Marcus
@marcusjmerritt.com
(He/him). I draw power lines and TVs and do urban landscape photography. Metro-Detroit.
Abolish police. Free Palestine. Trans rights.
Art store: marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com
Main art website: marcusjmerritt.com
Tips: https://ko-fi.com/marcusjmerritt
Abolish police. Free Palestine. Trans rights.
Art store: marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com
Main art website: marcusjmerritt.com
Tips: https://ko-fi.com/marcusjmerritt
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Marcus
@marcusjmerritt.com
· Jul 15
Also, and this is new—commissions are open!
Are there some power lines you want a drawing of? Contact me and we can work out the details (DM here or email), but basically:
$200 and send me some photos of the power lines and I'll draw them and mail you the finished drawing!
Are there some power lines you want a drawing of? Contact me and we can work out the details (DM here or email), but basically:
$200 and send me some photos of the power lines and I'll draw them and mail you the finished drawing!
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If I pointed a loaded assault rifle at someone in the street with the obvious intent of intimidating them, I would be arrested and charged with assault (or worse).
November 26, 2025 at 4:35 AM
If I pointed a loaded assault rifle at someone in the street with the obvious intent of intimidating them, I would be arrested and charged with assault (or worse).
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November 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Happening now in Minnesota: Protestors were sprayed as ICE launched yet another federal raid in St. Paul. Communities are standing their ground while agents escalate force.
Photojournalist @DPet_KARE11News captured these scenes in real time.
Photojournalist @DPet_KARE11News captured these scenes in real time.
November 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Happening now in Minnesota: Protestors were sprayed as ICE launched yet another federal raid in St. Paul. Communities are standing their ground while agents escalate force.
Photojournalist @DPet_KARE11News captured these scenes in real time.
Photojournalist @DPet_KARE11News captured these scenes in real time.
One time before smart phones I had a long walk with a friend where he kept insisting frogs were invertebrates for some reason. Cleared up pretty quick once we got home to the Internet. I often reflected on how that whole conversation wouldn’t have happened with smart phones. Now, though
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
One time before smart phones I had a long walk with a friend where he kept insisting frogs were invertebrates for some reason. Cleared up pretty quick once we got home to the Internet. I often reflected on how that whole conversation wouldn’t have happened with smart phones. Now, though
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Skyline cleanse
Just got booked for two performances this holiday season!!!
They saw this old ass video and had the money ready 😭
They saw this old ass video and had the money ready 😭
November 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Skyline cleanse
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Monumental cones and gull
November 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Monumental cones and gull
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Oak Park, Michigan, July 2025
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Oak Park, Michigan, July 2025
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Same streetlight, opposite direction.
Oak Park, Michigan
November 2004
Shot with HP Photosmart 850
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#Photography #DigitalPhotography #NightPhotography #PureMichigan #StreetPhotography #Suburb #ThenAndNow #ArtShare
Oak Park, Michigan
November 2004
Shot with HP Photosmart 850
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#Photography #DigitalPhotography #NightPhotography #PureMichigan #StreetPhotography #Suburb #ThenAndNow #ArtShare
November 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Same streetlight, opposite direction.
Oak Park, Michigan
November 2004
Shot with HP Photosmart 850
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#Photography #DigitalPhotography #NightPhotography #PureMichigan #StreetPhotography #Suburb #ThenAndNow #ArtShare
Oak Park, Michigan
November 2004
Shot with HP Photosmart 850
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#Photography #DigitalPhotography #NightPhotography #PureMichigan #StreetPhotography #Suburb #ThenAndNow #ArtShare
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Oak Park, Michigan, July 2025
November 24, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Oak Park, Michigan, July 2025
Oak Park, Michigan, July 2025
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Oak Park, Michigan, July 2025
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You can appreciate the scale of the unusual polar warming in Oct 2025 when you look at both poles at once. Antarctica was not just warmer than average on net, it was anomalously warm almost everywhere & by quite a bit (& this is with a rel. warm ref period, '86/15). Similar for the high Arctic. 🥵🧪⚒️🌊
November 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
You can appreciate the scale of the unusual polar warming in Oct 2025 when you look at both poles at once. Antarctica was not just warmer than average on net, it was anomalously warm almost everywhere & by quite a bit (& this is with a rel. warm ref period, '86/15). Similar for the high Arctic. 🥵🧪⚒️🌊
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A group of immigrant rights organizers are helping people use Fortnite to practice what to do if they encounter ICE agents in the wild.
Inside an ICE Defense Training on Fortnite
A group of immigrant rights organizers are helping people use Fortnite to practice what to do if they encounter ICE agents in the wild.
www.404media.co
November 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
A group of immigrant rights organizers are helping people use Fortnite to practice what to do if they encounter ICE agents in the wild.
