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WayFinding 🏹 🎈 𓄋 @jeffreycrunk.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Heh. Two things I want to share. 1) If I caused any person concern for falling off BlueSky for a couple of months, I apologize to you. When I need to internalize something that requires real change, I need silence and reflection. That feeling came over me abruptly in December. Hence my absence.

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Tractus Fynn @tractusfynn.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

If we were meant to fly we would have been born with wings. #DefyDogma

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

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!

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WayFinding 🏹 🎈 𓄋 @jeffreycrunk.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

A Star fall a phone call It joins all Synchronicity W/S

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phoenixrising @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

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.

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WayFinding 🏹 🎈 𓄋 @jeffreycrunk.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I am here for this message. Good and evil is an old fiction.

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GorgonGoddess_The @avngmedusa.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Create.

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Lina Pavlova 🪆 @linapavlova.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

📷 Yamamoto Masao, 山本昌男 Mount Fuji, 1978

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WayFinding 🏹 🎈 𓄋 @jeffreycrunk.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

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.

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Eloise Powers @elnopower.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Many-colored Rush Tyrant (Tachuris rubrigastra) in Chile by Yung Niem.

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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Dinner is served.

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Teisha just wants to fix the world 😁💪🐛🫜🔥🖖💖🚀 @teisha42.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

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 small garden snail (genus Oxychilus)

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phoenixrising @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

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.

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Graphic Garbage @graphic-garbage.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Fish Life Chess Board, Max Esser, 1923

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 03/01/2026

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. 🧵

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cmkm 🪻 (c. meador) @stillroom.art · 03/01/2026

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

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GorgonGoddess_The @avngmedusa.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

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

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phoenixrising @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

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

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.

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phoenixrising @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

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

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IrishLisa 🌈 @irishlisa.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

snow keeps its counsel evergreens hold the secret winter listens close #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #B&W #Winter #Snow #Evergreens #ImageAndVerse #Haiga #EastCoastKin

B&W photo of snow-covered evergreens beside bare deciduous trees, their branches coated in fresh snow under a pale winter sky.

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

an utter muppet looking creature Day 2 of #Birbfest2026 - Many-coloured Rush Tyrant #SciArt #birds 🪶

sketch of a Many-coloured Rush Tyrant on a grey background, the bird is a ball of yellow, blue eyeliner, yellow eyebrows, a green back, black wings and a tail, and really really long leggies attaching to a ball of a feathery fluff.

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Kerstin Sailer @kerstinsailer.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Day 2 of #birbfest2026 with this little fluff ball - a many coloured rush tyrant #birbfest

Drawing of a many coloured rush tyrant, hanging sideways on a green stem. The bird is tessellated into triangles so that no two adjacent areas are coloured in the same hues.
Polychromos coloured pencils and black fine liner on white paper, 15x10cm.

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Possum Every Hour @possumeveryhour.io · 02/01/2026

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eugeniat2.bsky.social @eugeniat2.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

January ‘s Flower #FlowersOnFrida Carnations are popular, long-lasting flower known for their spicy scent and wide range of colors. Carnations symbolize fascination and are the birth flower for January. Red Carnations Rose Brenner

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phoenixrising @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Max Ernst : Portrait of Joan Miro, Blessed Painter, 1948 Oil on canvas Further description in the alt text 👇

Ernst's painting is an oil on canvas depicting his fellow artist Joan Miró, a key figure in Surrealism in Ernst's characteristic dreamlike style, featuring symbolic forms and intricate patterns, reflecting their shared artistic explorations.

This unique portrait, signed by Ernst and showcasing bold colors, captures Miró's fantastical vision within a mysterious, captivating composition, highlighting their deep connection within the Surrealist movement.

Significance:
A testament to the friendship and mutual influence between two giants of Surrealism.

This painting is a significant piece within Surrealist art, showcasing Ernst's ability to blend reality and fantasy into iconic portraits.

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phoenixrising @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Mariya Golub (Ukraine, b.1990) : The Old Is Forgotten, the New Begins, Everything at the Intersection, 2021 Acrylic on canvas, 70 x 50 cm

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gabbs @girlboss.capital · 01/01/2026

the creature rests

slothful black bunny with white crested feet laid the fuck out. back leggies are rigid. she's not dead. she just looks dead

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jimragan.bsky.social @jimragan.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

"The best way to predict the future is to create it." Abraham Lincoln

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WayFinding 🏹 🎈 𓄋 @jeffreycrunk.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Great #MusiciansDoPsychology Hammer & Nail, Indigo Girls (1990) I gotta get out of bed and get a hammer and a nail Learn how to use my hands, not just my head I think myself into jail Now I know a refuge never grows From a chin in a hand in a thoughtful pose Gotta tend the earth if you want a rose

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WayFinding 🏹 🎈 𓄋 @jeffreycrunk.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Indigo Girls to Stoics: You think your head in a jail

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jen 💙🤍🕊️ @jenzsky.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Hold your head up high, my friend For you are stronger than you know… #BirdoftheDay #branchingout #birds #birdphotography #nature #photography #EastCoastKin

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Pervushovisaurus and Baculites friends

fantastical drawing of Pervushovisaurus, an extinct marine reptile similar to a modern dolphin but with four flippers. it is colored in shades of blue, red, and lavender. Surrounding it are several Baculites, extinct cephalopods related to squids with long pointed shells

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Katie Aki ✶ @katieaki.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

the true paradise of our Nara excursion, however, was this deer-themed train we just happened to catch!

A train car with deer-spotted cushions, green meadow/flower-print floors, and deer-shaped handles.

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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Happy New Year everyone! Find yourself someone who looks at you like this male Northern Flicker looks at the female in the foreground. 🪶

Two golden-brown woodpeckers sitting on a thick branch. The male is on the left and in focus. He is looking at female on the right who is raising her beak to greet him.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Sleeping dog, drawn by Hendrick Goltzius of Haarlem, at the end of his day. Good night!

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spookyobscurae @tinyobscurae.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

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WayFinding 🏹 🎈 𓄋 @jeffreycrunk.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Henry said, almost conversationally, “There isn’t any spooky action here, is there, Saul? Near or far?” ~ Jeff Vandermeer, Acceptance *

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 02/01/2026

The way each culture is so mad in their own unique and local ways is honestly everything I love about this country and everything they're trying to break. We are at our most glorious when we're at our most regionally goofy.

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