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Marcus
@marcusjmerritt.com
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(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
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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!
Black ink drawing, silhouette of a utility pole and power lines
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lorak.bsky.social
a professor at univ. of chicago speaking out here >>>
durlauf.bsky.social Steven Durlauf @durlauf.bsky.social · 10h
1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile.

www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
For Women in Economics, the Hostility Is Out in the Open (Published 2021)
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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thomasav.bsky.social
Detroit!
We are at the Detroit Shipping Company until 9pm! A portion of every purchase you make from our vendors goes to support:
Palestinian mutual aid
The Detroit Black Farmer Land Fund
Flood relief in Punjab, India
An artist market tent full of vendors and customers. People browse tables full of wares at an artist market.
November 15, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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drwambsgans.bsky.social
This also raises questions about her statements re: Trump.

Alt text of the screen shot.
Email from Alan Dershowitz to David Boies on 2015-12-09 Subject: Re: Possible Statement We should be aiming at a short simple statement such as: "The events at issue occurred approximately 15 years ago when I was a teenager. Although I believed then and continued to believe that AD was the person with whom I had sex, recent developments raise the possibility that this may be a case of mistaken identification." Alternative: "that it may have been someone else". "That someone mistakenly told me it was him." We should be able to come up with a mutually acceptable statement. It would be acceptable if the statement came from you rather than her, if she prefers.
November 15, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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The Gordie Howe Bridge shining a strip of light in the clouds over the Detroit River
Color photo of a bridge over a river at night, lots of bright white lights on the bridge, and a textured overcast sky with a strip of light reflected brighter over the bridge
November 15, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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Geordie Howe International Bridge, detail
What you see lots of straight white lines running diagonally from the lower left towards the upper right, filling half the frame, the other half a dark night sky
November 15, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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gendervoid.gay
As a victim of CSA and sex trafficking the fact that @jay.bsky.team and @aaron.bsky.team are fine with suspending people who speak out against CSA and abusers like totes gives off Mundus sine caesaribus vibes. ✨
Great job girly pops.
November 15, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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So we’re pretending that Megyn Kelly defending the sexual abuse of children is just “a person in the news” and “a female journalist talking about a topic,” and that a post everyone knows is not a death threat must be treated as a serious death threat
aaron.bsky.team Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team · 18h
First I’m sorry that you had such tragic experiences. That’s horrific.

1) if a person on the news, such as a female journalist talks about a topic, does she deserve threats in a joking way?
2) would you believe those acceptable to receive on your account?
November 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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modernistwitch.myatproto.social
another csa survivor chiming in here to say that i do not care if people who defend the kind of things that happened to me, especially if they have institutional power, get the kind of responses that prompted this
aaron.bsky.team Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team · 18h
First I’m sorry that you had such tragic experiences. That’s horrific.

1) if a person on the news, such as a female journalist talks about a topic, does she deserve threats in a joking way?
2) would you believe those acceptable to receive on your account?
November 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Geordie Howe International Bridge, detail
What you see lots of straight white lines running diagonally from the lower left towards the upper right, filling half the frame, the other half a dark night sky
November 15, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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The Gordie Howe Bridge shining a strip of light in the clouds over the Detroit River
Color photo of a bridge over a river at night, lots of bright white lights on the bridge, and a textured overcast sky with a strip of light reflected brighter over the bridge
November 15, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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Oak Park, Michigan, July 2025
Color photograph looking down a straight residential street at night. Trees loom in the dark on either side. Headlights a few blocks down are aimed down the middle of the street.
November 15, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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ebonyteach.blacksky.app
Every decade, we hear "the kids can't read or write!"

Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.

When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
November 15, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Drawings by me of lamps from films

Twin Peaks: The Return: Part 4 (2017)
Blue Hawaii (1961)
Dressed to Kill (1980)
In a Year with 13 Moons (1978)

