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...
:)
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—
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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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 🪩🪩
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.