alina pleskova
@alinapleskova.bsky.social
poet-in-residence of the astral realm / fog aficionado / Toska (Deep Vellum, 2023) / 🥨 Philly
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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...
🪩🪩 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 🪩🪩
Big Holiday media has given me a really inflated sense of how many ppl have a working fireplace in their home
November 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Big Holiday media has given me a really inflated sense of how many ppl have a working fireplace in their home
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📢 ANNOUNCEMENT TIME:
We're less than three months away from pub day for my debut chapbook, CHILDLESS MILLENNIAL.
Tell your friends, your English teacher, and of course all your favorite non-biological aunties.
📚 Pre-order details coming soooon
Brought to you by @gameoverbooks.bsky.social 🕹
We're less than three months away from pub day for my debut chapbook, CHILDLESS MILLENNIAL.
Tell your friends, your English teacher, and of course all your favorite non-biological aunties.
📚 Pre-order details coming soooon
Brought to you by @gameoverbooks.bsky.social 🕹
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
📢 ANNOUNCEMENT TIME:
We're less than three months away from pub day for my debut chapbook, CHILDLESS MILLENNIAL.
Tell your friends, your English teacher, and of course all your favorite non-biological aunties.
📚 Pre-order details coming soooon
Brought to you by @gameoverbooks.bsky.social 🕹
We're less than three months away from pub day for my debut chapbook, CHILDLESS MILLENNIAL.
Tell your friends, your English teacher, and of course all your favorite non-biological aunties.
📚 Pre-order details coming soooon
Brought to you by @gameoverbooks.bsky.social 🕹
this thread makes my head want to fall off
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
this thread makes my head want to fall off
seeing Earth tonight, & on Saturday, Matt's band is opening for The Saints, fronted by Mark Arm of Mudhoney in their current iteration..... feeling like the beleaguered brain is entering a noise sauna to heal itself 🌫️
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
seeing Earth tonight, & on Saturday, Matt's band is opening for The Saints, fronted by Mark Arm of Mudhoney in their current iteration..... feeling like the beleaguered brain is entering a noise sauna to heal itself 🌫️
at this point it just seems cruelest that the empire won’t collapse completely instead of trapping us all in the degradation of its ongoing collapse indefinitely
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
at this point it just seems cruelest that the empire won’t collapse completely instead of trapping us all in the degradation of its ongoing collapse indefinitely
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TOSKA by @alinapleskova.bsky.social -- a book simultaneously contemptuous of capitalism and dreamy af store.deepvellum.org/products/toska
Toska
By Alina Pleskova Lambda Literary Award Finalist for LGBTQ+ Poetry Toska derives its title from the Russian word which denotes a melancholic longing without a singular cause, longing for a better worl...
store.deepvellum.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:02 AM
TOSKA by @alinapleskova.bsky.social -- a book simultaneously contemptuous of capitalism and dreamy af store.deepvellum.org/products/toska
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Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
a microgeneration that came of age on the unsupervised wilds of aol & social blogging platforms, where we learned to be voicey online... now uninterested in the heyyyy guys narration into front-facing camera/lip synced video way of Being Online.... & twitter is unusable ...... so here we are
November 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
a microgeneration that came of age on the unsupervised wilds of aol & social blogging platforms, where we learned to be voicey online... now uninterested in the heyyyy guys narration into front-facing camera/lip synced video way of Being Online.... & twitter is unusable ...... so here we are
obsessed with how unserious (nonderogatory ) the louvre heist saga insists on being
“I like to be chic,” he said. “I go to school like this.” -this kid is a character from a YA novel!
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
November 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
obsessed with how unserious (nonderogatory ) the louvre heist saga insists on being
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November 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Mamdani's line that billionaires spent more to oppose his candidacy than he proposed to tax them really says it all.
Like a company that shuts down a profitable location as soon as it unionizes. The principle of maintaining control is more important.
Like a company that shuts down a profitable location as soon as it unionizes. The principle of maintaining control is more important.
November 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Mamdani's line that billionaires spent more to oppose his candidacy than he proposed to tax them really says it all.
Like a company that shuts down a profitable location as soon as it unionizes. The principle of maintaining control is more important.
Like a company that shuts down a profitable location as soon as it unionizes. The principle of maintaining control is more important.
baby exoplanet is my chosen family 🥺
WOW!
