your friend dusti
@dusti.bsky.social
Dusti RW Levy. Disabled GenX PanQueer Southern poet, academic, essayist, dramaturg, playwright, & dramatist. CATF. delicate emissions/Thirteen Bridges/McNeese Review. McNeese MFA 28. 🌍: LA/AL/WV.
sometimes i will take an edible to be able to stay asleep (like I did about 30 minutes ago) and then will forget that I’m not just sleepy, I’m a little bit high. I fell asleep too early and can’t resettle despite the good sleeping weather. Cat has the zoomies. Have to be up in five hours.
November 11, 2025 at 7:21 AM
sometimes i will take an edible to be able to stay asleep (like I did about 30 minutes ago) and then will forget that I’m not just sleepy, I’m a little bit high. I fell asleep too early and can’t resettle despite the good sleeping weather. Cat has the zoomies. Have to be up in five hours.
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Goodnight, friends. If you can spare a moment, please share this. It would be such an incredible relief to have rent and utilities covered.
$1473 left now! We can get there a dollar at a time if we need to y'all, all it takes is enough people with a few bucks to spare seeing the need and meeting it 💜
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Cashapp/venmo: showupforthis
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I was just laid off for the second time this year. It's going to be a hard fall and winter. My safety net, as is the case for too many of us especially these days, is the kindness and generosity of friends and strangers. Anything helps.
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Cashapp/venmo: showupforthis
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Cashapp/venmo: showupforthis
November 11, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Goodnight, friends. If you can spare a moment, please share this. It would be such an incredible relief to have rent and utilities covered.
kitty & I are warm in bed. Today was long but tomorrow is my 12 hour day. The one class for which i always forget to do the reading. i 💗 grad school
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 AM
kitty & I are warm in bed. Today was long but tomorrow is my 12 hour day. The one class for which i always forget to do the reading. i 💗 grad school
I couldn’t have asked for better timing on this! l @lollardfish.bsky.social @kimannjosouth.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I couldn’t have asked for better timing on this! l @lollardfish.bsky.social @kimannjosouth.bsky.social
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I enjoy Christmas stuff, even though it has no religious significance to me. Today when I finally made it to the mall to pick up my winter-inspired home fragrances, the Mariah Carey song came on in the store and it was full of people happily sniffing & chatting. It was such a sweet moment for me.
November 10, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I enjoy Christmas stuff, even though it has no religious significance to me. Today when I finally made it to the mall to pick up my winter-inspired home fragrances, the Mariah Carey song came on in the store and it was full of people happily sniffing & chatting. It was such a sweet moment for me.
my car battery is dead again. I was just going to go pick my B&BW order up from the mall. Now I’m waiting on AAA (yay for membership!) to get here (second time in three months!) and instead of going to the mall, I will have to drive around for an hour to charge the damn thing.
November 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
my car battery is dead again. I was just going to go pick my B&BW order up from the mall. Now I’m waiting on AAA (yay for membership!) to get here (second time in three months!) and instead of going to the mall, I will have to drive around for an hour to charge the damn thing.
A thing I still am not used to as a person living alone, with just a cat, is that no one is going to open the door. I feel lonely sometimes, missing my partner back in Alabama, but mostly I’m amazed that there’s no one to question me, to interrupt my train of thought, to demand anything from me.
November 9, 2025 at 7:50 AM
A thing I still am not used to as a person living alone, with just a cat, is that no one is going to open the door. I feel lonely sometimes, missing my partner back in Alabama, but mostly I’m amazed that there’s no one to question me, to interrupt my train of thought, to demand anything from me.
what if I quit the academy, quit writing, quit theatre, just went back to being normal and worked in a coffee shop or office and stayed low stakes for the second half of my life (assuming I live to 100)
November 9, 2025 at 6:29 AM
what if I quit the academy, quit writing, quit theatre, just went back to being normal and worked in a coffee shop or office and stayed low stakes for the second half of my life (assuming I live to 100)
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Attached are screenshots of the groceries I have in my cart waiting for help to send them to my sister and niece so they can eat this week while waiting to see if Indiana funds any SNAP. PayPal.me/Starbroken $50 covers all this food and delivery fee/tip
November 9, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Attached are screenshots of the groceries I have in my cart waiting for help to send them to my sister and niece so they can eat this week while waiting to see if Indiana funds any SNAP. PayPal.me/Starbroken $50 covers all this food and delivery fee/tip
and the sleep thing is back.
