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Van3ssaV 🦋

@shewithcapitalv.bsky.social
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"We are here to laugh at the odds & live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us". Charles Bukowski One foot in front of the other 👣 Prefer climbing rock to the social ladder. An immigrant's daughter. Gooner 🔴⚪ 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 Art by @tokyosexwhale

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Van3ssaV 🦋 @shewithcapitalv.bsky.social · 1m
Looking forward to my haircut & my hair dyed for the *first time* later. Nothing exciting, just something to cover the greys, as part of my ongoing mid-life crisis ☺️ I'm hoping to look younger after! Like this cutie 😅
A SE Asian baby with *big* hair
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milo @notthatmilo.eurosky.social · 1h
I'm using this on my phone. Highly recommended. You can log in with your regular Bluesky account but you can edit those annoying typos you spot after posting
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Johnny Terra Nova @johnnyterranova.bsky.social · 2h
Bayeux Tapestry in January 2027. Anyone got tips for a Canadian visitor?
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Michael Williams 🖕🏻 @mtdedhead.bsky.social · 7h
This is not our dog. The best thing about living in the woods is neighbor dogs swing by to say hi once in a while. 🐕 make yourself at home pal.
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Van3ssaV 🦋 @shewithcapitalv.bsky.social · 2h
Oh, only me up at stupid o'clock because my brain won't behave 😖 Morning all! I've got myself a big mug of coffee, so there's that. Plus I'm getting my hair cut & dyed (for the first time!) this afternoon so there's exciting 😅 Just breaaattthhheee ...😮‍💨
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Van3ssaV 🦋 @shewithcapitalv.bsky.social · 5h
Alright, I suppose 🙎🏻‍♀️ www.maptap.gg October 3 94🏅 95🏅 91👑 96🔥 92🏆 Final score: 935
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Van3ssaV 🦋 @shewithcapitalv.bsky.social · 5h
That was a hard one today 😖 Connections Puzzle #1210 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟦🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦
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Van3ssaV 🦋 @shewithcapitalv.bsky.social · 5h
🙄 Wordle 1,932 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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ɱίκε ΘĢ @mikeo-g.bsky.social · 11h
I mean, not strictly a Halloween Advent. But I can do a new profile pic every day throughout October I guess. So, a bit late, but it's Alien.
John Hurt looking a bit surprised to see me bursting out of his chest.
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Van3ssaV 🦋 @shewithcapitalv.bsky.social · 10h
I stupidly watched that Suella QT clip again & the guy saying "Ian Wright, Bukayo Saka" towards the end made me remember when I was living in France & how I was part of the group known as "Les Anglais qui habitent en Batiment D" & how as the only non-white English of the group ...
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Mr. Bea Arthur, Batshit Crazy™️ @steamymac.bsky.social · 12h
Don’t argue with morons. Even when you win, you’re kinda losing.
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Van3ssaV 🦋 @shewithcapitalv.bsky.social · 12h
I've eaten too many Korean chicken wings. I'm so stuffed 😮‍💨
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Fat Cat Lies Down
ALT: Fat Cat Lies Down
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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ross Kemp's arm is accidentally brushed. #TheTraitors #CelebrityTraitors #TraitorsUK
Ross Kemp as Grant Mitchell looking stressed in walford.
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Van3ssaV 🦋 @shewithcapitalv.bsky.social · 13h
I want Maya's fur. I *love* it! 🥰 #CelebrityTraitors
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Van3ssaV 🦋 @shewithcapitalv.bsky.social · 14h
I've caught up with last night's Celebrity Traitors now & I am *deceased* with laughter at Ross Kemp. Oh my god, his touching thing was hilarious 🤣🤣 And I *love* Maya Jama & Bella Ramsey. So pleased those two are in it. I'm hooked! 🪝 It's so good already! 😅
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Van3ssaV 🦋 @shewithcapitalv.bsky.social · 15h
Catching up on last night's Celebrity Traitors before this night's Celebrity Traitors ... It's all glamour round here 😅
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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 15h
It all started going wrong for Cruise when he forgot how to get out of a car
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Van3ssaV 🦋 @shewithcapitalv.bsky.social · 15h
There is this type of unprecedented medical research on the treatment for cancer that all these people with their spare billions could help with ... Instead they choose to fund hate & division. It astounds me & makes me sad.
