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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I'm STILL having phone calls about the insurance nightmare from water damage we found in June. Patience is thin, admittedly. But I get off the phone today and husband, listening in the background, says "when you get angry, your Philly accent goes extreme." Go Birds?
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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
How we feel about going back to work tomorrow
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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Glass half empty: wallow in self pity after catching a nasty virus to finish out the summer Glass half full: being glued to a sofa provides inspiration to catch up on submissions.
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Benjammins: Rose-Tinted Glasses
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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Genuine question for book agents: why list a genre in your submission options if you have no intention of representing it?
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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Right on time for August, Philly approaching full swamp mode today.
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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
If @tacobellquarterly.org rejects my submission after eleven months, it'll still be the second most painful thing associated with the words 'Taco Bell' this year.
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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Every time we get a thunderstorm now, I'm extremely tense because all I can think about is the possibility of water damage. I can't decide if this makes me paranoid or mature.
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Wild Roof Journal @wildroofjournal.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Read the full intro note & the rest of the issue here: wildroofjournal.com/issue-34 Thanks to @lisadellaporta.bsky.social for setting the scene!
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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I'm thrilled to have my short piece 'Colors' out in the new issue of @wildroofjournal.bsky.social today. Plus, I was honored to be asked to write the introductory note for the whole issue. Click through to read both here: wildroofjournal.com/issue-34/
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Issue 34
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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Into it.
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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Before and after. The shrinking of greens hits harder when you grow them yourself.
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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Painting walls comes with three distinct phases: I don't know if I like this color. Oh man I actually hate this color. I have exhausted myself from painting, do not care anymore, and now will live with this color for the next ten years.
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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Tonight I met a goat named Teddy, roughly the size of a Great Dane. He peed on my foot but I love him anyway.
A brown goat tosses his head back center frame. A woman in a green volunteer best holds his leash. Onlookers gather in the background.
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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Building is at capacity and standing room only at the Upper Merion Township meeting about a proposal to build 5 data centers. Zoom streaming link is also at capacity - at 600 people.
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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Catching up on my movie backlog through the rainy weekend. I have survived Wuthering Heights. Why was this made. No.
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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Where can you recycle AA batteries anymore? Target and Whole Foods both cut their programs.
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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Paint me like one of your French girls.
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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I have work out in New Letters' just released issue. 'Libras' is the most personal thing I've had published to date and I would love for you to read it. www.newletters.org/current-issu...
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Current Issue – New Letters
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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
COVID wastewater positivity is currently at its lowest level since 2021, so I am blitz-scheduling all the repair people to work on the house repair backlog. Bathroom fan, replacing a window that was leaky after this winter, etc.
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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Just realizing I have scheduled PT on May The 4th. Is it bad form to wear a wookie onesie to your appointment. Will all the sports jocks think I'm cool.
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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I can't decide if this is an odd or brilliant choice given the specialty, but the waiting room at the gynecologist has SVU on.
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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
It's an important election year in Philly, which means I have canvassers knocking on my door at all hours. Officially at the stare-through-the-window-and-close-the-blinds-while-making-eye-contact part of the campaign. I know who I'm voting for. I have never missed a primary. Please go away.
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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Enemies to lovers: in progress
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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Past me thought it was a good idea to sign up for a semester-long course on Tuesday nights after work. Present me is absolutely brain melted after 5pm and just wants to lie down on the sofa and stare at the wall.
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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
They keep talking about needing to check for noxious gasses coming from the astronauts and every time I hear it I giggle because inside I am a 5th grader.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Nuremberg was an important symbol of German nationhood so I say with 100% sincerity that this is a job for Philadelphia
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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Surprise book store cats are the best book store cats.
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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I woke up to two acceptances in my inbox this morning, which is the dream, except that today is April Fools day, and I have been preconditioned to believe everything is a lie.
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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I am 'had to explain Rathergood.com to a coworker today' years old.
The opera singer pavarotti stands in front of a field of elephants. He sings 'eeeeeeeeeee' as hearts fly out from his chest.
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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
How long does it take you to eat a loaf of home made bread? Asking for a friend 😅
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 17/03/2026
This post is very popular on Reddit today and I figured some people here might like to see it TL;DR a woman was detained by ICE and later one of the detaining officers reached out to her in and attempt to take her on a date He said she he found her attractive because she was "cute" and "obedient"
I was detained by ICE, one of the agents asked me out on a date and I feel scared
I (26.f) am originally from Russia (Russian mom/Ukrainian dad) and a couple weeks ago at a Target parking lot, I was on my phone speaking in Russian to my mom when two guys in masks, wearing Border Patrol uniforms stopped me.

They asked if I spoke English, I said yes, demanded to see my ID so I gave them my driver's license and passport card.

