Hydrargyrum
@mercurymusing.bsky.social
All my news feeds have decayed, so here we are.
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Hydrargyrum
@mercurymusing.bsky.social
· Jan 27
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Pronouns any. Let me know if I'm being annoying.
I've avoided Twitter for years and I've fallen off on the Fediverse, so I'm feeling my way around etiquette for this kind of service.
Finally diving in because my other sources for local news have decayed entirely. C'est la vie.
Pronouns any. Let me know if I'm being annoying.
I've avoided Twitter for years and I've fallen off on the Fediverse, so I'm feeling my way around etiquette for this kind of service.
Finally diving in because my other sources for local news have decayed entirely. C'est la vie.
Discovering everyone around me disagrees with my pronunciation of "titer"
November 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Discovering everyone around me disagrees with my pronunciation of "titer"
Saw that the local library's meet-at-a-bar book club was doing Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time for the month and reread it in a weekend a couple of weeks ago.
Now incredibly nervous to just show up at the meeting today at the cider house.
What if I read the book wrong.
Now incredibly nervous to just show up at the meeting today at the cider house.
What if I read the book wrong.
November 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Saw that the local library's meet-at-a-bar book club was doing Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time for the month and reread it in a weekend a couple of weeks ago.
Now incredibly nervous to just show up at the meeting today at the cider house.
What if I read the book wrong.
Now incredibly nervous to just show up at the meeting today at the cider house.
What if I read the book wrong.
Annual lighting of the fireplace has been attempted.
As is traditional, this was followed by the disabling of the smoke detector and the opening of the windows.
As is traditional, this was followed by the disabling of the smoke detector and the opening of the windows.
November 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Annual lighting of the fireplace has been attempted.
As is traditional, this was followed by the disabling of the smoke detector and the opening of the windows.
As is traditional, this was followed by the disabling of the smoke detector and the opening of the windows.
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When you don't have time for the full freakout
November 13, 2025 at 11:09 PM
When you don't have time for the full freakout
Incredibly annoyed at this "17,000 illegal CDLs" headline that's doing the rounds.
As best I can tell this is all reposting or reporting on the same AP story, which is based on one DoT statement from Duffy.
Worse, the numbers seem to be pulled from the letter DoT initially sent to CA??
As best I can tell this is all reposting or reporting on the same AP story, which is based on one DoT statement from Duffy.
Worse, the numbers seem to be pulled from the letter DoT initially sent to CA??
November 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Incredibly annoyed at this "17,000 illegal CDLs" headline that's doing the rounds.
As best I can tell this is all reposting or reporting on the same AP story, which is based on one DoT statement from Duffy.
Worse, the numbers seem to be pulled from the letter DoT initially sent to CA??
As best I can tell this is all reposting or reporting on the same AP story, which is based on one DoT statement from Duffy.
Worse, the numbers seem to be pulled from the letter DoT initially sent to CA??
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November 12, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Motto of the decade
but fuck me why is it all so stupid
November 13, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Motto of the decade
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like
if this is what finally works play it to the fucking hilt
if this is what finally works play it to the fucking hilt
July 15, 2025 at 4:40 AM
like
if this is what finally works play it to the fucking hilt
if this is what finally works play it to the fucking hilt
Once again
I honestly can't believe we're still fussing over fucking epstein while the country is flooding and the government is being dismantled and they're breaking windows to pull people out of their cars to put in concentration camps in the everglades and scotus is signing off on it all
November 13, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Once again
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Arianna Sofia Veraza and her parents were driving to Sam's Club for milk, eggs and diapers yesterday when they heard helicopters and horns blaring yesterday. They had turned around to leave when a federal agent pepper-sprayed them through a car window.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
Pepper-sprayed Berwyn family rattled after getting caught up in federal blitz
Southwest Side politicians condemned Saturday’s pepper spraying and the federal sweep of Little Village as “state-sponsored terrorism” at a news conference Sunday.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Arianna Sofia Veraza and her parents were driving to Sam's Club for milk, eggs and diapers yesterday when they heard helicopters and horns blaring yesterday. They had turned around to leave when a federal agent pepper-sprayed them through a car window.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
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Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero
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This is the last piece I filed before my brilliant editor, @leximcmenamin.com, was laid off alongside many other members of the amazing team. Can’t express how much I admire Lex’s writing & how they approach their work. Please hire Lex, and the rest of the incredible team who was laid off, ASAP:
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
This is the last piece I filed before my brilliant editor, @leximcmenamin.com, was laid off alongside many other members of the amazing team. Can’t express how much I admire Lex’s writing & how they approach their work. Please hire Lex, and the rest of the incredible team who was laid off, ASAP:
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It feels a bit weird to post right now in light of what has happened to @teenvogue.com and so much of the incredible team there. What sources shared here is important, & I’m grateful I got to work on this. I reported on how young people are being impacted by delays to SNAP: “It’s about survival.”
More Young People Will Go Hungry Without SNAP
“We’re trying to make it, but it’s been hard.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:12 PM
It feels a bit weird to post right now in light of what has happened to @teenvogue.com and so much of the incredible team there. What sources shared here is important, & I’m grateful I got to work on this. I reported on how young people are being impacted by delays to SNAP: “It’s about survival.”
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Because Cheney's the center of this old blog post, a reminder that some of us saw that the destruction of shame would be a problem twenty years ago, we're not reaping a single thing now that oh so dignified, *respectable* Republicans did not sow decades ago.
kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2007/07/l33t...
kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2007/07/l33t...
November 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Because Cheney's the center of this old blog post, a reminder that some of us saw that the destruction of shame would be a problem twenty years ago, we're not reaping a single thing now that oh so dignified, *respectable* Republicans did not sow decades ago.
kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2007/07/l33t...
kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2007/07/l33t...
