miriam
@antimytheme.bsky.social
competitive pinball & uncompetitive bookbinding. https://miri.page
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miriam
@antimytheme.bsky.social
· Nov 19
i know it's in the past now but it's important to me that you all know i was a pinball flipper for halloween
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been thinking about how annoying taking estrogen shots every few weeks is and i think i figured out a solution: comically long syringe. just give it to me all at once
November 6, 2025 at 5:55 AM
been thinking about how annoying taking estrogen shots every few weeks is and i think i figured out a solution: comically long syringe. just give it to me all at once
reached into my jaws pinball machine yesterday, pulled my hand out and it was bleeding for no apparent reason. fitting
November 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
reached into my jaws pinball machine yesterday, pulled my hand out and it was bleeding for no apparent reason. fitting
might be my dumbest take yet but: my belief that people are (on average) generally good (despite evidence) used to come easier but it's increasingly feeling like i'm holding onto it desperate with both hands like a fool getting mugged for their empty wallet. still not letting go.
October 31, 2025 at 7:04 AM
might be my dumbest take yet but: my belief that people are (on average) generally good (despite evidence) used to come easier but it's increasingly feeling like i'm holding onto it desperate with both hands like a fool getting mugged for their empty wallet. still not letting go.
had a lovely time
exploring the marvels of the greater detroit area. special shoutout to dave's cumee
exploring the marvels of the greater detroit area. special shoutout to dave's cumee
October 20, 2025 at 8:19 PM
had a lovely time
exploring the marvels of the greater detroit area. special shoutout to dave's cumee
exploring the marvels of the greater detroit area. special shoutout to dave's cumee
i miss my friend's cat. he loved bag
September 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
i miss my friend's cat. he loved bag
saw a person walking a dachshund and a pair of borzois (or greyhounds?) and the dachshund was barking hard at everything but the two gangly dogs. sort of like a big chipmunk protecting two deer with its life. i am jealous of every creature in this story
September 18, 2025 at 10:33 PM
saw a person walking a dachshund and a pair of borzois (or greyhounds?) and the dachshund was barking hard at everything but the two gangly dogs. sort of like a big chipmunk protecting two deer with its life. i am jealous of every creature in this story
i think it's nice that some medical centers in nyc will leave lockboxes outside with little stickers on them that say "medical samples only, no drugs or money" while they wait for pickup. goes to show that you can really trust the people of this city with your piss and blood
September 16, 2025 at 11:32 PM
i think it's nice that some medical centers in nyc will leave lockboxes outside with little stickers on them that say "medical samples only, no drugs or money" while they wait for pickup. goes to show that you can really trust the people of this city with your piss and blood
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won the 2024-25 IFPA Women’s North American Pinball Championship tonight 😭
March 29, 2025 at 2:43 AM
won the 2024-25 IFPA Women’s North American Pinball Championship tonight 😭
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is a.i. art fascist? maxread.substack.com/p/studio-ghi...
![That the Trump White House tweeted out an image of a “Ghiblified” deportation helps us answer the question. But even before they said the quiet part loud it was hard not to think of the final section of Benjamin’s essay when reading enthusiasts talking about how A.I. makes art “become accessible,” or “enables so much creativity”:
"Fascism attempts to organize the newly proletarianized masses while leaving intact the property relations which they strive to abolish. It sees its salvation in granting expression to the masses--but on no account granting them rights. The masses have a right to changed property relations; fascism seeks to give them expression in keeping these relations unchanged. The logical outcome of fascism is an aestheticizing of political life. […] 'Fiat ars--pereat mundus [let there be art, though the world perish],' says fascism, expecting from war, as Marinetti admits, the artistic gratification of a sense perception altered by technology. This is evidently the consummation of l’art pour l'art. Humankind, which once, in Homer, was an object of contemplation for the Olympian gods, has now become one for itself. Its self-alienation has reached the point where it can experience its own annihilation as a supreme aesthetic pleasure. Such is the aestheticizing of politics, as practiced by fascism. Communism replies by politicizing art."
Benjamin, of course, is thinking of war-obsessed Italian Futurists, in a different time and a different context. Sam Altman is no Fillippo Marinetti, and Studio Ghibli slop is no Abstract Speed + Sound. But you have to admit: “Fiat ars--pereat mundus” would make a pretty good OpenAI slogan.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:f6yzeddlu7zjqbthmn37yvom/bafkreifvbdad4sp3wu2dx4hllgqwxiq5xta5v6mcnxffjfurj6gunfubre@jpeg)
March 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
is a.i. art fascist? maxread.substack.com/p/studio-ghi...
so this is just google ai search results are annoying and unhelpful volume 2,848,013, but i love the implication of day-long twilight. like the sun rises, then hides just under the horizon for twelve hours, then i guess pokes back up for three minutes and immediately sets again? good. relatable
March 27, 2025 at 9:40 AM
so this is just google ai search results are annoying and unhelpful volume 2,848,013, but i love the implication of day-long twilight. like the sun rises, then hides just under the horizon for twelve hours, then i guess pokes back up for three minutes and immediately sets again? good. relatable
every day someone on earth invents something. a strange little delight, an open-handed gift born of their spontaneity. but there are always detractors (just saw a guy at the laundromat getting yelled at by the owner for washing his clothes for free in the sink there)
March 24, 2025 at 11:35 PM
every day someone on earth invents something. a strange little delight, an open-handed gift born of their spontaneity. but there are always detractors (just saw a guy at the laundromat getting yelled at by the owner for washing his clothes for free in the sink there)
wild to me that we pay landlords like $25k, $30k a year and they'll still be like "no overnight guests. only one pet. don't go on the roof". for that much money they should be like "we will give you an extra cat if you want one. you get to punch me once whenever you want. i will do your laundry"
March 21, 2025 at 2:39 AM
wild to me that we pay landlords like $25k, $30k a year and they'll still be like "no overnight guests. only one pet. don't go on the roof". for that much money they should be like "we will give you an extra cat if you want one. you get to punch me once whenever you want. i will do your laundry"
weird thing about competitive pinball is the rules you need to learn for as many games as possible and there's like 5000. fave example is NBA Fastbreak quiz minigame, for which I have permanently memorized a bunch of trivia about the 94–95 NBA season. i don't even like basketball
March 19, 2025 at 12:43 AM
weird thing about competitive pinball is the rules you need to learn for as many games as possible and there's like 5000. fave example is NBA Fastbreak quiz minigame, for which I have permanently memorized a bunch of trivia about the 94–95 NBA season. i don't even like basketball
theory: you know how sometimes you're in the shower and halfway through a coin falls off you? tooth fairy related class action lawsuit just settled
March 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM
theory: you know how sometimes you're in the shower and halfway through a coin falls off you? tooth fairy related class action lawsuit just settled
bataille has this one essay i haven't read in a few years where he talks about halos, & it's like, perfect beings are portrayed with halos; if you remove the halo are they less perfect?, and the answer is no, the halo is like a vibration around the edges of perfection, it's surplus, it's excess,
March 1, 2025 at 1:38 AM
bataille has this one essay i haven't read in a few years where he talks about halos, & it's like, perfect beings are portrayed with halos; if you remove the halo are they less perfect?, and the answer is no, the halo is like a vibration around the edges of perfection, it's surplus, it's excess,
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Remember in the early days of the internet how it screamed every time we logged on? We should have paid attention to that.
February 28, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Remember in the early days of the internet how it screamed every time we logged on? We should have paid attention to that.
i worked with journalists for eight whole years and only now have thought to ask: what's the point of pull quotes, exactly? did journalists see how filmmakers have trailers to spoil their work and get jealous?
February 25, 2025 at 11:59 PM
i worked with journalists for eight whole years and only now have thought to ask: what's the point of pull quotes, exactly? did journalists see how filmmakers have trailers to spoil their work and get jealous?
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Um, let me introduce you to my website, which I have been building and rebuilding with Dreamweaver for over 20 years:
simkinberke.com
simkinberke.com
Lauren Simkin Berke
simkinberke.com
February 20, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Um, let me introduce you to my website, which I have been building and rebuilding with Dreamweaver for over 20 years:
simkinberke.com
simkinberke.com
so many of the big advancements in css over the last decade or so have been about writing fewer lines to get more complex layouts made in less time but i am not a factory and my heart does not yearn to make responsive forms 5% faster than before. i want an imperfect hand sewn web aesthetic
February 20, 2025 at 3:14 AM
so many of the big advancements in css over the last decade or so have been about writing fewer lines to get more complex layouts made in less time but i am not a factory and my heart does not yearn to make responsive forms 5% faster than before. i want an imperfect hand sewn web aesthetic
somehow missed that you can colorize carets in css with the `caret-color` property. also just learned that you can animate that property. i hereby promise to do horrible things with this knowledge
February 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
somehow missed that you can colorize carets in css with the `caret-color` property. also just learned that you can animate that property. i hereby promise to do horrible things with this knowledge
looking for a word. "left" and "right"'s version is "sidedness" or "directionality" — is there one specific to for interior / exterior / anterior / etc.? i've been stumped for weeks and am close to cold-emailing some mathematicians about it
February 18, 2025 at 12:36 AM
looking for a word. "left" and "right"'s version is "sidedness" or "directionality" — is there one specific to for interior / exterior / anterior / etc.? i've been stumped for weeks and am close to cold-emailing some mathematicians about it
have seen like twenty variations on "some of you keep on telling me, Jon, of Jon's Surprisingly Popular Small Hats On Large Dogs Channel, to stop talking about Musk and Trump and the coup. just get back to small hats on large dogs, you say. you know what? fuck all of you to hell" & i kinda love it
February 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM
have seen like twenty variations on "some of you keep on telling me, Jon, of Jon's Surprisingly Popular Small Hats On Large Dogs Channel, to stop talking about Musk and Trump and the coup. just get back to small hats on large dogs, you say. you know what? fuck all of you to hell" & i kinda love it