Caroline
@hairoline.bsky.social
If These Walls Could Talk 33 1/3
I long for the time (yesterday) when I didn't get this joke
Our love grew quickly, like bamboo. But distrust quickly spread underneath it, like the roots of bamboo. Looking back, I was naive. Green. The color of, you guessed it, more bamboo.
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I long for the time (yesterday) when I didn't get this joke
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A fun game is to go into the Epstein email docs and search for the names of people who have personally made policy decisions that hurt you or your loved ones.
November 16, 2025 at 2:17 PM
A fun game is to go into the Epstein email docs and search for the names of people who have personally made policy decisions that hurt you or your loved ones.
Clearly not enough people watched the German scifi horror series Cassandra cause they came home from work and their wife was watching it and they got sucked in and learned what happens when a scientist tries to imbue a computer with his wife's consciousness
November 14, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Clearly not enough people watched the German scifi horror series Cassandra cause they came home from work and their wife was watching it and they got sucked in and learned what happens when a scientist tries to imbue a computer with his wife's consciousness
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Writing about Elon Musk’s pay package without leading with this is like profiling John Wayne Gacy’s booming party clown career.
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Writing about Elon Musk’s pay package without leading with this is like profiling John Wayne Gacy’s booming party clown career.
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So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.
November 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.
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Substack should be the name of a domme's polycule, not a newsletter platform.
October 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Substack should be the name of a domme's polycule, not a newsletter platform.
Why aren't all Dems just showing up & declaring the session open, voting on shit, swearing in who needs to be sworn in, that's how government works now! You just say something unconstitutional is constitutional, something illegal is legal. If all Dems 👍 a bill, say it passed unanimously!
October 27, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Why aren't all Dems just showing up & declaring the session open, voting on shit, swearing in who needs to be sworn in, that's how government works now! You just say something unconstitutional is constitutional, something illegal is legal. If all Dems 👍 a bill, say it passed unanimously!
Natl involvement is fucking everything up, Bernie threw his whole weight behind Platner like 5mins into his run & ME thought omg he's The One, & now w/o him think Mills is a foregone conclusion w/Schumer help. When a phony lovebombs you for a month you drop him & move on! Let the primary play out!
The Democratic primary in this race will be held fully eight months from now in June 2026, there are nine active Democratic candidates, and there could be more! Even the filing deadline is still months away (March 15, I believe). I don’t get the PSA crew adopting a bunker mentality this early.
“Let him among you who is without a Nazi tattoo cast the first stone.” -The Bible
October 22, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Natl involvement is fucking everything up, Bernie threw his whole weight behind Platner like 5mins into his run & ME thought omg he's The One, & now w/o him think Mills is a foregone conclusion w/Schumer help. When a phony lovebombs you for a month you drop him & move on! Let the primary play out!
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"Oh so there's no path to redemption?" Sure there is. Most paths to redemption don't run through the U.S. Senate, though. Go, live a good life. Farm oysters. Diminish and go into the East and be an always improving Graham Platner. Do not be a Senator. And remove that fucking tat.
October 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
"Oh so there's no path to redemption?" Sure there is. Most paths to redemption don't run through the U.S. Senate, though. Go, live a good life. Farm oysters. Diminish and go into the East and be an always improving Graham Platner. Do not be a Senator. And remove that fucking tat.
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Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time.
All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner."
It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.
All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner."
It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.
October 21, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time.
All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner."
It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.
All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner."
It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.
Hey what happens when somebody barfs in a Waymo
October 20, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Hey what happens when somebody barfs in a Waymo
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The Trump shit video is basically this, but I will reiterate that if a Dem is critical of conservative voters it’s a generational scandal and when Republican pols literally post themselves shitting on their opposition virtually the entire elite politics and media class treats it as fine and normal
October 19, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The Trump shit video is basically this, but I will reiterate that if a Dem is critical of conservative voters it’s a generational scandal and when Republican pols literally post themselves shitting on their opposition virtually the entire elite politics and media class treats it as fine and normal
Turns out it took schadenfreude to finally motivate me to subscribe😎
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October 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Turns out it took schadenfreude to finally motivate me to subscribe😎
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i took a stab at editing ezra klein’s most recent comments about trans people and electoral politics to make a point often lost by the american liberal commentariat
![Klein: I think, from your perspective and from my perspective, we probably don’t believe hugely different things. But a huge amount of the country, a majority of the country, believes things about [edit: the jews], about what policy should be toward [edit: the jews], about what language is acceptable to [edit: the jews], that we would see as fundamentally and morally wrong.
And what politically — not in a column or something, but politically — should our relationship with those people be? Do we win them over? Do we compromise with them?
This feels like a very salient question. The Republican Party is going to make sure this is a relentlessly salient question.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qqx7bauacsfwi7yufzfqio32/bafkreifs4mi34rjqmefdfpu42ms3nwz7h4ldmccn6xggr366kwlhxelq74@jpeg)
September 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
i took a stab at editing ezra klein’s most recent comments about trans people and electoral politics to make a point often lost by the american liberal commentariat
@senangusking.bsky.social @pingree.house.gov @golden.house.gov will you instruct local law enforcement to protect Maine residents from ICE violating our constitutional rights & committing assault & kidnapping? They're escalating violence against civilians, we need elected officials' dramatic action.
