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Mercer Eddy

@goodvibesnerd.bsky.social
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SFF writer, mostly tryna be funny Right now high on: bugs, turtles, road trip car games Always high on: Science, nature, jokes mercereddy.com

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Mercer Eddy @goodvibesnerd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
followed 6 more zoos yesterday, conservatively a 1000% improvement in feed
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Mercer Eddy @goodvibesnerd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hey it's my story! 5 minute read on darts, dating, and popcorn for dinner (also causality and the multiverse) Enjoy!
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Mercer Eddy @goodvibesnerd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
camouflage not working bud
white moth on brown windowframe
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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 11/08/2026
The man's skeletal injuries looked like a train hit him, but he died in 1304 CE. At #ppa26Berlin last week, @uniofbradford.bsky.social scientist Jo Buckberry concluded he was likely whacked by a flying boulder, making him the first confirmed trebuchet death in the archaeological record. @science.org
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Shattered skeleton in Scottish castle is first confirmed death from trebuchet
“Devastation” across body of 14th century warrior indicates horrific demise from flying boulder
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Mercer Eddy @goodvibesnerd.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
i'm serious this would work
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Smiling Ambassador Kate Wyler
Alt: Keri Russel looks charming and smiles
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Mercer Eddy @goodvibesnerd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I learned something today but I can't post it w/o spoilers ... bah. I learned something today! Learning is nice even if it's not Content! 🐚 Animal #1101 🐏 I figured it out in 8 guesses! 🟧🟨🟨🟨🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥 2 | Avg. Guesses: 9 metazooa.com #metazooa
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Metazooa
Find the mystery animal in this daily biology game by navigating the phylogenetic tree.
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
"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)
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Mercer Eddy @goodvibesnerd.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
@massaudubon.org guide told us the best time to see bats was mosquito o'clock (she was correct)
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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Swimming, yawning, blinking, & staring at the human taking the video. A peaceful moment from a snapping turtle in the pond this evening. 💚
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Ruki @skiesofarcadia.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Art by legendary mangaka Shigeru Mizuki
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Mercer Eddy @goodvibesnerd.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
new story acceptance
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Ning Nang Happy Dance
Alt: Cute Cartoon doing a Happy Dance
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Mercer Eddy @goodvibesnerd.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
unexpected link for Six Degrees of Author Beef: Bryson v Thoreau
Book page saying "The American woods have been unnerving people for 300 years. The inestimably priggish and tiresome Henry David Thoreau thought nature was splendid, splendid indeed, so long as he could stroll to town for cakes and barley wine, but when he experienced real wilderness, on a visit to Katahdin in 1846, he was unnerved to the core. This wasn't the tame world of overgrown orchards and sun-dappled paths that passed for wilderness in suburban Concord, Massachusetts, but a forbidding, oppressive, primeval country that was 'grim and wild ... savage and dreary,' fit only for 'men nearer of kin to the rocks and wild animals than we.' The experience left him, in the words of one biographer, 'near hysterical.' But even men far tougher and more attuned to the wilderness than Thoreau were sobered by its strange and palpable menace."
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Mercer Eddy @goodvibesnerd.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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
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Mercer Eddy @goodvibesnerd.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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...
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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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JBC @johnbcaddell.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
just hanging around for #InsectThursday #spiders #bugs #insects
the underside of a spider on a messy web
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Night Shades ⏾ @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
something to hang on my fridge: ns got a little shout out in the june issue of @locusmag.bsky.social from @mariahaskins.com :)
Another one of my favorite publications for flash fiction is Night Shades, which published 500-word, speculative flash fiction that often straddles the line between prose and poetry in deeply satisfying ways. Recent example of stories I’ve enjoyed in this magazine include the haunting “Everything Must Go” by Mercer Eddy about what happens in the aftermath of a(literal) yard sale, “In My World” by Justin Ocelot, a conflicted love story steeped in both regret and longing; and the quietly devastating “Watching As It Circles” by Chase Anderson.
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Mercer Eddy @goodvibesnerd.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Look at that flop at 0:22 😍
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 15/05/2026
"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.
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the hills have vrunt @vrunt.social · 15/05/2026
this is the last photo on my parents' video birdfeeder before it was mysteriously destroyed we may never know what happened
a big old bear, paws on the base of the camera
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Night Shades ⏾ @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
“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...
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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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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
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
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Mercer Eddy @goodvibesnerd.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
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
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Metazooa
Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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
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Pól Micheál O'Slatraigh @pmoslatraigh.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
This lichen has a Dr.Suess vibe...
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
And a reminder that scallops swim like this, whether you like it or not:
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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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Mercer Eddy @goodvibesnerd.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
OK this book is incredible. Like Drunk History, but all words and all Rome and all murders. www.thebristorian.co.uk/the-forum/ht...
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‘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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warmyellowlight @warmyellowlight.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
hobby idea: see what's over there
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Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
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. 💙
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Dr. Hotlink @shmemistry.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Dorks
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The Earliest Known Vertebrates Had Four Eyes—and They Worked a Lot Like Ours Do, New Research Suggests
Two of those eyes may have evolved into a part of the brain called the pineal gland
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
This is what a pregnant turtle looks like under an X-ray.
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Mercer Eddy @goodvibesnerd.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
oh excellent a practical gift tysm
Book titled "Kaiju Big Battel: A Practical Guide to Giant City-Crushing Monsters" with a picture of a person in a crude one-eyed kaiju costume stomping on a cardboard cityscape
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konnaire @konnaire.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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
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Mercer Eddy @goodvibesnerd.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Third acceptance from a pro pub ... getting dangerously close to convincing myself I'm a real writer
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Mercer Eddy @goodvibesnerd.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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...
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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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Mercer Eddy @goodvibesnerd.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
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...
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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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Mercer Eddy @goodvibesnerd.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
If you want a break from unrelenting aaaaaaa I recommend following zoos
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Mercer Eddy @goodvibesnerd.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
What am I supposed to do with six beet pancakes
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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Biologists must display their most marvelous plumage if they are to be accepted by a flock of fellow biologists. We are now witness to this rare yet beautiful phenomenon at the Society of Integrative of Comparative Biology conference in Portland, OR #SICB2026
A shirt of cartoon oarfish, squid and nautilus Jellyfish whale sharks and sponges oh my!Oarfish on a black sleeve Purple jumping spider backpack
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Complimented McDonald’s lady on her nails and she lit up Give someone a random compliment today We can’t fix the world, but we can maybe be kind to each other
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Mercer Eddy @goodvibesnerd.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
I am lovvving We Solve Murders, and no I haven't read any other Richard Osman including any Thursday Murder Club but friend, I am going to, and I am psyched.
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Mercer Eddy @goodvibesnerd.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Excuse me that is NOT all I need to know So many questions starting with ... - where is his nose? - is his tail poky? - are there videos available of tail prehensile-ing?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Rough vibes on this website today, likely because people feel Hopeless and Helpless Because Can't Stop It and No One Who Is Supposed To Is Trying To So Now We're Fighting Each Other™. I recommend activities such as book, or potentially instrument if you like instrument, or even do talk on phone.
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Mercer Eddy @goodvibesnerd.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
My kid's lego set has instructions for a lego taco and now he's back in school I might just go ahead and make that taco
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Mercer Eddy @goodvibesnerd.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Beautiful reporting on this story Tom Stoppard liked to share. Perfect illustration of the transience & beauty of both theater and memory.
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Zoo Boise @zooboise.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
We’re excited to welcome a new bat-eared fox to Zoo Boise! Fern, a six-month-old female, joins male Fletcher in their African Plains home. 📷: Zookeeper Emily
Closeup of a female bat-eared fox looking directly up at the camera.
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Mercer Eddy @goodvibesnerd.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I've been playing this with my sister (an actual biologist) She is better at "getting the answer" but we're both excellent at "having fun with it" and that's the beauty of life my friend. 🐺 Animal #842 🐋 I figured it out in 8 guesses! 🟥🟥🟥🟧🟨🟨🟩🟩 🔥 3 | Avg. Guesses: 7.8 metazooa.com #metazooa
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Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!
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Roxi Horror 💀🌸 @roxiqt.com · 18/11/2025
This might be an unpopular opinion but what this baby seal is doing is very special to me, personally.
screenshot of a YouTube video still of a chubby baby seal laying on the snow with the caption "In the glittering backlight, a fat baby seal is doing nothing special."
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Nick Volpe @nvolpe.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
WHAT A SPIDER!!! 🤯🤯 BEHOLD, one of the coolest arachnids in the world, the Long-horned Spiny Orb Spider (Macracantha arcuata)! 🕷😍 Found in the rainforests of SE Asia, these magnificent beasts are found usually at head-height in a web they’ve made to catch flying prey!🐞🕸️
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The Onion @theonion.com · 05/11/2025
Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
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