Max Bever
@maxbever.bsky.social
Chicago busy bee. Catdad, writer, host of #ILiveAtTheMusicBox, filmgoer + theatre & music lover.
Finally up for air with friends after a horrendous week-long flu 🤧 😁
January 12, 2026 at 12:16 AM
Finally up for air with friends after a horrendous week-long flu 🤧 😁
Good eating from the last couple weeks #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched 🍿
January 9, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Good eating from the last couple weeks #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched 🍿
At least they like me being under the weather 🤧
January 9, 2026 at 12:48 AM
At least they like me being under the weather 🤧
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If you’re still using Twitter, why?
Grok is producing ~6,700 sexually suggestive or nudified images per hour
• Twitter (X) is now the top deepfaking site in the world
• Women who speak out become targets by users
(via business)
• Twitter (X) is now the top deepfaking site in the world
• Women who speak out become targets by users
(via business)
January 7, 2026 at 10:52 PM
If you’re still using Twitter, why?
NO OTHER CHOICE: Bonsai means tray planting, a tree laid out on a slab, stunted, play acting as mature. Funny things they are, helmed through precise pruning, very fairytale and intricate. Heartbreaking when it snaps. 🧵
January 7, 2026 at 4:08 PM
NO OTHER CHOICE: Bonsai means tray planting, a tree laid out on a slab, stunted, play acting as mature. Funny things they are, helmed through precise pruning, very fairytale and intricate. Heartbreaking when it snaps. 🧵
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Because they like swords and can't read. Saved you a click
How did The Lord of the Rings end up so beloved by the right wing?
How did The Lord of the Rings end up so beloved by the right wing?
How did The Lord of the Rings end up so beloved by the right wing?
www.independent.co.uk
January 6, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Because they like swords and can't read. Saved you a click
In my natural flow state at SoFo 🎯 🍻
📸: @notmatcha.bsky.social 💕
📸: @notmatcha.bsky.social 💕
January 6, 2026 at 5:24 PM
In my natural flow state at SoFo 🎯 🍻
📸: @notmatcha.bsky.social 💕
📸: @notmatcha.bsky.social 💕
Come join me for the best romantic comedy ever made 🐍 🍻 💕
Cozy up with Barbara Stanwyck & Henry Fonda in Preston Sturges' screwball comedy THE LADY EVE!
Playing this Saturday & Sunday at 11:30am - Presented In 35mm!
Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...
Playing this Saturday & Sunday at 11:30am - Presented In 35mm!
Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...
a man in a tuxedo with a bow tie
ALT: a man in a tuxedo with a bow tie
media.tenor.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Come join me for the best romantic comedy ever made 🐍 🍻 💕
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The Chicago Board of Elections is looking for Early Voting Officials to work 52 sites across the city - make $17 an hour and apply today! Go to: chicagoelections.gov/form/ev-offi...
Can you speak Spanish, Chinese, Polish, Korean, Tagalog, Hindi, Gujarati, or Urdu? Let us know!
Can you speak Spanish, Chinese, Polish, Korean, Tagalog, Hindi, Gujarati, or Urdu? Let us know!
January 5, 2026 at 9:20 PM
The Chicago Board of Elections is looking for Early Voting Officials to work 52 sites across the city - make $17 an hour and apply today! Go to: chicagoelections.gov/form/ev-offi...
Can you speak Spanish, Chinese, Polish, Korean, Tagalog, Hindi, Gujarati, or Urdu? Let us know!
Can you speak Spanish, Chinese, Polish, Korean, Tagalog, Hindi, Gujarati, or Urdu? Let us know!
THE SECRET AGENT: ‘It’s not easy to be called by another name,’ but even the cat has two faces. The truth is elusive and identity is ours to make. A knuckleball blistered into left field - a new neo noir that knows what it wants to say about a historical moment & the ouroboros of human corruption 🧵
January 5, 2026 at 8:39 PM
THE SECRET AGENT: ‘It’s not easy to be called by another name,’ but even the cat has two faces. The truth is elusive and identity is ours to make. A knuckleball blistered into left field - a new neo noir that knows what it wants to say about a historical moment & the ouroboros of human corruption 🧵
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What are 4 albums you like to really lock in and listen to, front to back?
January 5, 2026 at 8:31 PM
What are 4 albums you like to really lock in and listen to, front to back?
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Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.
January 3, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.
Barbara Stanwyck Double Feature at the @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social with @mr-autumnman.bsky.social 🎞️ 💕
January 3, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Barbara Stanwyck Double Feature at the @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social with @mr-autumnman.bsky.social 🎞️ 💕
Ringing it in with my New Years kiss @notmatcha.bsky.social at the Empty Bottle 🍾🥳💕
January 1, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Ringing it in with my New Years kiss @notmatcha.bsky.social at the Empty Bottle 🍾🥳💕
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MAX’S TOP 30 ALBUMS OF 2025 (or the Year of No Chill)
1. Ms. Ezra Furman, GOODBYE SMALL HEAD
2. Ninajirachi, I LOVE MY COMPUTER
3. CMAT, EURO-COUNTRY
4. Divorce, DRIVE TO GOLDENHAMMER
5. Olivia Dean, THE ART OF LOVING
6. Superstar Crush, WAY TOO MUCH
1. Ms. Ezra Furman, GOODBYE SMALL HEAD
2. Ninajirachi, I LOVE MY COMPUTER
3. CMAT, EURO-COUNTRY
4. Divorce, DRIVE TO GOLDENHAMMER
5. Olivia Dean, THE ART OF LOVING
6. Superstar Crush, WAY TOO MUCH
January 1, 2026 at 6:25 PM
MAX’S TOP 30 ALBUMS OF 2025 (or the Year of No Chill)
1. Ms. Ezra Furman, GOODBYE SMALL HEAD
2. Ninajirachi, I LOVE MY COMPUTER
3. CMAT, EURO-COUNTRY
4. Divorce, DRIVE TO GOLDENHAMMER
5. Olivia Dean, THE ART OF LOVING
6. Superstar Crush, WAY TOO MUCH
1. Ms. Ezra Furman, GOODBYE SMALL HEAD
2. Ninajirachi, I LOVE MY COMPUTER
3. CMAT, EURO-COUNTRY
4. Divorce, DRIVE TO GOLDENHAMMER
5. Olivia Dean, THE ART OF LOVING
6. Superstar Crush, WAY TOO MUCH
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This is the type of luxury living a CTA monthly pass enables
December 30, 2025 at 3:02 AM
This is the type of luxury living a CTA monthly pass enables
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all the new releases I need to catch up on feel like homework 😭
December 30, 2025 at 1:53 AM
all the new releases I need to catch up on feel like homework 😭
HEATED RIVALRY: a work of art that rewards patience and close attention, to costumes, sets, props - but most of all, an open invite to study the human face and body in love, investing in the small details to explode out with emotions so big, the female gaze meeting the gays in perfect tandem. 🧵
December 29, 2025 at 11:19 PM
HEATED RIVALRY: a work of art that rewards patience and close attention, to costumes, sets, props - but most of all, an open invite to study the human face and body in love, investing in the small details to explode out with emotions so big, the female gaze meeting the gays in perfect tandem. 🧵
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tbh I have had Red Wine Supernova stuck in my head since I saw the notification about Bardot’s death yesterday
December 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
tbh I have had Red Wine Supernova stuck in my head since I saw the notification about Bardot’s death yesterday
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Reminds me of another New York Times piece
December 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Reminds me of another New York Times piece
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Instead of hostile architecture, how about loving governance?
December 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Instead of hostile architecture, how about loving governance?
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I asked @drpepperglazedham.bsky.social to make an AOTY list, so I figured it’d only be fair if I do the same
December 28, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I asked @drpepperglazedham.bsky.social to make an AOTY list, so I figured it’d only be fair if I do the same