alina pleskova
@alinapleskova.bsky.social
poet-in-residence of the astral realm / fog aficionado / Toska (Deep Vellum, 2023) / 🥨 Philly
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· Oct 15
alina pleskova — b l u s h
www.blush-lit.com
i have two poems (w/audio!) in the new issue of blush, ft. so many great poets!
been thinking about “productivity” & “achievement”, referring to poems as “work”, artist statements, lexicon i often saw when working at an art school, how to stay loose & silly, etc
🎡 www.blush-lit.com/alina-plesko...
been thinking about “productivity” & “achievement”, referring to poems as “work”, artist statements, lexicon i often saw when working at an art school, how to stay loose & silly, etc
🎡 www.blush-lit.com/alina-plesko...
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it's saturday night & i'm hanging out in my inside clothes.... time to write a GIFT GUIDE for POETS, for some reason!!!
(but actually, i had a lot of fun putting this together)
vibedigest.substack.com/p/unasked-fo...
(but actually, i had a lot of fun putting this together)
vibedigest.substack.com/p/unasked-fo...
Unasked-for gift guide for poets in your life
I can't emphasize enough how nobody asked for this. But since you're here, take a pen.
vibedigest.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:54 PM
it's saturday night & i'm hanging out in my inside clothes.... time to write a GIFT GUIDE for POETS, for some reason!!!
(but actually, i had a lot of fun putting this together)
vibedigest.substack.com/p/unasked-fo...
(but actually, i had a lot of fun putting this together)
vibedigest.substack.com/p/unasked-fo...
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A great guide, and I think a lot of non-poets would also love these ideas, especially a small press subscription! I currently have one from World Poetry and it’s amazing!
worldpoetrybooks.com/subscribe
worldpoetrybooks.com/subscribe
November 30, 2025 at 3:42 AM
A great guide, and I think a lot of non-poets would also love these ideas, especially a small press subscription! I currently have one from World Poetry and it’s amazing!
worldpoetrybooks.com/subscribe
worldpoetrybooks.com/subscribe
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Smudge-proof pens for lefties! Zine & chapbook display solutions!
This is a Very Good list.
This is a Very Good list.
it's saturday night & i'm hanging out in my inside clothes.... time to write a GIFT GUIDE for POETS, for some reason!!!
(but actually, i had a lot of fun putting this together)
vibedigest.substack.com/p/unasked-fo...
(but actually, i had a lot of fun putting this together)
vibedigest.substack.com/p/unasked-fo...
Unasked-for gift guide for poets in your life
I can't emphasize enough how nobody asked for this. But since you're here, take a pen.
vibedigest.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Smudge-proof pens for lefties! Zine & chapbook display solutions!
This is a Very Good list.
This is a Very Good list.
it's saturday night & i'm hanging out in my inside clothes.... time to write a GIFT GUIDE for POETS, for some reason!!!
(but actually, i had a lot of fun putting this together)
vibedigest.substack.com/p/unasked-fo...
(but actually, i had a lot of fun putting this together)
vibedigest.substack.com/p/unasked-fo...
Unasked-for gift guide for poets in your life
I can't emphasize enough how nobody asked for this. But since you're here, take a pen.
vibedigest.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:54 PM
it's saturday night & i'm hanging out in my inside clothes.... time to write a GIFT GUIDE for POETS, for some reason!!!
(but actually, i had a lot of fun putting this together)
vibedigest.substack.com/p/unasked-fo...
(but actually, i had a lot of fun putting this together)
vibedigest.substack.com/p/unasked-fo...
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In 'Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming,' Malm makes a compelling argument that capitalists didn't switch from water power to steam because it was more productive or cost effective, but because it disciplined labor.
AI is the self-acting mule, but even dumber
AI is the self-acting mule, but even dumber
The markets are staying afloat right now on the hope that AI will destroy American workers. What a bleak thing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
November 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
In 'Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming,' Malm makes a compelling argument that capitalists didn't switch from water power to steam because it was more productive or cost effective, but because it disciplined labor.
AI is the self-acting mule, but even dumber
AI is the self-acting mule, but even dumber
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four new short poems from me at Boxx Press 📦 📦 & a sneak peek below—
November 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
four new short poems from me at Boxx Press 📦 📦 & a sneak peek below—
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You've heard of the Friday night news dump. Here's the Friday night of Thanksgiving wknd dump. For special circumstances, like when the faculty assembly votes 595-4 against paying to end a shakedown and you do it anyway. Link to agreement here: bulkmail.northwestern.edu/trk/click?re...
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
You've heard of the Friday night news dump. Here's the Friday night of Thanksgiving wknd dump. For special circumstances, like when the faculty assembly votes 595-4 against paying to end a shakedown and you do it anyway. Link to agreement here: bulkmail.northwestern.edu/trk/click?re...
