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Randall Jay
@randyjay.bsky.social
Artist & online book dealer. I live near Palm Springs, California. Friend of cats, birds, nature. art, books, movies, music, history, paper...

I'm on AbeBooks as Randall's Books https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sortby=0&vci=61552643
Vintage pics of Old Hollywood & Silent Film thespians, anyone? Recent finds, now posted on #AbeBooks #PatsyRuthMiller #WalterMcGrail #GeorgeFawcett #AnitaLouise #cinema #MovieHistory #SilentMovies #actors #actresses #booksky #Hollywood
December 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Current conditions
#PalmSprings
December 1, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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"We invented phonetic writing so we could put our sounds down on paper and, by glancing at a page, hear someone speaking in our head—an invention that became so widespread in the last few thousand years that we hardly ever stop to consider how astonishing it is."

-Carl Sagan, Billions & Billions
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Photo I took through a window last night.
November 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Yuk. Just noticed my phone’s weather app radar map has ‘Gulf of America’ on it.
November 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
November 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Loved this early 20th C. photo I found even before I noticed the lady in the bonnet. She makes it even better. Taken by Andrew Putnam Hill (1853-1922). His efforts to save this forest from the sawmill helped jumpstart the CA state park system. #California #photography #redwoods #BigBasinStatePark
November 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Enjoying sorting through stacks of 20th century #photographs acquired over the weekend. Hollywood, fashion & more. #photography #bookselling #booksky #ephemera
November 19, 2025 at 1:36 PM
First snow of the season up on Mt. San Jacinto this morning.
#PalmSprings #CoachellaValley
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
It's raining in the desert.
November 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis
November 12, 2025 at 6:17 PM
November 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Just grabbed this pic from an email sent by #FloraGrubbGardens (San Francisco & Marina Del Rey), taken at their wholesale nursery. #Stapelia plants are pollinated by flies, so these clever froggies are making this large flower their home. #nature #frogs #plants #flowers
November 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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DONALD TRUMP: [asleep, drooling on long red tie]

SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 AM
thanking the gods
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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trump is only gonna pardon the turkeys that did frauds and schemes
November 6, 2025 at 4:30 AM
I love waking up to coffee and good news. Thank you fellow voters.
#coffee #California #Prop50 #antifa #democracy
November 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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They're bad people doing bad things. We don't have to meet them halfway.
November 1, 2025 at 1:24 AM
October 31, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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2nd in line to the presidency, yet consistently has no idea what’s happening in the country
Q: Just last week a minister was shot directly in the face with a pepper round by a DHS agent that left his face bloodied. Are you concerned that this is a religious freedom issue?

MIKE JOHNSON: I can't comment on any of those instances. I haven't seen or heard any of those videos
October 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Never forget that the oppression of intellectuals is the sign of a regime’s weakness, not its strength…

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Nobel laureate and Trump critic, says US visa revoked
Soyinka, 91, who recently compared US president to Idi Amin, says ‘I have no visa – I am banned’
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:55 AM
RIP Prunella Scales
October 28, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Currently reading 👇
'Saul Steinberg: A Biography' by Deirdre Bair (Doubleday, New York, 2012).
#booksky #books #biography #SaulSteinberg #artistsB
October 27, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Vintage #sheetmusic shipping to new homes today.
'El Tamalero' by Principe Cubano & Luis Stalman, published in Argentina in 1931. and 'I'll Never Stop Loving You' by Sammy Cahn & Nicholas Brodszky, featured in the 1955 movie 'Love Me or Leave Me'. #bookselling #FoxTrot #Rumba #movies #DorisDay
October 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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#DopeyDon 's Gestapo...
October 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM