dust!n
@lushpedanticism.bsky.social
Perpetually still figuring this part out.
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dust!n
@lushpedanticism.bsky.social
· Nov 19
Anyway, my name’s Dustin. I teach English writing and literature. My son had cancer—acute myeloid leukemia (AML). He got a bone marrow transplant in 2024 and I’m really hoping it worked. I’m a big fan of lit mags and when I write it’s usually CNF, but sometimes poetry or fiction. I’m friendly.
I keep hearing about this mythical good ol’ boy network but all I’ve ever found is the okay at best ol’ boy network.
July 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I keep hearing about this mythical good ol’ boy network but all I’ve ever found is the okay at best ol’ boy network.
Merlin bruh make up your mind
May 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Merlin bruh make up your mind
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There it is. The clam before the storm.
April 23, 2025 at 2:21 AM
There it is. The clam before the storm.
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@maureenstanton.bsky.social on "the evocative power of the smallest grains of storytelling, those tiny sensory details," and how they allow memoir readers to "not only see and hear people and actions, but ... viscerally feel the moods and emotions of the story."
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Taste the Gazpacho, Smell the Hyacinths: Literary Transference in Memoir
By Maureen Stanton In The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers, John Gardner famously wrote about the “fictive dream,” whereby writers use “images that appeal to our senses”…
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April 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
@maureenstanton.bsky.social on "the evocative power of the smallest grains of storytelling, those tiny sensory details," and how they allow memoir readers to "not only see and hear people and actions, but ... viscerally feel the moods and emotions of the story."
brevity.wordpress.com/2025/04/11/t...
brevity.wordpress.com/2025/04/11/t...
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Remember the 90s when everybody only hurt sometimes.
March 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Remember the 90s when everybody only hurt sometimes.
This post goes out to all the party people I was staring at for five minutes while I was dissociating in the cafe today. I hope you feel seen now…because you definitely weren’t seen before.
March 26, 2025 at 1:53 AM
This post goes out to all the party people I was staring at for five minutes while I was dissociating in the cafe today. I hope you feel seen now…because you definitely weren’t seen before.
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White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.
March 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.
Tbh somebody could have sent me classified war plans in a group chat too and they’d be totally safe because I always just wait for everyone to stop texting and go “sounds good 👍 “ without reading any of it because group chats suck.
March 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Tbh somebody could have sent me classified war plans in a group chat too and they’d be totally safe because I always just wait for everyone to stop texting and go “sounds good 👍 “ without reading any of it because group chats suck.
Enough with the pollen already, trees.
March 15, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Enough with the pollen already, trees.
Can we just skip to the part where the bad guys eat each other already?
March 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Can we just skip to the part where the bad guys eat each other already?
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Richest guy in the world telling us we can’t afford to have our government fund cancer research.
March 2, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Richest guy in the world telling us we can’t afford to have our government fund cancer research.
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It took seeing adult bullies to understand that my childhood bullies didn’t even really want to hurt me, they just wanted to feel powerful and how I felt about it wasn’t even in the equation.
I can’t imagine someone not outgrowing that, but apparently it happens quite a lot!
I can’t imagine someone not outgrowing that, but apparently it happens quite a lot!
February 28, 2025 at 11:29 PM
It took seeing adult bullies to understand that my childhood bullies didn’t even really want to hurt me, they just wanted to feel powerful and how I felt about it wasn’t even in the equation.
I can’t imagine someone not outgrowing that, but apparently it happens quite a lot!
I can’t imagine someone not outgrowing that, but apparently it happens quite a lot!
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THEM: you look tired
ME: I am tired
THEM: oh right because of the…
ME: the horrors yeah
THEM: right right, that’s right
ME: I am tired
THEM: oh right because of the…
ME: the horrors yeah
THEM: right right, that’s right
February 28, 2025 at 3:10 PM
THEM: you look tired
ME: I am tired
THEM: oh right because of the…
ME: the horrors yeah
THEM: right right, that’s right
ME: I am tired
THEM: oh right because of the…
ME: the horrors yeah
THEM: right right, that’s right
I want my writing to have so damn much atmosphere that things actually burn up in it.
February 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I want my writing to have so damn much atmosphere that things actually burn up in it.
Me thinking of what to post: Okayyyyyy nothing super depressing or existentially terrifying.
Nothing that could get me fired.
Also make it quirky.
And original.
Nothing old, either.
Bangers only.
[Screen turns black and locks]
Nothing that could get me fired.
Also make it quirky.
And original.
Nothing old, either.
Bangers only.
[Screen turns black and locks]
February 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Me thinking of what to post: Okayyyyyy nothing super depressing or existentially terrifying.
Nothing that could get me fired.
Also make it quirky.
And original.
Nothing old, either.
Bangers only.
[Screen turns black and locks]
Nothing that could get me fired.
Also make it quirky.
And original.
Nothing old, either.
Bangers only.
[Screen turns black and locks]
Never fails. I come home after teaching night class. Dog is nowhere to be found. I unwind for half an hour. Before going to bed I open the fridge and what ho—the dog appears, like, Oh hey, just came down to check on you, so what, uh, what do you think’s happening up in that cheese drawer there
February 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Never fails. I come home after teaching night class. Dog is nowhere to be found. I unwind for half an hour. Before going to bed I open the fridge and what ho—the dog appears, like, Oh hey, just came down to check on you, so what, uh, what do you think’s happening up in that cheese drawer there
[scrolling]
Where’s the dopamine?
[scrolling]
Where is it?
[scrolling aggressively]
Where
Where’s the dopamine?
[scrolling]
Where is it?
[scrolling aggressively]
Where
February 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
[scrolling]
Where’s the dopamine?
[scrolling]
Where is it?
[scrolling aggressively]
Where
Where’s the dopamine?
[scrolling]
Where is it?
[scrolling aggressively]
Where
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My recent short story "Internal Monologue of a Creative Writing Professor," from Kings River Life Magazine, gets on shoutout on LITTLE BIG CRIME:
"Witty, suspenseful, and satisfying."—@roblopresti.bsky.social
Blog:
lbcrimes.blogspot.com/2025/01/inte...
Story:
kingsriverlife.com/12/18/intern...
"Witty, suspenseful, and satisfying."—@roblopresti.bsky.social
Blog:
lbcrimes.blogspot.com/2025/01/inte...
Story:
kingsriverlife.com/12/18/intern...
January 27, 2025 at 12:57 PM
My recent short story "Internal Monologue of a Creative Writing Professor," from Kings River Life Magazine, gets on shoutout on LITTLE BIG CRIME:
"Witty, suspenseful, and satisfying."—@roblopresti.bsky.social
Blog:
lbcrimes.blogspot.com/2025/01/inte...
Story:
kingsriverlife.com/12/18/intern...
"Witty, suspenseful, and satisfying."—@roblopresti.bsky.social
Blog:
lbcrimes.blogspot.com/2025/01/inte...
Story:
kingsriverlife.com/12/18/intern...
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CURE Childhood Cancer invites proposals for childhood cancer research
@curechildcancer.bsky.social
oncodaily.com/insight/222760
#Cancer #ChildhoodCancer #CUREChildhoodCancer #Health #OncoDaily #Oncology #PediatricCancerResearch #Medicine
@curechildcancer.bsky.social
oncodaily.com/insight/222760
#Cancer #ChildhoodCancer #CUREChildhoodCancer #Health #OncoDaily #Oncology #PediatricCancerResearch #Medicine
CURE Childhood Cancer invites proposals for childhood cancer research - OncoDaily
CURE Childhood Cancer invites proposals for childhood cancer research / cancer, Childhood Cancer, CURE Childhood Cancer, OncoDaily, Oncology, pediatric cancer
oncodaily.com
January 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
CURE Childhood Cancer invites proposals for childhood cancer research
@curechildcancer.bsky.social
oncodaily.com/insight/222760
#Cancer #ChildhoodCancer #CUREChildhoodCancer #Health #OncoDaily #Oncology #PediatricCancerResearch #Medicine
@curechildcancer.bsky.social
oncodaily.com/insight/222760
#Cancer #ChildhoodCancer #CUREChildhoodCancer #Health #OncoDaily #Oncology #PediatricCancerResearch #Medicine
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Guys like joe rogan are funny because they still think smoking weed that they buy legally from places that look like an apple store makes them hunter s thompson
January 26, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Guys like joe rogan are funny because they still think smoking weed that they buy legally from places that look like an apple store makes them hunter s thompson
I would love to get a new tattoo but it would defer me from donating platelets for three months again and sadly people need platelets more than I need a new tattoo.
Also please donate platelets 🙏 🎗️
Also please donate platelets 🙏 🎗️
January 26, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I would love to get a new tattoo but it would defer me from donating platelets for three months again and sadly people need platelets more than I need a new tattoo.
Also please donate platelets 🙏 🎗️
Also please donate platelets 🙏 🎗️
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Thou shalt accept that DEI didn't hold your career back -- you're just mid, bro.
January 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Thou shalt accept that DEI didn't hold your career back -- you're just mid, bro.
Once, when I was throwing up on a boat, someone nudged me and said it was because of crystals in my ear. Later, when I told the story and the words “crystals in my ear” left my mouth I thought, that’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever said.
Anyway damn turns out there really are ear crystals—canaliths.
Anyway damn turns out there really are ear crystals—canaliths.
January 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Once, when I was throwing up on a boat, someone nudged me and said it was because of crystals in my ear. Later, when I told the story and the words “crystals in my ear” left my mouth I thought, that’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever said.
Anyway damn turns out there really are ear crystals—canaliths.
Anyway damn turns out there really are ear crystals—canaliths.
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Know Your Rights—
"All people in the U.S., regardless of immigration status, have certain rights and protections under the U.S. Constitution. The Know Your Rights Red Cards were created to help people assert their rights and defend themselves against constitutional violation"
www.redcardorders.com
"All people in the U.S., regardless of immigration status, have certain rights and protections under the U.S. Constitution. The Know Your Rights Red Cards were created to help people assert their rights and defend themselves against constitutional violation"
www.redcardorders.com
January 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Know Your Rights—
"All people in the U.S., regardless of immigration status, have certain rights and protections under the U.S. Constitution. The Know Your Rights Red Cards were created to help people assert their rights and defend themselves against constitutional violation"
www.redcardorders.com
"All people in the U.S., regardless of immigration status, have certain rights and protections under the U.S. Constitution. The Know Your Rights Red Cards were created to help people assert their rights and defend themselves against constitutional violation"
www.redcardorders.com
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narcs existed then, and narcs exist now
Ask yourself:
- Would it have been a good idea to publish the route of the Underground Railroad?
- Would it have been a good idea to do an exposé on secret, banned religious practice? Including with location data?
If you can see why the answer is "No. That could kill people," consider today.
- Would it have been a good idea to publish the route of the Underground Railroad?
- Would it have been a good idea to do an exposé on secret, banned religious practice? Including with location data?
If you can see why the answer is "No. That could kill people," consider today.
January 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM
narcs existed then, and narcs exist now