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Allison Miller

@cliopticon.bsky.social
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Journalist | Historian | Master of Disguise | Cultural history & more | If I share it, I've read it. I block generic resistance accounts. RT = food for thought.

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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
One person in this photo is named Dorothy Pitman Hughes
Black and white photo of feminists Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes with their fists raised
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Congrats on making it 100 years, Village East! Built as a Yiddish theater, 2nd Ave NYC
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The difference between January's storm and this one is pretty striking. This is less than an hour ago
A well-shoveled sidewalk on an urban street with snow everywhere else
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I miss 2014 too lisag16.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
Meme from 2014 showing a dog or other mammal in the snow with the caption ERMAHGERD SNER
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Ha ha ha 🐔
Grocery store shelf with two containers of Grace Caribbean Traditions Cock Flavored Seasoning spice blend
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
HA HA HA
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Snow outside the Jerome Ave IRT
The platform of an elevated subway showing snow at night
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Happy Xmas 🎄
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Those of you in New Mexico know Christmas chile. This is just Christmas chili.
A big pot of chili on the stove with a wooden spoon sticking out
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Why do I love my little mom and pop pharmacy in the Bronx? The deodorants live free, not caged in plastic
A shelf full of deodorants for sale
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
I threw a really nice holiday party last night where about 12 friends helped me put up my little silver tree and there was tons of food and new people exchanged numbers. I just finished cleaning up and now I am just basking in the afterglow
Silver Christmas tree in front of a bookcase
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
The 35 movies I saw in the theater, ranked
The Bill Douglas Trilogy
Jeanne Dielman
Sentimental Value
It Was Just an Accident
One of Them Days
The Last Showgirl
My Undesirable Friends (1&2)
Sinners
Black Bag
The Mastermind
Under the Skin
Die My Love
Lawrence of Arabia
All About Eve
Office Killer
One Battle After Another
The Black Stallion
Shanghai Blues
The Holy Mountain
2001: A Space Odyssey 
The Godfather Part II
Chungking Express
Matewan
Mission Impossible (2025)
Barry Lyndon
The Fishing Place
Jacob’s Ladder
Tehran Without Permission
Frankenstein
Princess Mononoke
Solaris (Tarkovsky)
The Wedding Banquet (2025)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Hamnet
The Brutalist
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
I’m gonna keep supporting Athena Keke’s in Clinton Hill but it didn’t seem like a sports bar. Just sayin
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
More from a nice late fall day in Manhattan. The Upper West Side is underrated in the New York beauty department
The front door and stoop of a brownstone row house in New York City with a tree with red leaves to one side and a car on the other
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
It’s not always easy living in the hilliest borough but every now and then you get an unexpected sunset at the end of the block
A Bronx street showing parked cars and the sun setting overhead
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
I’ve lived here over 20 years and I’m still full of wonder. I live in a movie
Near the Central Park Zoo in fall. A walk with benches around fall treesA paved walk in Central Park in fall near a footbridge with trees with changing leavesA saxophone player on the Central Park Mall on a bench with trees in the background Rowboats on the Lake in Central Park with grand apartment buildings in the background
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
I make potato leek soup maybe once a year and it hits every time
A big pot of creamy green soup
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Did my civic duty and pleasure. Let’s go NYC
Person wearing two stickers saying “I voted early!” and “The Bronx votes early”
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
WHY TRASH???
A Hammond organ next to a pile of trash bags
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
IYKYK 🎸👩‍❤️‍👩😸
Pink neon sign saying Meow Mix 30
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Haven’t seen anyone post from the Outer Banks yet. From a family member in Kitty Hawk NC #NoKings
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
NY ❤️ USA
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Guess what I have tickets for tomorrow. RIP this Sicilian thing that’s been going on 2,000 years
Diane Keaton in Godather II
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Much as I generally don’t dunk on the NYT (because why bother) the last sentence here … oy
Screen shot of a NYT live update: “President Trump continued to describe Portland, Ore., as a city on fire Friday even as residents enjoyed the first fall rain and the lone demonstrator at the city's Immigration and Customs Enforcement building was dressed as a pink Care Bear.
While taking questions from reporters in the White House, Mr. Trump said that
"every time I look at that place, it's burning down" and claimed that when store owners in Portland need to make repairs, they
"build it out of plywood." Buildings are still constructed with wood, concrete, steel and other modern construction materials in Oregon.”
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Here is the sign about Trenton and you can kind of see the plant reflected in the window
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
The taste of summer in NYC
Picture of a strawberry pina colada frozen drink in a plastic bottle with a straw
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Beautiful day in the Bronx
A beach setup, with an umbrella, blanket, chair and two flags sticking in the sand. One flag is a US flag and one is a rainbow flag.
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Trump announce tariff
An AI-generated drawing of Trump’s head in a taco
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
And I got an ice cream to celebrate
Person wearing an orange shirt with an “I voted” sticker
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Check out this tricked out e-bike. It belongs to a guy I met on the beach. He customized it himself with motorcycle parts
E-bike customized with a motorcycle seat
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Guys with backpacks on Orchard Beach got the goods
A frozen plastic bottle of blue drink spiked with alcohol and labeled Tsunami Colada
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Reading this, just out from @beltpublishing.bsky.social. As an Ohioan in New York City, I always related to Dawn Powell.
Cover of the book She Walks in Beauty, by Dawn Powell
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
I’ve passed the @nydailynews.com building on 42nd St for years but today I walked in and took photos of their amazing lobby and that giant globe. Journalism ❤️
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Greetings from Orchard Beach, the Bronx. Sun’s out guns out. Happy Memorial Day NYC!
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I was happy to share the theater with talky little kids. Big screen classic
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
It’s a beautiful day in the Bronx @nybg.bsky.social
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
I should be a journalist 🤓
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Kathy Hochul debuts the intense new torch song she’s been working on
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Menswear guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social there is an emergency
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
People, Craigslist is a buyer’s market for uncool china. I picked up seven of these yesterday for 18% of their retail value (and I think I could’ve gotten them for even less but I wanted to be nice).
A blue and white ceramic dinner plate showing a nature scene with ruins in the background
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 20/02/2024
Happy Presidente to all who celebrate
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
Anyone else watching Moonlighting on Hulu lately? I’ve been wanting to write something about it, but I’m having a hard time collecting my thoughts. What a weird time the 80s were.
Publicity photo of Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis from the 1980s show Moonlighting
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 25/11/2023
This here’s grilled cheese country.
A perfectly melted grilled cheese sandwich in a skillet
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