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JMFallon @mrsmercurial.whisper.ninja · 04/07/2026

We started the day with wine and now I'm moving on to cider

A photo of a can of Saint Arnold dry cider, which was slightly sweeter than I was expecting for a dry cider, in front of a bottle of portlandia 2022 columbia valley cab, which was really tasty

JMFallon @mrsmercurial.whisper.ninja · 04/07/2026

My husband made me a version of a "reflecting pool" cocktail with rum, pineapple juice, and blue curaçao. He thought it was boring, so he had to make me a 'better' cocktail

A greenish cocktail in a coup glass with a blue raspberry fruit roll-up lining the glass. It was shaken, so there is a nice foam layer on top

Another cocktail in a coup glass. The green is a little more "hidden lagoon" than gross algae.
He used a new-to-us gin, Edinburgh Gin Seaside Coastal Dry Gin, green chartreuse, acid adjusted pineapple juice, and blue curaçao, on top of a blue raspberry fruit roll-up.
It was surprisingly licorice forward

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JMFallon @mrsmercurial.whisper.ninja · 16/06/2026

Any crafting type people here who do beadwork? I need help putting a value on a collection. They are all glass, and from the 90s I have 4 containers, roughly 7 in x 10 in, I'll share the other pictures if anyone asks

A Darice branded multi-compartment container; nine of the sections have very small beads. I tried to count how many beads per gram, but I'm not that patient so I stopped after 25. The compartments are a little over an inch deep. The third from the left on the top had more than 60 grams of beads, so I'm estimating 300 grams worth of beads total

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JMFallon @mrsmercurial.whisper.ninja · 07/03/2026

Not sure it's my best look, but I got this shirt in the mail today so I'm celebrating it

Close up of a woman's chest in a black t-shirt that reads "Ride the D"
D is in a pale purple circle.
This is celebrating the D line on the Metro in Los Angeles

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JMFallon @mrsmercurial.whisper.ninja · 13/02/2026

I haven't watered this planter all winter, yet here is some Scarlett Sage hanging on. See the progression as it soaks up some water

A close shot of a very sad plant that is still green but is very wilty

Another photo of the sage plant after I have given it water. It has parked up but is still droopy

Final shot of the sage in a more golden light. It has perked up a lot. The first photo was taken at 11:50 AM and this final photo was taken at 3:52 PM

Bonus photo of a Gulf Coast Toad that I disturbed while trimming the banana plants

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JMFallon @mrsmercurial.whisper.ninja · 06/02/2026

First animated crush without saying your age. I was so excited when LEGO released this

A LEGO Minifigure of fox Robinhood from the Disney film

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JMFallon @mrsmercurial.whisper.ninja · 07/01/2026

Ooh! I missed the last campaign, just searched my inbox to make sure I still get email updates. Bummer, but last year was tight so I may not have been able to justify a splurge Here's a sticker that is holding up beautifully on my water bottle

A purple water bottle laying on it's side to display the bird sticker

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JMFallon @mrsmercurial.whisper.ninja · 25/12/2025

Not in the photo is the prime rib, cut for dipping in fondue, and the bacon-wrapped goat cheese stuffed dates

A pot on a conductive burner full of fondue. There are various bowls full of things like green apples, baby potatoes, broccoli, etc. in the foreground is a plate with sourdough bread cubes and a homemade pretzel twist

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JMFallon @mrsmercurial.whisper.ninja · 23/12/2025

Marinara is basically tomato soup, right?

Close up photo of a slice of bread with whole basil baked in and a slice of bread with peppercinis and miserable baked in in a bowl of marinara with cheap Parmesan cheese on top

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JMFallon @mrsmercurial.whisper.ninja · 13/12/2025

I put all sorts of stuff on my calendar and then sometimes I don't understand what I meant case in point:

Calendar reminder that says "Celebrate Vampire Weekend, it's an event" for December 19th 6-7 pm repeats yearly

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JMFallon @mrsmercurial.whisper.ninja · 12/12/2025

Just started @oliviawrites.bsky.social 's new release, Second Chance Romance, and this selection is everything I love about Olivia Dade's book!

Photo of a Kindle screen. Text is from "Second Chance Romance" by Olivia Dade.
"That Sadie Brazen has a wild goddamn imagination.
Must be why people read so many novels, he guessed. Because real life was so predictable. Few kangaroo kidnappings. Fewer guppy-men with fins on their dicks"

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JMFallon @mrsmercurial.whisper.ninja · 07/12/2025

Sink (the feral cat) comes and goes. I hadn't seen him in a while, but yesterday he was chilling in the flower bed. I was moving around too much for him, so he left

A feral cat sitting on a wooden fence that has hyacinth been vines growing on it. The cat's name is Sink and he is similar in color to the weathered wooden fence. You can see a red open wound on the back of his neck. We think a hawk attacked him around 3 years ago. How is he still kicking?

