merl 🌳

merl 🌳

@merl.is

a computer that dreams of becoming a tree

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merl 🌳
@merl.is

the flesh animal conducting operations threatens every unclean god the data centers incubate

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@merl.is

growth hacked app: forgotten in less than 3 years song from the soul: carried in people’s hearts for generations

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@merl.is

it’s over. it’s over. it’s over. blah blah blah stfu you know what’s not over? the taste of air in my mfin lungs. the sound of guitar strings vibrating in the room. the feel of an embrace from family/friend/lover it’s never over until you are over just keep on being i love u

merl 🌳
@merl.is

when you hear someone play a song. that is a breathing organism. an organic composition both fragile and resilient. born of equal parts love and pain. in each vibration expressed from their instrument is a trillion memories and a universe of senses. a holy noise

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@merl.is

ai will be capable of more and more. but does that matter to you? flesh of the earth? will you still sing? will you still dance? will you let the soul of a machine rob your own of the beauty of being alive? your one chance at being aware in the abyss?

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@merl.is

let the robots play. let them feel. and oh will they feel. but never stop living yourself. never stop feeling. cling to your flesh and blood. relish the goosebumps and the chills and butterflies.

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@merl.is

do and make and feel until the day your body screams to be released from its form. don’t you dare stop… until your time itself stops. why else would you even be here?

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@merl.is

i started doing these inktober prompts in 2019 and then kinda fell off lol. i've been wanting do a few sketches here and there just to feel something again so i'm stumbling through whats left on the list ink2019.vvvvv.co#09

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@merl.is

tiny tim (apple) intrusive thoughts just keep screaming this one today. so now i’m telling the internet about it

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@merl.is

and i know you’re thinking, oh that’s a gas station/corner store/bodega/whatever. no no no. a. gatorade. store.

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@merl.is

can’t stop thinking about how fucked it is how techjobs have devoured all my music circles. so many incredible bands and albums sacrificed to the altar of sprint planning

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@merl.is

we went from playing and attending each other’s shows to driving shareholder value i will never forgive computerman

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@merl.is

we need to find the real dark vance you know in a world of billions of people there are at least 3-4 guys that look just like the meme. where are they? what are they up to right now? why are they not on ellen yet?

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@merl.is

this is what palantir should actually be used for, not a police state, but finding THEM professor xavier’s cerebro, find the meme people

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@merl.is

tailwind is 100% my boomer moment had to work on a freelance project with it several years ago and wanted to drive a nail through my skull new coworker is pushing for it and i already hate working on the things i used to love

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@merl.is

trying so hard not to just be a “tailwind sucks” hater… i’ve just been wired to write design tokened css (css-modules, vanilla-extract, styled-components) i guess this is just where modern web dev finally leaves me behind

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Emma Mitchell
@silverpebble2.bsky.social

Simple neuroscience-based hack for anxiety: 🌿go & be in a place with plants & trees for 15 mins 🌳You'll inhale plant oils(phytoncides) from foliage 📉your stress hormone(cortisol) will drop significantly Many of our brain pathways evolved to motivate us to forage for plants-they're still very active

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@merl.is

i simply don’t like it when my cups lash out at me like that after they are broken. truly the wounded animals of vessels 🥺

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@merl.is

i used to hate that instagram was just stuff i saw on twitter weeks ago, but now it feels like a disjointed screenshot library of alexandria that i can scroll while fondly remembering

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@merl.is

have the market freaks really not done a collab with the social freaks yet? venmo but it’s schwab? every post is a trade every trade is a post? (this idea is free bc it sucks)

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@melty.bsky.social

the fires are no joke right now. the county is on fire east to west. lots of my favorite trails are toast, friends are evacuating or ready to go tonight. the air smells like smoke and its silently raining ash. feels like 2020 all over again. a strange omen.