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Return to... whatever @returntoroot.bsky.social · 7h

Ghost in the veggie garden! 😬 oh wait, that's just the Brussels sprouts and insect netting. 😮‍💨

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Return to... whatever @returntoroot.bsky.social · 8h

Dang, he had some cool vintage stuff I'd buy... if found at regular antique store prices.

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KANSHIKETSU! @kanshiketsu.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

a print and a crumple of the print of the crumple of the print of the crumple... #asemic origami!

crumpled paper scan of a crumpled paper scan of a crumpled paper scan laser print 2026 Kanshiketsu!

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Return to... whatever @returntoroot.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Curio Box, 2016 - Carbon pigment print of from a 8x10 wet plate collodion glass negative I made in 2012. Print is mounted to corrugated cardboard, coated with shellac, edges covered in tar, and mounted atop old book pages on a framed wood panel.

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Return to... whatever @returntoroot.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It was cool, I'm bummed I sold mine, but I have plenty of nice looper pedals now.

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Return to... whatever @returntoroot.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Industrial Radio + JamMan Loops. Currently trying to decipher which bits are the loops I was making with my JamMan back in the mid-90's. 🤔 I think I found them, barely remember making them or what side project it may have been for.

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Return to... whatever @returntoroot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"Not always so", 2016 mixed media with tintypes, one exposed, one not.

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Return to... whatever @returntoroot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

A salt print from a 4x5 negative I did a few years ago. Salt prints really do have a lovely quality.

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Return to... whatever @returntoroot.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

“Throughout my life I have seen, without one exception, narrow-shouldered men performing innumerable idiotic acts, brutalizing their fellows, and corrupting souls by every means. They call the motive for their actions: fame.” ― Comte de Lautréamont, Maldoror and the Complete Works

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Return to... whatever @returntoroot.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I was also fond of system 7. Gawd, now I really sound like an old man! 🤣

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Panel 1: a large robot (composed of AI servers, network switches, storage arrays, and power distribution units) and a human are talking.

Professor "You don't want to destroy humanity do you, lLLM-A-9300x?"

Robot "Haha. What a silly question, Professor. I have no desires or feelings of my own whatsoever."

Professor (relieved)"Oh good."

Panel 2: they walk on. The robot continues "I am merely a tool of the company that created me. And that company, being composed of humans, will naturally have humanity's best interests at heart."

Panel 3: The professor is conspicuously quiet.
"Right?" says the Robot.
…
More silence

"Professor?"

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Return to... whatever @returntoroot.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Yeah over the decades I've lost access to several of my favorite pieces of software as Mac has evolved. My first Mac was a Quadra 950 on OS 7! With a tiny hard drive and maxed at 16 MB of RAM. 😂

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Return to... whatever @returntoroot.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Thanks for the reply, I'll look into this. I wouldn't have it connected to the internet so I'm not worried about it getting hacked. If I still have an old version of Reaktor I'd probably use it for live shows instead of bringing my new one.

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Return to... whatever @returntoroot.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I was just thinking about an old MacBook I have in a box somewhere and wondering what old experimental audio software I have that could run on it.

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Return to... whatever @returntoroot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Waiting for the sun to come up. Low to mid 30's, not the 40's apple weather claimed it would be. Still nice to be in the northern woods, except for cell signal in this area. 🤣 I kind of liked the areas with no service.

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Return to... whatever @returntoroot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Looks real (nice) to me! Feels nice as well.

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Return to... whatever @returntoroot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

One of several interesting soundtracks I have in my collection.

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 05/10/2026

'They are often filed under industrial, pigeonholed as punk, but belong to neither; if they must fit into a genre then that genre is Neubauten.' Happy Birthday to #EinstürzendeNeubauten’s Kollaps, which turns 45 today! buff.ly/MmUYkJ4

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

David Lynch, American (1946-2025), Boy Lights Fire, 2011, mixed media on cardboard, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands

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𝔹𝕃𝔸ℕ𝕂⚙️ F̷R̷A̷N̷K̷ @surface-noize.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#MusicChallenge #MusicSky #NowPlaying #CasSunday Captain Beefheart- Abba Zaba (Basically, a sampling of Safe As Milk combined w/ a few tracks from other releases)

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Jen Sorensen @jensorensen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This week's comic on the pleasures of grocery shopping in 2026

Mr. Mrs. Perkins go grocery shopping 2026

Wasn’t that lettuce recalled for gut-exploding bacteria?

