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Fnarf @fnarf.bsky.social · 1h

Isn't it Linden Hills, not Linden Hill?

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Fnarf @fnarf.bsky.social · 21h

Refuse to lose! Right?

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Fnarf @fnarf.bsky.social · 22h

Remember when the BBC ran a news item about spaghetti growing on trees, for April Fools, and an astonishing number of British people believed it. youtu.be/tVo_wkxH9dU?...

BBC: Spaghetti-Harvest in Ticino | Switzerland Tourism

YouTube video by Switzerland

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Fnarf @fnarf.bsky.social · 22h

They grow on trees, right? Potato chip trees?

Fnarf @fnarf.bsky.social · 22h

This Bieber fellow is a better pitcher than his older brother Justin.

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Fnarf @fnarf.bsky.social · 23h

It's back now. Yeah, good timing on the ad - missed an inning.

Fnarf @fnarf.bsky.social · 23h

Sling is killing me. No baseball! It's only game 7,no biggie. #mariners

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Fnarf @fnarf.bsky.social · 23h

losing the stream of the Mariners game is not helping my anxiety any #alcs #mariners

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Fnarf @fnarf.bsky.social · 1d

Did Dimon visit the island? Did he indulge in the criminal activities that Epstein is known for? Do his wife and kids know?

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Fnarf @fnarf.bsky.social · 1d

Curtis Fuller's Quintet, Blues-Ette, Savoy, 1959 [this is a grey-market reissue on 52nd Street Records from 2009]. Fuller, trb; Benny Golson, ts; Tommy Flanagan, p; Jimmy Garrison, b; Al Harewood, d. Yeah, I'd prefer an original or at least a later Savoy issue, but you take what you can get.

LP cover - I think this is a famous bronze of a young girl dancing, but I can't place it. It's intentionally out of focus because she's nude. She's also waving some fabric in blue and in orange, and has some blonde hair, I guess? Superimposed over the photo is the title, in red, and the artists in yellow, with a three-quarter-inch band of yellow on the left with bold letters reading STEREOPHONIC, as was the custom at the time, the first years of stereo vinyl.

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Fnarf @fnarf.bsky.social · 1d

A terrorist, Donald Trump, has bombed the White House.

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 1d

WHAT THE FUCK

One side of the White House has just been ripped out

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Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 1d

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

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Fnarf @fnarf.bsky.social · 1d

#jazzsky #vinylcommunity Dizzy Gillespie, Duets with Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt, Verve, 1958. With Ray Bryant, piano, Thomas Bryant, bass; and Charles Persip, drums.

LP cover - an orange tinted black and white photo of three Black men, Stitt, Diz, and Rollins, together blowing their horns in a tight circle. Stitt is wearing a checked shirt and light grey pleated high-waisted pants; Gillespie is wearing a white ribbed sweater over striped pleated grey pants; and Rollins is wearing black trousers with suspenders over a white dress shirt.

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Fnarf @fnarf.bsky.social · 1d

#jazzsky #vinylcommunity Hank Mobley, Billy Root, Curtis Fuller, Lee Morgan, Monday Night at Birdland, Roulette, 1959. With Ray Bryant on piano, Tommy Bryant on bass, "Specs" Wright on drums.

LP montage of three Black men (clockwise from left, Mobley, Fuller, Morgan) and one white (Root), playing their instruments in the spotlight against a black background. The horns gleam, the men are wearing brown, black or grey wool suits.

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Bubba's Dad @bubsdad.bsky.social · 1d

Just receieved this today from Florida Blue. This is for a Bronze plan. Our monthly premiums are going from $333 (2025) to $2300 in 2026.

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Fnarf @fnarf.bsky.social · 1d

#jazzsky #vinylcommunity Frank Strozier Sextet and Quartet, Long Night, Jazzland, 1962. Strozier, as, fl; George Coleman, ts; Pat Patrick, bs, fl; Chris Anderson, p; Bill Lee, b; Walter Perkins, d.

LP cover - a very dark sepia portrait of a white man (Strozier), only 24, wearing a white dress shirt and a dark tie, and holding his alto. He is slightly leaning forward, and looking directly into the camera.

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Fnarf @fnarf.bsky.social · 1d

#jazzsky #vinylcommunity Marvin Jenkins, Big City, Palomar, 1965. Jenkins, voc, p, celeste; Charles Kynard & Richard Groove Holmes, org; BUDDY COLLETTE & Clifford Scott, fl & ts; Carmel Jones & Fred Hill, tr; Hank Crawford & John Gray, g; Lewis Large & Al McKibbon, b; 2 drummers.

LP cover - the top half is an impressionistic painting of a big city at night in the rain - smears of car headlights and taillights, theater marquees, neon, streetlights, in red and creamy white all reflected in the wet pavement. The words BIG CITY are laid in perspective on the street. Below the painting are the song titles -- "I'm Always Drunk In San Francisco", "A Rainy Day in L.A.", "I Love Paris", "A Long Way From St. Louis" and others.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

think of establishment U.S. media like a Ken doll with all the controversial bits sanded off to a smooth hump

toothless journalistic simulacrum custom built to avoid offending ownership, advertisers, sources, and a big chunk of readership

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 1d

I intellectually understand why corporate media is scared of Trump and why they regularly pull punches, though I find it deeply cowardly. But I do not understand why they refuse to describe in plain, factual terms the things he says and does

www.404media.co/trump-no-kin...

News Outlets Won't Describe Trump's AI Video For What It Is: The President Pooping on America

Major outlets said the President dumped "brown liquid" that "appeared to be feces" in an AI-generated video. They refused to call a spade a spade, or poop, poop.

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Fnarf @fnarf.bsky.social · 1d

#jazzsky #vinylcommunity Charlie Mingus, Blues & Roots, Atlantic, 1960. Mingus, b; Jackie McLean & John Handy, as; Booker Ervin, ts; Pepper Adams, bs; Jimmy Knepper & Willie Dennis, trb; Horace Parlan or Mal Waldron, p; Dannie Richmond, d.

LP cover - a Black man (Mingus) faces the camera, with his eyes closed. In his left hand he's holding his bass by the very top of the strings, near the nut, giving us a great close look at the pegbox and metal scroll. Mingus has a thin mustache and short, processed hair, and he's wearing red suspenders over a black shirt. The background is a wall of dark wood - gum or walnut.

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fae⁷ @onthistangent.bsky.social · 2d

I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 1d

"Tech Billionaire Announces Frozen Piss House Project"
"Tech Billionaire: Soon we'll all be Living in Piss Houses"
"Microsoft, Google Invest in Piss House Boon"
"Piss House Revolution 'Inevitable', Experts Say"
"Are We in a Piss House Bubble?"
"Why Nobody Saw the Piss House Crash Coming"

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Fnarf @fnarf.bsky.social · 1d

I have a pair of boots from Allen Edmonds which has terrible wrinkling like this. It didn't really show up until long after I bought them. AE used to be a top US shoemaker, nearly on a par with Alden, but their quality has really declined. Better to seek out vintage.

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Fnarf @fnarf.bsky.social · 1d

It's not "under threat", it's blown. There is no ceasefire, obviously.

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Fnarf @fnarf.bsky.social · 1d

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only

The TV Penguin and his henchmen from Batman.

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Fnarf @fnarf.bsky.social · 1d

These new cast iron gloves suck.

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