J. Neutral @j-neutral.bsky.social · 5m#vss365 - #calm Tiger Balm calm, with camphor (external use only), cousin to peppermint plus these ampules of laughing gas: makes the time pass more slowly in a condition just shy of bliss, a notch above boredom, a kind of well-worn crease in a wild stand of imagined trees. 000
Reposted by J. NeutralThe Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · 08/10/2026Congratulations to Anne Carson, winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Literature! www.theguardian.com/books/live/2...theguardian.comCanadian poet Anne Carson wins Nobel prize in literature 2026 – liveDecision announced by permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy 216754
Reposted by J. NeutralGemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 06/10/2026a Dickensian office in the 19th century was buried in bundles of loose papers stashed in boxes only specialised clerks knew where special papers slept one missing paper ignited a frenzy a #hurricane at Category 5 #vss365 #poetry 0143
J. Neutral @j-neutral.bsky.social · 04/10/2026#2WordPrompt In the last years before their extinction, the cows of the continental #herd, once silent, would #produce a lowing choral drone to mark the presence of danger; mourn a significant death; or simply to acknowledge the time they felt running down amid scarcity. 160
J. Neutral @j-neutral.bsky.social · 04/10/2026#vss365 - #harbour The ferry across the harbour in my hometown would either take you to the library or to the mental hospital 0173
J. Neutral @j-neutral.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Zhuangzi clearly thinking about AI in the 4th century BCE: 241
J. Neutral @j-neutral.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This is chilling. These people need to get the fk out of public life, pronto. 000
Reposted by J. NeutralLev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Happy birthday Steve Reich appy birthday Steve Reich H ppy birthday Steve Reich Ha py birthday Steve Reich Hap y birthday Steve Reich Happ birthday Steve Reich Happy birthday Steve Reich Happy irthday Steve Reich Happy b rthday Steve Reich Happy bi thday Steve Reich Happy bir 14463124
Reposted by J. NeutralSean Thomason @seanthomason.bsky.social · 03/10/2026People say it’s hard to feel “spooky season” when it’s 100 degrees but actually the sun melted my ninja turtle mask onto my face permanently and now I stalk the neighborhood at night with twin katanas, so it all works out. 0518
J. Neutral @j-neutral.bsky.social · 02/10/2026“I get a lotta heat when I say that.” Which is exactly why he says that. 000
J. Neutral @j-neutral.bsky.social · 02/10/2026#vss365 - #cloud Clouds emerge from floating motes, dapple vacuum and congregate further into stars, spiky scintillators, performing for gawkers with telescopes and moping poets (both made of dust too) equally full of wishes and sulky disinterest. 0141
Reposted by J. NeutralMostlyPaul @quantumfairy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026#vss365 A winged creature of light, covered in eyes, rested under an oak in Ephrah, & it called for the thresher of wheat. When the thresher saw the vision, he became aware of his lack of #purity. His soul felt as if it were robed in a lead garment, & he fell to his knees under the weight. 0163
J. Neutral @j-neutral.bsky.social · 28/09/2026#photography #blackandwhite #urbanlandscapes #architecture #newtopographics #abstract 0161
J. Neutral @j-neutral.bsky.social · 28/09/2026#vss365 There’s a fee to #renounce your citizenship (a parting shot) and you walk out the door of the consulate into a world ridden with names, but in which you have no such name. Are you even a person if no one claims you? Can you live? The pigeons are nameless too, so you do as they do. 0142
Reposted by J. NeutralJohn Carpenter’s The Alex Nevil @thealexnevil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Nothing cuter than a puppy. Except maybe a puppy carrying the severed head of an enemy. 14722
J. Neutral @j-neutral.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I think it’s important to keep in mind that about 50% of Americans, +/- 1% depending, are total assholes. An asshole result is never really a surprise. 000
J. Neutral @j-neutral.bsky.social · 27/09/2026#vss365 - #nurture Scuttling the garbage barge, you show a kind of self-care, nurture the loser in you; you sink straight to the bottom of a great black mountain lake to find lost monsters. 0165
J. Neutral @j-neutral.bsky.social · 27/09/2026#2wordprompt - #tackle / #storm Creaking pulleys of the block and tackle raise sails I could not on my own, here with this storm bearing down. Wave-tossed, but in the company of simple machines such as these, I am never alone. 050
J. Neutral @j-neutral.bsky.social · 26/09/2026#photography #blackandwhite #urbanlandscapes #architecture #newtopographics #doubleexposure 0182
