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soothsaying bog beauty🌲🤮 my published writing focuses on identity, technology, corporeality, grief, grace, and magic 📚 • I am a squirrel doing karaoke 🎤🐿

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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
7 years
Things are shit but the #1 artist in America is a black woman who escaped domestic violence through sex work, so let's fight another day
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@AlanaMassey
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4 years
2020 is off to a rough start but things will turn around in February when the bat quarters come out
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
7 years
Theaters:Come see Ghostbusters reboot! Men: FUCK ACTION MOVIES W/ GIRLS Theaters: K, you're not invited to Wonder Woman Men: BUT MY RIGHTS!
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@AlanaMassey
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5 years
An upsetting thing about my life is that I’ll never be able to roast my exes as well as my dad can. “It felt like talking to a skateboard” and “I always wondered if he was just quiet or a coward...now we know” and “we liked him for the same reasons you did, which no one knows”
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
7 years
This is actually his full legal name
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
7 years
Happy 4 year anniversary to the time I had sex in a swamp and got a UTI that resisted 3 antibiotics and spread to my kidneys!
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
7 years
My favorite cruel act is referring to Game of Thrones as "Throne Games" in convos with men, having them correct me, then continue saying it.
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
7 years
Domestic violence is not a warning sign. It is a violent crime, a social injustice, and worth eradicating all by itself.
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The New Yorker
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It’s time to recognize domestic violence and misogynistic anger for the warning signs they often are. #TNYarchive
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@AlanaMassey
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7 years
I want to know what his talents are
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
6 years
Say what you will about Vanilla Ice, "Stop, collaborate, and listen" is simple but solid praxis for those seeking to be allies.
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
7 years
A gathering of two or more average looking white men is referred to by biologists as "a podcast."
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
5 years
I just want to announce that for the first time in my life, I canceled a free 7-day trial subscription before the week was out. So yes, anyone can turn their whole fucking life around.
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
7 years
Him on Bumble versus him standing outside the bar for your first date
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
4 years
The face of a man who I learned, after incurring great cost and shedding many tears, has been faking an injury in order to be picked up and carried up the stairs to his favorite side of his favorite bed.
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
7 years
I don't get why it's a big deal that this is Pennywise. Looks like every other clown that tried to ruin my life.
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
6 years
Beloved celebrity who is routinely treated terribly on Twitter but ignores it all until austerely & randomly selecting one fucking idiot who thought they were a bitch they could sleep on and dragging them to Hell is the best Twitter.
@Louis_Tomlinson
Louis Tomlinson
6 years
@KarlPhillips_ Shut up dickhead. Cheer up
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
4 years
One of my absolute favorite things in the world is how when a baby or small child is really tired, we earnestly say, “They had a big day,” because they like, went on a swing, briefly saw a squirrel and heard a leaf crunch. As a culture, we 100% agree to the day size assessment ❤️
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
7 years
Girls are brave. Women are brave.
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@AlanaMassey
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5 years
The moral of this show is to always listen to the gingers early #GoT
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
4 years
Woke up to the memory of a time in college when a very proper, VERY English friend was trying to recall the name of a character in a children’s show. “The green one, you know?Disagreeable, quite shouty? Lives in the rubbish.” She meant Oscar the Grouch.
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
7 years
I found it. I found The Worst Job In Media.
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@AlanaMassey
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7 years
We live in a rotten world worth fighting for.
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
7 years
Mom: What did you do today? Me: I went online. Mom: Oh, what did you do there? Me:
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
5 years
Unequivocally: yes.
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FadiappierreT☂︎☂︎☂︎☂︎
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
6 years
I once had a guy take a condom off during sex. When I saw and tried to get him off me, he raped me so violently I bled enough for it to soak through and down my tights to my shoes when I left. Take your grains of salt and choke on them, Sullivan.
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
7 years
Who is going to to tell him
@SenSanders
Bernie Sanders
7 years
If you cannot win an election based on your ideas, then get the hell out of politics.
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@AlanaMassey
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5 years
Am I supposed to eat it or fuck it
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
6 years
"Unlimited Paid Time Off" is Silicon Valley's version of the Marshmallow Test on its workers, testing their will and devotion. A truly worker-centric model of care for personal lives of employees would be "# Of Days Mandatory Paid Time Off."
