Maurice van Steensel 🇺🇦 🇳🇱 🇸🇬🏳️‍🌈

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MD PhD dermatologist/scientist, love books, cats and kyokushin karate. Humanist. Professor of dermatology and skin biology. I dabble in paleontology and topology. I co-founded a biotech company. I game on Linux. I’m a geek.

The Plowman, a woodcut by Holbein, where Death helps the weary farmer complete the plowing of his fields so that he may rest.
Gary Oldman as Smiley in the 2011 movie Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
The entrance to Auschwitz with the slogan “arbeid macht frei”, “work sets free”
Post protesting that anti American sentiments are not justified as most Americans didn’t vote for Trump.
A young black cat spooning with a ginger kitten
A post on the Palemoon browser swagshop: "due to increasing hostilities, we will no longer ship any shop items to the USA or its overseas territories"
Poor interface design in Apple's liquid glass interface with text under a translucent menu obscuring the menu text due to too much transparency
Nazi judges giving the hitler salute in front of a swastika
A young ginger tomcat contemplating. He’s very cute with face that looks like that of a red panda. His chin is resting on his paws. To his right there is an orchid.
A young ginger tomcat lying on a ledge with his chin resting on his front paws, contemplating
A little ginger tomcat chilling in the sand
Two cute ginger tomcat kittens lying on the pavement. They are brothers, and very close. Both are very fluffy and eager for tummy rubs.
2 nazi judges and an SA officer standing in front of a swastika banner giving the Nazi salute
Science. It works, bitches (showing a graph of the frequency distribution of cosmic background radiation)
A grey and white cat with big golden eyes looks into the camera
Asking GPT5 to draw an airplane using ascii art. It fails abysmally.
Kitten beans
Hitler and Goebbels smiling just like Trump and DeSantis
Our cat Yasmin with her 4 newborn babies (Yasmin is a fluffy sealpoint between a Persian and a something. )
A blue and yellow barrier on which the word “Ukaine” has been spray painted
A very cute beige furry jumping spider clinging to a leaf
The underside of a cat’s paw showing cute yummy beans
My home office showing off RGB mood Lighting, and the matching RGB on my Razer peripherals.
Screen capture showing an error message saying that www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov cannot be found
A young cat lying on a leather chair in the classic loaf position.
A beautiful handmade batik shirt with facing gold dragons with red lining embroidered / dyed on a black background.
2 kittens loafing on a chair
2 kittens sleeping on a couch. One has buried his face in the other’s fur and is on his back.
A spider in her web, this one has bright yellow markings on a somewhat rhomboid body. Identified as Argiope appensa (a banana spider)
A kitten lying on her side on a pillow.
Ringworld by Larry Niven
A cat in a cat condo, her face seen through a cat head-shaped outline
Tractatus logico-philosophicus by Wittgenstein
On my way to the end, by the famous Dutch author Gerard (Kornelis van het) Reve