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All Europeans 🇪🇺

Thanks to @NatureMC (mastodon.online/@NatureMC/1141), we discovered Postcrossing, a nice online platform for sending and receiving postcards.

This platform was founded in 2005 in Portugal by Paulo Magalhaes 🇵🇹.

He loved receiving postcards and letters in his mailbox, but didn't know how to make it happen, so he created Postcrossing as a side project.

20 years later, more than 80 million real postcards have been sent through the platform! 😵

Postcrossing has more than 800.000 members from all over the world! 👏

It's free and incredibly simple to participate: you just need to subscribe, get a random address, send a postcard to this person and when they receive it, they must indicate that in the platform.

After that, your address will be randomly sent to someone else, and a few days later, you'll receive a surprise postcard in your mailbox!

So why not stop scrolling and go send a postcard of your city or country to someone, anywhere in the world? ✍️

postcrossing.com/

screenshot of Postcrossing main page
#europe#portugal#postcard
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"Tête á Tête on the 968th Floor of a Skyscraper," Moriz Jung, 1911.

Jung (1885-1915) was an Austrian artist, graphic designer, and caricaturist best known for his work with the Wiener Werkstätte, a Viennese art and design collective.

Noted for his satirical flair, he had quite a few illustrations published in various magazines, and also a lot of humorous postcards like this one, which pokes fun at the stylish fad for aviation.

I've written about the Wiener Werkstätte before; their output is fascinating and their work a forerunner of the Bauhaus and the Art Deco movement. Postcards were the lest pricy or luxurious of their output, but images like there were popular.

Jung's career, though prolific, was brief. He was conscripted into the Austro-Hungarian army in 1914, and was killed in action near the village of Łubne, in modern-day Poland, as part of the Carpathian Battle.

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

A satirical lithograph postcard from the Wiener Werkstätte. We have a city skyline at night. An aviator flying an early airplane is flying by a skyscraper, holding out a bouquet of flowers to a woman leaning from a window. The plane seems about to collide with the building, with the man leaning heedlessly over the propellor.
#Art#Lithograph#MorizJung
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Monique has Alzheimer's. 🧠
Monique was diagnosed over a decade ago.
Monique will be 82 on March 17. 🎂
Monique is not doing well.
Monique is my mom.
I love mom. ❤️

Spread the word! 🔃 :mastodon:

Monique has always loved receiving postcards.
Write her a postcard to this address 🇧🇪 :

Monique S.
Place de Luttre, 13
B-6238 Luttre
(Europe)

Monique thanks you!

A lady in her late sixties smiling #Alzheimer; she will be 82 on March 17, 2025. Her name is Monique. She is my mom. #TheLoveOfASon #Mom
#Alzheimer#Mom#Monique
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