Lev Mirov

@thelionmachine.bsky.social

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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.

Jellybean, a beautiful small black cat, curled up in my lap in a funny little ball with one eye open and one back leg sticking out. She radiates playfulness and affection.
Jellybean, a beautiful small black cat with luminous white whiskers, curled on my lap. She is glossy and shiny.
Weency, an enormous brown and black tabby, draped over a white standard pillow that is not quite big enough for her, with her cheek resting on Aleksei's leg, mid snuggles.
Jellybean, a small, beautiful black cat, shot from above sitting in a baguette-shape on my lap. Her fur is shiny and beautiful.
Jellybean, a black cat, a few days ago before this started. She is sleek and beautiful and curled on my lap, her sweet intelligent face looking back at the camera.
The cathedral in Saskatchewan has been painted with red hand prints and the words "we were children". Red paint trails like blood down the steps by small plushies sitting on the steps of the church. Photographer unknown.
A skykid from Sky: Children of the Light from behind in front of a beautiful sunset. The skykid is wearing a black cape over white breeches bloused into black boots and a wooden sword. The hair is tousled and wavy.
Jellybean, a small black cat, propped up against my legs, shifting to Full Lap Cuddle, from behind.
A beautifully sleek small black cat curled up like an egg, holding her back paws with her front paws. Her eyes are open and you can see her glorious white whiskers. She is on my lap in this picture.
Jellybean, a small black cat with white whiskers, curled up in a bean shape on my lap, eyes open, her front paws and back legs folded together.
A truncated Android Bluesky app screenshot. It shows the top feed categories, with "OnlyPosts" highlighted
Three packed food items: Bar Harbor Manhattan clam chowder, Talluto Ricotta Cavatelli, and Colavita potato gnocchi. There's absolutely nothing wrong with them and they're in original unopened packaging, I just can't eat clams or gluten.
A screencap of Sky: Children of the Light. The player character is flying over a river towards an outcropping of beach in a lush green alpine landscape, lit with rosy light, as white animals and birds call and fly. It is extremely painterly.
Weency, a mackerel tabby with a tiny baby head and a huge barrel chested body. She is tummy up on some handmade socks, her chin chucked down and her paws curled in. A person's hand pats her side, eyes open.
A hand knitted manatee toy from Sky: Children of the Light. He has a fat round seal-y gray body, and his face is a golden circle above his snoot. His tail is also yellow. He has two fat flippers. He is soft and round and very gentle looking.
A smallish knitted Sky manatee toy, from the Sky: Children Of The Light game. It has a fat, round pale grey body with a golden tipped tail and a circular golden head marking for the face. One flipper is done and attached. It is very homely, but soft and lovable.
Jellybean, a small black cat, curled up on a blanket facing away from the camera. It is point of view of "cat in your lap". Feel her small light warm weight against your legs as she purrs stubbornly.
A pale gray knitted toy; a fat, round, long seal-like body has a yellow circle for a face on the rounded head. The tail is also shaped like a yellow fan. It is very homely on purpose. It is a manatee light creature from Sky: Children of the Light, missing the flippers.
Several manatees from Sky: Children of the Light flying head on. They are round with fat, round sealy bodies, a glowing golden teardrop face, and yellow tail tone. These manatees are flying over a sunrise lit river.
A bucket shaped handknit red variegated cap with a short i-cord tassle
A small, 3 inch-ish sized handknit pale gray beanie shaped tube on double pointed needles, closed at one end, with a yellow teardrop circley thing in color work near the head. If you squint it looks kind of like an abstracted animal which is good because eventually it will be a very folksy manatee plush.
"Much of his critique of Western civilization is reminiscent of Burke's counterrevolutionary apostrophes. Pobedonostsev believed in the strength of patriarchal life, in the vegetative wisdom of the people's element, and distrusted personal initiative." Screenshot of highlighted text from Wikipedia.
Screencap of a very unprofessional phishing email pretending to be Costco. Text reads: "congratulations! you've been selected! Answer and win!"
