Kate Avallone
@kateavallone.bsky.social
“For someone so sweet, you can be a real bitch.” —An ex-boyfriend
Actor, print model, VO artist, flexitarian, progressive. she/her
http://imdb.me/kateavallone
Actor, print model, VO artist, flexitarian, progressive. she/her
http://imdb.me/kateavallone
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I don't understand how we are still stigmatizing people for wearing masks during respiratory virus season in 2025. Really, people?
December 30, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I don't understand how we are still stigmatizing people for wearing masks during respiratory virus season in 2025. Really, people?
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Knives out: the upper middle class are squabbling vicious children who do not deserve their inheritance
Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn
Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter
Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn
Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter
December 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Knives out: the upper middle class are squabbling vicious children who do not deserve their inheritance
Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn
Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter
Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn
Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter
My Auntie Mary died today. She was a proud, private woman who bore the weight of her illness with grace and dignity. We knew the end was near but we didn’t know it was this near. I am bereft. 💔
December 29, 2025 at 1:08 AM
My Auntie Mary died today. She was a proud, private woman who bore the weight of her illness with grace and dignity. We knew the end was near but we didn’t know it was this near. I am bereft. 💔
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I miss the days before covid, when in New York, in Times Square or a crowded subway, you would sometimes see people wearing masks and think, "Why are they wearing those? Oh, right--it's none of my fucking business." Let's get back to that.
Jon Stewart and the pod saves guys mocking people who wear masks while talking about What Is To Be Done is exactly what Jon Stewart and the pod saves guys are, it's the most Jon Stewart and pod saves guys thing possible.
December 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I miss the days before covid, when in New York, in Times Square or a crowded subway, you would sometimes see people wearing masks and think, "Why are they wearing those? Oh, right--it's none of my fucking business." Let's get back to that.
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America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth.
The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%.
Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.
The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%.
Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.
December 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth.
The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%.
Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.
The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%.
Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.
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God this.
will also add - yes, this is my personal crusade - that turning podcasts into videos implicitly asks women to once again make more effort than men, as the bar for "camera-ready" for one gender is obviously higher than for the other
‘Painful to hear!’ How podcasts’ rush to video is turning them into dreadful listens
December 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
God this.
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It’s pretty wild that the most rabidly anti-immigrant administration in recent memory is comprised of a President married to an immigrant, a VP married to the daughter of immigrants, an assistant AG in charge of Civil Rights who’s an immigrant (Dhillon), & it was all funded by an immigrant (Musk).
December 27, 2025 at 12:12 AM
It’s pretty wild that the most rabidly anti-immigrant administration in recent memory is comprised of a President married to an immigrant, a VP married to the daughter of immigrants, an assistant AG in charge of Civil Rights who’s an immigrant (Dhillon), & it was all funded by an immigrant (Musk).
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every time I see a headline framing this as being primarily an issue of the student having controversial opinions, and not the student being an asshole with a right wing podcaster mom who wanted to ruin a trans person’s career for the clicks, I age another ten years
December 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
every time I see a headline framing this as being primarily an issue of the student having controversial opinions, and not the student being an asshole with a right wing podcaster mom who wanted to ruin a trans person’s career for the clicks, I age another ten years
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Absolutely right.
AI might be able to summarize (poorly) what we currently know, but a major goal of historical research is to find the hidden surprises out there.
Let me illustrate …
AI might be able to summarize (poorly) what we currently know, but a major goal of historical research is to find the hidden surprises out there.
Let me illustrate …
Not a historian but like to research. The AI might summarize what I'm looking for, but it doesn't find what I'm *not* looking for. The book on the shelf next to the one I wanted. The insight in chapter 6 based on the quote I needed from chapter 4.
December 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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anyway I am just rambling now but I really don’t feel like I’ve ever seen my own messy, fractious, complicated relationship with Catholicism depicted onscreen with this much nuance, skipping over any kind of simplistic “Church = Good” or “Church = Bad.” church just brings out what’s already there
December 17, 2025 at 1:03 AM
anyway I am just rambling now but I really don’t feel like I’ve ever seen my own messy, fractious, complicated relationship with Catholicism depicted onscreen with this much nuance, skipping over any kind of simplistic “Church = Good” or “Church = Bad.” church just brings out what’s already there
Hoooly shit, just finally watched WAKE UP DEAD MAN and I am losing my mind! Bravo @rianjohnson.bsky.social. It both defied and exceeded my expectations, if that is even possible. A film utterly full to bursting with grace. And, yknow, a fun whodunnit too. 10/10
December 21, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Hoooly shit, just finally watched WAKE UP DEAD MAN and I am losing my mind! Bravo @rianjohnson.bsky.social. It both defied and exceeded my expectations, if that is even possible. A film utterly full to bursting with grace. And, yknow, a fun whodunnit too. 10/10
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I think it's important not to misunderstand what these social media platforms are. They are not public arenas where we bravely take on reactionary forces in honorable combat. They are apps that expose you to stress and thereby simulate the feeling of having done something useful
December 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I think it's important not to misunderstand what these social media platforms are. They are not public arenas where we bravely take on reactionary forces in honorable combat. They are apps that expose you to stress and thereby simulate the feeling of having done something useful
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This entire weekend
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This entire weekend
Oh man. Just the worst ending an already shite day.
December 15, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Oh man. Just the worst ending an already shite day.
