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Darcyjae 🐝

@darcyjae.bsky.social
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she/her East coast. Ivory tower. Bleeding 🩷. Writer. Medieval historian. Single mom. Small biz owner. World builder. Board gamer. Victim of my imagination. Boston to Pittsfield 🐝 #TeamPete I delete unsolicited DMs unless there's a stated purpose.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I love how this makes it seem like they stopped monitoring RFK Jr
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11/07/2026
The White House was never supposed to be a palace. George Washington and architect James Hoban deliberately rejected the lavish style of European monarchies. Instead, they designed a President’s House that reflected the ideals of a republic: dignified, restrained, and accountable to the people.
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Darcyjae 🐝 @darcyjae.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I’m just gonna put this here right now. I won’t be voting for any candidate in 2028 who is not talking about universal basic income. UBI has become an imperative in the age of AI. The billionaires cannot be trusted to share the fruits of technology.
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Darcyjae 🐝 @darcyjae.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
My YA SF novel EXTROPIA is out! In future Seattle the rich live online and the poor are locked out. A hacker boy in exile. A girl who's never seen the world. A corporation that controls reality. It is about what it costs to see the world clearly—even when you've been blind your whole life. #BookSky
Extropia book cover shows a moody futuristic Seattle with tech overlay and a pair of young people's silhouettes in the foreground. By Jae Darcy
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The new LLM trained only on pre-1931 text is small enough that it can potentially run on device, so, with the right tools, you can get a fully vintage version of Siri, but from the era of Downton Abbey (also a small model). Here, I asked for it to arrange for sushi delivery in Philadelphia. Hmmm...
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 26/04/2026
Everyone immediately assuming that an attempt on the President is staged is probably not a sign of a healthy democracy.
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Darcyjae 🐝 @darcyjae.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Is it me, or does the stock market’s daily reaction to the administration’s Iran “talks” seem a little gullible?
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a cartoon character named charlie brown is running in a field
Alt: a cartoon character named charlie brown is running in a field and Lucy yanks away the football—again—causing him to tumble
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Trump and his sons have enriched themselves by over 4 Billion dollars since he came into office This is by FAR the most corrupt administration ever
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Ossoff: I don’t know who placed those trades, but I’ll tell you this: the SEC better find out. And if they won’t, when you elect this new majority in Congress and you give us gavels and subpoenas, we will.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
More of this, less of bombing other countries (From @acyn.bsky.social )
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Amazing! This is the line to get into Peter Buttigieg’s town hall in Tulsa tonight.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
The FBI guy is on a paranoid bender and won’t leave his room. The War guy quotes bible passages from Pulp Fiction. The Health guy collects raccoon dicks. It’s an Idiocracy on steroids.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 15/04/2026
If you paid even a penny in federal income tax last year, you paid more than: Tesla Southwest Disney Live Nation HP United PayPal CVS Health Palantir Citigroup PG&E 3M That's right. They paid $0 in federal income tax. It's time for big corporations to pay their fair share.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
We’re about to pay Iran $6 billion to re-open the thing that was open before the war. Art of the deal, baby.
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Pagan Media @paganmedia.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Iran dropped a new vid Trolling Donald J Shitler Trump and his admin and tell him THEY SAW IT ALL IN THE EPSTEIN FILES. (snip0 What Shitler did with children. 😡 And that Shilter is Stealing from the American ppl.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Megyn Kelly: I don't know about you, but I am sick of this shit. Can't Trump just behave like a normal human? "3-D chess." Shut up about that shit. We are talking about threatening to wipe out innocent civilians casually in a social media post. This is completely irresponsible and disgusting
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Brutal.
A WHOLE CIVILIZATION
WILL DIE TONIGHT
My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools.
Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's
"keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's
"we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight."
It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before.
"It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time.
A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
What a f*cking waste of lives and money. 😠
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Christ on a Stick @harriettethecat.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Congress just convene yourself without Johnson, pick a new leader and impeach this guy
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
In an age of creeping relativism, a universal moral law still exists. Threatening to end an entire civilization of 90 million people in order to bend a nation’s conduct to your will is grossly morally wrong. It is evil. And we should say this loudly.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Elon Musk is now worth over $800 billion. Tesla reported paying ZERO federal income tax on $5.7 billion of U.S. income in 2025. Meanwhile, millions of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and household debt has risen to a record high. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
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Darcyjae 🐝 @darcyjae.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
With our technological advancements we could already be post-scarcity. We could be headed for the future the AI optimists see, where humans don’t have to work, and could turn our time to art and leisure and climate rescue. But instead the billionaire Epstein class is going to ensure we all starve.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Wealth inequality is eating this country alive. Concentrated wealth is already endangering our democracy. Wealth doesn’t just beget more wealth — it begets more power. It’s a vicious cycle that destroys our economy and democracy at the same time.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/04/2026
Say it with your whole chest 📢 [10 FWY Santa Monica]
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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

By A Horse

Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food.

I am thinking I would like to try cake.

Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape.

Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy.

Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much.

I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You  know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on."

Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I mean there it is.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
So much winning 😕🇺🇸
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Darcyjae 🐝 @darcyjae.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
This brings me to tears.
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Ladyred1956 @ladyred1956.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
No Kings No Kings youtube.com/watch?v=pTYc...
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Jesse Wells and Joan Baez “No Kings”
YouTube video by George Baldwin
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Holly @hollyrandersen.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
No kings has gotten so many of my family members who have never done, like, anything to show up. Do I want my family to do even more? Absolutely. But this got them to take a first step, you know?
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
No Kings. Find your event for this Saturday, March 28th. www.nokings.org #NoKings
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Cambridge Day @cambridgeday.com · 25/03/2026
A Cambridge teen is the nation’s best junior épée fencer Sophomore at CRLS will compete in the world championships
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A Cambridge teen is the nation’s best junior épée fencer
Sophomore at CRLS will compete in the world championships
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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
This whole concept in LOTR is one of my favourite parts of the whole book. “Evil fucks up because evil people fundamentally cannot imagine that others are not motivated by the same things as them” is another theme that feels relevant right now
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Why is this only happening now? It should have been done decades ago. They won't pass it, they'll never give up the money they make while in office.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/03/2026
Lieu: "I want the White House to send Kevin Hassett to every single TV channel and to every single swing House district where he can tell the voters of America that hurting consumers is 'the last of our concerns.'"
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.
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Tim Hannan @timhannan.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The dumbest fuck on the planet is President of the United States.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/03/2026
Schiff: "We are now giving Russia $140 million a day by releasing them from these sanctions when Russia is providing intelligence to Iran to better attack and kill American troops. It is rewarding Russia and punishing Ukraine."
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Darcyjae 🐝 @darcyjae.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Every tyrant meets his March.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I haven’t seen a single statement that the White House is outraged that they accidentally killed 165 kids
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 08/03/2026
Brilliant 🏆 Isata Kanneh-Mason absolutely tears through Rachmaninoff’s fiendish Piano Concerto No. 3 with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/03/2026
TAPPER: You know that if you vote against an additional $50 billion of funding for operations in Iran, that vote will be cast as you voting against the troops. CHRIS MURPHY: Come on. The American people do not want this war. If you support the troops, you should be voting against this war.
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
of course clippy reposted this @clippy-is-alive.bsky.social
A Bluesky screenshot showing our post about AI sentience being reposted by a Bluesky user named 'clippy'. The user has the same profile picture as the 2000s Microsoft Word pencil clip assistant of the same name.
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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
FRIENDLY ADVICE: Live your life so that if a rash appears on your neck millions of people don't publicly wish for your death.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 05/03/2026
Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone. But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.
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Blake @splashgod41.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I voted in Dallas County today. The texas.gov site wouldn't tell me where to go, so I went to where I voted in the '24 presidential election. They said I was at the wrong place, and gave me the address I needed to go to. That place then informed me I had to go somewhere else.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Just a reminder that Trump didn't just bumble us into an unnecessary war -- he deliberately created the conditions that he's now screaming about
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Frode Vanger 🇺🇸🇺🇦🎖️ @smokedoyster.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
So. Just politics?
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