An extreme close up of a wooden knitting needle gauge, with holes for measuring needles. Between the first two sizes, 2.00mm and 2.25mm, there is a small, irregularly shaped pale brown rock, slightly larger than the 2mm hole.
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)
A top down handknit sock being worked on DPNS in black and white, held in knitting position. Just after the black ribbing, there's a big white arched shape that reads "IX". It's going to be a Ninth House skull from The Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir.
A dramatically lit photo of a stormy gray-blue knit tank top with a large gray-white band of colorwork design in the torso. White stars and clouds swirl above a band of moons, pennants, and two rows of big stars. The bottom is a band of blue and white striping. Lev's hand is in the corner holding the edge because the bottom is curling up. It looks weird and shadowy because it's nighttime.
A photo of a white person on top of a teal reclining chair in a painfully white room, stretched out so their head is only a little bit higher than their feet. Their head and knees are supported by the chair so it looks reasonably comfortable.
A handknit striped sock with a yellow and orange and dark blue variegated stripey pattern with solid blue heel and toe. It has a strong heel, and there are stitch markers up and down the sock counting rows.
Picture of Jellybean, a beautiful sleek black cat with huge white whiskers and golden eyes. She is curled up in a C shape on a blanketed lap but her head is up and expression alert.
A cream and blue-green sock leg on bamboo DPNs. The cuff is speckled cream, which goes across the body of the leg in diagonal stripes over a sea of variegated blues and teals.
Close up photo of the best cat in the world, Jellybean, a small black cat with luminous white whiskers and golden eyes, curled up on a blanket, looking past the camera as if she can see through time and it's not very impressive
The cuff and part of the leg of a handknit top down sock on bamboo double pointed needles, which is a speckled creamy waffle texture, and each of the waffle squares are variegated blues and rusts and greens
Jellybean, a dainty black cat with big yellow eyes and long white whiskers, sits primly on a messy bed staring directly into the camera. She looks serious, and also extremely glamorous.
A photo of a doll sized army green and butter yellow colorwork cardigan. The body is dark green with a yellow colorwork chart that normally would only be in the yoke. The cardigan has been cut open and you can see many ends of yarn.
Two hand knits, one is a stripey purple sock that looks huge and stretched out, the other is a green striped sock cuff and leg still on the needles. The stitches are the same size but extremely and unflatteringly stretched out on the purple sock.
A black cat curled, impossibly, around herself like a prawn, deeply asleep in the hollows of a blue paisley blanket, her chin tucked down and nestled against her own back legs, which are sticking out dramatically to the left, her front legs crossed, one front paw thrown out towards the camera. Her feet are flexed and you can see her long white claws, her long white whiskers against the smoky sheen of her fur. Nothing has ever slept this intensely in the history of the world.
A brown and black mackerel tabby is sitting primly on a notebook sitting open on a table. The table is up against a white window ledge and crowded with books and papers and yarn. Her expression is slightly offended.
User @ayienzie.bsky.social or "Jude Liam" whose profile has a stolen picture of a light skinned woman in a beige hijab, the profile "she/her 29 diabetic patient" and a reply post about needing medication to avoid their lungs collapsing with a link to a masked PayPal account. The image is stolen from the Tumblr profile of Palestinian user Safaa Khateeb, whose fundraiser is not linked anywhere on this account.
Two handmade tonal stormy dark blue stockinette socks on a gray background. They are variegated and have a sort of faint stripey effect.
A silvery grey and dark tealy blue knit hexagon still on the double pointed needles. The pattern is a checkerboard pattern throughout the bulk of the body with blue flowers at the top. Each needle is a triangle shape that all together make a star shaped "seam" in the shape of the hexagon.
Three small allen wrenches for hex screws, two silver and one black, next to two upright spare black screws. They're sitting on a wood tabletop.
A variegated blue-gray hand knit sweater lying flat on a bed with the arms folded over. The color is like a blue stormcloud drifting over a pale winter sky, and the cuff and hem have a chunky rib.
Two cats on a mattress on the floor looking at an open door. Jellybean is a small, slinky black cat curled up on some blankets in the foreground and Weency is a brown and black tabby on the opposite end of the mattress. The room is bright and sunny, with white walls and a blond wood floor, and there is a stack of toast sitting on the bed because I took this during breakfast.
Weency, a mackerel tabby, loafed up and sleepy, her whiskers spread wide and her eyes almost shut, her head lulling. She tucked her front feet under her like she's cold.
Close up of the face and upper body of Weency, a fawn colored and black striped mackerel tabby, who is making a silly face like she's sleepy but surprised about it. She has speckly brindled fur with a fluffy undercoat and her white whiskers are pointing several different directions like she's not quite sure how they work.
Profile of @jetiz.bsky.social, display name Jason Renner. The only thing in the profile is "fuck this" and a line drawing icon of a dude with a goatee
Jellybean, a beautiful sleek black cat, lying on her back on the canyon between two pillows under a blanket, looking at the camera, her paws in the air. At the end of the bed is Weency, a brown tabby loaf.
Lev is wearing a gray bowler and a black mask over top of a gray shirt and brown trousers sitting in an outdoor cafe with an ice coffee. The entire outfit is giving Victorian Adventurer
Screenshot of the Following Feed Preferences settings page showing the text "Show Reposts" and "Show Quote Posts"
A gray and orange hexagon held on bamboo skewers in foreground, being photobombed by a beautiful black cat in the background who is reclining and has one foot on a ball of yarn. The hexagon has a light gray background and tonal orange variegated floral motifs inspired by rug designs from the Ottoman empire. It looks kind of like a thistle. Each thistle repeat is a triangle, there is a star shape in the middle where each triangle was increased outwards.
Photo of the hardcover of Ахматовские Зеркала, Комментарий актрисы by Алла Демидова (Akhmatova's Mirror, commentary of the actress, by Alla Demadova) which has been printed with Akhmatova's Поема без героя. The hardback is narrow, smaller than the folded sheet of orange printer paper serving as a bookmark, and the font is black on a gray and lavender cover, with a black drawing of the Sheremetov Palace gate on the right hand side a repeating motif abstracted behind it in purple and gray.
The post by Premee above about wanting to shout with excitement, immediately below it the account @infinitescream is yelling "AHHH" very long
The red and brown dust jacket spines of 9 volumes from Anna Akhmatova's собрание сочинений (collected works), which do not exactly color match because of the delays in publication between volumes, but are in like new condition.
A small black shorthair cat is curled up in a classic cat round with her tail against her chest, looking at the camera. She is extraordinarily shiny and silky and her eyes are wide and yellow-green. She has magnificent white whiskers and a delicate, kittenish triangular face.
A screen cap of the game Zen Koi 2, showing the Friends Ranking page where you can search for your friends by nickname. This account shows the user Боромир (Boromir in Cyrillic) has one friend. The whole thing is soft blues and purples and underwater-y.
A knitted hexagon in dark brown yarn on a white fabric background. It is double thickness and each side has a braided shape. It is pretty small, just under four inches or 10 centimeters across. Not all the stitches create straight lines up and down, causing a kind of wavey ripple near the top.
A handknit sock with a speckled cream cuff and a pattern of dark blue squares surrounded by plush cream lines. The heel is a variagated blue and purple stripe and so is the toe. The squares pattern continues down the top foot but the sole is alternating white and blue stripes.
A handknit speckled cream sock on bamboo DPNs, a few inches past my he gusset. It has a squishy block pattern with dark squares and a bright, cool, blue and purple jeweltone heel. The gusset is very dark green and white stripes, and it doesn't really go with the heel.
Highlighted text block: "Some men hurt a woman by the cruel things they do or say; Earl hurt Caroline by all things he withheld." He had deceived her. Midway through their marriage, she was convinced he no longer loved her. It seemed evident he cared little for his family. Why else had he decided to spend most of his days at sea? Caroline couldn't even say whether he loved his children. Screen capture from "Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments" by Sadiyah Hartman