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born@ 325CO2ppm GenX*

Alchemy: 🎨 🔬 🌱 / wander why / 𝔭𝔢𝔡𝔬 𝔪𝔢𝔩𝔩𝔬𝔫 𝔞 𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔫𝔬 / 🐫 🦁 🐉 👶 / NeoJungian / failed escape artist / The going along is making myself up 🦋 / “Thank you, sweet Rabbit”
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WayFinding 🏹 🎈 𓄋 @jeffreycrunk.bsky.social · Feb 11
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sophiacycles.bsky.social Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · Feb 11
If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.~CG Jung
jeffreycrunk.bsky.social
@jinglecat.bsky.social

Nancy. Will follow me on Bluesky?
January 6, 2026 at 7:02 AM
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tractusfynn.bsky.social
If we were meant to fly we would have been born with wings.
#DefyDogma
January 5, 2026 at 11:00 PM
jeffreycrunk.bsky.social
@tinyobscurae.bsky.social hi
January 6, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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peterpaulrubens.bsky.social
El Greco lines up Renaissance art's superstars: Titian, Michelangelo, Giulio Clovio, and Raphael. We don't usually hear as much about the great miniaturist Clovio, but today is his day!
January 5, 2026 at 9:27 PM
jeffreycrunk.bsky.social
A Star fall a phone call
It joins all
Synchronicity

W/S
January 5, 2026 at 9:27 PM
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mmcarthur.bsky.social
Iris Apfel :
A most remarkable woman

"More is more and less is a bore."

She became the first living person who was not a designer to have her clothing exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Her story fills the alt texts 👇
At 84, she got the call that changed everything. Iris Apfel had spent six decades building a quiet empire. She and her husband Carl ran a textile company called Old World Weavers, restoring fabrics for some of the most prestigious addresses in America, including the White House under nine different presidents. But her real masterpiece was never the business. It was what hung in her closet. Born in 1921 in Astoria, Queens, Iris grew up between two worlds. Her father sold glass and mirrors. Her mother ran a fashion boutique. As a child, she rode the subway into Manhattan for a nickel, combing through thrift shops and antique stores, collecting pieces that spoke to her. She never stopped collecting. For decades, while traveling the world sourcing rare textiles, Iris bought things nobody else wanted. Tribal jewelry from North Africa. Vintage couture from Parisian flea markets. Costume pieces that cost five dollars sitting next to items worth thousands. She mixed them together without apology, layering necklaces until they became sculptures on her small frame. She paired Dior jackets with dollar-store finds. She wore colors that clashed on purpose because the clash itself was the point. Every outfit defied conventional fashion rules and declared one simple truth: style cannot be purchased. It must be invented. Nobody in the fashion world was watching. Iris was simply living her truth every single day. Then the Metropolitan Museum of Art called. A fashion historian had mentioned to a curator that somewhere in New York lived a woman with one of the greatest collections of costume jewelry and accessories in the country. When another exhibition fell through, the curator tracked down Iris and asked to see her collection. What he found stunned him. Rooms overflowing with fashion history. Every piece curated with an artist's eye. The museum asked if they could feature her personal wardrobe in a major exhibition. Iris was 84 years old. The show, called Rara Avis (Rare Bird), became a sensation. Suddenly this octogenarian with enormous round black glasses, snow-white hair, and bright red lipstick was everywhere. She became the first living person who was not a designer to have her clothing exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The fashion industry did not know how to categorize her. Here was a woman in her eighties commanding more attention than models decades younger. She had not asked permission. She had not sought validation. She had simply dressed herself with complete creative freedom for sixty years until the world finally caught up. She once explained the difference between fashion and style in terms anyone could understand. Fashion, she said, you can buy. Style is something else entirely. It implies originality. It implies courage. It lives in your DNA. As for conventional beauty, Iris dismissed the question entirely. She said she was not pretty and never would be pretty, but it did not matter. She had something much better. She had style. Her philosophy fit in four words: more is more. She stacked bangles until her wrists could barely lift. She layered beads and feathers and textures that should have overwhelmed her tiny frame but somehow projected bold, graphic power. Her favorite saying became her Instagram bio: More is more and less is a bore. Fame arrived late and never stopped accelerating. She appeared in a documentary at 93. She signed a modeling contract at 97. She collaborated with major fashion brands into her hundreds. On social media, nearly three million people followed her on Instagram. Through it all, Iris worked. She once called retirement a fate worse than death. When asked at 100 what else she could possibly do, she answered simply: she did not play golf and she did not play bridge. She loved to work. She and Carl had been married for 67 years when he died in 2015 at age 100. They never had children, partly because their work required constant travel and Iris refused to let her children be raised by someone else. Instead, her influence reached millions who never met her. Young people found permission to dress boldly. Older people found permission to refuse invisibility. Everyone found permission to stop apologizing for taking up space. Iris Apfel lived to 102. For eight decades, she heard the world's narrow definitions of what fashion should look like, what women should look like, what aging should look like. Then she spent two extraordinary decades proving something the world desperately needed to see. Creativity has no expiration date. Beauty exists far beyond narrow standards. And the most revolutionary act any person can commit is refusing to shrink themselves for anyone else's comfort. The woman who built art on her body every single day became exactly what she always was. Completely, unapologetically, magnificently herself.
January 5, 2026 at 3:16 PM
jeffreycrunk.bsky.social
I am here for this message. Good and evil is an old fiction.
avngmedusa.bsky.social GorgonGoddess_The🐍 @avngmedusa.bsky.social · 23d
Today’s sermon
sanctorium.bsky.social sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 23d
There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

