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Wil Eelsing
@wileelsing.bsky.social
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Dutch. History, lit, art and animal lover, especially cats.
Not particularly woke, just a decent upbringing which apparently is the same as woke.
This is my DetoX space.
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Awesome tattoo!
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November 4, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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“I brought a couple of friends, I hope that’s cool.”
A man stands inside a dimly lit cabin looking out through an open door where numerous walruses are gathered.
November 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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October 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Award-Winning Photographers Describe Emotional Toll of Documenting ICE Arrests
Award-winning photographers documenting immigration arrests in New York City have witnessed far-flung strife and conflict, but nothing quite like this. [Read More]
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November 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842), French portrait painter. Her subjects included Marie Antoinette and she enjoyed the patronage of European aristocrats, actors, and writers, and was elected to art academies in ten cities #WomensArt
Painting featuring the head and shoulders of a white woman facing right looking outwards, wearing a scarf like hat and scarf on her neck
November 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Sophie Ryder (born 1963), UK sculptor known for her large-scale work often reflecting mysical or hybrid creatures #WomensArt
Photo of a large scale sculpture resembling a half human half rabbit sitting figure in a field under a stormy sky
November 11, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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'A Zeppelin Raid, 8 October 1915', Camden by John Fraser

(National Maritime Museum)
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut.

Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!

2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...

#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
The image shows detail from a floor mosaic of a brown mouse on a pale background facing left with its nose close to half a walnut in its shell. The mouse has a long thin tail stretched out behind. The mosaicist has used a mix of lighter and darker brown tiles for the mouse’s body to hint at fur. The walnut is created with warmer light and dark brown tiles. Slightly darker background tiles have been used beneath the mouse and walnut to create subtle shadows
November 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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I totally agree
Illustration of Snoopy sitting cross-legged in a meditative pose wearing a blue patterned hoodie. The text beside him reads, “Inner peace begins with four words: not my fucking problem."
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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For #MosaicMonday a charming duck.
Found in Trier, dating 4th century AD

📷 me

On display at Museum am Dom, Trier

🏺 #archaeology
A mosaic depicting a duck
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Like a time capsule: a #Roman tile marked with #finger lines, hobnail #shoe prints, #dog's paw prints, and a #stamp of the LEG(io) XIIII G(emina). Tiles with imprints are very common, since tiles were laid out to dry in the open air ahead of firing, where...🧵1/2

#TilesOnTuesday 🏺
A tile with well-preserved surface impressions: three distinct outline of shoes with hobnail patterns in the center, a animal paw prints nearby, and a rectangular maker's stamp with worn lettering and an imprint of a foot. And finger lines. The tile surface shows additional small impressions and chips.
November 11, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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I love photos like this. There’s nothing going on, really, someone just saw her and said “Oh she's SO PRETTY. I have to take a picture.” From my collection, 1959.
Black and white photo of a beautiful shorthaired tabby cat, my guess is ginger, sitting up on a box or bench or something in front of a white oven.
November 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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An absolutely stunning large situla, finely decorated with hunting scenes, has been discovered in the thermopolium of Regio V in Pompeii.

📷 Archaelogical Park of Pompeii
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November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Op 11 november 1918 eindigde de Eerste Wereldoorlog. In Den Haag zijn de hele oorlog duizenden Belgische vluchtelingen opgevangen. Een deel van de vluchtelingen is opgevangen in het Belgische vluchtelingenkamp aan de Westduinweg ‘Petite Belgique’ bij Scheveningen.
Foto's Haags Gemeentearchief
November 11, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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11 november 1918, Wapenstilstandsdag. Op het Brits Ereveld van de Algemene Begraafplaats aan de Kerkhoflaan in Den Haag zijn de graven van 22 zeelieden en marinemannen die in de Eerste Wereldoorlog zijn omgekomen. Acht van de graven dragen geen naam.
November 11, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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11 november, Sint Maarten.
Gevelsteen aan de Dunne Bierkade 14 in Den Haag. 'dat wij hier met lichtjes lopen is voor ons geen schande hier woont een rijke man die ons wel wat geven kan geef mij een appel of een peer dan kom ik het hele jaar niet weer'.
November 11, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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November 11, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Billboard poster. The Border is made of flags from different countries. Text in centre reads: We did not come to Britain. Britain came to us.
November 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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The Dutch province of Limburg plans to urgently petition the U.S. ambassador to The Netherlands to reinstate information panels honoring black soldiers at the American WW2 cemetery in the Dutch town of Margraten, following their recent removal by the American administrator,...
November 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM