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.
Me, wondering why I'm so uncharitable about everything, so stressed out and braindead and can't tolerate anything upsetting or disappointing
The United States: it's CAPITALISM SUPERWEEK in honor of ~the survival of the genociders of your ancestors~ buy a planet-destroying sycophant widget today!
The United States: it's CAPITALISM SUPERWEEK in honor of ~the survival of the genociders of your ancestors~ buy a planet-destroying sycophant widget today!
November 26, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Me, wondering why I'm so uncharitable about everything, so stressed out and braindead and can't tolerate anything upsetting or disappointing
The United States: it's CAPITALISM SUPERWEEK in honor of ~the survival of the genociders of your ancestors~ buy a planet-destroying sycophant widget today!
The United States: it's CAPITALISM SUPERWEEK in honor of ~the survival of the genociders of your ancestors~ buy a planet-destroying sycophant widget today!
It's hard to describe how I feel every time this happens. I'm so overwhelmingly angry. We HAVE the ability to vaccinate virtually everyone who can take the vaccines so that herd immunity works in so many communities. A horrible way of dying was almost gone forever. It's not fair. It's not fair.
A third infant has died in Kentucky, KYDPH adds:
“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”
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“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”
s3.amazonaws.com/nursing-netw...
November 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
It's hard to describe how I feel every time this happens. I'm so overwhelmingly angry. We HAVE the ability to vaccinate virtually everyone who can take the vaccines so that herd immunity works in so many communities. A horrible way of dying was almost gone forever. It's not fair. It's not fair.
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URGENT. I need to raise $925 for Dec. rent. I’m finally recovering from the damage my last job did, but had a debilitating number of migraines these past few months, and hit a rougher-than-expected patch.
Thank you for all your help!
Thank you for all your help!
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November 25, 2025 at 12:41 AM
URGENT. I need to raise $925 for Dec. rent. I’m finally recovering from the damage my last job did, but had a debilitating number of migraines these past few months, and hit a rougher-than-expected patch.
Thank you for all your help!
Thank you for all your help!
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My friend Nyri only needs $133 more to make her top-surgery down payment. Once that's submitted, she'll be able to schedule and reserve a date for the procedure.
Nyri regularly astonishes me with how hard and steadfastly she fights for the life that should be hers—let's help her make this happen!
Nyri regularly astonishes me with how hard and steadfastly she fights for the life that should be hers—let's help her make this happen!
There are a scant 20 days before I need to make a down payment on the top surgery I've sought for years! With your help, I can raise the remaining $133 out of $1000 I need via the links.
Thanks for helping me reclaim my mountains ⛰️⛰️
buff.ly/bWXC283
buff.ly/A38jBVM
Thanks for helping me reclaim my mountains ⛰️⛰️
buff.ly/bWXC283
buff.ly/A38jBVM
November 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
My friend Nyri only needs $133 more to make her top-surgery down payment. Once that's submitted, she'll be able to schedule and reserve a date for the procedure.
Nyri regularly astonishes me with how hard and steadfastly she fights for the life that should be hers—let's help her make this happen!
Nyri regularly astonishes me with how hard and steadfastly she fights for the life that should be hers—let's help her make this happen!
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heyyyyy besties so it's looking like people have been buying Learn to Howl and the Company of Wolves which is great but, uh........well you see it's a trilogy, Baying the Moon is the middle bit 🐺
please buy and rate my books so scammers stop putting the descriptions into an LLM and emailing me about it!
LEARN TO HOWL is a complete trilogy about family, identity, and kicking ass as a fucking werewolf
books2read.com/learntohowl/
books2read.com/BayingtheMoon
books2read.com/CompanyofWol...
LEARN TO HOWL is a complete trilogy about family, identity, and kicking ass as a fucking werewolf
books2read.com/learntohowl/
books2read.com/BayingtheMoon
books2read.com/CompanyofWol...
November 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
heyyyyy besties so it's looking like people have been buying Learn to Howl and the Company of Wolves which is great but, uh........well you see it's a trilogy, Baying the Moon is the middle bit 🐺
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$300 to go! The goal is within sight!
I just need $303 more to pay for the movers Dec 1 to escape my abusive family. Thank you so much, my original goal was $1000 and we’re almost there! Thank you friends!
I gratefully accept tips, donations, whatever you want to call them
Cshpp $ThreeRaccoonsInACoat
Vnm @ Sarah-Moose-Moose
Kofi Ko-fi.com/moosefriend
Cshpp $ThreeRaccoonsInACoat
Vnm @ Sarah-Moose-Moose
Kofi Ko-fi.com/moosefriend
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
$300 to go! The goal is within sight!
