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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 8h

I don’t think there are too many Blueskyers who know about Schoharie. I do. And I remember those ubiquitous TV commercials about a country store that specialized in the sale of cheese.

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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 8h

#vss365 #haiku a sandy island in a dark blue sea the moon

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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 9h

#vss365 Against a blue sky someone's red kite wandered over the #island like a misplaced exclamation.

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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 13h

This one, WOW! flipped porch swing— the green sky freshly cut - Tre

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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 13h

#vss365 #island there is an ache in “Island Me” and the less it is understood, the worse the ache

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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 14h

#vss365 #haiku stranded on this #island, the impossible distance makes waves more vivid

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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 15h

Beautiful. I like. A post consisting of prose fitting perfectly with a graphic and going viral - there should be a word for that genre.

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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 16h

#vss365 #ALittleAboutMe I was born on the Isle of Long, an #island, just outside of Manhattan, that could be described as peaceful and charming if it weren’t for the 8 million obnoxious, pushy, pretentious people who live there. (I was, and still am, one of them in every way.)

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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 17h

Is this an AI generated video? If so, I have to learn how to do that. (maybe I should’ve said “Superintelligence” generated video)

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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 17h

Yes! And that would probably make a great Netflix limited series, with Emma Stone in the leading role.

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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 17h

#vss365 My crazy old grandfather would often claim that he was once the monarch of an #island kingdom, whose subjects always carried umbrellas. Often an umbrella would open unexpectedly in his home, and this he understood to be a warm salutation from his faithful subjects. I believed him.

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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 18h

It’s funny because it’s true.

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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 18h

That’s an actual video of me speaking my #vss365 posts aloud.

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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 18h

#vss365 #Rescue #Marooned /\ / \ I’m coming! _\/_ | / ! #sail __😔___!___ /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ #island

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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 18h

If a man could be two places at one time I’d be with you youtu.be/n-cK70DXsSA?...

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YouTube video by Bread - Topic

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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 18h

#vss365 #Questions #Introspection If you were fated to spend the rest of your life on a deserted #island, what one person would you be most tempted to take with you? what one person would be the best companion? Are the above the same person? If not, which of the two would you choose, and why?

Dr. Fred Freud asking us to introspect and looking deep into our souls with his piercing eyes.

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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 19h

Yes! And I think that social media, at its best, can be one.

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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 19h

although each of us #vss365 -ers alone, may be an #island :-/ together we are an archipelago :-)

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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 19h

Without #Bluesky, and it’s #Art, #Poetry, #Haiku, #Photography, #Painting and #vss365 we are all marooned on #islands of silence, staring at empty waves. Yay 😀 Bluesky! Yay 😁 us!!!!

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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 20h

she was right for him entirely he followed her into the playland of that evening where the headlong meeting of their ephemeral flesh on wheels hurtled them forever together - Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 20h

#vss365 #poetry Driving a cardboard automobile without a license at the turn of the century my father ran into my mother ona fun-ride at Coney #Island having spied each other eating : in a French boardinghouse nearby : And having decided right there and then ; that

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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#vss365 /\ / \ | #sail /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\

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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Your response, as always, is welcome.

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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So I have been posting in response to #vss365 prompts like today’s #sailing for just over a year now. I delete more than half each day, and the ones that remain are, at best, lame. So when do I get my participation award? I’m thinking about retiring.

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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#vss365 #epiphany So I was just sitting in the dark, free-associating to the #vss365 prompt, and it occurred to me that sometime, somewhere some seaman looked up at the moon and saw it as a #sail drifting across the sky’s black sea.

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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#vss365 When you think about it, the #sail is an amazing invention. Somewhere, sometime someone felt something invisible and thought, “This thing can take me somewhere“

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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#vss365 #sail #haiku lying on wet grass above, stars endlessly sailing dark, infinite seas

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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#vss365 We are paper boats set loose on rivers we can’t control. We pretend we can steer clear of the rocks. Truth is, we’ll eventually crash and sink. Still, the act of #sailing, of captaining our ship, is what matters most. It will define us.

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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#vss365 we #sail through the years some focus outward encountering what life brings some focus inward finding Self and understanding

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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#vss365 Old #sailors warn against trusting calm water too quickly. A sea can flatten into glass only moments before a #hurricane. The wise use quiet conditions not for celebration but for adjustment, repair and careful observation.

A detail from a Modigliani portrait, portraying an old man and suggesting the sea.

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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Outside the eye of a #hurricane: violent turbulence, torrential rain, extreme winds and flying debris. Inside: calm and patches of blue sky. (Bluesky?) Sitting, thinking and #vss365 ing is the eye of the hurricane of my day. Is it yours?

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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is an actual photo of me, taken at the harbor.

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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So I was just sitting in the dark, free-associating to the #vss365 prompt #harbour, and I had an epiphany. It occurred to me for the first time, that I was born in a harbour town. But in my case, it was a “harbor”town, New York. It was a harbor, before it became a city, and it remains one! 💡

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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#vss365 another #harbour night rocking, breathing I enter the silence between crashing waves

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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#vss365 #Freud #Drives turn around and walk away, or walk into the sea? suspended between the instinct to persist (Eros) and the #lure of dissolution and oblivion (Thanatos)

A painting of a man facing the sea in the storm.

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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#vss365 #Concepts #Contrasts #Lure is a concept stronger and darker than “attraction.” It connotes “bait”: an appealing surface that conceals a danger . . . . like me.

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