Milena
@mzmilena.bsky.social
38yo maelstrom of fire and light
fighting against the dark
inside and out
striving for a softer world and self
yes, even now
more than ever
💜
Currently working on a deep study of Ye.
https://linktr.ee/mzmilena
“It matters to this one.”
fighting against the dark
inside and out
striving for a softer world and self
yes, even now
more than ever
💜
Currently working on a deep study of Ye.
https://linktr.ee/mzmilena
“It matters to this one.”
Pinned
American Iranian
I shook Bernie Sanders’ hand today.
medium.com
Nine and a half years ago, a brief interaction with Bernie unlocked a wave of repressed feelings about what it’s like to live in America as an Iranian first-gen immigrant.
It hits even harder in hindsight.
Trust me: it’s worth a few minutes of every American’s time. Even you.
It hits even harder in hindsight.
Trust me: it’s worth a few minutes of every American’s time. Even you.
It’s kind of crazy seeing people losing their minds over BlueSky moderation taking action on violent jokes or violent implications. It doesn’t matter that it’s about bad people, rules have to be applied consistently. Otherwise you get things like Facebook’s “no hate speech except transphobia.”
November 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM
It’s kind of crazy seeing people losing their minds over BlueSky moderation taking action on violent jokes or violent implications. It doesn’t matter that it’s about bad people, rules have to be applied consistently. Otherwise you get things like Facebook’s “no hate speech except transphobia.”
This is why Zohran as mayor of NYC is so terrifying to them. They know that once he proves it works there, all excuses are gone for doing it everywhere.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:12 AM
This is why Zohran as mayor of NYC is so terrifying to them. They know that once he proves it works there, all excuses are gone for doing it everywhere.
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Always thinking of you, ya freaks
November 13, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Always thinking of you, ya freaks
That was likely the most important night of my life.
I can’t even imagine the me that lies ahead, but she feels powerful.
Pent up.
Shining like a sun.
Let it burn me to life.
I can’t even imagine the me that lies ahead, but she feels powerful.
Pent up.
Shining like a sun.
Let it burn me to life.
November 13, 2025 at 11:32 AM
That was likely the most important night of my life.
I can’t even imagine the me that lies ahead, but she feels powerful.
Pent up.
Shining like a sun.
Let it burn me to life.
I can’t even imagine the me that lies ahead, but she feels powerful.
Pent up.
Shining like a sun.
Let it burn me to life.
man, how do I even go about recommending this to someone
"hey have you heard of [eldritch gargling sounds], it's pretty chill stuff"
"hey have you heard of [eldritch gargling sounds], it's pretty chill stuff"
November 13, 2025 at 5:51 AM
man, how do I even go about recommending this to someone
"hey have you heard of [eldritch gargling sounds], it's pretty chill stuff"
"hey have you heard of [eldritch gargling sounds], it's pretty chill stuff"
need more recommendations of music based on actual deaths close to the artist(s)
nick cave’s skeleton tree and its successors
mount eerie’s a crow looked at me
korn’s the nothing
olafur arnalds’ some kind of peace
eric clapton’s tears in heaven
macklemore’s otherside
there’s nothing else like it
nick cave’s skeleton tree and its successors
mount eerie’s a crow looked at me
korn’s the nothing
olafur arnalds’ some kind of peace
eric clapton’s tears in heaven
macklemore’s otherside
there’s nothing else like it
November 13, 2025 at 5:20 AM
need more recommendations of music based on actual deaths close to the artist(s)
nick cave’s skeleton tree and its successors
mount eerie’s a crow looked at me
korn’s the nothing
olafur arnalds’ some kind of peace
eric clapton’s tears in heaven
macklemore’s otherside
there’s nothing else like it
nick cave’s skeleton tree and its successors
mount eerie’s a crow looked at me
korn’s the nothing
olafur arnalds’ some kind of peace
eric clapton’s tears in heaven
macklemore’s otherside
there’s nothing else like it
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NIH Director Bhattacharya makes a damning admission, thinks it’s an own:
“Absent considerable intentional tinkering by the developers, any LLM trained using @wikipedia as an input will output nonsense biased against conservatives on any remotely controversial political topic.”
Gives the game away.
“Absent considerable intentional tinkering by the developers, any LLM trained using @wikipedia as an input will output nonsense biased against conservatives on any remotely controversial political topic.”
Gives the game away.
November 13, 2025 at 5:07 AM
NIH Director Bhattacharya makes a damning admission, thinks it’s an own:
“Absent considerable intentional tinkering by the developers, any LLM trained using @wikipedia as an input will output nonsense biased against conservatives on any remotely controversial political topic.”
Gives the game away.
“Absent considerable intentional tinkering by the developers, any LLM trained using @wikipedia as an input will output nonsense biased against conservatives on any remotely controversial political topic.”
Gives the game away.
it's not every day you have a devastating realization about your most life-altering trauma and realize with horror that there's no way to fix any of it
November 13, 2025 at 4:12 AM
it's not every day you have a devastating realization about your most life-altering trauma and realize with horror that there's no way to fix any of it
(me after ranting about how all tiddies of various shapes and sizes are wonderful in their own ways) "Thank you for coming to my Tid Talk"
November 13, 2025 at 1:32 AM
(me after ranting about how all tiddies of various shapes and sizes are wonderful in their own ways) "Thank you for coming to my Tid Talk"
a visual novel dating sim but the characters are all famous drag queens
the twist is that the game versions of all of them are sassy dragons
it would be a bunch of anthro dragons in drag draggin' each other competing for you :3
the tagline would be "this time, the dragons are doing the slaying"
the twist is that the game versions of all of them are sassy dragons
it would be a bunch of anthro dragons in drag draggin' each other competing for you :3
the tagline would be "this time, the dragons are doing the slaying"
November 13, 2025 at 12:44 AM
a visual novel dating sim but the characters are all famous drag queens
the twist is that the game versions of all of them are sassy dragons
it would be a bunch of anthro dragons in drag draggin' each other competing for you :3
the tagline would be "this time, the dragons are doing the slaying"
the twist is that the game versions of all of them are sassy dragons
it would be a bunch of anthro dragons in drag draggin' each other competing for you :3
the tagline would be "this time, the dragons are doing the slaying"
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Hey all, Poppy’s kid needs some help with their phone bill this month. If you can toss a few bucks their way, please do so. ☺️
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November 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Hey all, Poppy’s kid needs some help with their phone bill this month. If you can toss a few bucks their way, please do so. ☺️
Currently watching the leaked “500 Days in UCLA” documentary. It’s surreal seeing so much footage of the last days of “old Kanye.” In a way, I’ve wanted to see this kind of behind the scenes material about him for ages, but this version of him is so far gone at this point.
November 12, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Currently watching the leaked “500 Days in UCLA” documentary. It’s surreal seeing so much footage of the last days of “old Kanye.” In a way, I’ve wanted to see this kind of behind the scenes material about him for ages, but this version of him is so far gone at this point.
The timing of the new Kanye news is very interested, but as a long-time Kanye studier who’s hoped he’d right his path for years, I have to say: actions speak louder than words.
This is much bigger than something that just an apology to a rabbi can fix. He needs to stop talking and start doing.
This is much bigger than something that just an apology to a rabbi can fix. He needs to stop talking and start doing.
November 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The timing of the new Kanye news is very interested, but as a long-time Kanye studier who’s hoped he’d right his path for years, I have to say: actions speak louder than words.
This is much bigger than something that just an apology to a rabbi can fix. He needs to stop talking and start doing.
This is much bigger than something that just an apology to a rabbi can fix. He needs to stop talking and start doing.
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The days of thanking veterans today and forgetting them tomorrow has to come to an end.
November 11, 2025 at 11:17 PM
The days of thanking veterans today and forgetting them tomorrow has to come to an end.
pooperative but it rhymes with cooperative
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 PM
pooperative but it rhymes with cooperative
I really don't understand why Stephen King has gotten a lifetime pass for how often his work focuses on the brutalization and sexualization of children.
November 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I really don't understand why Stephen King has gotten a lifetime pass for how often his work focuses on the brutalization and sexualization of children.
My first video essay is planned to be "Ye and the American Dream: How Society Failed Kanye West and Created Ye."
It's going to be my take as an ex-KW fan on the details behind his ego and stubbornness, and how society's reception of him and his neurodivergence pushed him into the alt-right.
It's going to be my take as an ex-KW fan on the details behind his ego and stubbornness, and how society's reception of him and his neurodivergence pushed him into the alt-right.
November 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
My first video essay is planned to be "Ye and the American Dream: How Society Failed Kanye West and Created Ye."
It's going to be my take as an ex-KW fan on the details behind his ego and stubbornness, and how society's reception of him and his neurodivergence pushed him into the alt-right.
It's going to be my take as an ex-KW fan on the details behind his ego and stubbornness, and how society's reception of him and his neurodivergence pushed him into the alt-right.
tfw the OUTLINE for my (likely massive) kanye west essay is pushing 1000 words
November 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
tfw the OUTLINE for my (likely massive) kanye west essay is pushing 1000 words
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remember when Hillary tried to joke off being late to a Black audience that she was "running on CP time"
remember her saying she "carried hot sauce in her bag"
remember "super-predators"
remember "we'll obliterate [Iran]"
remember her general foreign policy
but yeah, I was "just being a misogynist"
remember her saying she "carried hot sauce in her bag"
remember "super-predators"
remember "we'll obliterate [Iran]"
remember her general foreign policy
but yeah, I was "just being a misogynist"
November 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
remember when Hillary tried to joke off being late to a Black audience that she was "running on CP time"
remember her saying she "carried hot sauce in her bag"
remember "super-predators"
remember "we'll obliterate [Iran]"
remember her general foreign policy
but yeah, I was "just being a misogynist"
remember her saying she "carried hot sauce in her bag"
remember "super-predators"
remember "we'll obliterate [Iran]"
remember her general foreign policy
but yeah, I was "just being a misogynist"
Meanwhile, the actual best Daft Punk album (give it a listen before you disagree):
November 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Meanwhile, the actual best Daft Punk album (give it a listen before you disagree):
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Sure, some wild-eyed leftists like [check notes] Nate Silver and Matt Yglesias think Democrats were winning the shutdown and shouldn't have caved....
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Sure, some wild-eyed leftists like [check notes] Nate Silver and Matt Yglesias think Democrats were winning the shutdown and shouldn't have caved....
Remember when it was actually a debate as to whether Discovery or Homework was better?
Feeling my age rn. 😅
Feeling my age rn. 😅
November 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Remember when it was actually a debate as to whether Discovery or Homework was better?
Feeling my age rn. 😅
Feeling my age rn. 😅
Another sign of aging: remembering when the NY Times was a world-renowned source of reliable reporting.
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Another sign of aging: remembering when the NY Times was a world-renowned source of reliable reporting.
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Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.