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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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Tater Magoo @tatermagoo.bsky.social · 17h

Finally!

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Tater Magoo @tatermagoo.bsky.social · 17h

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Wil Eelsing @wileelsing.bsky.social · 37m

Happy #Caturday!

Oh, where to lay your weary head when your humans have only provided you with a measly six (!) soft, warm, fluffy cat baskets scattered around the house? The top of the cold, hard kitchen cupboards shall be our refuge from that cruel, harsh reality.

Frodo & Sam
#CatsOfBluesky

Wil Eelsing @wileelsing.bsky.social · 46m

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Niall McDiarmid @niallmcdiarmid.bsky.social · 1d

Crystal Palace, London - Oct' 2025

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John Lyon @johnlyon.bsky.social · 11h

Them: Can you help me?

Me: I don’t work here.

Them: Oh, sorry. *leaves*

My boss: You need to stop doing that.

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 14h

i’m sure it’s fine

Two strips of wide clear plastic tape hold down the internal surround of an airplane window.

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Daily Manul (Unofficial) @manul.day · 18h

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Wil Eelsing @wileelsing.bsky.social · 50m

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Dutch News @dutchnewsnl.bsky.social · 15h

The case was reported to a council hotline after a male prospective tenant was told he could not rent the room because he was a man.

Landlord who rents to "working Dutch women only" faces fine - DutchNews.nl

Amsterdam housing officials have warned a city landlord that he faces a fine of up to €10,000 for discrimination if he continues to refuse to rent to anyone other than “Dutch women with jobs.” The…

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PetaPixel | Photography and Camera News @petapixel.com.web.brid.gy · 1h

Photographer Creatively Explores His Deteriorating Vision Through Collaboration

Matt Cetta, who was diagnosed with the degenerative eye disease Retinitis Pigmentosa, has transformed his experience of vision loss into art through a new collaboration with fellow photographer Christina DeOrtentiis. Together they explore resilience, blindness, and the evolving meaning of sight through their project, Photogenic Alchemy. [Read More]

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Wil Eelsing @wileelsing.bsky.social · 52m

I'm eagerly awaiting mine.

PetaPixel | Photography and Camera News @petapixel.com.web.brid.gy · 1d

Nikon Has Received More ZR Preorders Than Expected; for Good Reason

The Nikon ZR looks poised to be quite the hit with customers. Scheduled to begin shipping in the next couple of weeks, Nikon Japan has already warned customers that it has received so many orders that it may be unable to fulfill them all at launch. [Read More]

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Wil Eelsing @wileelsing.bsky.social · 54m

So glad I got to see it and be given the Royal Tour, as was meeting one of my heroes IRL!

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Dr Alexandra Loske @colourwoman.bsky.social · 3d

Portrait of Anna Boch holding a splendid neo-Impressionist palette, by Théo van Rysselberghe (1892), and an atmpospheric work by Anna Boch herself, titled Evening (1891).
At the National Gallery's exhibition Radical Harmony.

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Prof Janina Ramirez @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social · 6d

SO THIS HAPPENED!!! Saw an actual copy of my new book Legenda for the FIRST TIME @historyrevmag BBC History Weekend!! Isn’t it beautiful 😍🥰😍🥰 preorder it here lnk.to/LegendaBook

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Prof Janina Ramirez @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social · 15h

I’m back on the Beeb! Tune in tomorrow and come with me on an art historical adventure!

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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely love this post. Another example why we need to study history from the bottom up, not necessarily top down.

Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 2d

In @thetimes.com letters page today

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 4h

Artwork by Martha Rich, contemporary US painter and illustrator based in Philadelphia #womensart #Caturday

Illustration of a sitting cat facing right with colourful star and flower shapes over its body, a speech bubble above its head reads " Love ya, mean it", the background is orange

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Wil Eelsing @wileelsing.bsky.social · 1h

I had a miniscule role in the construction of the Thames Surge Barrier when I worked for an engineering firm that formed part of the construction consortium in the 70s. Since its completion it has been activated 221 times.

Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 3h

'Thames Barrier, North Side' by David Downes
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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 1d

'The River Thames from Wandsworth Bridge' by
Charles Ernest Butler (1864–1933)

(Government Art Collection)

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 9h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 1d

A 7th century Pictish symbol stone discovered in 1936 during excavations at the Knowe of Burrian - a broch at Netherbrough in the Orkney Isles. Now part of the collections at Orkney Museum in Kirkwall. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #Picts #Orkney

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 15h

I imagine this guy shouting at museum patrons with a squeaky little voice, ‘C’mon, you think you can take me? Look what I did with the last guy!’.

This green-glazed terracotta gladiator is ready to rumble, but only his competitor’s foot remains. 🏺 1/

Roman, 1st c. CE, #BritishMuseum
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Terracotta gladiator group, with an olive-green enamel glaze. Two gladiators once opposed each other on the long base, one now missing, save his left foot. The remaining gladiator stands with his right leg advanced, his scutum (shield) held before him in his right hand. He holds a sica (short curved sword) in his left hand and wears a crested visored helmet and extra long greaves which cover his entire legs.

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 1d

#FindsFriday 🏺
Bronze chimera: likely emblem (episema) on C6 BC warrior's shield w lion's head on flame-like mane + scaly fierce snake striking from centre.
From high status tomb w arms, tools, ceramics + iron wheels of chariot excavated in Melfi, Basilicata.
Now in Nat Archaeological Museum there.

A large thin bronze decoration probably for a 6th C BC warrior's shield. At the top the head of a beast with a stylised lion's head and snout, on a long neck with incised flame-like mane, emerges from a scaly circle. This serves as the body of a fierce snake (which probably wrapped round the lion's body), which extends to the top right with a long head and open mouth, with wing below lower jaw.

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