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Gijs Van Gassen
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Taal, boeken, nare ziektes, andere dingen. Ik werk voor @sciensano.be maar spreek voor mezelf.

https://ghvanderstruijck.blogspot.com/

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
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lauropea.bsky.social
Want the world in the palm of your hand but sick of staring at your phone? Why not try this tiny manuscript of Gossuin's L'Image du Monde (1245) instead
extremely small book in the palm of a hand. old french poem with a large illuminated initial Q
December 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
Stunning pair of c. 1,500 year-old luxury women’s leather shoes!
Exceptionally well-preserved and still shimmering with gold leaf! ✨

From Egypt. V&A Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology
My photo shows an exceptionally well-preserved pair of women's flat leather slip on shoes decorated with gold leaf. The leather appears dark brown in colour, but originally it may have been purple or red. They have a high front coming up to a double lobed extension. The heel finishes with a high back tab. The tab on the right shoe has not survived. The front of each shoe is embellished with a gold disc-shaped motif enclosing eight smaller circles which looks similar to the circular rotary dial of an old-fashioned telephone! Within each of the small circles is an embroidered star. Length 26cm. Max width 8cm. From Egypt, circa 300-500 AD, Coptic period. On display at the V&A Museum, London.
December 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
gijs-vg.bsky.social
Soms sta ik lusteloos voor mijn boekenkast en zeur tegen mezelf over wat ik nu zal lezen. Ik heb veel ongelezen boeken, over uiteenlopende onderwerpen in verschillende genres, maar niet spreekt me echt aan en ik heb nergens zin in; kortom, ik wil wel lezen maar ik weet niet wat ik wil lezen.
December 11, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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davidallengreen.bsky.social
So this week shall I write about how killing unarmed civilians is murder or about how unwise it would be to limit the human right against torture.

Western liberal democracies in 2025.
December 8, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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marijnsillis.bsky.social
Dakloze mensen leven niet alleen op straat, soms sterven ze er ook. In Antwerpen werden afgelopen jaar minstens dertien dakloze Oost-Europeanen begraven.

Reportage voor @mondiaalnieuws.bsky.social: www.mo.be/analyse/soms...
‘Soms vraag ik me af of we hen nog wel als mensen zien’ – MO*
Minstens 13 Oost-Europese daklozen, hoofdzakelijk Polen, stierven het afgelopen jaar in Antwerpen. Hoe komt dat?
www.mo.be
December 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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tessmachling.bsky.social
Some teeny tiny punched deco from one of the Snettisham Great torc terminals. I love the way the ripples within each little line show each time the maker struck their punch...

Ting, ting, ting... 🎶

If you want to know more about the patterns: bigbookoftorcs.com/2022/05/29/p...

#Archaeology 🏺
A teardrop shaped panel with two raised dummy rivets and lots of grouped trials of punched lines.
December 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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lemoustier.bsky.social
🏺🏛️ Witham shield, Middle Iron Age, River Thames

(pic taken at British Museum)
Photo of front of a bronze oblong shield, with central raised boss in an elongated oval, including red enamel inlays in curvilinear forms. Close-up of shield boss. Close-up of lower part of shield design, including engraved spirals, and zoomorphic features.
December 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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amberwiznitzer.bsky.social
elke dag opnieuw ontsteld dat ik toch gewoon weer dingen moet doen
December 10, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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thewritertype.bsky.social
Good luck to Australia with trying to ban under-16s from using social media. I'm still trying to persuade my son (now 28) to remove the parental control lock he put on my phone when he was thirteen.
December 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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movecoalition.bsky.social
“De regeringen van de EU hebben een verschrikkelijk voorstel van de Commissie genomen en het onmetelijk veel erger gemaakt,” zegt @hrw.org.

