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
Here's an updated thread of the prints of Power Lines Drawings that are currently for sale in my store, starting with:
Power Lines Drawing #107 (Chicago, Pilsen)
marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...
(🧵1/22)
Power Lines Drawing #107 (Chicago, Pilsen)
marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...
(🧵1/22)
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Hours later I suddenly realized what this reminds me of. It’s a crypto “Diamond Hands, hodl forever” message.
February 10, 2026 at 5:13 AM
Hours later I suddenly realized what this reminds me of. It’s a crypto “Diamond Hands, hodl forever” message.
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February 9, 2026 at 11:28 PM
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Oh
February 10, 2026 at 12:52 AM
Oh
🎧
Sentimental, Sedimentary, by Dialect
from the album Under ~ Between
dialect-trax.bandcamp.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:01 AM
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No one has ever tried to sell me drugs as hard as people try to sell me on AI.
May 3, 2025 at 1:16 AM
No one has ever tried to sell me drugs as hard as people try to sell me on AI.
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And five 737s from Avelo.
In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
February 9, 2026 at 7:02 PM
And five 737s from Avelo.
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Wind power generation in Texas is double solar power generation
(also unchecked abundant data centre growth is eating up all new solar + boosting fossil gas generation, resulting in rising emissions)
(also unchecked abundant data centre growth is eating up all new solar + boosting fossil gas generation, resulting in rising emissions)
February 9, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Wind power generation in Texas is double solar power generation
(also unchecked abundant data centre growth is eating up all new solar + boosting fossil gas generation, resulting in rising emissions)
(also unchecked abundant data centre growth is eating up all new solar + boosting fossil gas generation, resulting in rising emissions)
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it is hard to plan any trips to the US for conferences or to see friends knowing how many detention camps exist and are being built right now to house an increasingly large number of people, including young children
February 9, 2026 at 7:06 PM
it is hard to plan any trips to the US for conferences or to see friends knowing how many detention camps exist and are being built right now to house an increasingly large number of people, including young children
I haven't really been worried about the Timberwolves this season and I'm not worried yet. My level of worry is: I think they'll end up with a lower seed going into the playoffs than they could have if they hadn't lost some games they should've won, and that could make the playoffs harder for them
February 9, 2026 at 5:40 PM
I haven't really been worried about the Timberwolves this season and I'm not worried yet. My level of worry is: I think they'll end up with a lower seed going into the playoffs than they could have if they hadn't lost some games they should've won, and that could make the playoffs harder for them
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For the past couple of years I’ve been working on a weird little collection of poems about the Kaua’i ‘akioloa, a Hawaiian honeycreeper that was the last member of its whole genus. I’m over the moon to say that said collection has found a home at Flume Press: flumepress.com/contest/
February 9, 2026 at 3:34 PM
For the past couple of years I’ve been working on a weird little collection of poems about the Kaua’i ‘akioloa, a Hawaiian honeycreeper that was the last member of its whole genus. I’m over the moon to say that said collection has found a home at Flume Press: flumepress.com/contest/
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Abolish ICE. Shut down Dilley. Defund and shut down CoreCivic.
This is 18-mo-old Amalia waving to me when she was detained.
She was hospitalized with a respiratory infection while at ICE’s Dilley facility for immigrant families.
She’s one of dozens of detainees who I spoke to via video and phone calls, letters and an in-person visit. 🧵1/
She was hospitalized with a respiratory infection while at ICE’s Dilley facility for immigrant families.
She’s one of dozens of detainees who I spoke to via video and phone calls, letters and an in-person visit. 🧵1/
February 9, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Abolish ICE. Shut down Dilley. Defund and shut down CoreCivic.
