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Alisha Grauso (She/Her)

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Books & TV Features Editor & Writer | Pittsburgh sports, literature, history, politics, the weird & dark, ADHD, practicing druid, nature & conservation | Views mine | You can find me among the trees 🌿🌲 https://muckrack.com/alisha-grauso

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · Aug 5

Lemme tell you, @aimod.social's AI banner and avatar imagery labeler is doing the Lord's work. So many of you happily RTing shit from people with AI in their profiles without knowing it.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 12h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 17h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 8h

Air overhead is record cold. Weather balloon from Oakland found the temps about three miles up are coldest ever measured for this date on record, second coldest for any date in October. forecast.weather.gov/product.php?... #CAwx

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The 12Z sounding found very cold air aloft. The 850 temp was 2.35C and 500 temp -25.35C. Both near the minimum daily values. Most notable was the 500 mb height of 5460m. That shattered the daily record. For context the average for this date is 5787, 10th percentile: 5667, old record: 5572. In fact, 5460 is tied for the second lowest 500 mb height ever measured in the month of October, beaten only by 5457m measured on 10/28/56. While this cold air is keeping lapse rates steep, the moisture has plummeted and the surface

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 11h

I mean, yeah. But that will always be the case. No matter how awful he is - or any cult leader or authoritarian is - there is always a percent of the population that will remain faithful.

Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 12h

Idk about that. If you haven't been paying attention, MAGA is in something of a civil war right now.

Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 12h

Congrats, Kim Kardashian: you've discovered the merkin.

HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 12h

I don’t grow body hair below the neck and this pussy toupee is TEMPTING.

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 12h

Even Trump's most devout followers had to have felt like they were going insane listening to him brag about how he, unlike Charlie Kirk, dodged a sniper bullet during the eulogy/Presidential Medal of Freedom speech he was giving for Charlie.

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 12h

How do you not go completely insane covering this shit all day?

Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 12h

Anyone who knows what "a/s/l" means knows this is concrete truth.

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 12h

I have a similar story with a family member, and yes. I have always been told that it's the worst kind of cancer because it's so aggressive and so rarely detected until it's too late. I'm sorry. <3

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 12h

Death's fastball is fading and his aim is off. It's time for the Grim Reaper to retire and let a younger specter take over. He doesn't have the juice anymore.

Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 13h

This is a great piece, but only NYT would make sure to include "improbable" in the headline. It's only improbable if you haven't been paying attention to, uh, anything.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 13h

Incredible stuff from the President of the United States. Just masterful levels of brainrot at work here. Breathtaking, really.

Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 13h

And now they've aged out.

Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 13h

He really "I'm not like other assassination victims 💁🏻‍♀️"-ed his way through a eulogy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 13h

"I'm not like other assassination victims." 💁🏻‍♀️

Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 13h

There is a very plausible theory that it was being exposed to lead as children that led to the peak serial killer era of the '70s-'80s.

I can't help but think about which kind of podcasts & influencers have made a career of peddling protein powder & supplements to men, & which kind of men listen.

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 19h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 16h

Waiting for this tiny-ass ho to tap into her inner Cat-sìth and lead me to the faerie realm, but thus far all she's done is scream at me to give her treats.

A small black cat with a white patch on her chest sits and looks at her human

Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 16h

Faerie: The pain of leaving the human world behind
Me: ...you guys haven't been topside lately, have you?
Faerie: No but-
Me: You have free healthcare?
Faerie: ...there is no illness in our realm
Me: Sold!
Faerie [radioing base]: This is a CODE RED: close the borders, the humans are scaring me

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 16h

Faerie: You have trespassed & are hereby ordered to come to our realm
Me: Okie doke!
Faerie: There is no g-wait what?
Me: I said ok
Faerie: You realize we're kidnapping you, right?
Me: Better than ICE
Faerie: And you will be a slave to our demands
Me: That's fine, I'm used to capitalism

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 16h

Whimsical cynicism (whimsicism?) is walking around every day hoping to find a fairy ring that you can "accidentally" trespass on in the hopes of being abducted.

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 16h

Didn't you make an auditor cry once?

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 17h

Once again, I can not stress enough that Silicon Valley techbros are nothing more than the modern version of 1800s snake oil salesmen. Altman might as well be peddling Dr. Sam's Magical Cure-All Elixir out of a wagon.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 17h

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

ChatGPT boss predicts when AI could cure cancer

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 17h

I find it fascinating that you can halve nothing.

Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 17h

My favorite thing as an elder millennial/Oregon Trail microgeneration is seeing ads targeting me about saving for retirement and immediately thinking, "Lol retirement? You think anyone my age and younger will be able to RETIRE? Bless your heart."

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 17h

No, he's not, and fucking stop it.

GQ @gqmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

Is hard-right streamer Nick Fuentes winning over women on the left? Writer Katherine Dee investigates www.gq.com/story/nick-f...

Is Nick Fuentes Winning Over Women on the Left?

There are the Tumblr “Nickstorians” and sincere fanfics. But are young, liberal, possibly irony-poisoned women fetishizing or even falling for the hard-right streamer with the “groyper” following? Wri...

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