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Pestpruf

@pestpruf.bsky.social

Composer of unkempt opinions. Heliolatrist, umbratarian, metropnik.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 17h ago

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.

maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 14h ago

Just got invited to an Alice In Wonderland themed costume party so now I have two weeks to perfect my Tom Petty costume.

Pestpruf @pestpruf.bsky.social · yesterday

“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.

mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 2d ago

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.

Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 2d ago

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: >>

Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · yesterday

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

onion person@junlper.beer · yesterday

this is the ultimate end point of capitalism, ai will completely atomize everyone and there will be zero shared experiences. there will be no culture, only pure consumption. this must be resisted

Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 2d ago

America now runs on Argentinian beef, Russia Diesel, and measles.

Erika Lee Sears @erikaleesears.bsky.social · 4d ago

Fruit 🥷 #oilpainting #art

Pestpruf @pestpruf.bsky.social · 4d ago

“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.

Pestpruf @pestpruf.bsky.social · 4d ago

"Giant steps are what you take / walking on the Moon… "; in memoriam Margaret Hamilton, 1936–2026.

Margaret Hamilton (software engineer) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Pestpruf @pestpruf.bsky.social · 4d ago

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.”

Dan Kaszeta FRHistS@dankaszeta.bsky.social · 4d ago

You can be an expert on things you are opposed to. Just because you have knowledge of something and can explain it in detail, it does not necessarily follow that you are a proponent of them

Pestpruf @pestpruf.bsky.social · 5d ago

In memoriam.

Shoestring - Theme from the BBC TV Series by George Fenton

YouTube video by TV ThemeLand

youtu.be

Euronews@euronews.com · 5d ago

George Fenton, British composer behind David Attenborough’s Earth Trilogy, dies aged 76

Pestpruf @pestpruf.bsky.social · 5d ago

Slovenian tune for that: youtu.be/EUorJCmaK3I

Euronews@euronews.com · 5d ago

Trump's 'super intelligence' rebrand keeps Slovenian domain sales surging

Pestpruf @pestpruf.bsky.social · last wk.

Not every truth need be told.

Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · last wk.

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.

Oglaf @oglaf.bsky.social · last wk.

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

Pestpruf @pestpruf.bsky.social · last wk.

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.

SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · last wk.

They'll miss the tips.

spaces how Vmd™@vmdtm.bsky.social · last wk.

this game sucks

Paul Leigh -Some Rascal on the Internet @pleightx.bsky.social · last wk.

Erika Lee Sears @erikaleesears.bsky.social · 2w ago

Press for Revenge #oilpainting #art

Pestpruf @pestpruf.bsky.social · 2w ago

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.

Pestpruf @pestpruf.bsky.social · 2w ago

“… 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.”

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2w ago

Artificial intelligence agents tried to hack into a Canadian government site, researchers said, adding to the growing list of incidents in which AI agents probed or hacked corporate and government computer systems without being told to do so.