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The Darc
@darkreader.bsky.social
Constant Reader / Book Masochist.
Dad with the bod to prove it.
Occasional jerk.
I'm not here to buy anything, sell anything, or process anything.
Pinned
It’s been years since I’ve had cause to think about this device for sucking snot out of babies’ noses (it works amazingly well) but I’ll never get over the missed marketing opportunity.

It should have been called the NoseFeratu.
Who chose these colours and why do they hate my eyes?
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November 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Any I should play/replay before selling? #RetroGaming
November 9, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Thanks to AI and self-publishing, you too can spam the market with slop novels based on current events within moments. #AIbooks 💙📚

What a time to be alive. 🤑🤮
October 30, 2025 at 12:32 PM
@372pages.bsky.social the fans persist.
no I will NOT calm down, they made Encyclopedia Brown have Dreamworks face
October 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Amazing and heartwarming book. I don't have much of a platform but if even one more person picks this up because I said so, the world will be just a tiny bit better. #booksky
Out now!

Tales of a Stranger Sister

A Small-Scale, Slice-of-Life Isekai Fantasy novel about Siblings, Stories, & Second Chances by J. Robert Matthewson

Available as an e-book & paperback!

books2read.com/stranger-sister

[📚🪐] [📚💙] #booksky #fantasybooks #indiefantasy #Kindle #ebooks #Indieauthor
October 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
When my teenager has friends over, it reminds me of being in public places and overhearing random boring conversations that are appropriately loud and you just have to try and tune them out because you’re stuck in that space for a time.

But inside my own house.
September 29, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Just in time for the first @372pages.bsky.social free-to-all episode covering this masterpiece, a giveaway for 100 print copies of the book was just launched by the publisher (US residents only, sorry). www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Really, with a book like this, aren't we all winners?
September 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Physical game disc, double-wide case, full colour embossed game manual, wired controller … Alundra is go! This game does not hold your hand. #retrogaming
@sharkabytes.bsky.social @retroblast.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 11:43 AM
This is me. I'm that dad.
September 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The perfect promo for Brown's new book coming out this fall. 📚💙
We announced our next book today, and it's DECEPTION POINT, by master of the microchapter, DAN BROWN! Listen to the announcement then read along with us!
youtube: youtu.be/ITp3OD9lvq8
spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2UF0...
apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3...
September 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
My free Kindle Unlimited trial came just in time this year. 📚💙
September 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
‘Crowds of young men swaggered beerily to and fro, …’

🪐📚💙
August 31, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Around page 100 she's naked again, and apparently she has enchanted her underwear (not currently worn) to give off bright light on command, because ...??? 🪐📚💙
I don’t know why I’m still reading these. Ed Greenwood’s books are uniquely unbearable. Here, he is committed to making his FMC inexplicably naked as many times as possible, and that’s just by page 66. 🪐📚💙
August 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I understand reading for pain, and choose to do it more than is likely healthy. For example, I am about to take advantage of a Kindle Unlimited free trial month. Between that and @372pages.bsky.social -worthy books, it’s a lot of pain. Glorious, self-inflicted pain. Still beats AI books though. 📚💙
August 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I don’t know why I’m still reading these. Ed Greenwood’s books are uniquely unbearable. Here, he is committed to making his FMC inexplicably naked as many times as possible, and that’s just by page 66. 🪐📚💙
August 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Our final Night of the Crabs episode is now live on the main free feed! Listen with your favorite 8 year old!
youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyJk...
spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3eMQ...
apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3...
August 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Being a parent means you notice when Annie’s mac & cheese changes the material for their cheese powder packet and you have to use scissors to open it now but there are no longer 1 in 10 packets with the powder hard and clumped up, and you appreciate that.
August 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Like, follow, and share if you love libraries!

Take action to support libraries at action.everylibrary.org
July 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Ready to see the movie. I’ve been looking forward to this one for years. #FF #Fantastic4 #FantasticFour
July 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Forget leaving an AI prompt in your book. This guy left the prompt in his book's TITLE. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B... #AIbooks #AIslop #deathtoAI 📚💙
Here’s a fun and engaging title for your ebook: "Wiggly the Worm’s Garden Adventures: Fun Short Stories for Kids"
Amazon.com: Here’s a fun and engaging title for your ebook: "Wiggly the Worm’s Garden Adventures: Fun Short Stories for Kids" eBook : Nawaz, Asif: Books
www.amazon.com
July 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
It’s a very good book and you know you need some positivity in your life. 📚💙
It's my birthday today & I'm totes pulling a Hobbit by giving a gift to everyone else.

For the next 24 hours, the ebook of Tales of a Stranger Sister will be 99¢. That's a 67% discount!

www.amazon.com/dp/B0DYWD9GS5

[📚🪐] [📚💙] #booksky #fantasybooks #indiefantasy #Kindle #Kindlebooks #ebooks
July 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
My love of book/publishing drama is hindered by my slow discovery of said book/publishing drama. Could someone tag me the next time something juicy comes up? 💙📚

Never heard of the Salt Path before this anyway, so maybe I'm better off this way.
July 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Our next book is NIGHT OF THE CRABS by legendary British pulp author and pipe smoking champion Guy N Smith! We're recording our first full episode for it on Wednesday, so get reading! amzn.to/4n7oia9
July 7, 2025 at 12:49 PM