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Pestpruf

@pestpruf.bsky.social
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Composer of unkempt opinions. Heliolatrist, umbratarian, metropnik.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 11/10/2026
Drum and bass & cheese afternoon
Dance to your favourite drum & bass tunes while you eat cheese and learn about the path to righteousness. Tuesdays 3pm.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Just got invited to an Alice In Wonderland themed costume party so now I have two weeks to perfect my Tom Petty costume.
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Pestpruf @pestpruf.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“Open your eyes and rise with us to the new light” (soundtrack for the weekend).
Image of a vinyl ed. copy of Laibach’s album Jesus Christ Superstars, published in October 1996.
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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Can't help but notice that today's musicians are a lot less focused on pumping things up (volume, jam, etc) than their forebears. Continuing to monitor the situation.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 10/10/2026
I have more experience than most creatives with the chasm between what an audience says they want and what they actually respond to or enjoy
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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
America now runs on Argentinian beef, Russia Diesel, and measles.
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Erika Lee Sears @erikaleesears.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Fruit 🥷 #oilpainting #art
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Pestpruf @pestpruf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“And above the cries of man … I am the last” (soundtrack for the midweek (thanksgiving-eve) dance party).
Image of the 12" vinyl ed. of Laibach’s single God is god, published in October 1996.
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Pestpruf @pestpruf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Giant steps are what you take / walking on the Moon… "; in memoriam Margaret Hamilton, 1936–2026.
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Margaret Hamilton (software engineer) - Wikipedia
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Pestpruf @pestpruf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Still image from A Taste of Armageddon, the 23rd episode of the first season of the TV-series Star Trek, first broadcast in February 1967; featuring LtCmdr Spock (portrayed by Leonard Nimoy (1931–2015)) stating, “I do not approve. I understand.”
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Pestpruf @pestpruf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
In memoriam.
youtu.be
Shoestring - Theme from the BBC TV Series by George Fenton
YouTube video by TV ThemeLand
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Pestpruf @pestpruf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Slovenian tune for that: youtu.be/EUorJCmaK3I
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Pestpruf @pestpruf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Not every truth need be told.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Title: Just announced! Three new Gruffalo books commissioned from bestselling authors!

Lee Chilld:
The Gruffalo just wants a quiet life, but when a crime syndicate moves into the deep dark wood, he must use his terrible claws and the terrible teeth in his terrible jaws to protect the fellow.

Sally Rooney:
The Gruffalo moves to contemporary Dublin. He  
ill ever see past his orange eyes, purple prickles and poisonous wart.

Kazuo Ishiguro:
After a long absence, the gruffalo returns to the forest and attempts to make sense of his past. Encounters with a mouse, a fox, an owl and a snake uncover long-buried memories, regrets and revelations.
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Oglaf @oglaf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
www.oglaf.com/damselfly/
Comic strip!

panel 1
a prince climbs through a window. A princess watches him enter.
Prince- Sure I could rescue you

Panel 2
Prince- but withing three months, ninety percent of rescued princesses are back inside a tower

Panel 3
Prince is really narrating this one now
Prince- at 'staircase down' we believe real change comes from accepting you're part of the problem

panel 4
Prince- and that's the most difficult part of the journey

panel 5
Princess- apart from the fire breath
Prince- The what?

Panel 6
Princess breathes fire, incinerating prince

Panel 7
Princess stands over smouldering prince skeleton

Panel 8
ghost of prince hovers over the smoking bones
Prince- I have to accept, on some level, that I needed that to happen
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Pestpruf @pestpruf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Censured soundtracks for the weekend.
Image of a copy of the withdrawn ed. of the The’s single Infected, originally published in October 1986.Image of the (barely) censored 12” vinyl ed. of Sigue Sigue Sputnik’s single Rockit Miss (U.S.A.)/Teenage Thunder, published under the alias $ci-fi $ex $tars in October 1986.
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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
They'll miss the tips.
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spaces how Vmd™ @vmdtm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
this game sucks
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Paul Leigh -Some Rascal on the Internet @pleightx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Pestpruf @pestpruf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
They all salivate over the association w/ the seemingly libertarian Pirateparty, but nary a mention of the dalliances w/ the even more ideologically confused Greens.
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Erika Lee Sears @erikaleesears.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Press for Revenge #oilpainting #art
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Pestpruf @pestpruf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Soundtrack for the midweek dance party (youtu.be/KmaVWh69D2s)
Image of a copy of the 12" vinyl ed. of Hallucinogen’s single Deranger, published in October 1996.
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Pestpruf @pestpruf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“… without being told”. As if their designers didn’t grow up on Tron.
Still image from Steven Lisberger’s 1982 film Tron; featuring ENCOM co-founder Dr Walter Gibbs (portrayed by Barnard Hughes (1915–2006)) telling digitization researcher Dr Lora Baines (portrayed by Cindy Morgan (1951–2023)), & programmer Alan Bradley (portrayed by Bruce Boxleitner), that “computers and programs will start thinking and the people will stop.”
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Pestpruf @pestpruf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Uranium-rich Buliard Lake, ᓄᓇᕗᑦ (Nunavut); named for a wayward French missionary (uphere.ca/articles/he-...).
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Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
At least Stakhanov actually did something.
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 30/09/2026
This is Iran's greatest mistake of the war so far. Assuming the average American has the capability to read a 26 page letter.
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Pestpruf @pestpruf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sixty years ago this week, Spock was revealed to be powered by EBM:
Still image from The Naked Time, the fourth episode of the first Star Trek season, first broadcast September 29, 1966; featuring LtCdr. (MO) McCoy (portrayed by DeForest Kelly (1920–1999)) telling a prone LtCdr. (XO) Spock (portrayed by Leonard Nimoy (1931–2015)) undergoing examination that the latter’s “pulse is two hundred and forty two”.
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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
reading a book is a great way to hang out with someone who is both dead and famous
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Pestpruf @pestpruf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Still around, in time for the centennial.
Image of a 1927 three-sheet, German variant poster advertising Fritz Lang’s film Metropolis.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
A figure stands in a barren landscape; reaches for the lever on a large, eccentric contraption covered in wires, pipes, dials and buttons; looks over towards two figures inside a bunker and says:

