Emma V. Gerstein

Illustration of an orange cartoon cat with white stomach, paws, muzzle, and tip of tail. He is wearing a shirt collar with a green bow tie. He is Thomas O’Malley the alley cat from the Disney movie The Aristocats. Full character name Abraham Delacey Giuseppe Casey Thomas O’Malley.

Paracelsus. I will say no more.

I am, among other things, the puppet czar

Salsa verde protein chips hit different in the cemetery

Cropped screenshot of an iMessage text bubble that reads “you don’t need drugs to have fun when you can do object inquiry”

Speaks for itself

Many such cases

They say unicorns bow to virgin maidens, but they don’t say what happens after they kneel. They don’t say what the horn is for. They say they are gentle, but only in the way a trap is gentle when it waits.

I am still haunted by this poem, "The Myth Was Never The Unicorn," written by one of the teens who participated in the creative writing program at the museum this summer. A reminder that girls are always aware.

Read the full piece and listen to the author recite it: journey75.org/2025/the-myt...

A digital graphic for the first stanza of a haiku suite called "Love is Icarus."

The Nook Farm Writers Collaborative students working on their craft inside the Mark Twain House in Hartford, CT.

The Nook Farm Writers Collaborative students working on their craft inside the Mark Twain House in Hartford, CT.

The Nook Farm Writers Collaborative students working on their craft inside the Mark Twain House in Hartford, CT.

From the first stanza of a haiku suite called "Love is Icarus" written in the mahogany suite of the Mark Twain House.

"Buzz of bees in air
Destined for sap of roses
Love in sight yet far"

🐝🌹

YouTube video by JillianEve Explaining TARIFFS with a Textile History Lesson

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I love environmental story telling (box from a fresh tube of fixodent left on the movie theatre bathroom counter)

Drag name: Mehitabel Methemoglobinemia and she’s just blue that’s her whole deal

Huzzah for spiral lacing!

I can never un-know that the flip top lid on Sweet Baby Ray’s barbecue sauce is called the LiquiFlapper ™ and now neither can you

Twitter post/pohoto from JK Rowling who sits on what looks like yacht, taking a puff of what looks like a cigar. She holds a cocktail close to her face and looks smug as fuck. Text on tweet: I love it when a plan comes together. #SupremeCourt #WomensRights.

Text on screen: our.moral.imperative British billionaire JK Rowling has posted several gloating tweets today after the UK Supreme Court ruled that only 'biological women' legally count as women, excluding trans women from legal protections and safeguards. Rowling's vicious smear campaign against trans people in Britain has been going on for several years now and has played a major role in cultivating the extremely hostile and toxic environment that exists in the country towards trans people, particularly in the name of liberal 'feminism'. @fight_for_a_future @rowllingofficial

You all need to treat Harry Potter IP like we’re treating the Tesla brand.

If I had a nickel for everytime I had to explain how the entertainment industry works and how artists exsist within it I would have a fuck ton of nickels. This isn't a joke I would just have like...a significantly large amount of nickels.

My colleague @sassmill.bsky.social is looking to talk to some other museums that do first person costumed interpretation—any suggestions for who she should reach out to? (We already do it, looking to revamp)

We have very precious problems at my job. Have you ever been caused grief by corduroy.

Thinking about Murray Bridge Bunyip rn

Save me Doechii tiny desk concert

I am NEVER stingy with the mustard. In fact, some might say I am indulgent with the mustard.

Screenshot of a green iMessage text that reads “Pippin is Jenny Schecter to me”

A million dollars to anyone other than @fugitteinepte.bsky.social that can properly suss out the context of this

When I successfully answer all of my emails I am more powerful than god… but more come

Absolutely tickled each time I get a voicemail consisting of 2 seconds of silence from a caller identified as Robert Frost. What is he trying to communicate from the great beyond, and why am I the one he’s chosen to reach out to? Why am I never at my desk to answer his call?

OHHH

Hey, so I just gave a lecture titled “A Healthy Disrespect for the Law” at UBC in Canada, and I’d be happy to do a virtual version for U.S. law schools, which are full of students that probably need to hear it.

This is where the traditional model of democracy and representation breaks down.
*Govt does something alarming
*Constituents respond
*Representatives ignore it because they have gone all in on the same conspiracy theories that the new people running govt are acting on

CT schools prepare guidelines for interactions with immigration officials Even with the guidelines in place at many schools across the state, immigrant advocates worry that by stoking fear in immigrant communities, children will be kept from going to school.

"We have been very explicit that if an agent does show up at the door that we are expecting to inquire about an actual warrant that is signed by a judge."

#NutmegSky

www.ctpublic.org/news/2025-01...

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