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๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ญ SRE living in NYC. originally from seattle, but NYC is home. i write sometimes on redbluemagenta.com

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Latest posts by merc.nyc on Bluesky

โ€œlook at that three eyes over thereโ€

*zuck takes off his glasses and starts sobbing in the corner, stupidly*

31.07.2025 01:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

we should ban mormons though, if only because their game is too tight

28.07.2025 17:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

i fucking love NYC beaches for this reason - it's aggressively pro-public access much like a lot of other things in the city

18.07.2025 17:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is on @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @ericswalwell.bsky.social and @danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co and everyone else who has aligned with the Republicans on their hyper Islamaphobic shit. You guys are the GOP.

30.06.2025 17:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3256    ๐Ÿ” 756    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 46    ๐Ÿ“Œ 19
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itโ€™s wild how shameless the right has been over the years poising themselves as the โ€œfree speechโ€ party and when they get power they do this to people using free speech

30.06.2025 19:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2271    ๐Ÿ” 327    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 46    ๐Ÿ“Œ 22
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godspeed you! black emperor last night was fucking amazing, finally a major tick off my bucket list.

27.06.2025 16:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Zohran looking out on a victory night crowd.

Zohran looking out on a victory night crowd.

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until itโ€™s done.

My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.

I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

25.06.2025 05:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 68925    ๐Ÿ” 9554    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1643    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1040

I wonder if the reason ICE agents conceal their identities, and the Trump administration is concerned about them being identified, is because they don't want anyone finding out how many J6 insurrectionists and white supremacist gang members are amongst their ranks?

17.06.2025 17:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 342    ๐Ÿ” 109    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Shit ainโ€™t been right since Desus & Mero went to Showtime.

11.06.2025 02:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 603    ๐Ÿ” 84    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8

I think the thing a lot of people are like just refusing to grasp is the point was always that the US cutting off aid would cause mass death. That under developing these countries, creating a network of soft power and dependence was always the liberal agenda. That it was set up this way.

18.05.2025 18:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2126    ๐Ÿ” 366    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 41    ๐Ÿ“Œ 13

It's important to remember the police that murdered this man's son claimed the son was armed however the body camera footage could not verify that fact.

Seriously. It's fuck the police until they stop killing people and even then it's still fuck the police.

Simple as that.

11.05.2025 16:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 366    ๐Ÿ” 142    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is one of the reasons why I donโ€™t believe in up front design. Like I said to a junior once: ยซYouโ€™ve made all sorts of decisions, but you donโ€™t know enough to decide these things.ยป

This is also why estimation is fundamentally broken: we donโ€™t know enough. Finding out is part of solving it.

01.05.2025 12:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 37    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

The US used to have free to low tuition until schools couldn't discriminate based on race

30.04.2025 02:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2759    ๐Ÿ” 771    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 32    ๐Ÿ“Œ 22

during my trip to japan, it was an honor to be almost ran over by a k-truck backing into the lot we were staying in w the tiniest of wheels

26.04.2025 19:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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yeah so i got picked up by some muscle girls earlier lmao

17.04.2025 16:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

tokyo is fucking goated tbh, canโ€™t believe we have to go back to the US at the end of this trip

11.04.2025 07:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

As the author of a history of concentration camps, I would like to emphasize that this is a very bad idea, and we should definitely not do it.

08.04.2025 20:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13288    ๐Ÿ” 3894    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 390    ๐Ÿ“Œ 118

jokes on you, millennials barely have any retirement to begin with

09.04.2025 08:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

in general, no. weโ€™re mostly just seeing americaโ€™s decline happening in real time, but this has been going on for probably decades - maybe not the stark rhetoric toward europeans, but the heavy handedness is not new

09.04.2025 08:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything weโ€™ve seen in this country in a very long time.

26.03.2025 17:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 36968    ๐Ÿ” 16527    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1887    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1070

If you're a journalist in the US and you're not speaking out against the ongoing killing of Palestinian journalists, at record levels, by a US-funded foreign military, then you should hang your head in shame.

25.03.2025 03:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4276    ๐Ÿ” 982    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 56    ๐Ÿ“Œ 28
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Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained Fabian Schmidtโ€™s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.

ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed.

No one knows why he was detained.

15.03.2025 18:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 31107    ๐Ÿ” 12744    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2036    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1567

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.

We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.

They own what happens next.

14.03.2025 23:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 131049    ๐Ÿ” 25647    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5830    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1558

most people didnโ€™t care either. guy just shrunk into the crowd

14.03.2025 16:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

dude was ineffectual even at having people give a fuck in his home neighborhood of park slope during a festival. like, i passed by schumer a few years ago w his two cronies holding up signs saying โ€œmeet chuckโ€ and he tried to shake my hand, but didnโ€™t even clock him while i was browsing hot dogs

14.03.2025 16:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

thank god for plex and sonarr

14.03.2025 16:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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NTSB Media Briefing 5 - Bombardier CRJ700 & Sikorsky UH-60L military helicopter collision near DCA YouTube video by NTSBgov

sorry for leaning so much into my plane autism today but dear god this shit is more bonkers than i expected

12.03.2025 14:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

when she put that visual up of the corridor my mouth literally dropped

12.03.2025 14:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

thereโ€™s still bits of hope here and there, but itโ€™s all due to the actual people living here and not because of whoโ€™s in office today or whoโ€™s holding the levers of power in other aspects of our society. but i fear that the window of opportunity for us to act might be closing faster than we realize

04.03.2025 22:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

nowadays, itโ€™s hard to see exactly where that possibility lays in what direction. the sense of urgency in every single minute has worn all of us down and weโ€™re entering a very dark period of which iโ€™m unsure weโ€™re even brave enough to crawl out of even after trump is out of office

04.03.2025 22:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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