Emily Olsen
@emilyolsen.bsky.social
🚀 Cataloguer, Science at Sotheby’s
💫1/2 of the Art Astra Podcast
Nerd about space, art, and pop culture.
Opinions my own.
💫1/2 of the Art Astra Podcast
Nerd about space, art, and pop culture.
Opinions my own.
A friend shared that the family of one of her students was unlawfully taken by ICE. Please consider supporting and sharing the below campaign if you can!
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Donate to Help Reunite Veronica Lopez with Her Family, organized by guilmar jovin perez Lopez
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November 17, 2025 at 12:20 AM
A friend shared that the family of one of her students was unlawfully taken by ICE. Please consider supporting and sharing the below campaign if you can!
gofund.me/31ec718ec
gofund.me/31ec718ec
Something fun this weekend: my friend invited me to join her in a jigsaw puzzle competition and we completed a 500 piece puzzle in 1 hr and 10 mins!
www.instagram.com/reel/DRHovJV...
www.instagram.com/reel/DRHovJV...
Emily R. Olsen on Instagram: "Putting professional assembly skills to the test. 💪🧩
My friend Nathalia invited me to join her at the @dcpuzzlecompetition this month and we completed a 500 piece jigsaw...
The DC Puzzle Competition brought together puzzle enthusiasts to test their skills and have fun. Emily and her friend Natalia participated, completing a 500 piece puzzle in 1 hour and 30 minutes. The ...
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November 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Something fun this weekend: my friend invited me to join her in a jigsaw puzzle competition and we completed a 500 piece puzzle in 1 hr and 10 mins!
www.instagram.com/reel/DRHovJV...
www.instagram.com/reel/DRHovJV...
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The correct number of disposable people is zero.
November 15, 2025 at 12:36 AM
The correct number of disposable people is zero.
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IRIDESCENT CLOUD ON MARS
Iridescent clouds over Gale Crater (enhanced color) - From Simeon Schmauß (stim3on.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2qJvryP
November 15, 2025 at 9:05 PM
IRIDESCENT CLOUD ON MARS
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Alice was a friend, a mentor, and a guide to so many in the disability community, and especially in the realms of disability and technology and disabled-led design.
This one hurts bad, but some of her last words were "Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all."
Gonna try to hold that.
This one hurts bad, but some of her last words were "Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all."
Gonna try to hold that.
November 15, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Alice was a friend, a mentor, and a guide to so many in the disability community, and especially in the realms of disability and technology and disabled-led design.
This one hurts bad, but some of her last words were "Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all."
Gonna try to hold that.
This one hurts bad, but some of her last words were "Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all."
Gonna try to hold that.
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‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
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i am incredibly grateful for alice wong
November 15, 2025 at 7:44 AM
i am incredibly grateful for alice wong
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Just an incalculable loss from which we won’t soon recover.
Alice was the best of us and I hope we all do (or keep doing) the kind of good work that burnishes her memory.
Fuck ableism. “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”
Alice was the best of us and I hope we all do (or keep doing) the kind of good work that burnishes her memory.
Fuck ableism. “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
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November 15, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Just an incalculable loss from which we won’t soon recover.
Alice was the best of us and I hope we all do (or keep doing) the kind of good work that burnishes her memory.
Fuck ableism. “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”
Alice was the best of us and I hope we all do (or keep doing) the kind of good work that burnishes her memory.
Fuck ableism. “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”
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TIL that blood platelets have serotonin receptors, which is why anemia can mimic depression symptoms and that is absolutely fucking fascinating.
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
TIL that blood platelets have serotonin receptors, which is why anemia can mimic depression symptoms and that is absolutely fucking fascinating.
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Huh well it turns out I heard from a few federal workers about this and well
"We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."
"We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Huh well it turns out I heard from a few federal workers about this and well
"We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."
"We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."
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an old Kate Bush drawing from 2021
November 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
an old Kate Bush drawing from 2021
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3,900 Pages of Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Highlighting His Bauhaus Teachings (1921–1931)
3,900 Pages of Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Highlighting His Bauhaus Teachings (1921–1931)
Paul Klee led an artistic life that spanned the 19th and 20th centuries, but he kept his aesthetic sensibility tuned to the future.
www.openculture.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
3,900 Pages of Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Highlighting His Bauhaus Teachings (1921–1931)
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Cyborg-Technology Relations is now an *ongoing* topical collection with the Journal of Human-Technology Relations. Plan your academic writing accordingly. :D
journals.open.tudelft.nl/jhtr/catalog...
journals.open.tudelft.nl/jhtr/catalog...
Cyborg-Technology Relations
| Journal of Human-Technology Relations
journals.open.tudelft.nl
November 8, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Cyborg-Technology Relations is now an *ongoing* topical collection with the Journal of Human-Technology Relations. Plan your academic writing accordingly. :D
journals.open.tudelft.nl/jhtr/catalog...
journals.open.tudelft.nl/jhtr/catalog...
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The pope has signed on to the STS agenda.
November 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The pope has signed on to the STS agenda.
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"The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait
When the gales of November came slashin'
When afternoon came it was freezin' rain
In the face of a hurricane west wind."
50 years ago today...
#OnThisDay #MaritimeHistory
#EdmundFitzgerald #GordonLightfoot 🗃️⚓
(cc: @thelongestjohns.bsky.social)
When the gales of November came slashin'
When afternoon came it was freezin' rain
In the face of a hurricane west wind."
