Alissa Grosso
@alissagrosso.bsky.social
I write books and dabble in artsy stuff. She/Her More about my books at alissagrosso.com and more about my art at alissacarin.com
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For those who wished M3GAN was an aspirational, feel-good story of capitalism done right, well...
toy company CEOs: "at long last, we have created the Sinister Talking Doll Factory from the acclaimed movie 'Don't Create the Sinister Talking Doll Factory'"
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AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches
AI-powered toys are flying off the shelves -- but they're engaging in horrifically inappropriate conversations with children.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
For those who wished M3GAN was an aspirational, feel-good story of capitalism done right, well...
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I wasn't actually going for Subaru in it's natural environment pic, but if I say the name Richard Attenborough, you'll read the next line in your head in his voice.
Here's Paul's Subaru XV parked up with an Aurora Australis dazzling in the night sky of the rugged South Otago Coast of New Zealand
Here's Paul's Subaru XV parked up with an Aurora Australis dazzling in the night sky of the rugged South Otago Coast of New Zealand
November 13, 2025 at 10:48 AM
I wasn't actually going for Subaru in it's natural environment pic, but if I say the name Richard Attenborough, you'll read the next line in your head in his voice.
Here's Paul's Subaru XV parked up with an Aurora Australis dazzling in the night sky of the rugged South Otago Coast of New Zealand
Here's Paul's Subaru XV parked up with an Aurora Australis dazzling in the night sky of the rugged South Otago Coast of New Zealand
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I know that this information has been floating around for some time now, but if anyone needs some dots connected, here goes:
November 13, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Donation given when sold: artisan copper #pawprints in hearts #earrings w/ translucent purple lampwork beads! via @shadowdogdesigns.bsky.social
Link: bit.ly/PawsomeSD
#ShopSmall #SmallBiz #DogLover #PawPrintEarrings
Link: bit.ly/PawsomeSD
#ShopSmall #SmallBiz #DogLover #PawPrintEarrings
November 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Donation given when sold: artisan copper #pawprints in hearts #earrings w/ translucent purple lampwork beads! via @shadowdogdesigns.bsky.social
Link: bit.ly/PawsomeSD
#ShopSmall #SmallBiz #DogLover #PawPrintEarrings
Link: bit.ly/PawsomeSD
#ShopSmall #SmallBiz #DogLover #PawPrintEarrings
Wrote about that time I rescued two kittens creativityandcontentment.com/2025/11/12/t... #cats
The Kittens Who Came in from the Cold
When I looked outside this morning I saw there was ice on a puddle out there. So it would seem that colder weather is here, and that reminded me of another fall many moons ago when my little househ…
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November 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Wrote about that time I rescued two kittens creativityandcontentment.com/2025/11/12/t... #cats
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Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.
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If you're looking for the clown, he's two storm drains over
August 1, 2024 at 10:40 AM
If you're looking for the clown, he's two storm drains over
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Think about buying a car, a fun, stress-free negotiating process that everybody loves. Now imagine that if you don’t buy a car you die and if you buy the wrong car you also die
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Think about buying a car, a fun, stress-free negotiating process that everybody loves. Now imagine that if you don’t buy a car you die and if you buy the wrong car you also die
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It's a dark time for artists. Many are struggling!
It's easy to buy gifts online. When you buy from *artists*, you're supporting working people, instead of making rich jerks richer.
This fall, send your present $$ to an artist's shop!
Artists! Drop your shop links!
& check out SquidFacts.net 😘
It's easy to buy gifts online. When you buy from *artists*, you're supporting working people, instead of making rich jerks richer.
This fall, send your present $$ to an artist's shop!
Artists! Drop your shop links!
& check out SquidFacts.net 😘
November 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
It's a dark time for artists. Many are struggling!
It's easy to buy gifts online. When you buy from *artists*, you're supporting working people, instead of making rich jerks richer.
This fall, send your present $$ to an artist's shop!
Artists! Drop your shop links!
& check out SquidFacts.net 😘
It's easy to buy gifts online. When you buy from *artists*, you're supporting working people, instead of making rich jerks richer.