J. Neutral @j-neutral.bsky.social · 26/09/2026#2wordprompt - #session / #owner Session rules: one, you bring your own and don’t mooch. two, you’re the owner and sole proprietor of whatever psychedelic ephemera / entities you thaumaturge into the space: basically, you break it, you buy it. three, be a friend. 050
J. Neutral @j-neutral.bsky.social · 25/09/2026#vss365 i. Reckoning the distance of a portage in pigtail lengths of which three made a pony, the pathfinder, daughter, records her journeys ii. Windburned, feather-haired, she conjures a flotilla of passing canoes in the maze of interior lakes, she their voyageur pointing to a navigator’s star 1153
J. Neutral @j-neutral.bsky.social · 24/09/2026#photography #blackandwhite #urbanlandscapes #architecture #newtopographics 0141
J. Neutral @j-neutral.bsky.social · 24/09/2026#2wordprompt - #inflict / #announce flutter wings of messenger announce expectant! girl recoils, demurs this inflict of divine chimera though by providence & official record it was simply Magnificat 071
J. Neutral @j-neutral.bsky.social · 24/09/2026There’s a chance Trump-ism dies with him, but I don’t know. If the opposition wins back the government, they’re going to have to do a revolutionary job of turning everyday life around in your country or who knows what rough beast will be slouching your way. 000
J. Neutral @j-neutral.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It will never not be astounding to me how MAGA managed to reanimate the corpse of Kid Rock’s relevance from early 2000s social death and obscurity. The amount we’ve been made to think about Kid Rock over the last few years is easily a war crime. 000
J. Neutral @j-neutral.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Totally. I’m a bit streaky by nature, the bat just goes cold and I’ll hit .200 for a spell. 010
Reposted by J. NeutralB.C. Freeman @bcpf.bsky.social · 16/09/2026#Autumn of the Sun Oceans to boil Hat of the finest foil. Fall tealeaf illiterate For who on first right after barbiturate We both by fire So: equitable. Considerate. Whatever your heart desires Under the chalk-dry and spar spire To radiate heat To burn, to never tire. #vss365 082
J. Neutral @j-neutral.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Take away the sketchy VAR goal and what are you left with? A nil-nil draw at home in the Manchester derby having played against 10 men almost the entire game. Anti-performance of the season, to be sure jfc 100
J. Neutral @j-neutral.bsky.social · 13/09/2026#2wordprompt - #temple / #stay The temple of the radios was full of cats neither truly listening nor broadcasting but nonetheless there to stay arch-backed hissing in unison with the static of the waves. #cat #poetry #writingcommunity 0226
J. Neutral @j-neutral.bsky.social · 13/09/2026#vss365 - #esoteric scratched at, cat scrapes the floor these snacks (so-called) teaming with an esoteric wrongness clear to the average feline mind but opaque to me human, clearly nearly blind 1263
Reposted by J. Neutralher ghost @justasilvia2.bsky.social · 08/09/2026temporary grace our moonglade is a thin strip on fluid deceit #vss365 #prompt #moonglade #haiku #writingcommunity 1338
Reposted by J. Neutral⛳ 🎭 Edward Rinaldi 🐐 🍉 @blindedbeatpoet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026draw ward circle sur sill socio econo nada pax romano from the well do thy manifest salt and marrow core of the Sun Saturn in the vest 041
J. Neutral @j-neutral.bsky.social · 07/09/2026#2wordprompt - #holiday #retain Desperate to retain tradition, the burghers insisted on the celebration of what amounted to a fictional holiday: exchanging gifts that never were, treacly greetings exhorting each other to unfamiliar virtues, visits to relatives so distant no one knew their names. 0132
J. Neutral @j-neutral.bsky.social · 06/09/2026#vss365 - #adroit Adroitness of hand carves the ivory chessmen, little funeral stelae animating dead royals in verticals and diagonals; adroitness of manner carves a vacant smile on the lips concealing contempt as the chamberlain blunders his queen and his dignity. 0191
J. Neutral @j-neutral.bsky.social · 06/09/2026#SillySeptember - #wurb It was asked once, skeptically, in a popular song what it’s got to do with it. But there among the gongs and cymbals it lurks, gently —the #wurb that surpasses all understanding. 0101
J. Neutral @j-neutral.bsky.social · 05/09/2026#2wordprompt - #sparkle #wet Our last memories were of transformation: spark became sparkle, water became wet, qualities hauled out of their things like souls, just like us, as we forgot all about the radio having fallen into the bathtub. 0101
J. Neutral @j-neutral.bsky.social · 05/09/2026#vss365 #reconnoiter Territory is what remains when all the maps have been abandoned — you can reconnoiter but no longer remember. There’s nothing left to measure. The culture dissolves into the landscape, and there’s nothing to differentiate — who knows where you start and end? 0196
J. Neutral @j-neutral.bsky.social · 01/09/2026#dailyhaikuprompt - #spice (north) #haiku #poetry space war over coriander in factions —the spice must pho 0150