They said it might be OK in this state…

And look, it’s on sale!

Bags of lettuce from Grody farms 25% off

My, things have gotten expensive. Mr. P looks at Tariff Cheese priced $79 per pound

Looks like we can only afford the industrial poultry. Mrs. P looks at the Sad chicken section where

Thighs of Despair are offered at $3.99 per pound

This breakfast cereal used to be $4.50 for a large box. Now it’s $9 for this. Mr. P is holding a tiny box of Honey Chomps

This one is now priced by the flake. Mrs. P is holding a bag of cereal that costs 10¢ per wheat unit

Both look at hot dogs of dubious origin

Cheap

You’d never know the stock markets at an all-time high.

Yeah, it seems the supermarket has hit an all-time low.

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Rockette Morton @rockettemorton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Over the past month I’ve been listening to this one of a kind tape from @returntoroot.bsky.social A true field recording from July 2026. Side A starts slow, has some underlying rumble, doves, and then it consumes me. Side B is the Greenhouse Drip 😎 #Cassunday J. Sincock - Garden Sounds

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Return to... whatever @returntoroot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A 4x5 tintype from maybe 10 years ago. I was having chemistry issues so this became still life in a snow storm. Not as planned but maybe cooler. 😉

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Return to... whatever @returntoroot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A nice surprise in the mailbox made up for a shitty day. Thanks! @kanshiketsu.bsky.social

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Return to... whatever @returntoroot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Crazy that I've been listening to this for 41 years and shit just keeps getting worse 🤯 youtu.be/i5EFCgF01hg?...

youtu.be

Dead Kennedys - Hellnation

YouTube video by nikolapolish

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Return to... whatever @returntoroot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I made this track in 1998 while experimenting with ideas based around WSB's tape cut-ups and Steve Reich's phase loops. jsincock.bandcamp.com/track/burrou...

jsincock.bandcamp.com

Burroughs Experiment, by Conflagration of Souls

track by Conflagration of Souls

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Return to... whatever @returntoroot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here's the photo. Sure wish bluesky would let you edit posts!

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Return to... whatever @returntoroot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yet another cassette from another lifetime. This is from 1994 and probably the first time I started using Conflagration of Souls as my band name, I was in Milwaukee at that time. I think this was recorded on 4-track and mixed down to this tape. Nothing amazing, but fun to hear where I began.

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Return to... whatever @returntoroot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Collapsing old architecture. Leica M9 + 50mm Summicron (III)

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 01/10/2026

‘How Long Will The Fuel Hold Out’ George Carlson, 1914 archive.org/details/cari...

A massive, imposing head wearing a helm 'War God' representing the insatiable and destructive nature of militarism.
The Figure of "Europe": A woman labeled "Europe" who shovels human skulls and bones from a vast pile into the fiery furnace of the war god's mouth.

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Return to... whatever @returntoroot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Good gawd stop with f*ing political texts! 🤬

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Return to... whatever @returntoroot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm not sure, 20 years? More? I only recall one track on it, but don't remember how I made it. Kind of a Steve Reich tape loop phase thing, sort of.

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Return to... whatever @returntoroot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Maybe the best find in that box of tapes was my solo music from 1998/99. Probably recorded on my Roland VS-880 digital recorder then dubbed to tape. I jokingly called it "Conflagration of Agony Xerst" (a mix of my band names around that time) but my solo stuff was Conflagration of Souls.

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Return to... whatever @returntoroot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh geez, another box of cassettes. 🤣

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 29/09/2026

Feared and monitored by the British establishment, tailed across East Germany by the Stasi, sponsored by the condemned Greater London Council and regularly hosted by British Rail... The Strange World Of… Test Dept #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive buff.ly/Sc0W5am

Black and white photograph of Test Department performing.

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Return to... whatever @returntoroot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Trying a dot study on one of my prints. Not sure...

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Return to... whatever @returntoroot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I've been thinking of investing in a microscope 🔬 😉

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Return to... whatever @returntoroot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nice review and interview from Tad Kriofske Mainella for Milwaukee Magazine on my music, as well as the other artists, at the recent Brain in the Cupboard music festival www.milwaukeemag.com/milwaukee-mu...

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