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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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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 2h

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 · 2h

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 · 2h

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 · 2h

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 · 2h

Didn't you make an auditor cry once?

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 3h

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 · 3h

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 · 3h

I find it fascinating that you can halve nothing.

Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 3h

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 · 3h

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...

www.gq.com

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 4h

If you're one of the thousands of federal employees who Russ Vought/the Trump admin just RIF'd, I'm very interested in hearing from you about the work you've been doing and what services will now be hurt/gutted with you gone.

Anonymity granted.

[email protected] / Signal: jbendery.41

🙏

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 3h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4-word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"Sessions are way down."

Megan All Hallows' Eve 🦇 @meganeve.bsky.social · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"Job logged with IT"

Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“The tapes wouldn’t start”

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 4h

Trump shut down our government but sent $20 billion to Argentina and is sending billions more to Israel as we speak.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 19h

Counter-counterpoint: Is one of the parts that is unnecessary and should have been cut.

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 19h

I fully agree. He was a brilliant linguist and historian. He was a terrible writer of fiction.

Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 22h

Religion and/or getting sucked into the manosphere and steeped in misogyny, yeah.

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 23h

I'm so glad Mister Rogers isn't around now to see where we're at. He'd be so disappointed in us.

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 23h

It still stings to be reminded by The Youths that I am now old and therefore automatically deeply uncool, but I know I can't let the 8-year-old know it annoys me. He's like a predator sensing fear; he'll go in for the kill. Weaponized uncoolness is the only option.

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 1d

The nuclear option I'm keeping up my sleeve is walking over to their house when he has friends over and using their slang wrong in front of them.

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 1d

That definitely sounds like the 8-year-old nephew lol.

Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 1d

The 8-year-old is the worst offender, and I 100% know he says it simply because he knows how annoying it is. He has the strongest little brother energy of any kid I've ever known.

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 1d

I have four nephews under the age of 11. I'm cooked. There's no hope for me to escape the brainrot slang of Gen Alpha. It's skibidis and sigmas all the way down. 😭

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

I can think of somewhere else where the military needs to start saying this

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

"Madagascar’s president, Andry Rajoelina, is reported to have fled...On Saturday, some Capsat soldiers had posted a video...: “Let us join forces, military, gendarmes and police, and refuse to be paid to shoot our friends, our brothers and our sisters..."

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Madagascar president flees after losing support of key army unit

Elite Capsat unit that played a major role in Andry Rajoelina’s rise to presidency joined gen Z protests against corruption

www.theguardian.com

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 1d

I finally learned what simp and sigma mean; please don't make me have to figure out 6-7. 😭

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 1d

Tolkien desperately needed an editor to save him from his most self-indulgent impulses.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 1d

She thanks you!