Katherine Duke
@katducduk.bsky.social
Writer. Editor. Comedy geek. Trivia nerd. Podcast junkie. Creator of the book Kissability: People with Disabilities Talk About Sex, Love, and Relationships (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24738917-kissability#CommunityReviews). (she/her)
Pinned
40% of Bluesky have been contestants on Jeopardy making us a very smart website but all of them came in third so its not like that impressive
:: falls to the ground with this skeet embedded like an arrow in the exact center of my chest ::
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Take a thousand, naked pictures of yourself now. You may currently think, "Oh, I'm too spooky." Or, "Nobody wants to see these tiny boobies." But, believe me, one day you will look at those photos with much kinder eyes and say, "Dear God, I was a beautiful thing!
January 30, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Take a thousand, naked pictures of yourself now. You may currently think, "Oh, I'm too spooky." Or, "Nobody wants to see these tiny boobies." But, believe me, one day you will look at those photos with much kinder eyes and say, "Dear God, I was a beautiful thing!
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"Let us all line up in order of height, and RUN through the meadows behind the house!"
Nanny Greenwood: Governess - Saturday Night Live
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
youtu.be
January 30, 2026 at 7:16 PM
"Let us all line up in order of height, and RUN through the meadows behind the house!"
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I remembered the arrow-through-the-head part of her monologue but had forgotten the ~scary story~ until just now. It's well worth a watch.
Monologue: Catherine O'Hara Tells a Scary Story - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
youtu.be
January 30, 2026 at 6:41 PM
I remembered the arrow-through-the-head part of her monologue but had forgotten the ~scary story~ until just now. It's well worth a watch.
Catherine O'Hara is obviously associated with SCTV, but she's also one reason I became a lifelong fan of SNL. She hosted on Halloween when I was 9, and for some reason someone gave my parents a VHS recording of it, which I watched over and over. I can still hear her line deliveries in my head.
January 30, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Catherine O'Hara is obviously associated with SCTV, but she's also one reason I became a lifelong fan of SNL. She hosted on Halloween when I was 9, and for some reason someone gave my parents a VHS recording of it, which I watched over and over. I can still hear her line deliveries in my head.
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one thing the podcast can't entirely convey is that michael sent me a screenshot of cristin milioti, proudly said "that's sarah silverman!" and at the bottom of the screenshot there was a search bar that said "satah silceeman"
January 29, 2026 at 4:27 PM
one thing the podcast can't entirely convey is that michael sent me a screenshot of cristin milioti, proudly said "that's sarah silverman!" and at the bottom of the screenshot there was a search bar that said "satah silceeman"
Linked on the DARVO Wikipedia page is a page on "Accusation in a mirror," which also seems frighteningly relevant.
![Opening paragraph of the Wikipedia article:
"Accusation in a mirror (AiM)[a] is a technique often used to incite hate speech, where someone falsely attributes their own motives or intentions onto their adversaries.[3][4][5] Along with dehumanization, accusation in a mirror is one of the indirect or cloaked forms of incitement to genocide, which has contributed to the commission of genocides such as the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, and the Armenian genocide. By invoking collective self-defense, accusation in a mirror is used to justify genocide, similar to using the right of self-defense to justify individual homicide.[5][6][7]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pe7bqsdfntglf4k4mqhndda3/bafkreifqmucuor3rkowxjqgww4spkxwblpbijykcxdw2zwfnzbci2o7qku@jpeg)
January 29, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Linked on the DARVO Wikipedia page is a page on "Accusation in a mirror," which also seems frighteningly relevant.
Me to my therapist, at the start of our appointment:
“Okay! So! How many of your other clients have been talking to you about Heated Rivalry? Because…”
“Okay! So! How many of your other clients have been talking to you about Heated Rivalry? Because…”
January 28, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Me to my therapist, at the start of our appointment:
“Okay! So! How many of your other clients have been talking to you about Heated Rivalry? Because…”
“Okay! So! How many of your other clients have been talking to you about Heated Rivalry? Because…”
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Heated Rivalry, but all the athletes are these guys
(At least in terms of immigration status, Anatoli Smorin is the Ilya Rozanov of this team and you cannot convince me otherwise.)
(At least in terms of immigration status, Anatoli Smorin is the Ilya Rozanov of this team and you cannot convince me otherwise.)