Protip if you hate being awake all night in the bathroom
Do not eat both servings of konjack miracle noodles at once. Please taking the serving sizes seriously. Even if you're really hungry and it's the only thing you have spoons to make. Maybe get a different gluten free meal pouch.
Do not eat both servings of konjack miracle noodles at once. Please taking the serving sizes seriously. Even if you're really hungry and it's the only thing you have spoons to make. Maybe get a different gluten free meal pouch.
November 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Protip if you hate being awake all night in the bathroom
Do not eat both servings of konjack miracle noodles at once. Please taking the serving sizes seriously. Even if you're really hungry and it's the only thing you have spoons to make. Maybe get a different gluten free meal pouch.
Do not eat both servings of konjack miracle noodles at once. Please taking the serving sizes seriously. Even if you're really hungry and it's the only thing you have spoons to make. Maybe get a different gluten free meal pouch.
We call it "the bagel incident". My brother was hungry after we arrived at a timeshare that was empty except for a bowl of fruits and bagels on the counter.
45m with a butterknife later, having sawed about a quarter through, a piece chipped off. The bagel was not "really stale".
It was plastic.
45m with a butterknife later, having sawed about a quarter through, a piece chipped off. The bagel was not "really stale".
It was plastic.
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 25, 2025 at 9:46 AM
We call it "the bagel incident". My brother was hungry after we arrived at a timeshare that was empty except for a bowl of fruits and bagels on the counter.
45m with a butterknife later, having sawed about a quarter through, a piece chipped off. The bagel was not "really stale".
It was plastic.
45m with a butterknife later, having sawed about a quarter through, a piece chipped off. The bagel was not "really stale".
It was plastic.
It's really telling that "fasting safely" costs so much money and runs big promotional sales when having nothing but broth and coffee for two days is otherwise called "poverty".
It's so fun to see the harbingers of economic depression creeping in with these chirpy little articles like "Eating Every Other Day: How to Save Dough and Slim Down!" or "12 Roommates in a 2 Bedroom: The Cure for Loneliness!"
November 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
It's really telling that "fasting safely" costs so much money and runs big promotional sales when having nothing but broth and coffee for two days is otherwise called "poverty".
This is kind of the crux of the Knightbook projects; you can't go backwards or forwards, only sideways, if everything goes well you will simply cease to exert pressure or have knowledge of your own timeline.
Time travel but the traveler finds out that time travel runs on multiverse theory so they can never return to the time they came from and each time they travel, they create a new timeline until the timelines become unstable and begin to merge
Yea, yesterday's post shows me that we need more media where time travel goes wrong
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
This is kind of the crux of the Knightbook projects; you can't go backwards or forwards, only sideways, if everything goes well you will simply cease to exert pressure or have knowledge of your own timeline.
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Does anyone in Baltimore need (or could use) a 20 lb turkey? Because reasons, we have acquired one, and while we can come up with uses for it, it's A Problem for my allergy issues and if someone needs it more, Sarah is happy to deliver anywhere in Baltimore
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Does anyone in Baltimore need (or could use) a 20 lb turkey? Because reasons, we have acquired one, and while we can come up with uses for it, it's A Problem for my allergy issues and if someone needs it more, Sarah is happy to deliver anywhere in Baltimore
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Unless the thieves are a rival ballet company, I desperately want to see the facial expressions when they open that truck and discover they've stolen the set for the Nutcracker.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Who stole the Nutcracker set? Travelling ballet says moving truck with backdrop inside was swiped | CBC News
A ballet company on an Ontario-wide tour of The Nutcracker says someone stole the moving truck storing its “irreplaceable” sets and backdrops.
www.cbc.ca
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Unless the thieves are a rival ballet company, I desperately want to see the facial expressions when they open that truck and discover they've stolen the set for the Nutcracker.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
There is yet another fake Free Turkey Dinner At Costco Giveaway phishing email in my newsletters folder instead of my spam folder. DO NOT CLICK ANYTHING OR GO TO THEIR WEBSITE!! If you think a loved one might fall for it, warn them, perhaps offer to help pay for holiday groceries.
Hey so bad news, there's a phishing email going around pretending to pay for free Thanksgiving dinners at Costco. Please tell your leas internet savvy friends this is a horrible, heartless scam and they SHOULD NOT CLICK ANYTHING
![Gmail preview of a phishing email pretending to be Costco.
I have included the titles exactly as they appeared.
Title: You've won a Thanksgiving Turkey Dinner from Costco [myemail] [thu, 20 Nov 2025 10:09:21 +0000] red emoji exclamation point
From: Costco - Thanksgiving Turkey Dinner etdenix@iszgxhz.aaq.missouri.uk.com
To: me@aol.com (not my actual email)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rspmvkykyekzvboa4kalkzy6/bafkreigkvh2cafvfzijskbmnbiqnohezcd36clsa7kk2hbx2pydllz7efy@jpeg)
November 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
There is yet another fake Free Turkey Dinner At Costco Giveaway phishing email in my newsletters folder instead of my spam folder. DO NOT CLICK ANYTHING OR GO TO THEIR WEBSITE!! If you think a loved one might fall for it, warn them, perhaps offer to help pay for holiday groceries.
