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I don't know how it took me until this moment to realize that The Texarkana Mercury Incident is a really good name for a band

mcc@dryad.technology

oh, have you ever heard about the Texarkana mercury incident time.com/archive/6732...

time.comThe Quicksilver MessIntrigued by a stash of mercury, two Arkansas teens poison themselves and contaminate their town

19/10/26, 10:44 pm3 reposts48 likes

TauPan

@taupan.cryptoanarchy.network

Are you aware that there's a band called "Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster"? They are pretty good 😊.

SpacePrez

@spaceprez.bsky.social

>“The kids poured mercury all over everything”–including themselves, their clothing and carpeting–“and they breathed the vapor,” Like some kind of Lovecraftian horror. I'm surprised, it says "the age of digital thermometers" but this was '98?

SpacePrez

@spaceprez.bsky.social

I definitely had access to some non-digital thermometers as a kid and was aware of the risks of mercury as a kid in the 90s, but I guess all it takes is one town not talking about it

mcc

@dryad.technology

i don't see why you couldn't have made a digital thermometer in 1998…

SpacePrez

@spaceprez.bsky.social

Not the point I was making. Limited characters in social media posts. Made a followup, you were just too fast.

mcc

@dryad.technology

i move like the wind

Christian Simmers

@xuelder.neocities.org

I remember when this happened, they had a school assembly at my elementary school to do a psa on the dangers of Mercury.

mcc

@dryad.technology

Logically Texarcana should refer to something (1) Texan (2) powerful, but dangerous and forbidden which is just actually literally what happened

Christopher Clark (he/him)

@kitanin.bsky.social

I know of Texarkana mostly as the place they went to pick up the bootleg* beer in Smokey and the Bandit. * When the first movie came out. By the time the third movie came out, it was legal to sell Coors East of Texas.

SirPorkboy

@unlucky7.bsky.social

There is a REM song called Texarkana so we got some of the way there

mcc

@dryad.technology

Michael Stipe strikes me as a man who's likely been to Texarkana