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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14h ago

We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.

Homeland Security 7 @DHSgov X.com Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED. Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED. DHS.GOV/CBРНОМЕ Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.
Fnarf@fnarf.bsky.social · 18h ago

#jazzsky Jackie McLean & Co., Introducing Ray Draper & Tuba, Prestige, 1957 [this is the 1983 Original Jazz Classics reissue]. McLean, as; Draper, tuba; Bill Hardman, t; Mal Waldron, p; Doug Watkins, b; Arthur Taylor, d. No offense, Ray, but the tuba just ain't suited to fast fingered jazz!

LP cover. A moody, old-fashioned looking photo of five Black men, namely, the band, one behind the other. It's lit like it was taken in the twenties. Along the top is JACKIE McLEAN & CO. in a old-fashioned blocky font with shadowed lines, in black and yellow. Early work by Reid Miles before he settled into his more enduring style.
Cake or Death@johngcole.bsky.social · 6d ago

I know this feels like a stupid thing to have to say in 2026, but Canada is a great place and Canadians are fucking awesome. Some of the longest and best friends of mine I met when I was a teen playing lacrosse with them on the college team and going to their soccer games and being in the same frat

Fnarf@fnarf.bsky.social · 5d ago

#jazzsky Gil Melle Quartet, Gil's Guests, Prestige, 1956 [this is the 1990 Original Jazz Classics reissue]. Gil Melle, bs; Art Farmer or Kenny Dorham, t; Hal McKusick, as fl; Julius Watkins, frhn or Don Butterfield, tuba; Joe Cinderella, g; Vinnie Burke, b; Edmund Thigpen, d.

LP cover. The top two thirds is blue, with the title and the Guests in white letters, the quartet in black. The bottom third is a black and white photo, tinted the same blue as above, of two white men, Melle and who I think is Farmer, Melle gesturing while Farmer smiles at him.
Massimo (mirror)@rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 6d ago

When a Bitcoin mining center suddenly went offline in Inner Mongolia, China, the technical team started an analysis, only to find that stray cats, drawn to the warmth of the GPUs, had curled up on the machines, blocking the cooling systems and shutting everything down. Original post

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Fnarf@fnarf.bsky.social · 7d ago

#jazzsky Lou Donaldson, Swing and Soul, Blue Note, 1957 [this is the 1983 Japanese reissue]. Donaldson, as; Herman Foster, p; 'Peck' Morrison, b; Dave Bailey, d; Ray Barretto, conga.

LP cover. Left side is black with a black and white photo of a Black man (Donaldson) playing his alto in the lower part; the right side is white, with two large circles, the top one maroon, the bottom, light blue. The Artist's name is in white on the black side and black on the white side. The title is in lower case italics, in white on the top of the black side. Nice work from David Lunn, if not quite up to the Reid Miles covers of following years.
Fnarf@fnarf.bsky.social · 7d ago

#jazzsky The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard, Impulse! 1963 [this is the 2026 Acoustic Sounds Series reissue] Hubbard, t; Curtis Fuller, tb; Tommy Flanagan, p; John Gilmore, ts; Art Davis, b; Louis Hayes, d.

LP cover. A Black man (Hubbard) sits on a bench of some sort (it's very dark) wearing a brick red jersey jacket, with his trumpet laid across his knees. His head is resting in his right hand, elbow also on knee. His expression is pensive, thoughtful. A gold ring is visible on his left ring finger.
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · last wk.

like, imagine that you’re, idk, rubio, you’re trying to get trump to focus on declaring war on cuba, but you can’t get him to listen to you for five minutes because harp keeps showing him printed AI slop cartoons of him shitting on minneapolis while dressed like george patton

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · last wk.

there have been multiple stories about how other white house insiders think she’s an insane weird cultist (even by their standards) and how they resent her rasputin hold on him, and ossoff raising her profile makes her a bigger internal target

Fnarf@fnarf.bsky.social · last wk.

#jazzsky Fats Navarro, Nostalgia Vol. 2, Savoy, 1958 [this is the French BYG version from the late 60s. Recorded 1946-47. Navarro, t; Charlie Rouse, Dexter Gordon, or Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, ts; Tadd Dameron or Al Haig, p; Huey Long, g; Nelson Boyd or Gene Ramey, b; [continued in comments].

LP cover. Bizarre black and white photo negative (black is white, white is black) of a Black man (Navarro) playing his horn, in extreme closeup, eyes scrunched up tight. A weird out of focus shape in the foreground is obscuring part of the horn; looking at the back cover (not shown) one sees that it's just his coat sleeve, possibly mohair or camel hair. The original cover on Savoy looks nothing like this; it's a hackneyed park scene after a rain, with a trumpet laid on top of sheets of music on a park bench (also not shown).
Fnarf@fnarf.bsky.social · last wk.

