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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 36m

gaaaaaahhhhh they’ve pushed Copilot onto my work laptop and I hate it so much. If they can’t tell me how to remove it, I’m doing all my work in Notepad now.

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Ryan Howard (BJ Novak) Taking Notes

Alt: Ryan Howard (BJ Novak) Taking Notes

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I struggle to balance society’s ability to generate, harvest, and donate stem cells to rebuild a body from cancer — coexisting with this silly bitch and MAHA self-induced disease. Just, goddammit humanity.

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You gotta really get in there to appreciate the full bouquet.

Roxy the dog, with her harness and leash on morning walk, with her whole face buried in a pile of leaves in the street.

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The makers of Inflatable Creepy Tree say this is not a lifesaving device, to which I say challenge accepted. 🍺

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When your guard dog is Definitely Awake and totally focused on their job as lookout

Roxy the dog, sitting on the couch, one front leg hooked over a pillow. She’s got her head up and her ears back, but her eyes are closed and her head is getting heavy (as evidenced by numerous chin rolls around her neck).

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There’s no bad way to support a book! 😍

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I have never in my life toasted a toaster pastry. I have, as a Fancy Grown Adult, started microwaving them for 12 seconds.

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Blues Brothers Bros

Alt: Blues Brothers clinking glasses in an expensive restaurant.

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Roxy gets very excited to bring her fancy new treat downstairs to the office where she can nap near it all day.

Roxy the dog curled up on her fuzzy bed, several inches away from a pig ear chew treat.

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Coincidentally, I’ve updated the documentation for how I’d like to be interred when the time comes. (Pre-armed walking dead!) 😈

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I don’t usually do knitting projects that require picking up stitches along a vertical. I concocted a system and by golly it worked.

A garter-knit strip of fabric annotated with dozens of different-colored stitch markers and clips to track stitches to skip and counting tens to pick up the right number of stitches along the edge.

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My boss asked if I wanted to renew the Grammarly license they got me. I’ve never installed it, so I happily said Nope! His response was to offer that they’ll get me into Copilot Studio soon so I can use that instead. It’s like offering to burn me with a match instead of a lighter. No thanks, man.

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

That might still have been a conversation with his wife

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Roxy hopes your morning is going as well as hers.

Roxy the dog with a smug sleepy smile of a creature who’s never had a worry in her life.

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Someone is so mad that I’m not letting her back outside again to bark at the dog next door (who is outside barking nonstop).

Roxy, a 4-year-old AmStaff, lying on the living room floor. She is surrounded by toys and games and snacks, but stares balefully at being kept inside instead of running free outside to bark like a menace.

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

She had a whole conversation with Pennywise on our morning walk.

Roxy, wearing her harness and leash, stopped next to a sewer grate in the street. She is alert and fixated, with her ears up and her nose down to the grate.

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

@erikgrove.com is off to Worldcon! Ask me how I know. 😄 [yawns in 3 a.m. getting up for the airport drive]

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I taste-tested a delicious soup @erikgrove.com is making. On my second bite I tried to tell him “It’s not that spicy,” but instead I started coughing and tears rolled down my cheeks. So, um, I guess it’s kind of spicy. But I’m Midwestern, don’t let that sway you! 😂

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This episode of Strange New Worlds is the best thing I’ve ever seen and I need that Carol Kane muppet in my life. Christmas gift wish list is locked in.

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I need to start using “It’s not a coincidence” as an answer to things. I could take so much more credit at work without specifically saying I did something.

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Happy Gotcha Day, little chaos muffin. 🩷

Roxy lying under my chair on the patio, giving one wink to the camera.

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Tomorrow is 2 years since Roxy became a Grove, and she’s clearly thrilled with the life we’ve given her.

Roxy, a 4-year-old AmStaff, lying with her head on the couch. Her eyes are partially closed, and she has the weighted energy of the most exhausted dog who ever dogged.

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I was so excited when @erikgrove.com decided to hire an artist for his book and promo materials. I was not nearly excited enough.

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I feel like Roxy missed her calling as a little ragamuffin terrier in an 1870s mining town.

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Just a couple totally normal-size mid-August strawberries. 🩷 Quinaults are the best!

My left hand, open palm up, holding two juicy bright Quinault strawberries. One berry almost fills my palm, while the other berry is wide enough to cover half my fingers.

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I suppose at some point I get burned as a witch, in which case—worth it. 😁

About two dozen crows on the street—some flying in and out, most walking around picking up the dog kibble I left for them.

