Mel Vil
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Mel Vil
@villemel.bsky.social
author, poet, photographer,

Play me at chess: https://link.chess.com/play/32aOC8
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The soul is the only bird that keeps its cage alive. 🕊️

As they say, we 'have bodies'; we are our essences. 🙏
I broke bsky. Didn’t take long!
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Little wonder chatbots are so popular given how unlikely it is for anyone to respond here.
November 25, 2025 at 1:03 PM
What does it mean when you wish for something that you already have?
November 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Too big to FaiL
November 25, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Amid the cute animals pictures, the photos from solitary walkers and the political rage bating lies a small strip of land called ‘me’.

Say ‘hi’ if you’re also so abnormal as to not fit in to the above categories.
November 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Another day another follower! At this rate I’ll be popular by the time social media implodes.
November 25, 2025 at 12:38 PM
It’s important to express your feelings of guilt.

Your fear of incriminating yourself is destroying the world.
November 25, 2025 at 10:04 AM
When your profile picture has a photo-bank watermark 🤷🤦🏻😅
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Who would have guessed?!
November 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Illegal dumping now pays more than other forms of organised crime in the UK.

It’s a different world than the one I knew.
November 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Keep posting the truth, see how many people are interested!
November 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
People in the West are so hooked on regime change that they are now calling for it at home!
November 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The cost of brokering peace tomorrow equals the cost today plus overnight casualties.
November 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Time marches on, never ending ⏳
November 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I feel like I’m caught in a love triangle.

I’m in one corner and everyone else is split evenly into two camps.
November 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Politicians keep promising to ‘elevate the voices of the people,’ which apparently means turning activists into unpaid CRM extensions.

Democracy’s become a feedback form with a flag on it.
November 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Chess is about more than thinking a few moves ahead; you also have to know what your opponent will do at each stage.
November 24, 2025 at 10:42 AM
I used to have a low opinion of Trump supporters, still do in fact.

It’s just his critics are now making them look relatively intelligent.
November 23, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I used to fall in with the wrong crowd.

Now I just wish I could fall in with a crowd.
November 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Don’t you find it odd how ‘grassroots activism’ tends now to mean meeting your side’s need for metrics.

Power used to want you to believe, now it mostly wants your keystrokes.
November 23, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The wildest thing about social media is that everyone claims to be ‘speaking truth to power’ while mostly auditioning for a bigger algorithmic cage.

Outrage feels radical until you realise it’s just unpaid data entry.
November 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Every political ‘debate’ now feels like two marketing departments throwing slogans at each other while congratulating themselves on their moral courage.

Ideology has become the haute couture of narcissism—expensive, disposable, and worn mainly for photos.
November 23, 2025 at 11:36 AM
If phubbing affects real life relationships, what’s its opposite do to online ones?
November 23, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Politics has devolved into two tribes accusing each other of illiteracy while neither seems willing to read anything longer than a headline.

Partisanship isn’t a belief system anymore—it’s an attention-economy side hustle.
November 23, 2025 at 9:30 AM
We keep calling it a ‘culture of connection,’ yet most people panic when faced with a real conversation.

Loneliness isn’t a condition anymore; it’s a design feature.
November 23, 2025 at 9:02 AM