Cat Ingrid Leeches
@leeches.bsky.social
Writer, weird stuff enthusiast. Nonbinary (they/them). I love zines and bad-bad art. If it is not bad enough, I will not love it.
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MN state is being denied access to evidence
It is not metaphorical or hyperbolic to say that this country is now run by, and functions wholly to foster, fascism
If they continue to be allowed to act w this level of corruption & impunity— which has been the case for awhile now— many more will die
It is not metaphorical or hyperbolic to say that this country is now run by, and functions wholly to foster, fascism
If they continue to be allowed to act w this level of corruption & impunity— which has been the case for awhile now— many more will die
Minneapolis ICE shooting updates: State denied access to evidence
The fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good, captured on video, sparked widespread anger over immigration enforcement in Minneapolis and the country.
www.usatoday.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:00 PM
MN state is being denied access to evidence
It is not metaphorical or hyperbolic to say that this country is now run by, and functions wholly to foster, fascism
If they continue to be allowed to act w this level of corruption & impunity— which has been the case for awhile now— many more will die
It is not metaphorical or hyperbolic to say that this country is now run by, and functions wholly to foster, fascism
If they continue to be allowed to act w this level of corruption & impunity— which has been the case for awhile now— many more will die
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New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant
“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...
www.404media.co
January 8, 2026 at 2:03 PM
New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant
“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
Fuck ICE. Fuck Nazis. Fuck fascism, capitalism, and white supremacy.
January 8, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Fuck ICE. Fuck Nazis. Fuck fascism, capitalism, and white supremacy.
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we are open 💅
reminder: we reopen for new work on new year's eve! bzz bzz bzzzz!
January 3, 2026 at 12:00 AM
we are open 💅
We’ve been playing hide and seek for quite some time, and I think I’ve been defeated by a master.
January 1, 2026 at 3:31 PM
We’ve been playing hide and seek for quite some time, and I think I’ve been defeated by a master.
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I read a lot of short story collections but I can’t think of any that are fucked up enough for this syllabus, but maybe a practitioner can @hughsheehy.bsky.social @maeganpoland.bsky.social @leeches.bsky.social
December 22, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I read a lot of short story collections but I can’t think of any that are fucked up enough for this syllabus, but maybe a practitioner can @hughsheehy.bsky.social @maeganpoland.bsky.social @leeches.bsky.social
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Today is my birthday, and this year I published a book with @carrionbloombooks.bsky.social.
I find it increasingly difficult to talk about my work in online spaces, but I’m giving myself permission today.
My partner did the illustrations and they’re my favorite part tbh.
I find it increasingly difficult to talk about my work in online spaces, but I’m giving myself permission today.
My partner did the illustrations and they’re my favorite part tbh.
November 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Today is my birthday, and this year I published a book with @carrionbloombooks.bsky.social.
I find it increasingly difficult to talk about my work in online spaces, but I’m giving myself permission today.
My partner did the illustrations and they’re my favorite part tbh.
I find it increasingly difficult to talk about my work in online spaces, but I’m giving myself permission today.
My partner did the illustrations and they’re my favorite part tbh.
Today is my birthday, and this year I published a book with @carrionbloombooks.bsky.social.
I find it increasingly difficult to talk about my work in online spaces, but I’m giving myself permission today.
My partner did the illustrations and they’re my favorite part tbh.
I find it increasingly difficult to talk about my work in online spaces, but I’m giving myself permission today.
My partner did the illustrations and they’re my favorite part tbh.
November 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Today is my birthday, and this year I published a book with @carrionbloombooks.bsky.social.
I find it increasingly difficult to talk about my work in online spaces, but I’m giving myself permission today.
My partner did the illustrations and they’re my favorite part tbh.
I find it increasingly difficult to talk about my work in online spaces, but I’m giving myself permission today.
My partner did the illustrations and they’re my favorite part tbh.
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Prefacing that I liked Bugonia but this is wayyyy more interesting
November 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Prefacing that I liked Bugonia but this is wayyyy more interesting
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i mean i wouldn't be mad...
cough, i just so happen to edit @beestung.bsky.social / @alocasiamag.bsky.social / @anmlymag.bsky.social
💜💜💜
cough, i just so happen to edit @beestung.bsky.social / @alocasiamag.bsky.social / @anmlymag.bsky.social
💜💜💜
It’s back 😏
Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️
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Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️
www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
November 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
i mean i wouldn't be mad...
cough, i just so happen to edit @beestung.bsky.social / @alocasiamag.bsky.social / @anmlymag.bsky.social
💜💜💜
cough, i just so happen to edit @beestung.bsky.social / @alocasiamag.bsky.social / @anmlymag.bsky.social
💜💜💜
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Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay and programmed & designed for some of the most influential games of my youth, notably Bard's Tale I & III and Wasteland. She will be missed.
November 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay and programmed & designed for some of the most influential games of my youth, notably Bard's Tale I & III and Wasteland. She will be missed.
