Jacek Olender

@jacekolender.bsky.social

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Paintings conservator, heritage scientist, and philosopher. A/prof UiO. Local pub bore. Londoner at heart, though currently in exile. 🇪🇺 🇵🇱&🇬🇧❤️🇺🇦 Views mine alone, unless they are yours too. Then we can be friends. Vannevar Bush stan account. (He/him) ↙️↙️↙️

Bell curve meme, with the top and the bottom saying "nyc is the capital of the usa", while the middle says "Washington DC is the capital of the USA".
Pora na CSa.
Screenshot with a 500 error website.
Picture of the cover of the latest issue of The Picture Restorer, the journal of the British Association of Paintings Conservators-Restorers.
Excerpt from the ad reading: "...storage and WCs, offering excellent versatility for a variety of uses (subject to any necessary consents)."
The now-meme "would I be better off working in a factory" graph.
Street sign saying "Vibes gate".
I would be better off if I worked in a factory gralh, which at this point is a meme.
Epic handshake meme with three texts: -left arm: "Jacques Derrida" -right arm: "New Age Hippie Lefty Weirdos" -central handshake: "Words are Spells"
The "always has been astronaut meme" with no caption on the image.
Map of the travels of the itinerant courts of the HRE between 919 and 1519. Shows the black and white map of the HRE with an intelligible spiderweb of black lines overlaid on it.
Post from account with blacked out name because they disabled quotes and I don't need to drag them here: "You know, a President accusing a NYT reporter of committing treason just for asking a question is actually quite a big deal, and this bunch just standing there listening to it and doing nothing is not encouraging the public to think of journalism as a serious business or of words meaning anything. ‪Aaron Rupar‬ ‪@atrupar.com‬ · 49m Trump to NYT's David Sanger: "I had a total military victory. But the fake news, guys like you, write incorrectly. You're a fake guy. We had a total military victory. I actually think it's sort of treasonous what you write. You should be ashamed of yourself. I actually think it's treason."
Screenshot of Duolingo asking to translate "do you like feet?"
Screenshot of the article: What would you have to change if Section 230 were eliminated or significantly narrowed? Honestly, there's a high chance that it would bankrupt platforms like ours. They're not wildly profitable. If Section 230 is done away with, we have to [check] content that goes online to make sure we’re not liable. That means policing tens of millions of uploads per day. That would kill the business of a lot of photographers. Can you imagine—you just got married, and you’re waiting for your wedding photos for a week or two because they’re in some moderation queue? If we don’t have legal protections, and we get one nefarious customer—if something goes sideways—then I’m liable for that. I don't, and can't possibly know, whether every single photo is appropriate or legal, as it's uploaded.
Linkedin post screenshot: " Paulina Florjanowicz 2nd Director of National Institute for Museums 14h On this day, 16 years ago, a Polish military plane with Polish President Lech Kaczyński and his wife, Ryszard Kaczorowski, the last Polish President in exile and 93 other representatives of the Polish State onboard crashed in Smoleńsk, Russia, on their way to a rememberance ceremony of the 70th anniversary of the Katyń massacre - a series of mass executions of Poles carried out by the Soviet Russia between April and May 1940. Among those killed in the crash - the reasons of which still remain unclear - was Tomasz Merta, deputy Minister for Culture and National Heritage, responsible for heritage and museums. He was the best Boss you could imagine and his wisdom still guides us in our work. I am proud to have had the opportunity to work and learn from him. May he rest in peace! (Photo from the inauguration of European Heritage Days in Poland in 2008)."
Prehistoric eel from the post above that looks equally overwhelmed, terrified, and fascinated by the train wreck of this world.
Painting of Cardinal Richelieu at the siege of La Rochelle by Henri-Paul Motte
Koolaid man meme by @mtsw
Image of a blue VW Passat taking a curve on a Mediterranean road in the summer at golden hour.
Screenshot of one of the posts above.
Quote on the screenshot: "In an effort to change their fortunes, residents voted for Brexit nearly a decade ago. Since then, official data shows the area has become poorer still and last May, people decided to toss the political dice once more by voting Reform."
"I can excuse racism" meme from the show "Community".
