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Kira @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What native land am I on? What treaties pertain to this area? native-land.ca/maps/native-...

Screen capture from https://native-land.ca/maps/native-land showing languages overlay of regional map

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Kira @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

acrylic is so fun 😤😤😤😤 more layers incoming…

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Kira @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Coach x Penguin Random House collab - Translator, who translated two of the books made into bag charms, said of this project: “I became intrigued by a notion running throughout that book; namely, the question of how you describe sounds, and music, in words” chireviewofbooks.com/2023/05/18/t...

Coach bag charm of book by Riku Onda titled Honeybees and Distant Thunder

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Kira @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Just added to my field guide collection!

Book by Patrick J. Lynch titled
A Field Guide to the
MID-ATLANTIC COAST:
Including the Jersey Shore, Cape May, Delaware Bay, the Delmarva Peninsula, and the Outer Banks. Bars say the book contains:
Coastal Habitats
Birds, Fish, & Plants
Beach Life
Lower Chesapeake Bay
Barrier Island Wildlife

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Kira @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Finally reading The Overstory by Richard Powers and getting the hype 🌳📚#booksky

Quote from open kindle, showing The Overstory by Richard Powers “
down their pollen, soon they will turn into spiny fruits. Poplars repeat the wind's cossip. Persimmons and walnuts set out their bribes and rowans their Hood red chusters. Ancient oaks wave prophecieso future weather. The several hundred kind: of hawthom lauch at the sincle name they re forced to share Laurels insist that ewen death is nothing to lose sleep over.
Something in the air's scent commands the woman: Close your eyes and think of willow. The weeping you see will be wrong. Picture an acacia thorn. Nothing in your thought will be sharp enough. What hovers right above you? What floats over your head right now—now?
Trees even farther away join in: All the ways you imagine us-bewitched mangroves up on stilts, a nutmeg's in. verted spade, gnarled baja elephant trunks, the straight-up missile of a sal—are always amputations. Your kind never sees us whole. You miss the half of it, and more. There's always as much belowground as above.
That's the trouble with people, their root problem. Life runs alongside them, unseen. Right here, right next. Creating the soil. Cycling water. Trading in nutrients. Making weather.
Building atmosphere. Feeding and curing and sheltering more kinds of creatures than people know how to count.
A chorus of living wood sings to the woman: If your mind were only a slightly greener thing, we'd drown you in meaning.
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Kira @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Murals at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church in Germantown, Philadelphia

Murals at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church in Germantown, Philadelphia: the third fall of Jesus Christ. Jesus has dark brown skin and box braids. Crowd of watchers wear modern colorful suits and have brown skin. Roman is white bending over and pointing at Jesus is white

Murals at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church in Germantown, Philadelphia. Dramatic hyper real paintings of angels on ceiling

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Kira @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

So many emotions after Mbappé’s incredible goals at the France v. Iraq game, but most immediately, gratitude at taking off my wet shoes after 5 hours of this

Fan holds Iraq flag under drenching rain at Philadelphia World Cup game France. vs. Iraq

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Kira @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

It’s so wild my first ever pro soccer ticket was for a World Cup game. Philly is straight up magical rn 😭😭😭

Ecuador v. Côte d’Ivoire photo of fan with Brazil flag dyed into hair

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Kira @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Iguana checking in 🫡

Juvenile iguana sunbaths on red floor in Costa Rica

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Kira @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The beautiful time of year in Philly after winter desperation, before summer mosquito swarm

Bright yellow hibiscus with pink centers

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Kira @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Cheeky novella about a boy growing up in a Javanese village who begins to aimlessly rebel against his religious father after getting circumcised.

The Dog Meows, the Cat Barks
A Novel by
Eka Kurniawan

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Kira @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Art Book club at etc. etc. books in South Philly every third Thursday evening

Four white people sit around a table with stacks of books around at etc. etc. books in South Philly

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Kira @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Picked up Curating Engagement, a critical anthology on curatorial practice, public engagement, and the civic role of cultural institutions Free ebook at publictrust.org/curating-eng...

Cover of Curating Engagement.

