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Samantha Virginia @thesammachine.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Any high anxiety comrades use music to slide into a different mental state? I mean it feels like sliding. One moment you are in a complete crisis over the state of the world and the next you are like a teenager again, isolated in your thoughts. What song do you use to do it? youtu.be/xrZLtV2XxMs?...

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Brutalismus 3000 - I Bring My Gun To The Function (with Boys Noize) (Official Video)

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Samantha Virginia @thesammachine.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

There is still good in the world. This iteration of fascism is created by humans and anything created by humans never lasts forever.

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Robbie Erickson Photography @robbieje.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Wild animals don't get depressed in nature. They get depressed in captivity. Think about where you spend most of your time Mentor Headlands State Park, Ohio #naturephotography #photography #cleveland #quote #stateparks #nature #goldenhour

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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Moraine Lake is a stunning, glacially-fed lake in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada 🇨🇦 famous for its vibrant turquoise water and the dramatic Valley of the Ten Peaks.

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Samantha Virginia @thesammachine.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

You think I’m scared of being perceived as inappropriate? Everything I do is inappropriate. I was born inappropriate. My existence is cringe. You can’t hurt me.

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Samantha Virginia @thesammachine.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I am so angry. My rage is overflowing with no bottom. Where is Kaali when you need her?

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Daniel Cummings @nathanbrazil.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

#vss365 #rerun She was not an infatuation, a well kept menagerie, as she feared. She had no idea how easily her warm spirit turned him into a soft ruin. The fireworks in her mind blinded her to the love he felt. He would enchant her with words, and for a moment her body would #sing with color.

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Samantha Virginia @thesammachine.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

He lay prone on the river bank among the roots of the elder willow. Its sallies brushed over his forehead like our mother had, checking for fever. I didn’t want to see him. He was dead. But when I approached, his chest moved. Head in my hands, I sat and wondered when it would be over. #vss365

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Samantha Virginia @thesammachine.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Anxiety: you will plant many crops in your garden in case of economic collapse ADHD: some of them might live. no promises.

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

TIDAL MEMORY — what the water keeps when the light forgets When the moon is silent, the ocean does not ask why. It only remembers the pull— not the light, but the shape absence leaves in water. I have learned this too: to move without being called. To arrive without knowing the shore.

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IrishLisa 🌈 @irishlisa.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

bleach the heavy page wash away the ink of ghosts paper still remembers #haikufeels #Prompt #Bleach #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #Perseverance

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Samantha Virginia @thesammachine.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

A pedophile is president And I still have to work Secret police abduct legal residents And I still have to work War with Iran is in view And I still have to work They say I best not watch the news And I’m about to go berserk. I say let’s take to the streets And really get to work. #poem #protest

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

#Bones winter peels back the skin of things branches once heavy with verdant life now stripped not even blood or sinew just soft greys and white and I stare at them and see fate #vss365

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Samantha Virginia @thesammachine.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I finished a book both loved and loathed by readers, it’s made to last at a whopping 1,024 pages. Is the world building original? Yes. Is the enemies to lovers arc kind of unbearable? Also yes. Could it have been edited more? Yes. But I like big books and I cannot lie. 1/2

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Samantha Virginia @thesammachine.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I met a woman who called herself the devil. Said she gave guitar players enough talent to make the whole world fall to its knees. I asked her how come they could play so good if they ain’t got no soul. She laughed and said she don’t take it until after they can’t play no more. #vss365

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Samantha Virginia @thesammachine.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

This winter of discontent feels like it may never end.

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Samantha Virginia @thesammachine.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

It took me a long time to write this review because the ending of this book made me so angry 😭 The writing was as powerful as Parable of the Sower if not more so but my god her daughter pissed me off SO BAD. I urge you to read it but prepare to be mad. That is all. 😆

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Woodley Dowar @wdowar.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Beyond excited to share that my #scifi short 'Mother to the Bomb' has been included in this month's brilliant issue of #SciFanSat This issue is all about 🔥, so if you like your sci-fi and #fantasy hot, make sure you check it out #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #Writing

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Daniel Cummings @nathanbrazil.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Where pale pink trees cast their charms on the snow beneath them, the sun catcher chases a mist along the curve of a ruby landscape, the light mandolin notes float up to me on the moonlit terrace, I have held you, even if only for a moment, and did not know. #WhistPr

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Samantha Virginia @thesammachine.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

“Choices? What choices? I’m in a burning building here. It’s burn or jump.” “Bitter words for the guy who started the fire.” He said this and took a drag of his cigarette. Put it out on the table. The irony was not lost on me as he cocked the hammer back on the 45. “So what’s it gonna be?” #vss365

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Samantha Virginia @thesammachine.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Almost forgot to review this gem I finished in October. A vampire novel cleverly concealed as historical western horror. This was by far his wildest and most ambitious work yet. I enjoyed it a lot but the ending was nuts. #thebuffalohunterhunter #bookreview

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Samantha Virginia @thesammachine.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

A knight so chivalric So pure of heart For any fair maiden He’d answer the call. But alas to his ruin And to her displeasure Both his brain and his sword Were fashioned too small #vss365

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Samantha Virginia @thesammachine.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

A perfectly #timed jab to a dying animal can take it down. Though many have previously punctured the mammoth creature struggling under its own weight. Empires die first from within. Only the final blow comes from without. Tick tock. #vss365

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Samantha Virginia @thesammachine.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

