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Sue Archer 🍁 @suearcher.bsky.social · 3h

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

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Suzanne Purkis @hypoxia75.bsky.social · 2h

I love this!

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Suzanne Purkis @hypoxia75.bsky.social · 2h

Happy almost Halloween! 🎃

Four jack-o'-lanterns sit on a black and red checkered tablecloth. Each pumpkin has been carved with a different face, and all the jack-o'-lanterns are lit up with tea light candles. Happy Halloween!

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Suzanne Purkis @hypoxia75.bsky.social · 5h

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

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Suzanne Purkis @hypoxia75.bsky.social · 1d

It's always dog o'clock.

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Suzanne Purkis @hypoxia75.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Suzanne Purkis @hypoxia75.bsky.social · 3d

Lolsob

Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 3d

The Ford Government Has A Special Message For Ontario Renters

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q78K...

The Ford Government Has A Special Message For Ontario Renters

YouTube video by Clare Blackwood

www.youtube.com

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Suzanne Purkis @hypoxia75.bsky.social · 3d

Definitely not for the faint of heart. But I know of such a place... just off the path near the Canada Post buildings.

If I don't make it back, let the flowers know that I went down fighting.

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Suzanne Purkis @hypoxia75.bsky.social · 3d

Wait, flowers talk to you? I'm totally not jealous, but maybe you could tell me your secret?

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Suzanne Purkis @hypoxia75.bsky.social · 3d

Someone better give that copywriter a bonus!

Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 3d

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

Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre

Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast)

Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."

Suzanne Purkis @hypoxia75.bsky.social · 3d

OMG, that is brilliant! 😂

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Suzanne Purkis @hypoxia75.bsky.social · 5d

But do check out the amazing pots that @roseschmits.bsky.social makes!

Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 7d

Pretty porcelain pots available on www.roseschmits.com
Worldwide safe shipping available!

Suzanne Purkis @hypoxia75.bsky.social · 5d

Don't normalize fascism.

Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 5d

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

Suzanne Purkis @hypoxia75.bsky.social · 6d

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

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Suzanne Purkis @hypoxia75.bsky.social · 13d

I mean, I have all this nitrogen and phosphorus anyway...

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Suzanne Purkis @hypoxia75.bsky.social · 13d

Oh well, indeed!

Maybe one of the new beings will let me catch a ride on their spaceship?

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Suzanne Purkis @hypoxia75.bsky.social · 17d

Flowers for autumn 🍂🍁

#orangeflowers #autumnisthebest

An orange rose peeks up from a bouquet of orange crush roses and green leaves.

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Suzanne Purkis @hypoxia75.bsky.social · 21d

You already had me at caffeine pass, but glittery caffeine pass is magnitudes better!

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Suzanne Purkis @hypoxia75.bsky.social · 24d

Thank you!

Suzanne Purkis @hypoxia75.bsky.social · 24d

You are freaking amazing.

two women in fur coats are standing next to each other in a room .

Alt: Two women in fur coats are standing next to each other in a room, clapping and jumping up and down.

media.tenor.com

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Suzanne Purkis @hypoxia75.bsky.social · 24d

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

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Suzanne Purkis @hypoxia75.bsky.social · 25d

Who's a beautiful old man?

(Koji is!)

A beautiful fluffy white Alaskan Malamute is curled up and all sleepy faced on a blue sofa.

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Suzanne Purkis @hypoxia75.bsky.social · 25d

See what we can do when we work together to fight Nazis. This is beautiful.

Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social · 26d

Wow, the University of Washington's Psych 201 class does *not* play

go fuckin Huskies

Nazi UW students fuck off

Suzanne Purkis @hypoxia75.bsky.social · 25d

This is amazing! And you're right, there are more of us, which is so important to remember when you're reading all the news headlines these days.

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Reposted by Suzanne Purkis

Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 27d

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.

JOIN US FOR THE LAUNCH OF
THE FIRST THOUSAND TREES
PREMEE MOHAMED
MONDAY
OCTOBER 20
7:00-8:30 PM

PERFECT
BOOKS
258A ELGIN ST,
OTTAWA

Author Premee Mohamed in
conversation with Kate Heartfield

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