merl 🌳

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

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

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?

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.

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?

who up tormentin they nexus

10 - curve

ink2019.vvvvv.co#10

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

happy new year god is in his heaven all is right with the world

six seven

tiny tim (apple)

intrusive thoughts just keep screaming this one today. so now i’m telling the internet about it

do you play melee kalikimaka or ranged kalikimaka normally?

a spider is a kind of small dog

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

a gatorade store that’s open 24/7

we went from playing and attending each other’s shows to driving shareholder value

i will never forgive computerman

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

pronouncing KoЯn as it’s spelled: koyan

when we find him we should secretly replace “real” vance with him

the wild thing is he used to be on board with me. i had him liking vanilla-extract but then i watched him become “tailwind pilled” in real time while he was working on a spike

like am i just not open minded enough? why can’t i experience that same epiphany?

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

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

this is what palantir should actually be used for, not a police state, but finding THEM

professor xavier’s cerebro, find the meme people

screenshot of some ai slop of dark vance and the pope

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?

Floral garden finds in May

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

this is an act of tarririffim

boiler room set where i just spin endless kesha

this song from 1996 runs on my phone from 2022

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 🥺

they should invent a glass that just shatters into sand instead of shivs

pack it up, pack it in,