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Cate Young

@ninjacate.blacksky.app

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writer, critic, producer, full-time bisexual ✨ I used to write about movies. now I make podcasts and write about movies.

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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · Feb 14

everyone loves us, we're so amazing.

a graphic for the best entertainment podcast nominations at the Ambie awards. the nominees are Infamous, Lemme Say This, Rattled and Shook, Scamfluencers, Kid Nation, The Road to Joni and The Wonder of Stevie.

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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 13m

I think men see being held accountable for their actions as a violation of bro code.

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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 3h

I have such a soft spot for her, but that is probably aided by meeting her on The Valley first, and only coming to Vanderpump post Scandoval. she's soooooo messy. even against her own interests! but I like her 🤷🏿‍♀️

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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 5h

nailed it

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unrelated but I do think Mamdani is having an impact. all the ascendants seem to be following his playbook.

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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 6h

I am reading the J&J baby powder book and omgggggg.... y'all nobody told me the baby people were bad!

Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 6h

ngl I assumed it meant both. one by way of the other.

Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 6h

I'm not particularly attached to Diane Keaton but it's wild how you just assume that the people who have always been old to you will never die. Redford was 89, and I was like "already???" as if he wasn't a decade shy of a century. somebody go put Jane Fonda in some bubble wrap.

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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 6h

listening to an audiobook and clocked a very obvious pick up. never learn about the things you love!

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Chryon priestess to Janus d^=.=^b 🏳️‍⚧️🏴🏴‍☠️🍉🪽🪶🚲✋🪬🤚🧿🦊🍄🧚‍♀️🐌🦋🪾🍀🌲☠️ @witchesink.bsky.social · 9h

Its incredible how much of history and how little of learned history is affected by purposeful famine

@cnni

CNN International

This New York student won a $250,000 prize for his research on the devastating microorganism which caused the Irish Potato

Famine cnn.it/2FyefcU

Reply:

Calling the Brits a "devastating microorganism" is a little weird, but I'll take it.

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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 9h

y'all will girlboss aaaaaaaaaaanything

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 11h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 23h

"it's for your own good" is a blanket red flag for me tbh. no exceptions.

Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 23h

lol I just figured out why Tina Fey's character in Soul is called "22"

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Patrick Samphire but for Halloween 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 1d

One of the questions is why we allow private corporations to fill the sky with junk?

Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 2d

Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage?
🧪 @mjibrown.bsky.social

A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?

Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.

theconversation.com

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Sam Erin 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @hearts530.bsky.social · 1d

Well, I didn’t expect to cry today. Reasons why I really need this man in office and also reasons why I’m never fucking leaving this city.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 1d

"people live here!"

ii glocks ii heaven @leatherette.bsky.social · 1d

From someone on the ground STOP USING AI

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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joes-spot.bsky.social @joes-spot.bsky.social · 2d

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2d

I'm going to start calling essays like this "odes to whiteness" because the underlying premise is that they are like this because they don't anticipate any social cost to smelling bad.

This one is v. frustrating because it tries to lump in perfumes with the broader (problematic) beauty industry

I’m turning 50 next year. I rarely wear deodorant anymore. Many women I know have stopped, too. We don’t talk about it, but I catch it in the air — a faint musk of onion, goat, curry, mustard, salt, sage, fennel, ozone, and the muddy wet marrow of the earth itself. I’m kind of obsessed with this collective stink: the animal symphony of skin, of women being women, punk and unfiltered, taking up space with their scent. Raw, unapologetic BO. The more I live among it, the more I see it not as a hygiene failure but as a radical act of self-acceptance. It’s not polite, but it’s honest — and that feels hot. Hotter, even, than anything a Guess ad ever promised.

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 2d

I've never put much stock in the Nobels, except for maybe Toni's, but this is egregious. I knew nothing about this person so I did some digging. I now want to review all winners through an imperialist nation building project lens.

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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 1d

I like this better than suits. doubles as full body protection.