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Emily O’Donnell @faelai.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

All Swifties appear to have become Pittsburghers today for how much they hate Cleveland (tbf I liked the other three songs a lot).

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Emily O’Donnell @faelai.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Okay so I chose Legend as my Tim Curry movie to watch obviously and I downloaded the Ridley Scott blu ray directors cut and it is a WILDLY different version from the one I remember as a kid and it’s actually an incredible film? Missed the Vangelis score but the movie actually made way more sense.

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Emily O’Donnell @faelai.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Hello Pittsburgh people specifically - does anyone need new headshots, branding/lifestyle photos, engagement and/or wedding photography, or even boudoir??? I’ve had literally one job this summer and I’m going a little stir crazy so I’m begging someone to hire me to take some pictures for them.

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Emily O’Donnell @faelai.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

On the day that my cat is scheduled to die I receive a piece of mail addressed to my father - who has been dead for 20 years, never lived at this address or in this city. It was junk mail but still I ask why? Why does the universe want me to exist in a perpetual state of grieving?

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Emily O’Donnell @faelai.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Last week I took one of my cats to the vet because she had lost some weight and was throwing up. I thought she might have a thyroid issue. Turned out to be lymphoma with an inoperable mass in her stomach and no treatment available and no clear timeline for how long she has left.

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Emily O’Donnell @faelai.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

In the wake of Glen Hansard’s death and all of the funeral footage I saw today, I decided to sit down and watch The Swell Season documentary that serves as an unofficial and bittersweet sequel to Once. And it makes me want to discuss something that I have seen some controversy about in recent weeks.

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Emily O’Donnell @faelai.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Photo Memorial: Glen Hansard Irish musician Glen Hansard died July 29, 2026 at the age of 56. He was the frontman for the bands The Frames and The Swell Season and a huge influence in my life.... emilyophoto.com/2026/07/30/photo-me…

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Photo Memorial: Glen Hansard

Irish musician Glen Hansard died July 29, 2026 at the age of 56. He was the frontman for the bands The Frames and The Swell Season and a huge influence in my life.

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Matt Patches @misterpatches.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

You know Glen Hansard was more than "the guy from Once" because Once is only a perfect movie because it's an enshrining testament to Glen Hansard

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Emily O’Donnell @faelai.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I am absolutely devastated by the news of Glen Hansard’s death. Long before Once, my sisters and I were huge fans of his band The Frames. He was possibly the defining male musician of my life. I loved him so much and this is a tragedy for music, for Ireland, for the world.

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Glen Hansard, Irish Musician and ‘Once’ Star Who Won Oscar for Best Song, Dies at 56

Glen Hansard, the Irish musician who starred in the film "Once" and won the Oscar for best song, died on Wednesday in a motorcycle crash. He was 56.

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Emily O’Donnell @faelai.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I’m sorry/not sorry I hopped on here and looked at my IRL friends list and started replying to posts from months ago because I just like to binge Bluesky all at once I guess.

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Emily O’Donnell @faelai.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Before I even clicked on this article I knew beyond a doubt that the majority of these would be Pagan religions and that all of them would be non-Abrahamic because they are so fucking predictable. Spent most of my life ridiculed for being a “witch” and it will never end.

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Emily O’Donnell @faelai.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I just did two series finales back to back with Outlander and Hacks and now I have a lot of complicated emotions about these very different shows ending at the same time.

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Emily O’Donnell @faelai.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I was just told by some random group of people that Jesus wants to be in an open relationship with me. I didn’t know Jesus was poly.

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Emily O’Donnell @faelai.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Not me spending a therapy session fretting about lack of work because I’m convinced that the constant devaluation of creative work means people are no longer willing to pay my rate only to get an email letting me know I lost a job I’ve been doing for years because they went with someone cheaper.

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Emily O’Donnell @faelai.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

In February I took a trip to California for my birthday, it was an important photo journey for me. These photos document my first trip to Yosemite where we saw Mirror Lake, El Capitan, and walked the Lower Yosemite Falls trail. Click the link below for more photos! emilyophoto.com/2026/04/07/t...

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Travel Photography: Yosemite National Park

In February I traveled to California for a birthday trip with my husband and a few friends. This was a trip I had been wanting to take for years, and of course it was also a photo journey for me as…

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

The idea that bright, wild color is something you outgrow is a damaging lie society tells us. This unspoken rule, that enjoying intense, clashing colors makes you childish, is pure bullshit. The depression palette trend has only gotten worse because it saves corpos money. We gotta end it.

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Emily O’Donnell @faelai.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Taking pictures at a conference about women in healthcare. Got asked if I was sick likely because I wasn’t wearing makeup and I usually do. Ironically last time I did one of these I was getting over being sick and slathered myself with makeup to hide it. No one suspected a thing. Welp.

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Emily O’Donnell @faelai.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Can’t believe they invited Ewan Mcgregor to the Oscars for a Moulin Rouge bit when he has never been nominated for an Academy Award. For shame.

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Emily O’Donnell @faelai.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

My favorite thing about Hamnet is that two famous Irish actors played these very British people better than any Brit could. Jessie Buckley ending her speech in Gaelic was perfect.

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Emily O’Donnell @faelai.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

There was never any doubt in my mind that Michael B. Jordan was the best actor last year. He is a true artist like everyone else involved in Sinners which is why it was the best film.

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Emily O’Donnell @faelai.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Hilarious that the Oscars pretends everyone has an equal chance to win and then only let the two real contenders actually perform for best song onstage.

