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@merrittk.com

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Writer/comedian. Madness archaeology @1900hotdog.bsky.social, story-based games at @insecretplaces.com, podcasting @ifyouredriving.bsky.social

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merritt @merrittk.com · Aug 6

i wrote a novella

it's about longtermist vampires, doing too many drugs, and socialism

it's available right now merrittk.itch.io/vampirocene

thanks to @slimyswampghost.bsky.social for the killer cover art

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merritt @merrittk.com · 11h

Not Promising Commitment

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merritt @merrittk.com · 12h

it rules www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxuM...

Wakako Zake Episode 1 English Sub

YouTube video by Shoujo Anime (WW)

www.youtube.com

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merritt @merrittk.com · 12h

i've been watching old WKUK episodes on youtube and the gandalf sketch fucking killed me

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merritt @merrittk.com · 13h

wait have you seen the 2 minute anime show about the girl who eats alone at the bar

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merritt @merrittk.com · 13h

eating alone at the bar is one of life's most delightful experiences

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 13h

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
@NateSilver538 • 5h
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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merritt @merrittk.com · 13h

anyway this is all fake and rich successful people are going to die one day too regardless of how much money and/or attention they get! go look at a bird

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merritt @merrittk.com · 13h

if you're not where you want to be as an artist or entertainer and didn't come from money or an industry family try to remember that it was never an even playing field to begin with and you're probably doing great considering

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merritt @merrittk.com · 13h

s/o to everyone from working class backgrounds in the arts and entertainment who clawed their way to where they are without the benefit of family wealth, career experience, or connections

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merritt @merrittk.com · 4d

hello if you are a kindle person Vampirocene is now available on kindle unlimited

Vampirocene

Vampirocene - Kindle edition by k, merritt. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Vampirocene.

www.amazon.com

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Charlie the Half Time Orange @clementinedanger.bsky.social · 14h

It's happening.

The Vitamin.

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cordeliaflyte
My deepest darkest fantasy is that I collapse on the street and I am
rushed to the hospital. They perform a bunch of tests and find out I
am severely deficient in some kind of vitamin. Then I start taking the
vitamin and I become the happiest cleverest person alive because all
my problems were caused by this one deficiency

caracalliope
Moreover, everyone gathers around to be tremulously compassionate
and discreetly admiring: all this time, you lacked the Vitamin? And yet
you persevered?

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merritt @merrittk.com · 15h

RIP Diane Keaton i loved u in the Young Pope

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merritt @merrittk.com · 15h

just tried eyedrops for the first time. do people just feel like this normally? like do most people's eyes not hurt all the time and make weird squelching sounds when they rub them

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merritt @merrittk.com · 15h

the Crisis of Treachery!

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merritt @merrittk.com · Feb 20

one day soon AI will be able to enjoy jacking off and playing video games for you, freeing up your valuable time to toil in the blood mines for shelter-creds

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merritt @merrittk.com · 23h

im bisexual

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im biphobic

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merritt @merrittk.com · 1d

this was playing on a tv in the bar last night and god it kicks ass www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GPG...

A Night's Work (Shadowrun promo, 1990)

YouTube video by Lacecard

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merritt @merrittk.com · 1d

i believe that the kinsey scale from men ranges from "fully gay" to "primarily interested in women but at the end of the day will put their dick in anyone who is sufficiently feminine"

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merritt @merrittk.com · 1d

there are straight women but i dont believe in heterosexual men

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merritt @merrittk.com · Jul 14

bro i saw your palette swap at the 7/11 today. yeah he was wearing red instead of white and his hair was different but he was doing all your moves. straight shooting fireballs in the parking lot. you gotta copyright your shit man