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Carl Rosman @carlrosman.bsky.social · 5h

WHEEEEEEEEEEE

Music score displayed on a well-known tablet device. A piece for clarinet and orchestra. Clarinet part is sometimes in two lines, sometimes in tablature. There is a lot of my scribble: “delicate/mellow/mysterious”; “corporeal/incorporeal”; “fast mordents”; “quiet high harmonics”; some fingerings; some notes that will be produced from the tablature if I get it right.

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 1d

Nobel Prize for Climate Tech. Should actually be a category going forward. But this'll do for today (gift link) - www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Chemistry Nobel Given for Molecules That Aid Carbon Capture

Scientists from Japan, the UK and Jordan were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating molecular constructions with potential to help combat climate change.

www.bloomberg.com

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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 1d

On Carrollton where it bends to become St. Charles:

Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 1d

Just to b moire transparent, lol... since history, Franklin was a Sputnick school, and became the pub school w/the most Rhodes Scholars in the US, but, in NOLA, one had to pass a 'test' to get in. Anyways, long story, great school for whites and my godfather told us to move to NOLA so I could go.

Benjamin Franklin High School (New Orleans) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 1d

We watched the Watergate Hearings live during class for weeks at my high school in N0LA, Ben Franklin. Our teacher was super cool, a self-id'ed rich Osage like in Flower Moon teaching kids for the common good. There wasn't much discussion or debate, but a feeling of wasted opportunity and shame.

Jeremy Beck @jeremybeckcomposer.bsky.social · 1d

John Mitchell was convicted and went to prison for crimes he committed as Attorney General during the Nixon administration. Just saying.

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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 1d

Really, Spotify? I'm 12 and standing in front of the Jeffrey Pine I was named after... new playlist graphic is actually totally appropriate.🙃

open.spotify.com/playlist/37i...

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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 1d

Home from above:

Timelapse created using images courtesy of the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center, ISS053-E-394450-396465 eol.jsc.nasa.gov.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks, New Yorker

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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 2d

John Ruskin, the excitable Victorian critic, thought Fra Angelico was not a painter at all: “not an artist, properly so-called, but an inspired saint.”

That canonization — a friar must be a recluse, and novelty is incompatible with eternity — is the easy way out....

𝕯𝖗. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐚 𝐌𝐮𝐢𝐫 ❌👑 @theresamuir.bsky.social · 2d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/a...

Fra Angelico and the Miracle of Faith Made Visible

www.nytimes.com

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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 2d

Nanobots cure mice Alzheimer's w/fix to blood-brain barrier. News for any BBB-related illness like #MS?

(Apologies foir the Telly link).

Alzheimer’s reversed in mice under breakthrough treatment

Injection of nanoparticles “reminds” blood-brain barrier to work properly, allowing brain cells to communicate again

www.telegraph.co.uk

Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 2d

at least it was four diff snogs each time. variety enables tolerance! 😜

Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 2d

loud trance music with the subwoofers seemingly facing our beds from the ceiling blasted for a few minutes and then screaming matches about 'chaos' in spanish for 4 times over an hour was the high point of last night. and then the other apartments started fighting too:

George Frederic Watts – Chaos

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Mark Berry @boulezian.bsky.social · 2d

Delighted news of this is now spreading. Congratulations to my department colleagues involved in the project.

Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 2d

GOOD NEWS !
"A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions."
#baroque #music
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell

Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

www.theguardian.com

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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 4d

As early as May 1764, when the first Anglican missionaries were sent out from England to the newly British Florida, occasional services of the Church of England were held in the area of what is now Lake City, later called Alligator by the newly independent Americans, and renamed Lake City in 1859.

History — St. James

www.stjameslakecity.org

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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 4d

Sixty+ years ago, I'd have been here, at St. James Episcopal in Lake City FL either in the choir (we actually had a black choral dir.) or as an altar boy. We went to church every sunday here in the 60's, except for one year when my dad decided that Jacksonville Beach was a kind of church, too. 😎

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Joel Fan Music @joelfanmusic.bsky.social · 4d

Police arrested Ella, Dizzy and Illinois Jacquet at Houston's Music Hall for gambling #OTD.

They'd just ended the 1st set of a concert for an integrated audience in Jacquets hometown.

They paid the fines at the police station and hurried back for the 2nd set to end the show.

#weekend #goodvibes

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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 4d

New toys deployed in Chi-town - drones:

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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 4d

A Trump administration official said that agents fired upon the woman after “officers were rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars” in Chicago. (Joshua Lott/The Washington Post)

Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 4d

The agents exited their vehicles and fired “defensive shots,” hitting the woman, McLaughlin said. The woman, who was a U.S. citizen but not identified, drove herself to a nearby hospital, according to DHS.

archive.is/Whcrs#select...

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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 4d

Patented renewable research thwarted by big oil. Exxon, etc. sued him into oblivion finally settling out of court, 10 years later.

Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · Jan 11

He actually believed his chemical research discoveries, which he had discovered in dream, could help replace oil.

When I was a kid, I'd actually tell people my dad had discovered a renewable substitute for petrochemicals that could help save the world, but the oil companies had stopped him...

Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 4d

He'd like me to tell the story about how he rode half of an elk, like a huge sled, that he'd shot and partially slaughtered, into a rock on his ocassional 3 week hunts (where'd he hike with his fly rod and high-powered rifle). All the kids who had kids got a bear carcass rug w/head for each kid. 🐻

Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · Jan 11

Both my father and brother were ocassional professional forest fire fighters. They both were Forest Service Research Foresters and in the summers, as grad students, risked their lives saving trees.

My dad was fanatical about living anywhere where there were EVER burns or even had a risk of a burn.

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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 4d

No disrespect to my dad, who'd be a 100 this month. He got the whole family threatened for his 'yankee' views...

Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · Mar 8

Our family was threatened with a fire bomb for having an African botanist for dinner in the 60's in Lake City, FL. I was 9 and we made a big deal about world religions and dietary constraints. We had the globe out. We got a phone call and my dad called the police and we acted like nothing happened.🤪

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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 4d

I got flicked by my dad's finger behind the ear a few times at gas stations for using the 'wrong' water fountain in the '60's... ok only if the 'right' one is busted and nobody's around. 🤨

Bob Ballentine @raballentine.bsky.social · 4d

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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 7d

Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans.

“It was heartbreaking to watch,” said Watson. “Even if you’re not a mother, seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.”

Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 7d

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 4d

Cool story, tho...😱

Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 5d

FYI this is going around seeming to be from me and Liz.

This is not from us.