Leah Plotz
@leahplotz.bsky.social
Letter writing isn’t a hobby, it’s a lifestyle 📝
Iowa raised 🌽 living in Norway🇳🇴
https://leahplotz.substack.com
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
“May your hope always outweigh your doubt, until this whole world finally punches you out”
-Todd Snider.
I’ll play your music extra loud today. Thanks for the words when I lack them. RIP.
-Todd Snider.
I’ll play your music extra loud today. Thanks for the words when I lack them. RIP.
November 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
“May your hope always outweigh your doubt, until this whole world finally punches you out”
-Todd Snider.
I’ll play your music extra loud today. Thanks for the words when I lack them. RIP.
-Todd Snider.
I’ll play your music extra loud today. Thanks for the words when I lack them. RIP.
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.
October 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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.
“[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
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@ajutla.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:17 PM
“[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
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@ajutla.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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
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
October 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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
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
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.
October 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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.
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
@percivaleverett.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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
@percivaleverett.bsky.social
Ah, Paris ❤️
Where the fumes from the traffic and the cigarette steam make my eyeballs well up like life is a dream.
-Hollie McNish
Where the fumes from the traffic and the cigarette steam make my eyeballs well up like life is a dream.
-Hollie McNish
October 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Ah, Paris ❤️
Where the fumes from the traffic and the cigarette steam make my eyeballs well up like life is a dream.
-Hollie McNish
Where the fumes from the traffic and the cigarette steam make my eyeballs well up like life is a dream.
-Hollie McNish
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.
Everything was bombed in the city spare a few buildings, including my old school.
September 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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.
Everything was bombed in the city spare a few buildings, including my old school.
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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
leahplotz.substack.com/p/missent-po... #postcard #travel
Missent to Thailand
Or: that one time I went to 12 new places in 12 months
leahplotz.substack.com
August 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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
leahplotz.substack.com/p/missent-po... #postcard #travel
“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
Thank you, Chimamanda Adichie, for an unforgettable night. What a force. #DreamCount
August 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
“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
Thank you, Chimamanda Adichie, for an unforgettable night. What a force. #DreamCount
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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.
August 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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.
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.
Always happy for another @holliemcnish.bsky.social book. She is brilliant, just brilliant. This LP will pair well.
August 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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.
Always happy for another @holliemcnish.bsky.social book. She is brilliant, just brilliant. This LP will pair well.
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"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...
buff.ly
August 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM
"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)
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.
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.
August 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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.
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.
Reposted by Leah Plotz
"In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues."
-Thomas Macaulay (1849)
-Thomas Macaulay (1849)
August 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM
"In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues."
-Thomas Macaulay (1849)
-Thomas Macaulay (1849)
Kjære deg, kjære pust, kjære natt. Les den.
August 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Kjære deg, kjære pust, kjære natt. Les den.
Reggie Watts, yes please and thank you.
“Music is free energy.” @reggiewatts.bsky.social
“Music is free energy.” @reggiewatts.bsky.social
August 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Reggie Watts, yes please and thank you.
“Music is free energy.” @reggiewatts.bsky.social
“Music is free energy.” @reggiewatts.bsky.social
Capitulation:
Word of the week in search engines. Word of the year for humanity.
youtu.be/BD8Nf09z_38?...
Word of the week in search engines. Word of the year for humanity.
youtu.be/BD8Nf09z_38?...
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
youtu.be
August 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Capitulation:
Word of the week in search engines. Word of the year for humanity.
youtu.be/BD8Nf09z_38?...
Word of the week in search engines. Word of the year for humanity.
youtu.be/BD8Nf09z_38?...
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.
August 2, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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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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 😂
August 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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 😂
Sommer i Norge er virkelig ekstra stas i år. #gaularfjellet
July 24, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Sommer i Norge er virkelig ekstra stas i år. #gaularfjellet
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I've always thought about how it's not uncommon for people in the U.S. to not value the lives of those in other countries as much as their own. And now it seems some are doing the same with red states. Fuck off with that bullshit.
July 5, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I've always thought about how it's not uncommon for people in the U.S. to not value the lives of those in other countries as much as their own. And now it seems some are doing the same with red states. Fuck off with that bullshit.