Reposted by Ersatz CliffRobert of Bellême @rbelleme.bsky.social · 3hRob Zombie's House of 1000 Mustards 021
Reposted by Ersatz CliffLuke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 19hI have no idea if this is true but the collage kills me 321122210
Reposted by Ersatz CliffNicolas Dream, PhD @afraidofwasps.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Work 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. 044671
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 29/09/2026wish 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 060
Reposted by Ersatz CliffEvan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026you 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 1618
Reposted by Ersatz CliffCollins 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." #MEpoliticsmainepublic.orgNorthern Mainers fear they can't afford heating bills this winterAVEC Community Action, which serves Aroostook, Washington and Hancock Counties, says residents are already calling for emergency fuel assistance. 52921
Reposted by Ersatz Cliffjoe @shariauncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026increasingly feels like my Perfectly Fine liberal arts education was an artifact grabbed fleeing a burning temple 322897471
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 29/09/2026I’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”) 020
Reposted by Ersatz CliffHoratio Pornviewer @stuntbirdarmy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It’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. 321345
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 28/09/2026snobs lionize Nietzsche as an iconoclastic *badass* for promoting an “order of rank” (Rangordnung), & foretelling the arrival of a great philosopher who will re-inscribe it, & yet mock Bill Simmons for ranking the top 10 most Keyser Söze players in NBA history? Your anti-Boston prejudice is showing… 130
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 28/09/2026middle age status: went to take out the trash and somehow passed out, completely sober, for no reason, on the couch in the Andy Capp position 140
Reposted by Ersatz Cliffweeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't. 63106502516
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 27/09/2026wife is mad at me. I burned $100,000 in AI tokens to generate a short form video of John Stuart Mill having a philosophical dialogue with Jay Leno (MILL: “Carlyle said that no man who makes happiness his object is happy, however—;” LENO: “yeah, he must’ve spent some time in California!”) 120
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 27/09/2026I love collecting your data in order to improve your user experience as stated in the updated privacy policy 0120
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 26/09/2026“Sucks to your ASMR”—Google informing “Piggy” (of Lord of the Flies fame) that his YouTube channel has been capriciously demonetized without the possibility of appeal 040
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 26/09/2026I’m a folk musician who mainly performs for No Labels and Aspen Institute junkets. I inscribed “This Machines Runs on Joementum” on the back of my novelty six-string banjitar 010
Reposted by Ersatz Cliffryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...themomoftheyear.substack.comI’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night. 12352811357
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 26/09/2026“I despise Locke” Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 🤝 My scathing 2006 A.V. Club review of “Lost“ that got DDOS’d by posters on various fan forums 010
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 25/09/2026I love calling everything a “cargo cult.” Saw the term in a blog once. Wish I knew what it meant 1152
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 25/09/2026I couldn’t possibly give less of a shit about what DHH thinks is the future of software development 120
Reposted by Ersatz CliffPatrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 13/09/2026ANDRE: And it was transcendent. Nintendo’s ever done anything like it. Wally, you’ll love it, assuming it’s ever released of course. WALLACE: That’s incredible. Incredible. [PAUSE] What other games did your uncle show you? [WAITER BRINGS THE WINE] 974996
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 23/09/2026I’m not an economist (thank God). But wouldn’t the industry react to this by drastically slowing production at refineries, which would have the effect of reducing the supply (and raising the price) of everything made from crude oil domestically? 030
Reposted by Ersatz CliffKeifer @dannyvegito.bsky.social · 23/09/2026🎶Wastin’ away again out in Gomorrah-ville🎶 🎶Looking back at Lot’s pillar of salt🎶 0123
Reposted by Ersatz CliffL Ron Mexico @lronmexico.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It helps to understand America as a casino you’re trapped in: no windows to another future, no concept of time apart from the casino itself, designed to wear you down. Neon lights and beeps and boops, every machine dressed up as some familiar IP, all doing the same thing: slowly bleeding you dry. 717542
