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Now up at my art store, I am selling originals and prints of my Power Lines Drawings, and original drawings from my Objects From Films series: marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com

This is some cool shit and I'm sure I have more than one art-loving urbanist mutual with an empty spot on their wall

You don't have a "Bluesky account". lou.gg/blog/you-don...

Dana Kornberg was so thrilled to get her security deposit back that the check now hangs on her refrigerator door.  It took more than four years to get it.  outliermedia.org/detroit-secu...

There was a brand new allegation that the president raped a woman in the 1990s yesterday and it appears to not be on the NYT homepage at all right now

I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

the washington free beacon is trying to october surprise abdul by revealing his comms chief used to post bangers

Prints of some of my Power Lines Drawings are for sale at my store for $40 each marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/category/pow...

In addition to being very cute, "Comparing sleep across such different animals can help us understand how sleep evolved, which features are ancient, and what functions different sleep stages may serve." 💤🕷️ 🧪

recent collage

You’re gonna want to see what the BlueSky guys have decided is too intolerant for you to read.

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There was Arabic literature long before anyone ever wrote anything in English

this is honestly invigorating—maybe because the US far right has been on the rise most of my life, maybe because it suggests why the far right being unpopular is not enough. mostly: because it gives us something we can do

hey all i dont know what authorsdaily dot com is? but they have an "Interview" with me posted that i - never gave - is full of lies - has my wrong pronouns - is full of things i dont do - or would never say? so i emailed them and told them to take it down but jfc, i am tired

Funny coincidence: this estimate of China's cleantech avoided emissions is about the same as the potential *added* emissions if all planned data centre gas plants go ahead ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/n...

Hungary's recent election was less free and more unfair than the upcoming US midterms, and pro-democracy forces still won. Similar point about Serbia's election this weekend. In normal democracy terms, America is in bad shape. But in consolidated authoritarianism terms, we're looking pretty good.

The US is not about to have a free and fair election. The state has put its thumb on the scale to favor the ruling party in multiple ways. It's a mostly free, somewhat unfair election. But still one where the ruling party can be overwhelmed by numbers. Hence the term "competitive authoritarianism."

What's striking to me are the rules of engagement and the methodology of action here, which more or less is predicated on burying liberal delusions about "debate" or the "marketplace of ideas". The rules were ultimately very simple: amplify your own message and suppress your opponent's.

I don't know that there is a template or a "secret sauce" or a clear-cut lesson to take from this. But if there is one it's the idea of treating social media as the hostile territory that it is, of actually acting like you are a participant in propaganda warfare and not like a consumer.

Get ‘em

The Detroit Pistons have taken the belt from the Philadelphia 76ers.

Have no idea where this might go in Brazil this time, but this is a really worrying, seemingly internationalized trend long-term!

Who will be the first team to present the Timberwolves with a challenge?

More of a run-back than a step-back three

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

all you fascists bound to lose ❤️

A Lula win is great news for those of us who enjoy breathing air, and will probably save several species from extinction

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The Timberwolves just keep on scoring, it’s really something

Thanks to a post by @ebonyteach.blacksky.app, I finally looked up who is behind the heinous anti-Abdul mailer we just got, Empowering Black Americans PAC. Unsurprisingly it’s AIPAC. But as a bonus they apparently helped Wesley Bell win in my old district in St. Louis. Appalling

Many domestic flights to Lula’s northeast heartlands have reportedly also been cancelled. The scale of disruption indicates strong coordination. Serious voting irregularities could expose a Bonsonaro victory to legal action. Brazil's Superior Electoral Court could annul the result & order a rerun.

The fact that billionaires can just buy an entire film distribution company that has been running and respected for over a decade to kill a documentary about their billionaire friend and nothing can be done about it is just Fuck man

'Beehives (Winter)' Ink Drawing www.ianrpearsall.co.uk/gallery I haven't seen the bees of late when I've walked past their hives. I know that a colony from one hive left mid-Summer, but the others must now be keeping their precious Queen warm and protected, along with their reserves of honey.

Power Lines Drawing #85 (Hamtramck) Original drawing for sale at my store 8" x 10" black ink on paper $300 USD marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...

Each story is more outlandish than the previous one! Makes me like this band even more.

Just for those who don’t know, the ‘this is entertainment but the hazards are real’ is from the ‘don’t try this as home’ warning you got on WWE shows in the mid 2000s. I mean it works ok without context but that’s what it is. I heard that a lot as I watched regularly then.