happening on Tuesday!! ft. Austyn Wohlers (NYC) & Sam Heaps (Philly)! hear some readings & some tunes & some chats / get stellar books for your gift list &/or some stellar vibes for your nondenominational vibe repository
🎸 info & advance tickets: december-track-changes.eventbrite.com
🎸 info & advance tickets: december-track-changes.eventbrite.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:23 AM
happening on Tuesday!! ft. Austyn Wohlers (NYC) & Sam Heaps (Philly)! hear some readings & some tunes & some chats / get stellar books for your gift list &/or some stellar vibes for your nondenominational vibe repository
🎸 info & advance tickets: december-track-changes.eventbrite.com
🎸 info & advance tickets: december-track-changes.eventbrite.com
do i miss malls or do i lowkey miss being 17 & wholly entertained by walking in circles with my pals, babysitting cash burning a hole in my polyester novelty purse shaped like a record turntable & brain in hormonal sensory overload from the thrill of petty theft & fast crushes & food court samples
November 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
do i miss malls or do i lowkey miss being 17 & wholly entertained by walking in circles with my pals, babysitting cash burning a hole in my polyester novelty purse shaped like a record turntable & brain in hormonal sensory overload from the thrill of petty theft & fast crushes & food court samples
quick, no one's looking..... unplug america real quick & then plug it back in after a few seconds just to see if that helps
November 28, 2025 at 12:38 AM
quick, no one's looking..... unplug america real quick & then plug it back in after a few seconds just to see if that helps
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thank you for putting a wide variety of $600+ items on your holiday gift guides. I never know how to spend my gift budget of $600+ per person
November 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
thank you for putting a wide variety of $600+ items on your holiday gift guides. I never know how to spend my gift budget of $600+ per person
:)
Californians are buying ice scrapers at Home Depot, then immediately returning them....bogging down the entire store, until Home Depot refuses to allow ICE to loiter at their location to detain innocent people.
Winter is coming. Scrape ICE.
Winter is coming. Scrape ICE.
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
:)
(blinking rapidly in eastern european)
Cabbage is affordable, delicious, and astoundingly versatile, @giladedelman.bsky.social writes. The underrated crucifer “is fit for a king”:
The Most Underrated Thanksgiving Vegetable
Embrace cabbage.
bit.ly
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
(blinking rapidly in eastern european)
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"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 3:37 AM
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
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Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Books Not Bars 2025 Holiday Campaign
BOOKS NOT BARS FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated.
In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the imm...
haymarketbooks.app.neoncrm.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
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four new short poems from me at Boxx Press 📦 📦 & a sneak peek below—
November 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
four new short poems from me at Boxx Press 📦 📦 & a sneak peek below—
Reposted by alina pleskova
nightly reminder that Bovino has left Chicago, but ICE has not, and many people still need your help
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/17/b...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/17/b...
A Midwest Bond Fund Is Helping Detained Chicago Immigrants Return To Their Families
The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund launched in 2020 to provide bond assistance to people navigating the complex immigration legal system. That mission has become more difficult under the second Trump a...
blockclubchicago.org
November 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM
nightly reminder that Bovino has left Chicago, but ICE has not, and many people still need your help
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/17/b...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/17/b...
let’s just pack our rucksacks, leave all the robots to talk to each other, & disappear into the horizon
Email from a student who turned in a ChatGPT essay. Not even looking at the ChatGPT output in the apology 🥴
![Dear [Professor’s Name],
I want to sincerely apologize for my actions regarding my midterm submission.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fs6z2b756buwsdsjkle6utfi/bafkreiecvhzfgr4tlwyy2mvpbvjncqkysytwsxvidaoressh7peonoso3y@jpeg)
November 17, 2025 at 10:16 PM
let’s just pack our rucksacks, leave all the robots to talk to each other, & disappear into the horizon
ok so this series only [re]started in October, but i still get to say, with gravitas, that the final Track Changes of the year is upon us!!! closing it out on 12/2 with ultra-talented writers Austyn Wohlers (Baltimore) & Sam Heaps (Philly)!
🎶 🎶 🎶: december-track-changes.eventbrite.com
🎶 🎶 🎶: december-track-changes.eventbrite.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:10 PM
ok so this series only [re]started in October, but i still get to say, with gravitas, that the final Track Changes of the year is upon us!!! closing it out on 12/2 with ultra-talented writers Austyn Wohlers (Baltimore) & Sam Heaps (Philly)!
🎶 🎶 🎶: december-track-changes.eventbrite.com
🎶 🎶 🎶: december-track-changes.eventbrite.com
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Chicago! Join us next month for a great cause (and a STACKED lineup)
November 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Chicago! Join us next month for a great cause (and a STACKED lineup)
i stg, a thing i didn’t grow up hearing or see modeled for me about adulthood was how deeply i would love & cherish my friends. what a joy to keep choosing each other for years & years & years based entirely on the premise of hey i just so much enjoy your presence
November 13, 2025 at 1:35 AM
i stg, a thing i didn’t grow up hearing or see modeled for me about adulthood was how deeply i would love & cherish my friends. what a joy to keep choosing each other for years & years & years based entirely on the premise of hey i just so much enjoy your presence
🪩🪩 tomorrow, in fact 🪩🪩
💿 join us on the auspicious date of 11/11 for the next TRACK CHANGES ft. a very auspicious lineup:
@ginabird.bsky.social (Philly) + Ryan Skrabalak (Kingston, NY)!
it’s giving cosmic alignment, it’s giving big admiration, it’s giving we do not dream of labor
🎟️ track-changes-november.eventbrite.com
@ginabird.bsky.social (Philly) + Ryan Skrabalak (Kingston, NY)!
it’s giving cosmic alignment, it’s giving big admiration, it’s giving we do not dream of labor
🎟️ track-changes-november.eventbrite.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
🪩🪩 tomorrow, in fact 🪩🪩