Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social)
#poetry #newpoem open.substack.com/pub/montemer...
You know me. Just a regular old poet and wildlife care provider https://birdallyx.net/ https://lepointdappui.wordpress.com/ https://montemerrick.substack.com/ @bird-ally-x-hwcc.bsky.social
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columbo. of all dudes, he is the very best dude.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social)
Thus endeth my 26th Summer in the wild baby season brigades.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
yes. i'm sorry youre excellent joke is being overlooked by letter or law goombahs who wouldnt know spriit of law if it told them directly that Tiny Tim was the baby Jesus.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
Hahaha my beloved is also a french Corsican
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
Driver 8 no Fall on Me no, I mean all of Automatic For the People....
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
you are the master of the trolling trolls. i take inspiration from you.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
the gif maker should've made the swizzle swirl more slowly
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
sailor talk is hardly english though...
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
Gee, who did the US buy Louisiana from???
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
and Canada. and why is Des Moines IA called Des Moines...
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
excellent guitar study album
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
there's always a video.
Prisonculture (@prisonculture.bsky.social) reposted
I hope people read these stories and are encouraged to take their own action: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/08/la-u...
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
so beautiful to read and support! we aren't going to survive and thrive in the future unless we survive and thrive now. of course despair is a part of surviving and thriving, but we're never going to stop being people and people strive. we always have - we always will. just like all our wild kin do.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social)
Calling Dr Cornel West names and accusing him of being a Russian agent. That’s the brilliance of dem party hacks. No wonder fascism.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
Like you’re the fucking litmus for someone else’s intelligence. Fuck off
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
Bullshit. Dr Cornel West’s bona fides surpass yours (whoever the fuck you are) by miles. You don’t have to like him but he’s a real person not some fucking social media fake taker. So fuck off grifter.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
sentience has always done science.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social)
Every busy baby season ends with me begging...
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
i scratched my beloved copy badly... only one side now until replacement arrives!
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social)
Fred Hampton, killed by the nation he was trying to rescue
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
I think about Fred Hampton a lot
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
Also being able to do long division by hand will always be cooler than not.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social)
Dear Strangers, let me tell you this was a Summer to remember.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social)
ah yes... joan armatrading... #MusicChallenge #EternalGlory youtu.be/WWRt6TYDIpY?...
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
not kidding.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
this is why i hate aldo leopold.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
child. please.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh for god’s sake are you blind to the multitudes? What the fuck is wrong with you that you can’t see or care about the pain newsom causes your true allies- unless of course they aren’t your true allies
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
his day will come.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social)
62 years now with even less jobs less freedom
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
Asshole? So you don’t know shit about wildlife rehabilitation. Got it. You’re a dumbass who has opinions about things you nothing about. Just fucking up the world in your own little stupid way . Maybe you should shut up fucking moron
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
poor baby can't handle be treated like the piece of shit that he convinced us very surely he is.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social)
Raccoons! Raccoons! Raccoons! what's better? nothing!
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
yeah, that's the reason.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
so you defend fairy tales and call being trans a mental health issue. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha youre a fucking idiot.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
playing with and kissing a baby opossum is as far from respecting her wildness and preparing her for release as you can get. this video is an abomination. killing with kindness you might call it, but how kind is it to kill?
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
okay reading the wikipedia page on instrumental convergence wasn't on my to-do list tonight yet here i am.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
of all the things that could happen to sentience in the universe, that this is apparently our destiny seems needlessly cruel and stupidly heavy-handed. fuck you god of all gods.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
hey that was my first chuckle over this stupid story! thanks!
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
cringe-o-fascism is so dumb and evil.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah I may have heard about that strategy once or twice in the last thirty years online.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
you really should have read the article. the charges stand. the penalty was voided. but youre a dumbass so of course you cant fucking read or think for yourself. fascist dirtbag.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
fascist and idiot. you really should be ashamed of yourself. but you have no shame. because you are what you are.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
you're either a bot or a fascist piece of shit. for your own sake you better hope youre a bot, because jesus fucks up fascists.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social)
once i made an old beat poet laugh saying if soldiers in airports wanted to blend in instead of camo they'd dress as soda machines. but look!!!!
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh really ? The victims of nazis we’re as responsible for nazis as nazis. Fucking brilliant- you should have a podcast
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
oh this disc got so much play in my workshop... excellent work music.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social)
Wood ducks are extremely awesome.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
False. Failing to counter fascism effectively is not equivalent to being fascist.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
maybe say it differently so youre understood, schmuck.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
Learn to read? That's your reply to a reasonable reply? Fuck you. Learn to be a decent human being. Learn some humility. Learn to talk civilly. But really just fuck off.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
it's like he's campaigning for mayor by being the mayor... who's more mayor of NYC than he right now?
