYS haggler

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Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 3d

guess I’ll go with the next closest thing: “socialite”

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Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 3d

I need to enter an occupation for this credit card application. Sadly, there doesn’t seem to be an option for ghostwriting “I Hope They Screen ‘Cape Fear’ In Hell: The Tucker Max Guide to Cinema” in 2011 and living off the modest publishing royalties ever since…

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 3d

Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79.
people.com/diane-keaton...

Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79. Keaton was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

people.com

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Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 3d

Received some bad news this morning. Leaders of all world faiths released a joint statement pronouncing that I, personally, am not an ensouled being. This is in light of leaked IHOP CCTV footage in which I gratingly refer to breakfast sandwiches as “breakie sammies” and pancakes as “flappy jays”

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Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 3d

“Nothing INXS”
Instructions to a wedding DJ
🤝
Inscription at the Delphic Temple of Apollo

Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 4d

Can’t believe my favorite commedians dell'arte performed for the gran maestro of Florence. I’ll never again take seriously the Harlequin’s claim to hold a subversive mirror to the rich and powerful’s foibles…

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 5d

oops

Text from news report:

“Tensions between Venezuela and America soared following the attack, but Machado insisted to The Sunday Times that Trump was right to bomb the boat.
"I totally support his strategy," Machado said.
"And I've said on behalf of the Venezuelan people that we are very grateful. I think it is the right thing to do. It's courageous. It's visionary."”

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 5d

[bitterly] No one’s ever given ME bubble enrichment

ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 6d

At the Saint Louis Zoo, one-year-old rockhopper penguin Bumi had a blast with bubble enrichment! Keepers set up a bubble machine for the indoor habitat at Penguin & Puffin Coast for a fun bubble party!! 🫧🥳🫧 #WildlifeWednesday

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Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 5d

Starting an off-brand knockoff of the Church of Scientology. Call me Temu Xenu…

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Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 5d

what’s up with the punctuation, and with every sentence starting with “and,” “but,” or “so?“ This is how undergrads write

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 5d

Here's the full memo.

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 5d

You can always tell people who didn't work their way up through real jobs and manage based on the dumbest ideas they've heard of other terrible bosses doing.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 5d

Here's the full memo.

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 5d

Trump is team Maduro now

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Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 5d

the Celtics were horrible for most of my youth (first clear memory of them was Acie Earl’s revenge game). But Mike and Tommy taught me an important life lesson: if you’re clever, you can make a bad product fun and interesting. They thus gave me the confidence to go on dates

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