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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 15/03/2026

Misty Copeland comes out of retirement to put Timothée Chalamet in his place during a live ‘Sinners’ performance at the #Oscars.

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Emily O’Donnell @faelai.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Time for me to randomly skeet about an awards show because I’m cackling at the ballet dancer in the Sinners musical performance who is definitely directly in front of Timmy Chals.

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Emily O’Donnell @faelai.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

One day you’re sitting on the floor with a guy from the local pizza place drinking beers, then you blink and it’s 15 years later and he is your husband and you’re eating duck in the home you both own wondering where the time went. Happy accidental first date anniversary @futurerobert.bsky.social

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Emily O’Donnell @faelai.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

It’s been negative degrees in Pittsburgh for two long. Happy to escape to California for a couple of weeks where the temperature is civilized.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I do not want America to be Great. I do not want Venezuela, Greenland, Alberta in particular, or Canada in general. I do not want anyone deported (no, not even the worst of the worst). I do not want a golden White House, a spacious ballroom, or a concrete Rose Garden. I want America to be better.

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Emily O’Donnell @faelai.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Travel Photography: Porto, Portugal Porto was the city I visited in Portugal over the summer, and had ample opportunity to explore the surrounding area for photos. Some of my favorites from the trip are in here, including a… emilyophoto.com/2026/01/23/travel-p…

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Emily O’Donnell @faelai.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Going directly from a Heated Rivalry rewatch into the final season of Queer Eye because all of the gay men on television are currently keeping me mentally stable.

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jello/kei @jellokei.myatproto.social · 22/01/2026

wdym the heated rivalry dudes are gonna be olympic torchbearers holy shit live laugh lgbtq

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Emily O’Donnell @faelai.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Why do I find Scott Hunter intensely monologuing so soothing.

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Emily O’Donnell @faelai.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Yesterday my doctor asked if I minded her using their AI assistant to take notes during our virtual meeting and I was like WHYYYY

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Emily O’Donnell @faelai.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

How many times is too many for my crown to pop out of my mouth when I’m just eating toast? Because I just had shoved back in my jaw for like the fifth time in a year.

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Anna Zand @annazand.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

I was not meant to be upset and paying attention to the news I was meant to sparkle in my queer bubble and feed people.

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Emily O’Donnell @faelai.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Sitting down to watch Wicked with a golden monkey in hand and thinking about how Victory really missed out on some flying monkey beer crossover.

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Emily O’Donnell @faelai.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Came to a show to see my favorite local band whom I would classify as singer/songwriter and/or folk punk but have to sit through a noise band and two metal bands to get to them. I am truly too old for this shit.

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Emily O’Donnell @faelai.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Watching the end of Stranger Things and realizing the show has been on long enough that we have nostalgia for the early days of the show itself is peak nostalgia imploding in upon itself like exotic matter through a wormhole.

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Emily O’Donnell @faelai.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

The snow postponed the one NYE party I was invited to so I guess I’m spending my New Year’s Eve just like I spent the rest of my year. Sitting in my house drinking and missing people who are gone. For Auld Lang Syne.

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Emily O’Donnell @faelai.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

I know that no one asked, but these are my top albums of 2025. 10. The Beths - Straight Line Was a Lie 9. Brandi Carlisle - Returning to Myself 8. Flock of Dimes - The Life You Save 7. Taylor Swift - The Life of a Showgirl 6. Gordi - Like Plasticine 5. Florist - Jellywish

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Emily O’Donnell @faelai.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

It’s like you tell your therapist one story about how your family forgot about you on vacation as a child and left you behind when going to the beach in a strange house and unfamiliar town so you had to figure out how to get there on your own and it just becomes your trauma origin story.

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Emily O’Donnell @faelai.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Travel Photography: Livraria Lello & Chapel of Souls in Porto No trip to Porto is complete without visiting two of the most famous places in the city. In one day we visited Livraria Lello which is known as "the world's most… emilyophoto.com/2025/12/19/livraria…

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Emily O’Donnell @faelai.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Travel Photography: Porto Art & Photo Museums On my last full day in Porto, I visited the two museums that were at the top of my list: Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art and the Portuguese Center for Photography. There were some… emilyophoto.com/2025/12/18/porto-ar…

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Emily O’Donnell @faelai.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Travel Photography: Bolsa Palace in Porto Of all the historical buildings in Porto, one of the most impressive is Bolsa Palace. Despite the name, this has never been the residence of any nobility. It is actually the home… emilyophoto.com/2025/12/17/travel-p…

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

🎄#GothicAdvent

Vintage Christmas postcard featuring two cheery, dancing fly agaric mushrooms in a snowy forest scene, with one holding a bouquet of roses and the other a glass of wine, next to a bottle of champagne. The text at the bottom reads "Herzlichen Weihnachtsgruß" in German ~ Warm Christmas Greetings.

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Emily O’Donnell @faelai.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Nothing makes me feel more justified in playing Clair Obscur on story mode than watching my husband struggle through redoing fights that interrupt the flow of an essential cutscene and pivotal story moment. Having to stop and leave to level up and come back at that moment ruins the flow.

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Emily O’Donnell @faelai.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Today is a feast day for me (spoiler alert: all pagan holidays are feast days that’s why we are the best) and I’ve spend the past 36 hours cooking which is not the same without the people who taught me how to cook like Alaina and Taylor. But I persist and try to make what I can from what they did.

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Emily O’Donnell @faelai.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

This year I’m grateful for the first time to the lengthy essay before a recipe on a baking blog because it proves to me that a human wrote this and it’s not AI slop. This was a real problem finding new recipes this year.

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