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

83% of the movie Obsession is the experience of living with a dog. WHY DON’T YOU LOVE ME ENOUGH [pees on floor waiting for you to return] 🎶 watching you sleep 🎵

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

83% of the movie Obsession is the experience of living with a dog. WHY DON’T YOU LOVE ME ENOUGH [pees on floor waiting for you to return] 🎶 watching you sleep 🎵

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Pry my em dashes from my cold—dead hands.

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

It’s 100 degrees today, so I told the dog to get in the shade. This was her compromise.

Roxy, a 4-year-old AmStaff, with a will of iron and a mind of her own. She’s lying flopped out on the ground, with 98% of her body in blistering sunshine. She’s got just the tiniest part of her face in very light partial shade. Her whole body is, in fact, 18 inches away from being fully in the shade.

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

She’s not up to anything, nope. No funny business here, nothing to see. 👀

Roxy, our 4-year-old AmStaff, crouched under an old table in the yard. She’s pausing briefly in her ritual of scratching up as much dirt as possible to roll her belly in.

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

It’s been a busy (expensive) few weeks—vet visits, plumbing and repairs, new glasses and phones, home service appointments. Very adulty, on top of a stubborn migraine. Reader, you can only imagine my joy when I remembered I could counter all this with eating a donut I’d bought last night.

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Jon Hamm Ooh

Alt: Jon Hamm blissed out dancing in a noisy club, ignoring all the people and flashing lights around him.

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I keep my phone display on grayscale, so I read this annotation as “That Ho Is Losing.” Honestly not mad at either option.

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

As a child, July was for play and adventure. As a young adult, it was for road trips and summer jobs. As a mid-40s, July is for utility providers to increase their rates by unpredictable amounts with little or no notice.

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Cat Sad

Alt: Gif of a cat in a vehicle, resting its head on the window and gazing outside as the scenery flashes past.

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Breakfast today was some freshly picked strawberries, blackberries from a neighbor’s hedge, and two El Dorado peaches from my miniature tree. I hate hot weather, but I could be persuaded to like summer for the tasty foraged snacks.

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LOTR: Pippin's Second Breakfast Request

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

We’re following up one of the greatest films in American cinema (JAWS) with perhaps one of the worst, National Treasure. Fortunately, I’m 3 gins deep so I’m ready for some nonsense, @erikgrove.com

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Annual 4th of July screening of JAWS with @erikgrove.com . This is pretty much the only time I really drink, this year I’m having Wild Roots orange bergamot gin with a lime seltzer. This movie remains flawless and the gin don’t hurt 🤘🏻

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I do toe-up with Fleegle heel in stockinette on 9” circulars, and it takes me so much longer than 10 hours a pair. 😂 This auction item is for a good cause, and an absolute steal!

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

We live in a sleepy little suburb of unincorporated county between small cities in Oregon. Why are there goddamn fighter jets flying low over our house.

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I know the bar is low in 2026, but I’m just going to hold on to the feeling of gratitude that when something goes wrong: a) I have a kind, capable, good-humored partner in @erikgrove.com and b) His troubleshooting process never, ever involves consulting AI.

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Will Ferrell's Sweet Baby Jesus Prayer

Alt: Will Ferrell's Sweet Baby Jesus Prayer

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I got an IKEA couch home from the store in my Prius. @erikgrove.com had to take the train, but this was never a question of whether there were trade-offs.

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

@erikgrove.com and I have our 13th anniversary coming up, and I deeply wish it had fallen on a Friday. Wear a Jason mask to dinner, tee up all the good movies for the weekend. The couple that slays together stays together 🖤

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

These are both (a) not her yard, and (b) different other neighbors’ yards that she’s never sprawled in before. When morning walk is 80 degrees, the entitled queen comes out to play.

Roxy, a 4-year-old AmStaff, lounging in the freshly watered grass of some random lawn on our morning walk.

Roxy, a 4-year-old AmStaff, lounging in the freshly watered grass of some other random lawn on our morning walk.

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Sometimes I have a conversation with @erikgrove.com that ends with me searching “king louis butt scalpel” and learning a whole bunch real fast.

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

@erikgrove.com doesn’t need a recording light for his office when he’s working on @connecttheplotspod.bsky.social , he’s got Roxy the house hippo. 🖤

Roxy the AmStaff terrier once again beached in the hallway outside Erik’s office door, melodramatically *not* being the center of attention.

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Rosina Grove (she/her) @rosinagrove.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Goddamn. When you think you’re ready for an ending, and then the epilogue comes out making you sob (in a good way). Stunning work, @lauracranehill.bsky.social! Beautifully written, engrossing story.

Audiobook cover art from the conclusion of WIFE SHAPED BODIES, by Laura Cranehill.

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