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Tasha Darcy (she/they)
@darcygreyheart.com
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Multidisciplinary artist based in Edinburgh
Textiles, Embroidery, Collage & Mixed Media

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tashadarcygrey_art/
Website - https://darcygreyheart.com/
Shop - https://folksy.com/shops/darcygreyheartstudios/
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Tasha Darcy (she/they) @darcygreyheart.com · Apr 14
Hi, I'm Tasha a multidisciplinary artist mostly working in textiles and embroidery, you can find my works here.

folksy.com/shops/darcyg...

#embroidery #textileart #artist 🧶🪡🎨
A large embroidery hoop embroidered with an abstract design. Seven different coloured circles run down the middle of the hoop at an slight angle to the left, on the right side is a large black blob and the left side is embroidered with a gold coloured thread in lines radiating from the middle. This piece is called Chaos Theory Abstract no.1 - Order. An embroidery hoop with an abstract design, down the middle are a series of circles in a line in different colours, to the right is a large black blob, to the right a gold triangle encased in a black frame of lines. all the elements ar only partially filled in with a series of lines to varying degrees to symbolise fading. This piece is called Chaos Theory Abstract no.2 - Isolation A series of blobs in different colours and black circles which are connected by gold lines, an original piece of embroidery artwork called Chaos Theory Abstract no.3 - Connections. An original piece of embroidered artwork by me (under my old signature) which comprises of triangles and circles embroidered in different rainbow colours and different length gold lines. this piece is called Chaos Theory Abstract no.4 - In Pieces.
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jon5cents.bsky.social
🪶 The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #MorningLight , so here's a pair of morning mourning doves. #Birds #photography
Two mourning doves on a branch, one in front of the other. The front one has its body facing to our tight, but its head turned to our left. The back one has its body and face towards the left.
November 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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rspb.bsky.social
"You seem happier"

Thanks, I deleted all my emails and went to look at birds instead.
November 28, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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aplante.com
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
darcygreyheart.com
Folksy are waiving commission fees this weekend for pro sellers, so if you feel like giving the gift of art this year I'll get to keep a few more pennies with each sale. I also have a few other bits in there and there is also free UK P&P.

#art #artforsale #embroidery #traditionalcrafts
Chaos Theory Abstract no.4 - In Pieces
No.4 of the Chaos Theory Collection - In Pieces Sometimes you just have to let yourself and everything fall apart so you can pick up the pieces and rebuild into something new. Measurement: 9 inch/23 c...
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November 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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ewacat.bsky.social
Black Friday should be the name of some fun 1700s pirate or an annual goth festival but no, here we are, in the email torment nexus demanding that we spend money because there's so much to save
November 28, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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secretedinburgh.bsky.social
This time tomorrow, #EdinburghHour will be over and you'll all have sore feet from dancing.

Join me, here on Bluesky 7-8pm
secretedinburgh.bsky.social Secret Edinburgh @secretedinburgh.bsky.social · 17d
PLEASE SHARE:

On Black Friday, I want to draw attention away from the big chains and towards local Edinburgh independent retailers, makers and markets.

Please join me from

7 pm - 8 pm on Friday 28 November

to share some ideas for Christmas gifting.

We'll use the hashtag #EdinburghHour
#EdinburghHour on BlueSky - Friday 28 November 7pm – 8pm 7:00 Favourite Edinburgh Independent Retailer, Maker, or Organisation: Kick off by shining a light on your favourites by sharing their website and social media handles using #EdinburghHour 7:05 Edinburgh-themed Gifts: Capital gifts for homesick burghers or city lovers. Think art, prints, and souvenirs celebrating Auld Reekie. #EdinburghHour 7:10 Gifts Under £10: Stocking fillers, Secret Santa ideas, and small, affordable treats. Keep it budget-friendly and remember to use hashtag #EdinburghHour 7:15 Experiences: We want to know about vouchers for workshops, theatre, tours, spa treatments, tasting sessions, or classes offered by local businesses. #EdinburghHour 7:20 Charity & Virtual Gifts: Be kind, share your gift ideas which support local causes using #EdinburghHour 7:25 Books: Focus on books about Edinburgh, or titles by Edinburgh-based authors and bookish gifts from your favourite local bookshops. #EdinburghHour 7:30 Food & Drink Gifts: Local coffee, craft beer, whisky, confectionery, chutneys, and hampers. #EdinburghHour 7:35 Unique, Personalised, One-Off: Bespoke items, commissioned artwork, or one-of-a-kind treasures. #EdinburghHour 7:40 For Children & Pets: Toys, books, pet treats, accessories, and supplies for children and animals. #EdinburghHour 7:45 Festive Shopping Events: Promote upcoming local Christmas Fairs, Makers Markets, etc where people can shop in person. Give dates, times, and locations with the #EdinburghHour hashtag 7:50 Everything Else: Anything else! clothing, homewares, stationery, etc. #EdinburghHour 7:55 Crucial Information: Final dates for retailers and event organisers to remind us of offers, festive opening hours and last shipping/collection dates etc. #EdinburghHour 8:00 Ends
November 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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ericsmithrocks.bsky.social
Oh hey lots of holiday bargains are lighting up my email and social media.

Just a reminder to shop small this weekend. Visit your indie bookstore.

The billionaires have enough.
November 27, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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stavvers.bsky.social
As the person who does most of the VM socials, let me tell you this: bluesky is absolutely the worst platform of the bunch for slapping random adult content warnings on innocent posts to bury them. Would super appreciate if you share the post below like hell, and donate a fiver!
vaginamuseum.bsky.social Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 1d
Let's try this again... Glad tidings we bring to you and your quim! We are fundraising this festive period. Earlier this year, the future looked bleak for the Vagina Museum. But we're still here, and there's many reasons for you to become a vital part of our future... www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2
Bluesky flagged the image thumbnail from a charity fundraising page as “adult content” (it was not). This is a placeholder so you’ll see this post in a world of digital censorship. We’re honestly really annoyed we have to do this. Help us educate through this hostile climate.
November 27, 2025 at 11:39 AM
darcygreyheart.com
Missed class last week but had carved out my print and wasn't entirely convinced until it was printed but pretty happy with my first attempt at lino printing and learning what I need to work on. Could be the start of a new obsession!

#linoprint #reliefprinting #printmaking #art #lighthouse #sea
Lino print of a light house and a small house on land in front of the sea with a moon with slightly below the horizon and with snow or rain the sky. It has been printed with Prussian blue on a off white paper. a lino board that has been carved with a design and loaded with ink ready for printing and has been placed on a registration sheet. On a paint splattered table that has been laid with brown paper, sit a carved lino block ready to be rolled with ink, an acrylic plate with printing ink, an ink roller and other tools.
November 27, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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secretedinburgh.bsky.social
This Bluesky Party /Online Shop Local Thingamajig is happening tomorrow - please join me from 7 p.m. so I don't get lonely!

#EdinburghHour
secretedinburgh.bsky.social Secret Edinburgh @secretedinburgh.bsky.social · 17d
PLEASE SHARE:

On Black Friday, I want to draw attention away from the big chains and towards local Edinburgh independent retailers, makers and markets.

Please join me from

7 pm - 8 pm on Friday 28 November

to share some ideas for Christmas gifting.

We'll use the hashtag #EdinburghHour
#EdinburghHour on BlueSky - Friday 28 November 7pm – 8pm 7:00 Favourite Edinburgh Independent Retailer, Maker, or Organisation: Kick off by shining a light on your favourites by sharing their website and social media handles using #EdinburghHour 7:05 Edinburgh-themed Gifts: Capital gifts for homesick burghers or city lovers. Think art, prints, and souvenirs celebrating Auld Reekie. #EdinburghHour 7:10 Gifts Under £10: Stocking fillers, Secret Santa ideas, and small, affordable treats. Keep it budget-friendly and remember to use hashtag #EdinburghHour 7:15 Experiences: We want to know about vouchers for workshops, theatre, tours, spa treatments, tasting sessions, or classes offered by local businesses. #EdinburghHour 7:20 Charity & Virtual Gifts: Be kind, share your gift ideas which support local causes using #EdinburghHour 7:25 Books: Focus on books about Edinburgh, or titles by Edinburgh-based authors and bookish gifts from your favourite local bookshops. #EdinburghHour 7:30 Food & Drink Gifts: Local coffee, craft beer, whisky, confectionery, chutneys, and hampers. #EdinburghHour 7:35 Unique, Personalised, One-Off: Bespoke items, commissioned artwork, or one-of-a-kind treasures. #EdinburghHour 7:40 For Children & Pets: Toys, books, pet treats, accessories, and supplies for children and animals. #EdinburghHour 7:45 Festive Shopping Events: Promote upcoming local Christmas Fairs, Makers Markets, etc where people can shop in person. Give dates, times, and locations with the #EdinburghHour hashtag 7:50 Everything Else: Anything else! clothing, homewares, stationery, etc. #EdinburghHour 7:55 Crucial Information: Final dates for retailers and event organisers to remind us of offers, festive opening hours and last shipping/collection dates etc. #EdinburghHour 8:00 Ends
November 27, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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kathke.com
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
davelevitan.bsky.social Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 3d
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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whitneytrettien.bsky.social
Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
Full-color image of the Cathedral of Barcelona, composed on a typewriter by Montserrat Alberich Escardívol. Image from WikiMedia.
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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sjksalisbury.bsky.social
Said the phrase 'I'm over the moon!' to a Polish man and he was a little confused and asked what I meant so I explained and when I finished he just shook his head and said 'You're happy but you have no business in space.'
November 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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michaelspicer.bsky.social
I've mounted a landline phone next to my bathroom mirror because every now and then I like to pretend I'm visiting my twin in jail.
November 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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theradr.bsky.social
hey guys i made a seasonal meme
Meme: Straight ahead: Pausing to consider the meaning of Cohen's lyrics Everyone, for some reason, takes the exit towards Singing "Hallelujah" again in religious contexts
November 22, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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cyrenians.bsky.social
The Bethany Christian Trust Rapid Re-accommodation Welcome Centre at Els House in Gorgie is available to anyone facing street homelessness this winter. It offers food, sleeping facilities and a high level of support to people who do not have any accommodation.
November 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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fosis.bsky.social
Occasional reminder that I run an F1 craft kits small business! I just opened preorders for kits to make McLaren and Ferrari wall hangings (you can add any driver number you want) - this is something a bit new for the shop so I'm hoping people like them 😁 #F1

racecraftembroidery.etsy.com
Two wall hanging lying flat together. Both are made from canvas with chequered ribbon and braiding up the side. Each has an applique F1 car in team colours with matching long fringe at the bottom.
November 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
darcygreyheart.com
Maybe we should just start referring to them as wreck bros instead of tech bros, just saying.
November 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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craigcalcaterra.bsky.social
This is the ideal music setup. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

bsky.app/profile/ihav...
ihavethatonvinyl.com bring on the dancing horses @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 11d
dreamed i had my stereo from the 90s and now i want nothing more than to have this back
wooden stereo cabinet with black components
November 17, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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aesthr.com
Spotify needs to die so music can live.
November 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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tepid.meme
Oh look this is relevant again
tepid.meme Andrej @tepid.meme · Oct 20
It is 2005, the internet is a distributed network of servers designed so that no one outage can take down the entire network

It is 2025, the internet relies on three companies, problems with any one of which can cripple a significant proportion of the global economy
tomwarren.co.uk Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · Oct 20
there’s a major AWS outage going on right now that’s taken down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, Perplexity, Roblox, and lots more of the internet. US-EAST-1 is down and impacting a lot of services that rely on AWS www.theverge.com/news/802486/...
November 18, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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retrofrog.bsky.social
Oh my
Japanese people being silly.
November 14, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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wildphotoscot.bsky.social
Otter fishing on the water of leith earlier this month. Absolutely unfazed by onlookers on the walkway only a few feet above. @wolct.bsky.social #Edinburgh #otter #wildlife
November 15, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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rnib.bsky.social
Making your content and information accessible is viewed as a nice thing to do. And it is.

But this World Kindness Day, we wanted to remind everyone that access to information is a human right. We shouldn't need to keep asking for it, it's simply how it should be.
Text reads: "Access to information is not a kindness. It is a human right." The last sentence is highlighted in pink for emphasis, with a small scribble underneath
November 13, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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thechiller.bsky.social
Know your rights... mini thread
alice-skye.bsky.social Alice Skye @alice-skye.bsky.social · 15d
There is no legal requirement for any transgender person to reveal that they are transgender when questioned by the police. It is a breach of Article 8 for the police to insist on this data. 1/2
November 13, 2025 at 8:56 AM