Is it really necessary to tell people not to snitch tag on this website? It is weird and mean, don't do that.
Lev Mirov
@thelionmachine.bsky.social
poet, novelist, graduate student, time traveler. in my sock knitting era. Jewish Fil-Am genderfluid bone wizard writing queer trans speclit in hell. Medievalist writing a dissertation about Anna Akhmatova's queerness. no English pronouns, thanks.
You know what never surprises me when I see a list of authors who've intentionally used generative AI? Their specific place in social dynamics of success, hustle, and the role of tokenization in their careers. When you treat success like it takes away from others, AI looks like a shortcut.
Omg, finally a quarter of the way there! Thank you!
Dr. Nyri A. Bakkalian@riversidewings.bsky.social · 21h ago28 more days are left until I need to pay for top surgery! Insurance & credit BS has left me without coverage or other options. Please send a few dollars to help close this gap, so that I can access necessary healthcare ⛰️⛰️ To all who spread the word and donate, I thank you 💙 buff.ly/m4LeXn4
I would go feral for a call giving me an excuse to write about Helen of Sparta, the sorceress, or Dionysus Liberator, friend of the oppressed.
Danai Christopoulou | VILE LADY VILLAINS out NOW@danaiwrites.bsky.social · 3d agoI would really love to edit a Greek myth and folklore anthology written by Greek, diaspora and BIPOC authors. If any publishers or powers that be are listening. I’m shooting my shot.
I would really love to edit a Greek myth and folklore anthology written by Greek, diaspora and BIPOC authors. If any publishers or powers that be are listening. I’m shooting my shot.
It's me. I'm the social contagion. I tell people that if you think a cane would help you, you are not too young and canes are less than $25 so you should probably just find out.
Nick Barlow@nickbwalking.bsky.social · 2d agoIn a move that will surprise absolutely no one who's been paying attention, Stock has decided that women with disabilities are suffering from "social contagion"
it would be very funny if McConnell is alive and fuming that nobody believes him I kind of hope that’s what’s going on I hope his wife walks into the room and doesn’t even see him He speaks and she hears the wind He touches her and she feels a faint itch He’s alive and nobody will ever know
Even if you've already read the poems and decided on your vote, it's worth clicking through to read Holly's reviews of each - explanations of why they work and what makes them distinct. There aren't a lot of poetry reviewers out there, and this is fantastic analysis written approachably.
Holly Lyn Walrath@hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 2d agoHere is my round-up of the poems nominated for the Hugo Award in 2025 and 2026! magazine.interstellarflightpress.com/award-winnin...
If a sentence is clear to the intended reader, you can do whatever you want, including using archaisms and breaking grammatical conventions. It is relatively difficult to write a sentence that is genuinely impossible to understand in context if your readers share your expectations.
Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 3d agoJane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.
I know every community has its edgelords and provocateurs, but does the "I don't eat meat" community provocateurs HAVE to go straight to calling keeping chickens (etc) a genocide or actively fantasizing about traumatizing children so much they'd rather starve in a warzone than eat meat. Can we not.
Now at $665/$1650 to cover Jellybean's vet stay. We were too physically tired to cat wrangle yesterday, so our vet appointment is moved to next week because she's doing so well. Anything helps. Thank you, friends. Paypal.me/thelionmachine
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Lev Mirov@thelionmachine.bsky.social · 4d agoStill at $615/$1600 for Jellybean's first vet bill. We'll have another visit tomorrow. Someone has very kindly sent me a waterpik while I wait two weeks for a dental appointment to evaluate the hole in my tooth so I get to focus on paying the vet bills. Paypal.me/thelionmachine
got some sneak peek photos of my beer can label! 🏳️⚧️💙🌸
That my seizures aren't epileptic so clearly they are the result of suppressed childhood memories of sexual abuse and I will never get better until I recover and accept those memories. They're triggered by MCAS and extreme migraines.
Heather Hill@rollin-academic.bsky.social · 3d agoA question from Reddit that I'll answer here: "What's the most unhinged thing a doctor has said to you with a straight face?"
