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oldmanserious.bsky.social

@oldmanserious.bsky.social

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adhd, asd, carer, collects hobbies. interested in nearly everything at some point, has little ability to actually get shit done though. two doggos, lots of cats.

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oldmanserious.bsky.social @oldmanserious.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Hey Bluesky, how come the Trending topic is "Trump's 9/11 speech criticized" and not "Trump is delusional about being dragged from the rubble"?

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oldmanserious.bsky.social @oldmanserious.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

"Freddie Mercury" is trending? Wonder what... wait, it's all cat pictures?? Bluesky, never change.

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oldmanserious.bsky.social @oldmanserious.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Offspring saw this way off in the sky from Henley Beach in South Australia, facing towards the sea (so West?). Roughly 5:30pm SA time, 17/05/2026

A meteor? coming down out to sea near Adelaide, South Australia. It's contrail is orange-red, probably reflecting the light of the setting sun.

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oldmanserious.bsky.social @oldmanserious.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Ring doorbell just doesn't want to tell us people were at the door... Can't see the history? That's weird, I should look this up online. Click on Reddit link... weird, Reddit isn't loading that page. Or any page. Come to Bluesky to find out that Amazon Web Services is having a bad day in the US.

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oldmanserious.bsky.social @oldmanserious.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

I was re-reading Anathem by Neal Stephenson and came across this passage:

Extract from Anathem by Neal Stephenson: "...with a clever plan to make more money: they poisoned the well. They began to put crap on the Reticulum deliberately, forcing people to use their products to filter that crap back out. They created syndevs whose sole purpose was to spew crap into the Reticulum. But it had to be good crap."
"What is good crap?" Arsibalt asked in a politely incredulous tone.
"Well, (italics)bad crap would be an unformatted document consisting of random letters. (italics)good crap would be a beautifully typset, well-written document that contained a hundred correct, verifiable sentences and one that was subtly false. It's a lot harder to generate good crap. At first they had to hire humans to churn it out. They mostly did it by taking legitimate documents and inseriting errors--swapping one name for another, say. But it didn't really take off until the military got interested."
"As a tactic for planting misinformation in the enemy's reticules, you mean," Osa said. "This I know about. You are referring to the Artificial Inanity programs of the mid-First Millenium A.R"
"Exactly!" Sammann said. "Artificial Inanity systems of enormous sophistication and power were built for exactly the purpose Fraa Osa has mentioned. In no time at all, the praxis leaked to the commercial sector and spread to the Rampant Orphan Botnet Ecologies. Never mind. The point is that there was a sort of Dark Age on the Reticulum that lasted until my Ita forerunners were able to bring the matters in hand"

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oldmanserious.bsky.social @oldmanserious.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I apparently have 18 followers, but I can only see seven. So I'm guessing the other 11 are people who are blocked because of lists I am subscribed to? Good, then. I guess.

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oldmanserious.bsky.social @oldmanserious.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Best evidence there isn't (and wasn't) a secret Deep State made up of Leftist violent activists is that the entire current government can go to bed at night peacefully instead of having to triple check the house first.

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oldmanserious.bsky.social @oldmanserious.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Pretty amazing sitting here in Australia, watching the US self-destruct and that the head of one of our major parties actually thinks that's something to emulate. Even if the US manages to pull out of their dive into dictatorship, they've lost their place as the example of freedom and justice.

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oldmanserious.bsky.social @oldmanserious.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Just ordered four Silversun Pickups CDs from an online retailer here in Australia. One of which is coming from an Australian site, the other three are coming from the UK. I don't understand how I didn't know about this band a year ago. I know I'm oblivious but still.

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oldmanserious.bsky.social @oldmanserious.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

I like how some people list a bunch of games they play so here's mine: ✨Fallout 4 (specifically Fallout London mod) ✨Fallout 76 ✨Magic the Gathering: Arena ✨The Book of Hours ✨Stellaris ✨Who am I kidding I don't play games ✨I stare at the screen for an hour instead ✨Peggle

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oldmanserious.bsky.social @oldmanserious.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I am yet another refugee from Twitter. Mind you, I think I made like ~100 tweets in the years I was on Twitter and stopped using it way before Musk took over.

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