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Esmi 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@esmi.bsky.social
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Retired ex-science type. Pottering around with no real idea of what she’s doing here.

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Esmi 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @esmi.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Let me try…
Historical reconstruction of late Bronze Age (eg Helen of Troy) 
dress & makeup
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Esmi 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @esmi.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
That’s rather late in the Greek Bronze Age (3200-1000 BCE) for a *mythological* Age of Heroes. But on that basis, I can only assume that this is closer to an accurate Helen of Troy, yes? Mind you, the bare breasts might be an issue in filmmaking. Ditto the extremely narrowed waists.
Head & shoulders image of a young woman with long plaited dark hair. Her face is covered in a white paint/powder (originally  white lead) with sun-like images painted in bright red on both cheeks, forehead & chin. Her headband is red & her necklace seems to be if brightly coloured beads.
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Esmi 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @esmi.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Tram tracks through a forest in Kyiv, Ukraine in Autumn. All the leaves left on the trees are a brilliant orange.
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Esmi 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @esmi.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
I live in the middle of a large city.
4 bronze statues depicted walking towards the River Mersey. There are 2 large cream buildings in the background - 1 of which is rather famous.
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Esmi 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @esmi.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
imgs.xkcd.com/comics/duty_...
A (stick) person is sitting at a computer typing angrily.

A voice offscreen asks: Are you coming to bed?
Person: No. I can’t. This is important.
Offscreen: What?
Person: Someone is WRONG on the internet.
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Esmi 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @esmi.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
And immediately below your post in my feed was…
Tom Cox: I will sleep soon unless plugged into a power outlet
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Esmi 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @esmi.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
That’s why it drives me nuts that in every Tudor drama, Katherine of Aragon is played by someone with olive skin & black hair (stereotypically Spanish). Katherine was a strawberry blonde
Portrait of a young Katherine of Aragon wearing a headdress that shows her strawberry blonde hair quite clearly.
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Esmi 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @esmi.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
And, for those who might be intrigued by references to the headline image being only part of an infamous portrait… Eye bleach on standby…
Portrait of a man & woman, with one arm around each other looking forwards. He is wearing a tuxedo & bow tie. She is wearing a black dress which is opened just below the ribs to frame a VERY pregnant stomach.
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Esmi 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @esmi.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
A movie that takes place where you are from
Movie poster of the film The 51st State
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Esmi 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @esmi.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
That’s so unfair to birds. I think they’re more like Skeksis
A Skeksis from "The Dark Crystal". It has a skeletal vulture-like head and claw-like blue hands.  It is wearing bone-like armour on its upper torso with long, curved horns on the shoulder over a red-lined blue robe that looks old & possibly frayed. It is holding a large axe in its left claw with a number of other possible weapons hanging from a belt around its waist.
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Esmi 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @esmi.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Screenshot from Howl’s Moving Castle
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Esmi 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @esmi.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Books arrived safely. So that’s my summer reading sorted, thanks to @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
Two hardback books by Tom Cox. The cover of the book on the left (“1983”) is primarily blue with black horizontal & vertical lines creating the effect of a stone wall with black line drawings of common objects. The cover of the book on the left (“Villager”)  is primarily green with a hill in the centre & a road winding upwards. There’s a small group of houses huddled at the base of the hill.
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Esmi 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @esmi.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
They say Terry Pratchett had a quote for every occasion. That's not a premise that I’ve personally tested but he definitely had one for this…
Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered it one of her strong points. Genuine anger was one of the world's greatest creative forces. But you had to learn how to control it. That didn't mean you let it trickle away. it meant you dammed it, carefully, let it develop a working head, let it drown whole valleys of the mind and then, just when the whole structure was about to collapse, opened a tiny pipeline at the base and let the iron-hard stream of wrath power the turbines of revenge.
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Esmi 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @esmi.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Samuel L Jackson, Robert Carlyle & Paul Barber
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Esmi 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @esmi.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The bright red character Anger from the film "Inside Out" with flames pouring out of his head
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Esmi 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @esmi.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
There cannot be peace until the children are returned.
"Russia has kidnapped tens of thousands of Ukrainian children. Putin was indicted for this crime. Yale has a unit searching for them. Musk eliminated the funding!"
Timothy Snyder: Yale University Historian

LET THAT SINK IN!
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Esmi 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @esmi.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
"Tetanus Following Gunshot Wounds," 1809. By the surgeon and artist Sir Charles Bell, the painting depicts a soldier suffering from tetanus.
Painting shows a prone, naked, adult male - back arched off the floor. He is balanced on his head & heels as his feet bend downwards & even his toes are curled. Both arms are bent & both hands form fists. His facial muscles are also locked in spasm with his lips pulled back revealing his teeth in the typical rictus "grin" that gave tetanus its nickname: lockjaw.
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Esmi 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @esmi.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Sustastic Effects Bioyarn Yarn made from brown algae, dyed using natural pigments. Can’t wait for this to get to the stage where I can try it out! www.instructables.com/Sustastic-Eff…
Small alginate, dyed, yarn samples. Colours include yellow, red, brown, purple, teal, green, blue and black.
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