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Randall Jay
@randyjay.bsky.social
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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
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In the back yard. Our Callistemon hedges began blooming a few weeks early this year
#CoachellaValley #CathedralCity #flora
February 10, 2026 at 1:15 AM
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Books shipping to new homes this morning.
#IrishArt #HansBurkhardt #CocoChanel #photography #SamTaylor-Johnson #photography #interiors #bats #animals #nature #art
Book jacket cover with the title 'Irish Art During the Viking Invasions (800-1020 A. D.", by Francoise Henry. Titles are in white over a detail from a color photograph with a Celtic design from this period. It features a multicolored, decorated winged cow; mostly in green. An art book entitled 'Hans Burkhardt: The War Paintings'. The jacket has a black background. The titles are in white and red. A large image of one of the artist's paintings is shown, a semi-abstract image in shades of red orange and yellow, suggesting a fiery conflagration. The front board of a book in medium gray with an inset image showing a modernist staircase. The image is split into pieces as it is shown in a partitioned mirror of sorts. The title is in white letters; 'Sam Taylor-Johnson: Second Floor'. It's a photography book featuring fashion designer Coco Chanel's Paris apartment. A book entitled 'The World of Bats' by Alvin Novick, with photographs by Nina Leen. A flying fox type of bat is shown hanging from a tree branch, but it is reversed on the cover to show the bat's face right-side up. Titles are at the top, and playfully, they also appear upside-down at the foot of the book!
February 9, 2026 at 8:26 PM
randyjay.bsky.social
I really can’t imagine why a black person would vote for any Republican ever again.

Racist orange grandpa must go. Now.

Hey #GOP - do you have eyes and ears? Or does he own those too?
February 6, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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calebcrain.bsky.social
It’s always instructive when a billionaire destroys a newspaper.
February 4, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
I can’t believe how stupid everything is. I just hate the stupidity.
February 3, 2026 at 10:20 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
“Imagine if we had to follow the law”
February 3, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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funeralpig.bsky.social
yeah man
car at a red light with a license plate todd reads GOD WHY there is also a bumper sticker that reads HONK IF YOU’VE HIT RIVK BOTTOM
January 28, 2026 at 2:50 AM
randyjay.bsky.social
My messy desktop tonight, strewn with recently found #Victoriana. Somehow Abbott & Costello have made an appearance from the near future. #paper #ephemera #collectibles #postcards #TradeCards #advertising
January 26, 2026 at 2:38 AM
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ilhanmn.bsky.social
Deporting children with cancer.
Using a 5-year-old as bait.
Shooting moms.

ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.
January 22, 2026 at 5:02 PM
randyjay.bsky.social
#Artbooks shipping to new homes this morning 👇
#MiltonAvery #SpanishArt #SaulSteinberg #WinslowHomer
A book entitled "Milton Avery" by Robert Hobbs. The cover shows a lyrical semi-abstract painting of a shoreline and the ocean in shades of blue and black, A book entitled "Spain: A History in Art" by Bradley Smith. An introduction to the history of Spain, and the art of Spain. The word Spain in the title is in large black lowercase letters, calligraphed on a white background. Above the title is a detail from a medieval painting in blue, red, black and white. Artist Saul Steinberg's book "The Labyrinth". The artist's last name is written by hand in large thin letters. The title is down below in heavy black type. Between the two is a drawing by the artist of a man's head and shoulders in profile, looking to the left. He's wearing a jacket and a red tie. But we can see inside his head, which is empty, and occupied by a white bunny rabbit, which is looking out through his eyes. A large horizontal art book entitled :Winslow Homer Watercolors". The cover art shows a tropical shoreline with a house in the middle distance, the ocean in the background. The foreground shows tropical vegetation and red and yellow flowers.
January 20, 2026 at 4:48 PM
randyjay.bsky.social
I went to see #Hamnet in a theater yesterday. Not a dry eye in the house, mine included. A beautiful film about grief. Realized at the end that its catharsis & healing --at least for me-- was also for the ongoing tragedy unfolding in our nation. Thank you to #ChloéZhao & everyone involved.
#movies
January 15, 2026 at 3:49 PM
randyjay.bsky.social
I'm currently reading "Shroud" by #AdrianTchaikovsky. I credit this brilliant author for getting me back into #sciencefiction after a near 50-year hiatus.
#books #booksky
The book's cover has a dramatic illustration of a space probe crashing into a planet. Colors are black, red, orange and yellow. Background color is black, the author's name is in white and the title starts in yellow, shading to orange and red. The planet's surface is represented by jagged triangular lines in black and white.
January 8, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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thechrisbenson.com
I remember a time when American Presidents sought to unite people.
January 7, 2026 at 4:57 PM
randyjay.bsky.social
Books shipping to new homes this morning.
#BookSelling #booksky #earthworks #PrehistoricArchitecture #AncientWorld #Neoclassicism #ItalianArt #trains #railroad #SteamEngine #MexicanArt #Guerrero #MesoAmerica #archaeology
A book entitled "Prehistoric Architecture in the Eastern United States, by William N. Morgan. The cover is in black with white and blue highlights, white titles and a decorative grid showing sections of maps and ancient emblems. A book entitled "Il Neoclassicism in Italia da Tiepolo a Canova", published by Skira. The cover shows a marble relief sculpture with dancing figures. A large format book about trains, entitled "Steam with Variations". The author is Richard F. Lind. The cover photo in sepia tones shows a train moving through a landscape under a cloudy sky. A book entitled "Sculpture and Cosmology in Ancient Guerrero". The black cover shows a partial view of a figural sculpture. Titles appear in white.
January 6, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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Books shipping to new homes this morning.
#Arms&Armor #weapons #17thCentury #poetry #humor #HilaireBelloc #Ulay #ConceptualArt #GrantWood #AmericanArt #painters #regionalism
A 20th century facsimile edition of a 17th Century work entitled "The Exercise of Armes" by Jacob De Gheyn. The dust jacket shows a circa 1607 etching of three well-dressed, bearded men in wide-brimmed, feathered hats. All are carrying very large blunderbuss-style guns. The background for the artwork is printed in solid red. Above the illustration a black panel shows the title and author's name in white letters. A book entitled "Selected Cautionary Verses", by Hilaire Belloc. On a yellow background a black & white line drawing shows an elderly man speaking to a young boy. His hand is on the boy's shoulder. A square black art book with white letters spelling out the title in capitalized, sans-serif letters: Whispers: "Ulay on Ulay". The author's names are not shown. A square format book entitled "Grant Wood: The Regionalist Vision", by Wanda M. Corn. A painting by the artist shows a birds-eye view looking down on rolling green hills, with a tiny farmer and his horse tilling a field in the foreground. A farm house can be seen in the distance on the left. Titles of the book are overlaid in white letters.
January 2, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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Books shipping to new homes this morning.
#booksky #BookSelling #ThomasHardy #IvorNovello #Egypt #art #SouthSeas #TribalArt #Pacific
An antique book without a dust jacket, standing up on a white shelf. The boards of the book are red. The titles on the spine (facing the viewer) are decorated in gold: Under the Greenwood Tree, by Thomas Hardy. A book with a jacket featuring a monochrome photo of the head and shoulders of British musician-actor Ivor Novello. He is leaning forward with his chin resting on his right palm. His hand has a lit cigarette between two fingers, while his pinkie finger is touching his lower lip. The title, in white letters is simply "Ivor". The author is Sandy Wilson. An unillustrated book cover with black text on a pale blue background. It reads "Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities in the British Museum, V: Early Dynastic Objects" by A. J. Spencer "Arts of the South Seas". With a bold cover in black brown and beige featuring a tribal design of a stylized seated figure with a mask-like face, pointed headgear, and arms raised with palms facing up.
December 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
randyjay.bsky.social
Truth is reveal!
#Caturday
December 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
This is NGC 2264, also called the "Christmas Tree Cluster." It's a cluster of young stars about 2,500 light years away.

They were 'born' during the Pliocene Epoch (2-5 MYA), about the same time as early hominids like Ardipithecus or Homo habilis, so they're barely older than humanity.
🎄💫🔭
A nebula X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: T.A. Rector (NRAO/AUI/NSF and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA) and B.A. Wolpa (NOIRLab/NSF/AURA); Infrared: NASA/NSF/IPAC/CalTech/Univ. of Massachusetts; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare & J.Major
December 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Thinking of my mom this Christmas Eve day. She passed in May, a week before her 91st birthday. She loved her chickens. She would have enjoyed this article in the current #WorldofInteriors magazine, on innovative henhouses. Titled "Coops de Théâtre".

#WoI #chicken #henhouse #magazines #creativity
A white painted South Africa-inspired Cape Dutch style henhouse, complete with interior chandelier and white nest boxes with arched openings, echoing its overall shape. The front door is open. A donkey and some chickens appear outside in the foreground. A lavender-pink painted classical Greek temple henhouse with inspired D.I.Y. touches, including golf clubs, hubcaps train sets and figurines nestled into a budding garden in South Carolina. Sounds weird but the result is rather enchanting. A circa 1970s white French police car (with red and blue stripes) modified as a chicken coop. The open trunk, doors and rear hatch show build-outs with expanded flooring and chickens peering out.
December 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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beingliberal.bsky.social
Is it normal for the DOJ to redact more than 500 pages of a hoax?
December 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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#Caturday
A photo showing a black & white cat, with head peering above a table to stare at a porcelain figure of a cat head which has similar coloring. The real cat looks shocked, with its eyes wide open.
December 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Books shipping to new homes today 👇
The Last Caravaggio, Des Souris et des Hommes, Judo
#booksky #bookselling #ArtBooks #Caravaggio #JohnSteinbeck #FrenchLanguage #OfMIce&Men #fiction #judo #Japan #SelfDefense
An art book with the title "The Last Caravaggio". Showing a detail of a painting on the cover with a young male figure partially draped in a red fabric. He is reclining, resting on his bent right arm. Heavily shadowed, his face is nearly in complete shadow. The title is above the image with the name of Caravaggio printed in red letters. A late 1940s paperback of the John Steinbecks novel "Of Mice and Men", in the French language. The pulp-style cover shows a scene inside a horse stable with a kneeling man in the foreground. He is facing towards us and only his head, shoulders and hands can be seen. His face shows a look of apprehension. A dark-haired, buxom woman strikes a pose behind him, leaning on a wall with hands on hips and shoulders bare. The French-translated title "Des Souris et des Hommes" appears at the top in bold yellow letters. A Japanese book from 1937 published by the Japan Tourist Board. Part of a large series on Japanese culture. It is titled "Judo (Jujutsu)". The cover shows a simple three color line drawing with two men engaged in judo. The smaller fellow seems to have the upper hand, as the larger man leans heavily to the right, possibly about to lose his balance.
December 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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We have to listen to bigoted handwringing about how we have to abandon trans people and marginalized communities and immigrants while the clearest election winning message is right there.
usapolling.bsky.social Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · Dec 9
"Do the rich have too much political power?"

Yes: 80%
No: 8%

YouGov / Dec 8, 2025
December 9, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Books shipping to new homes this morning.
#booksky #bookselling #puppets #art #Secession #ExhibitionCatalog #plants #CarnivorousPlants
Book entitled Puppetry: A World History by Eileen Blumenthal. The cover shows the head and shoulders of a Japanese marionette against a black background. He has a startled=looking face and wide open eyes. The title word Puppetry appears above his head, in black letters, each letter on variously colored backgrounds in a playful font, appearing to descend on strings. A German exhibition catalog from 1913, its cover designed in black and gold. The top half is an artwork against a black background. In profile, a gold a charioteer guides four rearing horses. The show took place in Munich. The titles, translated into English: "Munich 1913 11th International Art Exhibition, KGL Glass Palace, Illustrated Catalog, Artist's Cooperative - Secession. A book entitled The Carnivorous Plants, by Francis Ernest Lloyd. The cover shows an 18th century decorative and somewhat fanciful painting of a pitcher plant. Titles are in white on a red panel.
December 15, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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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
An inscribed photograph of actress Patsy Ruth Miller. An inscribed photo of silent film actor Walter McGrail An inscribed photo of silent film actor George Fawcett An inscribed photo of actress Anita Louise.
December 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM