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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ok, question, why do the delivery robots get to go on the sidewalk but bikes have to ride in the street? is it because it’s too dangerous in the street? if so, isn’t it interesting that they are more protected than bikers? what i’m asking is, should we give robots gauges?
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i have been depressed lately. i forced myself out tonight to have a small bite. for self care, as i’m told im supposed to, to avoid burnout. which im well past but still trying to scrape off the burnt edges & find a soft inside. the hostess of a hip restaurant found a spot at the bar for me.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
all of this sucks but on a brighter note i messaged the chat for my daughter’s school and 2 families had extra window units that they brought to school for me to take home. community rules.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ME: I can’t believe she put her plate up on the counter found your cookies & opened the bag herself MATT: I know! I saw her open the bag, that’s incredibly difficult! She was straight eating them out of the bag. ME: She’s amazing. Our dogs must be so annoyed, we’d never call them amazing for that.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
AC is broken, tech came for the 3rd time, well 3rd tech from the same company. this one said we need to leave the AC off overnight and he’ll come back tomorrow. he said we need time for the coolant to defrost so he can check the levels, which i would’ve done if they asked.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
my 2 yo daughter just punched me in the eye and laughed and when i said “ow” she started crying and said “im going away, i need space” it’s not even 8am
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
i wrote about how being a caregiver for my husband after his stroke has reinforced my belief that we need to dismantle capitalism bc of the barrage of products recommended to us. and someone put a link to a product from walmart in the comments. i cannot get over how funny that is.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
i went from the car back into the house 3 times before actually leaving to pick up my daughter. adhd is great for getting my steps in.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
toddler: no! i don’t want to eat the banana! me: that’s ok, just leave it on the plate toddler: no! i don’t want to leave it on the plate! she wants to not have her banana and not eat it too
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
after all this matt asked hazel what her favorite ride was and she said “the bus” we could’ve saved so much money! open.substack.com/pub/amberrol...
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Happiest Place on Earth
ME: I have two more images ordered.
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Adam Conover @adamconover.net · 18/04/2026
I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
my toddler left half a banana out for an hour and then didn’t want to eat it because it was “old.” i sliced off the brown end, then cut the rest into “banana coins” and she ate them all! that’s the type of shit i get excited about these days.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
i forgot to put my most recent shit posts here. first one is for paying subscribers only. but i did post this @frigidairecare.bsky.social review on insta substack.com/@amberrollo/...
This is not like me, I would normally not do this, it took me 2 ½ years to do this, but it has been tough recently. First, a couple months ago Hazel got walking pneumonia, which then Matt and I caught, which then developed into bronchitis in him. Then she got walking pneumonia again.
Then our fridge broke, it took a month for Frigidaire to fix it. Side note, afterwards they sent me a survey to ask if I'd recommend them to friends. So friends, if you are reading this and love just the ice chests part of camping, buy Frigidaire. If you love kinda soggy babybels and being not quite sure if that cream cheese is good, buy Frigidaire. If you are lonely and want a technician to come to your house every week but you want it to always be a surprise, just outside the specified 5 hour window, sometimes early, sometimes late, buy Frigidaire. If you want to have diarrhea for a month, buy Frigidaire. Yes, during all of this Matt started having stomach issues, for a month. He has always had IBS but this was a new level, every day I was cleaning up
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
i am a mean witch daddy. would you like to hide? - our 2 yr old just now
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
going to a pool party today that says it’s 4pm till midnight. i’m up at 5:30am every morning, kill me now.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
i do mean to be dramatic and it feels like a god is playing with me like a doll. like i am their sims character and they’re the type to put me in the pool with no ladder.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
He makes a dracula face at me, the shadow of a soy face. open.substack.com/pub/amberrol...
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Give a Care, Take a Care
I am driving Hazel to school and I remember that I wanted to talk to her about something.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
tonight our 2 yr old said “live with arms wide open and hug your seltzer” so true
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
last week we transitioned our toddler from her crib & into a toddler bed. first couple of days i ended up sleeping on the wood floor next to her. but i just heard a “clunk” & checked the camera. she clearly fell out of the bed & looked annoyed, but she just crawled back into bed & went to sleep.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
matt got blood taken today. we see a lot of doctors and have gotten a lot of blood drawn, but i’ve never experienced this before. they put a vile of his blood into a box, gave it back to us, along with a fedex bag and told us to drop it off at fedex. it was bizarre.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
staring at the blank post before you. i wrote about explaining “unwritten” by natasha bedingfield to my 2 year old. but it’s really about the power in facing discomfort head on. open.substack.com/pub/amberrol...
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Arms Wide Open
HAZEL: What’s this song about?
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
it’s national caregivers day. about 1 in 5 people provide unpaid care to a loved one. you probably know one. it’s hard to understand until you are doing it (and you likely will) but it is heart wrenching, backbreaking work. do something nice for a caregiver you know. no advice please.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
i wrote about the way strangers approach matt and the way it makes me feel open.substack.com/pub/amberrol...