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Van3ssaV 🦋 @shewithcapitalv.bsky.social · 16h
😌
Stockport Is A Town In Greater Manchester in the LU Roundel
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Van3ssaV 🦋 @shewithcapitalv.bsky.social · 16h
Me reading your posts
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Suddenly Tim @3shirts.co.uk · 16h
Catch the train to London. Calling at... #AlanPartridge
London Underground Roundel Logo with the station name "Rejection"London Underground Roundel Logo with the station name "Disappointment"London Underground Roundel Logo with the station name "Backstabbing Central"London Underground Roundel Logo with the station name "Shattered Dreams Parkway"
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Van3ssaV 🦋 @shewithcapitalv.bsky.social · 16h
🧙🏼‍♂️
A Wizard Is Never Late on LU Roundel
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Van3ssaV 🦋 @shewithcapitalv.bsky.social · 16h
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Why Are You So Obsessed With Me? In the LU Roundel?
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Mark 🗿🗻🥾⛷️ @hairybadgeridfk.bsky.social · 17h
Oh, Julie It isn't coolie You're such a foolie Following willy-noolie Far too unruly Oh, Julie
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Van3ssaV 🦋 @shewithcapitalv.bsky.social · 17h
I've been videoing myself doing various things for people to pick up & follow in my absence next week & I'm very good if I say so myself 😌
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AnEasierAffair @aneasieraffair.bsky.social · 17h
Once more for those at the back and the hard of hearing…..
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Col @bigshirtlesscol.bsky.social · 17h
Sex after 50. Just you wait until I get you up them stairs, love...
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Van3ssaV 🦋 @shewithcapitalv.bsky.social · 18h
I'm working with a tech person so ridiculously handsome he could be in a film about Adonis. He's so sweet & young I don't think he realises how handsome he is & the effect of his beauty 😭😍 Well, on old lady me anyway 🤣 #youngmaaan
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Van3ssaV 🦋 @shewithcapitalv.bsky.social · 19h
Breturn Bregret Brejoin Bre-entry Backxit No, *you* shut up 🇪🇺
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 21h
no I'm sorry who told Le Monde we were calling it "Breturn", own up
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’m 54 and I honestly think this is as joyful now as it was when I was 4, in 1976:
A ripe Conner/horse chestnut/buckeye in my hand yesterday, ready to peel
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 23h
How many people know their heritage back five or six generations? I mean, all their heritage? I researched my own, when I was a teenager, and there were lots of gaps. (And don’t you dare mention DNA analysis at this point)
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Van3ssaV 🦋 @shewithcapitalv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Woke up to this poem 🖤 Wow. Beautiful, inspirational words.
Love After Love by De
rek Walcott
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Van3ssaV 🦋 @shewithcapitalv.bsky.social · 19h
I'm still hungry! 😭 Going to have some banana cake 🍰
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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 20h
This is art.
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LF Lightning-Barugh @cheeseford.bsky.social · 20h
Rubio's about to issue a statement.
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LF Lightning-Barugh @cheeseford.bsky.social · 20h
I've just taken a picture of an ammonite and used my phone's object identifier because I genuinely couldn't remember the proper name. No, Samsung. It is not.
Samsung Bixby Vision identifying an ammonite as an onion. A FUCKING ONION.
