Vernors Herzog
Lanstronaut | Michigander | Midwestern as heck | co-runner of Lansing Facts | here to make dumb jokes, get smarter about politics, and occasionally post about sports (he/him)
- starting a new event called the Polyathalon which is four sports chosen at random for each Olympics
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- oh cool, another snow day
- a weird side effect of seeing all these emails is that it’s making me nostalgic for when email was actually fun and it was exciting to get messages from your friends
- nothing makes me feel shorter than picking up my car from the repair shop and having to adjust my seat so I can reach the pedals
- checked the mail today and I had completely forgotten that I pre-ordered this book
- incredible things are happening over on X, the everything app
- I don’t know which possibility is more concerning: that social media is all just bots talking to each other, or that so many people have no sense of reality
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- what if we made out at the 9:10 showing of Melania at NCG Lansing?
- Reposted by Vernors HerzogOne thing that makes you feel like you’re losing your grip on reality is constantly having to hear about the genius and brilliance of various Silicon Valley types while also reading headlines about how their businesses are losing sums of money so large that it’s almost impossible to comprehend
- Meta's Reality Labs metaverse-focused arm generated $2.2 billion in revenue for the 12 months ending December 31st, 2025, but clocked up a $19.2 billion operational loss. Since the division was set up in 2020, the company has lost $83.6 billion on Reality Labs www.gamesindustry.biz/metas-realit...
- corporate needs you to find the difference between this picture and this picture
- billionaires are going to accidentally revive print media because they keep buying up and ruining social media platforms
- Reposted by Vernors HerzogIf you're a nail polish person, the MN-based small polish maker Atomic Polish is selling Ice Out, and 100% of the proceeds of it are going to the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund
- imagine being so down bad you’re running hustles on Eastern fucking Michigan University
- sources are telling me Bovino will be joining Ryan Day’s coaching staff at Ohio State
- BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
- the only people excited about this are Perry’s political advisors
- Heated Rivalry (2026)
- I’ve never met a smart person who cares about IQ
- what a shitty fucking time to be a person who is used to getting their dopamine from social media
- I tried the cursed Applebees burger (it was fine)
- looking very healthy sir
- Via @gettyimages.com
- bluesky posters love to say shit like “wow, guess my last post really got the normies riled up 🤪” and when you check the post it has three replies
- Reposted by Vernors HerzogThe cognitive dissonance of constantly reading that I need to spend some time mastering generative AI while not knowing a single person in my industry who uses it to do good work 🤙
- the most unifying political issue of the moment is Fuck Your AI and Fuck Your Data Centers but you’ll never hear it from party leadership because they need that Silicon Valley money
- shoutout to the dad who just Tokyo drifted his Subaru into the elementary school drop-off line
- is my brain the prime minister of Denmark?
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- it’s hard to watch other people living your dreams
- inside you are two wolves
- as a young teen I went to a Foo Fighters show (The Colour and The Shape tour) and I tried to crowd surf. it worked for a minute, then I hit a thin spot in the crowd and started falling head first to the floor. a giant dude bear-hugged me before I hit the ground and then set me upright
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- can I interest you in a certified pre-owned Michigan?
- same
- and Bo Nix, who did NOT die
- Patron is short for Patrick Ronald Tequila
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- getting in-dog-trinated into the Costco cult
- if the gays aren’t recruiting, then how do you explain this?
- when me and the lads hang out call it a
- leading indicator of Michigan flu season
- I know there are multiple CBS News Slack threads about which whiskey seems manly but not elitist
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- There’s a certain kind of aging provocateur who can’t imagine losing on the merits, so every loss becomes proof of discrimination. Like... dude, you lost to Ricky Gervais. I don't think it was about "wokeness." variety.com/2026/awards/...
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- also my brain:
- sorry that your whole platoon is dead because Grok hallucinated the enemy coordinates, but at least we know what Vladimir Putin would look like in a bikini
- whichever developer is responsible for the bug that turns off my music every time I open Facebook, your days are numbered
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- American food has become indiscernible from parody
