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Michael Victor Bowman

@mvictorbowman.bsky.social

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Writer, tinkerer, poet. Long name, short memory. Dogs are my favourite people. AuDHD michaelvictorbowman.com

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Michael Victor Bowman @mvictorbowman.bsky.social · Dec 1

"If you are going to write fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; westerns, history, anything that seems interesting, because if you only read and write fantasy, all you're going to do is recycle the same old stuff."
- Terry Pratchett (1948 - 2015)

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Michael Victor Bowman @mvictorbowman.bsky.social · Sep 8

The #dog lies on the ground like a crime scene.
I walk the long way around him like an investigator anxious to preserve evidence.
One eye cracks open and lazily follows me.
"Hah!" I exclaim in triumph, "You broke character!"
He farts and goes back to sleep.

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Michael Victor Bowman @mvictorbowman.bsky.social · Sep 8

Rumors of my demise
Did prophesise
An end to bad verse
And thus held
Little remorse

But here I am
Polluting your timeline
With free verse
End rhyme
And anagram

An Englishman but using Chicago spelling
Whenever I can
And dropping
Punctuation
To save characters
And appease that little
Blue circle

Michael Victor Bowman @mvictorbowman.bsky.social · Sep 8

Bravado surges, flying ants... I never look at something the same way, again, after reading your work. You must be a poet, or something 🤔

Michael Victor Bowman @mvictorbowman.bsky.social · Aug 3

"On the hinge of a maybe"

You have a real talent for combining ideas that don't collocate but which, together, elucidate in a way that conventional English struggles to match. In other words, you're a proper poet! 😉👍

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Michael Victor Bowman @mvictorbowman.bsky.social · Aug 2

Came across this at random, but find it interesting that other regions are experiencing these almost equatorial extremes in weather. In the north of England, I've noticed we're down to three seasons: had a heat wave over Spring that killed everything, now Autumnal Atlantic cold winds and rain.

Michael Victor Bowman @mvictorbowman.bsky.social · Jul 28

Another chip pan fire in the galley. Captain likes em greasy!

Michael Victor Bowman @mvictorbowman.bsky.social · Jul 28

Maybe this is the reason we evolved fists 🤔

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Michael Victor Bowman @mvictorbowman.bsky.social · Jul 28

Mine's milk, no sugar 👍

a bald man with glasses is holding a glass of wine and laughing while saying i see what you did there .

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Michael Victor Bowman @mvictorbowman.bsky.social · Jul 28

A #sparrow hawk came calling.
Left a feather on the deck
and a partially skinned rat
behind a plant pot.
How did he do that?
Deglove the body so neatly
with just a beak and talons
when I can hardly slice a chicken breast
using stainless steel
and a modern kitchen.
Nature does it best 👌

Michael Victor Bowman @mvictorbowman.bsky.social · Jul 28

a man with a beard is standing in front of a green banner that says rc

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Michael Victor Bowman @mvictorbowman.bsky.social · Jul 28

It's habit forming 😉👍

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L. R. Hudgins @abqmtngirl.bsky.social · Jul 22

My mother made me
#promise
that when it was time,
I would not try to care for her
at home.

Then the time came, and
she
changed
her
mind.
So I spent a decade
of my life
Being her caregiver.

I helped Mom through
Her final years.
But in the end,
I was the one that died.

#vss365

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Michael Victor Bowman @mvictorbowman.bsky.social · Jul 19

a raccoon sitting on a rock with the words " i 'll have to remember that " written below it

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Michael Victor Bowman @mvictorbowman.bsky.social · Jul 19

Hi. I was working my way through the Book of the Dead... sorry, the new members email 😉 and it mentioned there is a Bluesky account, and that members should DM it to make contact. But the DMs are closed!

Michael Victor Bowman @mvictorbowman.bsky.social · Jul 15

Hello @sfpoetry.bsky.social
My membership email told me to DM you, but it doesn't seem to be working.

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Michael Victor Bowman @mvictorbowman.bsky.social · Jul 15

Just checked your profile. As a fellow NT I should have noticed, before posting anything ambiguous. My apologies.

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Michael Victor Bowman @mvictorbowman.bsky.social · Jul 15

By way of explanation, mentioning DoS and games is often a way of getting other "kids" from that era talking and laughing. At least, that has been my experience. My friend, I think you have taken this all a bit too seriously.

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Michael Victor Bowman @mvictorbowman.bsky.social · Jul 15

I had my tongue firmly in my cheek. No worries!

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Michael Victor Bowman @mvictorbowman.bsky.social · Jul 15

a man in a suit and tie is holding his eyes closed and saying `` i get it '' .

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Michael Victor Bowman @mvictorbowman.bsky.social · Jul 15

They say a picture is worth a thousand words... I present the case for the defence!

Shady place?

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Michael Victor Bowman @mvictorbowman.bsky.social · Jul 15

The MIT study? It's sobering reading.
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task

This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...

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Michael Victor Bowman @mvictorbowman.bsky.social · Jul 15

Yes, I can't parse this, either 🤔

Michael Victor Bowman @mvictorbowman.bsky.social · Jul 15

Unless you spent your childhood abusing autoexec.bat and config.sys so you could fool a game into running on your cheap, low end, PC, and then having to learn code to fix the mess you made of the bios, then crowing about inventing the .pdf format ain't the flex you think it is, my friend 😉😁

Michael Victor Bowman @mvictorbowman.bsky.social · Jul 15

First thing I saw today after opening the app 👍

That last stanza is a brilliant use of language. Bravo.

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Michael Victor Bowman @mvictorbowman.bsky.social · Jul 13

What, in the name of etymology, is a "rumpleturd"? 😳

And what must I eat in order to get one? 😆

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