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Mervi Eskelinen
@mervi.art
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Artist, illustrator, sorcerer, poet from Finland. Raised by cats. Very leftist. Art, meditation, journaling, comics, poems, movies, tv, politics, life stuffs. No ai/nft. 🏳️‍⚧️ they/them

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Mervi Eskelinen @mervi.art · 12d
New video! Why and how I make art daily without burning out. Also showing some sketchbook stuff. #art #artist #artists #creativity #sketchbook #sketchbooktour #sketchbookart #artvideo #video #vlog #vlogger #artvlog #youtube
Why and how I make art daily without burning out & little sketchbook tours
YouTube video by Mervi Eskelinen
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Stickers, t-shirts, mugs, magnets prints and more, full of cats and other cuteness! #ThreadlessShopSmall #supportartists
Mervi's Print Shop | Featuring custom t-shirts, prints, and more
Get art of Mervi Eskelinen as art prints, stickers, t-shirts, mugs, magnets and much more. Decorate your life with Mervi's colourful art and illustrations.
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November 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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robdelaney.bsky.social
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
Bong Joon Ho took a characteristically radical approach when questioned on his thoughts around the rise of Al technology at the jury press conference of the Marrakech Film Festival on Saturday. The Korean director, who is president of the jury, gave two responses, one measured, the other deeply personal. "My official answer is, Al is good because it's the very beginning of the human race finally seriously thinking about what only humans can do. But my personal answer is, I'm going to organize a military squad, and their mission is to destroy AI," he said.
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
mervi.art
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983) is a bit tired.
November 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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A little fantasy landscape, mixed media painting on paper in old school children’s book style #art #mixedmedia #artist #artists #painting #fantasy #natureart
A mixed media (watercolour, fine liners, markers and white gel pens) artwork of a fantastical landscape with wonky trees, mushrooms, white wild flowers, a crow gliding over a dark purple sky and a deer or moose with big antlers far at the background on a hill.
November 29, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Big spider is hanging on the bathroom wall, with its back towards the floor, looking dead. When I gently blew at it, it moved legs lazily but remained in this position.

Same, bathroom spider. Same.
November 29, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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drnwillburger.bsky.social
Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures! These sewing #needles were made from animal bone some 15,000 years ago. Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start. Form follows function! 🧵1/2

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The picture shows six needles of different sizes. They were made of bone resemble their modern descendants with an eye at one end and a tapered end.
November 29, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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kaiao.fi
Tämä on joka päivään hyvä muistutus. RKP yrittää edelleen epätoivoisesti luoda itsestään liberaalimielikuvaa. Tosiasiassa se kuitenkin on puolue, jolla olisi valta torpata äärioikeistohallituksen sekoilu koska ja milloin tahansa.