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@AlanaMassey
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5 years
Let them learn
@ArkansasOnline
AR Democrat-Gazette
5 years
VIDEO: Multiple raccoons take over the library at Arkansas State »
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
3 years
All I’m looking for in a pharmacy is my life-saving prescription drugs and...
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
2 years
Nothing but RESPECT for my new King Charles
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
4 years
He’s taken a hostage.
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
6 years
What if the problem isn't stimulants but the mandate for productivity What if the problem isn't benzos but the mandate to stay calm in actual chaos What if the problem isn't opioids but the mandate to work like a machine that can't suffer to keep you and your loved ones alive
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
2 months
I have not been this nervous submitting an essay since applying early admission to NYU 20 years ago. Wish me and Keith luck that Brian might do us the honor, and pursue adopting him yourself because he deserves the best and that might be you and not me! It’s Brian’s life!
@PSPCA
Pennsylvania SPCA
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There's no other way to put it - Brian is sad. It's been 5 months since he has been looking for a forever home and with every day that passes, we can see the light in his eye dim little by little. We know his people are out there somewhere. We hope they find him today.
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
7 years
I am obsessed with the name of this spider killing spray I just bought.
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
7 years
No one will beat my friend's dad at consoling heartbreak after she explained her breakup & he yelled, "That's it, he is OFF THE PRAYER LIST"
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
7 years
@doree That's a dress I could go out with my girls in...and immediately start accusing the elderly in town of witchcraft.
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
6 years
Black voters don't exist to save white voters from themselves, it is time to more actively punish our white voting family and friends who make so close a race possible.
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
4 years
Do you have a favorite celebrity who is sexy/has definitely done sex but still has decidedly virgin energy? Mine are David Byrne and Keanu Reeves. I’m deeply disinterested in replies protesting my picks (boring! Not the game’s premise!) but show me your fave famous virgin vibe
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
8 years
"Sir, your first wife is here. She doesn't look pleased."
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
5 years
Please stop using clinical and diagnostic language to describe other people’s personalities. Not all vanity is narcissism, not all immaturity is histrionic, not all perceived failures to contribute equally to a relationship are borderline.
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
3 years
Garth Brooks has been one of the most vocal and generous supporters of progressive causes for his entire career, he constantly maxes out his campaign contributions and then gives bajillions to lefty shit. I’ll not have him besmirched here.
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
4 years
She is always doing freak bitch shit on her Instagram, she was slutting it up so iconically in 2010 there were 5 major contenders for who her kid’s dad was AND SHE HAS STILL NEVER TOLD and basically said that fathers are a health hazard to children’s self-esteem. Would die for.
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
7 years
The nurse who took this photo said, "You better send this to your big nasty dick boyfriend, show him what he done to you."
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
4 years
I live in vacation home hotbed for NYC’s rich who fled. So far I have witnessed them verbally abuse grocery store workers, haggle w/ their NYC maids, and one offered me $300 for this when I was offering spritzes to cashiers & which I’ve always stocked cause I’m immunocompromised
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
7 years
A white man murders a black man and his STATED RACIST MURDER MOTIVE gets fewer words in @NYDailyNews than the dead man's prior arrests.
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
3 years
Men, what is preventing you from dressing like this
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
7 years
This early Game of Thrones pic should be cover of "Boxcar Children 6: Blue Bay Mystery" where the kids find an odd shipwrecked castaway boy
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
5 years
"Alana, nothing good ever came out of the state of Arkansas and then chose to go back." - My mom, a born and bred Arkansan, on a guy she never even met but that I was pretty torn up about.
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
7 years
Hello, I wrote about how I used to get paid to consensually watch men jerk off for a major part of my income and why I was NOT what the likes of Louis CK would be "cured" by:
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
3 years
Has anything fucked you up more than learning how the name Siobhan is pronounced
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
6 years
Emerging and established writers: Don't ever let anyone (writer or otherwise) tell you that writing marketing emails, web copy, e-commerce descriptions, social media posts, or brand blogs is "beneath" you or anyone else. We're all out here trying to live, don't be ghouls.
