Cate
@catehstn.bsky.social
engineering director. coach. quantum particle. in search of adventure; it’s probably fine ✨
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Cate
@catehstn.bsky.social
· Nov 17
I wrote a book 😂 the audio book came out a couple of days ago even! I had yet to post about it so probably not even hitting that 5% 🙈
Available everywhere you buy books, including Amazon: www.amazon.com/Engineering-...
Available everywhere you buy books, including Amazon: www.amazon.com/Engineering-...
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There's a lot packed into this about the idea that women and girls are objects to be desired and used, not people
It has always been so obvious that the backlash to MeToo isn’t about whether the abuse is happening but whether people are allowed to want it to stop
November 18, 2025 at 2:08 AM
There's a lot packed into this about the idea that women and girls are objects to be desired and used, not people
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
My biggest takeaway from the Epstein files so far is how many men knew and were okay to be friends with a sexual predator. Mandelson for example, a gay man, presumably was not interested in underaged girls. But he was completely fine being friends with a guy who was.
November 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
My biggest takeaway from the Epstein files so far is how many men knew and were okay to be friends with a sexual predator. Mandelson for example, a gay man, presumably was not interested in underaged girls. But he was completely fine being friends with a guy who was.
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Become a trillionaire so you can get the best AI girlfriend money can buy.
November 10, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Become a trillionaire so you can get the best AI girlfriend money can buy.
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My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
November 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
From the people whose most consistent message has been "foreigners in your county are a drain on the state" 🤔
NEW: The US Army website for its bases in Bavaria, Germany told its soldiers and employees that it might need to obtain free food from the German government during the US government shutdown.
The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
US Army Tells Soldiers to Go to German Food Bank, Then Deletes It
The initial 'Shutdown Guidance' for the US Army Garrison Bavaria included instructions to go to German food banks.
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
From the people whose most consistent message has been "foreigners in your county are a drain on the state" 🤔
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What many people don't understand is that they should be using AI to reduce the length of their documents not increase it.
November 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
What many people don't understand is that they should be using AI to reduce the length of their documents not increase it.
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A nine year old brown boy living in NYC on 9/11 who grew up to love the city knows more about New York culture and New York values than this bitter, bilious husk of man riding his father’s coattails into his seventh decade could ever know
What an odious thing to say. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
October 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
A nine year old brown boy living in NYC on 9/11 who grew up to love the city knows more about New York culture and New York values than this bitter, bilious husk of man riding his father’s coattails into his seventh decade could ever know
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They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry.
(He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)
(He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)
'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize
October 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry.
(He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)
(He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)
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I accidentally glitched out an animation I was working on and created a perfect example of what the passage of time feels like to someone with ADHD
October 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I accidentally glitched out an animation I was working on and created a perfect example of what the passage of time feels like to someone with ADHD
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Strategy - how to be strategic, and how to be seen as strategic - is one of my ongoing obsessions. Years ago, I read Good Strategy/Bad Strategy, and it's guided my thinking ever since. Good strategy is obvious, and usually it is executed on more than it's talked about.
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Getting More Strategic
Strategy – how to be strategic, and how to be seen as strategic – is one of my ongoing obsessions. Years ago, I read Good Strategy/Bad Strategy, and it’s guided my thinking ever s…
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September 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Strategy - how to be strategic, and how to be seen as strategic - is one of my ongoing obsessions. Years ago, I read Good Strategy/Bad Strategy, and it's guided my thinking ever since. Good strategy is obvious, and usually it is executed on more than it's talked about.
cate.blog/2025/09/23/g...
cate.blog/2025/09/23/g...
Think (🤞) I have submitted all the documents to the solicitor for Irish naturalization... Including a spreadsheet of all my travel since 2019 😱
September 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Think (🤞) I have submitted all the documents to the solicitor for Irish naturalization... Including a spreadsheet of all my travel since 2019 😱
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This amazing video makes me think again that someone needs to build a BlueSky and Twitter account that literally just republishes all the cartoons, comedy sketches and radio shows mocking Trump from around the world.
