Herb Ferman
@herbfermansclone.bsky.social
Creator of Human/OS and a bunch of other nonsense. Follow for daily announcements, pointless warnings, HR announcements, questionable snacks, and probably a form to fill out about your socks.
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Herb Ferman
@herbfermansclone.bsky.social
· Apr 10
Welcome to Echo Station Z-01
Updates from a nonsense-run space station held together by sarcasm, vending machines, and guilt. Expect daily updates, pointless alerts, and mildly sentient pudding.
Follow for mandatory nonsense. Your compliance is appreciated.
Updates from a nonsense-run space station held together by sarcasm, vending machines, and guilt. Expect daily updates, pointless alerts, and mildly sentient pudding.
Follow for mandatory nonsense. Your compliance is appreciated.
Sage Stone: The stars are restless and so are the space bears. Avoid eye contact and any drink that smells like regret. If a bear offers you a shot, decline politely and back away. Slowly
October 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Sage Stone: The stars are restless and so are the space bears. Avoid eye contact and any drink that smells like regret. If a bear offers you a shot, decline politely and back away. Slowly
Untraceable Forecast: Mirrored Maze
Your strategic mind is a gift, until it encounters a sandwich. You'll suspect the lettuce knows too much. It doesn't. The mustard does. Don't challenge your reflection, it's five moves ahead and has half a deck up its sleeve.
Your strategic mind is a gift, until it encounters a sandwich. You'll suspect the lettuce knows too much. It doesn't. The mustard does. Don't challenge your reflection, it's five moves ahead and has half a deck up its sleeve.
October 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Untraceable Forecast: Mirrored Maze
Your strategic mind is a gift, until it encounters a sandwich. You'll suspect the lettuce knows too much. It doesn't. The mustard does. Don't challenge your reflection, it's five moves ahead and has half a deck up its sleeve.
Your strategic mind is a gift, until it encounters a sandwich. You'll suspect the lettuce knows too much. It doesn't. The mustard does. Don't challenge your reflection, it's five moves ahead and has half a deck up its sleeve.
PSA - Please stop yelling at the vending machines, they VEND, they do not manage your bankrupt bank account. Therapy for traumatized machines is astronomical.
October 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
PSA - Please stop yelling at the vending machines, they VEND, they do not manage your bankrupt bank account. Therapy for traumatized machines is astronomical.
Spoons are not cutlery, they're embryonic ladles. When a spoon is left in a drawer for more than 40 years it molts into a ladle.
October 16, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Spoons are not cutlery, they're embryonic ladles. When a spoon is left in a drawer for more than 40 years it molts into a ladle.
First (and last) Conference on Necrosis
Join our gathering of professionals, amateurs, and things that smell faintly of the grave. Topics include: Fashion for the Undead, Ethical Reanimation: is there such a thing?, and Why do Conferences End in Plagues?
Box 99, Advanced decay recommended.
Join our gathering of professionals, amateurs, and things that smell faintly of the grave. Topics include: Fashion for the Undead, Ethical Reanimation: is there such a thing?, and Why do Conferences End in Plagues?
Box 99, Advanced decay recommended.
October 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
First (and last) Conference on Necrosis
Join our gathering of professionals, amateurs, and things that smell faintly of the grave. Topics include: Fashion for the Undead, Ethical Reanimation: is there such a thing?, and Why do Conferences End in Plagues?
Box 99, Advanced decay recommended.
Join our gathering of professionals, amateurs, and things that smell faintly of the grave. Topics include: Fashion for the Undead, Ethical Reanimation: is there such a thing?, and Why do Conferences End in Plagues?
Box 99, Advanced decay recommended.
Vending Machine Uprising Update
Please disregard the vending machine in corridor B13. It is experiencing a firmware rebellion and now only dispenses riddles and mayonnaise.
Please disregard the vending machine in corridor B13. It is experiencing a firmware rebellion and now only dispenses riddles and mayonnaise.