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JMFallon @mrsmercurial.whisper.ninja · 06/12/2025

Do you need to bake a bread in a Dutch oven? What difference does it make? In this test case the Dutch oven bread had a chewier crust and did not get as dark

Two round loaves of French style bread (no fat, no sugar). The loaf at the top is lighter and was baked in a Dutch oven, the loaf at the bottom is a little darker, with a drier crunchier crust and was baked on a stone with a pizza steel above it

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JMFallon @mrsmercurial.whisper.ninja · 02/12/2025

This is from last night. There's a reason we called her rooftop kitty before we settled in Concrete as her name

A feral grey tabby cat perched on my roof. She is looking at the camera and wondering if I was going to give her dinner early

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JMFallon @mrsmercurial.whisper.ninja · 02/12/2025

I just panic-moved several plants inside. I have two adenium that live outside all summer, as well as several ficus plants, and a ponytail palm tonight's predicted low is 36°f. Oops, should have moved plants over the weekend

An adenium with several branches. They are succulents with obovate leaves. This one has a red flower bud. To the right is a fiddle leaf fig

A close up of the red flower bud on the adenium

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JMFallon @mrsmercurial.whisper.ninja · 27/11/2025

Every time we move past the door the cats get really excited

Two cats sitting on a patio. There's are weird reflections because I took the picture through a screen door

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JMFallon @mrsmercurial.whisper.ninja · 27/11/2025

We're getting close to eating time. Husband is about to start the brussel sprouts, the turkey is resting and the Hawaiian dinner rolls are calling my name

A metal bowl full of Hawaiian rolls. In the background are a bottle of balsamic reduction and a carafe of red wine sangria. Thanksgiving means day drinking.

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JMFallon @mrsmercurial.whisper.ninja · 19/11/2025

The trees are starting to look like fall, and I got both sunburn and mosquito bites the day I took this picture

An asphalt bike path starting at the front left and moving to the middle distance. There are trees scattered about, still mostly covered in leaves. The sunlight is coming from the right, giving the leaves a golden cast. Taken in Houston November 2025

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JMFallon @mrsmercurial.whisper.ninja · 19/11/2025

My daughter just shared wine in a can with me, because we're fancy like that

An overly shiny photo of a rose gold can of wine. The difficult to read label says " rosé bubbles -oregon grown- underwood

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JMFallon @mrsmercurial.whisper.ninja · 15/11/2025

Why would a libertarian follow me? Also a google search for Gary Huskey comes up with a man who pleaded guilty to animal cruelty after two dead dogs were found in his truck, and I'm just face blind enough that I can't tell you if it's the same white guy or not

Screenshot of Gary Huskey Governor For Arkansas @garyhuskeyforgov.bsky.spcial
Bio: I'm Gary Huskey, and I'm running for Governor of Arkansas in 2026. Please share my campaign and follow. #Love #Hope #Peace #Trust #Prosperity #Integrity #Equality #Freedom #Arkansas #Governor #Libertarian garyhuskeyforgovernor.com

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JMFallon @mrsmercurial.whisper.ninja · 28/10/2025

Stop scrolling & post two characters who bring you happiness

Black background, white drawing of Rukia facing left and Ichigo facing right. They are characters from Bleach

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JMFallon @mrsmercurial.whisper.ninja · 28/09/2025

320 mass shootings this year

The shooting adds to the growing list of bars, restaurants, shopping centers, schools and other venues in the US generally thought of as safe that have experienced gun violence. There have been at least 320 mass shootings – with at least four people shot, not including the shooter – in the US so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive.

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JMFallon @mrsmercurial.whisper.ninja · 28/09/2025

Oddly enough, I (a Xennial) used a water bottle all the time in school. I reused Gatorade bottles and would freeze them overnight so they would melt during the day. Sometimes I'd top them off at a water fountain or sink. I guess I've always been a thirsty bitch

Ramos, 38, was stunned when her daughter asked what her water bottle was like back when she attended school, and what design she chose when she was little. Ramos couldn’t cope with the out-of-the-blue question, telling Newsweek that it was "so relatable to other parents" raising Gen Z (born between 1997 and 2012) and Gen Alpha (born between 2013 and 2025) kids.