First of all, I think we need to start with the main question: what’s American foreign policy for? In its most basic sense, it’s for promoting the security and prosperity of the American people. But progressives take it as an obligation to think through what it means to act in solidarity with others, to consider the effects of U.S. foreign policy on others as well. What does that mean in Ukraine? I think it’s simply right and responsible to acknowledge some of the steps the United States took to contribute to this situation. There’s been an ongoing discussion about some poor choices that were made, and what expanding NATO meant from Russia’s perspective. That’s not the total story. But there is a tendency to try and dismiss that, or to say that if you bring up NATO, you’re excusing what Putin is doing, which I think is completely wrong. Even U.S. officials like former Defense Secretary William J. Perry and current CIA Chief William J. Burns have said, in no uncertain terms, that this is something that really was problematic for Russia’s political leadership. That doesn’t mean that we take Putin at his word; even if we did, I think Putin has made it clear that he has a much broader set of grievances and a much more expansive set of goals about establishing a new Russian imperium.
Screenshot woth following quote: "I think it’s simply right and responsible to acknowledge some of the steps the United States took to contribute to this situation. There’s been an ongoing discussion about some poor choices that were made, and what expanding NATO meant from Russia’s perspective. That’s not the total story. But there is a tendency to try and dismiss that, or to say that if you bring up NATO, you’re excusing what Putin is doing, which I think is completely wrong. Even U.S. officials like former Defense Secretary William J. Perry and current CIA Chief William J. Burns have said, in no uncertain terms, that this is something that really was problematic for Russia’s political leadership. That doesn’t mean that we take Putin at his word; even if we did, I think Putin has made it clear that he has a much broader set of grievances and a much more expansive set of goals about establishing a new Russian imperium. There’s also the role the United States played in the 1990s in imposing the neoliberal shock therapy that basically auctioned off the Russian people’s resources, placed control in the hands of a small oligarchic elite, and helped set the stage for Putin’s rise—all because it served the geostrategic purposes of our own elites. We’ve seen similar things like this play out again and again, in Iran, in Iraq, in Chile, in various other countries and regions. Our political class wants to pretend it’s all ancient history, but it’s not, certainly not in the minds of the populations we’ve inflicted it on."
Screenshot of a Home Office tweet announcing that asylum seekers are banned from using taxis to go see a doctor.
A still from "Rosemary's Baby", with Rosemary looking terrified at the stroller woth her child.
Wikipedia screenshot rwading: "Feared and dreaded by the population and by the Roman Senate, the Praetorians received no sympathy from the Roman people. A famous poem by Juvenal recalls the nail left in his foot by the sandal of a Praetorian rushing by him. "Praetorian" has a pejorative sense in French, recalling the often troubling role of the Praetorian of antiquity."
Screenshot of an oxfam report page with publication date indicated as June 22, 2016.
Umbrella academy passing cars meme, no captions added.
Map of the us with NY and CA in green, IL in light green, and the rest in dark red. Colors indicate living preferences, with green yes/maybe and red no.
Yellow Volkswagen ID Buzzz in front of the golden gate bridge.
Quoted tweet, but the op quoted by nwylabour is blocked.
Antonia Bance's profile blocking me.
‪Antonia Bance MP‬ ‪@antoniabance.bsky.social‬ · 1h Half a lifetime ago, when I was a cabinet member on a local council pre 2010, the director of public health used to come and see me if there was *one* family in a B&B for more than an emergency weekend or so. Just the least safe and healthy place for children Reposted by Lizzi Collinge
Scooby-Doo unmasking scene, where the ghost-clad villain says: 'I would get away with this if it wasn't for these meddling kids', but the villain has pasted Matty's head on him,
They hated Jesus meme.
St Andrew's cross from the Herald's image with strangely curved arms tips, turning it into a half-swastika.
Logo of the awards in which tje arms of the Scottish St Andrew's cross start curving towards the ends resembling a swastika.
Sculpture of a roman Emperor Octavian with historically acurate, very colourful surface polychromy.
The "always has been" meme with no additional text.
Historic GDP per capita graph, 1990-2024, with Poland overtaking Hungary around the time of financial crisis where Orban took over.
Screenshot of an email from the ERC advertising their grant-searching app.
Image showing polish tv chef and food journalist Robert Makłowicz preparing food in front of large hot pool full of people. Caption says: "Next I'll fry the beef and add it to the Slovaks boiling in the large pot behind me".