Greg Merklin
@gmerklin.bsky.social
Scientist, artist, musician, athlete, all-around malcontent.
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Greg Merklin
@gmerklin.bsky.social
· Mar 21
“Once to every man and nation
Comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of truth with falsehood,
For the good or evil side;
Some great cause, God's new Messiah,
Offering each the bloom or blight,
And the choice goes by forever
Twixt that darkness and that light.”
—James Russell Lowell (1845)
Comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of truth with falsehood,
For the good or evil side;
Some great cause, God's new Messiah,
Offering each the bloom or blight,
And the choice goes by forever
Twixt that darkness and that light.”
—James Russell Lowell (1845)
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POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
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Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information!
Silicon Valley, 2025:
Silicon Valley, 2025:
![Enable chats with Satan [enabled]
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November 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information!
Silicon Valley, 2025:
Silicon Valley, 2025:
Post your favorite Star Trek character.
Wrong answers only.
Wrong answers only.
November 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Post your favorite Star Trek character.
Wrong answers only.
Wrong answers only.
W. T. A. F.
November 15, 2025 at 3:28 AM
W. T. A. F.
A fish rots from the head.
After calling Schumer a "Palestinian," Leavitt refers to "Gavin Newscum." So she's just ripping off her boss's smears now.
November 14, 2025 at 2:09 AM
A fish rots from the head.
I’m done with the Take-out Trotskyites!
I’m sick of the Deliveroo Donatists
I’ve had enough of you Lyft calvinists. That’s a real thing. I’ve just invented it
November 12, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I’m done with the Take-out Trotskyites!
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In San Francisco, anti-driverless car sentiment has been reignited by an incident in which an autonomous taxi killed a beloved local bodega cat. The taxi company, meanwhile, is like, “It is inevitable that one day one of our vehicles will kill a human being. The public will accept this.”
November 6, 2025 at 5:25 PM
In San Francisco, anti-driverless car sentiment has been reignited by an incident in which an autonomous taxi killed a beloved local bodega cat. The taxi company, meanwhile, is like, “It is inevitable that one day one of our vehicles will kill a human being. The public will accept this.”
Alan?!?
I was just leafing through 1725 occult tome The Secret Magic of Abramelin the Mage in search of scary invocations for the BOOK, and I came across this list of subordinate spirits to the princes of Hell.
November 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Alan?!?
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You have to survive. There are graves to piss on that haven't been dug yet.
November 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
You have to survive. There are graves to piss on that haven't been dug yet.
<snort!>
A tale I must tell today on my late mother, and in doing so, I mean no actual disrespect to the Cheney family, grieving as they are for the actual loss of their loved one. The humor that follows is that of the Simon family's dark and dystropic sense of humor and so, an apology in advance.
However...
However...
November 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
<snort!>
Shouldn’t this count as an in-kind contribution to the Mamdani campaign?
November 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Shouldn’t this count as an in-kind contribution to the Mamdani campaign?
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works for $1.99 a month for the first 12 months, cancel at any time!
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and govern yourself accordingly.
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and thank you for your attention to this matter.
November 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works for $1.99 a month for the first 12 months, cancel at any time!
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The only way out is through your cabbage
November 2, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The only way out is through your cabbage
<snort!>
November 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
<snort!>
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*ushering a group of tourists into the next room of their Vatican tour*
"and here is the largest collection of sports jerseys ever assembled"
"were these donated by some wealthy collector?"
"nah, everyone just thought it was funny to troll Leo"
"and here is the largest collection of sports jerseys ever assembled"
"were these donated by some wealthy collector?"
"nah, everyone just thought it was funny to troll Leo"
October 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
*ushering a group of tourists into the next room of their Vatican tour*
"and here is the largest collection of sports jerseys ever assembled"
"were these donated by some wealthy collector?"
"nah, everyone just thought it was funny to troll Leo"
"and here is the largest collection of sports jerseys ever assembled"
"were these donated by some wealthy collector?"
"nah, everyone just thought it was funny to troll Leo"
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I saw this on Reddit and I cannot stop laughing at it.
October 29, 2025 at 4:51 AM
I saw this on Reddit and I cannot stop laughing at it.
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It's the Fesshole/Vagina Museum crossover event you've all been waiting for. Tons of you tagged us into this across all of our socials, asking for a fact-check. The consensus of the reply guys is that it Didn't Happen. However, this is in fact very possible. Here's why...
October 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
It's the Fesshole/Vagina Museum crossover event you've all been waiting for. Tons of you tagged us into this across all of our socials, asking for a fact-check. The consensus of the reply guys is that it Didn't Happen. However, this is in fact very possible. Here's why...
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Worth recalling the natural law tradition that taking food if you're starving is not simply *allowed*, it is not even correct to call it stealing. In a just society nobody would starve, therefore any law which would allow starvation is by definition unjust and thus is no longer a law.
![I answer that, Things which are of human right cannot derogate from natural right or Divine right. Now according to the natural order established by Divine Providence, inferior things are ordained for the purpose of succoring man's needs by their means. Wherefore the division and appropriation of things which are based on human law, do not preclude the fact that man's needs have to be remedied by means of these very things. Hence whatever certain people have in superabundance is due, by natural law, to the purpose of succoring the poor. For this reason Ambrose [Loc. cit., Article 2, Objection 3] says, and his words are embodied in the Decretals (Dist. xlvii, can. Sicut ii): "It is the hungry man's bread that you withhold, the naked man's cloak that you store away, the money that you bury in the earth is the price of the poor man's ransom and freedom."
Since, however, there are many who are in need, while it is impossible for all to be succored by means of the same thing, each one is entrusted with the stewardship of his own things, so that out of them he may come to the aid of those who are in need. Nevertheless, if the need be so manifest and urgent, that it is evident that the present need must be remedied by whatever means be at hand (for instance when a person is in some imminent danger, and there is no other possible remedy), then it is lawful for a man to succor his own need by means of another's property, by taking it either openly or secretly: nor is this properly speaking theft or robbery.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sbbklyrrb5xfb43mfhypi2f7/bafkreicmurrqa5li6f7bbz2cxspz3lejapuq23gblfnst2lsflncrrfq74@jpeg)
October 26, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Worth recalling the natural law tradition that taking food if you're starving is not simply *allowed*, it is not even correct to call it stealing. In a just society nobody would starve, therefore any law which would allow starvation is by definition unjust and thus is no longer a law.
So he wants a woman to work without pay.
Got it.
Got it.
Mike Johnson on Adelita Grijalva, who he refuses to swear in: "Instead of doing TikTok videos, she should be serving her constituents."
October 20, 2025 at 2:48 PM
So he wants a woman to work without pay.
Got it.
Got it.
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The thousand year old sport is kicking it in front the thousand some year old monument. #londonsumo #stonehenge
October 18, 2025 at 3:09 AM
The thousand year old sport is kicking it in front the thousand some year old monument. #londonsumo #stonehenge
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The wonderful thing about Tiggers
Is Tiggers are burning bright
Their tops are made out of rubber
In the forest of the night
They’re bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy,
Immortal hand or eye,
But the most wonderful thing about Tiggers
Is their fearful symmetry!
Is Tiggers are burning bright
Their tops are made out of rubber
In the forest of the night
They’re bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy,
Immortal hand or eye,
But the most wonderful thing about Tiggers
Is their fearful symmetry!
September 23, 2025 at 4:43 AM
The wonderful thing about Tiggers
Is Tiggers are burning bright
Their tops are made out of rubber
In the forest of the night
They’re bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy,
Immortal hand or eye,
But the most wonderful thing about Tiggers
Is their fearful symmetry!
Is Tiggers are burning bright
Their tops are made out of rubber
In the forest of the night
They’re bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy,
Immortal hand or eye,
But the most wonderful thing about Tiggers
Is their fearful symmetry!