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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · May 8

I've had a newsletter since before it was cool (2014) and its latest format is a monthly collection of art, ideas, and internet. Latest edition below, and you can subscribe here: lauraolin.com/newsletter

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Photograph by Arnaud Montagard of a man in a hat riding a ferry

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 24m

Do you have a favored source/brand for solid core doors? Was looking to replace some shitty ones and it was weirdly difficult to find better options

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 21h

Thoughts and prayers to Cosplay Cop Kristi who had to brave the dogs, farmer’s markets, capybaras, and marathon runners of Portland this week.

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 28m

Yep!!!

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 13h

Suggested protest chant: WHO LET THE FROGS OUT (WHO WHO WHO WHO)

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 16h

And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 19h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 16h

lol if only

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 17h

Oh, does it benefit the US to provide aid to foreign countries? That would have been good to know back in January and February.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21h

“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”

🇦🇷 🇺🇸

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 17h

😭

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 18h

It’s ridiculous that you can’t take a train to LGA.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 22h

They’re now publicly threatening a military crackdown of the No Kings protest.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 23h

We've made it!!!

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 1d

If there are any future history PhDs someone will write a dissertation to explain Inflatable Good and Cartoon Bad

J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 1d

frog semiotics redemption arc 2025

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 2d

Frog and Toad looked into a mirror.

“We look brave,” said Frog.

“Yes, but are we?” asked Toad.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 1d

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 1d

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 1d

Someone I am already inclined to dislike subscribed me to their new thinky-thoughts Substack without asking, so that is one instinct rendered accurate.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 1d

lolol

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 1d

same lol

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d

Generative AI, in both form and content, and whether looked on favourably or critically, seems to embody a collective hopelessness about the prospect of human learning and creativity, if not human knowledge altogether. It’s as if climate change had fans.

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K. Liakos @kliakos.com · 2d

America 2025:

The facade of a store in a Delaware strip mall called its fashion but the lights on the o n and exclamation point are out so it says it’s fashi

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arosie from the dead 🪦 @rosiemck.bsky.social · 2d

breaking news

photo of margot, a little brown dog, propped up on a STACK of cushions so she can gaze out the window. it's giving princess and the pea (she's the princess and i'm the pea)

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