Edited by Aaron Levy, Abigail Satinsky, and Daniel Tucker
With Alliyah Allen, Phoebe Bachman, Rob Blackson, Kristin Fleischmann Brewer, James Claiborne, Joyce Chung, Ryan N. Dennis, Lisa Dent, De'Wayne Drummond, Vashti DuBois, Ruth Erickson, Ryan Strand Greenberg, Pablo Helguera, Maori Karmael Holmes, Miranda Kyle, Charles Lomax, Audrey N.
Lopez, Faheem Majeed, Marina McDougall, Monica
O. Montgomery, Julian Moore-Griffin, Nicole Pollard, José Ortiz-Pagán, Jameson Paige, Umika Pathak, Aislinn Pentecost-Farren, Emilio Martinez Poppe, Risa Puleo, Damon Reaves, Prerana Reddy, Jerome Reyes, Imani Roach, Christopher R. Rogers, Carol Stakenas, Marissa Del Toro, Ashley Tyner, Megan Voeller, Brittany Webb, Rachel Wenrick, Linnea West, Risë Wilson, Sue Bell Yank, and Lu Zhang
Public Trust and
Wagner Foundation

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Kira @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The queue is outrageous at this point but I can’t help myself www.ndbooks.com/book/the-dog...

A novel by Eka Kurniawan titled “ the dog meows, the cat barks” held above violas and pansies

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Kira @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I need to collect my thoughts and read the think pieces and angered reviews about this fascinatingly boring book by a man who is obnoxious in a way that is hard to put my finger on. It was important to Mr. Pirsig for the world to know that the strangers who killed his son were black:

is the sense in which it is a culture-bearer.
The receding Ancient Greek perspective of the past ten years has a very dark side: Chris is dead.
He was murdered. At about 8:00 P.M. on Saturday, November 17, 1979, in San Francisco, he left the Zen Center, where he was a student, to visit a friend's house a block away on Haight Street.
According to witnesses, a car stopped on the street beside him and two men, black, jumped out. One came from behind him so that Chris couldn't escape, and grabbed his arms. The one in front of him

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Kira @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I have this permanent sign in my home library and my pet sitter was texting me about kabuki. Tricking everyone I know into getting into my special interests 😈

Sign in library nook says “feel free to peruse books. (let me know if you want to borrow one!)

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Kira @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Head House books latest picks

Books on display at head house bookstore in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Books on display at head house bookstore in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, including Inland, a novel by Téa Obreht

Books on display at head house bookstore in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, including the boook Rethinking American Art: Collectors, Critics, and the Changing Canon, by Theodore E. Stebbins Jr.

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Kira @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Antique book shaped locket

Antique book shaped locket open to feature two daguerreotypes

Antique book shaped locket with embossed spine

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Kira @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Kitten sitting Smoky, who sometimes reminds me of Statler, the Jim Henson grumpy old man character

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Kira @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

My routine: law, ferret pampering, soccer, books, gym, dance, repeat

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Kira @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Scenes from the new pricey, very small Calder Gardens exhibition space on JFK in Philadelphia. Vibes based curation - not organized by a theme or story. Pieces are arranged to be aesthetically pleasing

Monumental red sculpture in modernist Calder Gardens interior exhibition space

Calder Gardens interior outdoor exhibition space features a monumental sculpture with four triangular legs and a mobile on top that balances red and black rounded shapes

modernist Calder Gardens interior exhibition space features delicate mobile visible though glass peephole through rough textured walls

Geometric lined painting by Alexander Calder on light wood wall from Calder Gardens

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Kira @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I popped over the fence to say hi and ended up having homemade Turkish food for tea time 🍵!!

A plate with Turkish cookies, lokum (Turkish Delight), dry baklava, and Turkish bread with buffalo milk curd

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Kira @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

From The People’s Project curated by Saeed Jones and Maggie Smith

PERFORMANCE SCORES FOR THE ENDINGS AND BEGINNINGS OF WORLDS
by Sam Sax
after Yoko Ono

Score for Formula Shortages

take a brick from the construction site of a new condominium
toss it through the window of a pharmacy overcharging mothers
record the sound of shattering glass record the sirens

Score for Private Golf Courses

go at night and plant corn be prepared to protect your crop until harvest

Score for the Coming Storms

Leave your buckets open to heaven collect what falls & give it back

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Kira @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

cute paintings outside of Keystone Bicycle Co.

