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Leah
@leahplotz.bsky.social
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Letter writing isn’t a hobby, it’s a lifestyle 📝
Iowa raised 🌽 living in Norway🇳🇴

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Leah @leahplotz.bsky.social · May 4
As women we are built to believe that the body we had in our 20s and 30s is something to cling onto, as if it can’t be as beautiful as it changes with the seasons. But what if we proved that it just gets better? #weightlifting #perimenopause
caseyjohnston.bsky.social Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · Apr 30
"Recently, my own daughter started lifting with me... then she joined the swim team and began her own routine. In encouraging her to eat, I ate too. In encouraging to love her bigness, I began to love mine... I kicked the scale under the bed." 🙌@lyz.bsky.social lyz.substack.com/p/the-world-...
The world wants you to be smaller
But Casey Johnston wants you to get swole
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Skulle du ha behov for loppis-inspo: Jeg har lest den først boka som «Elling» baserer seg på og herlighet, for ei 90-talls perle!
September 16, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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Jeg trodde jeg kjente Tau godt. Joda, jeg gjør kanskje det, men jeg ble minnet på det deilige faktumet at bjørnebær gror ganske godt der borte! For et magisk sted (for meg). #vestlandet #ryfylke
September 1, 2026 at 9:24 AM
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Cedar River ❤️#iowa
July 21, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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Iowa haul so far! Perfect summer reads 🤌

@lcchu.bsky.social @andrewgraff.bsky.social
@readlandmark.bsky.social
@eccobooks.bsky.social
July 17, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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Iowa is red, they say.

@raygunsite.com
July 15, 2026 at 2:39 AM
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Could not stop reading and when I did, the little girl Lea appeared in my dreams. What a life, what a story, what a lesson.
@leaypi.bsky.social
Memoir Free by Lea Ypi about Albania in the 1980s and 1990s.
June 16, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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AND SHE WAS.
David Byrne, everyone dancing despite the rain 👌
#whoisthesky
June 13, 2026 at 11:48 AM
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Jeg går på VM-dietten, jeg.
June 6, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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Norway needs to qualify more often
June 5, 2026 at 7:13 AM
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I saw a center under construction first-hand recently and got an Andor feeling…. @charlieberens.bsky.social thanks for using your voice

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
‘Nobody’s negotiating for the people here’: comedian Charlie Berens takes on AI datacenters
Known for his ‘Manitowoc Minute’ skits and midwestern humor, the journalist turned comedian is speaking out against the AI datacenter boom in Wisconsin
www.theguardian.com
May 18, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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She's here 😭 I wrote 'Mor(e) than Motherhood' when I was in the depths of postpartum depression. I'm so proud of her. And me. 🤍

Shoutout to @mldesigns.bsky.social for the beautiful new cover.

#BookCover #BookSky #IndieBooks #Poetry #Motherhood #Writer #Author #HappyDance
In the centre of the image, my book proudly stands! The cover is a bold maroon. In large, white capital letters in the top centre is the title "More" with the 'e' in parenthesis. The sub text, in the same but smaller text says "than motherhood." Underneath is a line drawing of a woman's hands coming down from the title, the fingers hand softly. Her index finger is being held by a baby's hand. Their touch is soft but reassuring. The lines are a crisp cream with some soft shading to add a 3D feeling. My name is in small white text at the bottom centre, "Ruth Rostrup". Twisting around all the elements is a subtle, dark red, twirly vine. Adorned with small leaves and twirling little offshoots. It starts in the top left and spirals to the bottom right, twirling around the hands. A secret for any alt text readers: this vine will continue onwards across the cover of the next book in the series. // Above the book image is large text that reads "New cover. Same brutality and beauty". // On each side of the book are 5 star reviews. Underneath the book it reads "A unique reading experience from both sides of labour, postpartum, and depression."
February 19, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Time for a post

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"When We Are Singing" - David Byrne (LIVE on The Late Show)
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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March 31, 2026 at 9:54 AM
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The news I hope you see
February 28, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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«I think Americans are overly punctilious punctuators.»
-Ellen Jovin

Guilty.

www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
Styles guide: is Harry’s album Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. grammatically correct?
The follow-up to 2022’s Harry’s House boasts an esoteric title – but experts say ambiguity might be the goal
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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This time last year I set out on a solo vacation. Best thing I ever did as a mother. I came back rejuvenated in my role and more in love than ever.

#motherhood #morethanmotherhood
December 31, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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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
December 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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“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, musician
November 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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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
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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
«James», a novel by Percival Everett. About a runaway boy and a runaway slave along the Mississippi River.
October 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Ah, Paris ❤️

Where the fumes from the traffic and the cigarette steam make my eyeballs well up like life is a dream.
-Hollie McNish
Poem by Hollie McNish about how Paris is romanticized - and maybe that should never change
October 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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!!!

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David Byrne - "What Is The Reason For It? (ft. Hayley Williams)" (Official Video)
YouTube video by David Byrne
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September 4, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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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
Missent to Thailand
Or: that one time I went to 12 new places in 12 months
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August 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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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!
August 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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“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
Chimamanda Adichie in University of Oslo Aula, in front of Edvard Munch mural of a yellow sun.
August 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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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.
August 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM