Zoe Darme
@zoedarme.bsky.social
Come for the book recs, stay for the dollar store art.
#36 of 2025. Definitely worth the hype.
Remarkable achievement for a debut novel.
#booksky
#martyr
#kavehakbat
Remarkable achievement for a debut novel.
#booksky
#martyr
#kavehakbat
December 8, 2025 at 12:42 AM
#36 of 2025. Definitely worth the hype.
Remarkable achievement for a debut novel.
#booksky
#martyr
#kavehakbat
Remarkable achievement for a debut novel.
#booksky
#martyr
#kavehakbat
I miscounted! This is book #33 of 2025!
600 pages in less than 48 hours. This was my Thanksgiving read, and I'm so thankful for the absolute KILLER year I'm having with sci-fi and fantasy.
Jonathan Strange, Piranesi, the Three Body Problem series, The City and the City, and now this.
#booksky
600 pages in less than 48 hours. This was my Thanksgiving read, and I'm so thankful for the absolute KILLER year I'm having with sci-fi and fantasy.
Jonathan Strange, Piranesi, the Three Body Problem series, The City and the City, and now this.
#booksky
November 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I miscounted! This is book #33 of 2025!
600 pages in less than 48 hours. This was my Thanksgiving read, and I'm so thankful for the absolute KILLER year I'm having with sci-fi and fantasy.
Jonathan Strange, Piranesi, the Three Body Problem series, The City and the City, and now this.
#booksky
600 pages in less than 48 hours. This was my Thanksgiving read, and I'm so thankful for the absolute KILLER year I'm having with sci-fi and fantasy.
Jonathan Strange, Piranesi, the Three Body Problem series, The City and the City, and now this.
#booksky
#31
Do you abhor nuance and complexity? Do you prefer preachy didacticism and repetitiveness? Then boy do I have a book for you.
I've been led astray by popular fiction and booktok before (still salty over demon copperhead). But this one hit a new low!
#booksky
#rfkuang
#babel
#ihatedthisbook
Do you abhor nuance and complexity? Do you prefer preachy didacticism and repetitiveness? Then boy do I have a book for you.
I've been led astray by popular fiction and booktok before (still salty over demon copperhead). But this one hit a new low!
#booksky
#rfkuang
#babel
#ihatedthisbook
November 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
#31
Do you abhor nuance and complexity? Do you prefer preachy didacticism and repetitiveness? Then boy do I have a book for you.
I've been led astray by popular fiction and booktok before (still salty over demon copperhead). But this one hit a new low!
#booksky
#rfkuang
#babel
#ihatedthisbook
Do you abhor nuance and complexity? Do you prefer preachy didacticism and repetitiveness? Then boy do I have a book for you.
I've been led astray by popular fiction and booktok before (still salty over demon copperhead). But this one hit a new low!
#booksky
#rfkuang
#babel
#ihatedthisbook
After third movement marathon of barber's violin concerto (always a banger), Augustin Hadelich just did an encore, his arrangement of Orange Blossom Special
$22 rush ticket
I ♥️ NY
www.instagram.com/reel/C9qHmAV...
#nyphil
$22 rush ticket
I ♥️ NY
www.instagram.com/reel/C9qHmAV...
#nyphil
November 23, 2025 at 1:34 AM
After third movement marathon of barber's violin concerto (always a banger), Augustin Hadelich just did an encore, his arrangement of Orange Blossom Special
$22 rush ticket
I ♥️ NY
www.instagram.com/reel/C9qHmAV...
#nyphil
$22 rush ticket
I ♥️ NY
www.instagram.com/reel/C9qHmAV...
#nyphil
Book #29 of 2025
I usually love a book about books but this one was your average chick lit (but Korean). At least it's a "finish inone sitting" book.
Led astray once again by r/suggestmeabook, drats!
#booksky
#welcometothehyunamdongbookshop
I usually love a book about books but this one was your average chick lit (but Korean). At least it's a "finish inone sitting" book.
Led astray once again by r/suggestmeabook, drats!
#booksky
#welcometothehyunamdongbookshop
November 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Book #29 of 2025
I usually love a book about books but this one was your average chick lit (but Korean). At least it's a "finish inone sitting" book.
Led astray once again by r/suggestmeabook, drats!
#booksky
#welcometothehyunamdongbookshop
I usually love a book about books but this one was your average chick lit (but Korean). At least it's a "finish inone sitting" book.
Led astray once again by r/suggestmeabook, drats!
#booksky
#welcometothehyunamdongbookshop
Happy Halloween, nerds
October 31, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Happy Halloween, nerds
Great quote:
Most people who like BJJ really like BJJ, but most people who enjoy running only “kind of” like it. So if you are optimizing for “engagement,” videos about BJJ is a stronger signal...than videos about running! This has nothing to do with content; it is all about co-viewership patterns
Most people who like BJJ really like BJJ, but most people who enjoy running only “kind of” like it. So if you are optimizing for “engagement,” videos about BJJ is a stronger signal...than videos about running! This has nothing to do with content; it is all about co-viewership patterns
New analysis finds TikTok "systematically boosts" Mamdami over Cuomo
medium.com/@dodeles/bey...
Last time someone looked at this, TikTok was found to "boost" Republican content. But what does it mean for an algorithm to "boost" content anyway?
doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/does-tikto...
medium.com/@dodeles/bey...
Last time someone looked at this, TikTok was found to "boost" Republican content. But what does it mean for an algorithm to "boost" content anyway?
doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/does-tikto...
Does TikTok Amplify Certain Types of Content?
"There and back again"
doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz
October 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Great quote:
Most people who like BJJ really like BJJ, but most people who enjoy running only “kind of” like it. So if you are optimizing for “engagement,” videos about BJJ is a stronger signal...than videos about running! This has nothing to do with content; it is all about co-viewership patterns
Most people who like BJJ really like BJJ, but most people who enjoy running only “kind of” like it. So if you are optimizing for “engagement,” videos about BJJ is a stronger signal...than videos about running! This has nothing to do with content; it is all about co-viewership patterns
A little late to this party, but I love a self-publishing success story. Fun cotton candy book.
#28 of 2025
#booksky
#dungeoncrawlercarl
#28 of 2025
#booksky
#dungeoncrawlercarl
October 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
A little late to this party, but I love a self-publishing success story. Fun cotton candy book.
#28 of 2025
#booksky
#dungeoncrawlercarl
#28 of 2025
#booksky
#dungeoncrawlercarl
October 13, 2025 at 3:10 AM
This book is remarkable (and I don't even like cats).
Book #28 of '25. Caleb Carr's cat memoir. A must read for anybody who prefers furry, domesticated quadrupeds over bipedal primates.
#booksky
Book #28 of '25. Caleb Carr's cat memoir. A must read for anybody who prefers furry, domesticated quadrupeds over bipedal primates.
#booksky
October 13, 2025 at 1:20 AM
This book is remarkable (and I don't even like cats).
Book #28 of '25. Caleb Carr's cat memoir. A must read for anybody who prefers furry, domesticated quadrupeds over bipedal primates.
#booksky
Book #28 of '25. Caleb Carr's cat memoir. A must read for anybody who prefers furry, domesticated quadrupeds over bipedal primates.
#booksky
#27 of 2025, Gogol's Dead Souls
This book would be funny if I didn't think we were living under the tyranny of a thousand petty Chichikovs right now.
#booksky
This book would be funny if I didn't think we were living under the tyranny of a thousand petty Chichikovs right now.
#booksky
October 7, 2025 at 1:22 PM
#27 of 2025, Gogol's Dead Souls
This book would be funny if I didn't think we were living under the tyranny of a thousand petty Chichikovs right now.
#booksky
This book would be funny if I didn't think we were living under the tyranny of a thousand petty Chichikovs right now.
#booksky
Another great Sunday painting nite w @melvinpena.bsky.social !
September 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Another great Sunday painting nite w @melvinpena.bsky.social !
So apparently I'm really bad at painting some fairly basic trees.
sunday for video chat painting, @zoedarme.bsky.social and i both independently chose this bluesky post of "a lake in the north (temagami)" (1922) by lawren stewart harris for our sunday evening painting exercise. both came out great!
September 10, 2025 at 3:35 AM
So apparently I'm really bad at painting some fairly basic trees.
Pardon me, would you happen to have any Grey Poupon?
September 1, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Pardon me, would you happen to have any Grey Poupon?
It's obnoxious to read everything as commentary on our current political moment (and this was written years ago, set in an alt-Balkans). But I can't NOT think of the divide b/t maga & not-maga, and how we end up policing that boundary ourselves through fear, myth, and violence.
#booksky
#mieville
#booksky
#mieville
August 30, 2025 at 10:36 PM
This book feels like an extended, 846 page chuckle. It's if Thackeray were from Yorkshire and wrote fantasy. It's a stay-up-until-1-am-to-read-the-last-200-pages kind of book.
#jonathanstrange
#booksky
#jonathanstrange
#booksky
August 20, 2025 at 1:10 PM
This book feels like an extended, 846 page chuckle. It's if Thackeray were from Yorkshire and wrote fantasy. It's a stay-up-until-1-am-to-read-the-last-200-pages kind of book.
#jonathanstrange
#booksky
#jonathanstrange
#booksky
Today's big post-kayak activity, squeezed in between two naps.
YT tutorial here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=V-CD...
Easy, 30 min. Stop scrolling. Make some art. Make anything.
#artsky
YT tutorial here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=V-CD...
Easy, 30 min. Stop scrolling. Make some art. Make anything.
#artsky
August 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Today's big post-kayak activity, squeezed in between two naps.
YT tutorial here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=V-CD...
Easy, 30 min. Stop scrolling. Make some art. Make anything.
#artsky
YT tutorial here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=V-CD...
Easy, 30 min. Stop scrolling. Make some art. Make anything.
#artsky
Reminder that Edith "HBIC" Wharton was a contemporary of Saussure:
"In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic reality, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs."
This line absolutely SLAPS.
#booksky
"In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic reality, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs."
This line absolutely SLAPS.
#booksky
August 12, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Reminder that Edith "HBIC" Wharton was a contemporary of Saussure:
"In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic reality, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs."
This line absolutely SLAPS.
#booksky
"In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic reality, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs."
This line absolutely SLAPS.
#booksky
I wonder if Whitehead had in mind The Invisible Man when he wrote this book. The brutality and spectacle of the Griff chapters seem so familiar, but without the caustic humor present with Ellison.
Good book, but hard to recommend - as it's unsparingly bleak.
#booksky #thenickelboys
Good book, but hard to recommend - as it's unsparingly bleak.
#booksky #thenickelboys
August 11, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I wonder if Whitehead had in mind The Invisible Man when he wrote this book. The brutality and spectacle of the Griff chapters seem so familiar, but without the caustic humor present with Ellison.
Good book, but hard to recommend - as it's unsparingly bleak.
#booksky #thenickelboys
Good book, but hard to recommend - as it's unsparingly bleak.
#booksky #thenickelboys