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David J. Clarke

@jazzphreak.bsky.social

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Seeking work as a Peer Bridger or 988 Support Agent. Jazz fanatic & amateur photographer. Former philosopher & logician. Disciple of Richard Rorty. Francophile. 💙🏳️‍🌈📸🎷 🇫🇷

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David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 1d

Moderate mountain view Monday in Yakima as seen from the 5th floor of the Larson building.

#mountains #blueskies #eastcoastkin #puffyclouds #alliteration #skyline #horizon #landscape #blueskyphotography

David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 21h

Jesus, what the hell do you do for satire when this is the reality? The article reads like it's something from Pynchon. Oedipa Mas needs an invite just so she can see what hell life has become 60 years on.

David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 21h

That pooch has it all figured out!

David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 21h

Great use of aperture

David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 21h

Three cheers for this trio!!!

Helen McCarthy @helenmccarthy51.bsky.social · 1d

Highschool activists working to secure freedom of choice in their school. What amazing young women!

NPR @npr.org · 1d

Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 22h

Es verdad...

David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 22h

Exactly, and we're about 50 years too late for any funds that would have helped Argentina.

David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 22h

My only note to the subject was 'show your true colors.'

#flora #pop #saturation #bokeh #orange #flowerphotography #bloomscrolling

David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 22h

I agree with you but he's hardly hiding it.. The 2025 material has been out there for a while and he is using the shutdown as a perfect extension of destroying the institutions. You mentioned all government resources are sidelined other than ice and the military.

David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 22h

And given what they charge for those services, they should also never go down.

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David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 22h

Famously, not much happens in this book, yet all of life is contained in its pages. For plot, the novel depicts the events of 1 day (June 16th, 1904) in one smallish European city, (Dublin) mostly through the consciousness of 2 men; Stephen Dedalus, aged 22 & Leopold Bloom, aged 38.
#Ulysses #Joyce

My feeble attempt to age the image in Photoshop. The characters are Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom, Molly Bloom, and as much spectre as character, bringing up the rear, Stephen is digged by Telemachus and Bloom by Hamlet.

David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 22h

Can't do any better than than quoting his compatriot in the film 'Round Midnight,':

'you play like a god'

#BeBop #DexterGordon #NightinTunisia #DizzyGillespie
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Dexter Gordon - Night in Tunisia (Holland, 1964) [1/3]

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David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 22h

The unspeakable pursuing the uneatable. - good old butchy Oscar Wilde
The other quote that comes to mind is somewhere in the mid-twenties a journalist asked Gandhi what he thought of Western Civilization? he responded. It sounds like a good idea. You might wish to try it

David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 1d

It's been going on the Gingrich Clinton days. It's only more effective now since capital profits are reabsorbed by the wealthy faster than the economy is growing. It's an old story and a tactic that has been used well back into the mid 19th century.

David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 1d

Ironically, given Microsoft's shrewd but cynical adoption of it, I'm imagining it's Linux.

David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, those digital sales certainly support that. That is definitely the one thing proven by the post e-book era. Desmond's book addresses the issues; I'm glad it has readers but I don't see any value in having a million authors say the same thing and probably not nearly as well.

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David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 1d

I'm okay with all of it except marrying someone from Journey; that's just something I can't abide.

David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 1d

Watch those commas :)

David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 1d

Matthew Desmond's 'poverty by America' sold over 2 million copies, Thomas Piketty's work on economics sold nearly three million copies. I don't know if that's considered patronization of the wealthy, but it certainly includes the poor's viewpoint.

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Christoph Fischer @beautysurroundsyou.com · 1d

Life flourishes everywhere! In Namibia's beautiful Sossusvlei region, two lone trees live on the edge of a giant red dune which rises sharply above. In fact, one of the trees is buried in the dune's sand!

#photography #nature #bluesky #naturephotography #landscapephotography #landscape #travel

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David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 1d

It's the world canon, not the English canon and its inclusivity is in fact resisted by most publishers rather than supporting its ongoing expansion. No publisher ever said we're going to be rolling in the dough now that we've got this Zora Neale Hurston in our back catalog.

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David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 1d

Quantity is neither quality nor influence. Nor readership. The numbers will certainly increase even more as LLMs become integral to the process. When the churn of publishing produces a Woolf, Proust or Joyce I'll take notice. In the age of hack reading, books published are diminished even further.

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David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 1d

And whatever rapidly evolving publishing capabilities means, I doubt they exceed the publication capabilities ushered into the World by Gutenberg.

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David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 1d

Math aside, it sets a very limited scope to the novel, which is sad as it's always been an expansive form. I'm glad that Paul Murray, Delillo, Ferrante and Knausgard & many others are not constrained by such artificial criteria. The 4 authors could not be more different and are all writing in 2025.

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David J. Clarke @jazzphreak.bsky.social · 1d

So how would this criteria apply to Anna Karenina and The Life and times of Tristan shandy? Both authors having denied that they were even novels.

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