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 22/09/2026(Gen X drink-from-the-hose nostalgia guy after getting the Flowers for Algernon procedure) You couldn’t make “The Shame of the Cities” (1904) today. Lincoln Steffens would write for Salon, publish poptimist paeans to bubblegum music, & churn out clickbait titled ”I’ve Seen the Future…and It Twerks!” 040
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 22/09/2026The reason the Iran War can’t end is because the US lacks the political/intellectual capacity to negotiate, or even the thinnest tether to anything resembling national interest. Forget Kennan, Mearsheimer, Ikenberry, etc.; IR scholarship is useless here. You need the DSM to analyze us at this point 130
Reposted by Ersatz CliffProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵 410113436030
Reposted by Ersatz CliffRussell Irving @rginteger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I'm not much of a Pokémon person, but my son is & trying to buy him cards at retail prices has been nigh on impossible the last couple of years, and I refuse to pay scalpers for anything. So it warms the cockles of my heart to see so many of them having a full meltdown about the recent set. Enjoy!! 26150651382
Reposted by Ersatz CliffHank & Townes’s Mom @katehascats.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I wrote about grief for Welcome to Hell World. Thanks to @lukeoneil47.bsky.social for holding space. www.welcometohellworld.com/there-is-onl...welcometohellworld.comThere is only before and after he diedLosing Kaleb 510323
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 21/09/2026I like living in Maine, but after recent events we should probably not be allowed to vote or send representatives to Congress from here. We should be governed as an non-autonomous UN mandate for the next 50 years at the very least 010
Reposted by Ersatz CliffStella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 20/09/2026GUY WHO CAN’T REMEMBER THE NAME “JAPAN”: 152372240
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 20/09/2026great, I tried depositing a check and a 90s kid held the bank hostage with a Nintendo light gun as I was leaving. Now I’m trapped in the plot of “Pog Day Afternoon” 030
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 20/09/2026pretty sure sign of desperation that Mozilla added an AI assistant button in the *exact* place where Firefox’s back button normally is, forcing you to click it out of 30 years of muscle memory until you go out of your way to get rid of it 010
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 20/09/2026I think it’s neat that the Western political imagination decayed to the point where symbols like “working class,” “democracy,” & “populism” are commonly synonymous w/ not giving a shit about other people, so that the minute you demonstrate any empathic functioning at all you’re now a hated “elitist” 141
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 20/09/2026breakfast place made the mistake of giving me crayons and I drew a very jaundiced Harper’s Magazine subscriber 050
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 20/09/2026There‘s an outbreak of firstdayonearthitis where I live. The affected population appears to be whoever is directly in front of me in line 030
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 20/09/2026I’m banned from the barbecue tapas fusion restaurant. Guess that makes me a parrilla pariah… 041
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 19/09/2026Entering week 4 of feeling like absolute shit 👍 220
Reposted by Ersatz CliffErsatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 05/05/2025I hate ordering lunch from the FBI canteen for Mindhunter guys. “I’ll have, uh…the DSM Burger, some Low Frustration Tolerance Fries, and……an Impaired Empathic Functioning Side Salad.” How am I supposed to remember all that??!! 0141
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 18/09/2026critics mock the Mayor McCheese/Officer Big Mac administration. They‘re ignorant of how they heroically foiled a biowarfare attack; turns out, the Burger King Kids club was running a mutagenic weapons research lab, “The Tender CRISPR Bacon Cheddar Ranch.“ The FBI kept this secret to prevent copycats 040
Reposted by Ersatz CliffLuke Kawa @ljkawa.bsky.social · 17/09/2026JPMorgan’s commodities team: “For the first time since the start of the Iran conflict, we don’t have a baseline view. We simply don’t know how to model the endgame.” 1121685289
Reposted by Ersatz CliffNorm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Maybe this stick season will be better than last. 1025615
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 17/09/2026Another hard day at work, manually computing my BlueSky followers’ toxicity scores. #wfh 040
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 16/09/2026(SimCity 2000 “reticulating splines” voice) Implicating faves… 041
