Leah Plotz

Low Threshold Book Club 2025:

We read a whopping 3 books!
1: A topical 🇺🇸 book on feminism. We could not stand the writing. Abandoned.
2: A romantasy. They loved it, I struggled. Took months to synch, months to recover.
3: Winner! The gorey murder novel Victorian Psycho. Finally!
#libfaves2025

This scandal is the Tiger King of 2025 and I’m grateful to have found this piece. Thank you for your sacrifice.

Oh he angry.

Chomsky had deeper ties with Epstein than previously known, documents reveal The philosopher and the sex trafficker were in contact long after Epstein was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor, documents reveal The prominent linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky called it a “most valuable experience” to have maintained “regular contact” with Jeffrey Epstein, who by then had long been convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor, according to emails released earlier in November this month by US lawmakers. Such comments from Chomsky, or attributed to him, suggest his association with Epstein – who officials concluded killed himself in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges – went deeper than the occasional political and academic discussions the former had previously claimed to have with the latter. Continue reading...

Chomsky had deeper ties with Epstein than previously known, documents reveal

Well, I’d say @lyz.bsky.social is pretty damn chic!

Todd snider, musician

“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.

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.

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

“[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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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

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.

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

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

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

Ah, Paris ❤️

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.

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

!!!

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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.

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

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

How very similar and how very different we are to the versions of ourselves with each decade.
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@mdg.no dere vinner mest engasjerende Bluesky-konto, altså! 💚

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!

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

“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

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.

JD McPherson LP and Hollie McNish book «lobster»

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.

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...

"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.

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

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

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

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

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert EXTENDED INTERVIEW: VP Kamala Harris's "107 Days" Is A Peek Behind The Scenes Of The 2024 Election

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

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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.

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 😂

Gaularfjellsvegen sett fra utsiktspunktet

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