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Any dentists in Kenosha, WI wanna help out a young autistic girl,?? This child needs 5 root canals due to her autism medicine.
Imma trade you a pair of tickets to our show in Chicago with GNR and a meeting next July
www.gofundme.com/f/help-with-...
Imma trade you a pair of tickets to our show in Chicago with GNR and a meeting next July
www.gofundme.com/f/help-with-...
Donate to My 11 year old autistic granddaughter needs 5 root canals, organized by Shirley Tutor-Perez
My granddaughter Rhiannon will be 11 on 12/20. She has been b… Shirley Tutor-Perez needs your support for My 11 year old autistic granddaughter needs 5 root canals
www.gofundme.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Any dentists in Kenosha, WI wanna help out a young autistic girl,?? This child needs 5 root canals due to her autism medicine.
Imma trade you a pair of tickets to our show in Chicago with GNR and a meeting next July
www.gofundme.com/f/help-with-...
Imma trade you a pair of tickets to our show in Chicago with GNR and a meeting next July
www.gofundme.com/f/help-with-...
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One of the ways you can see this is driven by an industry looking for some way to make itself profitable? No one has shown any concern that students demonstrate basic competency with computers before enrolling (or graduating)—and, many do lack that.
It’s been fun while it lasted: “Purdue University will begin requiring that all of its undergraduate students demonstrate basic competency in artificial intelligence starting with freshmen who enter the university in 2026.”
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
Purdue University Approves New AI Requirement For All Undergrads
Purdue University will begin requiring that all of its undergraduate students meet an AI competency requirement starting with freshmen who enter the university in 2026.
www.forbes.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
One of the ways you can see this is driven by an industry looking for some way to make itself profitable? No one has shown any concern that students demonstrate basic competency with computers before enrolling (or graduating)—and, many do lack that.
gross
Disney and OpenAI sign a deal to bring 200+ Disney characters to Sora
Disney makes $1 billion investment in OpenAI and will become a "major" OpenAI customer
openai.com/index/disney...
Disney makes $1 billion investment in OpenAI and will become a "major" OpenAI customer
openai.com/index/disney...
December 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
gross
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I've said something to this extent before but text messaging, and especially read receipts, are the forebear of this problem
We should not expect even our closest loved ones to be accessible and responsive all hours of day and night, and we should not get upset if they don't answer right away
We should not expect even our closest loved ones to be accessible and responsive all hours of day and night, and we should not get upset if they don't answer right away
Anyway, I think everyone on social is still influenced by a set of late-aughts/early-'10s premises that may have been well-intentioned (we'll bring the whole world together!) but in practice are sociopathic/insane (we'll give you a direct line to anyone in the world and they HAVE to talk to you!)
December 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I've said something to this extent before but text messaging, and especially read receipts, are the forebear of this problem
We should not expect even our closest loved ones to be accessible and responsive all hours of day and night, and we should not get upset if they don't answer right away
We should not expect even our closest loved ones to be accessible and responsive all hours of day and night, and we should not get upset if they don't answer right away
This whole poem:
A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.
-Emily Dickinson
A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.
-Emily Dickinson
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
This whole poem:
A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.
-Emily Dickinson
A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.
-Emily Dickinson
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Look, I'm just gonna tell cishet white people right now--Newsom ain't the one. You got Walz and Pritzker out here. You do not need a Bill Clinton clone wearing Mitt Romney's skin.
California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that the Democratic Party needed to be “more culturally normal” and “less judgmental.”
December 7, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Look, I'm just gonna tell cishet white people right now--Newsom ain't the one. You got Walz and Pritzker out here. You do not need a Bill Clinton clone wearing Mitt Romney's skin.
Gawd YES👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
There’s not a single filmmaker who is so magically good it should excuse them being a bully. Not one. Give their money to someone else. We have plenty of talent and too many assholes hogging the resources.
December 7, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Gawd YES👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
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A massive problem today is the uneven distribution of shame. Some of us are running dedicated on-site shame servers 24/7 while others have no access to shame at all, even though they desperately need it. What we need to do is put shame in the cloud
December 6, 2025 at 2:54 AM
A massive problem today is the uneven distribution of shame. Some of us are running dedicated on-site shame servers 24/7 while others have no access to shame at all, even though they desperately need it. What we need to do is put shame in the cloud
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All media mergers end up hurting writers, actors, directors, and everyone else who works in the industry. Executives, assistants, caterers, teamsters, everyone. Fewer companies means fewer jobs, period.
December 5, 2025 at 5:08 AM
All media mergers end up hurting writers, actors, directors, and everyone else who works in the industry. Executives, assistants, caterers, teamsters, everyone. Fewer companies means fewer jobs, period.
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Congratulations, David Zaslav, on being the most destructive force in US entertainment in the entire history of show business
December 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Congratulations, David Zaslav, on being the most destructive force in US entertainment in the entire history of show business
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Yes, if you're always hysterical, if you have one glib answer for everything ("He has dementia," "He's a Russian asset," etc), you'll sound silly and people will stop listening. But looking at 2015-25, the "This is REALLY BAD" journos were right 90% of the time. The "calm down" crew? Mostly wrong.
December 4, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Yes, if you're always hysterical, if you have one glib answer for everything ("He has dementia," "He's a Russian asset," etc), you'll sound silly and people will stop listening. But looking at 2015-25, the "This is REALLY BAD" journos were right 90% of the time. The "calm down" crew? Mostly wrong.