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alex gradet, smiling politely
@atomicgiant.bsky.social
alex gradet // he/him
writer/producer/director/editor for hire

i could be hitting the pen & listening to daft punk's final masterpiece, 2013's "random access memories," yet i am here.

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this next one is the first song on our new album.
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HI NEW FOLLOWERS!

A few things about me:

1. My feed is my cocktail party, act right or get blocked
2. Trans rights are human rights
3. Nazis can eat shit
4. I once highfived Joseph Gordon Levitt at the SNL afterparty
5. I’m open to work for yr writing/directing/producing/editing needs (gradet.com)
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Yes, gas and groceries are expensive right now, but let's keep it in perspective:

It's in service of vaporizing children so a pedophile doesn't have to die in jail.
September 18, 2026 at 5:55 PM
you remind me of the babe
September 18, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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from the Japanese dub of community
September 17, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Billionaires: IF YOU MAKE US PAY TAXES, WE'LL LEAVE CALIFORNIA. WE MEAN IT.

Me: No you don't. None of you ever does.

Billionaires: YUH HUH. IF YOU RAISE OUR TAXES, WE'RE GONNA LEAVE

Me: You're not contributing tax revenue to the state. Why do I care where you live?
September 17, 2026 at 6:16 PM
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god this is good
September 17, 2026 at 1:24 AM
cooking some new stuff, dropping soon …
September 17, 2026 at 1:28 AM
You guys everything’s shit, but rn I’m faded as old jeans, listening to an album by the 70s French electronic band Didier Marouani & Space, and if you’re fretting “what if the album cover isn’t a painting of a sci-fi hovercraft skimming alien seas?” let me reassure you: your concerns are baseless
Just Blue by Space on Apple Music
Album · 1978 · 7 Songs
music.apple.com
September 16, 2026 at 3:14 AM
It can (and should) be Fuck Macklemore AND Fuck Ed Sheeran AND Fuck Robert Kraft AND Free Palestine
September 16, 2026 at 2:26 AM
HAPPY 55TH ANNY TO THE KING.
COLUMBO starring Peter Falk debuted as a series #OTD in 1971.

“He was perfect,” co-creator William Link said. "And then he got better.” #TVSky #Columbo #ClassicTV
September 16, 2026 at 12:09 AM
No powers, no staff, no destiny. Just a king doing the right thing for his ppl.
September 15, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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Ed Sheeran's tour bus.
September 15, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Hunter the Hungry just dropped out of Ed Sheeran’s tour.
September 15, 2026 at 9:59 PM
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obsessed with this clip of Ken Jennings supporting class revolution on his original Jeopardy run lmao
September 15, 2026 at 1:09 PM
GRIMOTHY
JASON
REAPER.

You were already on our “needs improvement” list over Dolly and Tim, and now you’re doing takesies-backsies?

You do not have a lot of time to turn this semester around, young man.
September 15, 2026 at 5:21 AM
Glass Onion (feat Dave Bautista.)
September 15, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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A third plane has hit LGBTQ towers
RIP Bob Mackie, the legend
September 14, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your résumé?

Me: (rises from chair, buttons suit jacket as i cross the room, throws open windows like scrooge on christmas to gesture to the hieronymous bosch painting of the entertainment industry)
September 14, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Ed Sheeran’s a whole bitch.
September 14, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Waitaminnit, if origin story Daphne is a Buffy fan, then she has spent years hearing that gang referred to as “the Scoobys” with no frame of reference for it, and is headed toward an eventual emotional breakdown upon learning that she and her cohort are a fictional construct, in this essay I will 
September 14, 2026 at 3:50 PM
It’s rare you can spot the exact moment a joke hits its expiration date, but here’s POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING platforming Pink in a song that roasts Macklemore.
September 14, 2026 at 3:22 PM
When Sober Me rearranges the freezer I’m building a lil scavenger hunt for when High Me wants ice cream.
September 14, 2026 at 3:25 AM
... i'm so confused right now.
September 12, 2026 at 9:09 PM
In a shocking dereliction of the call to “Never Forget,” it took me till 8:17p pacific time to remember this is the 9th anniversary of Ted Cruz liking a porn tweet.
September 12, 2026 at 3:32 AM
what i looked like in the 80s
September 12, 2026 at 1:53 AM
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September 11, 2026 at 9:16 PM