Tom Pardue
@sleepytom.bsky.social
Like: music (especially jazz & classical), reading (science, history, speculative fiction), crosswords, hiking and nature viewing.
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A Magnolia Warbler in a Winterberry bush. This migrating warbler wasn't interested in the berries, but the leaves caught this bird's attention. This warbler took a quick bath by getting his/her feathers wet from the wet leaves (too quick for me to get any photos but it was fun to watch.)
September 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
A Magnolia Warbler in a Winterberry bush. This migrating warbler wasn't interested in the berries, but the leaves caught this bird's attention. This warbler took a quick bath by getting his/her feathers wet from the wet leaves (too quick for me to get any photos but it was fun to watch.)
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📷: Northern Flicker
📷: Northern Flicker
July 6, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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📷: Northern Flicker
📷: Northern Flicker
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Yeah, this is the thing I can’t wrap my head around. The richest nation in the most comfortable era in human history and the richest people here are miserable and angry enough to blow the whole thing up instead of trying to fix the real problems we have
We're the most prosperous, resource-rich country in history and we're on the verge of a constitutional crisis that could have very easily been avoided at like 20 different points.
February 1, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Yeah, this is the thing I can’t wrap my head around. The richest nation in the most comfortable era in human history and the richest people here are miserable and angry enough to blow the whole thing up instead of trying to fix the real problems we have
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1967-1972. Although there is a dearth of documentation, some say the music between the death of John Coltrane and the death of Lee Morgan was the greatest jazz of all time. In @thenation.com, my cover story on Slugs' and the archival release FORCES OF NATURE: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Jazz Off the Record
In the late 1960s, the recording industry lost interest in America’s greatest art form. But in a small, dark club on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, jazz legends were playing the best music you’ve n...
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January 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
1967-1972. Although there is a dearth of documentation, some say the music between the death of John Coltrane and the death of Lee Morgan was the greatest jazz of all time. In @thenation.com, my cover story on Slugs' and the archival release FORCES OF NATURE: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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Later Sonny Rollins studio recordings don't get much critical love, but believe me folks: The 4 records from 1989-95--Falling in Love with Jazz/Here's to the People/Old Flames/Plus 3--are cohesive statements that include damn fine improvising from Sonny and good band playing. Don't sleep on them.
December 13, 2024 at 4:27 PM
Later Sonny Rollins studio recordings don't get much critical love, but believe me folks: The 4 records from 1989-95--Falling in Love with Jazz/Here's to the People/Old Flames/Plus 3--are cohesive statements that include damn fine improvising from Sonny and good band playing. Don't sleep on them.
"Spirited Away"
one of my all-time favorite movies from any studio, animated or live action.
one of my all-time favorite movies from any studio, animated or live action.
Ok bluesky. What’s the best Studio Ghibli movie?
November 30, 2024 at 5:26 AM
"Spirited Away"
one of my all-time favorite movies from any studio, animated or live action.
one of my all-time favorite movies from any studio, animated or live action.
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Sonny Rollins by Frank Stewart, 2017
September 7, 2024 at 9:43 PM
Sonny Rollins by Frank Stewart, 2017
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A raccoon warily watching a turkey. Whenever this raccoon would move away from a tree, two Wild Turkeys would chase after him/her. The turkeys seemed none to pleased to have the raccoon around. Eventually the raccoon escaped deeper into the woods, and turkeys headed off on their own way.
June 2, 2024 at 6:30 PM
A raccoon warily watching a turkey. Whenever this raccoon would move away from a tree, two Wild Turkeys would chase after him/her. The turkeys seemed none to pleased to have the raccoon around. Eventually the raccoon escaped deeper into the woods, and turkeys headed off on their own way.
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A festive male Cardinal for this Christmas day. #ArtAdventCalendar #birds
December 25, 2023 at 1:10 PM
A festive male Cardinal for this Christmas day. #ArtAdventCalendar #birds
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My concern about the risks of AI is dwarfed by my concern about how much power in our world is wielded by humans with the emotional intelligence of twelve-year-olds.
November 19, 2023 at 3:38 PM
My concern about the risks of AI is dwarfed by my concern about how much power in our world is wielded by humans with the emotional intelligence of twelve-year-olds.