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Tom Pardue

@sleepytom

Like: music (especially jazz & classical), reading (science, history, speculative fiction), crosswords, hiking and nature viewing.

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This is very nice Levi. I like the "special guest appearance" by the cat.

12.02.2026 03:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for recommending this! The entire album is superb

06.02.2026 22:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

What an extraordinary picture, just beautiful. Everyone should be following Jocelyn @jocelynanderson.bsky.social Her photos never fail to brighten my day!

22.11.2025 03:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Marina Hyde at her best: "And yet Epstein had made no noise at all in the financial world. They could barely find one investor. Their general theory was that the β€œhedge fund” was simply a cover for a blackmail scheme."

Who was being blackmailed...

17.09.2025 01:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I remember our local "Top 40" radio station announcing the "world premiere" one morning of a new Beatles single (I think it was "Paperback Writer") and how excited I was. The fact that probably 200 other stations were also "premiering" it didn't occur to me. Simpler times, it was good to be young.

08.09.2025 15:01 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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.)

07.09.2025 23:43 πŸ‘ 283 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 1

The financial / personal questions are intrusive. I did not finish the survey.

07.07.2025 08:49 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β™₯️

πŸ“·: Northern Flicker

06.07.2025 20:18 πŸ‘ 194 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

This is beautifully written. Thank you so much for sharing this blog post.

26.06.2025 09:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Why is the audiobook not available in the US ?

08.04.2025 02:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

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

01.02.2025 02:07 πŸ‘ 517 πŸ” 60 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 1
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Jazz Off the Record In the late 1960s, the recording industry lost interest in America’sΒ greatest art form. But in a small, dark club on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, jazz legendsΒ were playing the best music you’ve n...

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...

14.01.2025 14:40 πŸ‘ 130 πŸ” 49 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 10

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.

13.12.2024 16:27 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

"Spirited Away"
one of my all-time favorite movies from any studio, animated or live action.

30.11.2024 05:26 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sonny Rollins by Frank Stewart, 2017

07.09.2024 21:43 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

02.06.2024 18:30 πŸ‘ 74 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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A festive male Cardinal for this Christmas day. #ArtAdventCalendar #birds

25.12.2023 13:10 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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.

19.11.2023 15:38 πŸ‘ 129 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0