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Whenever I see local police collaborating with ICE, or taking anti-immigrant stances themselves, I think about this line of argument from Police and the Empire City about how police in the early 1900s celebrated the rise of deportation as a possible solution for solving xenophobic crime panics.
November 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Whenever I see local police collaborating with ICE, or taking anti-immigrant stances themselves, I think about this line of argument from Police and the Empire City about how police in the early 1900s celebrated the rise of deportation as a possible solution for solving xenophobic crime panics.
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Valid
RIP Udo Kier, a true original
📽️
his one and only social media post:
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his one and only social media post:
November 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Valid
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A classic sign
November 24, 2025 at 2:56 AM
A classic sign
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i'm going to sound sarcastic here but genuinely one of the most interesting aspects of LLMs is that they are proving that evil is real, by which i mean if you train them to do one bad thing they start doing other bad things that you have not trained them to do
At least once a month, Anthropic puts out an alignment paper d AI behavior where, if you saw it in a science fiction film, you‘d be screaming at the idiot scientists onscreen to stop development
www.anthropic.com/research/eme...
www.anthropic.com/research/eme...
From shortcuts to sabotage: natural emergent misalignment from reward hacking
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
www.anthropic.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:23 AM
i'm going to sound sarcastic here but genuinely one of the most interesting aspects of LLMs is that they are proving that evil is real, by which i mean if you train them to do one bad thing they start doing other bad things that you have not trained them to do
Oak Park, Michigan, July 2025
November 24, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Oak Park, Michigan, July 2025
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#NowPlaying #2025albums
Cyrus Pireh: Thank You, Guitar
Brilliant, inventive, solo guitar instrumentals, ranging from dreamy mind-melting swoon to raucous shredded distortion, courtesy of Bill Orcutt's ever-reliable Palilalia label
cyruspireh.bandcamp.com/album/thank-...
Cyrus Pireh: Thank You, Guitar
Brilliant, inventive, solo guitar instrumentals, ranging from dreamy mind-melting swoon to raucous shredded distortion, courtesy of Bill Orcutt's ever-reliable Palilalia label
cyruspireh.bandcamp.com/album/thank-...
Thank You, Guitar, by Cyrus Pireh
11 track album
cyruspireh.bandcamp.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
#NowPlaying #2025albums
Cyrus Pireh: Thank You, Guitar
Brilliant, inventive, solo guitar instrumentals, ranging from dreamy mind-melting swoon to raucous shredded distortion, courtesy of Bill Orcutt's ever-reliable Palilalia label
cyruspireh.bandcamp.com/album/thank-...
Cyrus Pireh: Thank You, Guitar
Brilliant, inventive, solo guitar instrumentals, ranging from dreamy mind-melting swoon to raucous shredded distortion, courtesy of Bill Orcutt's ever-reliable Palilalia label
cyruspireh.bandcamp.com/album/thank-...
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Apparently the #BirdOfTheDay theme is #silhouette, which reminded me of one of the only good bird photos I've ever taken with my cell phone: this great blue heron perched above Wingra Marsh.
November 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Apparently the #BirdOfTheDay theme is #silhouette, which reminded me of one of the only good bird photos I've ever taken with my cell phone: this great blue heron perched above Wingra Marsh.
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Meet our new family member.
Rescuers found him living behind a liquor store near Livernois & 6 Mile.
They thought he was a girl because he was protecting and raising 3 sick kittens despite being only 6 months old himself. He’s not the mom or the dad, he’s the dad who stepped up 😭
Now he is home!
Rescuers found him living behind a liquor store near Livernois & 6 Mile.
They thought he was a girl because he was protecting and raising 3 sick kittens despite being only 6 months old himself. He’s not the mom or the dad, he’s the dad who stepped up 😭
Now he is home!
November 22, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Meet our new family member.
Rescuers found him living behind a liquor store near Livernois & 6 Mile.
They thought he was a girl because he was protecting and raising 3 sick kittens despite being only 6 months old himself. He’s not the mom or the dad, he’s the dad who stepped up 😭
Now he is home!
Rescuers found him living behind a liquor store near Livernois & 6 Mile.
They thought he was a girl because he was protecting and raising 3 sick kittens despite being only 6 months old himself. He’s not the mom or the dad, he’s the dad who stepped up 😭
Now he is home!
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The remains of Theia are scattered deep inside the Earth and its satellite. By analyzing these remnants, scientists have proposed an origin.
A Lost Planet Created the Moon. Now, We Know Where It Came From.
The remains of Theia are scattered deep inside the Earth and its satellite. By analyzing these remnants, scientists have proposed an origin.
www.404media.co
November 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The remains of Theia are scattered deep inside the Earth and its satellite. By analyzing these remnants, scientists have proposed an origin.