Pinned
JW Caterine
@jwcat757.bsky.social
· Jan 4
Howdy! 🤠 Here's a quick overview of my 2024 resume, featuring an aquaculture-focused vertical social network, data reporting on unaccompanied migrant children in VA, and local organizing to rename schools with pro-slavery namesakes. Plus, a preview of my plans for 2025 👇
Reposted by JW Caterine
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
Pseudocode in my kid's book
November 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Pseudocode in my kid's book
Reposted by JW Caterine
Straight from the picket line in Dallas, TX - why are Starbucks workers organizing for a better workplace? #NoContractNoCoffee
November 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Straight from the picket line in Dallas, TX - why are Starbucks workers organizing for a better workplace? #NoContractNoCoffee
Reposted by JW Caterine
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
November 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
"Although the ideal solution is for universities to band together, acknowledge collectively where they have fallen short, and make a joint effort to reassure the public, they are prevented from doing so by the inherently competitive nature of higher education." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Higher education fails at collective action
In the latest development in the ongoing combat between universities in the United States and the Trump administration, the Department of Education has presented them with what it calls a “compact.” I...
www.science.org
October 31, 2025 at 10:08 AM
"Although the ideal solution is for universities to band together, acknowledge collectively where they have fallen short, and make a joint effort to reassure the public, they are prevented from doing so by the inherently competitive nature of higher education." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
"AI has, in effect, enabled Israel to turn a cornerstone of international law — the obligation to attack only military targets — into a tool that legitimizes and accelerates the very slaughter it was intended to prevent." www.972mag.com/israelis-log...
The logic that helped Israeli liberals commit genocide
By attaching a military goal to each act of killing, Israelis of all stripes could partake in the slaughter without questioning the morality of their actions.
www.972mag.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"AI has, in effect, enabled Israel to turn a cornerstone of international law — the obligation to attack only military targets — into a tool that legitimizes and accelerates the very slaughter it was intended to prevent." www.972mag.com/israelis-log...
Reposted by JW Caterine
I traveled the state this summer exploring how federal funding changes affect Virginia's hospitals, clinics, nonprofits, and the state health department. The three-part series launched this week. 🧵 1/4
virginiamercury.com/category/pul...
virginiamercury.com/category/pul...
Pulse Check Archives • Virginia Mercury
This series examines the state of health care in Virginia
virginiamercury.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I traveled the state this summer exploring how federal funding changes affect Virginia's hospitals, clinics, nonprofits, and the state health department. The three-part series launched this week. 🧵 1/4
virginiamercury.com/category/pul...
virginiamercury.com/category/pul...
"Expansive" is a generous interpretation of their interpretation. "[UVA] would be required... to take steps to come into compliance with the administration’s expansive interpretation of a 2023 [SC] decision that ended explicit consideration of race in admissions..." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
White House Moves Toward Settlement With First Public University
www.nytimes.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
"Expansive" is a generous interpretation of their interpretation. "[UVA] would be required... to take steps to come into compliance with the administration’s expansive interpretation of a 2023 [SC] decision that ended explicit consideration of race in admissions..." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
As a hipster emo teen I wouldn't be caught dead listening to this, but here I am jamming to it cleaning up after my son. Idk man something happens to you in your 30s youtu.be/gl-JGJp-_CM?...
Third Eye Blind - Never Let You Go (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Third Eye Blind Videos
youtu.be
October 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
As a hipster emo teen I wouldn't be caught dead listening to this, but here I am jamming to it cleaning up after my son. Idk man something happens to you in your 30s youtu.be/gl-JGJp-_CM?...
Art 😎
Charlottesville’s monuments, transformed, are on display in major LA exhibition. From @loisbeckett.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Breathtaking, unsettling, healing: a new exhibit by Black US artists transforms Confederate monuments
The sweeping exhibition Monuments opens in Los Angeles on 23 October and is on view through May
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Art 😎
Finished my first big-ish web project for vims.edu - a redesign of the new undergraduate major page, featuring an interactive gallery of the 2025 Stravitz Scholars! www.vims.edu/academics/wm...
October 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Finished my first big-ish web project for vims.edu - a redesign of the new undergraduate major page, featuring an interactive gallery of the 2025 Stravitz Scholars! www.vims.edu/academics/wm...
