American Ephemera Archive online

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Reblog via John Overholt

The American Antiquarian Society has made scans of 40,000 pieces of American ephemera, previously only available through a subscription database, accessible for free through its catalog. pastispresent.org/2025/good-so

The interface leaves something to be desired – you can’t just flip through galleries, you have to find an item and request the scanned image – but there’s great stuff in here

Vincent van Gogh: Bank of the Oise at Auvers

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VIa Pomegranate, Vincent Van Gogh: Bank of the Oise at Auvers 1000 piece puzzle. The painting, which is dated 1890 (in the last year of Van Gogh’s life), can be seen in person at the Detroit Institute of Arts. There’s a short video about the painting from the DIA facebook page: https://fb.watch/wBhTrSFfie Van Gogh’s ‘Bank … Read more

Colorful Waterfront Buildings, Amsterdam

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Via RoseArt / Kodak Premium, Colorful Waterfront Buildings, Amsterdam – 1000 piece puzzle. I tend to alternate between the Pomegranate style art puzzles, with more muted colors and often more challenging patters, with these Kodak Premium style very colorful and detailed puzzles. There’s more fine detail you can use to place pieces, but still some … Read more

BlueSky, Fediverse, Bridges:

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Reblog via Doctor Popular

OMG, @bsky.brid.gy works!

I saw a Bluesky post in my Mastodon feed, so I replied from Mastodon, and that reply showed up on Mastodon AND Bluesky!!!

The post is boring, so I’m not going to link it, but I will encourage my Mastodon friends to enable cross platform sharing by opting in here brid.gy/mastodon/start

Thanks @snarfed.org for building this tool. I have a few friends on Bsky that I miss following, hopefully I can get them to opt-in.

Ok, so Ryan Barret (@snarfed), who built Bridgy, has also created Bridgy Fed, a bi-directional bridge between the Fediverse (Mastodon accounts and other instances following the ActivityPub protocol) and BlueSky (sites running BlueSky’s AT Protocol).

Bridgy Fed connects web sites, the fediverse, and Bluesky.  You can use it to make your profile on one visible in another, follow people, see their posts, and reply and like and repost them. Interactions work in both directions as much as possible

This means you can have things you post to a BlueSky account made visible to the Fediverse and things you post to the Fediverse available to BlueSky users. Importantly, not just viewable but reply-to-able.

So what’s a person to do?

I’ve got a Bluesky account already (@jeckman.bsky.social) and multiple instances of WordPress sites supporting ActivityPub (@jeckman@johneckman.com and @john). I’m already posting to my Bluesky account when I update either WordPress site and following people from the Fediverse from @jeckman@johneckman.com using the Friends plugin.

If you’re on Bluesky but not active in the fediverse, you can bridge that Bluesky account to the Fediverse by following @ap.brid.gy on BlueSky.

If you’re active on the Fediverse (on a Mastodon instance for example), you can bridge that to Bluesky by following @bsky.brid.gy from your Fediverse account.