Large painting of trees and ferns outside of a marsh or lake by the moonlight

Painting of a city near a river, likely Philadelphia

Rough painting of Blue Jays on a tree. Below the painting are bicycles, and next to the painting are teal-colored lockers.

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Kira @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Just over here finishing the nine volume cyberpunk classic, Battle Angel Alita

Cyborg fighter battle Angel Alita has mechanized legs, a huge gun, and bug-like mechanical wings

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Kira @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Ariel Posh at blah blah gallery

Blue colored pencil drawing by Ariel Posh of person contorting to shave thigh in angular position

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Kira @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Old man chip, full of grays at 7 #ferretsky

Sable ferret on carpet with green feather on
Nose

Ferret licks his nose while standing on milk crate

Sable and blaze ferret rest together in hardshell carrier

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Kira @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

This cursèd author is unfortunately getting me through my cursèd sleep cycle

Plate of potatoes and sunny side up eggs with coffee next to the book The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. Book features stone grave in front of field of blue

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Kira @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Scales and Tails ferret rescue visit 🦦🦦 www.petfinder.com/member/us/nj... #ferretsky

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Kira @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

This blaze pattern is associated with deafness, which Alvi is not. I suspect they’re hard of hearing though because they often roll onto their back to get a 360° view #ferretsky #フェレット

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Kira @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

One of my favorite excerpts, though I also love the surreal bits at the end

feminism. If we don't indulge your wallowing, we're being callous and, like, complicit with some diabolical global conspiracy that's keeping you from getting pussy. But if we do, then we're 'disingenuous' because none of us will fuck you ourselves. Right? Am I right, ladies? Hands up, who agrees?"

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Kira @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

This month’s Thesentür: Criticism on the Corner Project installation by artist Theodore A. Harris streetsdept.com/2025/11/05/t... theodoreharris.weebly.com

On the side of a corner store in South Philly - a print with red text: "The worst thing in the world is a skilled artist with backwards ideas." Black text at bottom: “After Amiri Baraka (Thesentür: Conscientious Objector to Formalism series), 2000”. above the figures from Rembrandt's 1662 painting The Syndics (The Sampling Officials of the Amsterdam Drapers' Guild) who look at the viewer.
Sign below says: Mural Arts Philadelphia
Thesentür: Criticism on the Corner Project
Artist: Theodore A. Harris

Thesentür: Conscientious Objector to Formalism is a series of minimal image- and quotation-based works that uses poetry to confront mainstream art criticism and art history, to look beneath the surface politics of aesthetics and formalism in a presentation of art that is not self-referential or to put a Black face on the art history of imperialism. Formalism functions as the cosmetics of art criticism like aluminum siding on a slumlord's property. It is an attempt to disguise what is crumbling beneath the surface politics of its proselytizing church bells, ringing, in the megachurch / museums and galleries where there are more Black bodies guarding the white cube than exhibiting in it. What marginalized artists know is that canon formation is a battlefield and critical art is the weapon! In the crossed out words of Basquiat to repel ghosts ...
FUNDERS: City of Philadelphia
PARTNERS: Morris Market
SPECIAL THANKS: Phil Asbury, Jenny Donnelly Johnson, Jane Golden, Tom Holt, Simon Shankweiler, & David Shek
PROJECT MANAGER: Donnell Powell
2025 City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program / Theodore A. Harris

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Kira @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Loved this Lily James Brown painting at Yowie

Oil painting of a girl facing the camera, smoking a cigarette above the rack of clothing at Yowie boutique hotel shop on South Street Philadelphia

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Kira @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Hosted a low key stir fry dinner + craft night

Collage by Kira Lum of drawings of a bird with hair in a bun, a dog with one brown foot, a snake, and a seahorse cut out of their green paper and layered on rings of paper with Chinese script against a red origami paper background

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Kira @lumpyplum.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I really hope I can get my ferret to bond with this ferret from the rescue that looks like an opossum #ferretsky #フェレット

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