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Black ink drawing of a desk lamp with a narrow base and a shiny metal globular head in which you can see reflected what looks vaguely like an office or something, from Twin Peaks: The Return: Part 4 Black ink drawing of a floor lamp with a tall shiny base from Blue Hawaii Black ink drawing of a table lamp with a shiny chrome cylindrical base from Dresses to Kill Black ink drawing of a table lamp with a thatch lampshade from In a Year with 13 Moons
July 15, 2024 at 1:15 AM
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brainchain.ca
I’d only seen this indigenous solidarity piece in art textbooks so it was an incredibly moving experience to see it in real life.
Jeff Wall Fieldwork. Excavation of the floor of a dwelling in a former Sto:lo nation village, Greenwood Island, Hope, B.C., August, 2003, Anthony Graesch, Dept. of Anthropology, University of California at Los Angeles, working with Riley Lewis of the Sto: lo band, 2003 Transparency in light box Courtesy of the artist This photo transparency shows a group of indigenous people on an archeological dig in a forest with a lot of green ferns surrounding them.
November 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Oak Park, Michigan, July 2025
Color photograph looking across a residential street at night at the front of a small bright house. A bright porch light shines golden light that illuminates part of the front of the house, twilight sky showing through branches thick with leaves, and some colorful lights in the yard
November 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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davidbrace2.bsky.social
From the series "Effect & Cause"- "CRINK! (tie one on)(tie another one on)", oil & string on vintage map, 15 1/4 x 21", 2023- $700 (Cdn), on sale to Canadian, UK & EU residents for $500(Cdn)(+shipping.) #art
2 pages from The Reader's Digest Great World Atlas, 1961, titled "The Prairies." On them are painted 2 crushed Labatt Blue beer cans, one on each page. The pages are tied together with black string.
November 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Color photograph looking up the same twin trunks of the tree in the quoted image, fewer yellow-green leaves, shine brightly in sunlight against a clear blue sky
November 14, 2025 at 12:33 AM
marcusjmerritt.com
If the standard for what warrants an account suspension is whether someone with an axe to grind could conceivably point to a post and claim someone might believe it is a genuine death threat, your moderation system is fucked
November 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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phineas.bsky.social
Well ok but only because it's her birthday...
phineas.bsky.social Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · Oct 28
I did a drawing based on a 100ish-year old photo of Louise Brooks and Hweened it up because we're still doing that. I like just the lines, too, so I'm including that as well.

Also, the next post is a version of what the esteemed Ms. Brooks was actually wearing in the photo.
A digital illustration based on a photo of Louise Brooks, standing on one leg, with her near leg raised and bent in front of her. Her arms are held up above her head and she's making kind of spooky claw shapes with her hands. He has her hair in her signature shiny blunt bob with bangs style. She's wearing something like a one-piece swimsuit but where the top part covering her chest turns into batwing shapes. She has on fishnets, garters, platform heels, and a dagger attached to the near garter on her thigh. She's also got fairly large bat wings spreading out from behind her back and curling around her. Her skin is shades of green and her wings and outfit are shades of purple, pink and red. The background is a grainy grayish green with streaks reminiscent of old film. There's also a large reddish stain or splatter over the background behind her and she's casting a shadow backwards as if against a wall. The same image as previously described, but only the black and white linework and the cast shadow
November 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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gregpak.net
just sharing this again for reasons
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
marcusjmerritt.com
The problems with moderation on this site are real. People should pay less attention to Sarah Kendzior, though, who has tried to turn her suspension into evidence she is being personally targeted by the people who run this site
November 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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toddedillard.bsky.social
NEW POEM ALERT! got a couple new ones in the latest issue of @lamplitmag.bsky.social. Here's the lamp-iest one :)
The Lampshade At the gates of heaven they said let's review: six snails eaten, but no burning buildings entered to save a child, a puppy, a mother's music box. You splashed into a dozen rivers, but many more you saw and never touched, never thought to touch. And yet, you spent most of your life working on this one species of looking. You'd see a wooden door and make a face from its knots and whorls. You'd find a dead cardinal and would wonder if the dead forget the color red first. Mostly we were impressed with this hat you made one night out of a lampshade. Your toddler laughed so hard he nearly lost his voice. After finishing his bedtime, you turned to go, and he told you to stay. We liked how he pulled an imaginary string dangling out of your nose. How you shut your eyes afterwards and lay perfectly motionless beside him. For years your son believed light is something you become. It's waiting, there, under your skin.
November 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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sky
Color photograph of a night sky with some shimmery clouds in it sort of shaped like a happy dog’s head
November 14, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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gambolloch.bsky.social
the pizza was fine

#UrbanGaze
November 14, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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zdroberts.bsky.social
Just saw a huge fireball fall out of the sky and then split apart in Norfolk, VA about 10mins ago. Anyone know what this was?
grainy photo of a fireball in the sky
November 14, 2025 at 12:46 AM