Nietzsche
January 5, 2026 at 2:10 AM
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avngmedusa.bsky.social
Create.
January 5, 2026 at 1:11 AM
jeffreycrunk.bsky.social
Village. It takes a village.
January 5, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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linapavlova.bsky.social
📷 Yamamoto Masao, 山本昌男
Mount Fuji, 1978
November 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
jeffreycrunk.bsky.social
These toys. Wow. They meant so much for kids, who came from families that didn't have a lot of money but had lots of fantastical imagination. Dad would occasionally bring me a star wars action figure. He would set it in the package on the arm rest of the sofa beside me. What a treat.
nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 26d
Bionic Beauty Salon, 1976
An ad for a set to go with the bionic woman action figure /doll and it's a big table and chair where Jamie Summers can lie down and have her electronic parts repaired it also have her hair done at the same time
January 4, 2026 at 11:41 PM
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franlaura.bsky.social
Quick lesson in Physics. 🤣
January 3, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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elnopower.bsky.social
Many-colored Rush Tyrant (Tachuris rubrigastra) in Chile by Yung Niem.
January 3, 2026 at 12:39 AM
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jakevig.bsky.social
If you are a Dem House member or Senator and your recurring theme is "We don't have the votes, what are we supposed to do?":

RESIGN
January 3, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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bronzeagebabies.bsky.social
Dinner is served.
HUMONGOUS pizza slices.
January 3, 2026 at 8:34 PM
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teisha42.bsky.social
Anybody else adore these mesmerizing mollusks? Is it just me?

I'm even a gardener, and I still love them.

Spotted all of these #snails in a single rainy day in the Santa Barbara area.

#photography #animals #maco #macrophotography #pets #garden #gardening
Closeup of garden snail (Cornu aspersum, formerly Helix aspersa) Closeup of garden snail (Cornu aspersum, formerly Helix aspersa) Closeup of small garden snail (genus Oxychilus) Closeup of garden snail (Cornu aspersum, formerly Helix aspersa)
January 3, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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mmcarthur.bsky.social
Maryam Lamei Harvani (Iran) : Redemption, n.d.

