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Alisha Grauso

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Features Editor & Writer | Frustrated nature photographer in a media drone's body | Pittsburgh sports, literature, history, politics, weird stuff, ADHD, practicing druid, nature & conservation | Views mine | She/her | You can find me among the trees 🌿🌲


Alisha Grauso's avatar Alisha Grauso @alishagrauso.bsky.social
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Frollo can be resurrected and killed twice

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Batman sucks.

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Conservatives always have terrible bills ready to go should they get the outcome they want, and liberals rarely have bills ready to go should they get an outcome they don't.

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Alisha Grauso's avatar Alisha Grauso @alishagrauso.bsky.social
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"That's just me"/"That's just how I feel" is an older white woman's way of saying, "I don't feel like thinking about this unpleasant reality."

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Conservatives always have terrible bills ready to go should they get the outcome they want, and liberals rarely have bills ready to go should they get an outcome they don't.

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Alisha Grauso's avatar Alisha Grauso @alishagrauso.bsky.social
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Any conversation with a middle-aged/older white woman that begins with her saying, "This is just how I feel, but" will be a bunch of problematic bs. Any conversation with a middle-aged/older white woman that ends with her saying, "That's just how I feel" was a bunch of problematic bs. Never fails.

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Alisha Grauso's avatar Alisha Grauso @alishagrauso.bsky.social
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A perfect day

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Utterly monstrous shit

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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i was just going to make a post about this. if trump decides you are an enemy of the state or a “threat to national security” and has you deported, citizenship or not, there’s nothing you can do to get home. he has full legal power to render you stateless.

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Alisha Grauso's avatar Alisha Grauso @alishagrauso.bsky.social
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Always so polite and ladylike with her little demands.

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Alisha Grauso's avatar Alisha Grauso @alishagrauso.bsky.social
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Also, if you don't mind my asking, how might one get into science writing? I'm desperate to transition from the entertainment industry into something more science educational, conservation/environment.

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Ed Burmila's avatar Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social
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I guarantee you the conclusion centrists and Carville-esque liberals are going to take from the recent European elections is “OK well we tried but it’s time to throw the immigrants under the bus, there’s no other way to survive.” Some of them have already landed there and the rest are en route.

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Alisha Grauso's avatar Alisha Grauso @alishagrauso.bsky.social
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I taught English lit & comp in community college, and I'd often do this to explain a more complicated idea, but in reverse. I also used it a lot when working for a nonprofit years ago. It's a great way to learn.

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Boo? Not her. Keats, yes, absolutely. Nothing but three brain cells doing a conga line in there. Boo, her little brain is always puzzling over something or trying to get a treat.

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This one is for the Romantics out there

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Jacob T. Levy's avatar Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social
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A tale of two newspapers, and two very different decisions.

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Kashana's avatar Kashana @kashana.bsky.social
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They need a new self help book for companies called “how to solve all your problems by giving up on that product no one wants.”

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Alisha Grauso's avatar Alisha Grauso @alishagrauso.bsky.social
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When you're a little gremblin who doesn't understand "I have to work"

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Alisha Grauso's avatar Alisha Grauso @alishagrauso.bsky.social
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Same. The problem is that, as I look around the world, there are a lot of problems all over. Far-right ideology is on the rise in way too many places.

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The U.S. doesn't hold the monopoly on this. My point is I wouldn't want to move to any country that has that. Which is a problem, as far-right ideology appears to be on the rise everywhere.

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This is where I'm at. I don't want to go someplace that is cheaper and more open, but only because I'm white and will unconsciously exploit it.

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South Korea also has seen an alarming rise in far-right and conservative ideology among its men. Hard pass.

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The small horse dips his head to drink from the creek

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Alisha Grauso's avatar Alisha Grauso @alishagrauso.bsky.social
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I don't even flush him. He sees me coming from 50 yards away and flies away yelling indignantly.

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I'm glad Biden spoke about SCOTUS' immunity ruling today from the White House. But at this point, the only statement I want to hear from him is "Give me a firm majority in the House and Senate in November and I'll expand the court."

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I am in a one-sided war with the great blue heron who lives at the creek behind my house. By one-sided, I mean he's convinced I'm stalking him and hates me and flies away dramatically every morning, and I'm just trying to go for my morning walk.

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I like to imagine circus music. Definitely lots of slide whistle and calliope.

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Andrea Grimes's avatar Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.bsky.social
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I understand the pull of doomerism but I'll also point out that "red-state" organizers and activists have been living under, and resisting/rebuking, many and various forms of oppression for a long time and should be considered leaders in this moment. Like I said back in 2017:

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Alisha Grauso's avatar Alisha Grauso @alishagrauso.bsky.social
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The left is an ouroboros constantly eating its own tail.

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Alisha Grauso's avatar Alisha Grauso @alishagrauso.bsky.social
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I have never had a cat where you can just SEE there's nothing going on upstairs harder than Keats.

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The tone of a washed-out A24 horror movie and then dropping Hellboy into it isn't working for me, but I'm hopeful. Or at the very least, neutral.

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Indeed it does. Now, will that make it GOOD? I don't know.

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Alisha Grauso's avatar Alisha Grauso @alishagrauso.bsky.social
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Some good news: Jethro would like the headlines to state he is a Very Good Boy

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Alisha Grauso's avatar Alisha Grauso @alishagrauso.bsky.social
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A death cult motivated by real hatred & fear, yes. They don't care if women die of miscarriage. They don't care if trans people die of suicide. They don't care if Black people die of cops. They don't care if kids die of mass shooters. They don't care if their voters die of Covid. They don't care.

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Republicans are that one friend who is dating a complete loser with no social graces, or motivation, and who doesn't treat her all that well, but she keeps defending him.

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Idk. It makes me want to light things on fire (and then organize).

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I'm trying to maintain neutral expectations for Hellboy: The Crooked Man, but...boy, that first trailer does not fill me with hope. "Hellboy, but make it an A24 movie" is seemingly not a vibe that works.

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"With the three liberals dissenting" will be a phrase that chases our country into nightmares and past the loss of our democracy.

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It was never that radical to begin with. MAGA politicians just acted like it was.

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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This is the ball game folks, the authoritarian green light laid out in advance. Congress will not impeach Trump. And SCOTUS now blesses him with extraordinary latitude to do whatever he wants in power. A second administration will not be constrained by Congress, the courts, the bureaucracy or law.

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R.I.P. to Google Universal Analytics, a tool that was actually incredibly helpful, now dead and buried by Google Analytics 4, a tool that is not nearly as good.

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It's not healthy to be this angry at the people in power all the time. The problem is, I don't see how any thinking, feeling person can possibly feel any other way these days.

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Longtime interviewer here, albeit of Hollywood. The third point is a great one. That also goes for any good interviewer. Also, stay on point. Your personality can & should come through, but interviewers have a limited amount of time with you. Cut the rambling and curb the (long-winded) anecdotes.

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It has been 0️⃣ days since I said fuck this SCOTUS.

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Michael 's avatar Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social
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it really fucking bothers me that this collective hysteria has me defending joe fucking biden

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Happy last Pride Month eve, all. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤎🩵🩷🤍

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Sunny Moraine's avatar Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social
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The thing I think we need to internalize is that voting is in fact a huge part of how you fix this problem. It’s just that I get the sense a lot of people think “voting” only consists of the presidency No, you have to vote in every election on every level. That’s how you start to change a party

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