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Zoe Darme
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Come for the book recs, stay for the dollar store art.
I'm late to this party, I know, but I did really enjoy this one! Haven't read a Stephen King since I was a kid and read The Stand (.... do not ask my what my parents were thinking when they let me read that ....) #21 of 2026 #booksky
Pretty decent book month. So glad to have heard of Stoner from @melvinpena.bsky.social, as it is a phenomenal book. No big plot. No high concepts. It stands tall through perfect prose and radical empathy for people who live deep interior lives. That's it. #booksky
Charming little book about a stay in Italy. A nice, comforting counterpoint to the yikes that happens in Up at the Villa or Where Angels Fear to Tread -- but without the saccharine aftertaste of Eat Pray Love. #booksky
@techconnectify.bsky.social because of you, we have switched to powder. It's considerably cheaper but cascade no longer advertises how many loads on the box and tries to push pods (which come in plastic, not cardboard).
FED UP with subway riders who scroll their TikTok feed with NO HEADPHONES. Compiling alternative playlist to subject them to; I am petty. Seeking a playlist that is extremely loud and/or atonal right on bar 1. 2nd mvmt rite of spring. Die walkurie. Last mvmt Shostakovich 5. What else?
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#17 of 2026. Finished this one in a 2.5-day binge Dostoevsky ATE mid-19th c petersburg and LEFT NO CRUMBS. How many of us dated a Raskolnikov in grad school? Hot but troubled, never had any $$, always drinking natty bohs, kinda needed a shower. Maybe smoked cloves... #booksky
#16 of 2026 Another "just for fun" book for all the ladies out there who have that one reaaaaallly baaaaaaad ex you still hold a candle for, even though you absolutely know better. #booksky
Great worldbuilding as usual ... and, in this environment, I gobble up any violent rage against authoritarianism. But as our opposition leadership irl seems so feckless & impotent, the collective action that forms this novel's resolution really seems like nothing but a revenge fantasy. #booksky
I'm here for the subplots, fam. Burying live babies, cross-dressing lesbian runaways, insider trading! I mean, aside from character development and any semblance of believability, what DOESN'T this book have? #booksky #thecountofmontecristo #dumas
Got this shot of an Oriole on my hike today. Also saw chipping sparrows, ospreys, fish crows, downy woodpeckers, red winged blackbirds, and some other fun fellows. I use a Nikon Coolpix bridge camera as recommended to me by @melvinpena.bsky.social for casual birding. #birdsky #oriole
Not my best but I'd had two glasses of wine. The wine shop had an AMAZE AMAZE AMAZE sale on North Fork wines today -- and, well, I don't have access to Ilyukhina's vodka stash. #booksky #artsky #projecthailmary (Pls don't DMCA me, Amazon/MGM/Andy Weir!)
Having so much fun with my new bird camera and (less new) watercolor set Really recommend the purchase of a bridge camera (as they were explained to me by @melvinpena.bsky.social) as it enhances the birding experience a great deal.
Have to admit, I had to laugh at the bit about getting sued for scraping all of the world's published books in human history. #projecthailmary #booksky
This book (and the one it was inspired by, Le Devoir du Violence) was written before the whole AI craze, and it centers around a question of copying in art. Only fools would think there are bright lines between plagiarism and pastiche, slop and sampling. #booksky
Not sure what's going on but ABT, NYCB, Dance Theater of Harlem, AND the NYPhil are doing firebird this season. #stravinsky #firebird #artsky
Every Sunday, 1 hr. Paint n' gossip w @melvinpena.bsky.social. This week's theme: Edinburgh #artsky
Alex Hinge@hingey.bsky.social · 5mo ago‘Nemo Me Impune Lacessit’ - original oil on canvas. Latin for ‘No one attacks me with impunity’. The national motto of Scotland, it stands as a warning above the gate of Edinburgh Castle - captured from the Esplanade beneath an electric storm. 40x30cm DM for price #edinburgh #artforsale #skies #art
Tchaikovsky conceptualizes the relationship between sci-fi and high fantasy essentially as one of translation drift. Absolutely brilliant, esp when we consider that magic, alchemy, physics, and science all used to be one discipline, prior to the Enlightenment. #booksky #adriantchaikovsky
You know how the cool kid only hangs with the smart kid so that the latter will do his homework for him? That's this book. And I don't hate it. I marvel at the brilliance of China Miéville, who was able to take whatever crackpot ideas Keanu Reeves had and make it into a passable novel. #booksky
Very similar thematically to the Midnight Library but with superior execution. Looking forward to reading the quasi sequel. #lifeafterlife #booksky
One bit of old school Google is that you can edit a tagline for yourself in your work profile. Norm is that people put lots of quirky things there. Mine is: defending the internet from ten thousand duck bites So you can guess why I'm jazzed to have gotten this in the mail from @techdirt.com
During my 18 mo stint at the HQ of Performative Sociability (aka FB), I lived off of Willow Road, just down the street from the VA mental hospital Ken Kesey worked at. If there's ever a place that could inspire a tale of oppressive conformity, it's Menlo Park, CA. #booksky