This fall, send your present $$ to an artist's shop!
Artists! Drop your shop links!
& check out SquidFacts.net 😘
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Who wants some CHEAP BOOK LOOT? Right on, I've got your back - behold: Here's what's newer, older, and super-cheap on promo from around the internet today...starting with IT WAS HER HOUSE FIRST but including GRAVE RESERVATIONS and MORE: www.cheriepriest.com/blog/novembe...
November Deals from around the Internet — The Haunt*
Hello and welcome to Monday (such as it is). Spooky season may have passed, but book deals know no such limitations - so here’s what I found around the web, for your bargain-purchasing and leisure-rea...
www.cheriepriest.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Who wants some CHEAP BOOK LOOT? Right on, I've got your back - behold: Here's what's newer, older, and super-cheap on promo from around the internet today...starting with IT WAS HER HOUSE FIRST but including GRAVE RESERVATIONS and MORE: www.cheriepriest.com/blog/novembe...
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One of the funner moments from my South Africa trip occurred when these two little borbs decided to chase each other on the edge a lagoon.
(They're Black Crakes, btw.)
(They're Black Crakes, btw.)
November 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
One of the funner moments from my South Africa trip occurred when these two little borbs decided to chase each other on the edge a lagoon.
(They're Black Crakes, btw.)
(They're Black Crakes, btw.)
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I have several small paintings in my shop, including framed pieces. These are nice for gifting if you happen to be looking for gift ideas.
Tisha Mark ©2025, To Dream by the Sea No. 2503, oil on gessobord, 4"x4"
Available:
tishamark.com/product/to-d...
#art #painting #bsnm #SciArt #TraditionalArt
Tisha Mark ©2025, To Dream by the Sea No. 2503, oil on gessobord, 4"x4"
Available:
tishamark.com/product/to-d...
#art #painting #bsnm #SciArt #TraditionalArt
November 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I have several small paintings in my shop, including framed pieces. These are nice for gifting if you happen to be looking for gift ideas.
Tisha Mark ©2025, To Dream by the Sea No. 2503, oil on gessobord, 4"x4"
Available:
tishamark.com/product/to-d...
#art #painting #bsnm #SciArt #TraditionalArt
Tisha Mark ©2025, To Dream by the Sea No. 2503, oil on gessobord, 4"x4"
Available:
tishamark.com/product/to-d...
#art #painting #bsnm #SciArt #TraditionalArt
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A Tufted Titmouse perched in a Tamarack tree. Tamarack trees are the only conifers that shed their needles in the winter, which turn yellow before dropping.
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
A Tufted Titmouse perched in a Tamarack tree. Tamarack trees are the only conifers that shed their needles in the winter, which turn yellow before dropping.
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I invite some friends over. Everyone seems to be having a good time, but they keep asking about some smell. I don't know what they're talking about.
Eventually I have to pee, so I stand up and start pissing all over the carpet. Everyone stares. "What? It's basically ammonia. It evaporates!" Idiots.
Eventually I have to pee, so I stand up and start pissing all over the carpet. Everyone stares. "What? It's basically ammonia. It evaporates!" Idiots.
November 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I invite some friends over. Everyone seems to be having a good time, but they keep asking about some smell. I don't know what they're talking about.
Eventually I have to pee, so I stand up and start pissing all over the carpet. Everyone stares. "What? It's basically ammonia. It evaporates!" Idiots.
Eventually I have to pee, so I stand up and start pissing all over the carpet. Everyone stares. "What? It's basically ammonia. It evaporates!" Idiots.
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Today's a great day to support some creators.
Writers and artists and creatives of all sorts: reply with a link to one of your works. And feel free to tell us about it.
Everyone: let's check through the replies and buy some creations and support some human beings.
Writers and artists and creatives of all sorts: reply with a link to one of your works. And feel free to tell us about it.
Everyone: let's check through the replies and buy some creations and support some human beings.
November 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Today's a great day to support some creators.
