Lev Mirov
@thelionmachine.bsky.social
poet, novelist, graduate student, time traveler. in my sock knitting era. Jewish genderfluid bone wizard writing queer trans speclit in hell. Medievalist inexplicably writing a dissertation about Anna Akhmatova's queerness. no English pronouns, thanks.
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Caz has some more recent updates on the progress for this one but I'm boosting this one because it has a pretty lizard photo
Fresh post, same ask. Currently $1215 / $5900 for rent for 3 neighbor families who are sheltering in place due to ongoing ICE terrorism in the Cities. Even if ICE left rn (and they're NOT) these folks have been out of work for weeks and will NOT catch up without our help.
Venmo Caz-A
paypal.me/ccabb
Venmo Caz-A
paypal.me/ccabb
February 16, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Caz has some more recent updates on the progress for this one but I'm boosting this one because it has a pretty lizard photo
This is my subtweet hot take:
Maybe a real person you are verbally abusing SHOULD hang up on you and maybe people should get used to feeling like they can't be rude to receptionists and call center staff without consequences. Maybe that's a social standard we want.
Maybe a real person you are verbally abusing SHOULD hang up on you and maybe people should get used to feeling like they can't be rude to receptionists and call center staff without consequences. Maybe that's a social standard we want.
February 16, 2026 at 4:43 PM
This is my subtweet hot take:
Maybe a real person you are verbally abusing SHOULD hang up on you and maybe people should get used to feeling like they can't be rude to receptionists and call center staff without consequences. Maybe that's a social standard we want.
Maybe a real person you are verbally abusing SHOULD hang up on you and maybe people should get used to feeling like they can't be rude to receptionists and call center staff without consequences. Maybe that's a social standard we want.
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Hello, my lovelies!
Rent is coming due, $775. I did not expect to still need help at this point. Thank you all! Please help this disabled queer trans artist stay housed? I have no family to fall back on. TYSM!!
💕💸🏳️⚧️
#MutualAid #DisabilityCrowdfund
paypal.me/rookkilljoy
CshApp/Vnmo: foxrook
Rent is coming due, $775. I did not expect to still need help at this point. Thank you all! Please help this disabled queer trans artist stay housed? I have no family to fall back on. TYSM!!
💕💸🏳️⚧️
#MutualAid #DisabilityCrowdfund
paypal.me/rookkilljoy
CshApp/Vnmo: foxrook
Donate to Help disabled queer gigworker survive and stay housed, organized by Brandi Michelle Burnett
Update, December 2025:
I started this GoFundMe at the ver… Brandi Michelle Burnett needs your support for Help disabled queer gigworker survive and stay housed
gofund.me
February 16, 2026 at 3:59 AM
Hello, my lovelies!
Rent is coming due, $775. I did not expect to still need help at this point. Thank you all! Please help this disabled queer trans artist stay housed? I have no family to fall back on. TYSM!!
💕💸🏳️⚧️
#MutualAid #DisabilityCrowdfund
paypal.me/rookkilljoy
CshApp/Vnmo: foxrook
Rent is coming due, $775. I did not expect to still need help at this point. Thank you all! Please help this disabled queer trans artist stay housed? I have no family to fall back on. TYSM!!
💕💸🏳️⚧️
#MutualAid #DisabilityCrowdfund
paypal.me/rookkilljoy
CshApp/Vnmo: foxrook
There is still people hub-bubing and fighting at 6AM 😭
February 16, 2026 at 12:14 PM
There is still people hub-bubing and fighting at 6AM 😭
I forgot tomorrow is a holiday and people in the street picking fights and drunk "singing" and taunting the national guard (guys don't do that!!!) are gonna keep going till dawn 😭
February 16, 2026 at 6:09 AM
I forgot tomorrow is a holiday and people in the street picking fights and drunk "singing" and taunting the national guard (guys don't do that!!!) are gonna keep going till dawn 😭
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F241.6
Fairy dogs.
Fairy dogs.
