I think the United States is conspiring against the United States
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I think the United States is conspiring against the United States
stroking her hair cornsilk moon #vsscolors #haiku
More blooming roses today
when there is nature, there is a promise, of life.
Self-portrait in a portacabin window, Suffolk #WindowsOnWednesday
Dandelions for breakfast
Bargibant’s Pygmy Seahorse. #AGoodPlace Video credits: www.instagram.com/reel/C5iNmVf...
Hehe, I just dig these tiny plume moths! That face!! Is that moth man? #invertefest #insects
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ginger sweets this long slow journey to autumn #DailyHaikuPrompt (spice)
I see world leaders are getting their penises out again and admiring how big they are, as if size ever mattered. The synchronised march of masochistic obedience. Another great display of humanity's incompetence. We've already laid waste to much of our very tiny and only home. #worldleaderspretend
English documentary photographer Janette Beckman, Tracy Chapman, New York, 1988 #WomensArt
Eyemouth memorial to sailors lost at sea captures beautifully the sense of anguish.
Your words shine, even in the dark ♥️✍️
Love this story ♥️✍️😘
Hope #eludes her, fading like night in the shining city. Streetlights scare the darkness out of the sky, bringing it down to fill her head. She would sleep, but lately that eludes her too, so she'll count stars. One, two. It's not enough. #vss365
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I think our hearts be in sync, Margaret... ♥️🌸❤️
Love this, Margaret... I said, I love this ❤️😁
the thing that (say again) the thing that voice on pause or am I stuttering the thing that mind reroutes message returns again pillow on my head turn off the radio cancel my newspaper (sorry kid) the thing that #eludes is a way out shipwreck reality designing us our numb humanity~ #vss365 (eludes)
"Well, I think we should go see her before she turns every book ever written to poo!" Longrass scratched behind his ear, enjoying the feeling of being a mouse once again. "Of course, there will be the odd tale that #eludes her." "We could get the bookworm to eat her sheep." Gee pondered. #vss365
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Thanks Danny, you seem to have mastered it, looking at your lovely flowers 🌸
A calm good morning from this aquatic plant producing oxygen: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatis...
“If you stay aligned with your inner child, you’ll always feel forever young.” Bhuwan Thapaliya🖤 #nn
Thank you rain… our pond is SO much happier now! #pond #wildlifepond
How far down the stem do you cut... I planted loads of roses this year and just learning my way
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Paper corners and a tree for life. #writing
What beauties ❤️
Good morning Tuesday friends! I was up too late to be a true early bird today, but here are some roses from my garden to kick start the day!
Sometimes it is always out of reach. On 2 September 2025, the #vss365 prompt word is: Elude. “It is those that we live with and love and should know who #elude us.” (Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It) #prompt #elude
I was given feedback last year that my calendar needed to be ready earlier! So, for all you lovely organised people who are already buying their calendar for next year… www.charlottestrawbridge.co.uk/product-page...
In between the rain this morning the sky lit up with shades of orange. Glastonbury Tor hopefully starting to look a bit greener again.
Vincent van Gogh. The Mulberry Tree in Autumn. Oil on Canvas c.1889.
Two remarkable Ambassadors for our Planet, 99 year old Sir David Attenborough and 91 year old Dr. Jane Goodall. They’ve dedicated their lives to educate and protect.. 🌍 #janegoodall #davidattenborough #nature #chimpanzees #wildlife #environment #drjanegoodall #jane #sirdavidattenborough #bbc #bsky
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Monday morning blues. #BlueskyMonday 📷 #photography
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poetic opus bridges meaning with the past the end writes itself #Melancholyverse #poetic #haikuchallenge #opus #vss365 #past #haiku #art by Polykrom
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She knows rebirth can't erase her #past — even Persephone had to go home — but she yearns to shine, to take her place between Alkaios and Oneiros as part of the constellation of Hope. #vss365
"What?" The girl swooped her soft-as-web, thin arms around Gee's waist. "No. No, silly. A sheep pen." "I know what you meant." She kissed the girl, soft upon her cheek. "The dragon we knew is a thing of the #past. Vigil is a mighty Empress now. In some ways, worse than those foul rats. #vss365
Books from my past will provide the prompt words. So it’s fitting that today, 1 September 2025, the #vss365 prompt word is: Past. “Anyone can create the future but only a wise man can create the #past.” (Vladimir Nabokov, Bend Sinister) Image: lux werk (Pexels) #past #prompt
Hello again. Firstly, Mr. Greenwood (@bowengreenwood.bsky.social) definitely deserves praise for being such an excellent host! We will remember his tenure. I'll be the #vss365 host from 1-15 September. My prompt posts will go up at 6 AM in GMT. I'm looking forward reading your inventive stories.
Everytime I see a thistle, I wistfully think back to my time in Scotland, and #yearn to return one day, to Edinburgh and all the other places that I love. So I take the high road... #vss365
Hawthorn #fruits for #wildflowerhour #Yorkshire
the day your kids learn you’re a baddie
Autumn colours and #Fruits. Ragwort, Brambles, Dogwood and Autumn hawkbit in Ely. #WildflowerHour
A cheery yellow Snapdragon brightening up the kerb of one of my local roads for #WildflowerHour.
