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LP cover. A black box, with a pasted on print of a painting by Lynn Groskinsky of a Black man (Parker) playing his alto, wearing a white suit, with a red background. The shadow of a double bass and (presumably) a bassist in the background.

#jazzsky Charlie Parker, The Complete Savoy Studio Sessions, Savoy, 1978 [5 LPs; recorded 1944-48].

Parker, Clyde Hart, Tiny Grimes, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach, Bud Powell, John Lewis, Duke Jordan, others.

Every take, every session. One for birdlives1.bsky.social!

I want to see Pete Hegseth hang by the neck until dead.

The chicanes are also a great way to create near-collisions with pedestrians waiting to cross the giant stroad. Neither can see the other until the last second.

Are you telling me that they didn't just buckle when Hegseth flexed his biceps at them? Weird.

I've been waiting for a year for the Ferreira to Arriola assist! Beautiful!

Every country should boycott the World Cup. We are a fit country for this.

His face needs the added character that only a broken nose five or six times can bring.

Tom still tuggin' that.

It's related to vogueing.

It would be a macabre story but relegation needs to happen for Tottenham | Jonathan Liew All the managers since Mauricio Pochettino have drained life from the club, which appears interested in anything but football right now

Brutal. "Go and watch a game at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium – and you probably can, there are plenty of tickets going – and what strikes you is the extent to which you are urged to go and watch something else." www.theguardian.com/football/202...

After leaving Princeton, Hegseth joined the US army national guard as an infantry officer. His service included deployments to Guantánamo Bay in Cuba and tours of Iraq and Afghanistan. He later revealed in a book that he told soldiers under his command in Iraq to ignore legal advice about when they were permitted to kill enemy combatants under their rules of engagement. Hegseth became chief executive of Concerned Veterans for America, a conservative advocacy group, but departed in 2016 amid allegations of financial mismanagement, sexual impropriety and personal misconduct. In 2018 Hegseth's mother, Penelope, sent him an email that said: "You are an abuser of women - that is the ugly truth and I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego. You are that man (and have been for years) and as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth." Hegseth subsequently became a familiar face on TV as a contributor and co-host of Fox & Friends on Fox News, frequently interviewing Trump and defending his policies. He once wrote that, in the event of a Democratic election win, "the military and police ... will be forced to make a choice" and "Yes, there will be some form of civil war".

There was another aspect of Hegseth's personality barely addressed by the Senate: his sympathy for Christian nationalism. Photos have shown him bearing two tattoos associated with crusader imagery. One depicts the Jerusalem cross - a cluster of five crosses long connected to medieval crusader iconography - on his chest. Nearby is an image of a sword accompanied by the Latin phrase "Deus vult", meaning "God wills it", a slogan historically linked to the crusades and revived in recent years by various far-right groups. It appeared on clothing and flags carried by some participants in the January 6 Capitol attack. Nor are the references merely symbolic. In his 2020 book, American Crusade, Hegseth wrote that those who benefit from "western civilisation" should "thank a crusader". The book suggests that democratic politics alone may not suffice to achieve the goals of his political allies, declaring: "Voting is a weapon, but it's not enough. We don't want to fight, but, like our fellow Christians one thousand years ago, we must." There have been reports of more troubling behaviour. The New Yorker reported that a colleague at Concerned Veterans for America complained that he and another man repeatedly shouted "Kill all Muslims!" during a drunken episode at a bar while travelling for work.

Hegseth has previously endorsed the doctrine of "sphere sovereignty" ', a worldview derived from the extremist beliefs of Christian reconstructionism (CR). The philosophy calls for capital punishment for homosexuality and strictly patriarchal families and churches. The defence secretary attends Pilgrim Hill Reformed Fellowship, a church linked to the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, a denomination co-founded by the pastor Doug Wilson, who has openly advocated a theocratic vision of society in which wives should submit to their husbands and women should be denied the vote. Wilson recently led a worship service at the Pentagon at Hegseth's invitation. Robert P Jones, president and founder of Public Religion Research Institute thinktank in Washington, said: "This is not one or two comments. It's not a kind of one-off behaviour. This is like a longstanding publicly demonstrated orientation that Hegseth has. It's not just a glorification of violence but a glorification of violence in the name of Christianity and civilisation."

