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ink @ink.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

A wheel A lock A warning

A photograph of a bike wheel locked to a pole. The bike wheel no longer is attached to a bike.

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ink @ink.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026

Hello, midsummer sun

The sun peaking over the horizon of the Atlantic Ocean. A globe of firey starstuff over calm waves, orange and red spreading out into the sky.

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ink @ink.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2026

I wandered across some amazing graffiti art in the Mission, San Francisco. Here are a few.

A multicolored bird spreads its wings with a Guanacaste Province flag on its breast, standing in a field of flowers, under two suns and a moon.

A man in deep gold stares off into the distance through a colorful, and flowing abstract design.

An image of a family resisting the military with flowers and guitars.

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ink @ink.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2026

There are a lot of birds outside my window this morning. Whether you call it machine learning or "AI", Merlin is such a fine example of how computing can connect us to the more-than-human-world. Do you have any favorite examples of tools that do that? merlin.allaboutbirds.org

A painting screenshot of the Merlin app running on Android, showing that it recognized Song Sparrow, Morning Dove, Northern Cardinal, White-throated Sparrow, and Blue Jay.

A detail page in Merlin for the White-throated Sparrow. A small round bird with brown and white flecked wings and a spot of yellow around the eyes, and white below its mouth. A graphic shows that it is present most of the year in Silver Spring, Maryland, except for June, July, August and September.

A map of migration and breeding patterns in Turtle Island (aka North America). I think it shows that these White-throated Sparrows are headed north for breeding.

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ink @ink.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2026

I went to my local public library, where there were lots of people, chatting, reading, looking at screens. I looked to the right and saw a book I wanted to read so I checked it out. So, yeah, I'm having a nice day. More please.

A book cover for Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams.

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ink @ink.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 12/02/2026

@kdriscoll I am currently trying very hard to restrain myself from buying some of the prints:

A piece of paper with lines of cursive text being written by a computer chip.

https://tinney.net/product/word-processor-16x20

A cover of Byte magazine with a multicolored passenger balloon with Smalltalk written on the side. A castle on a small island can be seen below through a gap in puffy white clouds.

An image of a computer circuit board that looks like a huge building, with tiny people gathered below like ants.

https://tinney.net/product/computer-architecture-16x20

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ink @ink.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2026

@wragge have you looked at the interface on mobile yet? I was confused what to do on my android phone:

A screenshot of a mobile device display showing a map in the top portion, and some truncated, unscrollable text describing the map in bottom portion.

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ink @ink.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026

I was walking along the WB&A Trail earlier today and ran across this abandoned complex of buildings, which turned out to be an abandoned tuberculosis sanatorium. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Dale_Ho…

A photograph of a water tower and a smokestack
We have the colors of the chocolate in the snow and a blue sky.

A red brick building and a smokestack um, blue sky with snow.

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ink @ink.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 02/02/2026

My @404mediaco zine arrived, and it is splendid!

A zine cover in green, pink, white, and black. A girl with glasses, holds out her phone, ameras and other phones and representations of eyes.

Melt Ice written on awall, by a little animal. More phones and eyes.

Two facing inner pages from the zine. Data Dangers talks about Palantir's ImmigrationOS. MetaDebate is about use of smart glasses by ICE.

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ink @ink.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2026

I attempted to go to take a walk with the hound at Patuxent Wildlife Area, but it was unexpectedly closed, I guess because of the snow and ice that still lingers. I found a utility road alongside some power lines and railroad tracks near Bowie to stretch our […] [Original post on merveilles.town]

A little snow covered road, with some electric power towers and lines. Blue sky with some white whispy clouds.

A snow/ice covered trail with a brown dog walking along it. Some brittle brown branches stick up through the ice. A power line is in the distance.

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ink @ink.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 01/01/2026

blackeye peas and collard greens #happynewyear

A photograph of a saucepan with a mix of multicolored vegetables cooking.

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ink @ink.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 31/12/2025

Here are the albums I listened to the most this year according to @ListenBrainz This was the year of Neil Young for me--& not just Gold Rush. Naturally, I've known about him for years from growing up with "classic rock" US radio. But for some curious reason […] [Original post on merveilles.town]

11 album covers in a collage where the sizes reflect how many times I listened to them.

1. After the Gold Rush - Neil Young
2. 1 0 0 1 - Dustin O’Halloran
3. SABLE, fABLE - Bon Iver
4. Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You - Big Thief
5. Mahashmashana - Father John Misty
6. The Purple Bird - Bonnie “Prince” Billy
7. Silentium - Various Artists
8. Real Warmth - Joan Shelley
9. Getaway - The Clean
10. Rain Dogs - Tom Waits
11. choke enough - Oklou

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ink @ink.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 27/12/2025

Fun times with the now teenage kids who actually wanted to go trawling for LPs in some Chicago record stores. This choice record by GSH was playing in one. I looked it up later only to learn it was recorded close to where we live in Silver Spring, Maryland […] [Original post on merveilles.town]

A close up of some stickers and graffiti layered over each other on a building wall somewhere along Milwaukee Ave.

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ink @ink.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 16/12/2025

The Document by Maggie Smith from: Poetry Jan/Feb 2026 www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymaga… #theLibrary

Document

The day is winter bright. I blink against it. Each time the sun glints in my eyes, each time I close my lids & let them go

orange & freckled with light, my mind files it into a folder that contains every other time

it's happened before: folders nested inside folders going back, I imagine, to one morning standing in my crib,

waiting for my mother to reach down & lift me out, the sun keeping me company until her arms appeared.

In the file: sun, sun_2, sun_3, sun_75, sun_700. Each a document I can return to & open, even revising

old experience with new thinking. As if the eye has its own memory-not the mind's eye but the eye's mind-

cataloging material it claims as its own. Cataloging as long as I live. Sun_7000, sun_final, sun_final_revised, sun_final_final.

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ink @ink.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 14/12/2025

A neighbor had a yard sale recently as she was moving overseas, and we picked up a couple of her Kenwood space heaters. As the weather has turned cold they really are nice to keep nearby while turning the house thermostat down.

An image of what looks like a small radiator with some knobs and switches to control heat. It is sitting on a wood floor.

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