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Colin

@colinfanning.bsky.social
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Just some nerd (+curatorial type for craft and design)

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Colin @colinfanning.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I think it’s also just the slow pace of taste filtering through diff registers—the AD set were buying midcentury like 20-30 years ago and we got the West Elm-ified stuff in its wake. Deco has definitely seemed to obsess the high-end market for a few years now, and CB2 et al. are starting to mimic it
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Colin @colinfanning.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Uh-oh
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
There seems to be no way to convince some people that The Past is more than just a bunch of fact-based Lego sets that historians sift for and assemble.
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Colin @colinfanning.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
May I apply for a nineteenth-century-revivalism exemption from the mandatory lancing?
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Colin @colinfanning.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Cacklinggg
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Colin @colinfanning.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
[heavy sigh]
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Colin @colinfanning.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
“Wed-ness-day” and “Pho-ee-nix” are still with me!
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Colin @colinfanning.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Schnurkeramik-Kultur mention 🎉🏺🎉 🥳🥳🥳
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Colin @colinfanning.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
SINCE TIME IMMEMORIAL (cc: @proprietous.bsky.social)
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Colin @colinfanning.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I just can’ttttttt. This was already a stale trope by the ‘90s (maybe earlier)! At least pick a different category! “Not a big market for wrought iron these days”?
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Colin @colinfanning.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Big exhibition on the Shakers opening later this month at the Institute for Contemporary Art here in Philly! Just in case you find yourself wandering through town :B
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Colin @colinfanning.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I AM ALSO SCREAM
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Colin @colinfanning.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Heck yessssssssssss congratulations!!! ❤️
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Colin @colinfanning.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Jaya, this completely rules. Thank you for giving it to the world! ❤️
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Colin @colinfanning.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Surely the statute of limitations has expired on that one?
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Colin @colinfanning.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Oh yikes Sarah, SO sorry! [huggggg]
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Colin @colinfanning.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
The way that just about *every* line of copy contains a plausibly deniable double entendre…LLMs could never
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Colin @colinfanning.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
According to the Wikipedia article for "extract" (surely an unassailable source? :B), "feedstock" is it! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extract
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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
I really and truly need people to understand that a chatbot does not and cannot know anything. Like, I need them to understand that in their bones. It is very good at looking like it knows something, but it does not and cannot know anything.
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Rebecca Fishbein @bfishbfish.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.
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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
I would like to be clear. My writing doesn’t have em dashes because I use AI. AI uses em dashes because stunningly effective writers like me use them.
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Colin @colinfanning.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
The oatGOAT
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Hayden Clarkin @thetransitguy.com · 16/07/2025
A slow daily diesel train between Minneapolis and Chicago sees 100,000 more riders than it was projected to see when it opened a year ago, and you all want to tell me there’s no demand for fast and frequent trains in this country lol.
Trains Magazine: Amtrak's Borealis reaches 250,000 rider mark
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Colin @colinfanning.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
(I would love to know who/what you’re reading! This is the particular academic/professional sandbox I spend most of my time in 😊)
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Colin @colinfanning.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
“~Everything~ is design! …Wait, no, not like that”
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Jess M. F. Hughes @jessmfh.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
TIL AI is not only stealing our archives, it’s killing them. www.404media.co/ai-scraping-...
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AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums
"This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Our digital repositories team spends a great deal of their time now simply protecting our commoned public digital resources from bots. This insatiable, aimless, destructive desire to excrete novel slop is impeding our access to — and even damaging — our cultural heritage + vetted public knowledge.
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Colin @colinfanning.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
This really is my true form, thank you @makinaro.com for capturing my nerdful hauteur so perfectly 😂❤️
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Propriety @proprietous.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I commissioned Maki to do a snooty portrait of me to match the one he made of @colinfanning.bsky.social in his comic "The Hermit" (get it here: maki-naro.square.site/product/the-...). Maki not only knocked mine out of the park but insisted on touching up Colin's. He's the best!!! Look at us!!!
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The Hermit | Maki Naro
In 18th-century Britain, wealthy aristocrats would pass the time and show off to their friends by surrounding their palatial country estates with contemplative architectural monuments.One such structu...
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Colin @colinfanning.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
😬😬😬
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Andy Campbell @andycampy.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
A rebuttal to the wrongheaded, outrage-fueled misreading of the NPG installation of Felix Gonzalez-Torres's "Untitled" Portrait of Ross in L.A., 1991-- disappointed to see queer folks taking the bait as HIV/AIDS funding is slashed and denigrated here + around the world. Calibrate your energies.
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Colin @colinfanning.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
This is still one of my favorite outcomes of my historical career. @makinaro.com absolutely killed it. (Thanks for the shout-out, @nicolablack.bsky.social!)
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Nicola Black @nicolablack.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Have you heard of Hermitages (type of folly)? They had actual hermits living onsite! It's so bizarre to me! This comic by @makinaro.com w/narration from historians, @colinfanning.bsky.social & Gordon Campbell may be relevant to your interests. Blew my mind. 🤯 maki-naro.square.site/product/the-...
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The Hermit | Maki Naro
In 18th-century Britain, wealthy aristocrats would pass the time and show off to their friends by surrounding their palatial country estates with contemplative architectural monuments.One such structu...
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Colin @colinfanning.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Oh yes, plus it’s been delicious to read Harrity’s meltdown 😇
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Colin @colinfanning.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Kind of funny to have gotten the outcome I wanted most all along, but to be so angry about it. Heh.
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Colin @colinfanning.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
I’m *still* angry and heartbroken that they removed the split-flap board from 30th Street Station.
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Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
More info about the exhibition here: www.brandywine.org/museum/exhib...
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The Crafted World of Wharton Esherick | Brandywine Conservancy and Museum of Art
This exhibition explores the interdisciplinary creativity of Wharton Esherick (1887-1970), the famed American artist best known as the father of the Studio Furniture Movement...
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Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
It features essays by @colinfanning.bsky.social, Emily Zilber who also edited the book, Ann Glasscock, Holly Gore and YOURS TRULY, with beautiful photographs by Joshua McHugh.
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Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Need one more awesome last-minute Christmas gift? Or like, 10 copies of it? I recommend “The Crafted World of Wharton Esherick” from @rizzolibooks.bsky.social, the sumptuous catalog that accompanies a lovely exhibition on view at the Brandywine and Wharton Esherick Museums through 1/19/25.
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