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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.

Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 8m

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

Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 29m

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 · 15h

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

Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1h

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 · 13h

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-...

Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 1h

"people live here!"

ii glocks ii heaven @leatherette.bsky.social · 2h

From someone on the ground STOP USING AI

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1h

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 · 7h

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 · 1d

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

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 · 1d

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.

Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 1d

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

Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 1d

it is CRIMINAL the way they hide the good ones!

Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 1d

sometimes I rewatch old romantic comedies for the nostalgia and then I'm reminded just how violently misogynistic movies used to be! I forgot how bad it was! is this how older feminists feel when we talk about Me Too?

Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 1d

oh apparently Mariah is doing press because there's a new album? I just figured she's welcome wherever she wants to go and she felt like a little attention.

Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 1d

TIL I'm a legionnaire of the Antichrist

Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 1d

saw the trailer for the first time the other day and I said the same thing. loser Maisel?

Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 1d

wrote about One Battle After Another. it has problems!!!
30flirtyfilm.beehiiv.com/p/issue-89-k...

Issue #89: Kicking and Screaming 🦈

Reviewing Mary Bronstein's "If I Had Legs I'd Kick You" + Paul Thomas Anderson's "One Battle After Another."

30flirtyfilm.beehiiv.com

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the double bi @ladysummoner.bsky.social · 2d

You procrastinate, and then you write the fucking paper the way the gods and nature intended. Several hours before it's due, high off either caffeine, nicotine, sugar, drugs, and PANIC.

Fuck AI.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 3d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 2d

Ariana Grande is the pop star they write into movies about being pop stars.

Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 3d

thank you!!!!

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3d

Mickey 17 was a masterpiece and you guys fucked up by not watching it

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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 3d

love your work mrs theranos but how do you walk into this

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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 3d

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

Screenshot of David Simon interview
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 3d

wait, it just registered that Harvard isn't even in the state of New York. why are they so obsessed with this Ivy specifically?

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

I *teach* on an Ivy League campus and I don't care as much about the day-to-day happenings at Harvard as the New York Times.

But the middle-aged white guys who run the paper are obsessed with the campus, almost to the point of creepiness. Harvard ought to get a restraining order.

foofahrah.bsky.social @foofahrah.bsky.social · 3d

ive said this before but I cancelled my times subscription when I realized I frankly don’t give a shit about what’s happening on Ivy League campuses

Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 3d

even more, welcome to the world we told you we'd have if you kept empowering the police.

Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 3d

the problem with the girlboss wasn't that women had ambition. it was that ambition is a trap and the girlboss is a contributor to her own oppression. instead of changing the world, she optimized her way into it, and ended up with only burnout to show for it. it's just lean in for millennials.