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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. No DMs.

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Wil Eelsing @wileelsing.bsky.social · 9h
Wondering why my US visa is taking so long.
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7. That's my resting meh face.
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 21h
No thanks, I’ll stay right hur.
Yellow “DRIVE THUR” and arrow painted on the ground.
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Formal wear al fresco. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
Black-and-white photo of a short haired, black tuxedo cat lying on its side on a lawn.
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Daily Manul (Unofficial) @manul.day · 02/03/2026
>mfw I have to pay $5 to read one tweet a day
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 13h
Mary Quant (1930-2023), British fashion designer and fashion icon who was pivotal the 1960s London-based Mod and youth fashion movements #WomensArt
Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman wearing a white mini dress with black diamonds in a vertical stripe, with short dark bob hairstyle and both hands up
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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 9h
'The Rennie Estate', Bermondsey by Louise Hayward www.re-printmakers.com/artists/79-louise-hayward-re/biography/
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Fishing some 5,300 years ago: a Neolithic fishhook made of a wild boar tusk, wrapped with a fishing line. The size of the fishhook is 6.5 cm. It was used to catch pikes. Found in the lake-dwelling settlement of Arbon Bleiche 3, Switzerland. On display at Archäologisches Museum Frauenfeld 📷me 🏺
The picture shows a fishhook made of wild boar tusk. Only the curved, pointed end and the upper part are visible. The rest is wrapped in fishing line. The fishing line is made of twisted bast.
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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#GlassObjectThursday 🏺 Delicate #Roman blown glass flask with polychrome snake-thread decoration. 3rd C AD. Made in Rhineland, Cologne area. In British Museum
Translucent glass vase with fine rounded body, and remains of small foot. An elegant narrow neck bows out slightly at the top, and is flanked by delicate handles either side, together forming a heart shape. The body is decorated with gold and light blue coloured threads of glass, in irregular swirly patterns
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Good Morning Peeps ✌🏽 💙 Things that make you go FUCK YOU REPUKES 🖕🏼
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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., plans to introduce three bills Thursday to block the Trump administration from scrapping plans to name an aircraft carrier in honor of a Black war hero and instead naming it after President Donald Trump." www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
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New legislation aims to block renaming aircraft carrier after Trump
Sen. Cory Booker is introducing three bills to try to stop the Trump administration’s plan for the aircraft carrier, which was originally set to be named after Doris Miller, a Black war hero from Pear...
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Four Cats in Different Poses (1861), woodblock print, Kuniyoshi Utagawa
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SeaTea @tierno158.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Baby kangaroos are called Joeys. Their first words are often, "How you doin'?"
A baby kangaroo.
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Splendid photo of a splendid baby. Photo from my collection, no date/info. 
Black-and-white photo of a shorthaired tabby kitten walking along a wooden beam that is laying on a grass lawn. There is a light colored house and a small tree in the background. The photo is especially lovely because the depth of field is quite precise on the kitten with a great deal of blur in the foreground in the background.
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Daily Manul Media @manulposting.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Self Portrait with a Cat, 1938 by Swedish German painter Lotte Laserstein #WomensArt
Painting featuring a white woman with short dark hair wearing a white overall and holding a tabby cat on her lap while painting at the easil and looking outwards
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Setting Sun, (mid 20thC) by English painter Laura Knight #WomensArt
Painting featuring a golden sun setting behind a tree by a river
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Cornish artist Kirsty Elson trawls the beaches of her home collecting driftwood as the raw material for her fun animal sculptures #WomensArt
Photo of a small sculpture resembling an elingated pale coloured cat created from light brown driftwood pieces against a pale blue background
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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
'View Subterranea 6: Clapham North' (2014) by Rebecca Coleman rebeccacoleman.co.uk
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Fabulous fragment of an ancient Egyptian wall relief with three bears and an oil jar. The paint has survived some 4,500 years! Limestone relief from the Pyramid Temple of Sahure, Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty, c. 2496-2483 BC. Neues Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #ReliefWednesday #Archaeology
My photo shows a circa 4,500-year-old limestone relief with some well-preserved paint in places, from the funerary temple of Sahure at Abusir, measuring 39 × 35 × 8.5 cm. It shows three bears (partial view only) and a tall one-handled pottery vessel, across two registers. The upper register at left, shows the two leds and hindquarters of a bear, and at right, a bear’s lowered head, chest, and foreleg, painted mid-brown. The lower register at left shows a tall, dark-reddish-brown pottery vessel with a long neck and single handle, and at right, the lowered head, neck, shoulder, and top of foreleg of a dark-brown bear. The bears wear collars tethered by ropes to looped fixtures in the ground. The fragment comes from a wall scene depicting tributes from the Levant. Bears were not native to Egypt. The bears represented are Syrian brown bears  (Ursus arctos syriacus), which were quite common in Levantine mountain regions in antiquity. They were kept as exotic animals in enclosures by Egyptian kings, and also hunted.
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Brilliant
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Ticia Verveer @ticiaverveer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Archaeologists excavating near Naousa in northern Greece recently uncovered a roughly 2,400-year-old school complex, or gymnasium. The site, which stood in the ancient Macedonian town of Mieza, may have been where Aristotle taught in the 4th century BCE ✒️Ella Spitz 📷Hellenic Ministry of Culture
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Earth.com @earthdotcom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A nearly intact medieval wax notebook found in Germany still bears readable Latin notes, offering a rare glimpse into the daily life of a wealthy 13th- or 14th-century merchant.
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A 700-year-old notebook was found at the bottom of a medieval latrine, now scientists have figured out how to read it
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm flying to NYC this weekend to film with Doctor Mike. He's asked me to bring medical objects for the show... and @tealcartoons.bsky.social thought we should do a run through about what might happen at airport security 😂 What could go wrong?! www.youtube.com/shorts/Zb1bR...
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Skulls & Airport Security!
YouTube video by Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris
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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Elmina Wilson structural #engineer 1st US woman to earn 4 yr #civilengineering degree, 1st master's degree in field & 1st woman professor of Engineering @ Iowa State University. Moved to #New York & helped design Flatiron Building & Met Life Tower b. #OTD 29 Sep 1870 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmina_...
Elmina Wilson in late C19th B&W photo #WomenInSTEM #HistSTM #HistSTEM
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