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@meri.garden
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https://meri.garden she/her

interested in privacy, autonomy, distributed governance, tech for community organising. building @roomy.space with Muni Town

people over state and markets. everything for everyone!
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a little odd onion purée butter béchamel penne rigate ! tastes good !
my hand holding bowl of creamy pasta in kitchen
November 9, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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jumpscare
November 6, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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first pass at making a vertically tiled subthreads list icon for @roomy.space

also first time making an icon at all ☺️
Cropped screenshot of roomy.space UI - specifically the sidebar, showing a vertical list of Space Avatars on the left, next to a list of channels and subthreads. The channels have a # hashtag icon, and the subthreads have what looks like a connected string with a loop in the string for each subthread
October 29, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Prisons Must Fall by @prisonculture.bsky.social and Jane Ball
A hand holding an open picture book: constellation people (parent and child?) hold hands in the night sky above a prison building, watchtower, barbed wire fence. Text reads: A locked and lonely cell is not where we belong. How can harming someone teach that causing harm is wrong?
October 6, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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September 25, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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entered the spirit realm btw
September 18, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Dorky selfie + me in Jogja music shop. I bought two cassette tapes, one of Senyawa remixes and another one the guy recommended blending experimental techno and traditional Javanese gamelan
Smiling Meri selfie Music shop interior with shelves of CDs and cassettes. Sign at desk with picture of guy’s head and shop name Toko Musik Luwes Hand holding two cassette tapes. Senyawa one is abstract wavelike blue and brown. Ethnoism ‘The Rhythm of Life’ with traditional style symbol of four figures in a circle, making a cross Tidal screenshot of ETHNOISM track ‘Free Palestine’ feat Uyung Mahagenta
September 17, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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mood
Brick paving with inlaid red text “I don’t know what I’m doing and why I keep doing it”, with two pairs of feet in shot
September 16, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Mural at Cemeti Institute for Art and Society, Yogyakarta
Black and white mural of people fighting an army tank-demon with Javanese iconography and Bahasa Indonesian text Detail of mural showing a family seated around a table, in front of a giant postage stamp of “Republik Indonesia” featuring some West Asian (?) architecture and text reading: “to the welfare of the families of martyrs and freedom fighters of Palestine”
September 16, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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vancouver buscore #ootd
September 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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flying to vancouverr
Meri smiling selfie on plane
September 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Honestly I think these are not terrible for first time doing any graphic icing ever and also so silly
Uniced biscuits, some red, some rectangular, some car shaped Partly iced biscuits Finished biscuits iced to look like lighting McQueen
September 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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This is the reference I found online that I was like, this is achievable lol
September 4, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Love
September 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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My kid’s 4th birthday on Sat and I’ve been requested to make ‘Lightning McQueen biscuits’ to decorate the cake. Let’s go
Benchtop with 4 ziplock bags of royal icing, white red yellow and dark brown. Also half a lemon, general mess
September 4, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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I also saw a big pile of like 5+ massive recently fallen trees blocking a path. Someone living there said unusual levels of rain makes the ground softer and this more common. so wild to see the root systems just exposed like this
Roots of a recently fallen tree (spooky) Roots of a recently fallen tree (~3m wide, lots of clay) Roots of a recently fallen big tree, lots of clay a recently fallen tree trunk
August 5, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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colours on this sunset killed me
Ferns with red sunset tinge Ferns and rainforest trees, red-orange setting sun poking through
August 4, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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stayed in a cabin in the Otways this weekend! Here are some fungus pics
Yellow coral(?) fungal shoots coming up through grass and leaf litter Red coral(?) fungal shoots coming up through leaf litter Mushroom with a bulbous spore pod(?) on top. Mushroom is split into 7 wedges, looks like a reverse flower Some slimy yellow platter type fungal growths on a fern tree trunk. Like turkey tail? but yellow and slimy
August 4, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Incredible illustration of someone who just got rugged
Book with text: JESSICA M. LEPLER THE MANY PANICS OF 1837 PEOPLE, POLITICS, AND THE CREATION OF A TRANSATLANTIC FINANCIAL CRISIS And illustration of a suited man holding a quill and pulling his hair out with extremely distressed and angry face
July 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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This raises the important question whether a middle ground may be forged between Deleuzian becomings and cognition, subjectivity, and higher consciousness. On the one hand, a purist may object that such a middle ground is impossible, because the privilege of origin must be located either with forces and intensities, from which everything else derives (the Deleuzian view), or with the individual subject as a pre-existing entity upon which forces operate. In this view, both cannot have priority simultaneously, and the choice of one or the other entails complex chains of consequences that amount to different worl-dviews. Suppose, however, that we position them not as contraries forcing an either/or choice but as two different perspectives on an integrated whole (as Deleuze and Guattari seem to suggest in identifying two sides to an assemblage), each with its own truths and insights. In this case, an analogy may be drawn between this situation and the particle/wave duality that Barad discusses. In this analogy, the particle, located as a point mass in space, corresponds to an entity, while wave action, propagating in a nonlocalized manner for a temporal duration, resembles an event. If we ask whether entities or events are primary, from Barad's perspective we are asking the wrong question. Rather we should inquire where are the points of intraction, the dynamic and continuing interplays between material processes and the structured, organized patterns characteristic of consciousness.
July 20, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Audre Lorde, Uses of the erotic
It is never easy to demand the most from ourselves, from our lives, from our work. To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society. But giving in to the fear of feeling and working to capacity is a luxury only the unintentional can afford, and the unintentional are those who do not wish to guide their own destinies. This internal requirement toward excellence which we learn from the erotic must not be misconstrued as demanding the impossible from ourselves nor from others. Such a demand incapacitates everyone in the process. For the erotic is not a question only of what we do; it is a question of how acutely and fully we can feel in the doing. Once we know the extent to which we are capable of feeling that sense of satisfaction and completion, we can then observe which of our various life endeavors bring us closest to that fullness.
July 15, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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praxis tbh!

www.theblock.co/post/362339/...
The filing, which aims to seize around $40,350 in USDT frozen by Tether, reveals that two victims sent $250,300 in USDT to a person posing as Steve Witkoff, co-chair of the President Trump's inaugural committee. However, records obtained from Binance revealed that the wallet that received the funds was registered to Ehiremen Aigbokhan, a man based in Lagos, Nigeria. The victims are identified in the filing only as "Ivan" and "Mouna." However, as NOTUS noticed, Crypto payment firm Moonpay's CEO is Ivan Soto-Wright and its CFO is Mouna Ammari Siala. Furthermore, a wallet involved in the $250,300 transaction is listed by Etherscan as a MoonPay wallet. A separate lawsuit filed in 2023 alleged Soto-Wright used the same wallet to fund a personal wallet. MoonPay did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Block.
July 13, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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new shorts 🩳
Meri mirror selfie in a sunlit dance studio, wearing shorts and white singlet
March 15, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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maybe a bit obtuse but just wanted to share this quote from N. Katherine Hayles' 'Unthought' which I have thought about so so many times since reading it

remembered this while watching a video of someone explaining 'why anarchism over socialism', the evils of wanting state power, power over others
Screenshot of a pdf: 'Grosz observes in her explication of Deleuze, “Deleuze is primarily an ontologist, whose interest is in redynamizing our conception of the real” (Grosz 2011, 55). Writing against the subject, the organism, and the sign (Deleuze and Guattari 1987), Deleuze in the writings he coauthored with Guattari and in his single-author works aims to create a vision that does not depend on those entities and embraces a vitality driven by affects, intensities, assemblages, and lines of flight. He and Guattari acknowledge, of course, that subjects exist, but they highlight the forces that cut transversally across levels and thus do an end-run around most of the concepts populating traditional philosophy. “One side of a machinic assemblage faces the strata, which doubtless make it a kind of organism, or signifying totality, or determination attributable to a subject; it also has a side facing a body without organs, which is continually dismantling the organism, causing asignifying particles or pure intensities to circulate, and attributing to itself subjects that it leaves with nothing more than a name as the trace of an intensity” (Deleuze and Guattari 1987, 4). In the more extreme interpretations of Deleuze, some new materi- alists focus almost entirely on the “side facing a body without organs,” eradicating from their narratives the necessary other side to the story, the forces of cohesion, encapsulation, and level-specific dynamics characteristic of living beings, for example in Jussi Parikka’s charac- terization of insects as “mechinological becomings” (2010, 129). As we will see in the following section, this leads either to contradictions, very partial accounts, or significant distortions of scientific practices, especially evolutionary biology. This extreme approach also makes nonconscious cognition, along with the modes of awareness, almost impossible to imagine and certainly impossible to formulate as a formative force in contemporary culture.'
February 5, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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considering recent bsky ai scraping and private profiles work, i feel like current social media semantics really pushes us into pretty limited options when it comes to describing different levels of trust. ultimately public open web posting shouldn't be the default imo
cblgh.org/dl/trustnet-...
A table labelled Table 5.2: Human-meaningful labels for quantized trust ranges. The label for a range represents the highest value in that range. The table has two columns, with each row mapping a 'Human-meaningful label' to a 'Trust range'. 'New person' is 0.00, 'Acquaintance' is 0.00-0.25, 'Friend' is 0.25-0.50, 'Peer' is 0.50-0.75, and 'Partner' is 1.00 A diagram of a person standing next to a full pool of water. The pool is connected to other pools in a network, with each of the other pools containing less than the one closer to the person. The connections are shown to be strongest close to the person.
November 30, 2024 at 9:07 PM