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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

September .... counting LOTR as three books not 1. My list, my rules. #26-30 of 2026. 10 more to go to hit my goal for this year!!! #booksky

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Have a colleague who works in tech as a PM and she didn't know that you could reject them. She thought it meant you'd not be able to see the content on the page. This is neither a dumb person, nor uninformed. Been hitting accept all these years because she had no clue what it meant.

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh I'm part of a modern truth and reconcilation process right now. They said sorry (thanks, I guess) but we are still having to pay thousands of dollars to fly to korea and beg for our files. Haven't gotten much T or R so far...I'd take either. www.aljazeera.com/amp/features...

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's almost like asking for consent all the time can erode the user's understanding of what that means .... Kind of like .... Oh I don't know .... CoOkIeS 🍪🍪🍪

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Melvin Peña @melvinpena.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

internet video chat painting night with zoe. she saw the big duck, a ferrocement roadside attraction in flanders, ny, out on long island, and we both painted that. @zoedarme.bsky.social's on the left, mine on the right

zoe's painting of a large fiberglass duct

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

slow book month (total now: 25). eeeek, time to bookmaxx in order to hit 40 by 12/31/2026. dreaming now of a Lin Manuel Miranda musical about the Linotype. how can we make that happen? #booksky

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Melvin Peña @melvinpena.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

video chat painting with @zoedarme.bsky.social. i saw some incredible birds today at sylvan heights bird park in scotland neck, nc. zoe and i both tried painting the superb starling! photo in next post!

it is an acrylic painting of a small, brightly colored bird that looks more like an owl than a starling

it is an acrylic painting of a small, brightly colored bird that looks like a crow than a starling

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Thank goodness there's a bird image in this post otherwise I'd be violating my self-imposed rule of only using bsky for birds and books. Thanks, @niemanlab.org for covering Backstory and also for not using all my ums, likes, and other annoying verbal fillers that I can't untrain out of myself.

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I give screen time! I need a life after all. What am I supposed to do? Raise a Luddite while serving as his 24-7 source of entertainment? No thanks.

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Some east coast, some west coast birbs I took off the camera last nite. Semipalmated plover, green heron, belted kingfisher (Peconic River, NY) Spotted sandpiper, Canada Jay, wood pewee (Kachess Lake, WA) #birdsky

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Another fun painting nite with @melvinpena.bsky.social who did not flinch when I said I was going to try painting a rooster in an Elizabethan ruff. May I present Henri, Vicomte LeCoq de la Bresse #artsky

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

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

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Why is 98 "four twenty ten eight"?

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

This weekend, I saw some older gentlemen with some GIANT cameras pulled over on the side of the road by our town ponds. So obviously I pulled over to bird with them. Got to watch a green heron fish and eat a bullfrog for 20 minutes. It was amazing! Had to paint him. #birdsky #artsky

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

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

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I lived in a rent stabilized apt in NYC that I loved. It ended up in the hands of a slumlord who started converting units to market rent. Couldn't deal anymore when the mice took over. If you're going to freeze rent then those buildings should also have a freeze in property taxes.

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I can't do more than a bridge camera! I just want to see the birds, not take on a photography hobby as well!

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Some shots from birding in Montauk / Amangansett Glossy Ibis and Willet #birdsky

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I was gonna take a pic of Postmodernism and say "I know what late capitalism is, and here are my receipts". But I realized my Jameson is on my bookshelf at the *checks notes* beach house. So yeah um my Marxist card is officially revoked.

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

All I see is a Waymo for ticks

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

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

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Some coworker (bless him) created an internal version of focusmate and I do use that. It's not as, like, on demand but it works. One thing I like about my company culture is they're supportive of homegrown projects like that. Plus I learned about it in the exec functioning chat grp.

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

@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).

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

My company's HR wouldn't pay the $99 focusmate subscription as part of the accomodations process. LOL. Ok I'll just procrastinate more at an hourly rate far more expensive than that.

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

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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Wütende Dirigentin

ALT: Wütende Dirigentin

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I tore thru War and Peace (plot! romance!) but had to go reeeeeeally slowly through the Master and Margarita. Even though the latter is a "short" one. Same thing with Dead Souls. It happens. (Having some French helps with the speed through Tolstoy, I will say also.)

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

#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

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Inspired by monterey aquarium jellies

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

#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

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

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

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I have a fascination with asians who have regional accents and Instagram feeds me a lot of content of Scottish or Geordie or deep Southern accents. I've lost it but I had a Chicago accent inherited from my mom. In retrospect, it musta been weird!

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

That's why I tackled it this year. Wanted to watch the miniseries and the new French language movie. Just don't like to watch without having read the book first!

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

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

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

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

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

can you not use an agent?

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

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!)

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

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.

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

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

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Is there a transcript / captions / other accessible option? Excited for this podcast (or any podcast with @klonick.bsky.social)!

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

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

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

We rushed to install solar before the tax credit expired. Now we charge our NX 450h+ for the low, low cost of $0. Tried explaining this to a maga mom here on Long Island, but she "doesn't trust solar."

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Wong Kim Ark & Look Tin Sing (and their badass old white guy lawyers) took bullets for anybody who gets questioned about belonging because we look foreign. People challenging the 14th amendment on bullshit nativist grounds are really the ones whose Americanness is doubtful.

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I had to find another ADHD googler (just asked our chat group) to body double me while I collected all my statements and receipts for my accountant. Two 30 min sessions. We just sat in silence and did it. First year Alan (accountant) didn't have to file an extension for me.

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Zoe Darme @zoedarme.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Try circle to search or lens, then append your image search w "who painted this" -- which will lead to better results. This is called a multimodal search (image and text). Fyi it appears the artist is unknown.

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