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your friend dusti
@dusti.bsky.social
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Dusti RW Levy. Disabled GenX PanQueer Southern poet, essayist, dramaturg, playwright, & dramatist. CATF. Jewish Plays Project. delicate emissions/Thirteen Bridges/McNeese Review.
🌍: LA/AL/WV.
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Here in Louisiana, USA, in US dollars:
an online listing from Walmart in Louisiana USA showing one 19.5 ounce can of Campbell’s condensed chicken soup is one dollar and twenty four cents in US money, and a four pack of the same is four dollars and eight eight cents a listing from Walmart in Louisiana USA showing that a 19 ounce can of progressive non-condensed chicken and homestyle noodles soup is one dollar and ninety eight cents in US money
November 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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I still have a few little chores to do before he night’s over and have an early day tomorrow. But it was nice to have my heavy-duty housework done Saturday. My kitty is making biscuits on me right now and that’s the most important thing of all
top view of an orange cat digging his paws into a plush blanket
November 24, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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My friend who is cat-sitting for me came by to meet Cisco and when she left, he meowed after her at the door. Now he wants Gwen back and I am nothing 😅
an orange cat resting in a sunny window
November 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Yesterday I met @clbzines.bsky.social at ZineFest and picked up these amazing pieces of art & information! Be more queer indeed!
from top left, clockwise: a black and white mini zine with a woman dressed in a harness and her eyes covered by red, with the title “transgender dysphoria blues ft lyrics by Agaianst Me!” in red. A full-color mini zine with “what the kink” in ransom lettering and “force femme” in script. A green and black mini zine that says “Fuck off! by crafty lil bunny zines.” A colorful mini zine with illustrated people embracing and rainbows and the phrase “be more queer by crafty lil bunny.”
November 16, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Here’s my #LastFourWatched for #LetterboxdFriday

The Third Man (great camera angles!), Single All the Way (a queer Christmas movie with only happy tears!), Harvest (what the fuck? but I dug it!), and my favorite of the year, Frankenstein.
an orange and black film poster for the film The Third Man — illustrated with a dark figure holding a gun in front of an orange city Five panels of attractive people wrapped in a red bow for the Single All the Way poster an eerie leather animal mask in a red wash with the word HARVEST in ominous stylized letters picture of a broken man with his back to us in a gothic castle with FRANKENSTEIN in shaky script
November 15, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Moscow on the Hudson 💗
illustration of Moscow in on the Hudson movie poster with Robin Williams center, a drawing of MyC and then a drawing of typical Russian landmarks
November 15, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Fargo, 1996
cover of the vhs for the 1996 film fargo
November 14, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Somebody please tell the Stage Combat Podcast that the pandemic isn’t over. Nothing they say here matters beyond that. I hope this is youthful ignorance. I love the theatre and am also disappointed frequently by the theatre.
A large cafetorium style room with a long table and chairs, an upright piano and bench, and black curtains. The text says “the pandemic has been over for how long? and what was a tool to keep things rolling during the pandemic has dramatically changed the audition process: the self-tape. We say bring back in person auditions. Nothing can replace— for the [sic] both sides of the table — an artist creating art IN THE ROOM to show you what they can do and who they are. WhT do you think?”
November 13, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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I couldn’t have asked for better timing on this! l @lollardfish.bsky.social @kimannjosouth.bsky.social
a post from lollardfish saying, “this eagles-packers game has everything* *almost” followed by a post by dr kimberly ann saying, “this game has everything but points”
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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New hairs. We went for the long layered curtain bangs and I’m quite pleased. @lionsroar.bsky.social your Pinterest board really came through for me. Thanks!
a femme in a black dress with a pointed white collar. Their long medium auburn hair is curly and blowing across their face. femme in a black dress with a pointed white collar. Their long medium auburn hair is curly and cascades down their shoulders. They have green eyes and are wearing red lipstick. femme in a black dress with a pointed white collar. Their long medium auburn hair is curly and cascades down their shoulders. They have green eyes and are wearing red lipstick. They are looking nightly out of frame. femme in a black dress with a pointed white collar. Their long medium auburn hair is curly and cascades down their shoulders. They have green eyes and are wearing red lipstick.
November 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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ya gotta order that einstein bros albuquerque turkey on a green chile bagel to get the full experience
a bagel sandwich covered in melty cheese and green chiles. An orange water bottle and a blue thermal coffee cup with fun stickers hold down the wax wrapper in the wind.
October 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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I doused this with hot sauce this morning because I forgot I roasted the sweet potatoes and apples with a healthy dose of harissa seasoning yesterday.
a plate with a breakfast hash of diced sweet potatoes, diced apples, diced bacon, and egg.
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Silly.
a hand bent inward with purple matte, orange glitter, purple glitter, and chromatic purple fingernails a sad looking hand with two fingernail decorations missing a hand laid upon floral sheets with variations of purple, orange, glitter, and chromatic fingernails
October 27, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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Agreed. I could not have the life I have were it not for the Vice President of Poetry.
an orange cat loafing on a messy desk an orange cat curled up in a teal tufted cushion close up of the handsomest orange cat on the planet
October 27, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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a series of good nights from the Vice President of Poetry & me
an orange cat laying in a plush blanket with a design of cats and pumpkins. He had a paw forward as if he is reaching for something. an orange cat laying in a plush blanket with a design of cats and pumpkins. He had a paw forward as if he is reaching for something. an orange cat laying in a plush blanket with a design of cats and pumpkins. He had a paw forward as if he is reaching for something. a white femme with green eyes and red lips smiling quietly
October 26, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Sweeeeeet, a tornado warning in the middle of a thunderstorm! Just as I was getting settled into my warm bed with my warm cat!
Emergency alert for a tornado warning in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, USA
October 26, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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I don’t put a bunch of stuff the last couple weeks? Anyway, here’s my @letterboxd.social Last Four!
The Perfect Neighbor, Woman of the Hour, A House on the Bayou, Four Weddings and a Funeral
October 24, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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From this week’s writing prompt (I accidentally wrote a triolet because I forgot it was to be a prose poem — I adjusted it for workshop, but here’s my seven-minute triolet about Leland Palmer of TWIN PEAKS and Leland Townsend of EVIL.
Black text in a white background. Leland Palmer Townsend (first draft) a triolet about monsters by Dusti RW Levy One big-mouthed man dies and is born into another. They both eat little girls’ souls every morning, so your little-girl stomach burns with terror, & you tell your mother that one big-mouthed man dies and is born into another She doesn’t believe you, doesn’t investigate any further until you e gone kissing and she herself sounds the warning: One big-mouthed man dies and is born into another; they both beat little girls’ souls every morning.
October 24, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Fargo (1996)
Cover of the FARGO DVD. A dead body on a frozen landscape with a sheriff in a fuzzy hat kneeling down beside it.
October 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Bookshop dot org and Thriftbooks delivered today (well, yesterday). @donikakelly.bsky.social and @ilanaslightly.bsky.social , I’m reading y’all this weekend 💗 (The Begley books are because I want the About Schmidt source material, which seems v different from the film)!
a stack of books, from bottom to top: Beings by Iliana Masad, All My Mother’s Lovers by Iliana Masad, The Natural Order of Things by Danika Kelly, Schmidt Delivered by Louis Begley, About Schmidt by Louis Begley, and Schmidt Delivered by Louis Begley.
October 22, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Imagine my pleasure when I opened THE ELOQUENT POEM to a random page (daily writing inspiration) and this gem by @emmabolden.bsky.social was *right there*.
the poem “Departures” by Emma Bolden. I bandaged my feet and changed my boots. In his Toyota, he drove without the breaks over city and county, roads rain-grayed into blue. I bandaged my feet before changing my boots. Blood couldn’t stop me. In my hotel room, I woke to windows indecipherable from sky. I changed my feet. I bandaged my boots. He drove his Toyota. Without him, I break.
October 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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These egg bites — eggs whisked with cottage cheese, cheddar, steakhouse seasoning, poured into greased muffin tins over diced orange & yellow peppers and bacon sautéed in shallot-infused olive oil, topped w/ parsley — turned out beautifully.
a muffin tin full of eggs baked with cheese and herbs
October 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
a ragtag band of kooky misfits from the Tom Hanks and Corn Brothers’ remake of The Ladykillers
October 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Perhaps you heard this guy screaming from 8 hours west?
an orange cat screaming
October 18, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Love that one of the first starter packs I subscribed to blocked them for me.
a screenshot showing that the verified Dept of Homeland Security blue sky account has been blocked by the block list called “Right wing propaganda and their followers”
October 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM