#NowPlaying Can you believe that back in 1978 The White House threw a #jazz festival?
Ornette Coleman, Chick Corea, Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gordon,
Herbie Hancock, Clark Terry, Stan Getz, Lionel Hampton, Roy Eldridge, Sonny Rollins, George Benson, Tony Williams and dozens more.

I've always been partial to a 'painting ghost'.
There are 3 overpainted figures in The Old Guitarist by Pablo Picasso. On the right, detail of a woman's portrait.
#art

Merry Christmas, #neurodivergent celebrants! So many autistic people *want* to be around people today but find it difficult, so have chosen to be on their own. Others are with family & friends right now, but are quickly overstimulated, and need to some quiet downtime to recuperate a bit. Either way, I'm on the #JoinIn hashtag, if you want a chat.
#ASD #autism #ND #Aspergers #AuDHD

I just popped over to #Twitter. Slowly but surely, it's starting to feel like an abandoned shopping mall in a dystopian movie. Shattered glass everywhere. A hole in the roof. There's a tree growing inexplicably on a rusted escalator, moss on discarded electrical items. Wild dogs roam in packs through looted stores past waterlogged, peeling standees of smiling models promoting forgotten products. Carcasses of blue birds litter the ground.

TV production companies and broadcasters recruiting presenters/stars from reality TV has replaced recruiting from the defunct club and holiday-camp/Redcoat entertainer circuits of the 1950s-1980s. Otherwise, the only surviving circuit is stand-up, which might explain why so many comedians now present, in addition to the traditional quiz shows, travel, history, science, reality and biographical shows.
Thanks for coming to my TED (Bovis) Talk.
#television #history #broadcasting #TV #Britain

Elon Musk is now trying to breathe life into made-up conspiracies about Democratic fundraising and Brazil’s elections. Tesla and SpaceX can go screw themselves. Every purchase and every contract is financing this insanity.

This is what 5 megabytes looked like in 1956. #tech #history #retro #retrocomputing #technology #histodons #photo

Anyone still posting on Twitter is actively helping the fascists achieve their goals. Musk is banning leftist accounts and hate speech is up 61%.
STOP TWEETING!
FIGHT THESE BASTARDS! FIGHT THE FASCISTS!