Daniel Pietersen
pietersender.bsky.social
Daniel Pietersen
@pietersender.bsky.social
“Oh, a card from Great Aunt Maude. What does it say? Let’s see.

Rose are red
Violets are blue
This robin is dead
I wish you were too.

Oh. I say.”
December 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Is lettuce even really a vegetable? It’s water that’s gone crunchy.
November 29, 2025 at 7:36 PM
“Oh so you like industrial? Name three pneumatic drills”
November 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
*walks in wearing Throbbing Gristle tshirt*

Hey now pipe down you kids
November 29, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Write a strong yet apologetic email to a Contact Us address that nobody will ever look at. Millennial solidarity.

*awkward fist bump*
November 29, 2025 at 1:14 AM
They are demon birds. The noise they make when roosting is brutal. Scone Palace have an albino one who looks like vampire Lucy from Coppola’s Dracula.
November 28, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I’ve heard red squirrels but they’re hard to see. There are peacocks up at Scone Castle but hard to say how wild they are. Angry, certainly.
November 28, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Mine would be similar but I’d swap parakeet for kingfisher
November 28, 2025 at 11:17 PM
People often feel something in the pit of their stomach when they think of me
November 28, 2025 at 8:43 PM
No, but sounds cool!
November 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I don’t drive either and a young beagle needs her miles underfoot. But, yeah, I know folk who will drive to the gym but find walking weird.
November 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I used it in a microfiction seminar as a way to use absence as a tool in itself
November 22, 2025 at 11:13 PM
A co-worker once asked me how my weekend had been and I said that the dog and I had gone on a 10 mile walk into the hills. He patently thought that was impossible.
November 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I like poetry that appears bad on the surface but is actually good.

John Cooper Clarke’s ‘Haiku No 1’
November 22, 2025 at 10:30 PM