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Power Lines Drawing #138 (Pearl Beach, MI) Original drawing for sale at my store 8" x 10" black ink on paper $200 USD marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...

Black ink drawing, silhouette of a utility pole and power lines

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Thierry St-Laurent Dion @tstld.bsky.social · 3h

New painting "Crimson kings" Acrylic on cradled wood panel 16x20 #art #birds #nature #sciart

Painting of two Turkey Vulture made with acrylic on wood panel 16x20.

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 4h

I did my 45-years-old recommended colon cancer screening and it says I’m good (it was pretty easy) 🎉

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 17h

GOPHER LIQUOR STORE

Small store with big sign reflecting on wet blacktop

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 15h

I just don't know what happened with the Lynx there at the end, honestly

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Power Lines Drawing #138 (Pearl Beach, MI) Original drawing for sale at my store 8" x 10" black ink on paper $200 USD marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 27/09/2026

That Olivia Miles stepback three over Ionescu to close out the half though

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Automatization eats things, clothes, furniture, your wife, and the fear of war. This thing we call art exists in order to restore the sensation of life, in order to make us feel things, to make a stone stony. The goal of art is to create the sensation of seeing, not merely recognizing, things.

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 26/09/2026

Occasional reminder that “longevity pioneer” Bryan Johnson is 49 years old

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 26/09/2026

Power Lines Drawing #144 (Ferndale, MI) Original drawing for sale at my store 8" x 10" black ink on paper $200 USD marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 26/09/2026

Occasional reminder that “longevity pioneer” Bryan Johnson is 49 years old

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller September 19,1960

P1 - ONE OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD KIDS WANTS NANCY TO SEE HIS BABY COUSIN
KID: MY BABY COUSIN JUST SAID HIS FIRST WORD
P2- NANCY IS FOLLOWING HIM TO SEE HIS BABY COUSIN
NANCY: WAS IT "PAPA" OR "MAMA" ?
KID : NEITHER
P3- KID: THIS IS A MODERN BABY
P4- THEY ARE LOOKING IN THE WINDOW AT THE BABY BEING HELD BY HIS FATHER
KID: HIS FATHER IS A BEATNIK
BABY: DADDY-O

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 26/09/2026

Power Lines Drawing #144 (Ferndale, MI) Original drawing for sale at my store 8" x 10" black ink on paper $200 USD marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 05/09/2025

I wonder if Bill Simmons will be a defendant in the inevitable sports gambling class action lawsuit

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 26/09/2026

The whole point of these places talking about “responsible gaming“ is just to create the idea that there’s a responsible way to have an app on your phone that tricks you out of money, so people feel like they’re at fault for losing money when they use the app instead of like they are being tricked

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 25/09/2026

Power Lines Drawing #57 (Hamtramck) Original drawing for sale at my store 8" x 10" black ink on paper $250 USD marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...

Black ink drawing, silhouette of utility poles and power lines

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 25/09/2026

Abstract No. 16 marcusjmerritt.com/abstract-no-...

Black ink abstract drawing with lines and boxes

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Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oak Park: We got giraffes! (We do not have giraffes)

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

in my talk today, as an example of the strange things you can do in comics given their sequential but also spatial/simultaneous nature, I included this gonzo panel from 1950s Batman, which I just love in all its weirdness! Yes, I have more intentionally clever examples, but something about this...

part of a page from a batman comic. In one panel, batman leaps from off panel onto a diving board, the motion lines of his rebound travel across to another panel, where we see him finish his leap and crash into the crooks to save the day

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Aileneie 🏴‍☠️🌊⚓️🖤 @aileneie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Michigan friends: Please tell every single person you know to NOT VOTE FOR ANTHONY FORLINI UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE FOR SEC OF STATE. I’ve got stories, multiple personal encounters, and for some reason everytime I’ve run into him over the years he always stops and asks how he knows me…

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 25/09/2026

Power Lines Drawing #57 (Hamtramck) Original drawing for sale at my store 8" x 10" black ink on paper $250 USD marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...

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babski @babski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

oh no! A giant mantis is attacking the Sears tower!

A big green praying mantis on a dried bit of plant that ive placed in front of the skyline of Chicago so as to make it appear as if the mantis is massive ans attacking the beautiful city by the lake and it's iconic Sears Tower

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Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Last night, I gave a talk at Texas Tech critiquing the assumption that "AI is the future." In it, I talked about how tech CEOs — and their products themselves — claim that AI is the future in order to change the present: If AI is the future, we'd better start using it now to get ready!

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 25/09/2026

rolled out of my bed this morning and barreled down Linwood for 10 minutes to have the privilege of watching a neighbor get kidnapped with his son in front of a YMCA and high school, busses full of kids watching, while a kcpd officer joyfully cooperated. It was a car crash. How did ICE know?

