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Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 44m

As a species we've had Mozart who composed from his pre school years. Da Vinci who painted the anatomically correct human body. Walton and Cockcroft who split the #atom. And you want to go to McDonald's for dinner on our first date? I was thinking something like the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
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Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 1d

Most people think that thoughts the shape of cute fairies #hover above us in the ether. That they float aimlessly until our head collides and are absorbed into our minds like water. But really - we are the ones drifting in the sea, with jaguars, tigers and monsters hunting us relentlessly.
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Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 1d

Achievement unlocked 🤣🤣

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Thea O'Ryan Files @theaoryanfiles.bsky.social · 2d

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Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 2d

You'd think commanding an #android army would be easy, because they have to follow all the rules. But that was exactly the problem. "Orders do not comply with 04568 functionality do you wish to override?"
"Yes!"
"Override requires executive input. Provide level 6 password and code."
"#!#@!"
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Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 2d

Brilliant 🤣

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FizzytwizlerAllsortsOfAllsorts @fizzytwizler.bsky.social · 2d

It was the big IOS #Android debate that made her heart flutter during the blind date.
She was happy for a 2nd one. But he saw the tiny flash in her eye.
He was an IOS user only. So that meant not even dating an android.
Her little shiny heart was going to get dented.

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Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 2d

Love it 👏

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Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 3d

Her memories had become #arid, like cracked plates of text buried under sand for decades. It was hard to decipher what it all meant from the sporadic flashes of clues. She fought to remember though, kept pacing her room in a square pattern as though marking out a boxing ring.
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Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 4d

She thought staying on a farm retreat would give her the refresh and reset she needed. But the animal noise was worse than the busy traffic and drunk revellers in her city street. The worst was the #unearthly honk of a gaggle of geese at three am. She was going to need a strong coffee.
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Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks for the prompts 😁

Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 4d

The day started as usual; conversimg with a #beetle. He lolled in the chair, slurping coffee, "You think too much, just let change happen. Why only last week I was a bumblebee."
I explained again it was easy to radically transform when someone else was working to keep a roof over you.
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Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you. Great prompt!

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Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 5d

What's the difference between this standard and #deluxe poetry book?
The standard version is just the text - but the deluxe, that contains original drafts and a soundtrack.
Oh, the poet reading aloud?
No - the sound of their pen scratching out words, and the flicker of a candle as it burns.
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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 7d

Resharing this one-line poem by Czesław Miłosz for #smallpoemsunday

Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 9d

Czesław Miłosz

On the need to draw boundaries
Wretched and dishonest was the sea.

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Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 6d

They say you can feel the air change when evil walks into the room. With her you felt it, and tasted it. The #undertones of the underworld being force-fed to you. You'd think it would be awful, but heck it was delicious. Vanilla, cinnamon, plum and honey - mixed with stale ash and light.
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Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 7d

🤣🤣

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Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 7d

Exactly 🤣

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Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 7d

Paul the unpopular #piranha was perpetually proselytising to the pool population. The press protects people, but promotes pugnacious piranha propaganda. We're polite and peace-loving, protest before we're packed off to prison in tempered glass panelled parks. But poll presence was pitiful.
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Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 8d

Mum said you must hang your #raincoat in the sun every day. Thank the seams for their strength, the fabric for warmth, the hood for protection, the buttons for togetherness, and the pockets for holding your secrets. Then when the sky cries, the coat will send your love to replace her tears. #vss365

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 8d

Some people collect books or stamps. Porter collects lonely people. He wears a long #raincoat, gray as a cloudy sky. He finds folks walking all alone and his magic coat pulls them inside.

I met all my friends inside these plastic pockets. It's nice to finally be included, isn't it?

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Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 8d

I love this 😍

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Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 9d

🤣🤣

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Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 9d

"He came right up, gave me a kiss on the cheek and slipped his card into my suit pocket. The #verve of the guy," Alice sipped her sparkling wine.
"Don't you mean nerve?"
"No, I loved it - refreshing like an after dinner mint."
"Are you going to call him?"
"Already did. First date tomorrow."
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Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you 😊

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