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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 1d

A little late to this party, but I love a self-publishing success story. Fun cotton candy book.

#28 of 2025
#booksky
#dungeoncrawlercarl

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 3d

glad there is someone who still calls it web search

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 7d

That movie is so dope ... Everybody's in it! This and "The Conversation" are my fav movies about hackers. Honorable mention to War Games.

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 8d

The no 2 pencil

#artsky

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 8d

This book is remarkable (and I don't even like cats).

Book #28 of '25. Caleb Carr's cat memoir. A must read for anybody who prefers furry, domesticated quadrupeds over bipedal primates.

#booksky

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 11d

Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour! [The US] hath need of thee. She is a fen of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen.

Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 12d

It was a love letter to the written word. Enjoyed it so much.

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 14d

#27 of 2025, Gogol's Dead Souls

This book would be funny if I didn't think we were living under the tyranny of a thousand petty Chichikovs right now.

#booksky

Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 19d

Sora AI doesn't realize 1st Ave traffic goes northbound!

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 29d

Another great Sunday painting nite w @melvinpena.bsky.social !

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · Sep 10

So apparently I'm really bad at painting some fairly basic trees.

Melvin Peña @melvinpena.bsky.social · Sep 8

sunday for video chat painting, @zoedarme.bsky.social and i both independently chose this bluesky post of "a lake in the north (temagami)" (1922) by lawren stewart harris for our sunday evening painting exercise. both came out great!

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · Sep 5

Lol NU is not a breeding ground for antisemitism. We were all too busy stressing about the grading curve in organic chemistry cuz mom reaaaaally wants a doctor in the family. Or at least a software engineer. No, for real bro, fall back is i-banking.

Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · Sep 5

Linc got a phone pretty early. We just didn't let him have social apps and limited his screen time. He wants to blast songs from k pop demon hunter while in the shower ... Don't we all? Enjoy that phone, kiddo.

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · Sep 4

I think you are on the wrong platform if u want to avoid people screaming

Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · Sep 1

Pardon me, would you happen to have any Grey Poupon?

Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · Aug 30

It's obnoxious to read everything as commentary on our current political moment (and this was written years ago, set in an alt-Balkans). But I can't NOT think of the divide b/t maga & not-maga, and how we end up policing that boundary ourselves through fear, myth, and violence.

#booksky
#mieville

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · Aug 26

People do not believe me when I say: I forgot to eat today. And yeah it's 630 and I forgot to eat, legit forgot. Because HYPERFOCUS means you lose all track of time, all sense of hunger cues. Sometimes I don't notice until I'm physically shaking from some blood sugar imbalance.

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · Aug 20

This book feels like an extended, 846 page chuckle. It's if Thackeray were from Yorkshire and wrote fantasy. It's a stay-up-until-1-am-to-read-the-last-200-pages kind of book.

#jonathanstrange
#booksky

Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · Aug 13

Today's big post-kayak activity, squeezed in between two naps.

YT tutorial here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=V-CD...

Easy, 30 min. Stop scrolling. Make some art. Make anything.

#artsky

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · Aug 12

Reminder that Edith "HBIC" Wharton was a contemporary of Saussure:

"In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic reality, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs."

This line absolutely SLAPS.

#booksky

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · Aug 11

I wonder if Whitehead had in mind The Invisible Man when he wrote this book. The brutality and spectacle of the Griff chapters seem so familiar, but without the caustic humor present with Ellison.

Good book, but hard to recommend - as it's unsparingly bleak.

#booksky #thenickelboys

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · Aug 10

I heard that one is good!

Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · Aug 10

Fun beach read!

However, the idea that "every human being has a basic instinct to help another human out" hasn't seemed to age well, and this book's only ~15 years old.

IRL there'd be an anti-science "let mark watney die" faction on x dot com clamoring for NASA to be defunded.

#booksky

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · Aug 6

What about r/treelaw tho

Don't ruin my enjoyment of tree removal disputes

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · Jul 31

Just cackling out loud over here in a room by myself

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