Caroline Tien

Currently @SELFmagazine. Prev @hearstcmg, @ExpressNews, @Newsweek. Freelance work @inversedotcom, @thezoereport, etc. | @ASMEinterns ’19 | @haverfordedu alum

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

"There is something absurd about being told that footage of your destroyed neighborhood violates community standards, while the destruction itself continues uninterrupted. Something darkly funny about an app warning you that your post about a massacre is “too violent,” as if the violence begins with the image and not the act. The platform is offended—not by death, but by its documentation." -Taqwa Ahmed Alwawi

[Caroline Tien @ctien0612]

@shedrinkswater finally someone says it

[Caroline Tien @ctien0612]

finally someone says it. female friendships can be incredibly rewarding and, imo, tend to be far more emotionally intimate than male friendships, but they also come with a tremendous amount of baggage (jealousy, competitiveness, backstabbing) that is psychologically exhausting.

[smoothie @shedrinkswater]

Female friendships can become an incredibly complex dance of manipulation, gaslighting, people-pleasing, love, care, selfishness, selflessness, jealousy, envy, and competition.

There is often immense tenderness there, but also an entire subterranean social game operating beneath the surface.

If you are good at managing these dynamics, regulating your reactions, reading subtext, and still participating in the game while remaining human, you will probably have a decent number of close female friendships. But even a little social awkwardness, emotional transparency, or inability to tolerate masked behaviour can make female friendships extremely difficult to navigate.

Your friends can slowly become your bullies, and it takes an enormous amount of emotional labour to keep moving through those dynamics when you do not naturally possess the social machinery required for them. You begin noticing the injustice, indirectness, performative sweetness, hidden hostility, constant testing, and you cannot keep pretending it is normal.

That is why some women do not have many female friends. It is not always because they are jealous, male-centred, or a “red flag.” Sometimes they simply cannot metabolise the amount of social theatre, disguised aggression, and psychological negotiation required to survive certain female circles.

The amount of mindspace you have to pay to remain inside such relationships can be enormous.

[Caroline Tien @ctien0612]

@StopAntisemites Something tells me, though, that you would deride the Palestinian parent in that scenario as an antisemite and Hamas supporter.

[Caroline Tien @ctien0612]

@StopAntisemites and demonstrations where calls for violence against Palestinians and support for terror groups [like settlers] have been openly expressed, making many Palestinian patients feel unwelcome and unsafe.”

[Patrick Gaspard @patrickgaspard]

I’m proud that my Mayor doesn’t parade around with people like Smotrich who has called for and acted on the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.

[J Street @jstreetdotorg]

Bezalel Smotrich should be sanctioned by American political and Jewish communal leaders - not marching alongside them in the streets of New York City.

Smotrich:
❌ is the architect of the Israeli government’s policies to ultimately annex the West Bank.
❌ said that “it may be just and moral” to starve 2 million Gaza residents, but "no one in the world would let us."
❌ is a supporter of "greater Israel" - believing that Israel should not only annex the West Bank, but go beyond into other nations like Jordan.
❌ believes Palestinians aren't real
❌ is a settler in the West Bank https://t.co/4O11WfL4j0

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

Why is it controversial for Zohran to skip a parade bc of his principles but not for Democratic politicians to march with a fascist bigot like Smotrich?

[Caroline Tien @ctien0612]

@FilledwithUrine @monicroqueta Many such cases

[Caroline Tien @ctien0612]

@nickimoraa AI

[Caroline Tien @ctien0612]

@tanaya_0510 I’m off by a year each time: 18, 24, 28

[maddie @madsssagascar]

if someone ran a marathon and someone else drove 26 miles i wouldnt congratulate the driver just because he ended up at the destination

[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

The words "Gaza" and "genocide" appear precisely zero times in the DNC autopsy.

Turning a blind eye to crimes against humanity was a grave injustice, and a terrible election strategy.

[B.M. @ireallyhateyou]

Holocaust Museum, Amsterdam

[scholastic book unfair @jennifersrude]

I fucking despise AI for so many reasons but honestly the most enraging one is that all stories and all art needs to come from human beings with human thoughts and human experiences and human emotions or they don’t fucking matter at all

[Ami Dar @AmiDar]

Yes, the Ben-Gvir video is disgraceful. But that's not the issue. The (obvious) issue is that if that's how nonviolent European protesters are treated in public, any person with a brain can imagine how Palestinians are treated behind closed doors. *That* is the real scandal.

[Caroline Tien @ctien0612]

me…?

[Buck @Buck36043Buck]

We all have that one friend who is Constantly Struggling against One or More Outrageously Absurd Plights

[☭Stay Dangerous ⚒︎ @nowwerevolt]

The only data centers we need

[Matt Duss @mattduss]

It’s beyond serious dispute that civilian harm was not just an unfortunate consequence of Israel’s strategy in Gaza, it is part of that strategy. Alarms were sounded both internally and externally. Jake muted them. This performative handwringing is disingenuous and offensive.