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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when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
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What a great name.
Sometimes Jimmi Pickles gets bored when I’m working and I’ll look up and she’s just in some random place
November 19, 2025 at 6:52 PM
What a great name.
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This is an excellent story. We got similar pitches from the same writer at Defector and if they had not been entirely generated by someone plugging prompts into The Fabulism Device they really would've been cool.
A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This is an excellent story. We got similar pitches from the same writer at Defector and if they had not been entirely generated by someone plugging prompts into The Fabulism Device they really would've been cool.
I wrote and took some photos of this week's adventure rehoming a mouse creativityandcontentment.com/2025/11/19/a... #mouse #mice
A Mouse with Stockholm Syndrome (A Photo Essay)
Last week I wrote about some kittens who came in from the cold, so it seems appropriate this week to write about a mouse escaping the chilly outside temperatures. He (I’m using a male pronoun here,…
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November 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I wrote and took some photos of this week's adventure rehoming a mouse creativityandcontentment.com/2025/11/19/a... #mouse #mice
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My brother's been an antiques and collectibles dealer for...40 years. He started as a kid! So of COURSE we launched a podcast.
Our latest episode's on advertising...and it's NOT just old signs: pickforprofit.podbean.com/e/get-on-the...
#etsyseller #eBaySeller #CollectiblesCommunity #antiques
Our latest episode's on advertising...and it's NOT just old signs: pickforprofit.podbean.com/e/get-on-the...
#etsyseller #eBaySeller #CollectiblesCommunity #antiques
November 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
My brother's been an antiques and collectibles dealer for...40 years. He started as a kid! So of COURSE we launched a podcast.
Our latest episode's on advertising...and it's NOT just old signs: pickforprofit.podbean.com/e/get-on-the...
#etsyseller #eBaySeller #CollectiblesCommunity #antiques
Our latest episode's on advertising...and it's NOT just old signs: pickforprofit.podbean.com/e/get-on-the...
#etsyseller #eBaySeller #CollectiblesCommunity #antiques
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Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done
November 18, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done
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jesus
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
jesus
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It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.
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i am tired of being gaslit by medical offices, you have never once changed the options of the phone menu. sick of your lies actually
November 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
i am tired of being gaslit by medical offices, you have never once changed the options of the phone menu. sick of your lies actually
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Every so often it’s useful to answer some of the questions I get asked on here.
1. Yes they are.
2. Not the whole message, obviously.
3. In the garage, mainly.
4. No, it wouldn’t be practical. Sorry.
5. Purely random.
Cheers, T.
1. Yes they are.
2. Not the whole message, obviously.
3. In the garage, mainly.
4. No, it wouldn’t be practical. Sorry.
5. Purely random.
Cheers, T.
November 16, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Every so often it’s useful to answer some of the questions I get asked on here.
1. Yes they are.
2. Not the whole message, obviously.
3. In the garage, mainly.
4. No, it wouldn’t be practical. Sorry.
5. Purely random.
Cheers, T.
1. Yes they are.
2. Not the whole message, obviously.
3. In the garage, mainly.
4. No, it wouldn’t be practical. Sorry.
5. Purely random.
Cheers, T.
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Hope everyone had a good week! I'm going to do a giveaway for this month's print and I'll choose a winner tomorrow night.
Join the patreon for free to participate 👇
www.patreon.com/c/Cristian_uy
Join the patreon for free to participate 👇
www.patreon.com/c/Cristian_uy
November 16, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Hope everyone had a good week! I'm going to do a giveaway for this month's print and I'll choose a winner tomorrow night.
Join the patreon for free to participate 👇
www.patreon.com/c/Cristian_uy
Join the patreon for free to participate 👇
www.patreon.com/c/Cristian_uy
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"What need have I of all your sacrifices?" says the Lord...
Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is offensive to Me...
Learn to do good. Seek justice. Aid the oppressed. Uphold the rights of the orphan. Plead for the widow."
Isaiah 1.11 to 17
Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is offensive to Me...
Learn to do good. Seek justice. Aid the oppressed. Uphold the rights of the orphan. Plead for the widow."
Isaiah 1.11 to 17
From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 10:21 PM
"What need have I of all your sacrifices?" says the Lord...
Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is offensive to Me...
Learn to do good. Seek justice. Aid the oppressed. Uphold the rights of the orphan. Plead for the widow."
Isaiah 1.11 to 17
Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is offensive to Me...
Learn to do good. Seek justice. Aid the oppressed. Uphold the rights of the orphan. Plead for the widow."
Isaiah 1.11 to 17
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Incredibly smart PR tactic from ICE to continue assaulting very handsome priests
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 15, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Incredibly smart PR tactic from ICE to continue assaulting very handsome priests
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I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke
history is a fucking joke lmao
history is a fucking joke lmao
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke
history is a fucking joke lmao
history is a fucking joke lmao
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do you have any games on your phone
November 14, 2025 at 4:20 AM
do you have any games on your phone
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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'"
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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.
futurism.com
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 😘