... why is youtube showing me ads for an AI generated video of white Jesus reciting The Lord's Prayer for children, there is probably nothing I hate more in the whole world that isn't straight up a crime against humanity than Christianity Dreck combined with AI Slop
November 24, 2025 at 8:37 AM
... why is youtube showing me ads for an AI generated video of white Jesus reciting The Lord's Prayer for children, there is probably nothing I hate more in the whole world that isn't straight up a crime against humanity than Christianity Dreck combined with AI Slop
I see it is yet again time to remind people not to post bragging about their crimes on the internet. Pirating intellectual property is a crime! Don't fucking tell social media about it!! It is something you straight up should NEVER MENTION, because ~it's a crime~
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 AM
I see it is yet again time to remind people not to post bragging about their crimes on the internet. Pirating intellectual property is a crime! Don't fucking tell social media about it!! It is something you straight up should NEVER MENTION, because ~it's a crime~
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BURN UP IN VICTORY is about kissing and fighting and fucking, it's full of luck and magic and theater and pageantry
IngramSpark was like "make this Share & Sell link and you get entered automatically to win a $500 marketing package" so here's the link buy my book (US and UK buyers only because...IngramSpark I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )
shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...
shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...
November 24, 2025 at 2:36 AM
BURN UP IN VICTORY is about kissing and fighting and fucking, it's full of luck and magic and theater and pageantry
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The auction has ended but the wishlist is open one more week! We are just like 10 packs of kids' socks away from having enough auction money to cover all our initial goals!!! OMG I almost cried when I checked my notifications on my break at work 😭😭😭
Please consider donating to my synagogue's warm clothing drive!
Amazon wishlist (easy, wide range of prices): bit.ly/bundled25
Silent auction (beautiful handmade crafts!): www.32auctions.com/bundled2025
We want to give mittens, socks, hats, etc. to families who come through our food pantry!
Amazon wishlist (easy, wide range of prices): bit.ly/bundled25
Silent auction (beautiful handmade crafts!): www.32auctions.com/bundled2025
We want to give mittens, socks, hats, etc. to families who come through our food pantry!
November 24, 2025 at 1:40 AM
The auction has ended but the wishlist is open one more week! We are just like 10 packs of kids' socks away from having enough auction money to cover all our initial goals!!! OMG I almost cried when I checked my notifications on my break at work 😭😭😭
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The Boshin War was the means by which Satsuma-Choshu oligarchs imposed their vision for Japan at the point of a gun.
My PhD thesis about the Northern Alliance, one group that fought them, is free to read via the link. It was panned for "reading too much like a novel," so you should totally read it!
My PhD thesis about the Northern Alliance, one group that fought them, is free to read via the link. It was panned for "reading too much like a novel," so you should totally read it!
The Sparrow's Dream: The Meiji Revolution and Local Self-Assertion in Northern Japan - D-Scholarship@Pitt
Bakkalian, Nyri A. (2017) The Sparrow's Dream: The Meiji Revolution and Local Self-Assertion in Northern Japan. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh. (Unpublished)
d-scholarship.pitt.edu
November 24, 2025 at 1:10 AM
The Boshin War was the means by which Satsuma-Choshu oligarchs imposed their vision for Japan at the point of a gun.
My PhD thesis about the Northern Alliance, one group that fought them, is free to read via the link. It was panned for "reading too much like a novel," so you should totally read it!
My PhD thesis about the Northern Alliance, one group that fought them, is free to read via the link. It was panned for "reading too much like a novel," so you should totally read it!
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That's right, there's just 22 more days to go before I need to make a down payment on the top surgery I've sought for years! Thanks to you, I can raise the remaining $312 of $1000 I need via the links.
Thank you for helping me reclaim my mountains ⛰️⛰️
buff.ly/A38jBVM
buff.ly/bWXC283
Thank you for helping me reclaim my mountains ⛰️⛰️
buff.ly/A38jBVM
buff.ly/bWXC283
November 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
That's right, there's just 22 more days to go before I need to make a down payment on the top surgery I've sought for years! Thanks to you, I can raise the remaining $312 of $1000 I need via the links.
Thank you for helping me reclaim my mountains ⛰️⛰️
buff.ly/A38jBVM
buff.ly/bWXC283
Thank you for helping me reclaim my mountains ⛰️⛰️
buff.ly/A38jBVM
buff.ly/bWXC283
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Please, if you're able to spare $10 to keep me from freezing, it would really help. $390/400 needed for firewood. PayPal.me/Starbroken
Pay Anna Chrest using PayPal.Me
Go to paypal.me/starbroken and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
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November 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Please, if you're able to spare $10 to keep me from freezing, it would really help. $390/400 needed for firewood. PayPal.me/Starbroken
I think my Fitbit has finally died and I am really torn because on the one hand
1) fuck Fitbit, privacy nightmare owner by Google
But 2) I really need some way to track some of that health data so I probably can't just stop using wearables
1) fuck Fitbit, privacy nightmare owner by Google
But 2) I really need some way to track some of that health data so I probably can't just stop using wearables
November 23, 2025 at 10:21 AM
I think my Fitbit has finally died and I am really torn because on the one hand
1) fuck Fitbit, privacy nightmare owner by Google
But 2) I really need some way to track some of that health data so I probably can't just stop using wearables
1) fuck Fitbit, privacy nightmare owner by Google
But 2) I really need some way to track some of that health data so I probably can't just stop using wearables
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Urgent!
At $345 of $775 for rent by Dec 1st while dealing w/ multiple disabling health issues.
Only $430 & 8 days to go til due. Please help keep this disabled queer trans artist housed! Thank you! 💕💸🏳️⚧️
#MutualAid #DisabilityCrowdfund #HelpFolksLive2025
paypal.me/rookkilljoy
CashApp/Venmo: foxrook
At $345 of $775 for rent by Dec 1st while dealing w/ multiple disabling health issues.
Only $430 & 8 days to go til due. Please help keep this disabled queer trans artist housed! Thank you! 💕💸🏳️⚧️
#MutualAid #DisabilityCrowdfund #HelpFolksLive2025
paypal.me/rookkilljoy
CashApp/Venmo: foxrook
November 23, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Urgent!
At $345 of $775 for rent by Dec 1st while dealing w/ multiple disabling health issues.
Only $430 & 8 days to go til due. Please help keep this disabled queer trans artist housed! Thank you! 💕💸🏳️⚧️
#MutualAid #DisabilityCrowdfund #HelpFolksLive2025
paypal.me/rookkilljoy
CashApp/Venmo: foxrook
At $345 of $775 for rent by Dec 1st while dealing w/ multiple disabling health issues.
Only $430 & 8 days to go til due. Please help keep this disabled queer trans artist housed! Thank you! 💕💸🏳️⚧️
#MutualAid #DisabilityCrowdfund #HelpFolksLive2025
paypal.me/rookkilljoy
CashApp/Venmo: foxrook
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Crap crap crap, I forgot I needed to refill my Mounjaro for this weekend & URG. $30 would cover it.
I'm so sorry, I completely forgot about this & I don't have it. 😬 Help out a disabled diabetic?
💕💸🏳️⚧️
#MutualAid #DisabilityCrowdfund
#HelpPeopleLive2025
paypal.me/rookkilljoy
CashApp/Venmo: foxrook
I'm so sorry, I completely forgot about this & I don't have it. 😬 Help out a disabled diabetic?
💕💸🏳️⚧️
#MutualAid #DisabilityCrowdfund
#HelpPeopleLive2025
paypal.me/rookkilljoy
CashApp/Venmo: foxrook
Pay Brandi Michelle Burnett using PayPal.Me
Go to paypal.me/rookkilljoy and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
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November 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Crap crap crap, I forgot I needed to refill my Mounjaro for this weekend & URG. $30 would cover it.
I'm so sorry, I completely forgot about this & I don't have it. 😬 Help out a disabled diabetic?
💕💸🏳️⚧️
#MutualAid #DisabilityCrowdfund
#HelpPeopleLive2025
paypal.me/rookkilljoy
CashApp/Venmo: foxrook
I'm so sorry, I completely forgot about this & I don't have it. 😬 Help out a disabled diabetic?
💕💸🏳️⚧️
#MutualAid #DisabilityCrowdfund
#HelpPeopleLive2025
paypal.me/rookkilljoy
CashApp/Venmo: foxrook
Perhaps unsurprisingly after the day I had yesterday, today I woke up in a crash I don't have time for.
November 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Perhaps unsurprisingly after the day I had yesterday, today I woke up in a crash I don't have time for.
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Please, please, PLEASE just leave the form blank!
If you would like to talk to me about my art, I would heavily prefer DMs on here on social media sites.
If you would like to talk to me about my art, I would heavily prefer DMs on here on social media sites.
November 22, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Please, please, PLEASE just leave the form blank!
If you would like to talk to me about my art, I would heavily prefer DMs on here on social media sites.
If you would like to talk to me about my art, I would heavily prefer DMs on here on social media sites.