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Steve Thornton says fight fascism and protect trans kids (and grownups).
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Fnarf @fnarf.bsky.social · Sep 7
I really regret this.
"SUBMERGE HEAD IN ICE WATER AND APPLY DIRECTLY TO YOUR PREHEATED GRILL, FOR BEST RESULTS"
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Fuck the world cup. Fuck Infantino. Countries should stay away.
mirror.co.uk The Mirror @mirror.co.uk · 2h
President Donald Trump's administration will not permit supporters from Haiti to enter the United States next summer after the nation qualified for the World Cup.
Donald Trump tells one nation's fans to stay away from World Cup in America
www.mirror.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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#jazzsky #vinylcommunity Gil Evans Orchestra, Great Jazz Standards, World Pacific, 1959. Johnny Coles, tp; Jimmy Cleveland, trb; Curtis Fuller, trb; Steve Lacy, ss; Budd Johnson, ts & cl; Elvin Jones, d; Evans, p; Chuck Wayne, g; plus a dozen more.
LP cover - a large black and white photo of I don't know what. It's very dark and motion blurred; the only hint is a bit of musical staff paper in the bottom right. Superimposed over this are three drawn human figures, two in blue standing next to each other with arms outstretched, on which is standing a third, in olive green, with arms akimbo. They are drawn with just a few strokes of paint or chalk, just crude shapes, really.
November 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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#jazzsky #vinylcommunity Dexter Gordon, Doin' Allright, Blue Note, 1961 [this is the 1985 French DMM rerelease]. Gordon, ts; Freddie Hubbard, tp; Horace Parlan, p; George Tucker, b; Al Harewood, d.
LP cover - a black and white photo of a Black man (Gordon) in a white trench coat sitting in a horse drawn carriage, presumably one of the ones that still ride around Central Park in New York. The carriage driver is wearing an old-fashioned black tuxedo with a top hat. The carriage itself is shiny and black, with pinstriping, and has a folding top that is folded down. Dexter has a huge smile on his face and is holding a cigarette in his left hand. In the background the very faint skyscrapers of midtown are just visible. These French DMM releases came with a gold obi strip, which I have laid across the top of the turntable cover.
November 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Bobby needs to go to prison with the rest of this administration.
minakimes.bsky.social Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 13h
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers; slashed billions in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the world's largest sponsor of medical research; and threatened to oust the panel of medical experts charged with recommending preventive cancer screenings. Hundreds of N.I.H. grants and clinical trials were cancelled, affecting thousands of patients. I worried about funding for leukemia and bone-marrow research at Memorial Sloan Kettering. I worried about the trials that were my only shot at remission. Early in my illness, when I
November 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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#jazzsky #vinylcommunity Dizzy Gillespie and his Orchestra, Gillespiana, Verve, 1960 [later 60s repress]. Gillespie, tp; Leo Wright, as & fl; Lalo Schifrin, p; Art Davis, b; Chuck Lampkin, d; plus many others - Julius Watkins, Urbie Green, Clark Terry, Joe Wilder, Don Butterfield, Candido, +12
A very dark red tinted black and white photo of a Black man (Diz) blowing into his special trumpet with the upturned bell. His cheeks are puffed out like a couple of gourds. He's wearing his trademark "bop glasses" and a dark suit. The title is spread across the entire top half of the cover, in a pale blue.
November 22, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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For perspective, the last time a majority of white people voted for a Democratic candidate for president was in 1964 for Lyndon Johnson.
usapolling.bsky.social Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 2d
Generic Ballot Polling Among White Voters:

🔵 Democrats: 50%
🔴 Republicans: 46%

Marist / Nov 13, 2025
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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So brave of Loomer to use Arabic numerals her whole life when she's so terrified of them.
dieworkwear.bsky.social derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d
when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
Polymarket tweets: "BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani to require all New York elementary school students to learn Arabic numerals." Laura Loomer replies: "You know things are bad when you can't tell if this is real or a joke. Dear God. It's real. Isn't it?"
November 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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President Trump walking past the flag at the Whitehouse which has fallen to the ground
November 17, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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#jazzsky #vinylcommunity The Rocking Tenor Sax of Eddie Chamblee with Dayton Selby at the Organ, Prestige, 1964. Al Griffin on drums. Wild R&B inflected soul jazz in a Willis Jackson vein. Toe tapping and finger snapping ensues.
LP cover - yellow tinted black and white photo of a Black man (Chamblee) standing against a tile wall in an abstract modern art design of bold black blobs. He's holding his sax in a vinyl carrying bag, and a cigarette in his other hand. He's wearing two sweaters, a striped chunky knit cardigan over a white shawl-collar one, with a white shirt collar and a necktie underneath. He's got a big beaming smile on his face.
November 17, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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#jazzsky #vinylcommunity Sam Noto, Notes to You, Xanadu, 1978. Noto, tp; Joe Romano, ts; Ronnie Cuber, bs; Jimmy Rowles, p; Sam Jones, b; Freddie Waits, d. Yet another of the seemingly endless great players who served time in the Kenton band.
LP cover - a black and white (silver and white, really) photo of a white man (Noto) playing a trumpet, in three quarter view. Noto's hair has gotten a little long in the seventies, and has a little grey in it. In the photo his head occupies the bottom left, while the text (artist, players) is in the upper right, leaving most of the silver cover blank.
November 17, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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#jazzsky #vinylcommunity Sonny Clark, Sonny's Crib, Blue Note, 1958 [this is the 2025 Classic Vinyl Series release]. Clark, p; Donald Byrd, tp; Curtis Fuller, trb; John Coltrane, ts; Paul Chambers, b; Art Taylor, d. Sonny's real name is Conrad Yeatis Clark, fact fans!
LP cover - a black and white photo of a Black man (Clark) sitting at a piano, wearing a striped shirt open at the collar, cymbals visible in the background and a microphone on the far left (I assume this was shot at Van Gelder's). The shot is across the strings of the open piano. Clark is writing something, probably making notations or corrections to the sheet music. His expression is serious and thoughtful. The bottom three fifths of the cover is just white, with three lines of type at the top.
November 17, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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#jazzsky #vinylcommunity Randy Weston Trio, Jazz a la Bohemia, Riverside, 1957 [1990 Original Jazz Classics reissue]. Weston, p; Cecil Payne, bs; Ahmed Abdul-Malik, b; Al Drears, d. Test pressing!
LP cover - a Black man (Weston) stands in what appears to be a theatrical set. He's wearing a frankly spectacular medium blue suit with a white shirt and a black tie and boots. One leg is casually crossed over the other. On his right a bearded young white man with a clipboard, wearing a red shirt, grey pants and groovy sandals, sits in a director's chair; a young white boy is on the right, holding a white board or box with a big numeral 7 on it. The set features a light pine wood shop front with a large window. An abstract painting hangs in front of the window, white squiggles on a blue background; another is on the right, an abstract black tree on brown board.
November 17, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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#jazzsky #vinylcommunity The Trio with Guests, Savoy, 1956. Hank Jones, p; Wendell Marshall, b; Kenny Clarke, d. Guests: Herbie Mann, fl; Eddie Jones, b; Joe Wilder, tp; Donald Byrd, tp; Matty Dice, tp; Jerome Richardson, fl & ts, each on one track except two for Richardson.
LP cover - a central collage of black and white photos of three Black men at their instruments - Jones on the left, Kenny in the center, Marshall on the right. Jones is wearing a light grey jacket with a black shirt, Clarke is wearing a grey checked jacket with a white shirt, and Wendell is wearing a white shirt with a tie, no jacket. He has glasses and is very skinny. Clarke's drum kit is minimal - just a Sonor bass drum with his initials on the head, a snare, a high-hat, and a ride cymbal. He's sitting on a drum case. Jones has the open lid of a grand piano showing, and Wendell has his bass. The top third of the cover is brown, with pale green writing; the bottom third has white writing and is made to look like a musical staff, with a treble clef and five staff lines.
November 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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#jazzsky #vinylcommunity Sun Ra and his Arkestra, Super-Sonic Jazz, El Saturn, 1957 [this is a 2000-something reissue]. Ra, p; Julian Priester, trb; Charles Davis, bs; Jim Herndon, tympani, timbali; John Gilmore, ts; Victor Sproles, b; Robert Barry, d; Wilburn Green, b; 4 others.
LP cover - as usual with Sun Ra, the cover is a bizarre vision of "scenes from the space void", all drawn in white on a black background. A pair of hands holding a drumstick, the strings of a bass, a saxophone, a piano keyboard, a couple of suns radiating lines, musical notes floating around, flames, electricity, I dunno, man.
November 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Larry Summers is a thoroughly disgusting human being and neither he nor his wife should be allowed within 500 yards of Harvard. That he continues to teach there is shameful.

This isn't just about the conveniently dead Epstein, it's about the entire elite world he rolled around in.
ryanlcooper.com ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 5d
good LORD
clancyny.bsky.social Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 6d
The Harvard Crimson has ID'ed and published the name of a well-known economist who was the subject of emails between Larry Summers and Epstein.

Born in China, she did her B.A. – Ph.D. at Harvard.