Love your mind ♥️ that yearn for matter
She #yearns for rebirth like comets yearn for the embrace of a star, like the cold expanse of space yearns for matter. Any three points form a triangle, but if one flies away there is no constellation, only a straight line from fertility to the fall. #vss365
Kaoru Yamada #Art
Dandelion seedhead in the setting sun. It’s feeling quite Autumnal. #wildflowerhour #sunset #dandelionClock
The Black horehound under the garden hedge is still going strong. Photo from last weekend. #WildflowerHour
Driveway Herb Robert. #WildflowerHour
Many many Sloes. Plenty for the birds and a few for the gin. #Fruits #WildflowerHour
"While I don't #yearn for the rats to return," Longrass peeled flattened balls of poo from his feet, "I would like a little clean space to lie down and sleep." "And what of the dragon?" Kay scanned the horizon. "Will she not shepherd these creatures into pens." "So they can write a tale?" #vss365
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What a sensuous write ♥️
She plants pomegranate seeds in his scars while he sleeps. By autumn, his old wounds itch and swell. He wakes to find her tonguing soft rubies from his belly. "I've been yearning," she purrs, offering him juicy seeds from her sticky hands. It stings. #vss365 #yearn
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sea mist blows in beach crows laughing salty as ghost pirates #DailyHaikuPrompt (mist)
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😁 woof justice
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Trees in a meadow with poppies in bloom, c.1905 by Juliette Wytsman, Belgian impressionist painter #WomensArt #August #UnlockingWomensArt
People who push Christian nationalism hate it when actual Christians speak up because of course “Christian” really means “white”
sunday morning stillness the coffee steam rises a single bird’s song holds the whole sky in its fragile beak
It's the best of sounds. Thank you ♥️
If you need a minute…✨
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Do I #yearn for you, not much, I miss the lightness of your touch the warmth of hands that held my own, memory tells me I am not alone yet you are gone, the heart I used to hold a wounded bird which faded into air, yes I miss you sometimes, but only when you are not there #vss365
#Yearn is a word that I don’t like So I’m going to let it burn With all the other once upon a yearns I no longer feel its dire desire My core now tangos with fire I walk like a flame My heart doesn’t break It bends at my will untamed #vss365
#VSS365 #prompt #YEARN The VSS365 word for Aug 31, '25 is YEARN - to deeply, emotionally desire something lost or unattainable. "Hobbits in Mordor yearn for the Shire." With that, I yield the floor to C. S. Voll (@stephlepht.bsky.social) who will post prompts beginning 1 Sept. at 6am GMT
We could tell by looking at the #constellations in the dark sky, we were all driving backwards, heading to Salem, 1692. #vss365
One more reminder: my time as #VSS365 host will end after my last prompt at 1pm GMT on August 31. Say hello to C. S. Voll (@stephlepht.bsky.social) posting prompts at 6am GMT beginning September 1. Thank you for the honor of serving.
These people were always out there, they just have a microphone now, and like dust gathering unto dust in the void of space, their voices gain in mass, and before you know it, there's a whole planet of nonsensical thought floating around a most sensible star
Just enjoying the dynamism of English modernist Cyril Power’s linocut ‘The Tube Station’ (1932)
Morning, Rachel ♥️
Morning. Bluebeard and Gloriana, Peacocks on the terrace at Rode Hall, Cheshire, Walter Crane.
'A swoop of swallows' by UK textile artist Rachel Wright, machine embroidered on calico with various fabrics #UnravellingWomensArt #summer
#Shiny moonlit sea for #BlueSkyArtShow this week. #photography #EastCoastKin #moon #seascape #nature #astrophotography #landscapephotography
I am a Boston commuter and I am in South Station multiple times a week. I am in gun violence prevention work & I think about violence every day. I think that makes me uniquely qualified to comment on the potential federal takeover of South Station to address crime & violence. It’s total BS… 1/
This is my new favorite little chonk! INat says a Louisiana painted dark bee, what a cutie! #insects #bees
BBC Radio 2 Sounds of the 80s with Gary Davies Now Playing The Cure Close To Me
Downham Post Office for today's #PostboxSaturday – posted in 1906 to Miss Holden in Hurst Green: Dear Cousin, we did not get much wet coming home. I was very glad you did not make us any tea as we do not want any when have only come that distance. #PostedInThePast
'My memories don’t feel as though they’ve been pulled up by the root. Even if they fade, something remains. Like tiny seeds that might germinate again if the rain falls.' Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police #BookWormSat (dystopias) 🎨 Aya Takano
I could feel & see the sky burn, at the ends of creation. I wondered was this how it had all started; a full circle. Shouting pulled me out of my thought: “Quick father! The ship will be leaving soon.” Never had I imagined, my end of life days, would be on another planet. #scifansat #scifi #vss
Really am going to miss this one! Onward! #artistatwork #painting #artsold is best art! lol.
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There are few stars in the bright city's sky; her finger traces an ever-widening #constellation between Vega and Venus and the lights of a Virgin Airlines redeye to London. She calls it Persephone, goddess of rebirth. #vss365
‘Nibbling’ 20x20cm oil on canvas, £260, available now www.charlottestrawbridge.co.uk/product-page... #wildlifeartist #squirrel #artforsale
Gorgeous ♥️
#Shiny beautiful. Thick-legged flower beetle on Mexican fleabane. #BlueskyArtShow 📷 #photography
Swirling, obscuring, Weighty smothering cloud, I can't see my path, #dailyhaikuprompt (mist) #haiku #booksky #writersofbluesky #poetsofbluesky
AVAILABLE NOW: Issue 25 of #SciFanSat has fired up its hyperdrive and is available at scifansat.com! Come visit our worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and More! Many thanks to all who contributed. Every #SFF author and reader participating enriches the magazine! #AmWritingScifi #AmWritingFantasy
