caroline
@randomcaroline.bsky.social
Archivist, Librarian, writer, history lover, poor painter, perpetual learner, hobby photographer, weather enthusiast
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Having to watch a bootlegged copy of a video from another country because my country censored it is making me feel as if I'm living in 1980s Eastern Germany.
December 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Having to watch a bootlegged copy of a video from another country because my country censored it is making me feel as if I'm living in 1980s Eastern Germany.
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I want to treat "Roman Helmet Guy" as a serious interlocuter, and I want to do it as someone who does what might be called "New Military History," applying cultural studies to military history (religious violence and apocalypticism during wars): you can't study war without studying people.
December 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I want to treat "Roman Helmet Guy" as a serious interlocuter, and I want to do it as someone who does what might be called "New Military History," applying cultural studies to military history (religious violence and apocalypticism during wars): you can't study war without studying people.
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That’s the woman who said whatever that guy is saying, 5 minutes ago, but got ignored.
December 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
That’s the woman who said whatever that guy is saying, 5 minutes ago, but got ignored.
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Now is a really great time to remember the Connecticut Four
No librarian worth their salt would EVER disclose patron information
It doesn't matter who is asking or for what purpose
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connect...
No librarian worth their salt would EVER disclose patron information
It doesn't matter who is asking or for what purpose
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connect...
December 20, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Now is a really great time to remember the Connecticut Four
No librarian worth their salt would EVER disclose patron information
It doesn't matter who is asking or for what purpose
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connect...
No librarian worth their salt would EVER disclose patron information
It doesn't matter who is asking or for what purpose
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connect...
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December 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Please colleagues speak to the impact that all Americans will feel if NCAR is dismantled! It truly would be widespread and this message may resonate more broadly than the obvious impact to the science community alone!
🙏❄️
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"Science Under Siege -- the NCAR Development" | My new commentary: michaelmann.net/science-unde...
#ScienceUnderSiege
#ScienceUnderSiege
Science Under Siege -- The NCAR development | Michael E. Mann
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has played a key role developing the science of climate modeling and the measurement of climate observations going back […]
michaelmann.net
December 17, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Please colleagues speak to the impact that all Americans will feel if NCAR is dismantled! It truly would be widespread and this message may resonate more broadly than the obvious impact to the science community alone!
🙏❄️
🙏❄️
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8° for a low this morning at DIA = coldest Denver temp since Feb. 20 (283 days ago).
Average first single digit low in Denver: Dec. 1. So basically right smack average.
#COwx
Average first single digit low in Denver: Dec. 1. So basically right smack average.
#COwx
November 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
8° for a low this morning at DIA = coldest Denver temp since Feb. 20 (283 days ago).
Average first single digit low in Denver: Dec. 1. So basically right smack average.
#COwx
Average first single digit low in Denver: Dec. 1. So basically right smack average.
#COwx
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It’s officially Denver’s first snow of the season!
A whopping 0.2” at DIA = we’re on the board. First measurable snow since April 18 (225 days).
❄️ 2nd-latest first snow of the season (12/10/21).
❄️ 225 snowless days = T-3rd-longest snowless on record for Denver.
#COwx
A whopping 0.2” at DIA = we’re on the board. First measurable snow since April 18 (225 days).
❄️ 2nd-latest first snow of the season (12/10/21).
❄️ 225 snowless days = T-3rd-longest snowless on record for Denver.
#COwx
November 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
It’s officially Denver’s first snow of the season!
A whopping 0.2” at DIA = we’re on the board. First measurable snow since April 18 (225 days).
❄️ 2nd-latest first snow of the season (12/10/21).
❄️ 225 snowless days = T-3rd-longest snowless on record for Denver.
#COwx
A whopping 0.2” at DIA = we’re on the board. First measurable snow since April 18 (225 days).
❄️ 2nd-latest first snow of the season (12/10/21).
❄️ 225 snowless days = T-3rd-longest snowless on record for Denver.
#COwx
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Breaking: Administration officials working overtime to find turkeys with sexual assault and crypto scam convictions so the President can pardon them
November 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Breaking: Administration officials working overtime to find turkeys with sexual assault and crypto scam convictions so the President can pardon them
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Repost this everywhere you’re active on social media. Send to your friends and family who aren’t.
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Repost this everywhere you’re active on social media. Send to your friends and family who aren’t.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"
November 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"
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roses are red
big laughs are hearty
big laughs are hearty
November 5, 2025 at 2:58 AM
roses are red
big laughs are hearty
big laughs are hearty
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BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.
Follow AP for live updates.
Follow AP for live updates.
Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power
One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.
bit.ly
November 5, 2025 at 3:33 AM
BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.
Follow AP for live updates.
Follow AP for live updates.
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Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight
November 5, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight
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Today = 200 straight days with no measurable snow in Denver.
Only the 16th time on record that's happened, last in 2021.
Record: 232 (2021 & 1887)
#COwx
Only the 16th time on record that's happened, last in 2021.
Record: 232 (2021 & 1887)
#COwx
November 4, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Today = 200 straight days with no measurable snow in Denver.
Only the 16th time on record that's happened, last in 2021.
Record: 232 (2021 & 1887)
#COwx
Only the 16th time on record that's happened, last in 2021.
Record: 232 (2021 & 1887)
#COwx
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Coach Prime announces 5-star freshman QB Julian Lewis to get first career start against West Virginia.
Now the season feels at least like they’re building something.
Now the season feels at least like they’re building something.
November 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Coach Prime announces 5-star freshman QB Julian Lewis to get first career start against West Virginia.
Now the season feels at least like they’re building something.
Now the season feels at least like they’re building something.
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Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva has now been waiting 36 days to be sworn in to office — setting a new record that any member of Congress has had to wait following a special election.
October 29, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva has now been waiting 36 days to be sworn in to office — setting a new record that any member of Congress has had to wait following a special election.
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The whole conversation should be about mental incompetence.
Trump: "They have Jasmine Crockett -- a low IQ person. AOC is low IQ. Have her pass the exams I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. They're cognitive tests. Let AOC go against Trump. Let Jasmine go against Trump. The first couple questions are easy -- a tiger, an elephant, a giraffe ... "
October 27, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The whole conversation should be about mental incompetence.
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A new Scottish tartan memorializing the (mainly) female victims of the Witchcraft Act has been officially registered, created by Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi, founders of the Witches of Scotland campaign #WomensArt
via Smithsonian Magazine
via Smithsonian Magazine
October 27, 2025 at 4:41 AM
A new Scottish tartan memorializing the (mainly) female victims of the Witchcraft Act has been officially registered, created by Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi, founders of the Witches of Scotland campaign #WomensArt
via Smithsonian Magazine
via Smithsonian Magazine
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Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.
Check out how tiny the crowds were:
Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000
Check out how tiny the crowds were:
Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000
Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.
Check out how tiny the crowds were:
Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000
Check out how tiny the crowds were:
Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000
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The networks took the much smaller Tea Party movement so seriously they broadcast a Tea Party rebuttal to Obama’s 2011 SOTU on top of the normal GOP one.
Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]
October 20, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The networks took the much smaller Tea Party movement so seriously they broadcast a Tea Party rebuttal to Obama’s 2011 SOTU on top of the normal GOP one.
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If you are confident that a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, you stop it and board it. That way, you have evidence.
If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.
If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.
October 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
If you are confident that a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, you stop it and board it. That way, you have evidence.
If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.
If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.
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hang this in the louvre (there's room now)
October 20, 2025 at 2:57 AM
hang this in the louvre (there's room now)