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I was just reading the beginning of Greg Grandin’s book America, América yesterday and it set me up for Bad Bunny’s ”This whole hemisphere is America” conclusion pretty well
February 9, 2026 at 3:57 PM
I was just reading the beginning of Greg Grandin’s book America, América yesterday and it set me up for Bad Bunny’s ”This whole hemisphere is America” conclusion pretty well
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Oop
This bit from his wikipedia, lol
This bit from his wikipedia, lol
February 9, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Oop
This bit from his wikipedia, lol
This bit from his wikipedia, lol
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passive phrase // handcut paper collage with graphite on recycled paperboard, january 2026
#collage #abstraction #queerart
#collage #abstraction #queerart
February 9, 2026 at 2:17 AM
passive phrase // handcut paper collage with graphite on recycled paperboard, january 2026
#collage #abstraction #queerart
#collage #abstraction #queerart
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in the years before revolution in saint-dominigue (ayiti), the french slavers were importing around 30,000 enslaved people a year to keep the population of 500,000~ stable because the mortality rate was so high
pregnant women often did not live long enough to give birth
pregnant women often did not live long enough to give birth
Researchers estimate that the life expectancy for people forced to work in cane fields was mid 20s.
They were slaughterhouses. Being sent to one was functionally a death sentence.
They were slaughterhouses. Being sent to one was functionally a death sentence.
Mortality rates were so high on sugar plantations during slavery that slaveholders used to coerce enslaved people working other crops like cotton with threats to sell them or their loved ones to sugar plantations.
That’s where the term “sold down the river” came from.
That’s where the term “sold down the river” came from.
February 9, 2026 at 5:37 AM
in the years before revolution in saint-dominigue (ayiti), the french slavers were importing around 30,000 enslaved people a year to keep the population of 500,000~ stable because the mortality rate was so high
pregnant women often did not live long enough to give birth
pregnant women often did not live long enough to give birth
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I'm on a Toonami and Adult Swim vibe tonight...
Music: "Channel 99" produced by me, from my instrumental album: Trapgaze youtu.be/ihmUoY9TqPE
Anime: Fire Force (Ogun vs Charon, Final Season)
Music: "Channel 99" produced by me, from my instrumental album: Trapgaze youtu.be/ihmUoY9TqPE
Anime: Fire Force (Ogun vs Charon, Final Season)
February 8, 2026 at 12:26 AM
I'm on a Toonami and Adult Swim vibe tonight...
Music: "Channel 99" produced by me, from my instrumental album: Trapgaze youtu.be/ihmUoY9TqPE
Anime: Fire Force (Ogun vs Charon, Final Season)
Music: "Channel 99" produced by me, from my instrumental album: Trapgaze youtu.be/ihmUoY9TqPE
Anime: Fire Force (Ogun vs Charon, Final Season)
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Hahaha this is amazing
He goes over to wake up a kid sleeping on some chairs
There's always a kid sleeping in the corner at a real wedding
The details!!!!
He goes over to wake up a kid sleeping on some chairs
There's always a kid sleeping in the corner at a real wedding
The details!!!!
February 9, 2026 at 3:44 AM
Hahaha this is amazing
He goes over to wake up a kid sleeping on some chairs
There's always a kid sleeping in the corner at a real wedding
The details!!!!
He goes over to wake up a kid sleeping on some chairs
There's always a kid sleeping in the corner at a real wedding
The details!!!!
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Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming
February 9, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming
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I cannot emphasize enough that what he's singing here, obscured by beeps, is "If your boyfriend doesn't eat your ass, he'd better fuck off"
February 9, 2026 at 3:05 AM
I cannot emphasize enough that what he's singing here, obscured by beeps, is "If your boyfriend doesn't eat your ass, he'd better fuck off"
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Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.
February 9, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.
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My favorite Super Bowl memory is still when Elon Musk was at the 2023 game in Arizona and panicked about his Eagles tweet getting less engagement than Joe Biden's. He then flew immediately to Twitter's San Francisco office to start emergency meetings to fix the site's algorithm.
February 9, 2026 at 3:40 AM
My favorite Super Bowl memory is still when Elon Musk was at the 2023 game in Arizona and panicked about his Eagles tweet getting less engagement than Joe Biden's. He then flew immediately to Twitter's San Francisco office to start emergency meetings to fix the site's algorithm.
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