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
9 years
God bless the photo editor who was like "Let's clear up right away that the man who said this is a complete moron" http://t.co/oG80S9HnPR
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
4 years
This older Russian woman going back years on my Insta grid and only liking photos of my dad is god-level mind gamer
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
4 years
I kill myself immediately and without hesitation.
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
7 years
The takeaway: Don't have sex in swamps, always finish your full round of antibiotics, and also Superbug Bacteria are coming for us all, HIDE
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
5 years
If Heaven is real, it is these two illiterate ginger cats coming to bear one another good tidings and butcher the spelling of each other’s (and their own) names in the process, on loop, into eternity
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
3 years
I woke up and thought I’d shit the bed AND developed Covid symptoms in one night because I couldn’t smell said shit when in reality I had simply fallen asleep eating a chocolate frosted Pop-Tart and rolled all over it, a memoir.
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
7 years
Pro Tip: No respectful conversation starts by calling human beings “revolting.”
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
6 years
If you were in your early 20s between 2008 and 2013 and confused about why you're so unhappy: Yes it was the Great Recession, but ALSO all of our best dance party music (LCD Soundsystem, MGMT, Passion Pit, Daft Punk) was about the pain of loss and the inevitability of death.
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
5 years
🎶Can you keep up? Baby boys, make me lose my breath 🎶
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
5 years
The really beautiful thing is, my parents are always absolutely 100% in "if you like him, we like him" mode and they welcome then with open arms and take them on int'l family vacations then the MINUTE it goes south and I'm ready to spar, they have WORDS
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
8 years
People calling Trump a 2nd grader don't know any 2nd graders: they like fair play, have good intentions, and are curious about the world.
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
5 years
This milk has precisely the energy I intend to bring into this spring.
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
8 years
We need to stop asking famous women which inspiring woman made her into a feminist and start asking her which act by a mediocre man did
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
7 years
James Comey is the new patron saint of Women Who Get Called Petty For Screenshotting All That Nonsense Just In Case It Adds Up
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
7 years
America
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
3 years
Made tiny friend on the road, transported him safely off the road he was crossing, going to lay down and let the earth eat me because it doesn’t get better than this
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
4 years
I spent 35 years completely oblivious to even the most basic plot of Pride & Prejudice beyond “there’s a feisty girl and a rude fellow in the rain” and today I said “fuck it” and I’m watching the 2005 movie and NO ONE TOLD ME THERE ARE FIVE SISTERS, I LIVE FOR PILES OF SISTERS
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
6 years
Teens are actually really good: part 69,666,420
@TheRoot
The Root
6 years
Maryland HS teacher fired after students use social media to uncover his white supremacist ties:
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
3 years
I can’t believe that Cruella’s parents were eaten in front of her by over a hundred rabid Dalmatians, no wonder
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
4 years
Real fuckin hard knock life hours for this goon over here
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
5 years
So ethical non-monogamy is a real and frequently misunderstood relational dynamic. Also a thing is that all guys I match with who reveal that that's their deal have LOST THEIR SHIT when I say I'm game but want to confirm boundaries with their primary partner first for my comfort.
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
6 years
Guess how many big media dudes DMed me to say this was great but wouldn't RT or fave it? Well, I made 11th hour additions to my book about how men conceive of women's accomplishments and they're all named in Chapter 6!
@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
6 years
If this mini-doc profile of me at my house featuring my sequin cropped halter doesn't convince you to buy my paperback, I don't know what will
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
6 years
“That shit will fuck you UP, man. Fuck.” -Woodstock bartender, discussing Charlotte’s Web with local bikers.
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
7 years
I did it for seven years. Twitter is more degrading overall.
@Lysinely
Lysinely👾
7 years
@AlanaMassey @arthur_affect Sex work is usually degrading. Ask those who've done it.
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Alana Massey
7 years
Live footage of Tucker Carlson (plaid jacket) attempting to confront @laurenduca (suit)
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
5 years
If a justice system must rely heavily on testimony from a morally bankrupt billionaire sadist rapist in order to convict OTHER rich rapists because victims & witnesses corroborating testimony is insufficiently valuable then Jeff's neck is the least broken part of the whole thing.