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there’s a new charmin commercial where the teenage daughter of the shitting bear family is an influencer reviewing charmin for her channel or whatever. i don’t approve of this. why can’t the shitting bear child be a surgeon. or a celebrated academic
November 17, 2025 at 2:09 AM
there’s a new charmin commercial where the teenage daughter of the shitting bear family is an influencer reviewing charmin for her channel or whatever. i don’t approve of this. why can’t the shitting bear child be a surgeon. or a celebrated academic
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brb going on book tour with my emotional support imodium
November 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
brb going on book tour with my emotional support imodium
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PORN IS ART, PORN IS GOOD, PEOPLE MAKING PORN IS A SIGN OF A HEALTHY SOCIETY
There has been a noticeable reticence in left and liberal circles to voice full-throated support for pornography, even as it's become increasingly clear what the open end goals of the censorship movement are
In a lot of ways other leftists chose this path folks. They shrugged and didn’t care when Patreon banned a ton of hypnosis and TF creators, or when YouTube started their ASMR crackdown. Now it’s coming for queer porn creators, more and more. Who will stand up?
November 13, 2025 at 11:59 PM
PORN IS ART, PORN IS GOOD, PEOPLE MAKING PORN IS A SIGN OF A HEALTHY SOCIETY
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Found this in a notebook today & couldn’t remember what prompted me to write it, or even what meeting I was in when I wrote it.
October 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Found this in a notebook today & couldn’t remember what prompted me to write it, or even what meeting I was in when I wrote it.
I had a nightmare that was a mash up between The Summer I Turned Pretty and Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild.
😬
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October 27, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I had a nightmare that was a mash up between The Summer I Turned Pretty and Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild.
😬
😬
This boy cravin’ salad
October 26, 2025 at 9:42 PM
This boy cravin’ salad
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Recently, I was a guest on Betwixt the Sheets to discuss 19th c Kansas sex work. Have a listen!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Inside a Wild West Brothel
Podcast Episode · Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society · 10/14/2025 · 42m
podcasts.apple.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Recently, I was a guest on Betwixt the Sheets to discuss 19th c Kansas sex work. Have a listen!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
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A friendly reminder that if you go to a church where the pastor supports the regime that zip tied children in Chicago, you don’t have to go to that church anymore.
Remember, at a certain point, complacency becomes complicity.
Remember, at a certain point, complacency becomes complicity.
October 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
A friendly reminder that if you go to a church where the pastor supports the regime that zip tied children in Chicago, you don’t have to go to that church anymore.
Remember, at a certain point, complacency becomes complicity.
Remember, at a certain point, complacency becomes complicity.
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i think there should be a program that pairs the emotionally needy with recovering alcoholics who haven’t made new friends sober yet. sort of a big brother/sister program for impossibly dysregulated people
October 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
i think there should be a program that pairs the emotionally needy with recovering alcoholics who haven’t made new friends sober yet. sort of a big brother/sister program for impossibly dysregulated people
Things that have the same energy:
1. When updating your voter registration, they'll ask you to select from a drop-down menu of street types (e.g., "Lane," "circle," "Meadow," "Drive"...)—It's a surprisingly long list.
2. The Wikipedia chart detailing every one of Guinevere’s abductions.
1. When updating your voter registration, they'll ask you to select from a drop-down menu of street types (e.g., "Lane," "circle," "Meadow," "Drive"...)—It's a surprisingly long list.
2. The Wikipedia chart detailing every one of Guinevere’s abductions.
September 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Things that have the same energy:
1. When updating your voter registration, they'll ask you to select from a drop-down menu of street types (e.g., "Lane," "circle," "Meadow," "Drive"...)—It's a surprisingly long list.
2. The Wikipedia chart detailing every one of Guinevere’s abductions.
1. When updating your voter registration, they'll ask you to select from a drop-down menu of street types (e.g., "Lane," "circle," "Meadow," "Drive"...)—It's a surprisingly long list.
2. The Wikipedia chart detailing every one of Guinevere’s abductions.
Almost stepped on this baby today 🐍
September 8, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Almost stepped on this baby today 🐍
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If anyone (@thebaffler.com @nplusonemag.com @publicbooks.bsky.social) might be interested in an article
offering an ideological post-mortem of almost four decades of The Best American Poetry anthology as a conservative publishing project, I'm yr guy.
offering an ideological post-mortem of almost four decades of The Best American Poetry anthology as a conservative publishing project, I'm yr guy.
For thirty-eight years, The Best American Poetry series showcased the nation’s most influential and vital poetry. The 2025 landmark edition marks a poignant farewell to series editor David Lehman—and to the enduring power of poetry.
Available now. https://bit.ly/3I2kwyZ
Available now. https://bit.ly/3I2kwyZ
September 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
If anyone (@thebaffler.com @nplusonemag.com @publicbooks.bsky.social) might be interested in an article
offering an ideological post-mortem of almost four decades of The Best American Poetry anthology as a conservative publishing project, I'm yr guy.
offering an ideological post-mortem of almost four decades of The Best American Poetry anthology as a conservative publishing project, I'm yr guy.
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Ok so in case yall missed the memo like I did. David Lehman, series editor of Best American Poetry is a Zionist ass. Literally feel embarrassed that I wound up in this situation. I was literally the only person of color in a room of 50+ people. It was terrifying.
#poetry #bestamericanpoetry
#poetry #bestamericanpoetry
September 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Ok so in case yall missed the memo like I did. David Lehman, series editor of Best American Poetry is a Zionist ass. Literally feel embarrassed that I wound up in this situation. I was literally the only person of color in a room of 50+ people. It was terrifying.
#poetry #bestamericanpoetry
#poetry #bestamericanpoetry