Fucked up my back this morning because we felt frisky and decided to sneak into the master bathroom for an extra door between us and any interruptions.
Been walking around all day with the rigid careful posture of a Kentucky senator.
MIL will not stop asking exactly how I hurt myself.
Been walking around all day with the rigid careful posture of a Kentucky senator.
MIL will not stop asking exactly how I hurt myself.
November 2, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Fucked up my back this morning because we felt frisky and decided to sneak into the master bathroom for an extra door between us and any interruptions.
Been walking around all day with the rigid careful posture of a Kentucky senator.
MIL will not stop asking exactly how I hurt myself.
Been walking around all day with the rigid careful posture of a Kentucky senator.
MIL will not stop asking exactly how I hurt myself.
Got to take a picture with a couple of beautiful macaws today, with them on my shoulders.
One on the right very gently leaned over and pulled the front of my earring out. Just a little gold ball stud with a butterfly back.
Owner very calmly panicked and tried to get her to trade for a treat.
One on the right very gently leaned over and pulled the front of my earring out. Just a little gold ball stud with a butterfly back.
Owner very calmly panicked and tried to get her to trade for a treat.
November 1, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Got to take a picture with a couple of beautiful macaws today, with them on my shoulders.
One on the right very gently leaned over and pulled the front of my earring out. Just a little gold ball stud with a butterfly back.
Owner very calmly panicked and tried to get her to trade for a treat.
One on the right very gently leaned over and pulled the front of my earring out. Just a little gold ball stud with a butterfly back.
Owner very calmly panicked and tried to get her to trade for a treat.
Googling "Victorian Marble Bathroom" and laughing my ass off at how much of an improvement one half-fancy vanity would be.
October 31, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Googling "Victorian Marble Bathroom" and laughing my ass off at how much of an improvement one half-fancy vanity would be.
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Me: I wish with all my heart that we didn't have to keep doing Should Gavin Fucking Newsom Of All People Be the Dem Presidential Candidate in 2028 discourse
The monkey's paw: *curls up, punches my teeth out*
The monkey's paw: *curls up, punches my teeth out*
HE'S NOT EVEN RUNNING THEY CAN'T EVEN FILE TIL JUNE OF NEXT YEAR WHAT THE FUCK
United States Senate election in Maine, 2026
ballotpedia.org
October 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Me: I wish with all my heart that we didn't have to keep doing Should Gavin Fucking Newsom Of All People Be the Dem Presidential Candidate in 2028 discourse
The monkey's paw: *curls up, punches my teeth out*
The monkey's paw: *curls up, punches my teeth out*
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I am now ready with a take: It is good when negative things about candidates come out before people vote rather than after they vote.
October 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I am now ready with a take: It is good when negative things about candidates come out before people vote rather than after they vote.
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Seattle No Kings from the monorail
October 18, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Seattle No Kings from the monorail
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He did it again for the 5 year anniversary
October 14, 2025 at 1:07 AM
He did it again for the 5 year anniversary
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Quoted by Judge Perry today in her opinion in Illinois v Trump
October 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Quoted by Judge Perry today in her opinion in Illinois v Trump
Amazing how they manage to fail by every possible measure except pure cruelty.
Want immigrants gone? Can't process volunteer deportations.
Want to save money by efficiency? Can't just buy a plane ticket, have to pay to brutalize and detain for an indeterminate period first.
Want immigrants gone? Can't process volunteer deportations.
Want to save money by efficiency? Can't just buy a plane ticket, have to pay to brutalize and detain for an indeterminate period first.
NEW: Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates.
Those dates have come and gone.
They’re still stuck here.
Those dates have come and gone.
They’re still stuck here.
“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America
Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates. Those dates have come and gone. They’re still stuck here.
www.propublica.org
October 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Amazing how they manage to fail by every possible measure except pure cruelty.
Want immigrants gone? Can't process volunteer deportations.
Want to save money by efficiency? Can't just buy a plane ticket, have to pay to brutalize and detain for an indeterminate period first.
Want immigrants gone? Can't process volunteer deportations.
Want to save money by efficiency? Can't just buy a plane ticket, have to pay to brutalize and detain for an indeterminate period first.
Thursday morning vibes—
A paean: O! Dry shampoo!
Somebody will absolutely notice the same pair of black Levi's three days running
Denim denim den– jacket
Denim den– Monday's black uniqlo jeans. Perfect
And where was– blue trucker jacket. Probably won't rain? Good enough
(It's raining)
A paean: O! Dry shampoo!
Somebody will absolutely notice the same pair of black Levi's three days running
Denim denim den– jacket
Denim den– Monday's black uniqlo jeans. Perfect
And where was– blue trucker jacket. Probably won't rain? Good enough
(It's raining)
October 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Thursday morning vibes—
A paean: O! Dry shampoo!
Somebody will absolutely notice the same pair of black Levi's three days running
Denim denim den– jacket
Denim den– Monday's black uniqlo jeans. Perfect
And where was– blue trucker jacket. Probably won't rain? Good enough
(It's raining)
A paean: O! Dry shampoo!
Somebody will absolutely notice the same pair of black Levi's three days running
Denim denim den– jacket
Denim den– Monday's black uniqlo jeans. Perfect
And where was– blue trucker jacket. Probably won't rain? Good enough
(It's raining)
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It’s not much of an exaggeration to say that a random woman in a sports skirt recorded on a random instagram reel in chicago has done more to directly confront the human rights abuses of ICE than both standing minority leaders
October 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
It’s not much of an exaggeration to say that a random woman in a sports skirt recorded on a random instagram reel in chicago has done more to directly confront the human rights abuses of ICE than both standing minority leaders