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
6 years
I wrote about how #SESTA will absolutely decimate access to safety info, community, and safe working conditions that I myself used to get out of danger during sex work and the hypocrisy of celebs who endorse it
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
8 years
The world would tip off its axis with the weight of brilliance if women could spend time sharing their ideas & not defending their humanity.
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
5 years
I have found myself in the company of a queen. All hail her majesty, Pumpernickel.
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
5 years
Everyone who has ever actually read a real tampon box knows that there is nothing that could make them more scary than the real and extremely disturbing warning on them to be hyper vigilant lest you get toxic shock syndrome and DIE HORRIBLY WITHIN MINUTES.
@menwritewomen
Meg Vondriska
5 years
this is more terrifying than the clown, tbh #submission (IT, Stephen King)
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
7 years
Pro Tip: Basic decency is not emotional labor.
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
4 years
got as far as the "It's a hard knock life" scene rewatching Annie for the first time in 20 years and like, who among us would not become a malevolent alcoholic grifter if we were the sole care provider for 15+ kids under 12? justice for comrade hannigan.
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
4 years
Friends and enemies alike: I don’t work for the US Treasury or the Federal Reserve! I don’t decide what goes on the currency, stop emailing my little wife!
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
7 years
My fall style inspiration
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Alana Massey
7 years
In 2017, if someone refuses to call you their girlfriend but you're doing girlfriend work, both emotionally and as routine, dump them.
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
7 years
Companies that employ you feel no sense of loyalty toward you and would drop you in a second for their bottom line, treat them the same way
@lanikaps
ilana kaplan
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what's the best career advice you've ever received?
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
4 years
When covid hit LA hard in April, my best friend Eva started walking around w/ duffel bags of sandwiches and water for the unhoused in her area and If you know her, OF COURSE she did. Some pals joined up now they serve 15K meals and 10K hygiene kits a month. They contain this:
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Alana Massey
7 years
Saying you were gay in the 1950s could get you arrested and involuntary committed so nah
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Alana Massey
4 years
I love how the premise of Garfield was that he was a real humorless piece of shit cat and everyone just got the fuck on board for life.
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Alana Massey
3 years
Her full-length gritty origin story WHEN
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
7 years
You issued $640 billion in mortgage-backed securities before the 2008 financial crisis.
@BofA_News
Bank of America News
7 years
We are withdrawing our funding
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
4 years
This filmed at my high school the summer me + several nerds had to do PE summer school to make room for a Speech & Debate class period. Production painted our lockers red overnight in a low-budge spray that destroyed my favorite Quicksilver shorts and Vans. They’re the villains.
@Variety
Variety
4 years
Who is the villain in #BringItOn ? "The villain is your own behavior. The villain is your own ethical moral compass. Like, how are you going to behave in a situation? Are you going to choose well or chose poorly"
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
6 years
Whenever I’m sad or overwhelmed, I look at this photo of Bjork and her son in their magic country and feel peace again.
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Alana Massey
7 years
It's true, punching Nazis is not ideal. Killing Nazis and putting their surviving leadership on trial for the world is ideal.
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
5 years
Look I’m excited about the Geri/Mel B sex too, but the most intimate act in Spice Girls history was on Victoria’s charming moving-to-LA press tour in ‘07 when asked a celeb she hated. Not missing a beat, she said she’d like to cut Eddie Murphy’s dick off for mistreating Mel B.
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
3 years
After 5 hours in the ER, I was bid adieu with, “remember that it’s normal that when you wake up tomorrow, it’s going to hurt A LOT WORSE. Also, expect nightmares.” I can’t tell you how in love I am with seat belts, air bags, and all of you supportive baby angels!
@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
3 years
Hey friends, if I’m not answering texts, it’s cause this happened and I’m in the hospital. Thank you to my seatbelt and airbags for saving my life and to the nice man who cut it off me because it had trapped me inside and thanks to my sun roof, which I crawled out through! Yay!
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@AlanaMassey
Alana Massey
7 years
Ask the most vocal male feminist ally in your industry what his salary is
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