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Suzanne Purkis
@hypoxia75.bsky.social
Editor, writer, poet, science nerd. Principal dog wrangler. Head of spider relocation services. Definitely not an alien. 🛸
This is how it goes
you bowing
as your hand takes mine
one step forward

you smiling
one part chivalrous
two parts mischievous
as the dance gets underway

and me
with my two left feet
stepping sideways off the cliff
as my heart soars

#vss365 #chivalrous #poetry
December 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The tiny egg
was all that was left
well except for the note

Should the egg hatch
it read
do not overfeed
the hatchling
and do not mistake
cuteness
for tameness

This is particularly
relevant
for people
with soft hearts
and no exoskeleton

#vss365 #poetry #relevant
November 25, 2025 at 1:16 AM
If every action
has an equal and opposite
reaction
then somebody
somewhere
just placed a heart
in a broken person’s chest
and totally made their day

#vss365 #poetry #action
November 21, 2025 at 1:28 AM
At least this chonky little monster looks guilty about being caught on the feeder that is most definitely not supposed to be for the squirrels.
November 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
In a lush meadow
on a distant world
she runs fingers
through alien grass
and remembers

bustling sidewalks
looming deadlines
and endless anxiety
as she careened
toward empty #goals

until that fateful day
she slipped and fell
into an opportunity
(or a transport ship)
for a different life

#vss365
November 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
You think
that you’re so clever
sneaking in
through a loophole
and hiding in plain sight

but I’ve had your number
for a while now
and the hounds were released
the moment you crossed
my threshold

#vss365 #poetry #number
November 13, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Koji wants you to come out and play in the snow ❄️
November 9, 2025 at 8:19 PM
everything you love
everything you hate
every place that holds a memory
every law ever decreed
every mistake
every mystery
every perfect thing
is fleeting

so hold on tight
to the ones you love
and stop wasting
the fleeting time
that you've been gifted
on regret

#vss365 #law #poetry
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 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
November 6, 2025 at 3:42 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
November 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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
Ripley complaining to the management about why tea has to happen before walking.
October 29, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Reposted by Suzanne Purkis
I need
I need to
I need to press the key

The one you cannot read
The one you will not see
The one you disbelieve
defines you

DO NOT TOUCH

your eyes plead

But the need
creeps up my fingers

Straining my restraint

Your hands seize
with hope

#vss365 #creep
October 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Happy almost Halloween! 🎃
October 28, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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
October 27, 2025 at 10:53 PM
When I found myself
on a precipice
of someone else’s making
(your making)
the terror was nearly suffocating

Choosing between
bad and worse
(the only choices you left me)
I closed my eyes
and jumped

#vss365 #terror #poetry
October 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Lolsob
October 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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
October 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
But do check out the amazing pots that @roseschmits.bsky.social makes!
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Worldwide safe shipping available!
October 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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
There is a way to do this
so it’s perfect:
- boiling water
- leaves from Yorkshire
- a handful of runes
- that art deco cup and saucer
- and one sugar cube
to ensure that her ghost
makes it to your tea party

#vss365 #saucer #poetry
October 22, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Flowers for autumn 🍂🍁

#orangeflowers #autumnisthebest
October 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Over in the corner
my heart
slides down the wall
to land
unceremoniously
at your feet
its rhythmic beauty
reduced
to so much
unrecognizable
pulp

#vss365 #pulp #poetry
October 3, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Who's a beautiful old man?

(Koji is!)
October 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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
October 2, 2025 at 11:59 AM