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) says it has received more than 200 complaints from service members about military commanders invoking extremist Christian rhetoric about biblical "end times" to justify involvement in the Iran war. Such language could also be offensive to Arab allies and provide Iran with the fodder it needs to justify its own holy war against the US. Jones warned: "It casts this not as anything related to the public - is it about a nuclear programme? Is it about sponsoring terrorism? - which are legitimate political concerns. It takes it out of the realm of politics and casts it as a holy war of a supposedly Christian nation against a Muslim nation." Doug Pagitt, a pastor and executive director of the progressive Christian group Vote Common Good, compares Hegseth's worldview to the historical heresy of Constantine, who allegedly painted a cross on his shield to conquer in the name of God - a theology the broader Christian church has spent centuries trying to distance itself from following the horrors of the Crusades. Pagitt said: "It seems to me that Pete Hegseth has a worldview, which is contorted toward thinking that this administration has a particular divine calling. He believes - because he said it - that God has uniquely ordained Donald Trump and those that he chooses to accomplish very specific purposes in the world.

‘A very dangerous person’: alarm as Pete Hegseth revels in carnage of Iran war
Critics say brash, bombastic Fox News host out of his depth to guide US military through murky new Middle East conflict:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Fun video. Four different aircraft!

Your arrival in HK was very smooth. If you want see some horrific landings there, check out videos of the old airport, Kai Tak, which required jets to fly super low through the forest of high rises, then make a sharp right turn, often in high swirling winds!

The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It. The Pentagon dismantled its civilian protection mission as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority and the Trump administration reorganized national security around two principl...

We are a disgusting criminal country. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

My favorite was when she was nattering on about how calm and peaceful Belfast was in the 70s, which somehow proved that 5g was bad, even though Belfast was the first city in Europe to get it.

a photo of human regret aka marco rubio wearing shoes that are obviously too big because daddy bought them as a gift

i mean it’s objectively hilarious that he sends people clown shoes and they feel beholden to wear them lest they insult the boy king (no seriously: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...)

I was told we would be hailed as liberators.

I stand this way when trying to cross a patch of black ice without slipping and falling. Is Snake 'n' Shake that dangerous?

Man covering his face with his hands in despair

Spurs play today

Search for "boring company" on X and you will see an endless steam of rabid enthusiasm for stuff that will never happen.

A guillotine

The United States is a depraved nation. Are we redeemable? I have doubts.

100%. The best.

Wait, what kind of gland man?

There's always a market for tax shelters, which is what PH is.

How Elon Musk’s Sci-Fi Hyperloop Failed Before his misadventures in government efficiency, Musk promised to revolutionize commuting with a subway that would speed passengers between DC and Baltimore in a matter of minutes. The project was a...

The world's richest man is a fraud.

I know some of you might read this and say "these people can't be stupid! These people run companies! They make huge deals! They read all these books!" and my answer is that some of the stupidest people I've ever met have read more books than you or I will read in a lifetime. While they might be smart when it comes to corporate chess moves or saying "this product category should do this," none of these men - not Altman, Pichai or Nadella - actually has a hand in the design or creation of any of the things their companies make, and they never, ever have. Regardless, I have a larger point: it's time to start mocking these people and tearing down their legends as geniuses of industry. They are not better than us, nor are they responsible for anything that their companies build other than the share price (which is a meaningless figure) and the accumulation of power and resources. These men are neither smart nor intellectually superior, and it's time to start treating them as such.

I also recommend if possible to find whatever humor you can. Make fun of these people. Lampooning them doesn’t discount the seriousness of their actions or the destruction of their works - it undermines their power and status and names, and lightens the soul

www.wheresyoured.at/make-fun-of-...

This reminds me of the wave of stream of consciousness writing in fiction a century ago. Sometimes interesting writing, but never close to consciousness for the simple reason that consciousness is not mostly in words. Hunger, for instance, or being tired.

A car thief getting into congress should have been a warning sign.

Huge stack of empty cardboard boxes just out of frame.

Markwayne Mullin Reportedly Fingered Nostrils of Colleagues and Their Spouses During Visit to Israel

what fresh hell