January 27, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Heated Rivalry, but all the athletes are these guys
(At least in terms of immigration status, Anatoli Smorin is the Ilya Rozanov of this team and you cannot convince me otherwise.)
(At least in terms of immigration status, Anatoli Smorin is the Ilya Rozanov of this team and you cannot convince me otherwise.)
The Twilight Zone
January 28, 2026 at 3:48 AM
The Twilight Zone
Heated Rivalry, but all the athletes are these guys
(At least in terms of immigration status, Anatoli Smorin is the Ilya Rozanov of this team and you cannot convince me otherwise.)
(At least in terms of immigration status, Anatoli Smorin is the Ilya Rozanov of this team and you cannot convince me otherwise.)
January 27, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Heated Rivalry, but all the athletes are these guys
(At least in terms of immigration status, Anatoli Smorin is the Ilya Rozanov of this team and you cannot convince me otherwise.)
(At least in terms of immigration status, Anatoli Smorin is the Ilya Rozanov of this team and you cannot convince me otherwise.)
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Whiskey Fridays with Bobson Dugnutt
January 27, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Whiskey Fridays with Bobson Dugnutt
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Honoring my Canadian roots* by eating maple-syrup-on-snow as I watch the finale of Heated Rivalry
* (My great-grandfather was from Quebec. Sadly and surprisingly, I have not yet visited Canada, despite my longstanding crush on it as a nation.)
* (My great-grandfather was from Quebec. Sadly and surprisingly, I have not yet visited Canada, despite my longstanding crush on it as a nation.)
January 26, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Honoring my Canadian roots* by eating maple-syrup-on-snow as I watch the finale of Heated Rivalry
* (My great-grandfather was from Quebec. Sadly and surprisingly, I have not yet visited Canada, despite my longstanding crush on it as a nation.)
* (My great-grandfather was from Quebec. Sadly and surprisingly, I have not yet visited Canada, despite my longstanding crush on it as a nation.)
yesterday afternoon vs. this afternoon
(and it’s still comin’ down!)
(and it’s still comin’ down!)
January 26, 2026 at 9:52 PM
yesterday afternoon vs. this afternoon
(and it’s still comin’ down!)
(and it’s still comin’ down!)
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"Oh dear! Is it soft?"
"So soft!"
"So soft!"
January 25, 2026 at 11:50 PM
"Oh dear! Is it soft?"
"So soft!"
"So soft!"
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Dave Against The Machine 💪
Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds playing CSNY’s “Ohio” with a little “Killing in the Name Of” thrown in.
January 25, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Dave Against The Machine 💪
🫡 to the Girl Scouts (and, I guess, UPS) for making sure I received both of my orders of cookies before I get snowed in!
It's that time of year again!
(Here's this year's thread of trans/NB scouts: bsky.app/profile/erin...)
(Here's this year's thread of trans/NB scouts: bsky.app/profile/erin...)
A former Girl Scout's dilemma:
In a gesture of friendship, buy cookies from my college buddy's daughter, as I did last year?
Or, in a gesture of allyship, buy from one of these trans/NB scouts?
In a gesture of gluttony, I did both. On my honor, I will try to eat twice as many cookies this year.
In a gesture of friendship, buy cookies from my college buddy's daughter, as I did last year?
Or, in a gesture of allyship, buy from one of these trans/NB scouts?
In a gesture of gluttony, I did both. On my honor, I will try to eat twice as many cookies this year.
January 25, 2026 at 3:05 AM
🫡 to the Girl Scouts (and, I guess, UPS) for making sure I received both of my orders of cookies before I get snowed in!
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Once again, immigration is not even a problem. Immigrants are not more criminal, they don't cost jobs, they don't harm the economy. There is no reason for any of this. It is hurting ourselves to hurt them.
January 24, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Once again, immigration is not even a problem. Immigrants are not more criminal, they don't cost jobs, they don't harm the economy. There is no reason for any of this. It is hurting ourselves to hurt them.
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I've been leaning towards Tubi being the streaming service, and now I think it's official: they have Season 1 and Season 2 of one of the best science and technology comedy shows ever made… "Look Around You".
Thanks, Tubi. Thubi.
tubitv.com/series/30001...
Thanks, Tubi. Thubi.
tubitv.com/series/30001...