Writers and artists and creatives of all sorts: reply with a link to one of your works. And feel free to tell us about it.
Everyone: let's check through the replies and buy some creations and support some human beings.
Writers and artists and creatives of all sorts: reply with a link to one of your works. And feel free to tell us about it.
Everyone: let's check through the replies and buy some creations and support some human beings.
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so I'm trying something new... a monthly print club!
€15 a month gets you a limited edition linocut print (13×18cm 320gr paper) + 1 sticker.
basically a new print delivery in your door every month and a way to support my work :)
cristianpintos.com/shop/product...
€15 a month gets you a limited edition linocut print (13×18cm 320gr paper) + 1 sticker.
basically a new print delivery in your door every month and a way to support my work :)
cristianpintos.com/shop/product...
November 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
so I'm trying something new... a monthly print club!
€15 a month gets you a limited edition linocut print (13×18cm 320gr paper) + 1 sticker.
basically a new print delivery in your door every month and a way to support my work :)
cristianpintos.com/shop/product...
€15 a month gets you a limited edition linocut print (13×18cm 320gr paper) + 1 sticker.
basically a new print delivery in your door every month and a way to support my work :)
cristianpintos.com/shop/product...
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As someone who has previously been a starving writer treated like a disposable tool, this is both hilarious and hitting very close to home.
November 9, 2025 at 10:56 AM
As someone who has previously been a starving writer treated like a disposable tool, this is both hilarious and hitting very close to home.
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I’m mothballing my show MICHAEL BRUNSTROM SINGS TEN SONGS ABOUT MOTHS. One last performance at Aces & Eights on Tuesday 2 December. No tickets: just rock up.
www.acesandeightssaloonbar.com/events/micha...
www.acesandeightssaloonbar.com/events/micha...
Michael Brunström Sings Ten Songs About Moths - Aces and Eights Saloon Bar
02/12/2025 @ 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm -
www.acesandeightssaloonbar.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I’m mothballing my show MICHAEL BRUNSTROM SINGS TEN SONGS ABOUT MOTHS. One last performance at Aces & Eights on Tuesday 2 December. No tickets: just rock up.
www.acesandeightssaloonbar.com/events/micha...
www.acesandeightssaloonbar.com/events/micha...
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Because all y’all have been so supportive of my weird obsessive work:
This weekend you can use the code ALFHOG for 25% off anything in my store. 🪶📊🎨
www.jerthorp.me/category/of-...
This weekend you can use the code ALFHOG for 25% off anything in my store. 🪶📊🎨
www.jerthorp.me/category/of-...
November 7, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Because all y’all have been so supportive of my weird obsessive work:
This weekend you can use the code ALFHOG for 25% off anything in my store. 🪶📊🎨
www.jerthorp.me/category/of-...
This weekend you can use the code ALFHOG for 25% off anything in my store. 🪶📊🎨
www.jerthorp.me/category/of-...
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I tried to whistle over a stray cat in my neighborhood and a woman walked by, who I worried thought I whistled at her. So I said “im whistling at the cat” but when I looked back down at it I realized it was just an old fast food bag
November 8, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I tried to whistle over a stray cat in my neighborhood and a woman walked by, who I worried thought I whistled at her. So I said “im whistling at the cat” but when I looked back down at it I realized it was just an old fast food bag
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My wife just opened up a shop for her beautiful and terrifying quilts! Featuring some exclusive Swan Boy designs from yours truly. Why, you'd be a FOOL to miss out: nicole-sews.bigcartel.com
nicole sews
nicole-sews.bigcartel.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:37 AM
My wife just opened up a shop for her beautiful and terrifying quilts! Featuring some exclusive Swan Boy designs from yours truly. Why, you'd be a FOOL to miss out: nicole-sews.bigcartel.com
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he would pay for SNAP is all i'm saying and he's not even nice to me
November 8, 2025 at 12:59 AM
he would pay for SNAP is all i'm saying and he's not even nice to me
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Sandhill Cranes flying past on a foggy morning.
November 7, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Sandhill Cranes flying past on a foggy morning.