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Michael Hunter @mikelark.bsky.social · 14h

Lee Coursey @lee-coursey.bsky.social · 14h

#photography #photograph #photo
After I retired, from 2016 to 2021, I roamed rural #Georgia with my camera and took pictures. Here is image #149 from the series.

📍 Howard Finster's Paradise Garden – Summerville, Georgia

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Michael Hunter @mikelark.bsky.social · 15h

Same, Hank…

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17h

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Michael Hunter @mikelark.bsky.social · 16h

A small town in Spain shows us the way forward…

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17h

‘It’s a question of humanity’: how a small Spanish town made headlines over its immigration stance

Mayor explains why Villamalea unanimously backed call to regularise undocumented migrants – across party lines

www.theguardian.com

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Michael Hunter @mikelark.bsky.social · 17h

Is that what the kids are calling it these days? 😅

Posting Abnormality @notfaulty.bsky.social · 2d

Who up Gentling their Spooky Horse

The front of a DVD case, in the middle is a picture of a man riding a horse, the title at the bottom reads:
'Monty Roberts
Gentling Your Spooky Horse:
A Young, Unhandled Horse'

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Michael Hunter @mikelark.bsky.social · 17h

Thanks, Laura. These are always wonderful. I hope you have printed and framed a couple…

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Michael Hunter @mikelark.bsky.social · 1d

This.👇Just like the guy who is unleashing the military on his own citizens shouldn’t win the Peace prize, neither should the lady who says Trump is our best hope and I’m glad he bombed Venezuelan boats. 🙄

John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 1d

The Nobel Peace Prize is not a victory for anyone who is anti Trump or particularly pro democracy. Maria Machado is pro Trump and pro Netanyahu. A conservative who’s certainly more democratic than Maduro but that’s a low bar. The decision feels like a fudge more aimed at defusing Trump’s ire.

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Michael Hunter @mikelark.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly this! 👇 Totally rethinking my “Pritzker is my guy” stance for 2028…

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

so gov pritzker has talked a very good game but its time to step up and protect his people like he said he would

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

Michael Hunter @mikelark.bsky.social · 1d

Reporter: “Do you like Country & Western music?”
Monk: “I like any kind of music, as long as it's played with soul.”
Reporter: “But do you like Country music?”

Monk, to friend: “He wasn't listening to what I was saying… ”

Happy Birthday to the eternal Monk.

Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 1d

I love Jimmy Rowles's song "The Ballad of Thelonious Monk", sung by Carmen McCrae live in 1967.

As McRae says in her introduction, "Anyone who can think up a country and western song about Thelonious cannot be wrapped too tight!"

That's Joe Pass on guitar.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lb1...

The Ballad of Thelonious Monk (Live)

YouTube video by Carmen McRae - Topic

www.youtube.com

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Michael Hunter @mikelark.bsky.social · 1d

Beautiful citizen of the planet Earth. ♥️🎹

jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 1d

Thelonious Sphere Monk was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina on this day in 1917

📸 Guy Breemat/INA/Getty Images, Paris, March 10, 1963

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Michael Hunter @mikelark.bsky.social · 1d

Right? East side ATL folks: happeningnext.com/event/no-kin...

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Michael Hunter @mikelark.bsky.social · 1d

LX, looking down: “You can't have me, you can't have me… not for free!”

Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 1d

hahahahahaha

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Michael Hunter @mikelark.bsky.social · 1d

I would say “one of the perks of government work,” but I don't think the kids (or anyone else) will be seriously considering going to work for the Feds going forward. 🙁

Michael Hunter @mikelark.bsky.social · 2d

They should give it to the 40-year vigil for peace in front of the White House that Trump had removed on September 5th.

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Michael Hunter @mikelark.bsky.social · 2d

How are you resisting, Hank? (I’m a constituent) 🤔

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Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social · 2d

If you're a writer in the South with a funny, irreverent novel, this is the time to send it to me. I would love to read something like that right now.

Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social · 2d

Serious books bum us out, fun books feel like they're not addressing THE TIMES. Getting something that's both is impossible. Writers are cranking out novels to please their agents, and agents are sending them unedited, and no one is answering anyone's emails because we're really, really tired.

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Michael Hunter @mikelark.bsky.social · 2d

They should give it to the Peace Vigil that was in front of the White House for 40 years until Trump had them cleared out on September 5th…

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Michael Hunter @mikelark.bsky.social · 2d

[This is good.]

Mike Scott @mickpuck.bsky.social · 2d

Original Waterboys member Anthony Thistlethwaite has made a playlist of 12 tracks of his that feature Rolling Stones lead guitarist Mick Taylor. You can find it here: open.spotify.com/album/4Wf3il...

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Michael Hunter @mikelark.bsky.social · 3d

My favorite declaration from Shakespeare’s “Henry V”!

Full of Helena 🇵🇸 @thegayagenda95.bsky.social · 3d

My kingdom for an Oxblood telecaster with a matching bigsby

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Michael Hunter @mikelark.bsky.social · 3d

Wish that I could give a limited number of gift articles from @aquariumdrunkard.com as a subscriber, but hey… you should be subscribing for great content like this!

Tyler Wilcox @tylerwilcox.bsky.social · 3d

Put together a little Danny Thompson appreciation for @aquariumdrunkard.com. (This could've been 100 songs rather than 10, but ...) aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/10/08/d...

Double Bass: 10 For Danny Thompson - Aquarium Drunkard

"The only thing I cared about was if I liked it or not, and if I liked it, then I was going to play it. Simple as that.” We’re all lucky Danny Thomson had that attitude. The English double bassist, wh...

aquariumdrunkard.com

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 3d

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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Michael Hunter @mikelark.bsky.social · 3d

Follow-up question: “Can you give us one single example of this actually happening?”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Michael Hunter @mikelark.bsky.social · 4d

My country ’tis of this…

Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 4d

And... what would you say... *constitutes* this tradition he's bucking? What exactly is it *constituted* of?

NPR @npr.org · 4d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Michael Hunter @mikelark.bsky.social · 4d

During my time with YouTube TV, I was amazed to find all the old specific channels like IFC and Bravo now mainly show reruns of “Two and A Half Men” 🙄

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Michael Hunter @mikelark.bsky.social · 4d

Why else would they be In these positions? Pretty sure the job description reads, “all you can lie,” right?

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Michael Hunter @mikelark.bsky.social · 4d

Megan and I at the ASO…

The Onion @theonion.com · 4d

Everyone In Symphony Audience Has Finger Cocked Under Beer Can Tab For First Sign of Crescendo

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