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spookytown, USA @superhayo.bsky.social · Jun 5

you can look at the sky for free

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spookytown, USA @superhayo.bsky.social · 11h

lmao this exactly

spookytown, USA @superhayo.bsky.social · 11h

to be fair, this is basically a book about the album “kind of blue” and focuses even more on just coltrane, evans and davis in particular, but kaplan also says on the next page (page 2!):
“between1942 and 1967, i find almost all of jazz that i want and need”

so

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spookytown, USA @superhayo.bsky.social · 11h

it’s indisputably american, just like hip hop. it has also expanded across the globe, like many other very popular and important things. how amazing!

spookytown, USA @superhayo.bsky.social · 11h

writes for the new yorker, famous magazine for checking facts!

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spookytown, USA @superhayo.bsky.social · 11h

incidentally, the first time i really hated this claim was back from gaston’s show lmao

spookytown, USA @superhayo.bsky.social · 12h

i think most people allow for a lot of slippage between blues and jazz but yes, that too.

or maybe they insist too much on the continuity btw blues and earlier non-american music? idk but that also cuts to the strangeness of the original claim, which weirdly is never backed up!

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spookytown, USA @superhayo.bsky.social · 12h

i just don’t understand how authors can keep getting away with this statement when hip hop has existed for over 50 years now

from “3 shades of blue” by james kaplan:

I speak of jazz as an awesome thing. An imperative, an empire. As America's only native art form, one that boiled forth from a gumbo of…

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fae⁷ @onthistangent.bsky.social · 21h

I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭

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spookytown, USA @superhayo.bsky.social · 17h

sunday long run: beautiful 45 degree morning, not a ton of wind and sunny. pretty perfect, no notes. #runsky

strava screenshot:

distance: 16.26 miles
avg pace: 7:41/mi
moving time; 2:05:05

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Palmetto State Abortion Fund @psabortionfund.bsky.social · 2d

Sharing an email from our intake director:

As intake director, I don't typically write these emails, but I am writing today with urgency and clarity: PSAF must raise $50,000 immediately to stay open through the rest of the month into November.

www.donorbox.org/support-the-fund

Donate to Palmetto State Abortion Fund | Palmetto State Abortion Fund (Powered by Donorbox)

*While we assist abortion seekers from other Southern states as well, the information below pertains to South Carolina.* Since launching in late 2021, PSAF has supported over 1,500 people in accessing...

www.donorbox.org

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 1d

After a spell of depression, partially caused by intense foot pain which only abated yesterday, I told myself that if my feet felt usable today, I would attempt to climb Table Mountain (elev 108m, 3563 ft). At 11 AM I tried to do it. Here are some highlights from one the great days of my life

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spookytown, USA @superhayo.bsky.social · 1d

saw someone else post that it only took msnbc grandmas six weeks to take it back lol

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spookytown, USA @superhayo.bsky.social · 1d

on display at the wichita public library! @kearse.bsky.social

stephen kearse’s second novel “liquid snakes” on a shelf next to other books in a library

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spookytown, USA @superhayo.bsky.social · 1d

when are they gonna activate the rest of him

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

Cowboys activate CB Caelen Carson (knee) from IR reut.rs/3J6njI8

Cowboys activate CB Caelen Carson (knee) from IR

The Dallas Cowboys activated second-year cornerback Caelen Carson from injured reserve on Saturday.

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spookytown, USA @superhayo.bsky.social · 1d

how hard it is to simply "show the game", one must wonder

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graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 1d

this level of authoritarianism has been building up since the end of ww2 and began regaining it's pre-civil rights foothold under reagan...

yall's grandchildren will need to inherit this struggle for yall to succeed.

graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 1d

resistance isnt something that changes a regime in a single voting cycle.

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spookytown, USA @superhayo.bsky.social · 1d

post #parkrun (plus a few more miles) breakfast is gochujang tofu and mushrooms with fresh mango and sticky rice, obviously 🍜

white bowl with gochujang tofu and mushrooms with fresh mango and sticky rice

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❆ ☃︎︎ ❆ @moxiest.art · 1d

it is ✨Shameless Self Promotion Saturday✨ yet again

you're probably pretty busy today. stay safe out there. we need you to survive.

but, we've got a lot of cool stuff, if you're into that sort of thing.

supporting each other is the only way we make it through this thing.