Ja silti, joka päivä se valitsee äärioikeiston tukemisen.
timorossi.bsky.social Timo Rossi @timorossi.bsky.social · 11h
Näinkin kyllä. Muistutan kuitenkin että ilman RKP:tä meillä ei ehkä olisi äärioikeistoa hallituksessa.
November 29, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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ahokasjaj.bsky.social
Tämä on huikean hyvä teksti Emilialta. Talousmiehet, oligarkit, poliitikot ja taloustieteilijät ovat nyt alkaneet metsäsumutuksen, ettei suomalaisen metsäteollisuuden tarvitsisi vieläkään uudistua. Sumuttaessa lentää roskiin tosiasiatieto, tieteen kunnioitus ja käytöstavatkin. Kiitos!
#yhteiskunta
Journalismi päästää vallakkaat helpolla ja mätkii vallattomia – paras esimerkki tästä on Björn Wahlroos
Miksi suomalainen media antaa vuosikymmenestä toiseen yhden oligarkin esittää tiedevastaisia näkemyksiään totena samaan aikaan, kun tavan kansalaisia roimitaan olan takaa?
www.ku.fi
November 29, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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batevladi.bsky.social
Taiwanese ambassador to Finland performs with his metal band at Taiwan-Finland cultural event! 🤘✊️
That's what I call great ambassador
November 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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drmikewiser.bsky.social
Sometimes, cats want to be near us without directly interacting with us, and I think we should respect that.
A tabby cat sitting on the back of a futon sofa, looking out the window from between the gauzy curtains. On the rest of the couch, we see a human pair of legs in brown slacks and white socks.
November 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Someone is singing loudly and badly outside. Friday night.
November 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Wanna see what I painted for November 2025 Art Workshop? #art #artworkshop #workshop #artist #artists #supportartists
Art Workshop: November 2025 Final Work | Mervi Eskelinen Art
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November 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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tanjasuni.bsky.social
Tämä. Olen myös jo pitkään ihmetellyt, miksi ajatellaan, että asumislisät ja muut tuet ovat tulonsiirto rikkailta köyhille, kun nehän ovat tulonsiirto veronmaksajilta yrityksille, jotka voivat niiden varjolla pitää palkat alhaisina ja jakaa rikkaille lisää osinkoja.
mustapipa.bsky.social Mikko Tuomi @mustapipa.bsky.social · 1d
Miksi sitten heikennätte AY:n toimintamahdollisuuksia ja työehtosopimusjärjestelmää? Nehän ovat ainoat instituutiot, jotka huolehtivat, että palkat ovat sosiaaliturvaa suurempia.

Ja miksi tarkoituksella kasvatatte työttömyyttä brassaillen, että työvoiman tarjonta kasvaa?

Kovin on ristiriitaista.
November 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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catsofyore.bsky.social
Does anyone know of an artist who has closable realistic ceramic cardboard boxes for sale? Something that looks exactly like a cardboard box but made of clay, has a top, and is actually for sale - not a long ago gallery show or whatever.

Looking for specific leads pls, not "did u try etsy/google".
November 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
mervi.art
Hopscotch (1980) is funny.
November 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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astrokatie.com
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Wanna see what I painted for November 2025 Art Workshop? #art #artworkshop #workshop #artist #artists #supportartists
Art Workshop: November 2025 Final Work | Mervi Eskelinen Art
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November 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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“My love, I’m going to make an AI amalgam of you, and then I can control and keep you mine all mine forever and ever!”
November 28, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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aplante.com
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Don’t mind my runctitional features.
feralrobots.bsky.social Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629 @feralrobots.bsky.social · 2d
Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Figure 1 from a paper published in Nature (linked in post). The figure purports to be an infographic depiction of the "Overall working of the framework" for 'explainably' diagnosing autism spectrum disorder. The infographic is plainly nonsense, containing many spelling errors, nonsense words, meaningless images and graphs. Clearly created using generative AI and (crucially) NEVER CHECKED AT ANY STEP OF THE WRITING OR PUBLICATION PROCESS.
November 27, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social
FREE PATREON POST: Today we have a profile of one of our very special turkeys, Jerry. We made this one public so everyone can read Jerry's story! www.patreon.com/posts/reside...
Resident profile: Jerry the Turkey-shaped Duck | Merrymac Farm Sanctuary
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November 25, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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brucemackay.bsky.social
MOOOOSE
Illustration of a moose. He's orange with massive oak leaf antlers. snorting some steam out his snout. some pink oak stumps in the back ground. overlapping colours. standing in the pose of a noble beast.
June 6, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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anildash.com
I found a piece of toast that looks like it has a smile on it. Scientists say we should make it our king.
abeba.bsky.social Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 4d
can’t fucking catch a breath

make it stop
Is ChatGPT Conscious? Many users feel they’re talking to a real person. Scientists say it’s time to consider whether they’re onto something. By Jeff Wise, a science journalist and private pilot.
November 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Today I’ve mostly painted with watercolours.
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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shadraavroart.bsky.social
Aww he looks so good <3

If I may take this moment to spotlight a similar kitty, Evander over in Wilmington DE could use some love! new.shelterluv.com/embed/animal...
November 27, 2025 at 3:35 AM