An incredible discovery. The first ever image of a baby exoplanet embedded in the dust rings from which planets are forming around a star. Confirms the developing view of planet formation that we’ve never before seen in action.
🧪🔭
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
An incredible discovery. The first ever image of a baby exoplanet embedded in the dust rings from which planets are forming around a star. Confirms the developing view of planet formation that we’ve never before seen in action.
🧪🔭
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
November 8, 2025 at 12:47 PM
baby exoplanet is my chosen family 🥺
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Another big loss for the President, who has been forced to allow his constituents to eat food
November 7, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Another big loss for the President, who has been forced to allow his constituents to eat food
quick question do you think our brains will ever recover from the noxious clownery flumes
JUST IN: A federal judge has barred the Trump administration from using furloughed employees’ email accounts to broadcast partisan messages about the shutdown.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
quick question do you think our brains will ever recover from the noxious clownery flumes
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Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going!
Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.
We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.
Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.
We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.
November 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going!
Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.
We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.
Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.
We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.
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I'm in @thenation.com this morning on the repeated failure of transphobia as political strategy, efforts to scapegoat trans people for Democrats' own failures, and Zohran Mamdani's model of solidarity
November 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I'm in @thenation.com this morning on the repeated failure of transphobia as political strategy, efforts to scapegoat trans people for Democrats' own failures, and Zohran Mamdani's model of solidarity
i don’t think there’s adequate enough market research on the surveillance tech-fatigued spite shopper…. i’m sooo much more inclined to buy your whatever it is if you leave me the hell alone, instead of making it grotesquely apparent that my every ocular movement is being tracked online jfc
Every company website is so desperate. You're on their page for five seconds and they want to send you notifications for the rest of your life. It's like if you asked somebody at an airport how to get to Terminal D and they told you, then got down on one knee and proposed.
November 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
i don’t think there’s adequate enough market research on the surveillance tech-fatigued spite shopper…. i’m sooo much more inclined to buy your whatever it is if you leave me the hell alone, instead of making it grotesquely apparent that my every ocular movement is being tracked online jfc
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there is a LOT going on here but lord have mercy if you don’t get the fuck out of my good jewish face with ‘judaism is both a religious and a national identity’
i try not to be hyperbolic but this NY daily news editorial board piece saying mayor-elect mamdani better support israel OR ELSE is one of the most appalling things i’ve ever read
November 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
there is a LOT going on here but lord have mercy if you don’t get the fuck out of my good jewish face with ‘judaism is both a religious and a national identity’
do i get to use this as a reason to call out of work or what
November 6, 2025 at 1:53 PM
do i get to use this as a reason to call out of work or what
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Please, my data centers for my plagiarism machine, they are very sick
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
November 6, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Please, my data centers for my plagiarism machine, they are very sick
(cackling intensifies)
Khan's appointment sends a message to the tech industry, whose most powerful players have already been critical of Mamdani, a Democratic socialist.
Lina Khan to co-chair NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's transition team | TechCrunch
Khan's appointment sends a message to the tech industry, whose most powerful players have already been critical of Mamdani, a Democratic socialist.
techcrunch.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:02 PM
(cackling intensifies)
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This was horrific to watch. Agents entering a daycare, wrestling with and abducting a teacher in front of small screaming children. I just… what the fuck are we doing here.
this morning, ICE went into a Spanish language immersion daycare and took a teacher from the building in front of screaming and crying kids and parents at dropoff and the daycare had to shut down for the day (near Lane Tech, where they were yesterday). Really hoping today's "theme" is not "daycare."
November 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
This was horrific to watch. Agents entering a daycare, wrestling with and abducting a teacher in front of small screaming children. I just… what the fuck are we doing here.
i'm not a patriotic girlie, but as an immigrant & the daughter of a Ukrainian taxi driver, it made me weep to think that an America like the one Zohran describes, like the one my parents believed existed—where there's hope for a decent life & dignity, & opportunities exist for them too—can be real
November 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
i'm not a patriotic girlie, but as an immigrant & the daughter of a Ukrainian taxi driver, it made me weep to think that an America like the one Zohran describes, like the one my parents believed existed—where there's hope for a decent life & dignity, & opportunities exist for them too—can be real