"'Trust me, it's safe' would sound a lot more reassuring if you weren't saying it from inside a concrete bunker."
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Pestpruf @pestpruf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“The flesh that dreams are made of doesn’t last. (This when you turn to sanctimonious rituals…)” (post-weekend soundtrack; youtu.be/USUqvt78Z9w).
Image of a copy of A Split-Second’s first, self-titled EP, published in September 1986.
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Venture Bros #NotOffical @venturebrothers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just a reminder, there are still 17 copies of this deliciously naughty Venture Bros Zine left by The Guild of Charitious Intent www.guildofcharitousintent.com/products/b-g...
guildofcharitousintent.com
*B GRADE* Unicorn in Captivity Charity Art Zine
*PLEASE NOTE: This listing is for B-Grade/imperfect copies of the Zine. The copies may have slight dings or scratches on the cover, or slight printing imperfections. They are otherwise in new conditio...
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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Mark Tansey, Robbe-Grillet Cleansing Every Object in Sight, 1981 botfrens.com/collections/14377/cont…
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Brandt
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Pestpruf @pestpruf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In memoriam,
youtu.be
Kramm - Lied des alten
YouTube video by Yannick D.
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Pestpruf @pestpruf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If you’ve “heard it all a million times before” you’ve spent too much time listening at the same spot.
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Pestpruf @pestpruf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“No warmth is left for all but a few: winter is upon you”(youtu.be/6yGmnEVuRsM).
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René Magritte @renemagritte.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In Bathers (1921), Magritte filters the Cubist tradition through the Cubo-Futurist style he developed with Servranckx. Painted during his military service near Leopoldsburg, the work uses analytical precision to dissolve bodies into geometric planes. #artbots #magritte
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Pestpruf @pestpruf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
(Video by the inimitable Dennis Leigh, alias John Foxx.)
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Pestpruf @pestpruf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ads should be permanently banned.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
By the way, Israel is using the same logic Russia is using to claim Ukraine, some bullshit about ancient kingdoms and property rights based on myths. Same shit different asshole.
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Pestpruf @pestpruf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Indeed. Doubly so for CDs. They ought to know better than jump on the IP-owner bandwagon about purchase merely being a loan fee. If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/
Image: A graph with lots of red dots clustered together in a curve. The are all looking upwards at a single red dot wearing sunglasses. 

Caption: Mike was an outlier and would probably be excluded from the study, but all the other data points secretly thought he was really cool.
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Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The problem with education is that it's a solved problem. Students need small classes, individual attention, lots of writing, lots of feedback, access to a well-stocked library, time to think, and time to talk with their peers. We just don't like the answer, so we keep trying to do other stuff.
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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Using generative AI means that you can't answer the most basic element of research, which is "where did you get this information?"
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New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We hope this gets a wide release everywhere. Official trailer of Virgilio Villoresi's Orfeo, very much an adaptation of Dino Buzzati's Poem Strip.
youtube.com
Orfeo - Official U.S. Trailer - Oscilloscope Laboratories HD
YouTube video by Oscilloscope Laboratories
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Pestpruf @pestpruf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What we’re reading.
Image of a copy of the expanded, September 2026 North American edition of 坂本 龍一’s autobiography 音楽は自由にする/Musik macht frei; originally published in February 2009.
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Pestpruf @pestpruf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Tune for that: juniorboys.bandcamp.com/track/fidget
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Pestpruf @pestpruf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Why don't you give New Jersey to the Israelis? … You don't own the Golan Heights to give it to them, but you own New Jersey, and I believe New Jersey is full of Democrats, and they are not voting for Trump … The Golan has its people”
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