Look Around You
This unique combination of parody and homage to early 70s/80s British educational programs examines different scientific topics in each episode.
tubitv.com
January 23, 2026 at 8:56 PM
I've been leaning towards Tubi being the streaming service, and now I think it's official: they have Season 1 and Season 2 of one of the best science and technology comedy shows ever made… "Look Around You".
Thanks, Tubi. Thubi.
tubitv.com/series/30001...
Thanks, Tubi. Thubi.
tubitv.com/series/30001...
Oh man, her name is *so close* to including TWO palindromes!
January 23, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Oh man, her name is *so close* to including TWO palindromes!
(I like this as a prompt!)
Time now for a decades-old gripe I have with the lyrics of "Take Me or Leave Me" from Rent.
Maureen sings, "A tiger in a cage / Can never see the sun," but I'm pretty sure most zoos' tiger enclosures allow in sunlight.
Why not "A tiger in a cage / Is never free to run"?
Time now for a decades-old gripe I have with the lyrics of "Take Me or Leave Me" from Rent.
Maureen sings, "A tiger in a cage / Can never see the sun," but I'm pretty sure most zoos' tiger enclosures allow in sunlight.
Why not "A tiger in a cage / Is never free to run"?
Time now for a decades-old gripe I have with the lyrics of Our Song.
Time now for a decades-old gripe I have with the lyrics of Sk8er Boi.
January 23, 2026 at 8:57 PM
(I like this as a prompt!)
Time now for a decades-old gripe I have with the lyrics of "Take Me or Leave Me" from Rent.
Maureen sings, "A tiger in a cage / Can never see the sun," but I'm pretty sure most zoos' tiger enclosures allow in sunlight.
Why not "A tiger in a cage / Is never free to run"?
Time now for a decades-old gripe I have with the lyrics of "Take Me or Leave Me" from Rent.
Maureen sings, "A tiger in a cage / Can never see the sun," but I'm pretty sure most zoos' tiger enclosures allow in sunlight.
Why not "A tiger in a cage / Is never free to run"?
I, who got up 2 hours earlier than usual and am running on less than 3 hours of sleep, had 2 Zoom meetings scheduled for this freezing Friday afternoon, and they both just got canceled (er, postponed) within the past 5 minutes. 🥳
a man in a suit and tie holds a microphone and says it is so much easier not to do things
Alt: John Mulaney doing standup: "It is so much easier not to do things than to do them."
media.tenor.com
January 23, 2026 at 4:30 PM
I, who got up 2 hours earlier than usual and am running on less than 3 hours of sleep, had 2 Zoom meetings scheduled for this freezing Friday afternoon, and they both just got canceled (er, postponed) within the past 5 minutes. 🥳
In Jordan Peele's Black horror anthology "Out There Screaming," there's an N.K. Jemisin story about a corrupt cop who starts to see phantom eyeballs watching him everywhere he goes.
I've been thinking of it lately re: the constant crowds of bystanders filming ICE agents on their phones.
I've been thinking of it lately re: the constant crowds of bystanders filming ICE agents on their phones.
January 22, 2026 at 9:11 PM
In Jordan Peele's Black horror anthology "Out There Screaming," there's an N.K. Jemisin story about a corrupt cop who starts to see phantom eyeballs watching him everywhere he goes.
I've been thinking of it lately re: the constant crowds of bystanders filming ICE agents on their phones.
I've been thinking of it lately re: the constant crowds of bystanders filming ICE agents on their phones.
This image from Ren & Stimpy led to a running joke in my family. For years, whenever anything grossed us out, we would say, "Sick! Tub o' mayo!"
I was reminded of it last week when, for an office retreat, the caterers gave us an actual huge tub o' mayo (and another of mustard).
I was reminded of it last week when, for an office retreat, the caterers gave us an actual huge tub o' mayo (and another of mustard).
January 21, 2026 at 9:56 PM
This image from Ren & Stimpy led to a running joke in my family. For years, whenever anything grossed us out, we would say, "Sick! Tub o' mayo!"
I was reminded of it last week when, for an office retreat, the caterers gave us an actual huge tub o' mayo (and another of mustard).
I was reminded of it last week when, for an office retreat, the caterers gave us an actual huge tub o' mayo (and another of mustard).