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e. m. jensen
@etchlings.bsky.social
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he/him | illustrator-printmaker | books, cooking, coffee, tea, cats
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According to google’s top of the list AI summary earlier today, for the search term “louvre robbery”, reality is fiction. #theInternetIsBroken
November 19, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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@404media.co the sheer unreality of google’s AI summary for the basic search “louvre robbery” earlier today. I guess reality is fiction, now.
November 19, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Dental study heads are such a horror. #halloween
Aluminum, resin, and teeth dummy head for studying dentistry. The majority is a featureless silvery head, while below the nose, bare metal and plastic jaws gape open. These are filled with real extracted teeth to practice upon.
October 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Sunday: first visit to the Faire in years was a great success, and the rain drove off a good chunk of the crowd. Thank you, mysterious weather witches.

Our neighbor’s first visit, and unfortunately: immediate encounter with Creepy Baby Mime (she had a blast anyway). #renfest #MDRenFest
Renaissance Faire lane where a puppet man is dressed in gold, black and red, surrounded by an entire Venetian street built inside a gondola at his waist. His conical hat is extremely tall and skinny. Actor: Gabriel Quirk. Renaissance Faire fountain where a woman in a white cap, mantle and apron over a black dress holds up a handwritten wooden sign reading “the ALMIGHTY LOATHES” with “the RENFAIRE” on a slate hanging below. This Puritan-esque protestor will write various LOATHED items on the slate throughout the day.
October 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Maybe the finest* product video I’ve ever come across: for NUR button covers.

*for some definitions of
Orange fancy cat face in soft focus and poorly layered with images of flames and a touchscreen power button.
June 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Ah! I guess I have to do video posts from outside the iOS app? That’s weird.
April 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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April 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Clevelanded. Really wish video was doable here. The Band fuzzy robot installation needs video to be appreciated.
April 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Mmmhmm
Pink blossoms hang before the Tidal Basin in DC. MLK monument by the Tidal Basin in DC. Monolithic sculpture of King emerging from a block of stone. Blossoms and craggy cherry trunks in front of the water of the tidal basin in DC. Blossoms and the craggy trunks of cherries against the cloudless spring sky.
March 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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I’m no historian, and I’m sure he was wretched on many fronts, but godsdamn, the contrast with our current circumstances are stark.
Maquette of a sitting FDR and his Scottie dog Fala, with a full size bronze sculpture at his memorial in the background, on a sunny spring day in DC. It shows him in his wheelchair and leg braces as a result of Polio, draped in a large cape.
March 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Once in a century, *maybe* people will get the serendipity of empathy, fortuity, and blind luck of circumstance to end up with FDR and the New Deal. The erosion of basic empathy, it hits hard these days.
FDR monument plaque: “MEN AND NATURE MUST WORK HAND IN HAND. THE THROWING OUT OF BALANCE OF THE RESOURCES OF NATURE THROWS OUT OF BALANCE ALSO THE LIVES OF MEN” FDR monument plaque: “IN THESE DAYS OF DIFFICULTY, WE AMERICANS EVERYWHERE MUST AND SHALL CHOOSE THE PATH OF SOCIAL JUSTICE... THE PATH OF FAITH THE PATH OF HOPE, AND THE PATH OF LOVE TOWARD OUR FELLOW MAN” FDR monument plaque. “THE TEST OF OUR PROGRESS IS NOT WHETHER WE ADD MOR TO THE ABUNDANCE OF THOSE WHO HAVE MUCH, IT IS WHETHE WE PROVIDE ENOUGH FOR THOSE WHO HAVE TOO LITTLE” FDR monument plate: “WE MUST SCRUPULOUSLY GUARD THE CIVIL RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES OF ALL CITIZENS, WHATEVER THEIR BACKGROUND. WE MUST REMEMBER THAT ANY OPPRESSION, ANY INJUSTICE, ANY HATRED, IS A WEDGE DESIGNED TO ATTACK OUR CIVILIZATION”
March 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Sakura times in DC. #cherryBlossoms
March 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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If you see this, post a dragon(s)! #kidlitart #illustration #printmaking
Ghost boy, live boy, glowing pear, long orange dragon with white fur. Linocut print of dragon wrapped around a seamount.
March 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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February 28, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Some good stickers (and a flag!) came in the post today. #Maryland #LGBTQI
Maryland flag where the checks are rainbows and the crosses are a trans and an intersex palette.
February 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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This artist over on Reddit rockin’ relevant art. www.reddit.com/u/Negative_N...
A vintage-cartoon-styled anthropomorphic Molotov cocktail character with wick alight, strides across a Trans flag rondel. The banners across the image read “no gods, no masters and no fucking kings” in serifed capital tattoo style lettering.
February 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Or maybe
Triangular white sign with adult and child figures that have clay alien heads glued over the figures heads, and a ufo stenciled on the top.
February 16, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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What’s your sign?
Homemade sign with a crossed out phone saying “no cell phones” and a post-it note reading “no patriarchy” below.
February 16, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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I apparently don’t really do red overall palettes? This has some reds, tho.
February 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Update on that snow.
Small hole in tree roots, surrounded by snow. A snow banked creek. A snow covered forest split by a dark creek
February 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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New #snow just dropped.
Snegurochka Some snowy stuff on a wood deck.
February 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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We’re all donating our cats fee adorbility as a moment of peace in this wretched world.
The dilute grey tortie cat sprawls across the begrudging flame point because it’s cold and she will not be denied cuddles. A handsome white cat with orange points poses for headshots against a striped red rug. He has a long fringe (that is a feather on his head).
February 3, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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February 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Ice and shadow
Crackled, frosty surface of a frozen creek. Frozen, greenish white creek with a metal footbridge in the background Cast tree shadows across a frozen creek bed Mottled and rippled ice on a flat surface.
January 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Some #Dragon Appreciation Day.
Watercolor of a long dragon with white fur and orange skin wound amongst trees, as a young boy and his ghost cradle a glowing pear. Sketchy pink and green dragon with wild yellow eyes. Linocut of a dragon wrapped around the peak of a stony island.
January 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM