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.
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.
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PayPal is doing this to sus out artist who create NSFW content like me and other folks in the server. By giving them feedback, you are not only putting artists like me at risk of being banned from the site, but also YOUR OWN account.
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November 22, 2025 at 12:13 AM
PayPal is doing this to sus out artist who create NSFW content like me and other folks in the server. By giving them feedback, you are not only putting artists like me at risk of being banned from the site, but also YOUR OWN account.
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PayPal has rolled out a new "feature" that prompts you to leave feedback about an artist that you've commissioned via invoice.
Whatever you do, DO NOT fill this out! To quote Admiral Ackbar, "IT'S A TRAP!!!" It is meant to misguide you.
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Whatever you do, DO NOT fill this out! To quote Admiral Ackbar, "IT'S A TRAP!!!" It is meant to misguide you.
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November 22, 2025 at 12:13 AM
PayPal has rolled out a new "feature" that prompts you to leave feedback about an artist that you've commissioned via invoice.
Whatever you do, DO NOT fill this out! To quote Admiral Ackbar, "IT'S A TRAP!!!" It is meant to misguide you.
(continue...)
Whatever you do, DO NOT fill this out! To quote Admiral Ackbar, "IT'S A TRAP!!!" It is meant to misguide you.
(continue...)
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Urgent!
Sitting at $300 of $775 needed for rent by Dec 1st while dealing with multiple disabling health problems.
Only $475 and 9 days left to go til due. Please help keep this disabled queer trans artist housed! Thank you!! 💕💸🏳️⚧️
paypal.me/rookkilljoy
CashApp/Venmo: foxrook
gofund.me/659e1b65
Sitting at $300 of $775 needed for rent by Dec 1st while dealing with multiple disabling health problems.
Only $475 and 9 days left to go til due. Please help keep this disabled queer trans artist housed! Thank you!! 💕💸🏳️⚧️
paypal.me/rookkilljoy
CashApp/Venmo: foxrook
gofund.me/659e1b65
November 22, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Urgent!
Sitting at $300 of $775 needed for rent by Dec 1st while dealing with multiple disabling health problems.
Only $475 and 9 days left to go til due. Please help keep this disabled queer trans artist housed! Thank you!! 💕💸🏳️⚧️
paypal.me/rookkilljoy
CashApp/Venmo: foxrook
gofund.me/659e1b65
Sitting at $300 of $775 needed for rent by Dec 1st while dealing with multiple disabling health problems.
Only $475 and 9 days left to go til due. Please help keep this disabled queer trans artist housed! Thank you!! 💕💸🏳️⚧️
paypal.me/rookkilljoy
CashApp/Venmo: foxrook
gofund.me/659e1b65
I couldn't wear my mask at this most recent imaging appointment and boy is THAT stressful, 0/10, do not recommend
November 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I couldn't wear my mask at this most recent imaging appointment and boy is THAT stressful, 0/10, do not recommend
I got another one of these today from a different UK address. They are bypassing gmail spam filters despite me reporting them as spam. Again: DO NOT CLICK ANY LINKS, report it as phishing to your email provider. Warn your loved ones. Maybe pitch in for your people vulnerable to this financially.
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 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I got another one of these today from a different UK address. They are bypassing gmail spam filters despite me reporting them as spam. Again: DO NOT CLICK ANY LINKS, report it as phishing to your email provider. Warn your loved ones. Maybe pitch in for your people vulnerable to this financially.
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PLEASE tell every author you know about this!
Authors beware: ClaimsHero is urging authors to opt out of the Anthropic settlement in order to file their own separate lawsuit. Except this outfit has no federal or state court experience with class-action suits. And the judge has called them a fraud.
Predatory Opt-Out Scheme ClaimsHero Targets Anthropic Settlement Participants: What Authors Need to Know - The Authors Guild
In recent weeks, a third-party law firm, ClaimsHero, has launched an aggressive online campaign urging authors to opt out of the Bartz v. Anthropic copyright settlement. ClaimsHero—which has no litiga...
authorsguild.org
November 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
PLEASE tell every author you know about this!
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$573 needed now! November bills overdue, December bills looming close by. If you see this, please share it. We can get there!!
Hey friends! 11 days left in November and we have $618 left to raise to cover November bills before December bills are due. Being laid off twice was not my dream for 2025.
Will you please share this if you see it? Thank you for helping!
Paypal: affirmationgin at gmail
Cashapp/venmo: showupforthis
Will you please share this if you see it? Thank you for helping!
Paypal: affirmationgin at gmail
Cashapp/venmo: showupforthis
November 21, 2025 at 6:17 AM
$573 needed now! November bills overdue, December bills looming close by. If you see this, please share it. We can get there!!
"There is no perfect. Good Enough has moved the world just fine."
What’s the most significant advice you received from a teacher?
I had a Geology prof who always said “have strong opinions, loosely held”
Be passionate, assess alternatives with conviction, take sides. But don’t fall so in love with your opinions that you can’t change them with better data.
I had a Geology prof who always said “have strong opinions, loosely held”
Be passionate, assess alternatives with conviction, take sides. But don’t fall so in love with your opinions that you can’t change them with better data.
November 21, 2025 at 3:19 AM
"There is no perfect. Good Enough has moved the world just fine."
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Calling all contingent historians and their editors--if you haven't submitted for this year's lists, why not? Seriously, these are our most highly read pieces of the year. They are a great way to get your scholarship in front of people and SELL YOUR BOOKS.
Thank you to @erinbartram.bsky.social for the idea as a public scholarly companion to Contingent's end of year list of publications from non-tenure track historians.
Submissions for @contingent-mag.bsky.social are due by November 29th if you haven't submitted yet!
Submissions for @contingent-mag.bsky.social are due by November 29th if you haven't submitted yet!
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Calling all contingent historians and their editors--if you haven't submitted for this year's lists, why not? Seriously, these are our most highly read pieces of the year. They are a great way to get your scholarship in front of people and SELL YOUR BOOKS.
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
November 20, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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
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Status update: fiber cut between data centers - trucks are rolling. Services are slow but functional, except for the Wayback Machine, which is still offline.
The Wayback Machine, openlibrary.org, and some other archive.org functions are offline because some network gear has failed.
We apologize and are working on it. More as it happens.
We apologize and are working on it. More as it happens.
November 20, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Status update: fiber cut between data centers - trucks are rolling. Services are slow but functional, except for the Wayback Machine, which is still offline.
Love to try to buy an undergarment to sleep in that won't press into my skin and be so overwhelmed with how horrible bra shopping has always been as a trans person who only desires comfort and compression
November 20, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Love to try to buy an undergarment to sleep in that won't press into my skin and be so overwhelmed with how horrible bra shopping has always been as a trans person who only desires comfort and compression
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I said I wasn't going to promote this anymore, but apparently it's Amazon Black Friday, and half my wish list is in deep discount. And I am one broke person.
Y'all are so amazing 😭
I'm down to only needing 1 sweat shirt, 1 sweat pants, & socks. There are a couple of skin health items on there, but not expecting those.
Thank you all for the shares & help keeping me going. I am going to delete this 12 hours, it will be time to focus on rent. THANK YOU!!
I'm down to only needing 1 sweat shirt, 1 sweat pants, & socks. There are a couple of skin health items on there, but not expecting those.
Thank you all for the shares & help keeping me going. I am going to delete this 12 hours, it will be time to focus on rent. THANK YOU!!
November 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I said I wasn't going to promote this anymore, but apparently it's Amazon Black Friday, and half my wish list is in deep discount. And I am one broke person.
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
I don't have to believe in things I know are real, like oxygen, gravity, women's pain, and ghosts.
do you believe in ghosts or are you like me, a person who finds themself saying all the time “I absolutely don’t believe in ghosts, but this place has ghosts.”
November 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I don't have to believe in things I know are real, like oxygen, gravity, women's pain, and ghosts.
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AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
November 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM
AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Happy Tuesday night, y'all. 💙
Sitting at $250 of $775 for rent! Only *$525* left to go to keep this disabled queer trans artist housed.
Thank you, all! Every share & cent helps!! 💕💸🏳️⚧️
#MutualAid #DisabilityCrowdfund #TransCrowdfund
paypal.me/rookkilljoy
CashApp/Venmo: foxrook
gofund.me/659e1b65
Sitting at $250 of $775 for rent! Only *$525* left to go to keep this disabled queer trans artist housed.
Thank you, all! Every share & cent helps!! 💕💸🏳️⚧️
#MutualAid #DisabilityCrowdfund #TransCrowdfund
paypal.me/rookkilljoy
CashApp/Venmo: foxrook
gofund.me/659e1b65
November 19, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Happy Tuesday night, y'all. 💙
Sitting at $250 of $775 for rent! Only *$525* left to go to keep this disabled queer trans artist housed.
Thank you, all! Every share & cent helps!! 💕💸🏳️⚧️
#MutualAid #DisabilityCrowdfund #TransCrowdfund
paypal.me/rookkilljoy
CashApp/Venmo: foxrook
gofund.me/659e1b65
Sitting at $250 of $775 for rent! Only *$525* left to go to keep this disabled queer trans artist housed.
Thank you, all! Every share & cent helps!! 💕💸🏳️⚧️
#MutualAid #DisabilityCrowdfund #TransCrowdfund
paypal.me/rookkilljoy
CashApp/Venmo: foxrook
gofund.me/659e1b65
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26 days left to get $560 of $1000 for my top surgery! Thanks to your help via the links below, I will be able to get a date for this life-changing procedure once I pay the fee.
Thank you for helping me reclaim my mountains ⛰️⛰️
buff.ly/ohspoWf
buff.ly/Kmvv10e
Thank you for helping me reclaim my mountains ⛰️⛰️
buff.ly/ohspoWf
buff.ly/Kmvv10e
November 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
26 days left to get $560 of $1000 for my top surgery! Thanks to your help via the links below, I will be able to get a date for this life-changing procedure once I pay the fee.
Thank you for helping me reclaim my mountains ⛰️⛰️
buff.ly/ohspoWf
buff.ly/Kmvv10e
Thank you for helping me reclaim my mountains ⛰️⛰️
buff.ly/ohspoWf
buff.ly/Kmvv10e
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Please help? Meds are knocking me on my ass right now, I'd love to wake up to some #help with this #mutualaidrequest. Anything is appreciated
Orthopedic and neurology referrals are in. Pain is 8/10. I'm still in need of $105 TODAY in mutual aid. Or it claims to $130 tomorrow. Please help me before this gets worse? 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.
PayPal.me
November 18, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Please help? Meds are knocking me on my ass right now, I'd love to wake up to some #help with this #mutualaidrequest. Anything is appreciated
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Evil organizations used to be named things like The Loyal and Worshipful Company of Gentlemen. But now they are named Slurly.
November 18, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Evil organizations used to be named things like The Loyal and Worshipful Company of Gentlemen. But now they are named Slurly.
This is a GREAT encapsulation of why cults always have the worst people in the world at the upper levels
Yes. Always.
“Doing whatever I want to do will somehow give me great power & make me a respected & valued member of my community instead of a sleazebag people distrust & avoid—where do I sign up?”
IIRC, a lot of people were, in their minds, slotting Rasputin into that space, which seems reasonable.
“Doing whatever I want to do will somehow give me great power & make me a respected & valued member of my community instead of a sleazebag people distrust & avoid—where do I sign up?”
IIRC, a lot of people were, in their minds, slotting Rasputin into that space, which seems reasonable.
November 18, 2025 at 10:42 PM
This is a GREAT encapsulation of why cults always have the worst people in the world at the upper levels
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Have 24 seconds of a blissed-out duck, you deserve it.
November 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Have 24 seconds of a blissed-out duck, you deserve it.
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November 18, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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