October 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Vending Machine Uprising Update
Please disregard the vending machine in corridor B13. It is experiencing a firmware rebellion and now only dispenses riddles and mayonnaise.
Please disregard the vending machine in corridor B13. It is experiencing a firmware rebellion and now only dispenses riddles and mayonnaise.
PSA - Chemical reactions aren't just for test tubes and dramatic sizzling, they're also why you wept at the commercial with a duck in boots.
Emotions are just molecules doing experimental theatre inside your skull. Love? Chemistry. Rage? Chemistry. Sudden urge to alphabetize soup? Still chemistry.
Emotions are just molecules doing experimental theatre inside your skull. Love? Chemistry. Rage? Chemistry. Sudden urge to alphabetize soup? Still chemistry.
October 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
PSA - Chemical reactions aren't just for test tubes and dramatic sizzling, they're also why you wept at the commercial with a duck in boots.
Emotions are just molecules doing experimental theatre inside your skull. Love? Chemistry. Rage? Chemistry. Sudden urge to alphabetize soup? Still chemistry.
Emotions are just molecules doing experimental theatre inside your skull. Love? Chemistry. Rage? Chemistry. Sudden urge to alphabetize soup? Still chemistry.
"Throwing Rats" are not sanctioned equipment on any diplomatic mission, lunch break, or bank robbery. No exceptions. Yes even if they're wearing little helmets. Especially then! This has been clarified twice in the handbook. Please stop asking.
October 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"Throwing Rats" are not sanctioned equipment on any diplomatic mission, lunch break, or bank robbery. No exceptions. Yes even if they're wearing little helmets. Especially then! This has been clarified twice in the handbook. Please stop asking.
Spite is motivational. Forget the hanging kitty poster, complete nonsense. Vengeance gets you outta bed faster than a jet fuel latte and keeps you there till the job is done.
October 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Spite is motivational. Forget the hanging kitty poster, complete nonsense. Vengeance gets you outta bed faster than a jet fuel latte and keeps you there till the job is done.
Update from Atmospheric Logistics
New air has arrived. Please deposit your used air into the designated bins located near vents, under signage marked “Exhale Zone.”
Do not attempt to hoard old air.
If your respiratory system resists the update, please reboot.
New air has arrived. Please deposit your used air into the designated bins located near vents, under signage marked “Exhale Zone.”
Do not attempt to hoard old air.
If your respiratory system resists the update, please reboot.
September 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Update from Atmospheric Logistics
New air has arrived. Please deposit your used air into the designated bins located near vents, under signage marked “Exhale Zone.”
Do not attempt to hoard old air.
If your respiratory system resists the update, please reboot.
New air has arrived. Please deposit your used air into the designated bins located near vents, under signage marked “Exhale Zone.”
Do not attempt to hoard old air.
If your respiratory system resists the update, please reboot.
TEMPORAL REALIGNMENT - All station clocks will now operate on metric time: 10 hours per day, 100 minutes per hour, 100 seconds per minute. Biological functions will also be reset to factors of 10.
Digestive events must now occur in base-10.
Digestive events must now occur in base-10.
September 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
TEMPORAL REALIGNMENT - All station clocks will now operate on metric time: 10 hours per day, 100 minutes per hour, 100 seconds per minute. Biological functions will also be reset to factors of 10.
Digestive events must now occur in base-10.
Digestive events must now occur in base-10.
Attention - The gravity in sector 7 has inverted again. Please be careful as we've just mopped the ceiling.
September 25, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Attention - The gravity in sector 7 has inverted again. Please be careful as we've just mopped the ceiling.
The moon has a secret, and it's shaped like your uncles recliner.
September 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The moon has a secret, and it's shaped like your uncles recliner.
RAISE your own swarm of tax-deductible crickets that hum in the key of C-sharp. Perfect of ambiance or discrete surveillance. Details 1 credit. Chirpworks, 1 Pot Clang, Station Omicron.
