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Leah Plotz

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Letter writing isn’t a hobby, it’s a lifestyle 📝 Iowa raised 🌽 living in Norway🇳🇴 https://leahplotz.substack.com

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Leah Plotz @leahplotz.bsky.social · Apr 14

Norwegian is the language of poetry. Hvordan skal jeg ellers beskrive fjorden? #vestlandet

Leah Plotz @leahplotz.bsky.social · 7d

Too often than I like, @ingalangfeldt.bsky.social sends me PP presentations from the world of Academia. Ya know, when I need an excuse to cry.

Leah Plotz @leahplotz.bsky.social · 8d

“[Chatbots] implicitly invite the user into the illusion that they’re interacting with a presence that has agency. This illusion is powerful even if intellectually we might know otherwise.”
@ajutla.bsky.social

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AI psychosis is a growing danger. ChatGPT is moving in the wrong direction | Amandeep Jutla

OpenAI’s CEO has announced loosening the platform’s safety restrictions. He seems not to understand how humans are wired

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Leah Plotz @leahplotz.bsky.social · 9d

Trip to #Melbourne summed up in coffee:

Nespresso
Double espresso
Single latte
Nespresso
Japanese bottled coffee
Strong latte
Cold brew
Single latte
Double latte
Strong flat white
Cappuccino
Magic
Nespresso
Double espresso
Espresso
Espresso
Iced latte
Nespresso
Iced latte

Leah Plotz @leahplotz.bsky.social · 9d

A break from the routine reminds you that you’re still that girl with the wind in her hair and who wears adventure on her sleeve.

Leah Plotz @leahplotz.bsky.social · 13d

My fave book of 2025. Jim and Huck escape from home and travel along the Mississippi River. The storytelling is just so…so… ✨
@percivaleverett.bsky.social

«James», a novel by Percival Everett. About a runaway boy and a runaway slave along the Mississippi River.

Leah Plotz @leahplotz.bsky.social · Oct 5

Ah, Paris ❤️

Where the fumes from the traffic and the cigarette steam make my eyeballs well up like life is a dream.
-Hollie McNish

Poem by Hollie McNish about how Paris is romanticized - and maybe that should never change

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andreaswahl.bsky.social @andreaswahl.bsky.social · Sep 27

Er det mulig å vinne best-i-test fem år på rad? Vitenkalenderen er her! www.nerdebutikken.no/pages/vitenk...

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Leah Plotz @leahplotz.bsky.social · Sep 25

A war monument at my old school. Elverum folkehøyskole is where the King 🇳🇴 said «no» to joining its invaders.
Everything was bombed in the city spare a few buildings, including my old school.

Leah Plotz @leahplotz.bsky.social · Sep 4

!!!

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David Byrne - "What Is The Reason For It? (ft. Hayley Williams)" (Official Video)

YouTube video by David Byrne

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Olivia Campbell @oliviacampbell.bsky.social · Sep 1

If you read anything I've written lately, I hope it's this post.

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Attacking Science for Ideological Reasons: Just Like the Nazis

What I learned from researching my book on science under the Nazis has felt terrifyingly relevant this year.

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Leah Plotz @leahplotz.bsky.social · Aug 30

How very similar and how very different we are to the versions of ourselves with each decade.
leahplotz.substack.com/p/missent-po... #postcard #travel

Missent to Thailand

Or: that one time I went to 12 new places in 12 months

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Leah Plotz @leahplotz.bsky.social · Aug 24

@mdg.no dere vinner mest engasjerende Bluesky-konto, altså! 💚

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Leah Plotz @leahplotz.bsky.social · Aug 24

Vinneren av brosjyrene gjennom hele denne valgkampen: @sv.no ! Tydelig, ryddig. Føler meg informert og inspirert 🤔

Taperen: @mdg.no. 😔 OK: stem på dere, og så…kommer ikke KfF frem. Men, jeg kjente ikke at det SA (ga) meg noe.

Hilsen PR rådgiver.

Godt valg!

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Leah Plotz @leahplotz.bsky.social · Aug 20

“People are holding back…and we are losing because there are stories that are not being told.”
Thank you, Chimamanda Adichie, for an unforgettable night. What a force. #DreamCount

Chimamanda Adichie in University of Oslo Aula, in front of Edvard Munch mural of a yellow sun.

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Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · Aug 12

Opining about the male loneliness crisis while women are losing access to reproductive rights, the maternal mortality rate is rising, and women are being forced out of the workforce is a real choice. It is a choice to ignore the deaths of women to promote the perceived victimhood of men.

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Leah Plotz @leahplotz.bsky.social · Aug 11

Maybe I’m not bad at accepting gifts after all. Maybe I just needed the perfect gifts…? 😍

Always happy for another @holliemcnish.bsky.social book. She is brilliant, just brilliant. This LP will pair well.

JD McPherson LP and Hollie McNish book «lobster»

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · Aug 9

"Writing is the adult equivalent of a kindergartner playing inside a cardboard box, believing it’s a rocket ship that will take her to the moon. Adorable, but ultimately sad." (via @mcsweeneys.net)

If You Love to Write Just Wait Until You Try Not Writing

Do you love to write? Is writing what makes you feel alive? Are you sure? Let me ask you something: When’s the last time you wrote and thought, Tha...

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Leah Plotz @leahplotz.bsky.social · Aug 9

I just really really enjoyed Cloudstreet by #TimWinton.
Two captivatingly castarophies of family units living under one roof in post-war Australia. Thankful to Matilda bookshop in Adelaide’s hills for the rec to start there.

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Dan Carlin @dancarlin.bsky.social · Aug 8

"In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues."
-Thomas Macaulay (1849)

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Leah Plotz @leahplotz.bsky.social · Aug 6

Kjære deg, kjære pust, kjære natt. Les den.

Holder boka «kjære natt» av Øystein skotheim. Forlaget oktober.

Leah Plotz @leahplotz.bsky.social · Aug 6

Reggie Watts, yes please and thank you.
“Music is free energy.” @reggiewatts.bsky.social

Leah Plotz @leahplotz.bsky.social · Aug 5

Capitulation:
Word of the week in search engines. Word of the year for humanity.

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EXTENDED INTERVIEW: VP Kamala Harris's "107 Days" Is A Peek Behind The Scenes Of The 2024 Election

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Leah Plotz @leahplotz.bsky.social · Aug 2

Einar Skjæraasen en gang skrev «august er det mykeste myke jeg kjenner,» men i år kjennes det som løv mot kinnet. Som om oktober kommer etter; vi hopper over september. Det er bare noe med lufta.

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Bryn Donovan @bryndonovan.bsky.social · Aug 2

Remembering a time at work when I complained to the guys in the writing studio that a coworker was underestimating my intelligence, so the writers kept interrupting a meeting with said coworker to ask me questions about history and schools of philosophy and so on 😂

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Leah Plotz @leahplotz.bsky.social · Jul 24

Sommer i Norge er virkelig ekstra stas i år. #gaularfjellet

Gaularfjellsvegen sett fra utsiktspunktet