Cyrano (@vgvg) — Bluesky Profile

7 hours ago

Don’t be so precious, she yelled at me
I’ve no idea how you got this way
I’ll be getting tested, I respond
Then you won’t be able to call me precious
Unless it’s in a nice way.
For fuck sake, she yells to ears above

#vss365 #precious #poetry #poem #cyranovg

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19 hours ago

Clearly Dr. Seuss was a fan.

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1 day ago

The chalice from the palace holds the brew which is true.

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2 days ago

Poems for Lent (Day 19)

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1 day ago

Won them a trophy, got them into the Champions League. Instant Karma.

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2 days ago

Around the world, we are seeing chip factories, computer assembly plants, and AI factories being constructed at unprecedented scale. This is becoming the largest infrastructure buildout in human history.

The labor required to support this buildout is enormous. AI factories need electricians, plumbers, pipefitters, steelworkers, network technicians, installers, and operators.

These are skilled, well-paid jobs, and they are in short supply. You do not need a PhD in computer science to participate in this transformation.

At the same time, AI is driving productivity across the knowledge economy. Consider radiology. AI now assists with reading scans, but demand for radiologists continues to grow. That is not a paradox.

A radiologist’s purpose is to care for patients. Reading scans is one task along the way. When AI takes on more of the routine work, radiologists can focus on judgment, communication, and care. Hospitals become more productive. They serve more patients. They hire more people.

Productivity creates capacity. Capacity creates growth.

I just want a graphics card, man
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1 day ago

Photo of Glasgow Central fire

There wis a #bonny railway building
Called ‘Central’ in Glasgow toon
Then a wee illegal vape shop
Helped burn that building doon
Noo oor daily poetry challenge
Ahm sure had ne’er the clue
That in the local Glesga parlance
‘Bonny’ means bonfire too!

There wis a #bonny railway station
Called ‘Central’ in Glasgow toon
Then a wee illegal vape shop
Helped burn that building doon
Noo oor daily poetry challenge
Ahm sure had ne’er the clue
That in the local Glesga parlance
‘Bonny’ means bonfire too!

#vss365 #bonny #poetry #poem #cyranovg

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3 days ago

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD…

Can we STOP with this ‘special relationship’ BS

And also…can we wake up to the treachery of our right wing press?!

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3 days ago

I backed a horse called Lightning
You can probably guess the rest

#vss365 #lightening #poetry #poem #cyranovg

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4 days ago

#spellbound #vss365

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4 days ago

On the 8.15 from Central
Flagrant mischievously taps a wand
and rabbits appear
Dove’s bellow in feathers from the flare of a sleeve
Swords cut and leave no wounds
Bodies halved to fall apart find their whole
Cards fly, watches repair, balls disappear from under cups
All she said was ‘hello’
And this train is #spellbound

#vss365 #spellbound #poetry #poem #cyranovg

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6 days ago

Lord I wish I could be magnanimous
And happily concede defeat
But I’m a bitter and a jealous man
Drove fruitless by conceit

Instead I’ll shade, plot and contrive
To ensure they’ll think again
Before attempting to deliver a parcel
At a time when I’m not in

#vss365 #magnanimous

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1 week ago

A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔

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1 week ago

The truth lies, lethargic
In the thinnest aperture
Observing but distracted
A corollary flaneur

Veracity and history
Rarely share a bed
She’s heard his lies a million
times
And knows just how this ends

#vss365 #lethargic #poetry #poem #cyranovg

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1 week ago

Quoting Joyce while she tossed him
His ashes fly furious at her words
Cruel bitumen for potholes
Compost for nettle and thistle

He has no power now and less before

Borrow ditch grave lends the name
A road to send back by
Terminally reduced after all his reducing
A ceremony of banishment not loss

She wants the spot for her own scatterings
Take me down to the eternal, she sings,
Make me the whirling howling phantom cinders
Of victim turned tormentor.

@rfsmith.bsky.social #promptcombo #powerless.

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1 week ago

Going full Dr. Strangelove for the occasion, hope he’s not caught Musk’s Seig Heiling tic.

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1 week ago

We stand in abuse of the #splendour of breath
Inflating words to thumb press necks and choke the others
Inhaling exhaling in squalarising gulps,
Leaving nature to recoil in horror.
What use these lungs that take the splendid air
To blow fire in winds and children to graves?
Cyranovg

#vss365 #splendour #splendor #poetry #poem #cyranovg

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1 week ago

👏

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1 week ago

A cartoon of a man drinking a martini and smoking a cigarette

#vss365

I prefer my #splendour
with a “U”

shaken, not stirred
with an oluve

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1 week ago

Timid days behind you
Confident in your ways
Catching your reflection
Liking what you see
The younger you forgotten
The younger me dismissed
Timid days behind you
Still curling on your lip

#vss365 #timid #poetry #poem #cyranovg

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1 week ago

On the corner of a distant rug
Towers of books totter to the slam of the living room door
To be fair I did say I’d make some room
And had began in earnest with the coffee table
A keystone of poetry fell off and open,
#Obsessed
A gateway word if ever there was one
And, well, before I knew it
They were back with the pizza’s

#vss365 #obsessed #poetry #poem #cyranovg

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1 week ago

Well your screwed really if you and your ‘opposition’ are going on about being the party of working ( class) people and you put an aspiring career politician ( who I’m sure is very nice) up against a full time plumber and a female one at that. That should be the wake up call.

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2 weeks ago

Manchester United Football Club in the 1970’s
Were captained by a Scotsman
Whose name was Martin Buchan

An educated sportsman unusual for
the era
Off the field he was taciturn
And avoided the media

When the manager had an affair
with his physio’s wife
Scandal hit the club
The tabloids scrambled for a line

The hacks besieged Buchan as he headed off for home
‘Any comment Martin?’ ‘Can we have a quick word?’
#Velocity said Buchan
And with that he was gone

cyranovg

Based on a true story.

#vss365 #velocity #poetry #poem #cyranovg

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2 weeks ago

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2 weeks ago

Orbital fracture
Blackened eye
Bloody nose
Fingers prised

‘LET HER GO’
Deafening
‘WE’LL TAKE YOU TOO’
Threatening,
I can’t breathe. I’m spluttering

Syncope
Waking

Activism begins
In remembering

#vss365 #orbital #poetry #poem #cyranovg

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2 weeks ago

Stellar activity
Chariots of wishes
We turn to the stars
In acts of admission
that
For all the bravado
We are smaller than everything
And are scared
Someone turns out those lights

#vss365 #stellar #poetry #poem #cyranovg

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2 weeks ago

I’ve never knowingly undersold
Unless that is I’ve forgot,
Of course the ‘invitation to treat’
is spurious
As it depends if one get’s caught
I once claimed knowledge of TEFL
To teach English abroad
In truth I was totally awful
As I’m strictly Glasgowglot,
So if you ever meet a Catalan
Who pronounces ‘Milk’ with a ‘u’
They may have been knowingly
undersold
Perhaps by you know who.

#vss365 #knowingly #poetry #poem #cyranovg

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2 weeks ago

Sunday is huge … even by OF standards

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2 weeks ago

Ordered on the strength of this. Thank you.

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2 weeks ago

Alcohol crazed
Lungs smoked
Eyes saucered

Dancing wildly
Loving nervously
Working seldomly

Home leaving
South heading
London beginning

Angst ridden
No Fuck’s Given
Nineteen Eighty Seven

#vss365 #crazed #poetry #poem #cyranovg

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