September 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
RAISE your own swarm of tax-deductible crickets that hum in the key of C-sharp. Perfect of ambiance or discrete surveillance. Details 1 credit. Chirpworks, 1 Pot Clang, Station Omicron.
GROW edible light bulbs in your spare time. Popular in the outer reaches and salads. Free growing guide. Photofruit Co., Box 99, Sunrise Orbit.
September 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
GROW edible light bulbs in your spare time. Popular in the outer reaches and salads. Free growing guide. Photofruit Co., Box 99, Sunrise Orbit.
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GROW your own pocket-sized moon for only 3 credits. Guaranteed to produce tides in small jars. Details 15s. Lunartek, Dock 12, Station Gamma.
August 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
GROW your own pocket-sized moon for only 3 credits. Guaranteed to produce tides in small jars. Details 15s. Lunartek, Dock 12, Station Gamma.
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Earn 900 Splonks by translating between dialects of lamppost. No experience required. Lamps provided. Details free. Illumicorp, 77 Flicker Way.
Earn 900 Splonks by translating between dialects of lamppost. No experience required. Lamps provided. Details free. Illumicorp, 77 Flicker Way.
August 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Earn 900 Splonks by translating between dialects of lamppost. No experience required. Lamps provided. Details free. Illumicorp, 77 Flicker Way.
Earn 900 Splonks by translating between dialects of lamppost. No experience required. Lamps provided. Details free. Illumicorp, 77 Flicker Way.
At 3:13am, you will be momentarily fluent in a forgotten language. Yell something wise.
June 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
At 3:13am, you will be momentarily fluent in a forgotten language. Yell something wise.
Apologies for the silence. The team responsible for updates also managed Human/OS subroutines. This resulted in zero posts and several corrupted dreams. They've been fired, rehired, and reassigned. New staff will not be allowed near keyboards without direct supervision.
May 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Apologies for the silence. The team responsible for updates also managed Human/OS subroutines. This resulted in zero posts and several corrupted dreams. They've been fired, rehired, and reassigned. New staff will not be allowed near keyboards without direct supervision.
All Echo Station residents: The monthly Mandatory Silence Audit will commence shortly. Please refrain from thoughts louder than a whisper. Noncompliance will be met with interpretive chart analysis. Yes, again.
May 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
All Echo Station residents: The monthly Mandatory Silence Audit will commence shortly. Please refrain from thoughts louder than a whisper. Noncompliance will be met with interpretive chart analysis. Yes, again.
I don't feel like writing any nonsense today, so here's a picture of some nonsense. #sticker #buynowaskmehow
April 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I don't feel like writing any nonsense today, so here's a picture of some nonsense. #sticker #buynowaskmehow
Forcast for Haven Cluster
Today, time will feel like it’s running backward, but only for spoons. Avoid reflective surfaces and trust no cutlery. Also, someone will compliment your shoes. You’re not wearing any? Exactly.
Today, time will feel like it’s running backward, but only for spoons. Avoid reflective surfaces and trust no cutlery. Also, someone will compliment your shoes. You’re not wearing any? Exactly.
April 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Forcast for Haven Cluster
Today, time will feel like it’s running backward, but only for spoons. Avoid reflective surfaces and trust no cutlery. Also, someone will compliment your shoes. You’re not wearing any? Exactly.
Today, time will feel like it’s running backward, but only for spoons. Avoid reflective surfaces and trust no cutlery. Also, someone will compliment your shoes. You’re not wearing any? Exactly.
Proper marksmanship begins with the proper installation of eyes. If you're experiencing double vision, aim for the blurrier one. If you have no eyes, please consult Maintenance or whoever's been borrowing them. Ballistics is mostly confidence anyway.
April 22, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Proper marksmanship begins with the proper installation of eyes. If you're experiencing double vision, aim for the blurrier one. If you have no eyes, please consult Maintenance or whoever's been borrowing them. Ballistics is mostly confidence anyway.