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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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Wil Eelsing @wileelsing.bsky.social · Sep 4
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November 14, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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November 14, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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November 14, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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I am reading Dante's Inferno, and I'm going deeper and deeper through all the gruesome and terrible levels of Hell, but I still haven't hit the real worst part yet: the Comment Section.
November 13, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Safety inspector: I found two major issues with your Death Star. For one thing, there are no railings.

Grand Moff Tarkin: We believe railings would detract from the austerity of our bottomless chasms.

Safety inspector: That brings us to my second issue.
November 12, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Photographer Uses Science to Explain Why Humans Think Cats Are Cute
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Photographer Uses Science to Explain Why Humans Think Cats Are Cute
Animal photographer Tim Flach partnered with two different scientists to figure out why humans think cats are so cute.
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November 14, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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'Three black cats' by Maud Lewis (1903-1970), Canadian folk artist #WomensArt #FridayFeeling
Painting of three sitting black cats facing forwards in a row, one larger than the others, created in a naive or simple child-like style, the sits sit in a green garden with tulip flowers and under branches full of blossom
November 14, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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'The Pool of London during Dockland Air Raids, 1940' by Charles Pears

(Guildhall Art Gallery)
November 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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I just leave this for #PhallusThursday: A Roman oil lamp featuring an inscription and a phallus.
The inscription reads "ne atigas non sum tua marci sum" (don't touch me! I'm not yours; I belong to Marcus').

From the Esquiline necropolis in Rome, 2nd century BC

📷 me (Musei Capitolini)

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A black slipped pottery oil lamp with a rounded body and a small spout, displayed on a circular transparent stand. It features an inscription along its sides and an engraved phallus the top.
November 13, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Nothing has changed - #Egyptian flip flops 😃: a pair of sandals made of woven reed and palm leaves. Dating around 1000 BC. It has been remarkably preserved because of Egypt's arid desert climate.

On display at National Museum Copenhagen.

📷 me

🏺 me
The picture shows a completely preserved pair of Egyptian sandals, they resemble modern flip flops. They are made of woven reed and palm leaves, the sole with bound edges.
November 14, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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Hazard containment. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
Black and white photo of a toddler in a play pen that has been set up outside on a lawn. The child looks grumpily toward the camera while a serious looking shorthaired tabby, ginger I think, passes in the foreground.
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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15 november 1804, sterfdag van schrijfster Aagje (Agatha Pieters) Deken (Nes aan de Amstel 1741-Den Haag 1804). Zij publiceerde samen met haar vriendin Betje Wolff.
Na het neerslaan van de opstand van de patriotten in 1787 verhuisden Wolff en Deken in 1788 naar Frankrijk. 1)
November 14, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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Adorable cat netsuke with eyes closed and an expression of contentment!

Purrfect! 😻

Circa 1820-1840, Edo period, Japan,

📷 © The Trustees of the British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
This British Museum image shows a Japanese netsuke (toggle) carved from ivory in the shape of a cat wearing a collar. The cat’s body is rounded and compact. It is curled up with its legs tucked beneath it, and its tail wrapping around the back of its body. Its eyes are closed, and the face has a contented expression. The fur is intricately carved to show texture. The face paws and collar are lighter in colour contrasting with the darker fur of the body.
November 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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On everything that matters, Trump has failed you.
November 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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NPR reported this morning that, based on their review of the #Epstein emails released yesterday, Trump’s name appeared more than 1,000 times in the document—

"I have met some very bad people, none as bad as #Trump. Not one decent cell in his body." - Jeffrey Epstein
A black-and-white photo of Trump & Epstein in suits standing close together at what appears to be a party, with Trump holding two children in front of him while the Epstein holds a drink.
November 13, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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crazy

IG em_clarkson
November 14, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Post an image that will always make you laugh
November 14, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
November 13,1946
NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1- NANCY IS RUNNING A HOME FOR STRAY CATS IN THE YARD NANCY: GOOD. NIGHT, KITTIES - I'LL SEE YOU IN THE MORNING P2- NANCY HAS GONE TO BED, BUT SHE IS CONCERNED ABOUT THE CATS OUTSIDE IN THE YARD NANCY: HOPE THEY WON'T BE LONESOME OUT THERE TONIGHT P3- NANCY HAS LEFT HER BEDROOM WINDOW OPEN,SHE IS SOUND ASLEEP THE CATS, SEEING THE OPEN WINDOW HAVE COME IN AND GOT ON NANCY’S BED, NANCY HAS OVER A DOZEN CATS SLEEPING ON HER BED
November 13, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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atel, adj: dire, terrible. (AH-tell / ˈa-tɛl)
Image: Bestiary from a didactic miscellany; England, 1220-1240; @theul.bsky.social Kk.4.25, f. 67v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
Medieval manuscript illustration of a salmon-coloured griffin grasping a man’s entire torso in its beak, gripping a leg with its forefeet; the man is bleeding a lot but appears to be alive.
November 8, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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You realize his guilt when the most litigious guy on the planet isn’t making lawsuit threats.
November 13, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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theguardian.com
‘I’d do it all again,’ says Dutch minister at heart of car chip standoff with China
‘I’d do it all again,’ says Dutch minister at heart of car chip standoff with China
Exclusive: Vincent Karremans says six-week row with Beijing that threatened global car production is ‘wake-up call’
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November 13, 2025 at 11:11 AM