I know it’s the natural order of life and there’s no way to go back in time, but hearing certain songs comes with such an intense flash of the times when I listened to them so often that the pain isn’t in wanting to return but in the distance between then and now, and how quickly it happened

"How much water does it use?" "That is precisely the wrong kind of question."

Hey folks, I'm having trouble with Chat right now. No idea what's going on, but it just won't let me reply - it just loads and loads. It might be related to my general internet issues right now. I'll get your tracking numbers to y'all ASAP; rest assured, your 'Mechs (and some vehicles) are shipped!

Happy birthday me

My birthday is May 28. Hey God, you know what would help make up for this shitty year I've been having?

I've been annoyed by Gmail and it's AI bullshit for a while and wanting to detach from it (assume a list of reasonable good excuses here), but this might have broken it open for me. This has never happened before. Gmail just...did this. Like it just decided that I sound like a 90s teenage hipster.

I've put some of my original Power Lines Drawings up for sale at my store: marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/category/pow...

It’s super weird that all these empires rapidly went from ‘the sun will never set on us’ to ‘we’re gonna compost all our people’

The Worst of all Possible Worlds is neither the worst, nor possible, nor a worlds

My U of MN department has launched a scholarship fund to honor Alex Pretti (BA '11) who got a Geography degree before becoming a VA Nurse. Here's how to give. The money goes to support students in our department. Thanks! makingagift.umn.edu/give/fund.ht...

reminder: stella’s friend’s wobbly cat says good morning

Slightly increase a band: Type P Negative

I accidentally discovered that baseball card-sized art cards have become something of a thing and so I made a few because why not they're small. If you like one and give me $40 you'll get the card in a 4x6 ready-to-frame mat and US shipping included...

Capitalism is a right wing ideology. This should not be controversial to say.

Getting my "RIP Starmer, you taught me it was OK to be weird, ur wiv de angles now. RIP u will live on forever. Cant believe it. I wanna run to u. Really cant believe this" post in early.

$40 in Ubers and $60 in shipping later, everything is on the way. Tracking numbers when I get home!

Help out in your community if you can. Shop local, reuse & recycle if you can. Buy art & books from friends & strangers if you can. Disappear into the foggy moors or a mossy forest and become a legendary creature that timid townsfolk whisper about in the dark if you can.

Good morning from my neighbor's scrungly cat, peeping through my damn window again!

Whenever I take a cruise, I make sure to double my Ivermectin dosages.

Well, today's off to a really bad start.

Hey man, you need to stop taking my fucking videos, cropping off my handle, splicing it with other clips (which you presumably also stole), and then slapping your name on it. It’s one thing to download my TikTok and post it instead of just sharing here, but we’re hitting lawyer territory here.

cupid blues

It's 3 AM, post Death Commandos. NONE MORE DEATH! Detail shots in replies. #BattleTech

I have to do three things today, and I might not survive the attempt.

Also no I did not nanoraptor an antelope.

Friday will see the 1,500 post on Ginger Nuts of Horror since it rose from the ashes of the web hack three years ago. Trying to think of something special to do to celebrate. My review of Dead Weight by @hildur.bsky.social will be the lucky post.

YOU GOT ME! -2026

I've removed the name of the person who posted this because what I'm about to say is not a dunk on them. 🧵

In the absolute middle of nowhere in Colorado 3 years ago, some dude came to me, gave me this Pokémon card, said "Dusclops for these trying times?," and then left. The storm I was chasing planted multiple tornadoes just minutes later. The card has been with me on every single chase since then.

Oh my God, it is the same Mosleys.

The depths of hatred I feel for companies like this cannot be expressed.

BAGGER: (spilling my groceries on the floor) Oh God. I'm so sorry. This isn't what I'm supposed to do. ME: How are you supposed to do it? MANAGER: She means she was gonna be a fox. In the woods and shit. But something happened and she got stuck. BAGGER: (crying) Got so stuck.

There was a quote that said something like Black people worship a Jesus who knows what it's like to be lynched, while white people worship a Jesus who will forgive them for being part of a lynch mob.

Just saw a clip of Adam Friedland reading RZA a list of Wutang affiliates and it’s just like Scooby Don’t, Poop Flex Feaster, Big Grape, Millard Fillmore, Skaaaaaate, Brock Broccoli, Legend Chicken 75, Tommy Tulip

have now learned this is Fox being Fox about a kink thing, so: more power to everyone into this, best of luck, I will not be participating

Amalgamate

I know we've litigated this to death and it's asking for trouble to bring it back up again, but like . . . don't you feel like the Cheneys campaigning with Harris would have meant more if Dick had ever once said "guys this shit is on me too, I was wrong, I'm trying to fix it before it's too late"

Do you want to see the most beautiful thing I've ever filmed?

Happy Mother's Day

one of my fav things about mechwarrior/battletech games is that chuds every once in awhile will leave a bad review saying it went "woke" with all these female lead characters. it has been "woke" for 40+ years, you stravag

My genuine belief is anyone who gets excited about the weekend can understand class politics

It's 3 AM, post Death Commandos. NONE MORE DEATH! Detail shots in replies. #BattleTech

I am really beginning to think that this is the last gasp of social media. The promise of communication all over the world is dead, buried under so much bad-faith bullshit that even those of us who are trying to just hang can't help but react poorly to anything that could be trolling.

For all the mums being celebrated today...

The entire Scream franchise:

Oh hello! Here is my latest article for UnseenJapan! Please give it a read 🙏🏼

Sarah Jessica Parker has a brother named Pippin Parker who wrote episodes of The Tick. I’m telling you this because I don’t want to tell women at the bar because it would be detrimental to everything but I need to tell someone.

Lots of liberals acting like Marjorie Taylor-Green will give *them* a handy in a theater.

Warning for board game folks: this site has a list of industry people that uses AI slop for images and bios. I’m trying to figure out how to reach out to them to ask to have the entry on me removed. Wanted to spread awareness on the slop. www.4pillargames.com/about/