I'm just steeped enough in folklore and myth that if some slick talker comes to me telling me I can have my dead relatives back, just like they were, promise, i don't care if they're disguised as tech execs, that's just the Devil trying to get one over. I don't even believe in the Christian hell.
Why fund healthcare, pay people a living wage, expand food access, or fix the other systemic issues that cause people to start or continue to smoke and vape when the market is experiencing record profits even amid falling sales?
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3d agoI'm calling it: "Start smoking" is going to be mainstream MAHA / Republican health advice by 2028. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This is about a recall that started in 2025. The FDA has finally terminated that recall.
monkeyrotica@monkeyrotica.bsky.social · 3d agoBREAKING: Diarrhea Peaches to open for Diarrhea Lettuce, Diarrhea Planet, Dismemberment Band. www.thehealthy.com/news/peach-r...
Well well well if it isn't me having to finally confront the troubled legacy of being born and raised on the grounds of a Baptist seminary and its role in me becoming a historian
I wish there was a no-fail always-successful way to magically have the conversation "this is an observation not a judgement, but people who don't have a drinking problem don't blame alcohol for their behaviors like this" with people who you aren't even close to.
Cover illustration for 'The Immortal Creations of Aurelie Blake' by Mara Rutherford, book 2 of The Broken Veil duology, that I painted for HarperCollins 🍊
Still at $615/$1600 for Jellybean's first vet bill. We'll have another visit tomorrow. Someone has very kindly sent me a waterpik while I wait two weeks for a dental appointment to evaluate the hole in my tooth so I get to focus on paying the vet bills. Paypal.me/thelionmachine
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Lev Mirov@thelionmachine.bsky.social · 5d agoThe vet called. Jellybean's thyroid levels seem to be elevated? We need to take her back to be weighed this week. I'm incredibly overwhelmed thinking about it. At $615/1600 to pay off her first vet bill. Paypal.me/thelionmachine
I finally tried a Just Egg egg-replacement scrambled patty on a vegan egg, turkey bacon, and and American cheese sandwich on a buckwheat muffin 10/10, I only know I'm not eating an egg scramble because my mouth isn't telling me to panic. Needed more cheese but EXTREMELY satisfying.
Complaining that Shakespeare is always boring especially to teenagers, the most melodramatic readers to exist, sure is a take I just experienced. Has anyone ever felt Hamlet more than a depressed teenager whose mom's new boyfriend is, in fact, a bad dude, and they know they can't make her see that?
LMAO Speechify malfunctioned and switched to a default white American male voice and the book is GENUINELY unlistenable without the thin illusion these thoughts could come from anyone else. Wild.
Lev Mirov@thelionmachine.bsky.social · 4d agoImagine thinking you can talk about the history of Christianity as a field of academic inquiry in the United States from 1700s-1920 and never once mention slavery or Indigenous genocide as forces that influenced scholasticism. Not even briefly. Not even in an aside. Not even in a footnote??
Q: What do you get the man who has everything? A: A happy afterlife! Q: How do you do that? A: Eels. Obviously. In about 1500 Ralph de Baliol agreed to pay 2000 eels per year to get the monks at Castle Acre Priory, near King's Lynn, to pray for the soul of his lord, Earl Warren. 🗃️🧪
Imagine thinking you can talk about the history of Christianity as a field of academic inquiry in the United States from 1700s-1920 and never once mention slavery or Indigenous genocide as forces that influenced scholasticism. Not even briefly. Not even in an aside. Not even in a footnote??
That's right, there are 31 days until I need to pay for top surgery! Insurance & credit BS has left me without coverage or other options. Please send a few dollars to help close this gap, so that I can access necessary healthcare ⛰️⛰️ To all who spread the word and donate, thank you 💙
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Apparently I now have a wish-list of authors I would love to do content pulls and write hooks for: -MORE SAPPHIC AUTHORS -more queer and why choose authors -queer men/mascs writing MM -authors of WEIRD romances (PLEASE send me the freaks!) ko-fi.com/A356F63/shop...