#jazzsky Thelonious Monk, Genius of Modern Music, Volume One, Blue Note, 1956 [this is the 2022 Classic Vinyl Series issue]. Group a: Monk, p; George Taitt, t ; Sahib Shihab, as; Robert Paige, b; Art Blakey, d. Group b: Monk, p; Gene Ramey, b; Art Blakey, d. more in comments.

LP cover. Yellow beige background; small photo of a Black man (Monk) in a fishing cap and a grey shirt jacket, pointing (the same photo as in Volume two, except the background there is red). The artist is rendered as THELO- in black, NIOUS in black, MONK in white.
Fnarf@fnarf.bsky.social · last wk.

#jazzsky J.R. Monterose, "The Message", Jaro International, 1960 [this is the early 2000s Scorpio pressing]. Monterose, ts; Tommy Flanagan, p; Jimmy Garrison, b; Pete La Roca, d.

LP cover. A white border on the left and right contains the title and artists text, plus label logo; in the center is a large photo of a white man (Monterose) blowing his horn with eyes closed, sweating profusely under strong stage lights. Dark suit, white buttondown shirt, dark tie, you know the drill. He has a close cropped crew cut. 1960.
Fnarf@fnarf.bsky.social · 2w ago

#jazzsky Shirley Scott, Mystical Lady, Cadet, 1971. Scott, org voc; Danny Turner or Pee Wee Ellis, ts; Wally Richardson or George Freeman, g; Ron Carter or Richard Davis, b; Bobby Durham or Freddie Waits, d; George Patterson, arr as.

LP cover. Against a blue green background, a Black woman (Scott) is photographed in three quarter profile, smiling, with a bright red cloak over her hair and shoulders, and a spectacular pearl and turquoise necklace.
Fnarf@fnarf.bsky.social · 2w ago

#jazzsky Clifford Brown and Max Roach, Study in Brown, EmArcy, 1955 [this is the 1982 Japanese release]. Brown, t; Roach, d; Harold Land, ts; George Morrow, b; Richie Powell, p.

LP cover. An appropriately sepia toned black and white photo of a Black man in three quarter profile, playing his horn pointed down (bell not visible), with a studio microphone in the foreground, very out of focus. Brown is wearing a white shirt with a dark tie, no jacket.
Fnarf@fnarf.bsky.social · 2w ago

#jazzsky Ray Bryant Trio, piano piano piano piano piano piano piano piano piano piano piano piano piano piano piano piano piano, Prestige, 1957 [this is the 1990 Japanese reissue]. Bryant, p; Ike Isaacs, b; Specs Wright, d.

LP cover. A soft grey background, probably because it's outside on a cloudy day. On the left is a Black man (Bryant) wearing a dark suit, white shirt with a tie bar, a dotted tie, and a jaunty pocket square. He's got a lit cigarette tucked into the corner of his mouth, looking about as cool as it is possible to be. In the background, extremely out of focus, is a man sitting on a bench. The title isn't really seventeen iterations of the word "piano" but it does indeed say that on the front, in very tiny lower case.
Fnarf@fnarf.bsky.social · 2w ago

#jazzsky Jackie McLean, Destination...Out!, Blue Note, 1964 [this is the 2022 Classic Vinyl Series reissue]. McLean, as; Grachan Moncur III, tb; Bobby Hutcherson, vib; Larry Ridley, b; Roy Haynes, d.

LP cover. White background, with, at the bottom, red (artist) and black (title) writing, with the "OUT!" part up at the top and angled, slightly beyond the edge of the cover, as if it was flying out of the frame. Flying out with it is a quite small photograph of a Black man, wearing shades, a white shirt, with suspenders. Nice visual pun by designer Larry Miller (the Reid Miles era is over).
Fnarf@fnarf.bsky.social · 2w ago

#jazzsky Dexter Gordon, Daddy Plays the Horn, Bethlehem, 1956 [this is the 2020 BMG/Vinyl Me Please reissue]. Gordon, ts; Kenny Drew, p; Leroy Vinnegar, b; Lawrence Marable, d.

LP cover. A cartoon, in a very 50s/60s kids' book style by Howard Stabin, of a small white boy in grey shorts, white button up shirt, red bow tie, white socks, and black shoes, with small round glasses, red cheeks with freckles, and a comedic angry expression on his face. He is holding up a stylized tenor sax that is more than twice as tall as he is. Note that Gordon is a Black man, so the white child is a little incongruous.