"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." -Willa Cather (from The Professor's House, 1925)
Mercer Eddy
@goodvibesnerd.bsky.social
SFF writer, mostly tryna be funny Right now high on: bugs, turtles, road trip car games Always high on: Science, nature, jokes https://mercereddy.com
@massaudubon.org guide told us the best time to see bats was mosquito o'clock (she was correct)
Swimming, yawning, blinking, & staring at the human taking the video. A peaceful moment from a snapping turtle in the pond this evening. 💚
unexpected link for Six Degrees of Author Beef: Bryson v Thoreau
trying to get back on track with my reading for the year so I joined a book review challenge ... now I'm behind on reading AND writing
Floor is Lava is a legitimately great show and a big part of why is that when someone falls, everybody SCREAMS and they go bloop bloop bloop they're gone, man, gone forever www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/arti...
Netflix’s Floor Is Lava is the worst-best show on TV
It’s essentially a live-action version of Zelda. Or Gladiators with less bounce. It’s utterly ridiculous. So why can’t I stop watching?
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something to hang on my fridge: ns got a little shout out in the june issue of @locusmag.bsky.social from @mariahaskins.com :)
"I don't have any children, and I don't have any dinosaurs." Pool fences are still important because they protect other people's children and dinosaurs.
this is the last photo on my parents' video birdfeeder before it was mysteriously destroyed we may never know what happened
“There’s a void behind the Larsons’ house. They had a yard sale. They found a buyer.” 🛸🛸 new one from @goodvibesnerd.bsky.social www.nightshadesmag.com/everything-m...
Everything Must Go
by Mercer Eddy There’s a void behind the Larsons’ house. They had a yard sale. They found a buyer. If you throw in a rock, there’s no rock anymore. If you flick in a contraband joint, no you didn’t....
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there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
I play metazooa every day hoping for albatross. Tomorrow is a new hope. 🐩 Animal #944 🦒 I figured it out in 8 guesses! 🟥🟨🟨🟨🟧🟨🟩🟩 🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 7.2 metazooa.com #metazooa
Metazooa
Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!
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He noticed a wild frog living in his fence post, so he built a 3D-printed home for the frogs to live and hide. [📹unknowndazza] Original post
And a reminder that scallops swim like this, whether you like it or not:
a sea shell is floating on top of a sandy surface .
Alt: a scallop is flapping its little shell together on top of a sandy surface, moving it in a way that doesn't look real.
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OK this book is incredible. Like Drunk History, but all words and all Rome and all murders. www.thebristorian.co.uk/the-forum/ht...
‘A Fatal Thing Happenedon the Way to the Forum’ by Emma Southon: Review — The Bristorian
George Leggett reviews ‘A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum’ by Emma Southon, a book all about ancient Rome and murder.
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Meet Bocce! This rare southern three-banded armadillo pup is thriving and growing, now weighing 1.7 pounds. At just two months old, he’s already making history. Bocce is only the second healthy armadillo pup born at the Zoo in our 121-year history, making this little arrival extra special. 💙
This is what a pregnant turtle looks like under an X-ray.
Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds
Third acceptance from a pro pub ... getting dangerously close to convincing myself I'm a real writer
This book is WILDLY good. And it was 100% a lucky bookstore browsing find. Never read anything by Senaa Ahmad before (my ignorance & my loss), never saw this book promoted anywhere. Just out on the table at B&N and looked interesting. Very very recommended. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
The Age of Calamities
Written by an inimitable new voice, The Age of Calamities is a genre-defying, mind-bending collection of absurdist, funny, and speculative short stories. In ...
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Love finding new rabbit holes -- I went looking for info on the "mystery third condiment" (turns out: likely mustard!) and spent the last forty minutes clicking through other random articles review.gale.com/2025/11/04/g...
Exploring a Golden Age of Children’s Literature
The 19th century’s “Golden Age” of children’s literature brought adventure and nonsense, thanks to printing progress and changing ideas on childhood.
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If you want a break from unrelenting aaaaaaa I recommend following zoos
Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium@ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · 7mo agoUme is officially 11 months old and already weighs 483 pounds! 💗 That’s more than halfway to mom Yuna’s impressive 800 pounds. This adorable Malayan tapir is gaining size, confidence, and curiosity by the day, still keeping close to mom while steadily growing into her almost-teen tapir era.