@jinglecat.bsky.social Nancy. Will follow me on Bluesky?

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

@tinyobscurae.bsky.social hi

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!

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

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 👇

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

Create.

Village. It takes a village.

📷 Yamamoto Masao, 山本昌男 Mount Fuji, 1978

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.

Quick lesson in Physics. 🤣

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

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

Dinner is served.

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

Maryam Lamei Harvani (Iran) : Redemption, n.d. Acrylic & watercolor on cardboard 97x 67 cm More info in the alt text 👇

Extraordinary chess design, 1923

Fish Life Chess Board, Max Esser, 1923

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. 🧵

days 1-3 of #birbfest2026

Edward Gorey (American,1925-2000) : Christmas cards

Just some of the many, many musicians we lost in 2025. 😢 All named in the alt texts 👇

“We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget.” Sarah Bernhardt.

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

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

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

Girl with Tulip by Victoria Francisco

Without the figs it’s just a Newton. *

I had that dream again *

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pervushovisaurus and Baculites friends

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

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

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

Mt. Hood at sunset Monday. December 29. 🩷💙

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

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.

Don’t tell my fortune, my tea leaves when the bag burst. Don’t read my palm, paint splattered life line. I will walk into the room without the light on & invariably bump into something but you don’t have to tell me. Sometimes I find things better if I stumble in the dark… #thingstowriteabout