Dat klopt helaas: hiermee wordt detentie niet enkel langer en zwaarder, maar ook veel te vaak gebruikt, te pas en te onpas.
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Afgewezen asielzoekers die niet meewerken aan terugkeer, kunnen in cel belanden: “Dit zet de deur open voor langdurige detentie”
De Europese ministers van Migratie zijn het eens over een verstrakking van de migratiewetgeving. De ngo Human Rights Watch vindt dat de EU de eigen waarden met voeten treedt en ziet een “dystopische toekomst” in de wetgeving.
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December 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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michaelclerx.com
Imaging digging up the archeological remains of an archeological museum.
December 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
This cartoon and two others are available now as prints here: www.guardianprintshop.com/pages/tom-gaulds-best-cultural-cartoons-of-2025
Image: The library of an ancient castle. A full moon shines through a gothic window. A vampire creeps up behing a carpenter. Caption: "It had not been easy, but the Count was glad that he had resisted drinking the carpenter's blood until his beautiful new bookshelves were complete."
December 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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artinsociety.bsky.social
Admiring the detailed realism of Guido Mazzoni’s life-size Head of a Man, crafted in painted terracotta more than 500 years ago (Galleria Estense, Modena, c 1480s) smarthistory.org/guido-mazzon...
Guido Mazzoni, Head of a Man – Smarthistory
Mazzoni, one of the foremost terracotta sculptors of Northern Italy during the Renaissance, incarnates clay with the spirit of a living person
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December 5, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
In 2019 a group of Bolivian indigenous women aka the “Climbing Cholitas” summitted Mount Aconcagua, Argentina (highest point - Southern Hemisphere) The women had previously worked for years as cooks for mostly rich male mountaineers. They climbed in traditional dress #WomensArt
Photo of a row of five smiling Bolivian women in colourful tops and skirts holding mountajn climbing equipment while standing on ice with a mountain ridge behind them
December 5, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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darthputinkgb.bsky.social
OTD in 1994 Russia signed the Budapest memo, guaranteeing Ukraine's territorial integrity in exchange for their nukes, 44 Ukrainian Tu-22 heavy bombers and 1,068 Kh-55 cruise missiles.

Which have been fired at Ukraine in this war.
December 5, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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davidandress.bsky.social
If you scream racist abuse at the person you’re paying to care for you for long enough, they’ll decide that the money isn’t worth the abuse, and leave.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Rising racism blamed for collapse in number of foreign nurses coming to UK
Number of overseas nurses and midwives registered between April and September was half that of a year ago
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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nicodelort.bsky.social
kind of obsessed with this custom binding for Moby dick by Susan and Chaim Ebanks at Exeter Bookbinders
December 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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mooseallain.bsky.social
I've had a couple of comments about this cartoon, which I thought would be a great opportunity to drill down in excruciatingly needless detail about my process. Someone said how much did I deliberate over the use of the word 'Pig' and another suggested it should say 'Hog'. So, here was my thinking:
December 3, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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histoftech.bsky.social
ha yeah
Cartoon of a person stumbling out of a time machine and saying to another person: "I went back to warn them, but they already knew and didn't seem to care.”
December 2, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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mvgenechten.bsky.social
Brussel oogst lof met een alternatieve kerststal op de Grote Markt. Die heeft geen dak waardoor Jozef, Maria en hun jongste kind onder de blote hemel slapen. ‘Zo vermijden we aanzuigeffecten’, aldus minister van Asiel en Migratie Anneleen Van Bossuyt.

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Lof voor alternatieve kerststal in Brussel zonder dak: ‘Aanzuigeffecten vermijden’
Brussel oogst lof met een alternatieve kerststal op de Grote Markt. Die heeft geen dak waardoor Jozef, Maria en hun jongste kind onder de blote hemel slapen. ‘Zo vermijden we aanzuigeffecten&…
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December 3, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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thomaswillekens.bsky.social
Parlementsleden stellen een vraag over de individuele (!) asielaanvraag van Mohammed Khatib.

De minister overloopt doodleuk alle belangrijkste stappen in dit dossier.

Ik zou denken dat een minister individuele dossiers niet bespreekt in het parlement, gezien de gevoeligheid van een asielaanvraag.
December 2, 2025 at 12:43 PM
gijs-vg.bsky.social
Dit boek begint bij die gijzelingen, maar gaat eigenlijk over de vraag hoe je met terroristisch geweld kan of moet omgaan. Ik schreef jaren geleden een brief aan Westerman over dit boek. Nooit verstuurd, natuurlijk.
bibliofilie.bsky.social Bibliofilie @bibliofilie.bsky.social · 9d
Vandaag 50 jaar geleden kaapten 7 Molukkers een trein bij het Drentse Wijster. De kaping duurde 12 dagen en kostte 3 mensen het leven. Tegelijkertijd vond een gijzeling plaats in het Indonesische consulaat in Amsterdam. Frank Westerman, die in Drente opgroeide, schreef een boek over deze acties.
December 2, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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bieke.bsky.social
Fixed it
December 2, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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rudydotca.bsky.social
who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there
December 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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friemelkubus.bsky.social
😂 Prachtig!
lastpositivist.bsky.social lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 9d
The inspiring exception to this on old Twitter was whenever Belgium lost an international football match you'd get loads of random Africans from across the continent and diaspora posting images of Lumumba smiling. The kinda chaotic neutral vibes of black twitter of old is something I genuinely miss.
onedayinjune.bsky.social Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · 10d
Tbf I also think the Belgians and Dutch don't get enough shit for *their* colonial shenanigans. The former we know quite a bit about now, but the VOC made the British East India Company look like teddy bears
December 2, 2025 at 6:31 AM