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Nunya
STRANGER: Did you break your arm or your leg
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
i am so tired of ai on google. not a promo but just switched to duckduckgo and it was super easy to turn off all the ai features in the settings. you can hide ai generated images too. still unfortunately plugged into google for email, but nice to have a simple way to search.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
i don’t want to brag but our fridge has been broken since last friday and i still didn’t buy anything today 💁‍♀️
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
consider me on the picket line in LA jan 30th! ✊ and also here are some things i think we should consider moving forward ❤️
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I just wrote to my sisters about a letter I’m writing to my daughter about stopping breastfeeding and I wonder if I would be this dramatic if my life wasn’t so dramatic. I bet I would. I’m grateful I’m not in another timeline making a romantic substack about my matcha latte routine.
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That Queer Skeletal Writer @falcc.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Every one of these announcements reads to me as "we don't have enough people and supplies to occupy more than one city at a time"
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
was up all night because my husband is sick. i’m infuriated by ice murdering another person (important to remember Renee Good is by no means the first and won’t be the last). i’m exhausted. so, going to volunteer today w/ mutual aid.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
sitting on the couch listening to my husband fight for his life to read our 2 year old cinderella while she talks over everything word and i can’t help but think it’s perfect karma for his work as a podcaster.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Happy New Year! May your connection to the greater mushroom feel strong! open.substack.com/pub/amberrol...
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Parasocial Pt 4
It’s 10:30 pm on New Year’s eve and I’m writing this alone in my bed and feeling guilty about it.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
i love how regular grocery shopping is like buying food at a theme park level expensive now. capitalism works so good.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
my daughter is trying to put her hair clips on her dad just now and she says, no joke “primping is so hard” i don’t know where she learned that word. but she’s not wrong, primping ain’t easy.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
i was about to be stressed this morning and then i remembered it was because of, checks notes, “last minute poetry edits for a podcast” i couldn’t bring myself to take something so made up seriously
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
my daughter keeps embarrassing me by asking “who’s that? what’s their name?” so loudly the other person hears. how am i supposed to remember every single classmate’s parents’ name? or that one cousin i see every 7 years?
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
my daughter would like a villain origin story movie, à la wicked or the joker, but from swiper the fox’s perspective.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
i keep forgetting what social medias exist, which is a good sign for my mental health. but it was my birthday and i wrote a new piece! this is my favorite line
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
i wrote about my jeep
Substack quote that says “It makes me want to claw my way through my own womb to a timeline where I don’t have to constantly balance the choice between the love of my life and a piece of me living outside of myself.”
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
“Hazel” is a very happy girl, but sometimes she’s not! I wrote about how we’re dealing with those moments. Sometimes during hard times when I take a breath she says “no mommy! no breathe!” open.substack.com/pub/amberrol...
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
that trump video looks like a burger king commercial
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
ok but what if it was a diss track about charlie kirk? 🤯
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
new substack about “Hazel’s” first day! open.substack.com/pub/amberrol...
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First Day
Walking through the grocery store, I pick up a bag of dried mangoes and show it to Hazel “should we get some dried mangoes?” She nods.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
im scared of social media at the moment because i screamed into the void and it screamed back, but if you want to read my new substack, its up open.substack.com/pub/amberrol...
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Parasocial Pt 2
I just deleted the app formally known as twitter, to protect myself from myself.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
i have this app that i use to track my toddler’s sleep and after i put her to bed it asks if she’s protesting or if she fell asleep. but my two year old is not protesting per say, she just spends 10-15 mins after i leave the room to catching up with her stuffed penguin named Bilum.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
i just realized i’m making enough with my writing now to afford rent in the first place i lived in new york! it was $500 a month and i was sharing a bed, but pretty cool! makes me feel hopeful that i can actually do this.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
yesterday was 2 years since matt’s stroke, today we are celebrating our daughter’s 2nd birthday. life really do be like that ☯️ amberrollo.substack.com/p/parasocial...
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Parasocial
It’s almost midnight, Matt had a stroke two years ago today.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
i just saw an add for no smear mascara and realized, oh shit, i haven’t worn that stuff in ages. i mean mascara in general. i can’t believe i used to take time out of my day to make the hair on my eyelids looks longer. how bizarre.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
i have a terrible voice in my head that i fight everyday. she says i’m doing a good job and deserve rest. TRIGGER WARNING: HOSPITAL everyone is ok open.substack.com/pub/amberrol...
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Here we go Again
TRIGGER WARNING: HOSPITAL VISIT
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
our almost 2 year old woke up a little grumpy from her nap today. as she was complaining “mommy no put me down” and other regulars, she pointed at a pic on our shelf and said in the same whine “that’s paul verhoeven”
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
my daughter doesn’t know “there was an old lady who swallowed a fly” but she does know “they are eating the dogs. they are eating the cats. that are in there”
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