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C🎃th @cathinator.bsky.social · 8h

Gave the nice man next to us three out of four railroad properties for McDonald's Monopoly. I hope he finds the fourth one and gets that £200 train voucher

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C🎃th @cathinator.bsky.social · 11h

There actually aren't that many around. But it's across from a McDonald's and people eat on the steps, so I suspect there is some rogue fry snatching

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C🎃th @cathinator.bsky.social · 12h

There was literally one thing I insisted we do while in London.

Me, in front of St Paul's cathedral in a read shweater in 2004. Whoever took the picture cut off the top of the building.

Me, recreating the photo 21 years later, this time in a gray shweater. The person who took the photo isn't as close to me but it's in the same spot, and it has the top of the cathedral this time.

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C🎃th @cathinator.bsky.social · 12h

Once they were having work happy hour and my grand boss asked where I was and my coworker explained I had to pick up my kids from daycare, but also I was Mormon anyway and reportedly he said "She's Mormon?! But she's so sarcastic!"

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 14h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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C🎃th @cathinator.bsky.social · 12h

Multitudes!

C🎃th @cathinator.bsky.social · 16h

Florence Nightingale was a pioneer of...data viz?

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C🎃th @cathinator.bsky.social · 20h

I don't imagine anyone wants to track me down, but it's just good practice

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C🎃th @cathinator.bsky.social · 21h

You can't tell people where you are! That's bad opsec

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

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C🎃th @cathinator.bsky.social · 21h

I'm following as cathinator.books. I'm also on there under my Real Name, but that one's just pictures of my kids now

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C🎃th @cathinator.bsky.social · 21h

I'm more about the sweet treats, myself, but the kids have definitely been down the crisps aisle already

C🎃th @cathinator.bsky.social · 21h

Plus...new-to-you snacks!

C🎃th @cathinator.bsky.social · 1d

I'm more offended that people keep calling it "live action" whwn it's CGI

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C🎃th @cathinator.bsky.social · 1d

The pharmacies are fun too!

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C🎃th @cathinator.bsky.social · 1d

I don't need 30 options for every product, though!

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C🎃th @cathinator.bsky.social · 2d

I think for me the problem is not only do they all suck, but the Threads algorithm is fine tuned to show you only the most unhinged stuff

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C🎃th @cathinator.bsky.social · 2d

Incredible!

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C🎃th @cathinator.bsky.social · 2d

Have introduced my family to the best travel experience of all time: going to a grocery store in another country

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C🎃th @cathinator.bsky.social · 2d

So real. This is why I say I'll only get a tattoo if/when an immediate family member dies

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C🎃th @cathinator.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, I used to work there so I'm very familiar with the church's tunnels, and they didn't used to connect to government buildings

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Micah @rincewind.run · 3d

we simply do not have a union anymore if the president is using troops from one state to invade others entirely on the basis of political disagreements

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 3d

UPDATE: Hegseth today called up 400 members of the Texas National Guard, with Gov. Abbott's apparent permission, to be deployed "where needed, including in the cities of Portland and Chicago." www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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C🎃th @cathinator.bsky.social · 2d

Hmm, I don't think they do, unless it was some in the last 15 years

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C🎃th @cathinator.bsky.social · 2d

A hot take, but I think Mt Everest should be closed to tourists.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 2d

Rescue workers were helping hundreds of hikers trapped by heavy snow at tourist campsites on a slope of Mount Everest in Tibet, Chinese state media said late Sunday.

Snowstorm traps hundreds of hikers on Mount Everest during China's national holiday

Rescue workers are helping hundreds of hikers trapped by heavy snow at a tourist camp on Mount Everest in Tibet.

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BOO-iest👻 @mooiest.bsky.social · 3d

Hm, that Nissan Rogue has a fleet plate, usually like what you’d see from rental companies. I wonder how Hertz, Enterprise, etc feel about being party to kidnapping people

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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