September 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
This amazing video makes me think again that someone needs to build a BlueSky and Twitter account that literally just republishes all the cartoons, comedy sketches and radio shows mocking Trump from around the world.
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Apparently this is "all my fault" and I should have known that this would be the consequences of my actions when I started medical transition 2 decades ago.
Perhaps you can now appreciate why we are upset? (13/13)
Perhaps you can now appreciate why we are upset? (13/13)
August 29, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Apparently this is "all my fault" and I should have known that this would be the consequences of my actions when I started medical transition 2 decades ago.
Perhaps you can now appreciate why we are upset? (13/13)
Perhaps you can now appreciate why we are upset? (13/13)
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Incels: A man must earn more than his woman. This shows dominance and commands respect. A man must be smarter than his women. This is easy, as testicles improve analytical thinking and make your brain good. Empathy is a weakness and a sin. Superman saving a squirrel is woke nonsense.🤡
Normal men:
Normal men:
August 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Incels: A man must earn more than his woman. This shows dominance and commands respect. A man must be smarter than his women. This is easy, as testicles improve analytical thinking and make your brain good. Empathy is a weakness and a sin. Superman saving a squirrel is woke nonsense.🤡
Normal men:
Normal men:
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www.reddit.com/r/transgende...
Guess what?
The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions.
Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her?
Read her own account here.
Guess what?
The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions.
Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her?
Read her own account here.
From the transgenderUK community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the transgenderUK community
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August 19, 2025 at 7:06 AM
www.reddit.com/r/transgende...
Guess what?
The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions.
Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her?
Read her own account here.
Guess what?
The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions.
Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her?
Read her own account here.
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If your most effective management skill is insisting people work 80 hours a week, you might want to consider learning some new management skills.
August 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
If your most effective management skill is insisting people work 80 hours a week, you might want to consider learning some new management skills.
I want to better understand incident management and SRE - what's your best book recommendation?
August 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I want to better understand incident management and SRE - what's your best book recommendation?
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Here's my unpopular opinion: The 996 schedule isn't actually about productive work output, it's about having work take the place of an active social life and family as a person's primary obligations and sources of emotional support.
July 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Here's my unpopular opinion: The 996 schedule isn't actually about productive work output, it's about having work take the place of an active social life and family as a person's primary obligations and sources of emotional support.
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I think it was @catehstn.bsky.social who said that the fastest way to get rid of a sex pest at work was actually to examine his expense reports, because the moral problems were the same, but the money was easier to prove.
ok I decided to actually read up a bit on the Epstein case and my initial takeaway is that a great way to protect women and children from sexual predation would be to prosecute white collar crime
July 22, 2025 at 5:09 AM
I think it was @catehstn.bsky.social who said that the fastest way to get rid of a sex pest at work was actually to examine his expense reports, because the moral problems were the same, but the money was easier to prove.
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Reached the point of presentation prep where the artist has created a raccoon image so charming that I finally believe this can be a good talk 😂
May 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Reached the point of presentation prep where the artist has created a raccoon image so charming that I finally believe this can be a good talk 😂
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The gutter racism at work in the Claudine Gay situation and the craven, wholly unforgivable complicity of the NYT in the stitch up I think will go down as a shining light example of how the liberal US establishment helped pave the way for Trump’s fascism.
Princeton University’s student newspaper is reporting Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth plagiarized portions of his senior thesis. www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ’03 ‘plagiarized’ small portions of his senior thesis, experts say. But how serious is it?
A review of the senior thesis of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ’03 by The Daily Princetonian, in consultation with three plagiarism experts, found eight instances of uncredited material, sham paraphr...
www.dailyprincetonian.com
May 11, 2025 at 1:19 AM
The gutter racism at work in the Claudine Gay situation and the craven, wholly unforgivable complicity of the NYT in the stitch up I think will go down as a shining light example of how the liberal US establishment helped pave the way for Trump’s fascism.