To remain #relevant and stay on social media media or to remain sane living as a hermit in the woods, that is the question. #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Inside the Fortune Tent, there is a boy with slick blonde hair and a pure white suit. We drink tea in silence, then he takes my cup and tips the leaves onto a #saucer. He twists them with a finger, smiles and rolls them with tobacco. As we smoke my future, he begins to cry. I don't ask why. #vss365

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Serena🪞🧿✨ @alethianstrata.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I’m shooting through the sky, caught in a wind current. I couldn’t hear them— I wouldn’t want to. Still, I sing out— my swan song: That God is a soulful egomaniac. And we are the reflection— forever witnessing, forever interpreting, through a mirror. #BlueskyRelay #Poetry #Poem #ThrowbackPoem

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Samantha Virginia @thesammachine.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

“How is the patient?” “Agitated. He keeps talking about how his robot wife he purchased won’t follow programming. But I’m confused, wasn’t he the android?” The doctor chuckled. “Yeah they tell them all they’re human. Less malfunctions that way. Call the wife and tell her to reboot.” #vss365

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Samantha Virginia @thesammachine.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

We’re all innocent when we’re asleep. It’s the waking up part that’s the problem.

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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

It was a good thing that the game made players’ characters insubstantial to each other or, in the tumult of the mêlée, things could #clash & get a little complicated. As it was, Rory found it difficult to see what each player did and he would often find himself attacking the same monsters. #vss365

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

#Clash the thing is all of us think we're good it's just that some hold rightness so tightly they'll starve children to prove it and this we must oppose #vss365

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Samantha Virginia @thesammachine.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

The man across the table started to sweat as I introduced my associate. “And w-what exactly does Mr. Grimley do?” He stuttered. “He does one thing. One thing only. Do we have a deal?” Mr. Grimley extended one clawed hand out to seal the covenant and suddenly the client was on the floor. #vss365

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Kat McKatKat @mckatkat.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

The problem with reading a bunch of Anne Rice novels in a short period of time is that sometimes I see a statue and I'm like, damn she would want to fuck that statue.

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Samantha Virginia @thesammachine.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Forever blown away by how powerful a simple phrase like ‘I am afraid’ can be. We walk around with all this armor of ego cocooning us, a mask projecting how capable we are, what kind of person we are, what our potential enemies should see. But the moment a person utters the words ‘I’m scared’ or

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Samantha Virginia @thesammachine.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Having a black cat means, never being certain if that is a pile of clothes on the floor or not. It also means not stepping on it just in case.

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Samantha Virginia @thesammachine.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

“Some men improve the world only by leaving it.” -Oscar Wilde 😘😘😘

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Samantha Virginia @thesammachine.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Damn your beautiful eyes and your beautiful hair. I have known more bearable tortures than the being speared through by a glimpse of the sharpened curve of your lips. #vss365

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Samantha Virginia @thesammachine.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

I’m glad bluesky exists but I miss the writing community I used to have before Twitter collapsed under the weight of all its fascists. Losing my support system sucks harder than Nancy Reagan.

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Samantha Virginia @thesammachine.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Val considered the “dog” squatting its wrinkled, gray paunch on the linoleum. “Is it even conscious?” “How dare you! Mr. Squeaks is young at heart.” Squeaks stared ahead with rheumy eyes, tongue hanging out like a dead lizard. I threw a treat and he swallowed it whole with a goblin noise. #vss365

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Samantha Virginia @thesammachine.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

While common elves were sometimes seen flitting from tree to tree and hiding amongst stones, a brownie was far more elusive. The little creature was known to wash dishes or fold laundry for a mere bowl of grain and honey before the last male of a breeding pair died in captivity in 1905. #vss365

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Samantha Virginia @thesammachine.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

We rise and fall. We crest and follow. The earth rises up to meet me and you are there. We hide in the long grass together and wait for the end. #vss365

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Samantha Virginia @thesammachine.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

A dust mote spins, soft and weary, down the midday stream of sunlight, A pilgrim searching, for a place to land. In the mundane, the spiritual. #vss365

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Samantha Virginia @thesammachine.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I don’t feel strong today. I can feel my spirit shivering and rattling around. Everything is a burden.

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Samantha Virginia @thesammachine.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

“He has been in prism for many years,” the bearer said sadly. I glanced at Gia, who looked just as confused. “Did it just say prism?” She shrugged. “I can hear you! Because they decided I needed these terrible human ears and human feelings. And I’m not an it. I’m a he… I think… probably- #vss365

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Samantha Virginia @thesammachine.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Can’t believe I almost forgot to review Parable of the Sower. This book is insanity. A dystopian novel that feels too real in 2025. Octavia Butler has a strong, distinct voice and she uses it to its full potential. Highly recommend if you have a strong stomach. #parableofthesower

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Samantha Virginia @thesammachine.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

This is probably the most unique work I have read so it’s hard to place a genre. I’d say Sci-fi would be close. If you’re looking to dip your toes into Sci-fi but you’re not sure how, this would be a good start, especially if you enjoy mystery. Worth the read for sure. #iwhohaveneverknownmen

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Samantha Virginia @thesammachine.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I knew I was looking cute today because an older gentleman held me against my will in the grocery store to tell me puns. Like clockwork.

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Samantha Virginia @thesammachine.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Finished this beauty not too long ago. It was a treat. Each story was worth a read, dripping with a sort of juicy, frantic horror. The author has a distinct voice. Big round of applause for Ms. Kamalei Kakimoto. #everydropisamansnightmare #bookreview

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Shon-Lueiss @shonlueiss.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Gods are like mirrors reflections of you and me brilliant, obscured #haiku #HaikuPoetry #vss365 #HaikuFeels #Poetry #PoetrySky #AmWriting #WritingSky #senryu

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