February 16, 2026 at 2:44 AM
F241.6
Fairy dogs.
Fairy dogs.
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Start hormones, write a book, get nacho fries
February 16, 2026 at 12:14 AM
Start hormones, write a book, get nacho fries
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I think maybe creating a big correlation machine and asking it to find causation could have some flaws in it
February 15, 2026 at 9:30 PM
I think maybe creating a big correlation machine and asking it to find causation could have some flaws in it
Being gluten free by necessity, it's really alarming how non-GF goods are clearly climbing towards specialty product prices. I accept that $7 for a loaf of sandwich bread is extortion but now suddenly everyone ELSE is getting first hand experience of how hard it is to eat well with no money.
Apparently there’s grocery inflation discourse again, but as I’ve been buying groceries for other families during this crisis, often under duress, it’s brought me out of my own optimized grocery spending habits, which rely heavily on Costco. And damn, there is a huge price to pay for being poor.
February 15, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Being gluten free by necessity, it's really alarming how non-GF goods are clearly climbing towards specialty product prices. I accept that $7 for a loaf of sandwich bread is extortion but now suddenly everyone ELSE is getting first hand experience of how hard it is to eat well with no money.
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🤘Less than $350 to unlock our first author pay raise.💪
🤞Gods! Is today going to be a THREE stretch goal day?🙏
👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
🤞Gods! Is today going to be a THREE stretch goal day?🙏
👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
February 15, 2026 at 1:12 AM
🤘Less than $350 to unlock our first author pay raise.💪
🤞Gods! Is today going to be a THREE stretch goal day?🙏
👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
🤞Gods! Is today going to be a THREE stretch goal day?🙏
👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
If you want something actually fun to celebrate, this is @aivalentin.bsky.social 's birthday and you should send him birthday wishes. We can't go out for dinner today because of Mardi Gras madness but if you'd like, you can send him ice cream and taco money for next week.
Paypal.me/thelionmachine
Paypal.me/thelionmachine
Pay Lev Mirov using PayPal.Me
Go to paypal.me/thelionmachine and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
Paypal.me
February 15, 2026 at 1:02 AM
If you want something actually fun to celebrate, this is @aivalentin.bsky.social 's birthday and you should send him birthday wishes. We can't go out for dinner today because of Mardi Gras madness but if you'd like, you can send him ice cream and taco money for next week.
Paypal.me/thelionmachine
Paypal.me/thelionmachine
I miss Alice.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Myself and @sesmith.lol and others were interviewed for the Lancet’s obituary of our friend Alice. <3
Myself and @sesmith.lol and others were interviewed for the Lancet’s obituary of our friend Alice. <3
Alice Wong
Writer, editor, and disability justice activist. Born on March 27, 1974 in Indianapolis,
IN, USA, she died from an infection on Nov 14, 2025 in San Francisco, CA, USA, aged
51 years.
www.thelancet.com
February 15, 2026 at 1:00 AM
I miss Alice.
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this Valentine's Day, 🔥⚔️🔥 BURN UP IN VICTORY🔥⚔️🔥
Serafina's brother has eloped, and left her with their mother, and society.
Lorenzo's best friend eloped, and left his damnable sister here.
they're not really enemies but they might as well be
books2read.com/burnupinvict...
Serafina's brother has eloped, and left her with their mother, and society.
Lorenzo's best friend eloped, and left his damnable sister here.
they're not really enemies but they might as well be
books2read.com/burnupinvict...
February 14, 2026 at 6:19 PM
this Valentine's Day, 🔥⚔️🔥 BURN UP IN VICTORY🔥⚔️🔥
Serafina's brother has eloped, and left her with their mother, and society.
Lorenzo's best friend eloped, and left his damnable sister here.
they're not really enemies but they might as well be
books2read.com/burnupinvict...
Serafina's brother has eloped, and left her with their mother, and society.
Lorenzo's best friend eloped, and left his damnable sister here.
they're not really enemies but they might as well be
books2read.com/burnupinvict...