A man was just chased and arrested outside of the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago. When legal observers from the National Lawyers Guild asked why, an agent threatened to arrest them too.
September 28, 2025 at 12:23 AM
@senangusking.bsky.social @pingree.house.gov @golden.house.gov will you instruct local law enforcement to protect Maine residents from ICE violating our constitutional rights & committing assault & kidnapping? They're escalating violence against civilians, we need elected officials' dramatic action.
I stg if any WNBA players get raptured tomorrow I'm gonna lose it
September 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I stg if any WNBA players get raptured tomorrow I'm gonna lose it
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Tom Homan took a bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
September 21, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Tom Homan took a bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
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If it was possible to pick up Republican voters at scale by being more moderate and representing the center of politics, we would've won 2016 & 2024, and 2020 would've been a massive blowout creating a Congressional supermajority.
It doesn't work in a polarized electorate!
It doesn't work in a polarized electorate!
The idea that if you make Dems a little more Republican, Republicans will vote Dem is what’s breaking us. And it doesn’t even work!
I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!
September 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
If it was possible to pick up Republican voters at scale by being more moderate and representing the center of politics, we would've won 2016 & 2024, and 2020 would've been a massive blowout creating a Congressional supermajority.
It doesn't work in a polarized electorate!
It doesn't work in a polarized electorate!
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If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support:
• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist
• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist
September 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support:
• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist
• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist
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The amount of shit I got for this segment at the time was astronomical, and it was all from people who now stalk CVS employees to get them fired for insufficient online sadness.
Cheering on political violence is both evil and not new, an outgrowth of an internet intentionally dismantled years ago.
Cheering on political violence is both evil and not new, an outgrowth of an internet intentionally dismantled years ago.
September 16, 2025 at 12:56 AM
The amount of shit I got for this segment at the time was astronomical, and it was all from people who now stalk CVS employees to get them fired for insufficient online sadness.
Cheering on political violence is both evil and not new, an outgrowth of an internet intentionally dismantled years ago.
Cheering on political violence is both evil and not new, an outgrowth of an internet intentionally dismantled years ago.
Wild seeing Adolescence - a show about how every adult in a meme-radicalized killer's orbit is oblivious to the radicalizing material, as news media hasn't taken an interest - win every Emmy tonight just as news media has proven oblivious to the meme-radicalization of a far right assassin
September 15, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Wild seeing Adolescence - a show about how every adult in a meme-radicalized killer's orbit is oblivious to the radicalizing material, as news media hasn't taken an interest - win every Emmy tonight just as news media has proven oblivious to the meme-radicalization of a far right assassin
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By only ever printing one side of the story, the New York Times has created the cultural conditions where "everyone knows" there are problems with trans care.
What problems? Anyone being more specific has to lie, because none have actually been documented outside of normal US medical system bs.
What problems? Anyone being more specific has to lie, because none have actually been documented outside of normal US medical system bs.
Many prominent liberal and centrist outlets have long been selling out trans people and our rights, they've long given few shits about covering what's going on to my community, let alone well ... They don't hire trans journalists nor editors. They don't let us cover us.
September 12, 2025 at 10:37 AM
By only ever printing one side of the story, the New York Times has created the cultural conditions where "everyone knows" there are problems with trans care.
What problems? Anyone being more specific has to lie, because none have actually been documented outside of normal US medical system bs.
What problems? Anyone being more specific has to lie, because none have actually been documented outside of normal US medical system bs.
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I will die on this hill:
it isn’t hard to say “at the height of the pandemic” or “at the start of COVID” during a podcast interview. Producers, hosts, don’t let your guests say “during COVID” like this thing is over. Correct them. Ask them to say the sentence again. This is your job.
it isn’t hard to say “at the height of the pandemic” or “at the start of COVID” during a podcast interview. Producers, hosts, don’t let your guests say “during COVID” like this thing is over. Correct them. Ask them to say the sentence again. This is your job.
August 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I will die on this hill:
it isn’t hard to say “at the height of the pandemic” or “at the start of COVID” during a podcast interview. Producers, hosts, don’t let your guests say “during COVID” like this thing is over. Correct them. Ask them to say the sentence again. This is your job.
it isn’t hard to say “at the height of the pandemic” or “at the start of COVID” during a podcast interview. Producers, hosts, don’t let your guests say “during COVID” like this thing is over. Correct them. Ask them to say the sentence again. This is your job.
It's hard to tamp down on cynicism and be unabashedly excited about a candidate for national office, but Graham's seemingly got the goods for real, beautifully profiled by @anamariecox.bsky.social
Graham Platner is blunt, even proud, about how he’s benefitted from government programs. He went to college on the GI Bill. His healthcare is free—paid for by four tours in Iraq & Afghanistan.
"But watching your friends die as the bar to meet for decent healthcare is disgusting.” trib.al/ohYlK9C
"But watching your friends die as the bar to meet for decent healthcare is disgusting.” trib.al/ohYlK9C
August 29, 2025 at 7:48 PM
It's hard to tamp down on cynicism and be unabashedly excited about a candidate for national office, but Graham's seemingly got the goods for real, beautifully profiled by @anamariecox.bsky.social