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Matthew Mercury
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Who up implementing graceful degradation to transform applicable hard dependencies into soft dependencies
Implement graceful degradation to transform applicable hard dependencies into soft dependencies
November 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Counting Crows - August and Everything After
November 17, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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John Lennon walking like an asshole
November 16, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk › news > world › wo ••• The teenage girls who flirted with Nazis before luring them into wood... They would pretend to be kraut girls who were local women who had relationships with German officers, Dutch traders and general members of the Nazi party.
November 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Bro: "are you into crypto?"
me:
cryptic symbols
October 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Silvio Dante from the Sopranos in the scene where he says “It’s anti-Italian discrimination.”
October 17, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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what is the name of Lara Trump’s critically reviewed single, wrong answers only
a tweet from @covie93 BREAKING: Lara Trump will be performing her critically reviewed single to close the TPUSA Superbowl halftime show. then there’s a still from what seems to be an AI slop Alexis Rose music video
October 13, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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a cropped screenshot of a shopping cart with a 24-pack of referee whistles with lanyards ($9.99) and 120 kazoos in fun colors ($39.99)
October 13, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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who wore it better
Stephen King in “The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill” in Creepshow, covered in moss and grass.
October 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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I grew up in Quitman County so the view from the trailer was the eastern ridge where hill country starts. The vast flatness of fields in all directions, then the rising wall of the forested hills across the east. I think I judged the northern edge by the David Cohn quote.
The plaque from the Peabody Lobby reading: Peabody Lobby "The Mississippi Delta begins in the lobby of the Peabody Hotel and ends on Catfish Row in Vicksburg ... If you stand near its fountain in the middle of the lobby, where the ducks waddle and turtles drowse, you will see everybody who is anybody in the Delta." David Cohn, God Shakes Creation, 1935. 12 Center City Commission 2003
October 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Explain your user name:

I’m Matthew Mercury. My family name is a compound, “Harris Glover,” so our initials all end in HG, like the elemental symbol for mercury. We’ve adopted Mercury as the name of our house, our family. We put it on our stuff for funsies.
From the periodic table of elements, this is the Mercury block. Element number 80, symbol Hg, atomic weight 200.592. a drinking glass with a frosted engraving of the Mercury periodic table block a guitar gig bag with a custom patch sewn on, a large black blocky M shape with a white outline and white embroidery, lowercase, “mercury music”. A small ceramic dish of guitar picks. On top is a white celluloid pick with a blocky black M logo with white lowercase “mercury music”.
October 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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The first shot in the Buddy Guy documentary is a long look at the Delta and made me catch my breath. This floodplain is a picture of my heart, a landscape of my soul. youtu.be/oczhD42a0q0?...
A photograph taken in the Mississippi Delta looking across a dirt road at a wide expanse of flat, unbroken green fields. In the distance a line of trees borders the far side the field. The horizon above the treetops is low in frame and the sky is vast, filling the heavens with grey-white scudding clouds hanging low in the soft blue. A wooden utility pole stands in the field, the only object in sight, perhaps for miles.
September 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Post a perfect album from the /90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice in Chains.
The cover to R.L. Burnside’s 1996 album “A Ass Pocket of Whiskey”.
September 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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It’s New Guitar Day, so I don’t know how I’m supposed to get any work done before, or after, it arrives.
A hard shell injection-molded Peavey guitar case, circa 1978-1983.
September 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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w/o downloading anything new, where are you mentally?
Computer enthusiast Alan Alda uses the ATARI 800XL Computer System. Alda reports: “It’s going all the time!”
August 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Get me pictures of swamp-land!
a panel of J. Jonah Jameson enraged
July 22, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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king shit
PANEL 1: King Shark is singing, sliding down a hill: "IIIIIIII'M A SHARK, I'M A SHARK, I'M A SHARK, I'M A SHARK, I'M A SHARK!" PANEL 2: King Shark is hauling ass across a field toward a compound, singing: "I'M A SHARK!"
July 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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making ai a core value
It's the Arrested Development meme where Tobias is suggesting an open marriage, but it starts with Tobias saying: "You know, boss, as an AI developer, I have advised... a number of clients to consider LLM integration, where the company maintains its core operations but allows for the use of language models to enhance customer interactions." Lindsay: "Well did it work for those people?" Tobias: "No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but..." Tobias: "...but it might work for us."
July 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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how i'm doing today
a screencap from a music theory text showing the caesura symbol with the description: "A caesura indicates a pause during which time is not counted." yeah, let's do that
July 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.
The cover to R.L. Burnside's A Bothered Mind, his final studio album before he passed away in 2005. It shows R.L. on a country road, standing awkwardly, wearing a red long-sleeved work shirt and blue trousers. He is north of seventy, balding, somewhat paunchy, and his shirt is poorly tucked. His pants are too long and bunch at the ankles over his dusty shoes.
July 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Never forget the time Frank Castle got his clock cleaned by an eight year old.
A comics page from Runaways. Panel 1: Frank Castle gets punched in the lower stomach by Molly Hayes, a child in a kitty cat hat, and it folds him in half like a vengeance-driven taco. Panel 2: a bright white light, indistinct shapes around the edges Panel 3: greyed vision, looking up at a group of children consoling the distraught Molly. Black caption bubble: “Punisher’s War Journal: Hhhhhhh…..”
June 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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These are from 2015, iirc.
A US flag wrapped convertible Pizza Hut delivery car with a Thank A Veteran Freedom Isn’t Free sign on the passenger door. A close up of the hood showing the blue field and white stars. Each star has a state with its date of entry into the union and its state flag.
May 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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A movie that takes place where you’re from.
John Tuturro, Tim Blake Nelson, and George Clooney in O Brother Where Art Thou
April 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Roses are red
No flowers on a poplar tree
March 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Post you from a different era
me, 2013, long braid, headband, black t-shirt, erupting out of muddy water at an obstacle run event
March 19, 2025 at 12:37 AM