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a man with a mustache is sitting on a swing in a park

Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 12h

Ugh. They listed her CHICK FLICKS in the headline instead of the properly dudely movies she was in. The AUDACITY.

(A real take I saw)

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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 12h

Me when my husband is working a double:

Alt: A series of photos of a man in a mustache waiting in different poses.

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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 13h

I wrote something. It’s quite trite but it exists now when it didn’t before so sort of a lose/win situation.

Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 13h

Free shipping! LoL

(It’s a PDF)

Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 10d

Shane just wants to go home. Stranded in L.A., he must somehow make it back to Georgia. As he hitchhikes his way across America, he encounters transphobia, crooked cops, swindlers, kindly folks, drugs, tragedy, and a high speed chase.

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Shane just wants to go home. Stranded in L.A., he must somehow make it back to Georgia. As he hitchhikes his way across America, he encounters transph...

Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 21h

Want a long short story so you can linger over your coffee on this crisp October morning? I got you covered:

Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 10d

Shane just wants to go home. Stranded in L.A., he must somehow make it back to Georgia. As he hitchhikes his way across America, he encounters transphobia, crooked cops, swindlers, kindly folks, drugs, tragedy, and a high speed chase.

Only 99 cents!
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Shane just wants to go home. Stranded in L.A., he must somehow make it back to Georgia. As he hitchhikes his way across America, he encounters transph...

WOO WOO - Farewell Transmission

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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 5d

Oh did I mention I have a new chapbook coming out? Preorders coming at the end of October.

October 27th - Hippie Speedball by Ly Faulk preorder

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Mike Nagel @misternagel.bsky.social · 1d

Got a little woo woo for the fine folks at @farewelltransmiss.bsky.social.

farewelltransmission.net/2025/10/woo-...

By Mike Nagel My sister-in-law Molly grew up as a pastor’s daughter but at some point in her mid-thirties she became more of a witch. I thought that being a witch meant you invited the devil into your...

farewelltransmission.net

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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 1d

It’s almost quitting time. Wouldn’t you rather be reading?

Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 10d

Shane just wants to go home. Stranded in L.A., he must somehow make it back to Georgia. As he hitchhikes his way across America, he encounters transphobia, crooked cops, swindlers, kindly folks, drugs, tragedy, and a high speed chase.

Only 99 cents!
ko-fi.com/s/781b0b9855

Shane just wants to go home. Stranded in L.A., he must somehow make it back to Georgia. As he hitchhikes his way across America, he encounters transph...

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John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com · 1d

Since it's Black Speculative Fiction Month, I thought I'd share a story I love by a Black author each day. Since I'm starting 10 days in, I'll post a bunch to catch up. I'm going to do 15 from the Top 80 of Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and 15 from Lightspeed/Nightmare.

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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 1d

Checking the news in 2025

[Alt text: the Poop Smith shovels a large pile of poop into a smaller pile of poop.]

Homestar Screens @grapenutsrobot.graphics · 1d

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Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 1d

I’m gonna keep making art as long as I can. Really angry, spiteful, transgressive, soft, sensitive, thoughtful, strange, curious, and radical art. That’s how I’m getting by right now.

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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 1d

It’s Friday morning. Wouldn’t you rather be reading?

Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 10d

Shane just wants to go home. Stranded in L.A., he must somehow make it back to Georgia. As he hitchhikes his way across America, he encounters transphobia, crooked cops, swindlers, kindly folks, drugs, tragedy, and a high speed chase.

Only 99 cents!
ko-fi.com/s/781b0b9855

Shane just wants to go home. Stranded in L.A., he must somehow make it back to Georgia. As he hitchhikes his way across America, he encounters transph...

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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 10d

Shane just wants to go home. Stranded in L.A., he must somehow make it back to Georgia. As he hitchhikes his way across America, he encounters transphobia, crooked cops, swindlers, kindly folks, drugs, tragedy, and a high speed chase.

Only 99 cents!
ko-fi.com/s/781b0b9855

Shane just wants to go home. Stranded in L.A., he must somehow make it back to Georgia. As he hitchhikes his way across America, he encounters transph...

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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 1d

I fear you are correct

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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 2d

Out in the world, I mean. My life rocks

Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 2d

I can’t shake the feeling today that everything is the worst

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mosh pit daria @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social · 5d

icymi, i lost my job and am running some workshops to make money to uh, live?

tickets for the first run of THE RANDOMIZER are up now at natraum.com/links. the rest are coming soon!

2025 workshops

It's Lit: Literary Magazine Submissions. October 29 @ 7PM EST.

THE RANDOMIZER #1. November 6 @ 7pm EST.

No Choice But to Stan: Writing Pop Culture in Poetry. November 15 @ 12pm EST

Writing to Grieve: Poetry as Processing. November 22 @ 12pm EST

THE RANDOMIZER #2. TBD late November.

About your instructor

nat raum is a queer, disabled, and recently unemployed artist and writer based on unceded Piscataway and Susquehannock land in Baltimore. They hold an MFA in Creative Writing with a focus in Poetry, and have served as an adjunct faculty member at the Maryland Institute College of Art and The University of Baltimore. They’re the author of 22 books of poetry, all of which were proudly published independently.

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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote this when I was struggling with my gender identity and it may or may not have been written mostly in one shot during a manic episode.

Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 10d

Shane just wants to go home. Stranded in L.A., he must somehow make it back to Georgia. As he hitchhikes his way across America, he encounters transphobia, crooked cops, swindlers, kindly folks, drugs, tragedy, and a high speed chase.

Only 99 cents!
ko-fi.com/s/781b0b9855

Shane just wants to go home. Stranded in L.A., he must somehow make it back to Georgia. As he hitchhikes his way across America, he encounters transph...

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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 2d

Out of sugar so I put maple syrup in my coffee. Am I doing an autumn? 🍁

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Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social · 3d

WRITING THE OCCULT will be back this November to explore monsters of all shapes and sizes with its look at CRYPTIDS AND CREATURES, running 29th November! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-th... #creatures #crytpids #monsters #writing #occult

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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 3d

A rejection! What a terrible unbirthday present.

Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 3d

Sometimes you just have to keep writing sentences until you figure out where you’re going with this.

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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote this when I was struggling with my gender identity and it may or may not have been written mostly in one shot during a manic episode.

Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 10d

Shane just wants to go home. Stranded in L.A., he must somehow make it back to Georgia. As he hitchhikes his way across America, he encounters transphobia, crooked cops, swindlers, kindly folks, drugs, tragedy, and a high speed chase.

Only 99 cents!
ko-fi.com/s/781b0b9855

Shane just wants to go home. Stranded in L.A., he must somehow make it back to Georgia. As he hitchhikes his way across America, he encounters transph...