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Cody Sun Crusher

@mercurybard.bsky.social

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perpetually tired gamer, SCAdian, gardener, & aviation nerd. Ain't born (neuro)typical

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Cody Sun Crusher @mercurybard.bsky.social · Jul 16

(If you are ever wondering if I woke up and chose violence, the answer is always 'yes')

Cody Sun Crusher @mercurybard.bsky.social · 3h

“Right, because god forbid two twenty-year-olds enjoy their lives without the fifteen-year-old they babysit.” Max is, predictably, rolling her eyes.

Dustin splutters. “May I remind you that you’re also fifteen?”

“You may not, actually.”

Cody Sun Crusher @mercurybard.bsky.social · 3h

How does one just lose a pair of pajama pants? I was wearing them yesterday and now, poof!

Cody Sun Crusher @mercurybard.bsky.social · 12h

“Fun,” he replies dryly. “Why are always folk songs so dreary?”

“Because they were instructions, once,” she smiles.

Cody Sun Crusher @mercurybard.bsky.social · 12h

"HYDRAULIC LOSS ON LANDING... AIRCRAFT BEING TOWED OFF RUNWAY"

There are some nights I can't even with us.

Cody Sun Crusher @mercurybard.bsky.social · 13h

@bgoodg.bsky.social The hole goes deeper, lol:

www.defensenews.com/industry/202...

South Korean manufacturers outline plans to bolster US shipbuilding

Three of South Korea's industrial titans are planning major shifts in current shipyard operations to help revitalize American shipbuilding.

www.defensenews.com

Cody Sun Crusher @mercurybard.bsky.social · 1d

Inflated prices. Which come out of our taxes.

I do air, not ocean, where the flag covers the entire airline, not the individual both, so this is all very bizarre to me too.

Cody Sun Crusher @mercurybard.bsky.social · 1d

It gets more complicated (and expensive) for Americans because the Jones Act specifies that US government and government-impelled shipments must move on US-flagged vessels. Unfortunately, the only folks who still register vessels in the USA are those pursuing this business, which leads to ridiculous

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Cody Sun Crusher @mercurybard.bsky.social · 1d

This florist/tattoo artist AU is making me think about redownloading insta

Cody Sun Crusher @mercurybard.bsky.social · 1d

'gary is trying to get him friendly with kyle, since he claims simon is the closest thing he has to a best friend.

(“i moved across the atlantic for you, you ungrateful git,” gary chides, over the phone.

“i didn’t ask you to, you just came with")'

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 1d

they are so close to understanding the entire point of trade

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: The US is rolling back tariffs on “products that cannot be grown, mined, or naturally produced in the United States," per WSJ

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Cody Sun Crusher @mercurybard.bsky.social · 1d

by sailors who don't have much recompense if something goes wrong. It's also a way to get out of paying taxes in the actual countries these freight companies operate.

The MV Rhosus is a great example of why this is bad: www.spiegel.de/internationa...

Shipowner Linked to Hezbollah's Bank: Questions Swirl around the Cargo that Destroyed Beirut

The explosion in Lebanon leads back to an abandoned ship in Beirut that had arrived in the city carrying 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate. Reporting by DER SPIEGEL and OCCRP has determined that the ship...

www.spiegel.de

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Cody Sun Crusher @mercurybard.bsky.social · 1d

The countries that issue them are places like Liberia, Moldova, and the Bahamas - it's a way to make good money, but they don't have the infrastructure to enforce basic fucking standards. Hell, Moldova is 99.9% landlocked. Which means the rest of the planet has to deal with shitty ass boats crewed

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Cody Sun Crusher @mercurybard.bsky.social · 1d

Look, I have Opinions on flags of convenience, so whenever fiction decides to rip at them a little, I'm all for it.

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Cody Sun Crusher @mercurybard.bsky.social · 1d

“so, there’s a vessel called the malichos registered under the flag of mongolia.”

“landlocked country like five hundred miles from the ocean, mongolia?”

“the very same.”

“they’re awf’y talented lads, these sailors.”

Cody Sun Crusher @mercurybard.bsky.social · 2d

“You’re like the emotional equivalent of a bowel obstruction, you know that? It can’t even be considered emotional constipation at this point. It’s gone too far.”

Cody Sun Crusher @mercurybard.bsky.social · 2d

She is not a pet - she is a working cat and just earned her bonus by taking out a mouse.

Currently, I'm getting the stink-eye for stealing her kill and also spraying carpet cleaner on the rug to get rid of dead rodent cooties.

Cody Sun Crusher @mercurybard.bsky.social · 2d

I just realized I have leftover crab Rangoon. If only I had a toaster oven...

...what am I saying? My microwave was purchased for my brother's dorm room in 2004 for less than $25 from Sam's Club. I operate with minimal small appliances.

Cody Sun Crusher @mercurybard.bsky.social · 2d

Clearly, they never read Bunnicula as a child

Cody Sun Crusher @mercurybard.bsky.social · 2d

This story can be summarized as "humans are space orcs and Ghost is making it everyone else's problem".

Cody Sun Crusher @mercurybard.bsky.social · 3d

“We’re not fucking like rabbits. We’re not even fucking like moles.”

“What about stoats?”

Cody Sun Crusher @mercurybard.bsky.social · 3d

Gaz might be the MVP of the 1-4-1, but Farah is the hero of the whole damn CoD franchise.

Cody Sun Crusher @mercurybard.bsky.social · 3d

I haven't responded to friends' texts for weeks and one got worried and texted my partner, who has been only getting minimal responses, so he texted my brother, who texted both me *and* my mother to find out wtf is going on, so I had to text everyone back before she called the cops. Yeah.

Cody Sun Crusher @mercurybard.bsky.social · 4d

I bought my parents butternut squash noodles off the interwebs because their grocery stores have stopped carrying them and Mom hates zucchini noodles. The future is weird.

Cody Sun Crusher @mercurybard.bsky.social · 4d

"remember all those rom coms with guys holding boom boxes in their crushes garden
guess mine hides in my ma’s hedge
with a gun
and at least two concealed knives"

Cody Sun Crusher @mercurybard.bsky.social · 4d

Honestly, I see no lie