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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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.