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If you, like me, adore audiobooks, well! The audiobook for Netherford Hall is on sale, now through mid-March. www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...
February 15, 2026 at 12:14 AM
If you, like me, adore audiobooks, well! The audiobook for Netherford Hall is on sale, now through mid-March. www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...
I have friends from middle school I met online and talk to a couple times a year. There are a small handful of people, about a dozen at any time, whose lives overlap with mine in a way where we talk weekly or even daily online. One of those people I met in high school.
watching John Green talk about his buddy from high school who is still his friend and I’m curious, is that common for people on here?
February 14, 2026 at 1:54 AM
I have friends from middle school I met online and talk to a couple times a year. There are a small handful of people, about a dozen at any time, whose lives overlap with mine in a way where we talk weekly or even daily online. One of those people I met in high school.
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It might've had a Streisand Effect, but it's just another example of the IOC's willingness to cozy up to dictatorships despite their rhetoric of democracy and universal humanity in sport.
But they've also been selling merch of the Berlin Olympics of '36 in the official store, so I'm not shocked.
But they've also been selling merch of the Berlin Olympics of '36 in the official store, so I'm not shocked.
Counterintuitively, the IOC’s disqualification of Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych for insisting on wearing his “helmet of memory” at the Winter Olympics may have reminded the world of Ukraine’s ongoing suffering more effectively than the helmet itself could have.
February 13, 2026 at 10:39 PM
It might've had a Streisand Effect, but it's just another example of the IOC's willingness to cozy up to dictatorships despite their rhetoric of democracy and universal humanity in sport.
But they've also been selling merch of the Berlin Olympics of '36 in the official store, so I'm not shocked.
But they've also been selling merch of the Berlin Olympics of '36 in the official store, so I'm not shocked.
Here's what happened
His mother's surname is said
Ma-lin-in-a (not Mal-ih-neen-a) -- penultimate syllable is stressed but not lengthened
His name is not said Ma-lee-nin like the penultimate syllable is the li, but like it's Malinina -- the feminine ending is removed but the stress pattern remains
His mother's surname is said
Ma-lin-in-a (not Mal-ih-neen-a) -- penultimate syllable is stressed but not lengthened
His name is not said Ma-lee-nin like the penultimate syllable is the li, but like it's Malinina -- the feminine ending is removed but the stress pattern remains
Sorry but the name thing works both ways. Ilia Malinin grew up in America and pronounces his name in an Americanized style. You don't get to tell an American how to pronounce his own name.
February 13, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Here's what happened
His mother's surname is said
Ma-lin-in-a (not Mal-ih-neen-a) -- penultimate syllable is stressed but not lengthened
His name is not said Ma-lee-nin like the penultimate syllable is the li, but like it's Malinina -- the feminine ending is removed but the stress pattern remains
His mother's surname is said
Ma-lin-in-a (not Mal-ih-neen-a) -- penultimate syllable is stressed but not lengthened
His name is not said Ma-lee-nin like the penultimate syllable is the li, but like it's Malinina -- the feminine ending is removed but the stress pattern remains
Aleksei and I have put a shitton of hours into merely scanning and making into accessible plaintext an out of print book that originally was published as samizdat for MY PERSONAL USE because it's the only collation of letters from three archives on two different continents. AI could LITERALLY never.
Right, another key thing that historians do is working with important records that have not been digitized.
And the vast majority of the world’s records *have not been digitized* and thus do not exist in any format that LLMs/AI can work with.
And the vast majority of the world’s records *have not been digitized* and thus do not exist in any format that LLMs/AI can work with.
it's literally impossible for an LLM to do a historian's job
it's not even LLMs sucking it's that they need data input to do anything and where's that data supposed to be coming from without historians
never met a computer that can dig through a thousand year old book in a library
it's not even LLMs sucking it's that they need data input to do anything and where's that data supposed to be coming from without historians
never met a computer that can dig through a thousand year old book in a library
February 12, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Aleksei and I have put a shitton of hours into merely scanning and making into accessible plaintext an out of print book that originally was published as samizdat for MY PERSONAL USE because it's the only collation of letters from three archives on two different continents. AI could LITERALLY never.