How much do I have to not post to show up in the Quiet Posters feed...
October 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
How much do I have to not post to show up in the Quiet Posters feed...
This graph is wild! "[The] 2025 Bay Scallop Survey documented an average density of 0.114 scallops per square meter...With the recent trend of progressive growth, researchers estimate the population will double in less than 1.5 years."
October 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
This graph is wild! "[The] 2025 Bay Scallop Survey documented an average density of 0.114 scallops per square meter...With the recent trend of progressive growth, researchers estimate the population will double in less than 1.5 years."
Going to get this tattooed so I remember - "If your approach for authentication, ad serving, etc, isn’t differentiated from the norm, you should buy it."
Every newsroom depends on software, but that doesn’t mean it should build it.
Here’s a framework for deciding what to build, what to buy, and why technology should be a strategic partner, not a helpdesk.
werd.io/build-what-m...
Here’s a framework for deciding what to build, what to buy, and why technology should be a strategic partner, not a helpdesk.
werd.io/build-what-m...
Build what makes you special. Buy the rest.
A framework for newsroom build vs buy decisions.
werd.io
October 13, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Going to get this tattooed so I remember - "If your approach for authentication, ad serving, etc, isn’t differentiated from the norm, you should buy it."
My latest for VIMS features blackwater photography of juvenile fish holding larval anemone in their mouths, possibly for protection! If a predator tried to eat them, it would not taste good 🤮 www.vims.edu/newsandevent...
October 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
My latest for VIMS features blackwater photography of juvenile fish holding larval anemone in their mouths, possibly for protection! If a predator tried to eat them, it would not taste good 🤮 www.vims.edu/newsandevent...
Reposted by JW Caterine
What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy
NEW YORK (AP) — Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in prison in case involving sex workers, violence and ‘freak-offs’.
October 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy
This is cool www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l-c...
Zack Fox Visits Give a Beat's Prison Electronic Music Program
YouTube video by Give a Beat
www.youtube.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
This is cool www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l-c...
A student's life in Gaza 🇵🇸 - youtu.be/BZjHvyrQGSM?...
دراسة في الحر.ب؟| يوميات طالبة جامعية في غزة | Don’t Let Depression Control You
YouTube video by Shams Abdeen
youtu.be
September 29, 2025 at 9:45 AM
A student's life in Gaza 🇵🇸 - youtu.be/BZjHvyrQGSM?...
Reposted by JW Caterine
@peoplesfabric.com came on @muckrock.com's FOIAFriday last month to talk about the reporting done with @unraveledpress.com on ALPRs, Flock, and the way the feds were tapping into local systems for immigration-related searches.
release @peoplesfabric.com, this is just insane.
release @peoplesfabric.com, this is just insane.
September 28, 2025 at 3:01 AM
@peoplesfabric.com came on @muckrock.com's FOIAFriday last month to talk about the reporting done with @unraveledpress.com on ALPRs, Flock, and the way the feds were tapping into local systems for immigration-related searches.
release @peoplesfabric.com, this is just insane.
release @peoplesfabric.com, this is just insane.
Animal friends at Williamsburg Pancake festival
September 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Animal friends at Williamsburg Pancake festival
Used to live near where this happened!
Earth-shattering news here in Austin: the crime that has haunted this city for more than three decades and sent innocent men to prison, including one to death row, has been solved with genetic genealogy.
www.kvue.com/article/news...
www.kvue.com/article/news...
After more than 3 decades, investigators believe the Yogurt Shop Murders have been solved
Nearly 34 years ago, four teen girls were killed at a yogurt shop in North Austin. Their murders have remained unsolved – until now.
www.kvue.com
September 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Used to live near where this happened!
><(((((°<🦑
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 11:56 PM
><(((((°<🦑
Some highlights from my visit to the VIMS invertebrate collection today! Coolest thing was rare bilateral gynandromorph, a blue crab that's left half is male, right half is female - split right down the middle! Also a giant isopod, giant tube worm, and jellyfish!
September 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Some highlights from my visit to the VIMS invertebrate collection today! Coolest thing was rare bilateral gynandromorph, a blue crab that's left half is male, right half is female - split right down the middle! Also a giant isopod, giant tube worm, and jellyfish!
September 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM