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Darcy Jay Gagnon @darcyjaygagnon.bsky.social · 7d

it's check-your-slippers-for-spiders weather.

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Dave Housley @housleydave.bsky.social · 18d

The @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference is coming back to DC on April 18, 2026, and we're open for registration! It's $95, and that includes the one-day conference, 1 book, 1 meeting w an editor, and your choice of literary stuff from our partner presses. www.barrelhousemag.com/conference

The Barrelhouse conference, Conversations and Connections, is coming back to DC on April 18, 2026.

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Darcy Jay Gagnon @darcyjaygagnon.bsky.social · 17d

D&D quote 10/5: "You overstep yourself, Moo Deng!"

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Darcy Jay Gagnon @darcyjaygagnon.bsky.social · 23d

When I worked for Buttigieg he could scarcely look to the left without Hatch Act lawyers getting on his case. How tf am I getting emails like this on the taxpayer's dime.

From: Message from the Assistant Secretary for Administration
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2025 4:45 PM
Subject: Planning for Potential Lapse in Funding

President Trump opposes a government shutdown, and strongly supports the enactment of H.R. 5371, which is a clean Continuing Resolution to fund the government through November 21, and already passed the U.S. House of Representatives. Unfortunately, Democrats are blocking this Continuing Resolution in the U.S. Senate due to unrelated policy demands. If Congressional Democrats maintain their current posture and refuse to pass a clean Continuing Resolution to keep the government funded before midnight on September 30, 2025, federal appropriated funding will lapse.

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Darcy Jay Gagnon @darcyjaygagnon.bsky.social · Aug 28

"It's shorthand." -- Me lying anytime I'm called out on my garbage handwriting.

Darcy Jay Gagnon @darcyjaygagnon.bsky.social · Jul 27

Teaching my type-A partner how to embrace chaos (use Microsoft OneNote).

Darcy Jay Gagnon @darcyjaygagnon.bsky.social · Jul 24

Whenever contestants on timed cooking shows bust out the ice cream machine you just know it's over for them.

Darcy Jay Gagnon @darcyjaygagnon.bsky.social · Jul 22

Now that corporations are cashing in on it can we please please please be done with the Coldplay meme

Darcy Jay Gagnon @darcyjaygagnon.bsky.social · Jul 8

Beating Alcaraz while 2 sets down is only slightly harder than beating Alcaraz 2 sets up.

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X-R-A-Y Literary Press @xraylitmag.bsky.social · Jun 23

we have an incredible non-fiction photo essay by Robbie Maakestad @robbiemaakestad.bsky.social !!

‘The View from Bethlehem’ is set in 2011, when Maakestad toured the West Bank wall to see the graffiti art that Banksy left there.

read this amazing essay today

xraylitmag.com/the-view-fro...

THE VIEW FROM BETHLEHEM by Robbie Maakestad

Israel Defense Force (IDF) Soldier: “What the fuck are you doing?” Banksy: “You’ll have to wait until it’s finished.” IDF Soldier (to subordinates): “Safeties off!” —Banksy’s account of painting the ...

xraylitmag.com

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Darcy Jay Gagnon @darcyjaygagnon.bsky.social · Jun 6

Coco Gauff is so real for saying "y'all would be cheering for me if she weren't here" after beating the underdog in her own country.

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Darcy Jay Gagnon @darcyjaygagnon.bsky.social · Jun 5

A 6-love set against Swiatek on clay is scary. I'm worried for my girl Coco.

Darcy Jay Gagnon @darcyjaygagnon.bsky.social · Jun 2

Looking for some freelance editing/teaching gigs, hit me up!

The text "I have no money and also I'm gay" in crude 90s news television font.

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Darcy Jay Gagnon @darcyjaygagnon.bsky.social · May 31

Last day for y'all to be straight. Sorry I don't make the laws!

Darcy Jay Gagnon @darcyjaygagnon.bsky.social · May 26

Cantaloupe is either the best fruit ever or the worst there is no in between.

Darcy Jay Gagnon @darcyjaygagnon.bsky.social · May 10

Sneaking White Chicks (2004) into the Criterion closet.

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Darcy Jay Gagnon @darcyjaygagnon.bsky.social · May 8

My fiance said diet coke tastes "hollow." Duh that's because they make it with ghosts.

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Darcy Jay Gagnon @darcyjaygagnon.bsky.social · Apr 29

Nbd just Jon Stewart showing up unannounced to my local gay bar.

Jon Stewart on stage looking mockingly aggressive at Georgie's bar in Asbury Park.

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Darcy Jay Gagnon @darcyjaygagnon.bsky.social · Apr 28

I like living near train tracks because every song becomes the blues.

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Butt teeth! Butt teeth! Butt teeth! @panic.gay · Apr 27

I desperately need to see a "making of" documentary about the 30 min stop motion movie about the 80s American Girl Doll doll watching the challenger explode

The Hitchcock zoom is an incredible touch

Courtney watches the challenger

YouTube video by Rae Pendergrass

youtu.be

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Darcy Jay Gagnon @darcyjaygagnon.bsky.social · Apr 27

Yeah I love cacio e pepe (spaghetti with hot mayonnaise)

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Darcy Jay Gagnon @darcyjaygagnon.bsky.social · Apr 21

Would love to go one day without seeing the acronym "AI."

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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · Apr 16

“It is all in the Cloud, disembodied, so pure that engaging with it feels like religion.”

From "Pigs Rooting for Truffles," a new original essay by Jenny Li.

➡️ buff.ly/5kIa2Wn

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Darcy Jay Gagnon @darcyjaygagnon.bsky.social · Apr 3

You're only five syllables away from a haiku:

A porn bot likes a
photo of my dead mother--
Mogami river

Darcy Jay Gagnon @darcyjaygagnon.bsky.social · Apr 3

Every time I read this essay I find something new to love.

The Rumpus @therumpus.net · Apr 1

“The deer come out at dusk. The sky is purple. It’s hard to see quite right. People call it the magic hour.”

From "Contra," a new original essay by Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo.

➡️ buff.ly/LUdPxEb