The code name that Summers and Epstein used in their emails about her was "peril." What a vile pig.
November 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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#jazzsky #vinylcommunity Hank Jones, Bop Redux, Muse, 1977. Jones, p; George Duvivier, b; Ben Riley, d. Compositions by Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk.
LP cover - an older Black man (Jones), with a little grey in his mustache and his hair, is looking straight into the camera. He's wearing a fab 70s polyester shirt, cream with black and tan sticks and balls in geometric patterns.
November 16, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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#jazzsky #vinylcommunity Freddie Hubbard, Goin' Up, Blue Note, 1961 [this is the 1967 fake-stereo reissue]. Hubbard, tp; Hank Mobley, ts; McCoy Tyner, p; Paul Chambers, b; Philly Joe Jones, d.
LP Cover - a photo of a Black man (Hubbard) outside in winter, with stark Mies van der Rohe style modernist skyscrapers out of focus in the background. Hubbard is seated, and in profile, but he's turned to look to his right. He has a subtle smile on his face, and he's wearing a heavy tweed overcoat and a narrow brimmed fedora hat.
November 16, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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#jazzsky #vinylcommunity Larry Young, Contrasts, Blue Note, 1967. Young, org; Hank White, flgh; Tyrone Washington, ts; Herbert Morgan, ts; Eddie Wright, g; Edward Gladden, d; Stacey Edwards, conga; Althea Young, voc on one track.
LP cover - on a white background, two photos of a Black man (Young), both of them sliced and the sections slid across. In the top photo, he is serious; in the bottom, laughing. He's wearing a red, blue, brown and gold paisley shirt.
November 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Johnny "Hammond" Smith, Open House!, Riverside, 1966. Smith, org; Thad Jones, cnt, tp; Seldon Powell, ts, fl; Eddie McFadden, g; Bob Cranshaw, b; Leo Stevens, d; Ray Barretto, conga. 'Bout time we got an organ combo up in here.
LP cover - a bit strange, this, possibly modeled after a theatrical or sports poster? Three identical panels in black with gold sticks separating the sections, the first in pink lettering, the middle in yellow and white, and the last in orange. The text is in three stacked boxes, reading OPEN HOUSE! / JOHNNY "HAMMOND" SMITH / with THAD JONES SELDON POWELL RAY BARRETTO AND OTHERS in big blocky text.
November 16, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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#jazzsky #vinylcommunity The Complete Coleman Hawkins, Volume 3 (1947-1956): "How Strange", RCA [France], 1978. Amazing sidemen - Fats Navarro, J. J. Johnson, Budd Johnson, Hank Jones, Chuck Wayne, Max Roach, Urbie Green, Milt Hinton, Ernie Royal, Charlie Shavers, Zoot Sims, many others.
Black background to a black and white photo of a Black man (Hawkins), smiling broadly, with a tiny triangular mustache, black suit, white shirt, painted tie, white pocket handkerchief, and a saxophone.
November 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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#jazzsky #vinylcommunity Coleman Hawkins, The Hawk Swings, Crown, 1961. Hawkins, ts; Thad Jones, tp; George Duvivier, b; Eddie Costa, p & vib; Osie Johnson, d. Crown was one of the low-budget supermarket labels but sometimes they commissioned some real music.
LP cover - on a white background, a large color photo of a Black man (Hawkins) blowing (or pretending to blow) into his sax, eyes shut in concentration. The cigarette (or possibly a cigarillo) in his hand casts some doubt on how much concentrating was going on. Hawkins looks very dapper in a dark grey suit made out of some kind of ribbed wool, with a light blue shirt and a black fedora. He's standing in front of what looks like a stage curtain.
November 16, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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The "fallout" mentioned here is "we miss those heady days when raping children was fun".
November 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Be kind. Always. #AGoodPlace

Source: www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s...
November 14, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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"Does our plastic actually get recycled?" The #CamberVille newsletter is always excellent, but this one is truly a must-read: a deep dive into the recycling processing plant where all of Somerville's recycling winds up: mailchi.mp/bostonglobe....
screenshot from the start of the camberville newsletter
November 14, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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#jazzsky #vinylcommunity Coleman Hawkins, Hawk Eyes!, Prestige Jazz Classics Series, 1979 [reissue of a 1959 record]. Hawkins, ts; Charlie Shavers, tp; Tiny Grimes, g; Ray Bryant, p; George Duvivier, b; Osie Johnson, d. Swing into bop, as the book says.
LP cover - a yellow tinted black and white photo of a Black man (Hawkins) wearing a hat and a heavy wool overcoat over a shirt and tie. He's outdoors, and a very blurry tree is in the background. The original release of this record was the same cover, only tinted blue.
November 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM