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Author of "78 Acts of Liberation: Tarot to Transform Our World" (Sounds True, 2024) Tarot & Politics zine editor • they/he 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 Bi Trans GenX Anarchist in Baltimore City www.mxlanesmith.com

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · Nov 16

This #TransAwarenessWeek you can materially support a transgender author living below the poverty line by ordering my book – out now from Sounds True!

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#Trans #Transgender #Transmasc #Book #Queer #FreePalestine #TransAuthor #TransWriter #Writer #Tarot #TarotSky #Witch #Leftist #Activist

This Trans Awareness Week you can support a transgender author who has been fighting for a Free Palestine for over 20 years. 78 Acts of Liberation: Tarot to Transform Our World by Lane Smith available now!

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 10h

Oh. 😑 I'm not a fan either.

Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 10h

I must be stupid too because I don't see why you can't love men and hate patriarchy. If she believes that, then she must also think straight women can't be feminists? I guess that is a thing but... Yeah, I'm too dumb for this.

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The Wild Hunt News @thewildhunt.bsky.social · 10h

After Jezebel’s satirical “curse” story went viral following Charlie Kirk’s death, the Strix Sisters found themselves thrust into global scrutiny facing threats, disbelief, and renewed fears of moral panic about Witchcraft. High Priestess Leamashtu shares how they...

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‘We Were Caught in a Storm We Didn’t See Coming’: Strix Sisters Speak Out After Jezebel Controversy - News, Paganism, U.S., Witchcraft, World

Witchcraft & Pagan News - After Jezebel’s satirical “curse” story went viral following Charlie Kirk’s death, the Strix Sisters found themselves thrust into global scrutiny facing threats, disbelief, a...

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 10h

Seriously. Way more venues that will consider trans and queer themes in genre fiction, period.

Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 11h

I was born in Maine and I've never seen this, it's great 😂

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 11h

Apparently a lot of people really do think you need top-down organization to plan anything! 🤷🏼‍♂️

Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 11h

I got the same! We're surviving!! 🤘🏻🎉

Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 12h

I do actually believe in anarchy, the political system (which IS organized – just not in a way that people fixated on hierarchy & identifiable leadership recognize).

But honestly I like chaos too. My own life is a study in being organized politically and chaotic personally. 😂

youtu.be/hrx122CmXgo

The Exploited - I Believe in Anarchy (Punks Not Dead)

YouTube video by TheGreatRocknRollPRT

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 12h

But it doesn't count as "organized" unless it's a structure they recognize, with hierarchy & identifiable leadership! Anarchists/antifascists are totally "disorganized"! 🙄

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 13h

this is one of the sweatiest and most desperate documents the the united states government has ever produced

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 14h

"Antifa-led hellfire"

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PORTLAND: Fake News Ignores Antifa Violence, Residents’ Pleas for Help

For years, an Antifa-led hellfire has turned Portland into a wasteland of firebombs, beatings, and brazen attacks on federal officers and property —

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 13h

The phrase "premeditated anarchy" is so fucking funny to me 🤣

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 13h

😂 Always the same set, they should learn to read the room.

Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 13h

I feel like that's exactly what I'm doing all the time and it's like ... when you put it that way, it does sound silly!! 😂 But even sillier when you want it to sound scary, like a crime. Oooooh, planned-out community care/defense & mutual aid 😱

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 13h

The phrase "premeditated anarchy" is so fucking funny to me 🤣

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 15h

Thank you! 😜

Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 16h

The Lasty is my favorite on Spirituals. It's like, creepy-sexy. And for her older stuff, I adore L.E.S. Artistes (especially the music video), Lights Out, and Run the Races. ❤️‍🔥

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 1d

Hey #Baltimore friends, come see me down in Pigtown next Thursday for some drinks & spooky season genre fiction! I'll be reading from a very trans, very queer & fun short story I wrote this year called Punk's Undead. 🤘🏻👻🖤

Tomorrow Will Be Worse
Thursday October 16
Old Major
7 pm

Featured Readers:
RUPERT WONDOLOWSKI
JAIME FOUNTAINE
KIMBERLEY LYNNE
BESU TADESSE
LANE SMITH

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 17h

Oh, I thought he was telling you to get done, lol.

Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 17h

Whatever you gotta get done, what you wasting time posting for??

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alicesparklykat.bsky.social @alicesparklykat.bsky.social · 18h

Closeness is about remembering—not skill or finesse or talent but remembering who you are with people who you can be yourself around.

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 19h

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 19h

I thought it was just a can of B&M baked beans with hot dogs in it and I was like fuck yeah! But I like lentil soup a lot too, lol.

Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 20h

What have you done

Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 21h

Day 8: My Horror by Santigold

Santigold is one of my favorite musical artists; seen her live in Philly where she's from in the early 2000s & once the days get darker & chillier I basically just play her 2022 "Spirituals" album on repeat, it's perfect.

#HalloweenCountdownSongs

youtu.be/cPogPn35v4E

Santigold - My Horror (Official Video)

YouTube video by Santigold

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 1d

Oh yeah and thank you to @abbyhiggs.bsky.social for making me aware of the TWBW reading series!