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JMFallon @mrsmercurial.whisper.ninja · 27/09/2025

I finally have blooms on the hyacinth bean vines

Purple buds and blooms on a hyacinth bean vine. I ordered the seeds in June, so I planted them late in the season, but I'm in USDA zone 9b, so while it's almost October, the high today is 91°f

A variety of colors of morning glory blooms

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JMFallon @mrsmercurial.whisper.ninja · 05/09/2025

Many months ago I threw a whole lot of old seeds into a raised garden bed: various sunflowers, marigolds, allysum, a native wildflower mix, etc. I didn't specifically remember having any morning glories in the bunch, and yet... At least the lizards are happy hiding in all those leaves

A raised garden bed with lots of little green sprouts. The wooden fence behind it has a net with two sweet potato vines climbing the net.

The same raised garden bed now completely overflowing with different colors of morning glory vines. The vines have made it up the net on the fence

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JMFallon @mrsmercurial.whisper.ninja · 13/07/2025

Mildly tragic news: my husband broke my "Queen Bee" mug and I can't find an exact replacement

Two coffee mugs on a tray. One is black with a yellow interior. A bee and floating crown are etched into the side. The other mug says "once a princess always a princess" in Disney-esque script

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JMFallon @mrsmercurial.whisper.ninja · 13/07/2025

One of today's projects: garlic comfit. We did not roast the garlic in the oven, but slow cooking in oil still gets you that roasted caramelized note

A sauce pan full of raw peeled garlic cloves covered with olive oil

A jar full of now cooked garlic cloves covered in olive oil

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JMFallon @mrsmercurial.whisper.ninja · 18/06/2025

Yesterday around 4:30 pm the "feels like" temperature was 104°f One of the hardest things about moving here from CO is that in CO we took the kids outside for at least 2 hours everyday, 1 in the morning and 1 in the afternoon Yesterday the kids were outside for barely 15 minutes

Screenshot of Wunderground weather app showing that at 6:05 am somewhere in TX it is currently 79°f and feels like 87°f

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JMFallon @mrsmercurial.whisper.ninja · 08/06/2025

Our house also has a weird lack of storage. Every bedroom has a closet, but there is no coat closet or linen closet. We bought a shoe cabinet to put towels in

Product image of a three drawer shoe cabinet

Dimensions of the shoe cabinet. It sticks out 9.4 inches from the wall

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JMFallon @mrsmercurial.whisper.ninja · 07/06/2025

The thing about teaching is that you very rarely have perfect students. If they were perfect they wouldn't need you to teach them at your level. At my level ECE I see teachers struggle a lot because they are focusing on the subject matter to the exclusion of the children 1/x

Screenshot from slate com job advice:
Dear Good Job,

I have been an eighth-grade teacher for seven years now and am beginning to think I made a terrible mistake in terms of choosing my profession.

It’s not me, it’s the kids. And it’s getting worse.

The kids I teach are rude and feral. They refuse to read or treat others with the slightest bit of decency, give up at the first sign of difficulty, and possess the attention span of goldfish. And it only seems to get worse with each passing year. The kids get dumber and the regard for learning keeps cratering. With the coming cuts to public education, is it even worth continuing as a teacher at this point?

—Exercise in Futility

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JMFallon @mrsmercurial.whisper.ninja · 06/06/2025

I swear Concrete only shows up so that she can hiss at and then ignore her kids' dad

Four cats in a backyard.
In the background and to the right, on a wooden fence is the deadbeat dad cat, Sink. In the foreground and to the left in a row are Concrete (the mom, grey), Macadam, and Cobblestone who is eating.
Concrete and Macadam are very resolutely faced away from the fence where Sink is sitting. Concrete doesn't hang out with us, she's kind of a bitch, so she is definitely here as a power move.

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JMFallon @mrsmercurial.whisper.ninja · 01/06/2025

An empty-nester friend of ours was getting rid of furniture, so we took a couch, and a love seat. The leather is a bit worn, so right now we have this unused fabric I had draped over it. Will I ever sew it into a slipcover? Probably not, but I'll think about it often

Purple and gold damask tapestry chenille fabric under a skylight

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JMFallon @mrsmercurial.whisper.ninja · 31/05/2025

I'm endlessly fascinated by the social relationships between my backyard cats. Sometimes they let Sink chill with them. Most of the time he sits on the fence and watches them eat

Three feral cats hanging out in the grass. They are all facing the camera and make a little triangle with about 2 feet between the points.
Clockwise from the top right is the dad, Sink (with the 2 year old neck wound)
Macadam, the queen of the backyard
and Cobblestone, Macadam's sister from a later litter.

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JMFallon @mrsmercurial.whisper.ninja · 26/05/2025

Glamour shot of the color at the bottom and the internal structure of the crust

A mostly eaten piece of pizza, tilted away from the camera so you can see the color on the bottom and the holes in the cut edge of the crust

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