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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

We had to say goodbye to Bruiser this weekend 💔

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Describe your favourite movie in the most boring way possible. Orphanage fundraisers indicted.

Promotional poster for the movie “The Blues Brothers”, featuring Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi standing in front of the ex-police car

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Science: “this post checks out!”

Post by @shutupmikeginn that reads: “its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time about things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further”

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Paging Mr Goodhart to the white courtesy phone..

New Yorker style cartoon: Museum of Meaningless Metrics, with displays showing
- Lines of Code
- Story Points
- Pull Requests
- Tokens Spent

Original cartoonist unknown, or would give attribution.

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Reminds me of this classic..

Cartoon image of a cross legged man sitting in a bathroom breathing heavily into a harmonica. Caption reads "Spice up your panic attack with a harmonica".

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

He's going to blow up whatever is left of that party. Elected unopposed? Slim Pickings indeed.

Still of Slim Pickens riding the bomb from the final scene of Dr Strangelove.

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

The most recent meme in your camera roll describes your current mental state.

Image of Jesus with outstretched hand, with the caption "Alright. That's enough. Give me the phone."

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Saw this somewhere earlier, can definitely relate.

Thanks for the free 7-day trial of 2026
I'd like to unsubscribe from whatever the hell this is.

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn't a selfie.

A very good boy* sitting at a meeting room table with a paw raised as if wanting to ask a question.

*Dog

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

What a gorgeous critter. We have a cat tree like that. This is our matching handsome boy Bruiser in the same pose. And the other weirdo

Bruiser, aka "Big Man", the most handsome and placid cat ever. Bruiser is a Tuxedo cat, pictured with his head poking over the edge of the cat tree.

Missy, a tortoise shell cat that oscillates between torpor and mania, and by her reckoning has never ever been fed. Shown here with front legs hanging down from her perch on the cat tree like a total weirdo.

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

>> so when things got tedious he could whip it out

Just the basic "wait, what?" meme image.

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

The implication seems to be that this is somehow a positive development. Why would anyone wish such a thing on themselves or their colleagues?

An ad for some diabolical bullshit called Fireflies.ai with a slightly menacing, apparently female robot pictured, overlaid with the text "AI AGENTS CAN NOW JOIN YOUR MEETINGS AND START TALKING" as if that's something anyone who has ever attended a meeting would want.

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Behold the Deli Skelly!

Deli Skelly, the human skeleton charcuterie board. A human skeleton filed with cured meats, cheeses, crackers and the like. An extremely disturbing visual.

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Here's some I've seen and saved (original authors not known)

New Yorker cartoon showing an interview where one participant is saying "Philip K. Dick. Ray Bradbury. Like so many others in tech, I draw inspiration from completely misunderstanding those authors."

"Ballad of Buster Scruggs" meme of two men in nooses on a hangman's platform, one crying, one smiling. The crying one is captioned "Programmers worried about Chat GPT", the other "Mathematicians who survived the invention of the calculator". The smiling man is captioned saying "First time?"

A Studio Ghibli style rendering of the "smiling girl watching the house burn meme", with an inset photo of Sam Altman. The image contains the caption "OpenAl CEO Sam Altman Reacted to the Viral Ghibli-Style image trend, saying,
"Our GPUs are melting."

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

The BOFH would approve!

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

The way MetaAI interprets Facebook posts is truly terrible. How can Meta be so proud of this tripe?

Image of Facebook post showing MetaAI interpretation of an image of a Lego "Clippy".

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Completely unserious people.

Buzz & Woody meme. Buzz gestures around saying "Vibes. Vibes all the way down"

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

In his last few years Barney's ears were only decorative, so the fireworks no longer traumatised him. Never understood the appeal. (Of fireworks, obviously. Barney's appeal absolutely self evident to anyone with eyes.)

Miniature foxie (also known as a Tenterfield Terrier) called Barney who was the goodest boi ever.

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Good to see that with all of what's going on in the US this last week, the NYT is not afraid of some hard hitting journalism.

A screenshot of a NYT email that reads "No brown shoes with blue pants? Our fashion critic weighs in", with a matching image of pants and shoes.

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

One of these headlines is not like the others.

A series of Guardian Australia notifications about various awful things, followed by one about voltage standards killing toasters 🤷‍♂️

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

David, I thought you might appreciate my feedback to this email.

A reply to an email offering new AI features. "Since you asked for feedback, I would rather vigorously scratch my testicles with a cheese grater than use any of these so-called Al features.
No thank you."

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

Amazing. Speaking of stuffing AI into a product...

TechCrunch giving AI the usual reach around in a post that followed @bell.bz post about allowing AI features to be disabled.

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 16/07/2024

Thanks, but I'd rather scratch my balls with a cheese grater.

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

This showed up on Marketplace (via the Ugly Guitars group) and I thought you better know about it.

Absolutely cursed looking acoustic guitar with airbrushed painting of Bill Cosby on the body.

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 30/06/2024

Perfect for people who would use this garbage.

A screenshot of some awful AI powered app that turns literature into dumbed down text sludge. I assume it's called Maggi book because it turns quality ingredients into a bland soup.

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 22/06/2024

I'm sure this is nothing to worry about.

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 22/06/2024

I'm sure this is nothing to be concerned about.

Bluesky notification that "The Grim Reaper" has started following me.

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

"Your plastic pal who's fun to be with". Douglas Adams was a true visionary.

Screen shot from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy TV series featuring Marvin the Paranoid Android and the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation marketing line about their robots being "Your plastic pal who's fun to be with"

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 29/05/2024

The one I've got keeps me quite busy enough, thanks.

LinkedIn suggestion: "We found 10 jobs you may be interested in"

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 26/05/2024

This dude, but the hat is red, and he's eating his own tail

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 08/05/2024

Go home LinkedIn. You're drunk.

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 08/05/2024

Go home LinkedIn, you're drunk

LinkedIn notification "People with similar interests are following Scott Morrison.
Follow to see posts."

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RET @oldmate.bsky.social · 04/05/2024

There's already one in Sydney with what look like Queensland plates, apparently belongs to a local Tesla dealership. Unclear how it's street legal.

Photo of Cybertruck taken in Bondi, Sydney Australia

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