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 25/09/2026

Abstract No. 16 marcusjmerritt.com/abstract-no-...

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This episode is doing big numbers &, so far as the feedback I'm getting, for precisely the reason I recruited Lauren Goodlad (@criticalai-journal.bsky.social) & @jeffjarvis.bsky.social: They are both able, in their own ways, to situate the AI boom as more continuity than disruption. They draw...

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Critical AI & The End of Mass Media (Vandal Live @ Elmira College)

with Lauren M.E. Goodlad and Jeff Jarvis

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 25/09/2026

I’m convinced only psychopaths actually watch podcasts

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

M 83 from SSO - From Ángel López-Sánchez - flic.kr/p/2iAMe9K

Galaxy M 83. 1st March 2020 (actually, 2nd March 2020, 2:30am - 6:00am) from Siding Spring Observatory. 40x5 min exposures, almost perfect guiding, processed with Siril, color/stretch with Photoshop, using Skywatcher Black Diamond 80 and ZWO ASI178MC. No light pollution filter, no flats, only 2 darks used.

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Minotaur with raised arms (small watercolour/ink)

A greenish Minotaur raising its silly arms with ultramarine granulated watercolour backdrop

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 24/09/2026

Abstract No. 15 marcusjmerritt.com/abstract-no-...

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 23/09/2026

Ode to Street Fighter II Bonus Stage

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 02/06/2026

More Objects from Films (Super Mario Bros [1993]) Original drawing for sale at my store 10" x 8" black ink on paper $200 USD marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/more...

Black ink drawing of a television on top of another television with a pipe on top of it

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 09/09/2026

Power Lines Drawing #150 (Hazel Park, MI) Original drawing for sale at my store 8" x 10" black ink on paper $300 USD marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 24/09/2026

I don't have time to write more, but ICE is working to remove people to third countries in violation of D.V.D. v. DHS. I've been up since 5:20 A.M. working with two other attorneys to prevent our client from being shipped out. If you rep someone at risk of third country removal, check on them NOW

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 24/09/2026

When AI boosters say AI is on the verge of being better at thinking than humans, the basis for that claim is faith in the inevitability of a scenario like the one below and belief that we are witnessing the first steps towards it. The claim is not based on anything AI is actually doing or has done

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 23/09/2026

Power Lines Drawing #25 (Hamtramck) Original drawing for sale at my store 10" x 8" black ink on paper $200 USD marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 24/09/2026

Abstract No. 15 marcusjmerritt.com/abstract-no-...

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daviss @daviss.org · 23/09/2026

At the Alex Pretti Memorial: Anonymous Kid says "Keep Fighting Minnesotans!" and a 1937 photo of Madrid "MINNESOTA WILL BE THE TOMB OF FASCISM". Minneapolis, September 2026

Dear Minnesota,
I know your probably going through a lot right
now... And I just wanted to say that this is
NOT normal, and your probably also really
scared, but I don't think anyone is NOT
afraid right now. But I believe that we
can work together to get ICE out of MN!
If we keep fighting against them, I believe
we can do it, if we ALL try, together.
KEEP Fighting
Minnesotans!! ♥
We got this!
– Anonymous Kid ♥

The image is from a famous photo of Madrid in 1937 after the city had withstood an attack by Franco’s forces. The citizens had been helped by the arrival of some units of the International Brigades many of whom were Americans. These Americans were later demonized during the McCarthy era for being premature anti-fascists.
We have translated some of the wording of the banner. NO PASARAN translates literally as THEY SHALL NOT PASS. The bottom writing on the banner says that MADRID WILL BE TOMB OF FASCISM. We used a little poetic license to hope that MINNESOTA WILL BE THE TOMB OF FASCISM.
We have to keep up the fight for the long-term. We can’t get tired. When we heard the Becca Good, the widow of Renee Good say, “They had guns we had whistles...” It reminded us of what was said after democracy lost the Spanish Civil War. “We had better music, but they had better guns and more of them.”
We can’t outshoot them and we shouldn’t try but we can outsmart them.

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Kwasi B. @nonstndrd.com · 23/09/2026

John Coltrane was born 100 years ago today. To me he is the ultimate creative inspiration. My love of his catalog is something I inherited from my late father. I created this illustration earlier this year using photos I took of his former residence in Philadelphia for the collage elements.

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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This got dry enough to scan and attempt to sell Painting: octophant.us/paintings/de... Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/phin...

An oil painting of a Chicago-style hot dog witha bag of fries spilling out next to it. Painted on a panel collaged with text and images from a Japanese wrestling magazine .

Cropped in detail of the previously described image including some pickle, some tomato, some fries, and some Japanese

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 23/09/2026

Power Lines Drawing #25 (Hamtramck) Original drawing for sale at my store 10" x 8" black ink on paper $200 USD marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...

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