Acrylic & watercolor on cardboard
97x 67 cm

More info in the alt text 👇
Harvani was born in historical Sarab, Iran. After graduating in Graphic Design, she was awarded the National Art Prize and the art award from the Ministry of Science Research. Her work is inspired by the Iranian Golo Morgh (Flower and Bird) paintings, a traditional Persian way of painting in which the flower is the beloved and the bird is the lover.
January 3, 2026 at 3:23 PM
jeffreycrunk.bsky.social
Extraordinary chess design, 1923
January 3, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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graphic-garbage.bsky.social
Fish Life Chess Board, Max Esser, 1923
September 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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dhnexon.bsky.social
The whole @profsaunders.bsky.social thread is excellent, but this is worth emphasizing.

I'm going to do that via shameless self-promotion.

@cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social and I first formulated the book that became Exit from Hegemony in the '00s, but we wrote the bulk of the actual text in 2018. 🧵
January 3, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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stillroom.art
days 1-3 of #birbfest2026
photo, a hobonichi diary and a sketchbook surrounded by markers. the diary has a sketch of a bronzewing pigeon, the sketchbook has a many-colored rush tyrant (a tiny guy) and razorbills (adult and bedraggled juvenile) photo, close up of the sketch of the many-colored rush tyrant. a very small and leggy bird with a tiny crown doodled over its head. close up of the razorbills. there are two adults with their beaks kissing, and a juvenile that resembles some dryer lint with strong opinions
January 3, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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avngmedusa.bsky.social
Caterpillar reaching out, from the left side of image, off of a pink flower, talking to a butterfly hovering over a pink flower on the right. Blue sky in the background, with soft clouds at the bottom of the image Caterpillar: did it hurt? Butterfly: yes. Caterpillar reaching out, from the left side of image, off of a pink flower, talking to a butterfly hovering over a pink flower on the right. Rainbow in the background Caterpillar: was it worth it? Butterfly: yes
January 2, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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mmcarthur.bsky.social
Edward Gorey (American,1925-2000) :
Christmas cards
"Never Get on an Elevator Alone with a Foreign Woman," T.V. Guide cartoon, 1988 Ink and watercolor on paper 7.75 x 5 in. Angels, a hot air balloon, and a giver of gifts, 1950 Pen and ink on paper 6-3/4 x 5-2/5 inches Dragon and Man Exchange Gifts, c.1950s pen-and-ink crosshatching with watercolor The scene features an elegantly robed gentleman in profile trading presents with a large, unthreatening, and curiously crosshatched dragon. While it is widely recognized today as a holiday card design, its origins trace back to an unpublished project. Tree Delivery Card, with envelope, c.1977 5.25 inches by 8 inches The illustration features three men transporting a Christmas Tree under glass across the ice.
January 2, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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mmcarthur.bsky.social
Just some of the many, many musicians we lost in 2025. 😢

All named in the alt texts 👇
28. Angie Stone 29. Connie Francis 30. Jerry Butler 31. Flaco Jiménez 32. Amadou Bagayoko 33. George Jan Kooymans 34. Larry Tamblyn 35. Sonny Curtis 36. James Lowe 19. Junior Byles 20. Terry Reid 21. Bill Fay 22. Mike Peters 23. Sam Moore 24. Mick Ralphs 25. Viv Prince 26. Chris Dreja 27. D'Angelo 10. Rick Buckler 11. Mani 12. Brian James 13.Max Romeo 14. David Lynch 15. Dave Allen 16. Roberta Flack 17. Steve Cropper 18. Dave Ball 1. Brian Wilson 2. Sly Stone 3. Ozzy Osbourne 4. Jimmy Cliff 5. Marianne Faithfull 6. Garth Hudson 7. David Johansen 8. Clem Burke 9. David Thomas
January 2, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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umadlp.bsky.social
“We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget.”

Sarah Bernhardt.
December 30, 2025 at 12:39 PM