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max asher miller

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✡️🏳️‍🌈(🟥🟨🟦)(he/him) fiction writer, journalist, TikTok personality Columbia MFA '21 ✍️: Fatal Flaw, Walkabout, etc ⌨️: maxashermiller.substack.com 🔗: https://linktr.ee/maxashermiller

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max asher miller @maxashermiller.bsky.social · Nov 14

Reintroducing myself as more people fly the friendly skies.

My name is Max Asher Miller. I'm a writer and journalist with an MFA from Columbia University, where I multiclassed in the Journalism School and studied populism/fascism.

You can also find me on TikTok @m0stlysapien

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max asher miller @maxashermiller.bsky.social · 8h

Oh yeah the ppl who show up with the all foil $1000 deck and brag about how there's "nothing you can do" in response to their plays. Always the most satisfying people to beat, which is equally true about him now

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max asher miller @maxashermiller.bsky.social · 8h

Not how Magic works. It's played Swiss tournament style so you show up and get paired off. I've had to sit across from people eating their own boogers and smelling like a diseased alpaca.

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Cam @malaiseforever.bsky.social · 19h

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register.

Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”

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max asher miller @maxashermiller.bsky.social · 9h

I'm going to be trawling the depths of twitter on election night inhaling pure, 100% uncut fascist copium. It's going to be better than doing MDMA for the first time.

max asher miller @maxashermiller.bsky.social · 9h

We all know Vance was the guy who would rules lawyer the shit out of every game and call a ref on every play only for the ref to rule against him every time

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max asher miller @maxashermiller.bsky.social · 9h

Obviously going to see an early screening of NUREMBERG but I'm worried it's gonna piss me the hell off

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Spookshop (Aja Romano) @bookshop.bsky.social · 1d

Anger is the main weapon of the culture war and always has been. The far right didn't wake up one day circa 2014 and start hating trans people. They looked around after Obergefell and realized they'd lost the culture war against same-sex marriage and needed a new cultural front. So they decided to—

Michael Rader @theoryof.games · 1d

I don't honestly know what maga has to be angry about. They're getting everything they wanted and more.

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max asher miller @maxashermiller.bsky.social · 1d

@jerilryan.bsky.social why did you repost a fake AI video? Seven of Nine would never.

max asher miller @maxashermiller.bsky.social · 1d

Oh look, actual antisemitism. I won't waste time checking for a statement from the ADL.

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 2d

Yep, it’s the food stamps.

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max asher miller @maxashermiller.bsky.social · 1d

Giving the freaking White House the landlord special is the funniest possible outcome of this presidency

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 1d

He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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max asher miller @maxashermiller.bsky.social · 1d

This is one of my favorite stories in any publication, and one I love teaching whenever I do a class on form or structure. Treat yourself if you haven't read it.

John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com · 16d

"The Venus Effect" by Violet Allen (@blipstress.bsky.social), from LIGHTSPEED (2016) www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-... One of my favorite stories I've ever published.

The Venus Effect - Lightspeed Magazine

This is 2015. A party on a westside roof, just before midnight. Some Mia or Mina or throwing it, the white girl with the jean jacket and the headband and the two-bumps-of-molly grin, flitting from fri...

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max asher miller @maxashermiller.bsky.social · 1d

I'm pretty sure sticking an arm through someone's window means you're liable for whatever happens to that arm

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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 1d

As of this month, the screens in NYC's yellow taxis are now playing national news from Newsmax—the ultra-conservative media outlet known for pushing baseless election fraud claims.

Taxi TV Is MAGA Now

New York City taxi riders are now served conservative news segments during their trips.

hellgatenyc.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

The energy we need is this suburban dad standing out in the street -- barefoot with Blackhawks pajama pants on -- screaming at the masked goons to get the fuck out of their neighborhood.

armando l sanchez @mandophotos.bsky.social · 1d

More from the scene

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max asher miller @maxashermiller.bsky.social · 1d

You'd think a lawyer would understand that mentioning Biden in the same sentence as the Senate doesn't imply the former is involved in the latter. A good lawyer, at least.

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 2d

The EHRC has sent a new draft Code of Practice which would lead to the exclusion of trans people from public life.

The decision now is up to this government, will they sign a trans bathroom ban in secret?

Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-ba...

#ScrapTheBathroomBan

Image has a pink background and scraps of torn blue and white paper behind the text. Text reads: Scrap the Bathroom Ban. Tell Your MP to say no to segregation. This is urgent. The EHRC Code of Practice could be laid in Parliament any day.

Act now. Tell your MP to stop this. Write to your MP:
tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

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max asher miller @maxashermiller.bsky.social · 2d

Gen V is so much better than The Boys. The writing is empathetic in a way the main series is too jacked up on testosterone to be and it carries through the entire production

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

Big year for photos of clergy enduring pain while protesting ICE.

· Rev. David Black, Chicago Sun-Times: chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

· Rev. Jorge Bautista, SF Chron: www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

· Rev. Hannah Kardon, Chicago Protest Photography: www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...

Rev. David Black being pepper sprayed by ICE/DHS agents.

Rev. Jorge Bautista squints in pain after being shot with apparent pepper balls by ICE/DHS agents.

Rev. Hannah Kardon is arrested by three Illinois State Police outside the Broadview, Illinois ICE facility.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2d

This is incredibly deep and I am tearing up.

Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams are the worst of us.

Mamdani is one of the best.

When you vote in this election, whatever your faith, you are making a moral decision that will reflect on your character and your soul forever.

Mayor of Halloween Town @joshuajfriedman.com · 2d

Mamdani: "I thought that if I could build a campaign of universality ... if I behaved well enough or bit my tongue enough ... it would allow me to be more than just my faith. I was wrong."

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max asher miller @maxashermiller.bsky.social · 2d

president elected on a wave of fascist nostalgia knocks down the most iconic federal building is a huge rhetorical W for anyone opposed to him

max asher miller @maxashermiller.bsky.social · 2d

Bingo

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max asher miller @maxashermiller.bsky.social · 5d

BTW when AI companies say stuff like, "AI is so dangerous that all we can do is pray to be spared from its almighty armageddon," they're actually just buttering you up to accept all the horrible stuff they're currently doing right now. They may have killed a few kids but at least it wasn't ALL KIDS.

max asher miller @maxashermiller.bsky.social · 2d

I can't stand Jacobin half the time exactly because it digs its heels in on stuff like this