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C.S. Voll
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An author, historian, and gamer. Also likes to ponder the meaning of everything.
Medium: https://medium.com/@csvoll
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danj72.bsky.social
You have grown old
And we must let you go
But please just let me hold
Your hand so I might know
This warm paternal #touch
And store it to my mind
A Sensory reminder, as such
Not to be left behind

#Vss365
February 11, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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bakerart.bsky.social
Fishing in Cambridge in front of the ice cream kiosk on Jesus Green, Cambridge. Small oil painting
#oilpainting #cambridge #fishing
A small oil painting showing people buying ice creams at the kiosk on Jesus Green, Cambridge while a man with a blue hat is fishing. A girl iin a pink dress is feeding the ducks.
February 11, 2026 at 12:41 PM
stephlepht.bsky.social
Turning in all directions, a rat scurries between two grey walls. Exhausted, it finally reaches a clearing, where a red button juts out like a pimple. An alarm shrieks the moment its paws #touch the button. In a couple of seconds, it’s picked up and placed into another grey maze.

#vss365
February 11, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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lonebengalsfan.bsky.social
Modest GBA collection…it was the first handheld I bought. Also picked up a few GBC games I missed out on. Originally bought the launch purple GBA but then upgraded to this SP. It feels so tiny using it today.
February 10, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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cribbowens.bsky.social
Unrequited love
That deep #ache
Of not being seen
By the person
Who holds your heart
Or even worse
Seen and acknowledged
But turned away
As not worthy enough
Or some version of
It's not you, it's me
#vss365
February 10, 2026 at 12:49 PM
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martindunlop.bsky.social
Very fond of this Mr Hyde by Grickle, look at that lovely Mr Hyde face
February 9, 2026 at 11:12 PM
stephlepht.bsky.social
A petal drifts down
And I realize
Nothing #aches like the
Memory of you

#vss365
February 10, 2026 at 12:47 PM
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somadexterous.bsky.social
Guess what plant is this...

#sketch #plant #somadey #art #watercolor
February 10, 2026 at 12:21 PM
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admatthias.bsky.social
licking ash and #bones
a burning sunset of mayhemic fangs
its rictus, iron maw sears; mocking me
disabusing my fear
with ember remembrances
in a sermon of lashing tongues
it crackles accusations
from long-wronged voices
and i'm deafened by its taunts
submitting to its fiery recompense

#vss365
February 9, 2026 at 12:35 PM
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bar44.bsky.social
Another more traditional view of the ornate interior of Sainte-Chapelle, Paris #Photography #Architecture #Interior #Paris 📷
February 8, 2026 at 11:04 PM
stephlepht.bsky.social
“I have a #bone to pick with you.”

“Let bygones be bygones.”

“I’m the one who’s going to decide that.”

“Can you remember why you’re angry?”

“Erm…”

“Pick a bone with your memory first. See ya!”

#vss365
February 9, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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patleon.bsky.social
#StreetArt by #PierrotL∆FZ in #France #Lorient #Britannia
February 8, 2026 at 11:20 AM
stephlepht.bsky.social
Earlier this year, archaeologists discovered a Roman basilica in Fano, Italy. That alone is significant news, but experts are excited by another factor, too: the basilica might have been designed by Vitruvius, a Roman writer who influenced the Renaissance. Click below to read more. #history #roman
A Rediscovered Roman Basilica Challenges the Modern View of Public Spaces
Archaeologists might have uncovered a building designed by the most influential Roman architect
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February 7, 2026 at 9:43 AM
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vgvg.bsky.social
I have scars whose seams are gold
And as I age their lustre grows
The wounds that birthed them
Inversely knitted and shorn
Hold the decorative provenance
Of story’s no longer told

#vss365 #wound #poetry #poem
February 6, 2026 at 11:28 AM
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rpgsite.net
Digimon Story: Time Stranger is coming to Switch 2 and Switch on July 10 with pre-orders going live today: https://www.rpgsite.net/news/19535-digimon-story-time-stranger-switch-2-release-date-60fps-mode
February 5, 2026 at 3:11 PM
stephlepht.bsky.social
A #wound too deep
To heal sits on
His head, woven
Into the cloth
That supports his
Button eyes and
Small stitched nose

#vss365
February 6, 2026 at 12:22 PM
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medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Cloven-hoofed elephant. Livre des simples médecines, France 15th century. BnF, Français 623, fol. 165v.
#medieval #medievalart
Cloven-hoofed elephant. Livre des simples médecines, France 15th century. BnF, Français 623, fol. 165v. #medieval #MedievalArt
February 5, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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short-stories.bsky.social
The scent of bleeding ivy
clings to forest frost
stirring an uncomfortable nostalgia,
the eastern horizon alight
lambent beams soften
our deepest souls,
a reprise of stillness
is good enough
to thaw the discomfort.

#vss365 #BSPP50 #inkmine #Foxprose #emoetry #retroartprompt #faesense #poems #poetry
February 5, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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pittriversmuseum.bsky.social
The 'With These Hands' trail features plaster casts which reproduce artefacts from the Mohenjo-daro ruins, one of the great cities of the Indus Valley Civilization (3000-2500 BC). Sold as cultural souvenirs, these casts connect modern makers with disappearing histories.This seal was donated in 1955.
February 4, 2026 at 3:59 PM
stephlepht.bsky.social
We stand near a
A #lambent sea
Contemplating
Where we would be
Free to exhale

#vss365
February 5, 2026 at 1:17 PM
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retrogameart.bsky.social
Parasite Eve ad (1998)

#retro #art #gaming #ParasiteEve
Parasite Eve ad Squaresoft PlayStation 1998
February 3, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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willgwatters.bsky.social
there's a river
runs beside me
in the winter
cold as hell

past a churchyard
sings my heartbeat
where your teardrops
never fell, never fell

time brings the #ghost
love promised
dreams are all I have
to know you again.

#vss365
February 4, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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seattle-images.bsky.social
Pink Elephant Car Wash, Seattle.
Minox35mm
February 4, 2026 at 1:41 PM
stephlepht.bsky.social
“All my dates #ghost me.”

“The trick is to be the ghoster and not the ghostee.”

“That won’t end the cycle, though.”

“Nothing will. Heartbreak Hotel is on all our itineraries.”

“Maybe being single isn’t that bad after all…”

#vss365
February 4, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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chapps.bsky.social
One of the best examples of ancient #polychromy that I know of is this terracotta thymiaterion - incense burner - in the form of a group of colorfully dressed women sitting around a wellhead. The iconography reflects a local cult, perhaps of Demeter and Kore. 🏺 1/

4th c. CE. #MetMuseum
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This thymiaterion has five individually hand-made women sitting on the edge of a red-painted wellhead, with one sitting in her own high-baked chair. All are brightly painted, and each woman has a 'hat' with a cup on top for the burning of the incense. All painted slightly differently - three with orange-yellow tunics, two with red tunics; two red himatia (cloaks), two purple-black himatia, and one yellow himation. They each once carried an attribute in each hand, but several are missing. In this photo, one woman carries a yellow (meant to be gold) phiale, an offering plate, and a pomegranate; the other woman facing us carries a spindle with wool. Met Museum (2012.546)
February 3, 2026 at 9:51 PM