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3_Esse

@3esse.bsky.social

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Graphic dogthrower. Nature & culture vulture, with a keen interest in everything else. Laatboeier. Creatieve nulpoot. Kan niet tegen aanrecht.

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3_Esse @3esse.bsky.social · Jan 13

Row Vs Wade

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3_Esse @3esse.bsky.social · 5h

Not far away, an impressive hornets nest. 🐝

3_Esse @3esse.bsky.social · 5h

Coprinus, kom ma tuus?

#fungiFriends 📷🍄‍🟫

Coprinus comatus, geschubde inktzwam, shaggy inkcap, coprin chevelu

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3_Esse @3esse.bsky.social · 5h

Hier ook eentje. Kontich.

3_Esse @3esse.bsky.social · 6h

#Xizang in westflemish
is a very different autonomous region.

Mission of China to the EU @chinaeumission.bsky.social · Aug 21

A glimpse of #Xizang Autonomous Region

A glimpse of Xizang Autonomous Region

YouTube video by CGTN

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Chelsea M. Cameron (she/they) @chel-c-cam.bsky.social · Dec 20

This is still one of my favorite poems in the entire world

The Tiger by Nael, age 6
From They're Singing a Song in Their Rocket
The tiger
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The tiger is out

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Anne 🩵🩷🤍 [נעמי יעל] @tranniehathaway.bsky.social · Jun 26

Poetry showdown:
Which poem about a tiger is better?

The tiger
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The tiger is out

Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies. Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspirc? What the hand, dare seize the fire?
And what shoulder, & what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand? & what dread feet?
What the hammer? what the chain, In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? what dread grasp, Dare its deadly terrors clasp!
When the stars threw down their spears And water'd heaven with their tears: Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
Tyger Tyger burning bright, In the forests of the night: What immortal hand or eye, Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · Jul 29

"Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?"
-William Blake, The Tyger #MythologyMonday

The Tyger, by William Blake, written in his own hand, with a depiction of a haphazardly colored and somewhat blue tiger at the bottom beside a tree. The poem reads as follows:

Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies.
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand, dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder, & what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain,
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp,
Dare its deadly terrors clasp!

When the stars threw down their spears
And water'd heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Tyger Tyger burning bright,
In the forests of the night:
What immortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · Oct 2

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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3_Esse @3esse.bsky.social · 18h

Onvoorzien?? Sint Maarten
is pas overmorgen, hé.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 17h

Happy Sunday! 🦛 💙

Adorable ancient Egyptian blue faience hippos made by artisans some 4,000 years ago!

📷 by me

#Archaeology

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3_Esse @3esse.bsky.social · 16h

Voor de duidelijkheid : niet de overheid -
Wel de sector zelf.
www.influencercertificaat.be

Influencer Certificaat / Certificat influenceur

www.influencercertificaat.be

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3_Esse @3esse.bsky.social · 16h

Het gaat dus overduidelijk niet over de overheid.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 1d

We've spent years and years snd years litigating "wokeness" and "critical race theory" and "DEI" and "political correctness" and spilling untold gallons of ink explaining how complicated and nuanced it is, and it always seems to turn out to be exactly what you'd expect.

Gordon Darroch @gordondarroch.bsky.social · 1d

Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.

NRC @nrc.nl · 2d

Op Margraten zijn twee panelen over zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders van Nederland opeens weg. ‘Past bij beleid van de regering-Trump’

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3_Esse @3esse.bsky.social · 18h

Onvoorzien?? Sint Maarten
is pas overmorgen, hé.

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3_Esse @3esse.bsky.social · 19h

Dat telt ni

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3_Esse @3esse.bsky.social · 19h

Leidt dat

3_Esse @3esse.bsky.social · 1d

Tubular bells

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Elections in democracies determine who administers the government; they do not alter whom the government is for. Under any administration, Republican or Democratic, the United States government exists to serve the people of the United States, regardless of their partisan affiliation. Besides, Americans are not as easily divided as Trump might think. Millions of Republican voters live in New York, just as millions of Democrats live in Texas. He cannot tell whom he is punishing by glancing at an electoral map. But even if he could, Trump’s acts of extortion have no place in a democracy. They belong in a protection racket: If you support Trump, you are protected; if you do not, you are vulnerable. If you donate enough cash to Trump, you may receive favorable treatment, including immunity from the law. If you oppose Trump, you may be prosecuted.

This is not how a representative government works. It is how the Mafia works.

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3_Esse @3esse.bsky.social · 1d

You're as cold as ICE -
You're willing toupet the price.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

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3_Esse @3esse.bsky.social · 1d

Mads Smikkelsen

Mads smikkeling away at a red bushfruit desert

Mads smikkeling away at a nondescript sandwich

Mads smikkeling away at a manjum ice lolly

3_Esse @3esse.bsky.social · 2d

Zegta Hegseth het gesegt hé

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Hegseth: "We are not building for peacetime. We are pivoting the Pentagon and our industrial base to a wartime footing. Building for victory should our adversaries FAFO."

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Jan Leune @janleune.bsky.social · 2d

Dutch newspaper:
At the American cemetery in the Netherlands, things suddenly became quiet around the black Americans who helped liberate the Netherlands. Two panels commemorating their contribution and pointing to their fight against racism within the military were removed.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 2d

What a bitter shame that he forever poisoned his sterling reputation—a reputation that he could have used for so much good—by tripling down on ignorant racist pseudoscience.

Self-adoring bigotry often turns once-great minds into cottage cheese.

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 2d

James Watson has died. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...

James Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97

www.nytimes.com

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3_Esse @3esse.bsky.social · 2d

Deze luttele boompjes veranderden ooit onze spasseergang over de Berlijnse Invalidenplatz in een stinkende helletocht.

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3_Esse @3esse.bsky.social · 2d

Tenzij je een stinkgo getroffen hebt

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