50 years ago today...
#OnThisDay #MaritimeHistory
#EdmundFitzgerald #GordonLightfoot 🗃️⚓
(cc: @thelongestjohns.bsky.social)
The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald | The Longest Johns
YouTube video by The Longest Johns
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait
When the gales of November came slashin'
When afternoon came it was freezin' rain
In the face of a hurricane west wind."
50 years ago today...
#OnThisDay #MaritimeHistory
#EdmundFitzgerald #GordonLightfoot 🗃️⚓
(cc: @thelongestjohns.bsky.social)
When the gales of November came slashin'
When afternoon came it was freezin' rain
In the face of a hurricane west wind."
50 years ago today...
#OnThisDay #MaritimeHistory
#EdmundFitzgerald #GordonLightfoot 🗃️⚓
(cc: @thelongestjohns.bsky.social)
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With SNAP/EBT cuts looming I highly recommend downloading this app! Basically restaurants and other food businesses will have available bags of random food they don’t wanna waste for ppl to buy for hella cheap! This has saved me sooooo many times when I only have $5 and need some food.
October 28, 2025 at 9:31 PM
With SNAP/EBT cuts looming I highly recommend downloading this app! Basically restaurants and other food businesses will have available bags of random food they don’t wanna waste for ppl to buy for hella cheap! This has saved me sooooo many times when I only have $5 and need some food.
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A way to set up a hybrid Zoom lecture that doesn't take 15 frantic minutes of changing various settings and resharing
Tech people think we want AI, robots, and a colony on Mars but what I actually want is a home printer that simply works.
November 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
A way to set up a hybrid Zoom lecture that doesn't take 15 frantic minutes of changing various settings and resharing
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My article on the likely influence of the experiments of polymath Thomas Young on the early abstract art of Hilma af Klint is now published & open access at Leonardo / MIT Press 🎉 direct.mit.edu/leon/article...
April 6, 2025 at 2:19 PM
My article on the likely influence of the experiments of polymath Thomas Young on the early abstract art of Hilma af Klint is now published & open access at Leonardo / MIT Press 🎉 direct.mit.edu/leon/article...
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This Friday, I'll be joining a Copyright Literacy webinar to talk about art, copyright and the public domain. 🌻
Join me, Ana Enriquez, Megan Eve Kilvington, Diane Crawford-Leighton and Sarah Brear online. Jane Secker and Chris Morrison will be our hosts.
copyrightliteracy.org/2025/11/10/w...
Join me, Ana Enriquez, Megan Eve Kilvington, Diane Crawford-Leighton and Sarah Brear online. Jane Secker and Chris Morrison will be our hosts.
copyrightliteracy.org/2025/11/10/w...
November 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
This Friday, I'll be joining a Copyright Literacy webinar to talk about art, copyright and the public domain. 🌻
Join me, Ana Enriquez, Megan Eve Kilvington, Diane Crawford-Leighton and Sarah Brear online. Jane Secker and Chris Morrison will be our hosts.
copyrightliteracy.org/2025/11/10/w...
Join me, Ana Enriquez, Megan Eve Kilvington, Diane Crawford-Leighton and Sarah Brear online. Jane Secker and Chris Morrison will be our hosts.
copyrightliteracy.org/2025/11/10/w...
Beyond proud of my American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) team at the New York #OutoftheDarkness walk. We raised over $1,000 for suicide prevention this year, smashing our fundraising goal for the second year in a row. THANK YOU everyone supporting us. 💙💙💙
November 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Beyond proud of my American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) team at the New York #OutoftheDarkness walk. We raised over $1,000 for suicide prevention this year, smashing our fundraising goal for the second year in a row. THANK YOU everyone supporting us. 💙💙💙
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Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.
HEAD'S UP FELLOW #CREATIVES!
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
Grammarly Rebrands Company as Superhuman, Introduces Superhuman Suite and Superhuman Go
Superhuman Platform delivers proactive, context-aware AI agents that work in the flow of work, wherever people work Grammarly today announced it is changing its company…
www.grammarly.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.
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NY-area sailors reportedly delighted.
Alerting all New Yorkers to go outside and look up
November 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM
NY-area sailors reportedly delighted.
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i love winding the clocks back an hour. you get an extra hour of sleep and the only downside is several months of horrible despair.
November 3, 2025 at 12:01 AM
i love winding the clocks back an hour. you get an extra hour of sleep and the only downside is several months of horrible despair.
In a conversation with a colleague, I was reminded of the 2008 “Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy” conference at the @metmuseum.org and that all of it is on YouTube. 😍
So excited to revisit it, 17 years and what feels like hundreds of superhero films and shows later.
So excited to revisit it, 17 years and what feels like hundreds of superhero films and shows later.
November 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
In a conversation with a colleague, I was reminded of the 2008 “Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy” conference at the @metmuseum.org and that all of it is on YouTube. 😍
So excited to revisit it, 17 years and what feels like hundreds of superhero films and shows later.
So excited to revisit it, 17 years and what feels like hundreds of superhero films and shows later.
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Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student
Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student
Fitzwilliam Museum has uncovered student’s work from 1977 that revealed Cambridgeshire location of child’s burial place
An A-level pupil found the lost grave of the Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano’s daughter, revealing a story of love and solidarity in 18th-century rural England.
Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797), also known as Gustavus Vassa, escaped enslavement to become a celebrated author and campaigner in Georgian England. His memoir, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, was a bestseller. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student