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Van3ssaV 🦋 @shewithcapitalv.bsky.social · 20h
In other news, I succumbed & turned the heating on now that it is October 😩😭
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Spanky Mcfarland Throwing Money from Window
ALT: Spanky Mcfarland Throwing Money from Window
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Van3ssaV 🦋 @shewithcapitalv.bsky.social · 20h
I'm having my first creamy chicken soup of the season for lunch. I'm very excited! It should be clucking good! You heard 😅
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HawaiiWoOoOoOoOorms @hawaiiworms.bsky.social · 20h
A Root Canal is where Australians go dogging
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Van3ssaV 🦋 @shewithcapitalv.bsky.social · 22h
I'm being that person again but in a call earlier, someone kept referring to this top as yellow when it's lime green ... right? Lime green not yellow? I'm correct, non? 😭 Lime green or yellow?! 😖
A lime green top with bright pink lettering
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Van3ssaV 🦋 @shewithcapitalv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Apparently today is World Smile Day ... so here is me, smiling at you 😁 Have good days! 😘
Me smiling at you on World Smile Day 😁
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Energy to spare @cathectic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's a stunning image with so many layers... The colours, the nature (and colours) of the clouds, the contrast between natural and built environment, the contrast between old and modern buildings, the question of what the girl's thinking are all just a few to start with ! 😍
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Van3ssaV 🦋 @shewithcapitalv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
All of this 👇🏼
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Mark 🗿🗻🥾⛷️ @hairybadgeridfk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fuck off is she gatekeeping Englishness. Being English is a state of mind. It has fuck all to do with where you or your parents came from. It has fuck all to do with the colour of your skin or what you call God, if anything. Both these men are English. And she can fuck off.
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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
1930’s, Japan.
In a sepia-toned outdoor portrait from 1930s Japan, four siblings pose in a solemn, quiet row, presenting a striking visual study in cross-cultural childhood fashion. On the left, two younger girls sport identical, neatly trimmed bobbed hairstyles (okappa), their vibrant wafuku (traditional Japanese garments) patterned with bold chrysanthemums, autumn foliage, and dynamic geometric lattices. Beside them, a young boy wears a traditional short jacket (hanten) over dark trousers, while on the far right, their older sister stands poised in full Western dress (yōfuku)—wearing a structured cloche hat, a dark pinafore dress over a crisp collared blouse, dark stockings, and leather shoes. The scene invokes an intimate, multi-sensory atmosphere: the faint crunch of courtyard soil under leather shoes and wooden sandals (geta), the stiff rustle of starched cotton and woven silk, the cool autumn air brushing against young cheeks, and the breathless stillness of children holding their poses before the studio camera.
Captured during the early Showa period, this family portrait beautifully documents a defining cultural transition in Japanese dress history—the harmonious coexistence of traditional wafuku and Western-style yōfuku within a single household. During the 1920s and 1930s, younger children in urban and rural Japan were frequently dressed in colorful printed cotton or accessible meisen silk kimonos for family portraits and celebrations, while school-age youth increasingly adopted Western uniforms, cloche hats, and leather shoes as symbols of modern education and civic progress. The meticulous tailoring of the Western dress alongside the hand-sewn seams and tied sashes of the girls' kimonos reflects the spirit of monozukuri (artisanal care and textile craftsmanship) embedded within daily family life, recording a society navigating the threshold between inherited custom and modern global style.
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Van3ssaV 🦋 @shewithcapitalv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
No idea who she is but this photo I took of an unknown girl in Greenwich circa Autumn 2017 admiring the views of London just popped up in my memories. It's gorgeous isn't it? 🤎🧡
Girl standing in Greenwich looking at the views of London circa Autumn 2017
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Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s mind boggling. A colloquialism that very much depends on the context. The “why” not remotely mind boggling. The “how” very much so.
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Van3ssaV 🦋 @shewithcapitalv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fuck me, I'm so embarrassed for her 😣 Absolute clown 🤡
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Van3ssaV 🦋 @shewithcapitalv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This could be us, I'll bring the oranges 🍊😏
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