November 9, 2025 at 4:40 AM
and the sleep thing is back.
Once again, I cannot stay awake 😭
November 8, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Once again, I cannot stay awake 😭
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Hey @profgabriele.com and I are going to do a Chicago book event on 12/11. RSVP below! @jarvissquarebooks.bsky.social is hosting us. I haven’t been back in years.
Oathbreakers Paperback Launch | Jarvis Square Books
Historians Matthew Gabriele and David M. Perry discuss a ninth-century "real-life Game of Thrones"
www.jarvissquarebooks.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Hey @profgabriele.com and I are going to do a Chicago book event on 12/11. RSVP below! @jarvissquarebooks.bsky.social is hosting us. I haven’t been back in years.
the person delivering my grocery order is lost in my apartment complex and we don't speak the same language and my Spanish is mostly only good when I'm translating a document, not trying to give someone directions while they're driving. I'm sure she is frustrated; I know I am.
November 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
the person delivering my grocery order is lost in my apartment complex and we don't speak the same language and my Spanish is mostly only good when I'm translating a document, not trying to give someone directions while they're driving. I'm sure she is frustrated; I know I am.
convinced my 74 year old mother has kept her yahoo email address all these years because she likes saying “yahoooooo” like they did in the old commercials
November 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
convinced my 74 year old mother has kept her yahoo email address all these years because she likes saying “yahoooooo” like they did in the old commercials
I have to write a ten-page explication of a poem for my form & theory class in my MFA program. I’m at a loss. Poets, if you had to write a ten-page explication of a poem, which would you choose and why?
November 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I have to write a ten-page explication of a poem for my form & theory class in my MFA program. I’m at a loss. Poets, if you had to write a ten-page explication of a poem, which would you choose and why?
for the record, i wrote two poems today. dont ask me if they’re good — that’s a next week question.
Now I can do homework, laundry, maybe watch the new FRANKENSTEIN.
Now I can do homework, laundry, maybe watch the new FRANKENSTEIN.
November 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
for the record, i wrote two poems today. dont ask me if they’re good — that’s a next week question.
Now I can do homework, laundry, maybe watch the new FRANKENSTEIN.
Now I can do homework, laundry, maybe watch the new FRANKENSTEIN.
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dear theatre, your show is not fully accessible if you only offer accessible perfs two nights in an entire run
November 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
dear theatre, your show is not fully accessible if you only offer accessible perfs two nights in an entire run
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Bumping this again because help makes all the difference.
November 8, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Bumping this again because help makes all the difference.
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Mississippi deserves truth—not spin. Your gift today fuels real reporting that listens to the people. Your gift is matched right now. Give today: buff.ly/JNN7y2V
November 8, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Mississippi deserves truth—not spin. Your gift today fuels real reporting that listens to the people. Your gift is matched right now. Give today: buff.ly/JNN7y2V
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your honor, every single crunchwrap is more supreme than this court
November 8, 2025 at 3:09 AM
your honor, every single crunchwrap is more supreme than this court
I do believe ALL HER FAULT on Peacock is the best television I have ever seen. Ableism (physics and mental), synesthesia, men’s weaponized incompetence, food allergies, embezzlement, every level of betrayal one can imagine, bitchy PTA moms, and strong female friendships. Every performance is 👩🍳💋
November 7, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I do believe ALL HER FAULT on Peacock is the best television I have ever seen. Ableism (physics and mental), synesthesia, men’s weaponized incompetence, food allergies, embezzlement, every level of betrayal one can imagine, bitchy PTA moms, and strong female friendships. Every performance is 👩🍳💋
Walgreens gave me my flu, Hep B, Tdap, *and* Covid shots today. Thank you, Louisiana Medicaid.
November 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Walgreens gave me my flu, Hep B, Tdap, *and* Covid shots today. Thank you, Louisiana Medicaid.
Looking at airfare for March 2026 is at once ridiculously hopeful and also despairing.
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Looking at airfare for March 2026 is at once ridiculously hopeful and also despairing.
I really hate when a good actor is also a scientologist.
November 7, 2025 at 6:33 AM
I really hate when a good actor is also a scientologist.