Suzanne Purkis
@hypoxia75.bsky.social
Editor, writer, poet, science nerd. Principal dog wrangler. Head of spider relocation services. Definitely not an alien. 🛸
Koji wants you to come out and play in the snow ❄️
November 9, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Koji wants you to come out and play in the snow ❄️
The geography of you
is shifting
sharp cliffs giving way
to rolling hills
shallow streams burbling
into deep lakes
with complex ecosystems
and your hard ground
morphing into moss
so soft beneath my feet
that I could linger here
forever
#vss365 #geography #poetry
is shifting
sharp cliffs giving way
to rolling hills
shallow streams burbling
into deep lakes
with complex ecosystems
and your hard ground
morphing into moss
so soft beneath my feet
that I could linger here
forever
#vss365 #geography #poetry
November 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The geography of you
is shifting
sharp cliffs giving way
to rolling hills
shallow streams burbling
into deep lakes
with complex ecosystems
and your hard ground
morphing into moss
so soft beneath my feet
that I could linger here
forever
#vss365 #geography #poetry
is shifting
sharp cliffs giving way
to rolling hills
shallow streams burbling
into deep lakes
with complex ecosystems
and your hard ground
morphing into moss
so soft beneath my feet
that I could linger here
forever
#vss365 #geography #poetry
If I could sum up us
to fit neatly in a nutshell
I couldn’t say that it’s been fun
exactly
but it has been educational
How else could I have learned
the full range of human emotions
that were programmed into
my heart
or the vastly different
definitions
we held for each of them
#vss365 #education
to fit neatly in a nutshell
I couldn’t say that it’s been fun
exactly
but it has been educational
How else could I have learned
the full range of human emotions
that were programmed into
my heart
or the vastly different
definitions
we held for each of them
#vss365 #education
November 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
If I could sum up us
to fit neatly in a nutshell
I couldn’t say that it’s been fun
exactly
but it has been educational
How else could I have learned
the full range of human emotions
that were programmed into
my heart
or the vastly different
definitions
we held for each of them
#vss365 #education
to fit neatly in a nutshell
I couldn’t say that it’s been fun
exactly
but it has been educational
How else could I have learned
the full range of human emotions
that were programmed into
my heart
or the vastly different
definitions
we held for each of them
#vss365 #education
Reposted by Suzanne Purkis
“If your heart is beating really strong and fast, and you’re in a fear state, you don’t want to be sensitive to pain. You want to be able to run over broken twigs and glass to escape the threat,” said neuroscientist Sarah Garfinkel. www.quantamagazine.org/how-your-hea...
October 31, 2025 at 10:59 PM
“If your heart is beating really strong and fast, and you’re in a fear state, you don’t want to be sensitive to pain. You want to be able to run over broken twigs and glass to escape the threat,” said neuroscientist Sarah Garfinkel. www.quantamagazine.org/how-your-hea...
Ripley complaining to the management about why tea has to happen before walking.
October 29, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Ripley complaining to the management about why tea has to happen before walking.
Happy almost Halloween! 🎃
October 28, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Happy almost Halloween! 🎃
She is standing
in the maelstrom
screaming
fists balled at her side
toes curled
into the creeping thyme
beneath her
She is always here
even when
she's somewhere else
There is comfort
in the driving rain
and in the way
the wind
carries her scream
into the heart
of the universe
#vss365 #creep
in the maelstrom
screaming
fists balled at her side
toes curled
into the creeping thyme
beneath her
She is always here
even when
she's somewhere else
There is comfort
in the driving rain
and in the way
the wind
carries her scream
into the heart
of the universe
#vss365 #creep
October 27, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Lolsob
October 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Lolsob
Someone better give that copywriter a bonus!
The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
10/10 response, no notes
10/10 response, no notes
October 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Someone better give that copywriter a bonus!
But do check out the amazing pots that @roseschmits.bsky.social makes!
Pretty porcelain pots available on www.roseschmits.com
Worldwide safe shipping available!
Worldwide safe shipping available!
October 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
But do check out the amazing pots that @roseschmits.bsky.social makes!
Don't normalize fascism.
With fascism on the rise, venerating a polite decent debate club culture is actually useful to the fascists, being polite with fascists just normalises them. Call em racists, call em fascists, call em wankers and dont pretend they have a point
October 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Don't normalize fascism.
October 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Who's a beautiful old man?
(Koji is!)
(Koji is!)
October 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Who's a beautiful old man?
(Koji is!)
(Koji is!)
See what we can do when we work together to fight Nazis. This is beautiful.
Wow, the University of Washington's Psych 201 class does *not* play
go fuckin Huskies
Nazi UW students fuck off
go fuckin Huskies
Nazi UW students fuck off
October 2, 2025 at 11:59 AM
See what we can do when we work together to fight Nazis. This is beautiful.
Reposted by Suzanne Purkis
If you are going to be in Ottawa Oct. 20, you should come see me and @premeemohamed.com at the launch for her excellent novella, The First Thousand Trees. At the wonderful community hub that is Perfect Books.
October 1, 2025 at 2:16 AM
If you are going to be in Ottawa Oct. 20, you should come see me and @premeemohamed.com at the launch for her excellent novella, The First Thousand Trees. At the wonderful community hub that is Perfect Books.
Ripley, ever hopeful that teenage visitors are here exclusively to shower her with love.
#AlaskanMalamute #lovesponge
#AlaskanMalamute #lovesponge
September 26, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Ripley, ever hopeful that teenage visitors are here exclusively to shower her with love.
#AlaskanMalamute #lovesponge
#AlaskanMalamute #lovesponge
If the event horizon were nigh
would the weight
of knowing
crush you
into apathy
and dust
Or would it reinvigorate
your passion
to be caught
in my gravity
until the end
of space and time
#vss365 #reinvigorate #poetry
would the weight
of knowing
crush you
into apathy
and dust
Or would it reinvigorate
your passion
to be caught
in my gravity
until the end
of space and time
#vss365 #reinvigorate #poetry
September 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
If the event horizon were nigh
would the weight
of knowing
crush you
into apathy
and dust
Or would it reinvigorate
your passion
to be caught
in my gravity
until the end
of space and time
#vss365 #reinvigorate #poetry
would the weight
of knowing
crush you
into apathy
and dust
Or would it reinvigorate
your passion
to be caught
in my gravity
until the end
of space and time
#vss365 #reinvigorate #poetry
Reposted by Suzanne Purkis
Why must you take home another boring rock
they said
Your assembly line is backed up
Bucketfuls of earthly extrusions
collecting dust
just like all of us
I hold it close
Knowing they lie
There is no die
Proof pressed in my palm
of
a
singular
life
#vss365 #poetry #extrusion
they said
Your assembly line is backed up
Bucketfuls of earthly extrusions
collecting dust
just like all of us
I hold it close
Knowing they lie
There is no die
Proof pressed in my palm
of
a
singular
life
#vss365 #poetry #extrusion
September 20, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Why must you take home another boring rock
they said
Your assembly line is backed up
Bucketfuls of earthly extrusions
collecting dust
just like all of us
I hold it close
Knowing they lie
There is no die
Proof pressed in my palm
of
a
singular
life
#vss365 #poetry #extrusion
they said
Your assembly line is backed up
Bucketfuls of earthly extrusions
collecting dust
just like all of us
I hold it close
Knowing they lie
There is no die
Proof pressed in my palm
of
a
singular
life
#vss365 #poetry #extrusion
The crows came to roost
on the day you were born
no longer an extrusion of me
but an entirety of you
with all your complex parts—
hands of an engineer
heart of a crow
soul of a philosopher king
—working together
like the world’s most precise
clock
or a roost of crows
in winter
#vss365 #extrusion
on the day you were born
no longer an extrusion of me
but an entirety of you
with all your complex parts—
hands of an engineer
heart of a crow
soul of a philosopher king
—working together
like the world’s most precise
clock
or a roost of crows
in winter
#vss365 #extrusion
September 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The crows came to roost
on the day you were born
no longer an extrusion of me
but an entirety of you
with all your complex parts—
hands of an engineer
heart of a crow
soul of a philosopher king
—working together
like the world’s most precise
clock
or a roost of crows
in winter
#vss365 #extrusion
on the day you were born
no longer an extrusion of me
but an entirety of you
with all your complex parts—
hands of an engineer
heart of a crow
soul of a philosopher king
—working together
like the world’s most precise
clock
or a roost of crows
in winter
#vss365 #extrusion