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David J. Clarke
@jazzphreak.bsky.social
Seeking work as a Peer Bridger or 988 Support Agent. Jazz fanatic & amateur photographer. Former philosopher & logician. Disciple of Richard Rorty. Francophile. 💙🏳️‍🌈📸🎷 🇫🇷
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Pragmatic and practical information, with an aim towards producing evidence that could ultimately be included in prosecution of ICE attacks against peacefully protesting citizens.
www.wired.com/story/how-to...
#protest #resist #document #evidence @wired.com
How to Film ICE
Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact.
www.wired.com
Sunlight floods the room from the bay window, reflects off the wide, honey colored floorboards, & casts an emerald glow over the perfect leaves of a monstera shaped like a cloud. It stems brush the back of a Scandinavian armchair.

—Perfection
—Vincenzo Latronico
#voiceless #narrative #creatives
February 15, 2026 at 6:56 AM
Reposted by David J. Clarke
Oaks, Sonoma County, CA

Pine Flat Road, outside of Healdsburg, CA is one of my favorite places to photograph… when there are cool clouds, even more so!

#photography #blackandwhite
#sonomacounty #landscape #bluesky #monochrome
#landscapephotography #naturephotography #blueskyartshow #wood
February 14, 2026 at 3:46 PM
A favorite image of mine from @blu-dot.bsky.social took me back to Bruegel's 'Hunters in the Snow'.

What mood does the image evoke here? Is it joyful? How does that mood change as you look closer?

Where does your eye go? How does it travel through the photograph?

#landscape #imagination #color
February 15, 2026 at 1:42 AM
Reposted by David J. Clarke
February 13, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Reposted by David J. Clarke
February 14, 2026 at 8:00 AM
One of my favorite places on earth....
February 14, 2026 at 7:03 AM
A wonderful production and now a fitting homage to the recently dead Tom Stoppard...His brilliant play, with the seemingly simple conceit of everything that's going on with Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern off stage, while Hamlet goes on in the 'real world'.
#TomStoppard #Words
youtu.be/yMVS7kjyoSQ?...
ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD
YouTube video by Mirvish Productions
youtu.be
February 14, 2026 at 7:01 AM
February 13, 2026 at 5:25 AM
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February 13, 2026 at 5:07 AM
Paolo Fresu & Uri Caine with a fitting homage to Dizzy Gillespie
#nightintunisia #bebop #dizzygillespie

youtu.be/qFx8pvvBd08?...
Paolo Fresu & Uri Caine - A NIGHT IN TUNISIA Live MezzoTv
YouTube video by Paolo Fresu
youtu.be
February 13, 2026 at 2:18 AM
He stood outside the gates of Tegel Penitentiary, a free man. Only yesterday, he had been on the allotments with the others, hoeing potatoes in his convict stripes, and now he was wearing his summer duster, and they were hoeing and he was free.

— Berlin Alexanderplatz
— Alfred Döblin
#GeorgeGrosz
February 13, 2026 at 1:27 AM
February 13, 2026 at 12:41 AM
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View from an old traditional house in Iceland
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFramed
#EastCoastKin
#photography 📷
#Monochrome #BNW
February 12, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Lay your sleeping head, my love,
Human on my faithless arm;
Time and fevers burn away
Individual beauty from
thoughtful children, and the grave
Proves the child ephemeral:
but in my arms till break of day
Let the living creature lie,
mortal, guilty, but to me
The entirely beautiful.

—W.H. Auden
February 12, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Barista on break—at shifts end he will start the always pleasant experience of apartment hunting.

#HumansOfBlueSky #UrbanGaze #ClassicMono #Stunday #Streetphotography #Barista #EastCoastKin #Ennui
#Suitcase #Gaze #MiddleDistance
February 8, 2026 at 6:00 PM
We lived here, my mum, dad, & me, from 1958, the year I was born, until 1970 when I was 11. My mum was proud of the fact that we lived in an end-terrace house & so we're effectively in an unusually extended semi-detached. Even without that enhancing increment of status, it was a glamorous terrace.
February 8, 2026 at 5:17 AM
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
In our small town, local businesses do their best to help out the unhoused. U can receive a full meal & drink from a sandwich shop & it's fresh, you simply have to request it. Understandably, known well & well known in the unhoused community. A haven in a heartless world.
#Unhoused #Poverty #SeeMe
February 5, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Great article on Impulse! records... with some terrific music during a creative time in jazz. Post is a gift, so no paywall issue.

#Impulse #SonnyRollins #Coltrane
#Jazz #ImprovisedMusic

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/a...
5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Impulse! Records
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:23 PM
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I am really enjoying having the Eastern Bluebirds here for the winter. They seem to be very social and full of personality. It's a shame they are not here year-round.

North Texas

#photography
#birds #birdphotography
#nature #naturephotography
#Texas #backyardbirds
February 2, 2026 at 3:46 AM
Pragmatic and practical information, with an aim towards producing evidence that could ultimately be included in prosecution of ICE attacks against peacefully protesting citizens.
www.wired.com/story/how-to...
#protest #resist #document #evidence @wired.com
How to Film ICE
Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact.
www.wired.com
February 2, 2026 at 7:55 AM
January 31, 2026 at 1:47 AM
Reposted by David J. Clarke
Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday.

📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
January 30, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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“That’s some bad hat, Harry…” male Gambel’s Quail 🪶
January 30, 2026 at 1:14 PM