Got my grocery bag searched by the national guard trying to walk home 🙃 I'm trying not to be salty about it but also: I cannot go anywhere without dealing with police, the guard, armored vehicles, street closures and barriers, and it's very very stressful to my brain
February 12, 2026 at 12:37 AM
Got my grocery bag searched by the national guard trying to walk home 🙃 I'm trying not to be salty about it but also: I cannot go anywhere without dealing with police, the guard, armored vehicles, street closures and barriers, and it's very very stressful to my brain
It's amazing how *I* feel like a huge bully for asking aomeone to remake my coffee they got wrong the first time. Brain. Why. I literally paid for this drink and was told I had choices.
February 11, 2026 at 10:40 PM
It's amazing how *I* feel like a huge bully for asking aomeone to remake my coffee they got wrong the first time. Brain. Why. I literally paid for this drink and was told I had choices.
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Here to advocate for the #PoetryHugo
It takes not a long time to read a new speculative poem.
Please consider nominating poems this year! It means a lot to us poets that we get a permanent poetry Hugo.
Keep changing minds and hearts, poets!
It takes not a long time to read a new speculative poem.
Please consider nominating poems this year! It means a lot to us poets that we get a permanent poetry Hugo.
Keep changing minds and hearts, poets!
Nominations are now open for the 2026 Hugo Awards!
Emails are going out to eligible nominators (those who became a member of LAcon V by January 31, 2026, or were a member of the Seattle Worldcon 2025) about how to set up their LAcon V virtual convention account.
Emails are going out to eligible nominators (those who became a member of LAcon V by January 31, 2026, or were a member of the Seattle Worldcon 2025) about how to set up their LAcon V virtual convention account.
February 11, 2026 at 10:38 PM
Here to advocate for the #PoetryHugo
It takes not a long time to read a new speculative poem.
Please consider nominating poems this year! It means a lot to us poets that we get a permanent poetry Hugo.
Keep changing minds and hearts, poets!
It takes not a long time to read a new speculative poem.
Please consider nominating poems this year! It means a lot to us poets that we get a permanent poetry Hugo.
Keep changing minds and hearts, poets!
Writing a grant application is WAY harder than reading 500 of them and deciding who gets the money, and that was not easy either!!!
February 11, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Writing a grant application is WAY harder than reading 500 of them and deciding who gets the money, and that was not easy either!!!
"AI" has very limited utility to aid humans in doing their jobs when trained correctly. It's a dead end for emergent consciousness. There is almost nothing that can stop the AI bubble is about to explode and ravage industries that were counting on it to develop utility it doesn't and cannot have.
I understand why people are exhausted by AI hype, and why those of us squarely in the corner of "human dignity uber alles" see AI doomerism as self-serving hype, but I *really* think people on the left broadly need to start thinking seriously about the possibiltiy of the hype being...true.
February 11, 2026 at 5:53 PM
"AI" has very limited utility to aid humans in doing their jobs when trained correctly. It's a dead end for emergent consciousness. There is almost nothing that can stop the AI bubble is about to explode and ravage industries that were counting on it to develop utility it doesn't and cannot have.
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If you are an American beader who is running your own small business and could use a bead stash, please email me team @ peculiarityshop dot com with your address.
Marginalized creatives highly encouraged to reach out. I will do five boxes to start. Mixed media, random grabs.
Make art.
Marginalized creatives highly encouraged to reach out. I will do five boxes to start. Mixed media, random grabs.
Make art.
February 11, 2026 at 5:39 PM
If you are an American beader who is running your own small business and could use a bead stash, please email me team @ peculiarityshop dot com with your address.
Marginalized creatives highly encouraged to reach out. I will do five boxes to start. Mixed media, random grabs.
Make art.
Marginalized creatives highly encouraged to reach out. I will do five boxes to start. Mixed media, random grabs.
Make art.