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
who the fuck is the extreme left in the USA, Bill Clinton? AOC? Jon Stewart? Fuck off with your facile analysis and your stupid fucking hot take. you trivialize the real world and come off like a total fucking moron.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
here's an oldie but goodie youtu.be/nIOHXYDaT-s?...
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social)
new poem open.substack.com/pub/montemer... #poetry #poems #motherfuckingpoetry
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
it's more than that, which is more impressive - it's a functional improvement of constituent engagement, which is actual public service... he's campaigning, yes, but the campaign is also inclusive leadership - he's governing already. very impressive.
phisher of them (@cryptonomaly.bsky.social) reposted
It's gotta be obvious to everyone at this point that this is just revenge for embarrassing the DoJ, right? They literally photoshopped gang tats into pictures of him...everyone laughed, so now they're trying to get him on the heinous crime of driving his buddies to work. apnews.com/article/abre...
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social)
proving you can troll and make the world a better place with the same gesture. this camaign is delightful.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
Bravo!
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
at 12 most of the kids i knew were violent jerks or morons who didnt know it - i did like most of my teachers though. real friends came when i escaped to the city years later.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
LOL. they can afford their houses. why be mad?
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
well it's not called ownership of the means of production by the proletariat, that's for motherfucking sure. trump is no socialist or commie. that's horsehsit. he's a goddamned fascist.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social)
#ThisWasThe90s #MusicChallenge #MusicSky youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social)
it's hard to overstate how much Portishead came to mean.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
i don't mean to sound like i think things were better in the old days, but gee whiz the 90s had some good moments - like this...
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social)
#ThisWasThe90s #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Curve led unswervingly to Sunny Day Real Estate in this game of association... youtu.be/I41K9H2tFqg?...
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
lots of wag the dog/joan didion "insider baseball" vibes
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
coffee bags talk like that, not people.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
Semantics: the study of motherfucking meaning. like words do mean shit. Okay.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social)
These bats were a privilege to care for....
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social)
this just in from the way far out
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
ew.com indeed.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
if the butt of the joke thinks it's funny then it wasn't
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
Shitting on democrats did that? I thought it was Elon Musk’s 300 million dollars - what a waste of investment if democrats mad at democrats could do it for free
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
Joe McCarthy could have shown them that a little sooner...
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social)
read joan didion's collection, the White Album, and read the biography of brautigan, Jubilee Hithchiker, and then watch tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and you might come to think that kid's raised on Mickey Mouse Club and The Lone Ranger were maybe not the brightest revolutionaries.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
the overton window says, "okay! stop! fucking enough, already!"
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
i love that for her.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
live at the Hollywood Bowl is an epic concert film. way back in the days of VHS i had a copy....
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
facts. you could sing it to the guy at Wall to Wall Sound and/or Listening Booth or even Orpheum on Broadway in Seattle and I'd be the recipient - sort of like Brautigan's librarian in the Abortion.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
not too fancy to bonk your head though!
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
(by the way, finished Let this radicalize you. It really spoke to me even though my work isnt up against the state, just being a wildlife rehabilitator taking care of the region's sick, orphaned or injured wild neighbors... the insights offered really apply though - i could go on... )
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
Both times i was arrested at protests it immediately became like getting your hand caught in a farm machine. struggle or don't youre still going to have an injured hand
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
he's wrong about the reason he didn't know that.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
good question.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
i am definitely pinker than white.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
Always and Forever. You've inspired me to go put it on now for some lullaby action... youtu.be/AKoKpYsTz9c?...
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
marking myself safe from being justly ridiculed by the Onion as hard as JD VAnce was.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
i much prefer Gavin "shank 'em" Newsom over Gavin "podcast 'em" Newsom
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m with you on berating god, just want to make sure the charges stick
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
are they not actual goblins? what is an actual goblin but an actual goblin. hypothetical goblins are ruled out.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
well i dont speak for christians, or follow their faith, but the fact that human beings do strive to improve is hardly the cause of failure to improve. suggesting that other politicians can learn from Mamdani doesn't reveal my utopian dreams, my pollyanna myopia or my asinine analysis..
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
is that my fault? is it my fault that a lot of people throw away the one life they get being dupes or dupers. does that change anything about the reality of our singular existence. no it does not. life is hard. many fail.
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
And I was using Christianity as an example- me, i emulate the bird man of Alcatraz
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
Well in my view there are some universal truths that if you oppose you can’t be authentic- actions that are a betrayal of life are a pathology, not an authentic expression of life. Thats why we cut out cancer and throw it on the ground
Monte Merrick (@montemerrick.bsky.social) reply parent
lol. I’m just saying people have been using heroes as examples to strive towards for a super long time and other public servants ought to strive to be more like Mamdani. End of story. That’s all. If they can’t they should open a shoe store or sew buttons on bicycle wheels.