They asked me questions like what am I doing here, what is my legal status (yes I am a citizen but they should have known that given I just gave them my passport card), what do I do for work (I work for the VA) and how long I've been here, etc. They told me to sit and wait in the back of their vehicle while they checked my IDs.

While I was detained, one of the agents who stopped me told me to unlock my phone and give it to him so I complied. He checked it for a few minutes then gave it back to me.

Now last Thursday night, last week, I got a text from a number I didn't recognize but as I was expecting a call that week, I answered it.

When I answered the guy on the other line asked me "am I speaking with [my name]" and I said yes. He then tried making small talk, asking how my day was, etc and I answered his questions.

I then asked him who he was and how he got my number but he seemed to try and dodge those questions. 

He then asked if I'd be free on Friday night or Saturday night.

I told him something along the lines of "maybe but I don't know you". I then pressed him again, asking him how he got my number, how does he know me, etc.

He then admitted that he was one of the Border Patrol agents who detained me and checked my phone. He went on to say that when he was going through my phone, he noticed I had Bumble and Tinder so thought he'd just take my number and try to contact me directly.I felt sick when he said this but told him that this was inappropriate and if immigration enforcement needs to contact me, they do have the phone number and details of my family's lawyer, and I could he reached through those more formal channels. 

He the said that this wasn't an "official business" thing, saying he knew I was single and looking to date, he said I was cute and liked how I "obedient" (literally the word he used) I was, so figured he could just shoot his shot by trying to ask me out directly.

I told him, "I'm sorry but I don't think this is really appropriate". He then said, I "got to get back to work now so just think about it", then hung up.

It's been a few days since and I guess it's just sinking in how messed up and inappropriate this was, and I yeah, I feel scared and shaken by all this, being detained itself was terrifying to think where I'd be taken to or what would happen but at the same time, I don't know how to feel if I'm overreacting, underreacting or what.

Edit: Thank you for all the support and advice. Also, for those who asked in my DMs, yes my dad and I are naturaalized US citizens but due to past immigration problems, my mom is not a US citizen but she is a legal green card holder.
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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
This week, in the state park in the town I grew up in, they found human remains. Then two days later the coroner issued a retraction - sorry, actually it was a deer. How.
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a man says " it 's not the same thing " in a star talk video
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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Sage advice for anyone else in their 30's surviving shoveling this winter: get the XL heating pad. Not the little wimpy one with an auto shut off. The one sized like a bath mat that could burn your house down if left unattended.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 05/02/2026
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.
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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I read this in one sitting and can't stop thinking about it. Usually I have a hard time connecting with translated books - something feels awkward and distant. But this time that may have even improved the read.
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Michael Broussard @michaelbroussard.myatproto.social · 08/01/2026
"Just go with it because it will be worse if we fight back" is not a good strategy when confronted with an authoritarian regime.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 04/01/2026
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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
My last acceptance of 2025 is live today on The Bookends Review: thebookendsreview.com/2025/12/26/c...
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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Do you -also- listen to weird new age pseudoscience on YouTube ? Then maybe this one's for you. I have a new poem out today in Stink Eye Magazine: stinkeyemagazine.com/lisa-dellapo...
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On the baffling fallacy of the Reiki crystal quantum healing woman (ASMR)  Undergrad, masters, then doctorate:a herculean effort to prove my dedication.In the day, I am a nonbeliever, adevotee…
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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
When a pillow is unavailable, apparently a kindle will do.
A black cat sleeps on an ottoman with teal fabric. Her head rests on a kindle e reader, used like a pillow.
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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
RIP to all of our inboxes on this Giving Tuesday.
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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Alice Wong was so important to so many of us. A huge loss for the disabled community. But I'm comforted by how vocally we seem to be mourning her: what better way to honor a writer than to urge people to read their work.
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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Met the superior Pittsburgh penguin last weekend
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 10/11/2025
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
It's always good to drive through the middle of Pennsylvania and get a reminder of why I live in Philadelphia
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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
I know it's ancient tech at this point, but I will never not be wowed by xrays. It's your bones! You can see INSIDE TO YOUR BONES. What a time to be alive.
An X-ray film of a left foot. The toe to the right of the pinky is broken in three places.
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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Broke my foot and I'm anticipating a lot of stationary time to kill in the near future. Send me your recs for the last excellent book you read or movie you watched. (Nothing medically scary, please 😅)
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Jaws 🦈 @gonejoshin.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Rubbing a cats stomach is a form of self care
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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I'm a lifelong jinx for the Phills and my act of goodwill to the people of Philadelphia is that I did not watch any of the games last night, just lurked on social updates. They did all that on their own. 💀
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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
**Keanu voice** Whoah
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